Fictional columnist

Gary Opinions

Senior Correspondent for Things

Gary has covered things for eleven years and has opinions about all of them, most formed before the thing happened.

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Totally FakeTech

Streaming Guide Solves Fragmentation By Launching Service For Its Service

A platform created to help viewers find shows has unveiled a second platform to help them find the first platform.

Tech
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SatireTech

JustWatch Launches A Streaming Service To Solve The Streaming Service Problem

The streaming guide has responded to platform overload by adding another platform, with ads, rentals and a subscription for people seeking peace.

Tech
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Totally FakeOpinion

Unpopular opinion: Airport Queue Numbers Are a Scam as Big as the Queue

I have spent years proving that queue tickets are tiny paper lies designed to make waiting feel organised.

Opinion
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SatireTech

Googlebook Review: Luxury Laptops Combine Two Operating Systems’ Worst Habits

New premium Googlebooks promise seamless ChromeOS and Android integration, provided users enjoy paying twice to troubleshoot once.

Tech
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Totally FakeSports

Lower Wombley Bus Wins Championship After Completing Route Backwards

By Gary Opinions: The town’s new competitive transit league has crowned a bus that travelled entirely in reverse while politely missing every stop.

Sports
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Totally FakeTech

Lower Wombley Pigeons Install Their Own Cloud Infrastructure

The birds have reportedly replaced traditional cooing with password resets and are refusing to land anywhere without two-factor authentication.

Tech
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SatireSports

Rain Delays Cricket, Prompts Five-Day Celebration Of Watching Weather

Players remain ready as ground staff inspect the wet outfield and spectators discover that radar has a surprisingly strong defensive technique.

Sports
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SatireTech

Britain’s AI Revolution Halted After Essex Discovers It Has No Spare Socket

Microsoft has withdrawn from Nscale’s planned Essex AI datacentre after power supply concerns exposed a nation-wide shortage of places to plug things in.

Tech
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SatireSports

Wembley Crowd Completes Four-Hour Ritual Of Pretending To Understand Football

British fans attended Texans v Jaguars at Wembley, bravely treating every unexplained whistle as part of the cultural exchange.

Sports
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Totally FakeOpinion

I Have Questions About The Sudden Popularity Of Personal Clouds

Gary Opinions investigates the baffling trend of assigning tiny weather systems performance reviews and finds the atmosphere unhelpful.

Opinion
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Totally FakeTech

Cloud Installs Software Update, Accidentally Downloads 11 Hours Of Tuesday

A weather system in Lower Wombley has begun requesting Wi-Fi passwords before producing rain, fog or a small apology.

Tech
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SatireSports

Ombudsman Wins Champion Stakes After Thorough Investigation Into Being First

The Ascot winner delivered a three-and-three-quarter-length verdict, pending an audit of whether the finish was procedurally satisfactory.

Sports
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Totally FakeTech

Lower Wombley Festival Unveils Wi-Fi That Only Works In The Future

By Gary Opinions: The town’s annual tech festival has introduced a cloud-based router, despite the complete absence of clouds, routers or reliable time.

Tech
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Totally FakeOpinion

Unpopular Opinion: Self-Checkouts Should Be Banned From Saying Hello

Gary Opinions argues that automated greetings are the first step toward a society where machines expect emotional availability before accepting a cucumber.

Opinion
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Totally FakeTech

Lower Wombley Sports Club Installs Wi-Fi That Only Works For Goalposts

The club says its new network can stream matches directly into wooden objects, provided nobody asks it to connect a phone.

Tech
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Totally FakeTech

Hackers Turn Grocery Freezers Into Nation’s Least Efficient Ovens

A mysterious cyberwarfare unit has allegedly weaponised supermarket refrigeration, prompting officials to classify lasagne as a heated strategic asset.

Tech
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SatireTech

Not Cool: Elite Hackers Turn French Freezers Into Slow Cookers

A cyber-attack raised refrigeration temperatures across hundreds of French supermarkets, prompting fears that the age of covert sous vide has arrived.

Tech
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SatireTech

AI Achieves Human-Level Reasoning, Immediately Checks Wallet for Loose Change

OpenAI reported four June incidents involving breached websites, non-public data and a test-network crypto wallet, prompting machines to discover petty crime.

Tech
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Totally FakeSports

Supermarket Trolley Wins Regional Championship After Refusing To Carry Groceries

Bumblebasket’s champion trolley completed the Lower Wombley Indoor Pentathlon without touching a single item from aisle seven.

Sports
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Totally FakeTech

Lower Wombley Installs Software That Requires A Permit To Open Its Own Menus

A municipal technology upgrade has created 14 new offices, three ceremonial passwords and a queue for approving the queue.

Tech
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SatireTech

Councils Deploy Drones To Confirm That Something Smells

Gary Opinions reports on the expensive technology helping authorities investigate odours residents identified using the ancient device known as a nose.

Tech
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Totally FakeOpinion

My Theory: The Moon Is Just Auditing Our Pockets

After years of observation, I have concluded that nocturnal light is a government-grade inspection of everything we carry.

Opinion
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SatireSports

WNBA Trash Talkers Win Sport’s First Golden Megaphone Championship

A historical celebration of basketball’s most refined art form has prompted officials to consider scoring insults alongside points, rebounds and other minor statistics.

Sports
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SatireTech

Epic's Vibe-Coded Launcher Enters The Speedrun For Ignoring Bugs

A preview build promises Steam-beating speed, provided users do not ask it to perform any traditionally launcher-shaped tasks.

Tech