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Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.

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This week, William Hughes stopped by to talk about the hottest phenomenon in games right now, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. For him, the key to its success is the way it builds constant tension and fear, essentially turning a multiplayer shooter into a horror game where all the monsters are controlled by other players (and you’re a nasty monster in waiting yourself). It’s a fantastic engine for bringing friends together and generating stories of your wacky, terrifying exploits, some of which Strange Albert shared down in the comments:

One of the things I like most about this game is that every ...

Here’s some new evidence that HBO’s sprawling criminal anthology True Detective might not be as dead as the reception that greeted its second season might lead you to believe: Deadline reports that Moonlight and Luke Cage star Mahershala Ali—currently much in demand after his Oscar-winning turn in Barry Jenkins’ celebrated coming-of-age feature—is in talks to star in a potential third season of the series.

Of course, there are any number of questions currently floating around True Detective season 3. Will David Milch get involved? Can creator Nic Pizzolatto find another subject capable of galvanizing water cooler discussions the way he did in 2014? Have we used up every possible variation on the “time is a flat circle“ joke? For now, it’s all still up in the air, but Ali’s involvement would presumably be a big push in the direction of a third season of ...

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Lost somewhere in the middle of the never-ending New York-Chicago pizza debate is the Sicilian-style pie. Its airy crust is far thicker than the typical flatbread-like New York pie, but it’s not quite as thick as Chicago’s traditional deep dish and lacks that pie’s towering walls of crust. Sicilian lands somewhere in between, a fluffy rectangular pizza cut into glorious, doughy squares, and the folks at First We Feast have published an up-close-and-personal profile with one of the most acclaimed, straight-up sexy slices around: Prince Street Pizza’s Soho Square.

In the video, Dominic Morano, the son of the pizzeria’s founder, explains what goes in to making this particular slice of baked heaven, from the olive-oiled up cast-iron pans to the inverted sauce-over-cheese top. Morano also tries to dispel the myth of the greasy little pepperoni cups, claiming the bubbling liquid that collects at the bottom ...