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Bullshit happening

The Onion parodies the practice of 24-hours news networks to put in some "Happening Now" filler stories to use up air time.

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Alternate history TV series

More greatness by The Onion:

NEW MUNICH—The new Sci-Fi Channel series Fallen Axis, which eerily depicts a world in which Germany actually lost the Second World War, premiered Tuesday evening to high ratings in an alternate universe to our own.

The much-anticipated television event is said to be the most ambitious ever produced by the science-fiction-themed network, which is a subsidiary of the Aryan Broadcasting Company. According to the early response, audiences in the alternate realm have been riveted by the show's vision of an inverted existence wherein a defeated Germany has been completely neutered by the Allied powers.

"Imagine, if you will, a world in which Hitler's glorious master plan had instead ended in ignominious failure, and the Allies had somehow emerged the victors," the show's creator, Leonhardt Riefenstahl, said during an appearance on Entertainment Heute Nacht. "It would be as if everything we know to be true—the fall of Russia, the invasion and surrender of the American continents, Heinrich Braun-Hitler's consolidation of the various conquered states in 1973—had never even happened."

Alternate-Universe Sci-Fi Channel Show Asks What Would Happen If Germany Lost War | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Star Trek bashing

The Onion reports about the outrage of Star Trek fans concerning the new Star Trek movie who complain about the absence of stiff acting and a storyline which actually makes sense:

Most fans were more upset by the look of the movie. Heart-stopping chases, state-of-the-art CGI, and alien battle scenes that don't just look like two out-of-shape guys in bad make-up fighting awkwardly--That's a real slap in the face of Trek fans.

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

Preparing our kids for the apocalypse

An expert panel discusses whether first person shooters are adequately preparing today's children for the aftermath of the apocalypse.

These games make it all seem deceptively simple. I mean in the future a kid's not going to be able to kill a six-foot long irradiated beetle just by pressing a few buttons, he's gonna have to get down there and hack, and hack, and hack.

The Onion: Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?