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Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker is a Guardian columnist who wrote Screen burn for The Guide from 2000 to 2010. He currently writes a G2 comment piece every Monday and he produces, writes and presents Screenwipe for the BBC
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What sort of person can’t decide who to vote for, but can rate how much they like whatever they’re hearing out of five, and wants to sit there tapping a button accordingly?
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Charlie Brooker: Researchers have created a version of Mario that experiences basic emotions – now he needs a purpose that affects the real world
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Charlie Brooker: Products I’ve made up for the sheer giddy thrill of it include Total Farage Plus, which skilfully Photoshops the Ukip leader into whatever you’re looking at
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Charlie Brooker: From flooding to Benefits Street, the rise of Ukip to the Apple Watch, the year was filled with huge, grim events. We could all use a lie-down over Christmas
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Charlie Brooker: The John Lewis and Sainsbury’s ads have kickstarted an earlier-than-ever festive season in which we’ll shop or click our way to bankruptcy chasing 15% off the top Christmas products. But beware of My Friend Cayla
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Charlie Brooker: If the fashion industry truly cared about the future of our planet, it would issue a solitary line of unisex, one-size-fits-all smocks, then shut down for good
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Charlie Brooker: It’s a stealth adventure with nowhere to hide and hundreds of respawning enemies waiting to attack you the moment you stand out in any way
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Charlie Brooker: Exaggeration is the official language of the internet. Only the most strident statements have any impact. Oversteer and oversell, all the time
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Charlie Brooker: The all-new iPhones and Apple Watch can be easily avoided but there’s no escaping iOS 8
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The first rule of panic mode is you don’t talk about panic mode. And this is purely for personal reasons, but I don’t want Scotland to reject us, writes Charlie Brooker
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Charlie Brooker: Russia v Ukraine, Isis, Boris Johnson, Cliff Richard and Ebola – there's not much to be cheerful about right now, though the ice bucket challenge is working overtime
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Charlie Brooker: I decided to introduce my son to video games. We soon found one he liked … and I mean really, really liked
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Charlie Brooker: Ukip has made thousands from merchandise on its online store. What could the other parties learn from it?
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Charlie Brooker: The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers bill is the most tedious outrage ever, right down to the dreary acronym. But oh, the horrors it will bring …
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Charlie Brooker: Facebook's emotion study reveals it is hopelessly disconnected from emotional reality: that people get upset when people they care about are unhappy
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Charlie Brooker: The news can't get enough of Nigel Farage because he adds a bit of colour, which is ironic considering what he represents
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Charlie Brooker: Good Morning Britain viewers who have had their fantasies thwarted might like to turn their attention to the outgoing Newsnight presenter instead
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Charlie Brooker: The omnipresent TV cooking show resembles a Grimm fable in which terrified peasants have to concoct a dish to placate a bespectacled ogre and his keeper
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Charlie Brooker: I was modern once – back when everyone thought the internet was just a fad
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Charlie Brooker: Society seems to need a regular supply of hate figures to keep it tutting and sighing and drinking
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Charlie Brooker: With so many horrific stories around this year, it's no wonder we were sidetracked by baking and selfies. And between government surveillance and 'bongo bongo land' many of us were tempted to give up on politics for good
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The Guardian Audio Edition: Mortuary overflows in Cairo after massacre - 29 July 2013
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Charlie Brooker: I've been overwhelmed by the amount of jabber in the world – it's a vast cloud of blah
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Charlie Brooker: What's the problem with it? A future filled with plastic firearms-on-demand doesn't sound too rosy to me
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Charlie Brooker: Many people who hate Nigel Farage the reactionary throwback find themselves liking Nigel Farage the chortling oaf – they can almost forget he is a politician at all
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Charlie Brooker: We may as well replace all conversation with electronic sound effects like the one Pac-Man makes when he swallows a dot
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Charlie Brooker: Will.i.am looks like an action-figure version of himself, Tom Jones is Zeus, Danny O'Donoghue's on Wikipedia and I ruined Good Friday
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Charlie Brooker: It's not misanthropy. I like the individual people. It's when they get together that they're a problem
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