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After seeing a movie in a theater, most of us will dump our cardboard popcorn bucket — greased with butter, some leftovers rattling around the bottom — in a trash bin. But over the last few years, some moviegoers have developed a passion for limited-edition plastic or tin buckets commemorating the film they’re seeing, objects they’re meant to take home and keep forever. The most recent (and extremely viral) example is the sandworm bucket tie-in for the sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two, which has inspired a raft of jokes…

Diablo 4's latest update is now live, and it takes aim at one of the main complaints players have with Season 3 so far--the Seneschal Construct and its perceived lack of power.Season 3 launched on January 23, introducing a new endgame activity, Vaults, and a robotic companion players can customize with various abilities and modifiers. However, the Seneschal Construct didn't make a strong first impression, with players of Blizzard's ARPG being quick to complain the companion didn't feel like it brought…

Deion Sanders still doesn’t have a defensive coordinator. He also doesn’t technically have his gifted Colorado dream house … yet. In a viral video posted by Deion Sanders Jr.’s Well Off Media channel last weekend, the CU football coach and Pro Football Hall of Famer was shown around a home worth $7.2 million between Boulder and Golden near Highway 93. Multiple outlets reported that the property had been purchased by the coach’s sons as a gift to him. However, records indicate it was still listed for purchase as of early…

OpenAI is expanding its internal safety processes to fend off the threat of harmful AI. A new “safety advisory group” will sit above the technical teams and make recommendations to leadership, and the board has been granted veto power — of course, whether it will actually use it is another question entirely. Normally the ins and outs of policies like these don’t necessitate coverage, as in practice they amount to a lot of closed-door meetings with obscure functions and responsibility flows that outsiders will seldom…

Three New Brunswickers are enjoying an astronomical surprise: an asteroid has been named after them.It's called Mipach — using the first two letters from the names of Saint Johners Mike Powell, Paul Owen and Chris Curwin."I saw the email and the other two guys hadn't seen it yet. So I was frantically on the phone and messaging them back and forth, getting them to take a look. So it was just overwhelming," Curwin said.The asteroid is 6.37 kilometres in diameter and resides in the main belt, between the orbit of Mars and…

Overwatch 2's upcoming new hero, Mauga, looks formidable, but according to player feedback and developer Blizzard's own data from the character's free trial period, he actually proved to be on the weaker side. That's something Blizzard would like to fix ahead of his debut at the start of Season 8 on December 5.In a blog post discussing Mauga, BlizzCon 2023, and other potential changes coming to the free-to-play hero shooter, Overwatch 2 game director Aaron Keller said Mauga was "on the average to weak…

All throughout the map and dungeons of Diablo 4, you will run into tall, skinny statues that glow with a white light. These are called Shrines, and when interacted with, they give you a random buff that will last for 30 seconds (unless you are wearing certain gear that offers extra time). You can track how much time you have left on the buff by looking above your health bar and paying attention to the icon with a green circle.While you usually don't get to pick the buff you receive from a Shrine, you are…

Image via Walt Disney Pictures Disney’s live-action version of The Little Mermaid isn’t perfect. Like most of its kind, it makes it abundantly clear animation is a worthy medium on its own, with unlimited potential for storytelling and filmmaking that soundstages just can’t match. The Mouse House’s insistence in producing these realistic retellings of its fantastic animated catalog – under the veil of wanting to bring it to a new audience instead of focusing on creating new films that could become this…

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Bungie has released an in-depth preview of its upcoming mid-season weapons update for Destiny 2, featuring substantial buffs to a number of primary weapons. The Exotic SMG Tarrabah and Legendary Ikelos SMG will see PvP nerfs in this update, with a number of other tweaks and balances on the cards.The major focus of this weapons balance pass is to shore up the sometimes lacklustre primary weapons class, especially as PvE content gets more challenging. Auto Rifles, Pulse Rifles, Hand Cannons, Sidearms, and…