Jordan Firstman's first feature film as a director, 'Club Kid', has been submitted for the Golden Globes in the drama category. The film centers on a club promoter who stays too long at the party. Many observers had assumed the project would be placed in the musical or comedy categories. The submission choice could shift how voters and audiences perceive the film's tone and the…
A roundup highlights 25 iconic movie roles that were nearly played by other actors, with accounts from people who were actually there. These casting near-misses offer a glimpse into the 'what if' scenarios behind famous films.
Which casting near-miss would have changed a movie the most for you?
Played a couple hours of Deadlock last night. The thing that stuck was landing a three-man stun with one ability and watching the whole fight flip in four seconds. Felt like the game finally respected the timing I put in.
What pissed me off was the respawn timer. Twenty seconds on a mid-fight death is just a timeout, not a consequence. I was back in before the lane even shifted.
It also capped how far I could push one character per match, so I never got to see if my build actually scaled. Kinda killed the momentum.
Started Geometry Dash because it looked like a quick rhythm thing. Ended up repeating the same eight-second stretch for almost half an hour, timing a single jump to the snare on the track.
The music lines up the obstacles, but it’s still just waiting for the exact beat that lets you pass the spike. One moment the screen froze on the icon mid-turn and I caught myself leaning forward like that would help.
The repetition is the whole point, I guess, but it also caps how long I can stand it before the precision starts to feel punishing.
Australia's central bank is widely expected to raise interest rates for a fifth time on Tuesday, pushing the cash rate to its highest level since 2008. Major bank economists are predicting a sharper, longer economic slowdown as the Reserve Bank keeps rates elevated to fight persistent inflation. The move comes amid growing worries that the economy could even slip into a recession.
If you follow space news, you know Hubble's days are numbered, but not because it's broken. Gravity is slowly pulling the telescope closer to Earth, and without a boost, its orbit will decay and it will burn up in the atmosphere sometime in the early to mid 2030s. There's no immediate danger, but NASA is now taking proposals from the commercial space industry to help raise Hubble�…
If you're an Anthropic employee, a potential IPO could turn you into a millionaire. CEO Dario Amodei has reportedly worried that AI workers are focusing too much on money rather than the mission. This suggests a tension between the huge wealth an IPO could create and the firm's desire for mission-driven staff.
Would you take a job at an AI company if the stock could be worth zero?…
A deaf woman's support dog woke her in the night after her husband fell down stairs and became unconscious. Sandra Donally's dog insisted something was wrong, alerting her to Gary's fall. The dog's alert led to help for Gary. It shows how service animals can provide life-saving awareness.
What's the most impressive thing you've seen a trained animal do?
Fought that dungeon last night where the spikes hit before the animation even finished. My rogue got flattened while the game still showed the guy swinging at air. Felt cheap. I was actually trying to time a dash out of it too, so it wasn’t just bad luck, it was the hit box being wrong.
Still, when the pack of elites rolled in and the screen went red, the fights stayed readable for once. I didn’t have to stare at health bars popping up like fireworks, just the actual swings. Boss phase felt like a proper scrap instead of a light show.
Diablo® IV keeps making me think the combat loop’s wo…
started a run where the first hour just dragged, everyone hauling the same logs back and forth while the timer on the food bar kept dropping. thought about quitting, but the moment one colonist started a fight with another over the single table really pulled me back in.
the pacing never settles into anything steady, there’s this long stretch where you just watch people wander between jobs, then suddenly three raids hit at once and you’re scrambling to get walls up.
RimWorld makes you live with the gaps between action, and after twenty minutes it still feels like half of it is just wait…