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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Artwork for Video Desk: A Machine Built to Press One Button
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.

Video Desk: A Machine Built to Press One Button

Owen Kade recommends an elaborate answer to a problem nobody had.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

Today’s assignment: spend a few minutes watching a machine become ridiculously complicated so that it can perform one extremely simple task.

Watch: Crazy LEGO Rube Goldberg Machine — REBRICKULOUS, published by LEGO on YouTube.

The machine exists to press a button. Civilization, briefly, is justified.

Portrait artwork for SAM ROOK

SAM ROOK

Sam Rook watches the internet so you can preserve several minutes of your life for more important mistakes.

Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.

PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON

A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.

MORE BROKEN ZINEBAD IDEA ARCADEODDITIES

ASK THE EDITOR A QUESTION

NO.

BROKEN ZINESOME THINGS SHOULDN’T BE FIXED.

DO NOT PRESS

YOU FOUND THE FOOTER. PLEASE LEAVE QUIETLY.