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Keanu Reeves names his childhood dream Marvel role

Keanu Reeves has named which Marvel role his 10-year-old self would’ve dreamed of playing on the big screen, revealing just how much of a comic book “nerd” he was growing up. The 58-year-old Canadian actor said it was his combined passion for telling stories and his love for comics that inspired him to create his first-ever comic book series Brzrkr, which debuted its second volume in September.During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Reeves credited The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic series as his “window”…

Gilla Band on their nightmarish new noise album: ‘Reality gets distorted in a dream’ | Punk

Gilla Band guitarist Al Duggan is unpicking the loose concept behind the Irish group’s third album, Most Normal. Their first, 2015’s Holding Hands With Jamie, ended with frontman Dara Kiely screaming. Their second, 2019’s The Talkies, “opened with him having a panic attack and ended with him breathing calmly”, he explains. “If there’s a linear progression happening through these records, this next record should feel like you’re wandering through a dreamscape.” But for all his talk of reading up on “dream cycles and…

‘Minecraft’ YouTuber Dream bullied after showing face for first time

Dream, the masked Minecraft streamer and YouTuber with more than 30million subscribers, has been bullied after revealing his face for the first time. The 23-year-old star, whose real name is Clay (his surname remains undisclosed), decided to show his face to the world on Sunday (October 2) after three years of streaming or appearing at public events donning a smiley face mask. Dream was trolled for his looks after posting the video, which currently has more than 27million views on YouTube. Some people on Twitter said…

Do you dream of digitizing your entire book collection? This book scanner can help

Pros Corrects skew from bound books Color and white-balance correction Separates pages from open books Cons ScanSnap software can be clunky USB-only interface Max 11x17 footprint is a bit small for coffee table booksI've written before about how my wife and I have used Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners to manage our paper sprawl. We originally planned to scan in our giant book collection, but wound up instead managing the enormous document bequeathment from my parents, which came to us when they got very sick and I was…

Jim Cramer says Wednesday’s market rally was ‘based on a dream’

CNBC's Jim Cramer said that Wednesday's rally will likely reverse course as soon as a Federal Reserve official reminds Wall Street of its hawkish stance against inflation."The moment some Fed-head explains the obvious, today's gains will indeed disappear because they're incompatible with the Fed's attempts to control inflation. This rally was based on a dream," he said.related investing newsThe S&P 500 falls to a fresh low for the year. Here's where stocks may go nextStocks rose on Wednesday as the Bank of England…

Brian Chesky says a bad dream changed how he ran Airbnb

Airbnb is, by nearly every measure, a Silicon Valley success story.The company was founded during the Great Recession, shot up through the prestigious Y Combinator program, made its market debut during the pandemic, and is now worth more than $70 billion. But things might have looked different if it weren’t for a bad dream in late 2019 that caused CEO and cofounder Brian Chesky to reconsider how he runs the company.“I always thought it was made up when people actually have these dreams,” Chesky said during a conversation…

Splatoon 3 has me hooked in ways other games only dream of

I can’t stop playing Splatoon 3. With 70 hours currently logged, it’s the most I’ve ever played an entry of the series. My hour count has already eclipsed Splatoon 2, a game I thought I was obsessed with at the time. I recognize that I might have a problem here. What surprises me about that is that there’s not a huge difference in quality between Splatoon 2 and 3. As many critics pointed out in reviews, the threequel is largely the same as its predecessor. It brings key quality of life improvements and ratchets up…

‘Slime Rancher 2’ sales surpass developer’s “pipe dream” in just 6 hours

Slime Rancher 2, from Monomi Park, has surpassed its developer’s wildest expectations for launch sales in just the first six hours after launch. READ MORE: My grain-fueled quest to understand ‘Farming Simulator 22’ The sequel to the popular slime-farming title launched into Early Access on September 22 for PC and Xbox Series X|S and has already become a runaway success for the developer. Speaking to GamesRadar, game director Nick Popovich revealed that the game had more than surpassed the developer’s internal…

How Blaseball’s fantasy sports fever dream is embracing the future • TechCrunch

A star pitcher is resurrected from the Hall of Flame. A Hellmouth swallows the state of Utah. Crows descend on Tastykake Stadium, pecking slugger Jessica Telephone out of a peanut shell. This is Blaseball, the absurdist baseball simulator that captured the most delightfully wacky corners of the internet when it launched in summer 2020. Developed by indie studio The Game Band, Blaseball arrived at a moment of global isolation and fear. So, naturally, swaths of extremely online gamers with lots of anxiety and too much…

Sandman’s Vanessa Benton on Writing About Death and Dreams

Photo: David Suh“It’s scary as shit. I’m working on Sandman as my first staff writing job?” Vanessa Benton shook their head as they said this, leaning back a little; we’re talking in the morning over video chat. “It was an incredible learning experience, diving headfirst into that.”Benton has been working in Hollywood for a while: after graduating they were a showrunner’s assistant for In Contempt, and then for Peter Nowalk while he was working on How to Get Away With Murder. Benton was later promoted to writers’