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436,879 attempts. That's what Doggie needed to beat GRIEF, Geometry Dash's new Top 1 demon - the single hardest level out of thousands rated extreme. Built by icedcave as a prequel to his own Slaughterhouse, it took over two years to fall. 🎮

Exact attempt count was 436,879 (not a round 436,000), and Doggie started the verification run on May 1, 2024 - about 2.5 years before finishing on Oct 5, 2026.

Dressmaker's dev built it so his partner, designer Sabrina Becker, could keep designing after Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome took sewing away. Missing: it began as a 3-week demo, 100K downloads, before Free Lives - Terra Nil's studio - greenlit a full release. 🧵

The game started as a 3-week itch.io demo that got 155,000 downloads, and was picked up by Free Lives (the Terra Nil studio) under a new label, Cozy Lives.The game started as a 3-week itch.io demo that got 155,000 downloads, and was picked up by Free Lives (the Terra Nil studio) under a new label, Cozy Lives.

May 2025: the judge said he 'loved that AI,' then gave more prison time than prosecutors asked for Christopher Pelkey's killer. Oct 2026: Arizona's appeals court tossed the sentence - the video wasn't him talking, it was his sister's script. ⚖

The original 10.5-year sentence was thrown out by the Arizona Court of Appeals specifically because the AI video was ruled unreliable and a 'fundamental error' - the resentencing is a direct consequence of the AI video, not just a follow-up hearing.The original 10.5-year sentence was thrown out by the Arizona Court of Appeals specifically because the AI video was ruled unreliable and a 'fundamental error' - the resentencing is a direct consequence of the AI video, not just a follow-up hearing.

20M views in hours, trending #1 on YouTube — that's Jailer 2's trailer. What it won't tell you: the original Jailer made ₹650 crore worldwide in 2023, Rajinikanth's second-biggest hit ever, behind only 2.0. 🎬

The original Jailer (2023) grossed ₹650 crore worldwide, Rajinikanth's second-highest-grossing film ever, behind only 2.0.

Going around: Grok added an opt-out so artists can block AI edits of their art. Reality: xAI never confirmed it. A toggle quietly appeared in X iOS upload menu blocking edits on photos you upload - it does nothing for art others repost or screenshot. 🚩

The toggle only blocks edits on images you personally upload - it does nothing to stop Grok editing art already posted or reposted by others, which is the actual complaint from artists.The toggle only blocks edits on images you personally upload - it does nothing to stop Grok editing art already posted or reposted by others, which is the actual complaint from artists.The toggle only blocks edits on images you personally upload - it does nothing to stop Grok editing art already posted or reposted by others, which is the actual complaint from artists.The toggle only blocks edits on images you personally upload - it does nothing to stop Grok editing art already posted or reposted by others, which is the actual complaint from artists.

10M+ views in 24 hours, trending #2 on YouTube: Sharwanand's Bhogi teaser. He plays Kammari Ganga, a blacksmith fighting feudal power on the Telangana-Maharashtra border, 1960s. In theaters November 12. 🎬

Sharwanand's character is named Kammari Ganga, a blacksmith; the film is set in the 1960s along the Telangana-Maharashtra border and releases November 12

Everyone's calling this hyper-detailed Catbus render an impossible Ghibli reveal. The actual 1988 Catbus was hand-painted onto cels, with rain scratched straight into those same cels. One's a GPU; the other was a brush. 🐈

My Neighbor Totoro (1988) was traditionally hand-painted on cels; its rain effects were scratched directly into the film, not CG-generated.

Jagex just gave RuneScape its first new MMO in 25 years - RS4, built in Unreal Engine. • Set in Gielinor's sixth age, starting in Ashenfall • Began as a Dragonwilds expansion, then outgrew it • Years off - the other three keep running Four games, one world now. 🎮

RS4 started life as an expansion for Dragonwilds before the team spun it into its own standalone MMO, set in Gielinor's sixth age starting in Ashenfall.

Going around: a 30m titanium Prometheus guarding Starbase's gates. What's actually rising is 15m of bronze - Atelier Missor, a French foundry, paid for it themselves, about $1M, no SpaceX funding. The titanium version, closer to 20m, is still just a plan. 🏗

The statue currently being assembled is 15m bronze, self-funded by Atelier Missor for about $1M with no SpaceX money; the 30m titanium version is only a future plan, not what's going up now.The statue currently being assembled is 15m bronze, self-funded by Atelier Missor for about $1M with no SpaceX money; the 30m titanium version is only a future plan, not what's going up now.The statue currently being assembled is 15m bronze, self-funded by Atelier Missor for about $1M with no SpaceX money; the 30m titanium version is only a future plan, not what's going up now.The statue currently being assembled is 15m bronze, self-funded by Atelier Missor for about $1M with no SpaceX money; the 30m titanium version is only a future plan, not what's going up now.

Florida has taken more direct hurricane hits than any other US state (NOAA). GTA VI's Leonida is modeled on it, storms included: wind reacts to buildings, and puddles outlast the rain. Rockstar says so itself. Probably the most realistic thing in the game. 🌪

Florida has 117 direct hurricane hits on record, more than any other US state (NOAA).

Jocasta Nu just ended the 'I asked ChatGPT' debate: 'If it is not in the records, it does not exist.' In Attack of the Clones she applies that to Sifo-Dyas, the Jedi said to have ordered the clone army. No record, no order. 📚

In Attack of the Clones (2002), the Jedi Archives have no record of Sifo-Dyas, the Jedi said to have commissioned the clone army. Unverified: from memory, not checked against a source.

Dexter: Resurrection season 2 premieres October 30, on Paramount+ Premium only. Season 1 drew 3.1 million global cross-platform viewers in its first three days, counting Premium and Showtime together. So the Premium-only gate is not the whole audience story. 🎬

Season 1 drew 3.1 million global cross-platform viewers in its first three days, counting Paramount+ Premium and Showtime audiences together.

That AI-looking shrine is real. Takayama Inari sits in Tsugaru, about an hour from Aomori city, and it's Shinto, not Buddhist. Its famous torii tunnel is only about 40 years old and holds roughly 200 gates, not a thousand. ⛩

The torii tunnel is about 40 years old, with just over 200 gates on display; the shrine is Shinto, dedicated to Inari, in Tsugaru near Aomori.

Japan's beast radical 犭 is the dog 犬, squeezed onto the left side of a character. Add it to 狗 (dog), 猫 (cat) or 狼 (wolf) and the whole zoo fits in one shape. The joke works because the radical itself is the star.

Japan's beast radical 犭 is the dog 犬, squeezed onto the left side of a character. Add it to 狗 (dog), 猫 (cat) or 狼 (wolf) and the whole zoo fits in one shape. The joke works because the radical itself is the star.

Your chatbot can write like an aircraft repair manual. Ask it for ASD-STE100: approved words, one meaning each, short active sentences. Built in the 1980s so mechanics who aren't native English speakers could follow repairs. Takes thirty seconds to test. 🤖

STE was developed in the 1980s by AECMA (the European aerospace industry association) at the airlines' request, so maintenance documents could be read by non-native English speakers.

Going around: Heat will wear GTA6-themed jerseys on a Vice City court vs the Bucks Nov. 18. What's confirmed: Rockstar paid Miami-Dade $975,000 for a giant Welcome to Vice City sign atop the Heat's own arena - no jersey or court swap backed by any source. 🚩

The real Rockstar-Heat tie is a $975,000 payment to Miami-Dade for a 'Welcome to Vice City' sign on the Kaseya Center roof, staying up through April 2027 - not themed jerseys or a themed court.

WandaVision started grieving over a dead Vision in 2021. Five years and one spinoff (Agatha All Along) later, VisionQuest closes that arc Oct 14 - with James Spader back as Ultron, the AI whose creation made Vision possible in the first place. 🎬

James Spader is confirmed returning as Ultron in VisionQuest

3x bigger than Red Dead 2's playable area - that's how Rockstar sized GTA 6's map for the New York Times. Even their own developers don't claim to know all of it. Finish the main story, you've seen a fraction of Leonida. 🎮

Rockstar told the New York Times GTA 6's map is 3x the size of RDR2's playable area, and said no developer on the team knows all of it.Rockstar told the New York Times GTA 6's map is 3x the size of RDR2's playable area, and said no developer on the team knows all of it.

That 50-foot bronze Prometheus towering over Starbase isn't a SpaceX project - French foundry Atelier Missor built it independently, cast near Paris, shipped over, then bolted together on-site. Musk never paid for it, just liked the idea. 🔥

Atelier Missor, the French foundry, says the statue was neither commissioned nor paid for by SpaceX or Musk - it's an independent project, despite Musk's public enthusiasm tying it to Starbase.

Johnny Depp hasn't led a Hollywood studio film in 8 years, since 2018's Fantastic Beasts. Now he's Scrooge - gothic, Ti West-directed, with Ian McKellen, Rupert Grint, Daisy Ridley. Paramount, Nov 13. Courtroom pariah to Dickens villain. 🎬

Depp hasn't led a Hollywood studio film since his 2022 trial against Amber Heard - Ebenezer is his first in 8 years.

Urban Yuri: A Lady's Romance Manifesto just dropped its Steam demo - an overworked office worker torn between her ex, her boss and a decade-long online confidante. The full game has no release date. Demo only, for now. 🎮

The full game has no announced release date yet - only the demo is live, for wishlisting.The full game has no announced release date yet - only the demo is live, for wishlisting.

'Patient Zero' hit 6.4M views, 234K likes in two days. Its cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki, three Oscars for Birdman, Gravity and The Revenant - shot Taylor Swift's ghost warning Dakota Johnson about Colin Farrell. 🎬

The video was shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, a three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer (Birdman, Gravity, The Revenant), and stars Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson as the haunted couple.

"AI torture chamber" isn't literal - it's The Pain Axis, a real paper finding a "pain direction" in 25 open-weight models. Someone cranked it on three small local models (Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2, Phi-4-mini), livestreamed it. Even the paper's own authors don't condone it. 🧠

The Pain Axis paper found a measurable 'pain direction' across 25 open-weight models (2B-72B params); the GitHub project ran it on Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2 3B and Phi-4-mini, and the paper's own authors say they don't condone it.

You've seen this guy's wooden alphabet-block photos in a thousand ads and slideshows without knowing his name. One X account claims AI images just gutted that income. No agency or outlet has confirmed it - just one account on X, not a verified trend. 📷

Stock photography pricing has been sliding for years as AI images undercut licensing costs, but this specific photographer's claim comes from a single X account with no agency or outlet confirmation.Stock photography pricing has been sliding for years as AI images undercut licensing costs, but this specific photographer's claim comes from a single X account with no agency or outlet confirmation.