Amazon Prime video is counting down to something to do with the new Fallout show that’s coming next year. A “live report from Galaxy News” on YouTube has a camera pointed at a Valut-Tec vault that almost certainly doesn’t have any dead people and giant roaches in it.
We’ve got a little over 30 minutes until whatever is going to happen happens.
Here’s a fun guessing game for your Saturday morning. Chris Rosales of The Drive took a Lexus LC 500 for a spin over several days to find the locations used in Gran Turismo 7’s Scapes photo mode and recreate the shots himself.
I embedded one of the images here, but be sure to head over to the article to see the rest.
There’s a lengthy transcript of a 1978 recording of George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan brainstorming Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark that’s floated around the internet for the last 14 years or longer.
I couldn’t confirm its authenticity, but Kasdan didn’t deny it in a 2016 Writers Guild festival interview. The hosts of The Hollywood Gauntlet recorded a four-hour reenactment of it if you don’t have time to read the whole thing.
This kind of video gets me in trouble at home because I will try to emulate it for fun. Just hours of recording noises and editing them, to the exclusion of all of the reasonable, responsible things I should do instead.
Anyway, here’s someone smacking, plucking, and scraping disparate household items to get the Netflix logo sound.
Netflix denied complaints of injuries resulting from Squid Game: The Challenge’s January filming conditions that reportedly resulted in some injuries.
As Deadline reported today — a day after the game show’s release — two of the contestants have hired British personal injury firm Express Solicitors to seek compensation for their claims of hypothermia and nerve damage resulting from the filming. A spokesperson for the show told Deadline “no lawsuit has been filed” yet.
A developer named Obbe Vermeij, who’d worked as a technical director on the early 3D Grand Theft Auto trilogy, started sharing stories about the games’ development on his personal blog earlier this month. But, he wrote yesterday, that’s all over now.
Today (22 Nov 2023) I got an email from R*North. Apparently some of the OG’s there are upset by my blog. I genuinely didn’t think anyone would mind me talking about 20 year old games but I was wrong. Something about ruining the Rockstar mystique or something.
Kotaku picked out some of the stories to summarize — like that Rockstar considered a zombie game, or that one of the devs made a gun that shoots ragdoll characters to test GTA IV maps.
The European Space Agency’s test-fire of Ariane 6’s Vulcain 2.1 engine will start at 3:30PM ET, and will run for the full 470 seconds of the first stage of a real launch.
As Space notes, the Ariane 6 replaces the Ariane 5, which had a 27-year stint before going to pasture. Its first launch is planned for 2024 following years of delays.
The ESA livestream starts at 3PM ET.
This noise is the price you’ll pay for the uncropped 4K 120fps shots of the Sony A9 III’s global shutter that’s supposed to fix the distortion caused by the usual rolling shutter. (Well, really the price is $5,999)
Okay, so you don’t actually have to hear the sound of an early PC crashing — there’s no mechanical shutter. But this is an awful noise, and I love that it’s there.
