Watch a couple hilariously melt down trying to play a video game

This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week. Yelling at the video games has been a popular hobby coping mechanism since Pong debuted. Projecting a full range of emotions towards a game at a high volume is cathartic, fun, and instinctual. That being said, suffering with a significant other is twice as loud and twice as fun. Chris Gera and his wife demonstrated this perfectly while playing Crash Bandicoot on the couch this week. The subtitled video is a hilarious example of how screaming, "you're a bitch!" at the TV can truly help a person cope when their character dies. Read more...More about Watercooler, Twitter, Couples, Video Games, and One Good Thing

English Premier League club to shelter homeless

With temperatures across the United Kingdom set to drop below zero over the next week, English Premier League club Crystal Palace has warmed hearts by agreeing to open its doors to homeless people during extreme weather conditions.

'World's cutest dog' dies 'of a broken heart'

Again, MLK racial slur used by newscaster

For the second time in less than two weeks, a local television newsperson has used a racial slur while talking about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

To see into someone's soul, binge on their Twitter likes

In Binged, Mashable breaks down why we binge-watch, how we binge-watch, and what it does to us. Because binge-watching is the new normal. And yes, we know this particular post is slightly tangential, but it's still an important public service. By now, employers know the drill: Research applicants' tweets and Facebook posts before you hire them, lest you risk another Kevin Hart debacle. (If your candidate talks about clobbering gay toddlers over the head with dolls, they're probably not your man.) But looking at tweets and retweets isn't enough. To understand how a potential employee thinks, you need to look at the place they hide their deepest, most perverse worldviews: their Twitter likes. Read more...More about Watercooler, Binge, Binge Watching, Twitter Jokes, and Binged

'Punisher' deserves so much better than where Season 2 leaves him

In a sea of heroic do-gooders, Punisher was a welcome arrival onto the Marvel scene. While certainly nowhere near as evocative and poignant as Jessica Jones Season 1, his 2017 solo introduction into the Netflix-Marvel pantheon showed promise. The moral complexity of his character added some much-needed shades of grey to the usual black-and-white good guy superheroes versus bad guys. SEE ALSO: 'Daredevil' is the latest Marvel series canceled by Netflix With the talented Jon Bernthal playing the trigger-happy ex-marine, Punisher Season 1 asked audiences to consider uncomfortable questions about the cost of a greater good, war, trauma, government corruption, and gun violence. Read more...More about Entertainment, Netflix, Marvel, Punisher, and Entertainment

Fatally-stabbed mayor laid to rest

Mourners prepared to lay the mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk to rest on Saturday, less than a week after he was fatally stabbed during an open-air charity event.

Netflix's 'IO' doesn't deliver a world worth saving

Warning: Light spoilers for IO lie ahead. Not every world-ender can be world-ending. IO, the latest post-apocalyptic drama from Netflix, began streaming this weekendbut viewers crossing their fingers for another Bird Box are going to be disappointed. While the film's premise and plot are fine enough, IO's lacking emotional depth takes what could have been an intimate look at the end of days and instead delivers a cringe-worthy reflection on shallow character creation. SEE ALSO: Netflix's Fyre Festival documentary is even more disturbing than we had imagined The slow-burn sci-fi drama takes place on an abandoned Earth, most the human race having fled its increasingly toxic atmosphere to colonize one of Jupiter's moons, Io. Among the few who remain on our dying planet are IO's main (and basically only) two characters, Sam and Micah. Read more...More about Netflix, Anthony Mackie, Apocalypse, Scifi, and Io