Bongo Tongo
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Avengers: Doomsday tickets go on sale July 20 - runtime is 2 hours and 46 minutes hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…
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@Locke_PSB @Wario64 The Odyssey already did one full year in advance
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🔥🚨LATEST: This singer said these record execs told him that he couldn’t mention the name Jesus if they signed him and he put the camera on them and responded by singing gospel.
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@the4kCollectivE @UltraHDBluray I wish I knew about this 💀💀💀 The hunt is on!
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All righty then! 🦒
Just dropped my full review + unboxing of the Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Limited Edition 4K UHD Steelbook from Via Vision!
Worldwide first on 4K, restored from the original negative. Comes with a killer lenticular hardcase, Steelbook, 48-page book, and huge poster. Numbered limited run!
Dolby Vision, high bitrates, and that classic Jim Carrey chaos in stunning 4K.
Watch here:
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#AceVentura #4K #Steelbook #PhysicalMedia #4KUHD #JimCarrey
@UltraHDBluray @viavisionent @dawnofthediscs @RalphAVSreviews @OnlySteelBook @HighDefDiscNews @hdreport @4kbluray4u @JimCarreyEugen_
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@libsoftiktok @GregAbbott_TX is becoming more and more of a failure for Texas. This, the h1b bs, crockett.... it needs to end
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BEEAKING UPDATE: Assistant attorney General for civil rights says they’re investigating the Fort Worth, Texas cops who threatened Christian preachers for using their First Amendment rights
AAGHarmeetDhillon@AAGDhillon
Troubling. ✍🏽 Our @CivilRights team is on it.
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@holland_tom Race replacement and you are part of the problem! Good job dude....
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It is a film which makes brilliant & evidently conscious play with a host of Hollywood genres - superheroes, science fiction, the mythologies of modern America - yet never lets them overpower our sense of an ancient & alien world.
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Hereward AWake@JohnT18121812
@holland_tom How are the American accents and using words like "dad"? I find them grinding.
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Lots of people telling me The Odyssey is a terrible film on the basis of not having seen it…
FWIW, I’ve now watched it twice, and it is by some way the best cinematic adaptation of a Greek myth I have ever seen.
It honours Homer while simultaneously making something new of him
Tom Holland@holland_tom
@Casey88428138 Christopher Nolan’s fascination with time, homecomings, narrative complexity and the moral ambiguities of heroism make him the perfect director for The Odyssey
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Bring your appetite and your lawn chair! The Taste of Chicago is back in Grant Park this week, from Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 9pm.
@ChicagoDCASE @ChooseChicago
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‼️ We have a release date! ‼️
Mark your calendars and get ready to explore the Deep North as Valheim 1.0 will arrive on 9 September! valheim.com/news/valheim-h…
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@asha_shar The easiest solution is just look for the pink-haired devs that are destroying your IP and send them on their merry way.
People want good games, but the shoved ideologies into what could be good stories shows why your revenue is down.
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This is an important email I sent today to all employees at XBOX:
Team,
We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful consideration, I've made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 throughout FY27. This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today, and in addition, four studios will leave XBOX to new management. I recognize that a year-long restructuring creates additional challenges. Unfortunately, it is not possible to make all the necessary changes in a single day, and I wanted to be direct about the scale.
I know this is painful. These changes will directly affect people who have poured their creativity into building XBOX. Many joined us through acquisitions, while others were recruited here, or sought us out because they loved this industry and loved XBOX. Today's decisions do not reflect their talent or dedication.
Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3–10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We entered Gen 9 with a smaller install base and a higher cost structure. To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added more teams, more investment, and more time, hoping for a better outcome. And now the industry is facing the most severe hardware crisis in its history. We must reset XBOX.
First, we will reset our content portfolio.
Since 2018, we have aggressively expanded our studio portfolio while the number of games created each month across the industry now outpaces the last ten years combined. We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios. It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio. We have also learned that we are not the best home for every type of studio; in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested. As we reset XBOX, we will help independent creators succeed by providing open development tools and audiences to realize their vision.
Compulsion Games and Double Fine Productions will return to management and transition to independent studios with their IP, catalog, and runway for their next games. Ninja Theory and Undead Labs have entered terms to join new ownership with funding to complete and grow Senua and State of Decay 3. In France, Arkane’s management is beginning required consultation with its Works Council to review potential strategic options.
We are also making reductions across other units, and in some cases, shifting investment to focus on higher priority projects. These changes vary in size across Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, and XBOX Game Studios. None of our first party publicly announced games or projects are being cancelled as part of these reductions.
In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me. These two studios have increasingly become platforms and are our largest by monthly active players. They bring critical geographic, demographic, and differentiation to XBOX.
Second, we will reset our platform.
We know that great technology gets better when it gets simpler, not bigger. Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. Our platform teams are 40% larger than they were at the start of this generation, even as our player base and playtime have declined. That complexity has slowed decisions, blurred accountability, and made it harder to deliver for players. As we reset XBOX, we will simplify.
We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes. And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend.
Third, we are resetting how we operate.
As XBOX grew our headcount, we became more fragmented. Teams, studios, and functions often operate independently, and it became harder to work towards a shared goal, make the right tradeoffs, and get things done.
For the first time, we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me. Over nearly two decades at XBOX, Helen has helped build some of our most important businesses, from XBOX Live to leading Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. She will bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results.
Thank you, Dave McCarthy, who is retiring after 17 years with XBOX. Dave has played a defining role in building the platform that millions of players rely on every day and has been a trusted partner through many of the biggest moments in XBOX's history. We wish him all the best.
These changes are about a bigger future for XBOX, not a smaller one. The next decade of gaming will be larger, more global, and more creative than anything we've seen before. This year, we'll invest as much in XBOX as we ever have, but we'll invest with greater focus, greater discipline, and greater clarity, all in service of making XBOX where the world plays and creates.
I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect. I know we can achieve this goal. XBOX has many of the most beloved franchises in entertainment history, talented studios around the world, and we will return to growth in 2027.
History is full of companies that mistake longevity for inevitability. We will not be one of them.
Asha
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Who do you think was the worst U.S. president?
A. Bill Clinton
B. Barack Obama
C. Joe Biden
D. Donald Trump
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British patriots and a man wearing unpleasant Restore Britain clothes allegedly invited themselves into a migrant HMO and wandered around.
What gives them the right to enter our homes? It’s unacceptable and very concerning.
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Another day and another invader beats a European half to death with a scooter.
You had enough yet?
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Trump is closing a *bipartisan* Independence Day event so he can host a toxic anti-American political rally. Disgusting!
Andrew Leyden@PenguinSix
The Great American State Fair is CLOSED due to heat. Everyone must exit until 5:00pm
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