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I’m really bad at videogames. Which is a shame, because being good at them looks like it would be a lot of fun. There’s just one big thing holding me back. I’m a moron. A buffoon. A smooth-brained nincompoop who is fundamentally unable and unwilling to engage intellectually with game mechanics at their deepest level.
I have never pressed a block button in my entire life. I have never countered a move because I am not a member of MENSA. I can barely even bring myself to factor in grenades in multiplayer shooters. So thank you, Marvel Snap, for making me feel like a genius.
Marvel’s new digital card game has been expertly calibrated to appeal to people like me – chumps with miniscule attention spans who are easily distracted by pretty shapes and colours. Really, really pretty colours. Marvel Snap might be a fundamentally simple game but it’s been realised with a preposterous amount of slick animations and effects and satisfying sounds – all meticulously designed to light up the baby-like joy receptors of a gamer brain. It’s like playing with a Bop It. The cards themselves really pop out of the screen if played on mobile, high-res screens capable of deep rich colours rendering these little rectangles of Marvel art so sharply you could cut your thumb on them.
Usher made a mark on music like no other and now it seems like the stage blazer is looking to scorch on with a new business venture alongside none other than L.A. Reid.
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The pair already have an illustrious success record during their respective stints at Arista Records – Ush as the Diamond-selling ‘Confessions’ hitmaker and Reid as the imprint’s then-President.
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It wasn’t the average marsquake that the Insight Mars lander heard rip-roaring through the red planet’s ground last Christmas Eve.
NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter apparently found the source of the rumble a couple of months later from its vantage point in space: a spectacular meteor strike over 2,000 miles away near Mars’ equator, estimated to be one of the largest impacts observed on the neighboring planet.
But what’s thrilled scientists perhaps as much as or more than the recorded seismic activity is what the meteor uncovered when it slammed into Mars — huge, boulder-size chunks of ice blasted out of the crater. Up until now, underground ice hadn’t been found in this region, the warmest part of the planet.
“This is really an exciting result,” said Lori Glaze, NASA’s director of planetary science, during a news conference Thursday. “We know, of course, that there’s water ice near the poles on Mars. But in planning for future human exploration of Mars, we’d want to land the astronauts as near to the equator as possible, and having access to ice at these lower latitudes, that ice can be converted into water, oxygen, or hydrogen. That could be really useful.”
The discovery, recently published in two related studies in the journal Science, is something of a grand finale for NASA’s Insight lander, which is losing power rapidly. Scientists have estimated they have about four to eight weeks remaining before they lose contact with the lander. At that point, the mission will end.
For the past four years, Insight has studied upward of 1,000 marsquakes and collected daily weather reports. It has detected the planet’s large liquid core and helped map Mars’ inner geology.
Program leaders have prepared the public for this outcome for some time. While the spacecraft has sat on the surface of Mars, dust has accumulated on its solar panels. The layers of grit from the red desert planet have blocked out the rays it needs to convert into power. The team has cut back on Insight’s operations to squeeze out as much science as possible before the hardware goes kaput.
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Then, the team got a bit more bad news last month. A brutal dust storm swept over a large portion of Mar’s southern hemisphere. Insight went from having about 400 watt-hours per Martian day to less than 300.
“Unfortunately, since this is such a large dust storm, it’s actually put a lot of dust up into the atmosphere, and it has cut down the amount of sunlight reaching the solar panels by quite a bit,” said Bruce Banerdt, Insight’s principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
But NASA believes scientists will continue to learn a lot about the past climate conditions on Mars and when and how ice was buried there from the fresh crater, which spans 500 feet wide and just shy of 70 feet deep.
They are confident the ice came from Mars and not the meteor, said Ingrid Daubar, a planetary scientist at Brown University who leads InSight’s impact science working group.
“An impact of this size would actually destroy the meteorite that came in to hit the surface,” she said. “We wouldn’t expect much, if any, of the original impactor to survive this high energy explosion.”
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A GREAT horror film can feel like riding a rollercoaster – you laugh, you scream, you want to get off and then you don’t want it to end.
All emotions that are felt when watching top-class terror, Barbarian.
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The low-budget but highly skilled film is a tale of two halves.
The first is set up as a relatable nightmare.
Tess (Georgina Campbell) has arrived at her Airbnb to find Keith (Bill Skarsgard) has already rented it.
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It’s dark, raining, Tess has an important job interview the next day and there’s a convention in town, meaning every hotel room is booked.
While Keith seems like a pretty reasonable chap, it’s never a good idea to stay in a house with a slightly socially awkward man.
You have a deep sense there’s something very off about Keith. The casting of Skarsgard — who is old hat at horror having played Pennywise in the recent IT franchise — is perfect.
He’s a bit good-looking but also a bit, well, strange-looking. And he’s able to make his eyes disconcertingly unreadable.
But after much convincing, Tess does stay — with Keith on the sofa and her in a bedroom with a lock.
Things do go bump in the night, though, and soon Tess finds herself in a terrifying basement room that holds a filthy mattress, bloody hand-prints on the wall and a camcorder up to no good.
After much mischief in the basement occurs — none of which I can share without spoilers — the film suddenly cuts to arrogant actor AJ (Justin Long, on some excellent comedy-horror form) who is driving along a sunny coastal road in his sportscar.
His smarmy smile is soon wiped off his face with a call from his agent, who reveals AJ’s latest co-star has accused him of sexual assault and he has been dropped from his movie.
There’s only one thing for it. AJ has to sell some of his rental properties — one of which is, you guessed it, the one where Tess and Keith are having that interesting time in the basement.
On his visit to the house, he finds a lot more than just some dodgy damp patches — and soon this film is spinning out into a world of first-class fear.
The cast’s main trio put in top performances, getting the perfect balance of comedy, empathy and just plain awful.
By the time it’s over, you’ll want to queue up for another go.
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WHY did American nurse Charles Cullen kill a suspected 400 patients in his care?
If you are hoping this Netflix dramatisation of real events is going to answer that question, you are going to be disappointed.
Eddie Redmayne’s Cullen is as distant as a UK economic recovery – and for me that’s what makes The Good Nurse so great.
It does not seek to get under the skin of this serial killer or explain his actions.
Such monsters should not be “understood.”
Instead, the focus is on Jessica Chastain’s hero nurse Amy Loughren, who helped bring her colleague Cullen to justice.
While others turned a blind eye to the threat posed by this killer on the wards, she risked her job and health to take him on. Danish director Tobias Lindholm sensibly approaches this as a thriller rather than a medical drama – I watched creepy Cullen’s interactions with single mum Amy through my hands. Lindholm also draws intense performances from both Redmayne and Chastain.
Be warned, The Good Nurse will leave you psychologically drained.
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Around 24 hours ago, Gotham Knights on Steam received its first patch. Among fixes for was various bugs, the game was also updated to remove Denuvo’s anti-tamper DRM from the game. Sometimes games remove their DRM after the launch window, but not normally just five days after release, making its removal from Gotham Knights a survival.
Well, now Denuvo has been re-added.
JAMIE CARRAGHER turned up late for TV punditry in New York – and jokingly blamed Christian Pulisic’s DAD.
The Liverpool legend – who has blasted USA attacker Pulisic as “not good enough” to be anything more than a Chelsea squad player – missed the start of CBS’ Champions League coverage.
Carra appeared flustered as he sat down for work in the Brooklyn studio with presenter Kate Abdo even suggesting he was “sweating”.
And when questioned by his CBS colleague about why he had missed the start of the broadcast, Carra had a bizarre answer.
At first the former England defender just said: “It was a bit difficult getting through passport control.”
But when pushed, he added: “I don’t really know. Maybe it’s the criticism.
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“Maybe Pulisic’s dad was the fella doing the passports, I don’t know. I’ve given him a little bit of stick, haven’t I?”
Even before Graham Potter replaced Thomas Tuchel as Stamford Bridge boss, Carragher had doubted whether ex-Borussia Dortmund wideman Pulisic had the ability to earn a regular spot.
Carra said: “I don’t think a new manager is gonna completely rejuvenate him.
“He’s gonna be playing week in, week out. I just think he’s a squad player for Chelsea no matter who the manager is.”
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He later added: “To play week in, week out and make a difference for one of the best teams in the world, he’s not good enough for that right now.”
Ex-Fulham and US hitman Clint Dempsey responded: “Maybe he’s not good enough, but he’s still a young player and still has a lot to prove.
“It doesn’t mean that he can’t still go on to another level,.”
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