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Go-Go Town! is a cosy Animal Crossing-like from the developers of Yonder
Go-Go Town! has more than a little Animal Crossing about it, as players become mayor of a cutesy fixer-upper town and start doing oddjobs to attract new visitors and inhabitants. It differs in several key ways too, thankfully, from its more urban setting, its tactile power tools, and the ability to automate a lot of the gathering and crafting by putting residents to work for you. Watch the reveal trailer below.
Patriotic Alternative: The town fighting the far-right with Welsh cakes
Daily Authority: 🔥 New foldable in town plus some Friday fun!
Go-Go Town is a cozy mix of life and management sim: ‘Instead of conveyor belts like Factorio, we’ve got people belts’
Bizarre Six ‘MIRROR MEN’ Encountered in Small Town at Night
Just like a scene from ‘The Twilight Zone,’ a group of teen girls were driving around their small town late at night and encountered six ‘Mirror Men.’ An odd phenomenon that is rarely reported.
Please note…Derek Hayes at the ‘Monsters Among Us Podcast’ was the first to truly lock down the phrase Mirror Men Phenomenon, after a number of callers to his show described seeing the same type of entity (or entities). Typically the Mirror Men are described as coming in threes and moving in unison so perfectly that it appears one is looking into a mirror. I’ve not heard of a case involving six together, so this is a new one for me.
“My story took place around 1993-94. I was 18 years old and living in a small town in southern Utah. Living in a small town, we need small-town things to entertain ourselves. One of the few but popular options among the high school population was to drag main. It consisted of driving from the end of Main Street to the other end, trying to link up with friends or meet new ones preferably in a car full of cute boys.
Main Street was barely a half mile. I believe there are only two stoplights. My red Subaru hatchback was loaded full of my friends – more girls than seat belts. We had taken several drags down Main and struck out, so we decided to detour off the beaten path. There’s a good chance we had Salt N’ Peppa or George Michael album blaring from the factory speaker and peach Schnapps concealed in our soda cups which could have easily been our deterrent but we were determined to make a connection so we left Main Street behind. We had two options. First drive through the town cemetery to a story of the devoted cat that comes and sits on her owner’s grave every night since she died, a story everyone in town has heard a million times now. It’s become a rite of passage – you drive slowly through the graveyard and if you turn your lights on, this particular headstone just right looks like the silhouette of a cat. Newcomers gasp. The rest of us pretend to. Like I said, small-town entertainment. Or there is a second option, cruise the college streets, the heartbeat of this little town, in hopes of meeting someone new who hasn’t got the memo to drag main. We opted for the latter and struck out there too.
So we’re finishing up our detour and heading back towards Main for one last drag down Main, before calling it a night. We were about four blocks away when we approached a stoplight laughing about whether we had time to do a Chinese fire drill or not. If you don’t know what that is, everyone gets out of the car at a red light and runs around the car, and tries to make it back to their seat before the light turns green. Like I said, small-town fun.
Suddenly I look up from our shenanigans and there in front of me were six men crossing the lane directly in front of us. All six men, however, were walking in single file, which seemed rather odd and unnerving for that hour of the night. All in step with a straight back facing forward. Same height. All crossing from the right corner of where a mortuary stood, the fact that didn’t stand out at the time and really didn’t even cross my mind until years later when sharing the location of this incident. All crossing from the right (mortuary) to left (where a school bus garage and baptist church stood) on opposite corners.
We were frozen trying to make sense of what we were seeing. It looked out of place for this time of night or for any time, really. Something was weird. Our frozen observance was quickly broken by a friend ordering me to “follow them!” When the light turned green, I made a quick left turn to follow them between the garage and the church. We rolled down our windows, laughing at the oddity and searching for an understanding of this bizarre scene through our laughter. You could hear several of us questioning ‘what are you guys doing?’ Without saying a word, they continued marching in sync and staring straight ahead. We were met with only a profile of six faces which only piqued our curiosity further, so we enquired again and again. We’re non-relenting.
Then, suddenly, a response but it wasn’t the response we expected. It jarred us and froze us for a brief moment. As if in a choreographed move, they all quickly snapped their heads toward us. All six pairs of identical eyes on identical faces, frames, and identical hairstyles, coldly stared. It was like staring into a mirror that is facing another and seeing exact replicas of oneself repeating indefinitely but here it wasn’t my face but another and it they shouted in unison, “Go away!”. Suddenly another shout woke me from my shock and disbelief. This time from my back seat: “Drive now!” On a side road, I was half a block away from the… what was that? Another voice: “We have to go back! Turn around, let’s follow them!” Remember, small-town fun. Why the hell not? We have nothing better to do?
We are now only a small town block away. We flip around and head back. We were met with the void of where they once stood. They were completely gone. It’s a dark street. Nowhere for them to go. Street lights, business lights, house lights, nothing. If they went into a building, a light would be on. No buildings to go to in that amount of time. Just gone. We try to make sense of it and drove along the cross street that separated the block, we had just driven down, and nothing.
Defeated and confused, our laughter turned into shock and silence as we headed back to the corner. We took the detour that lured us off track. We sat on the dark side street in silence waiting for the red glow above the bath. The only sound was through my blinker. A steady sound signaling the left-hand turn, when suddenly we felt that it was tangible. The thought gives me goosebumps still to this day. Above us. it crept. Our heads snapped up collectively to see what above us could possibly be and it was massive darkness, undeniable darkness slowly engulfing us in its depth and its mysterious shadow the blackness weighed heavily upon our innocence. Suddenly green reflected from our terrified eyes and we were released from the clutches of the darkness. Before I had completed that left-hand turn to pick up where we had originally left off, we were all in tears, full-blown sobbing tears. We were shaken. No explanation. No answers but real undeniable yet unexplainable fear. Fear that hit each of us the same, made our skin crawl and our core shake and our eyes tear up and made us sink into areas of our soul we never knew existed seeking solace and an escape from the unknown.”
Source: “Strange Men In The Road”. Real Ghost Stories Online. Brueski, Tony. Host. 27 Sept 2022
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We live in pretty seaside town infested with ‘super-rats’ as big as CATS – no one can stop them
RESIDENTS in a pretty seaside town say it’s infested with “super-rats” the size of cats – and no one can stop them.
The resort of Tenby in South Wales offers a sandy beach, a pretty harbour and scenic cliff views which attracts thousands of tourists each year.
Tenby’s tourism trade could be under threat from the super-rats if the problem cant be dealt with[/caption]
Boatman Roger Miles says the issue of rats has worsened in recent weeks[/caption]
But locals say the tourist trade could be sabotaged due to a new breed of visitor – “super-rats”.
They say their town has been invaded by an army of rodents “as big as cats” – with fears their ability to breed prolifically will soon lead to the seaside town being overrun.
The giant rats have made their home on a huge hill overlooking Tenby’s famous golden sands.
Local boatman Roger Miles said the rodents have become a worsening problem in recent weeks, adding it is now “really concerning”.
He told The Sun: “Early evenings, dusk, early morning, rats all over the place really.
“There’s a certain area where you see parts of the cliffs at Castle Hill have been eroded.”
The rodents, he claims, are “as big as cats sometimes”.
He urges the Pembrokeshire council to take drastic action, adding: “It’s been going on for a long time, it’s been left alone and something needs to be done about it.”
Another local said: “You just can’t kill them quicker than they can breed.
“Once they’re here, they’re here to stay. Besides, they’re intelligent animals so they’ll soon work out the bait is no good for them.
“We’re living in terror of the bloody things.”
Resident Derek Brown added: “It’s the structural damage they might be doing to the cliff face that is the big problem.”
A female rat typically has six litters a year of up to 12 rat “pups”.
They reach sexual maturity after four to five weeks, meaning that a population can swell from two rats to around 1,250 in a year, with the potential to grow exponentially.
Local mayor Sam Skyrme-Blackhall, an all-year swimmer in the sea beneath Castle Hill, where the rats have made their home, admitted she regularly spots the giant rodents sauntering across the sand when she emerges from the water.
The civic official, who also represents her home town as a Pembrokeshire county councillor, has been instrumental in addressing the infestation by helping organise dozens of large bait boxes containing poison, which have been placed around Castle Hill.
Fisherman Michael Lewis said Tenby has had a rat issue for years, but they’ve become “famous” since they appeared on Facebook.
“Rats are a nuisance but now people are aware of them, some are scared stiff and others think they’re cute and cuddly,” he said.
“Truth is they breed like mad and they are unhygienic if they get into houses and the garbage from the restaurants and cafes.
“But you know how the saying goes – you’re never far away from a rat, and Tenby is no exception.”
Poet Clive Dobbins, from Tenby, found a rat in the lounge of his High Street flat two months ago.
“Suddenly this thing dashed and hit my leg,” he said. “Quite a few people have told me, especially on this mountain here, they’ve seen clusters of them.”
Tenby’s sandy bay attracts thousands of holiday-makers during the summer months and is famous for hosting the Wales Ironman triathlon event every September.
The annual endurance race, which gives the town a £5m economic windfall, starts on the beach with a 2.4-mile sea swim.
Reports of the massive rats, some of which are more than a foot long, scuttling around on the beach could well deter entrants.
But Ms Skyrme-Blackhall, who walks her dog on the beach every day, said people have no reason to be afraid of the rats.
“I see them all the time,” she said. “They’re just rats, though, they don’t worry me… rats are everywhere. It’s the same in every town.”
Lee Ashworth, 55, and his partner Michelle Lamb, 51, from Worcs, have visited Tenby for years and were spending the weekend looking for their “forever home”.
“A few rats aren’t going to put us off,” said Mr Ashworth. “We didn’t know the problem was as bad as it is until we got here.
“We’ve looked along the cliffs here by the lifeboat but we haven’t seen any yet, except for the bait boxes.
“In fact we haven’t seen any cats, let alone rats.
“It would put me off if we come here to live permanently, but we don’t intend moving for another 18 months, so hopefully they will have fixed the problem by then.”
Ken Long, 62, who volunteers for the RNLI in Tenby, said he sees the rats “everywhere” along the cliffs, but reckons the problem has been “overstressed”.
“To be honest I think it’s the refuse bins at the bottom of the hill leading down to the harbour that are attracting them,” he said.
“If there’s food left around in the bins, that’s only going to encourage rats isn’t it? No wonder they get so big.
“I walk the cliff path regularly and see plenty of rats, but I think the seagulls present a bigger problem. They are all vermin.”
Pembrokeshire Council has urged people not to feed birds or drop food, and said specialist staff are examining the cliffs where the rats are thought to be nesting.
A spokesperson told The Sun: “We are aware of issues with rodents and the need for additional baiting points and have been working on this on an ongoing basis in order to address this concern.
“We will be accessing the cliff face and starting a baiting programme imminently, using specialist staff.
“We continue to urge members of the public and the local community not to feed the birds or provide any food sources that may attract vermin to this area as this is the likely cause of the problem. We will also look to provide additional signage to reinforce this message.
“Following the planned baiting programme we will look at what options we have available to prevent the re-emergence of this issue in the future.”
Lee Ashworth and Michelle Lamb say they hope the problem is dealt with by the time they move to Tenby[/caption]
The Council has urged people not to feed birds or drop food in the area[/caption]
Many of the rats have made their burrows on Castle Rock[/caption]
Roger fears the rats could cause damage to the cliffs in Tenby[/caption]
Redfall story trailer explains how the town became overrun with vampires
Bethesda and Arkane Austin have released a story trailer for Redfall that tells the tale of how vampires came to rule over the sleepy Massachusetts island town.
After a failed scientific experiment at Aevum HQ, a legion of vampires invaded the town and cut it off from the outside world.
Since the experiment changed some folks into vampires, people have gone missing; dead bodies and blood are everywhere; the sun has been eclipsed; and vampires rule the town as gods.