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Nearly a decade after the original Borderlands , Gearbox Software has announced a third main installment in the series — alongside a trailer that features a few familiar characters. There’s very little hard detail about its plot, features, or release date, but this marks the first new, numbered game since 2012, and we’ll supposedly learn more about it on April 3rd. The Borderlands 3 trailer seems to promise the same thing as Borderlands , Borderlands 2 , and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. It looks like a colorful shooter for up to four players, with a distinctive cartoonish style and endless (“over one billion,” up from the original game’s literally world record-holding 17.75 million) varieties of procedurally generated firearms. Yesterday, a teaser trailer called “Mask of Mayhem” confirmed that several major figures from the earlier games were returning, including the protagonists from the original game. And it gave us a glimpse at the new quartet of playable characters. The lat...

YouTube in 2006 was a radically different place than the site we know today, which aggressively serves up videos based on a recommendation algorithm that knows every inch of our viewing habits. Default Filename TV , created by artist Everest Pipkin , aims to get us closer to the early days of YouTube by “serving up videos that have been uploaded from the camera without edits to the filename.” With titles like “DSC 1197” and “IMG 3356,” the videos are pure, authentic glimpses of life beyond our own bubbles and even our own continents. Most of the videos I watched were filled with voices speaking foreign languages, in places I couldn’t remotely begin to pinpoint. They’re videos people have uploaded to YouTube likely for their own purposes, not explicitly shared with an audience in mind. “I started building this search functionality as a tool for myself — to find the kind of videos I like — because it no longer happens in the browser,” Pipkin says. “I found myself pretty regularly deli...