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How ‘Death by Lightning’ Made James Garfield’s Assassination Feel “Shakespearean”
Death by Lightning, a new Netflix miniseries about the 1881 assassination of US President James A. Garfield, was created by Mike Makowsky after he stumbled upon Candice Millard’s book Destiny of the Republic in a bargain bin at a Los Angeles bookshop. Makowsky, best known for Bad Education, found the parallel story of Garfield and…
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Taxi driver pocketed more than £30,000 after inventing fictitious dogs dying in bizarre accidents including chasing seagull off Blackpool pier
A taxi driver from Kirkby, Merseyside, has been given a suspended prison sentence after pocketing over £30,000 through a series of fraudulent pet insurance claims for dogs that never existed. Robert Cretu, 40, invented elaborate stories of pets dying in accidents, including one dog supposedly leaping off Blackpool Pier while chasing a seagull and another…
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How will the dominoes fall in Florida and Alaska?
🏈 Plus: Is the NFL really going international? {beacon} It’s Tuesday and the humidity is making it really hard to walk anywhere without sweating today. Ugh… In today’s issue: President Trump reimagines the Navy’s look Florida primary will test Trump endorsement Bizarre twist in Los Angeles mayoral polling Disney/ABC target FCC Programming note:…
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The Lantern of the Laughless Saint, a Morrowind-inspired RPG weirdfest out this week in early access, has immediately seduced me with dialogue camera hijinks
Rock Paper Shotgun previews The Lantern of the Laughless Saint, a Morrowind-inspired fantasy RPG from developer NerveLabs that entered Steam early access this week. The writer’s early impressions focus less on the mechanics and more on the game’s deliberately unhinged dialogue camera, which erratically zooms in on characters’ faces and body parts during conversations, producing…
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Crazy Taxi’s Gena Now Looks Like a Life Is Strange NPC on PS5
A Push Square editor has raised concerns about the art direction of Crazy Taxi: World Tour after seeing the redesigned character Gena, arguing she has lost the attitude and edge of her original Dreamcast-era look in favour of a more generic, “Life Is Strange NPC” appearance. The piece follows the writer’s earlier unease about protagonist…
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Avengers: Doomsday star Sebastian Stan says he’s never seen a full script of the movie so has “absolutely no idea” what happens
Sebastian Stan opens up about the unusual way the Russos film
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Reform’s £50bn welfare cut plan, Tupac trial opens, Hayden Panettiere dies at 36
Reform UK has proposed cutting more than £50 billion a year from welfare spending, principally by reshaping working-age disability and sickness support. Its plans include abolishing personal independence payment and the health element of Universal Credit for working-age adults, replacing some cash support with locally administered disability support accounts, tightening eligibility and reassessing existing claimants…
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ABC sues FCC over what it calls politically motivated pressure
Disney’s ABC has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, bringing to a head months of confrontation with the regulator over what the broadcaster calls politically motivated pressure. ABC’s lawyers argued the company was being punished for its editorial decisions and news coverage, saying it had “no alternative means to eliminate these…
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The ultimate doggy paddle: Stunned fishermen find pooch swimming in the ocean
A group of fishermen off Cedros Island in Baja California, Mexico, rescued a dog they spotted swimming alone in the open ocean during an early morning fishing trip. The dog, which had no collar or harness, was found paddling about a mile from shore, apparently exhausted and heading further out to sea, prompting the crew…
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The true story behind BioShock Infinite’s Bread Boy
BioShock Infinite’s Bread Boy went viral on Twitter in February, so we asked developer Gwen Frey to weigh in on how exactly she made this king of crumb. The reasons the Bread Boy exists in the Burial at Sea DLC point to the strange, specific problems that developers have to overcome every day. Gwen is…