Flipping through The Manual: Whiskey vs. whisky, beard wash, solar snowboards

By Digital Trends Staff November 8, 2014

Burned out on apps, keys and screens? Improve your analog life this weekend! Digital Trends’ brother site The Manual exists to give men straight-up advice, from unspoken suit rules you need to know, to the latest in fashion, food, drink, travel, grooming and culture. Here are a few of our favorite stories to appear on The Manual lately.

5 rules to be your best bearded self for no-shave November

On your feet: Nike x Fragment Design LD-1000 SP

Signal’s solar snowboard charges your gadgets while you shred

Whiskey vs whisky: What’s the difference?

The Manual Wind: Breitling Emergency II

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While it wasn't powerful enough to compete with the best PlayStation 4 games and best Xbox One games that came out around the same time, the Wii U had amazing entries in almost all it's major franchises, plus some new IP that we think are some of the best games of all time. Sure, most of these Wii U games have been ported over and are now some of the best Switch games, but let's go back to their origin and see just how great this misunderstood system was.

Gaming

The best Sega Dreamcast games of all time

As the last Sega home console, the Dreamcast was actually far ahead of its time. Unfortunately, fans were too burned by the company releasing so many consoles in quick succession. There was also the fact that Sony and Nintendo were firing on all cylinders with the best PS1 games and best N64 games around this time. In the end, it didn't matter how good the Dreamcast's lineup was if no one was around to play them.

Years late,r we've realized the error of our ways and come to appreciate all the great games the Dreamcast gave us. While some did get ports later, a lot of games were only available on this little white system. Many iconic franchises got their start here, including some games we think are among the best games of all time.

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