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DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT THE ENHANCED GAMES.. Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. spent millions to create a steroid Olympics. They promised to "redefine human limits" and put up $25M in prize money. After 5 hours in Las Vegas, here’s the scoreboard: - 1 world record (not recognized by anyone) - Thor Björnsson failed his 515kg deadlift (managed only 475kg) - olympic sprinter Fred Kerley missed the 100m WR by 0.4s - without even taking drugs - the only "record" came from a Greek swimmer who finished 5th at Paris 2024. He wore a supersuit banned since 2009 and beat the clean record by just 0.07s the whole pitch was that drugs would shatter the limits of clean sport. instead they proved the gap between juiced and clean is now 7 hundredths of a second - in a suit banned 17 years ago. the only thing they actually proved was how good the clean athletes already are. You think the Enhanced Games exposed anything or just embarrassed themselves?
frostzy14,549,104 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
> be Bowie Knife99 > just a guy with an Xbox > buy Forza Horizon 6 on launch day > drive like you always do - like a lunatic > ram, swerve, and pit-maneuver strangers into walls > the Drivatar system silently records every felony > uploads an AI clone of your driving to the cloud > deploys hundreds of you into other people's races, 24/7 > within days, thousands cry about you on Reddit, X, and Steam > the community calls you "the Herobrine of Forza" > official Xbox UK tweets "Happy Bank Holiday Monday to everyone except bowie knife99" > a fan opens a fake X account in your name to taunt your victims thousands of players are at war with hundreds of clones of you. you don't know any of this is happening. happy bank holiday.
frostzy5,503,268 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
a horror movie made for $750,000 is about to become one of the most profitable films ever made. Obsession - shot in 20 days in Alabama by a 26-year-old YouTuber with no stars in the cast - is now eyeing a $250 million+ box office finish. that's a return north of 300 times its budget. it's already the highest-grossing release in Focus Features history. now look at what the industry spent that same money on: - Joker: Folie a Deux - ~$200 million budget. a punchline. - Mickey 17 - ~$118 million. forgotten in a month. - The Mandalorian & Grogu - $165 million, 7 years, the entire Lucasfilm machine. it's currently losing the weekday box office to... Obsession. Hollywood keeps insisting you need $200 million, a pre-sold IP, and a marketing budget the size of a small country to make a hit. then a guy with a camera, a wish-granting toy, and three weeks in Alabama outearned all of them on a rounding error of their catering bill. the most profitable movie of the year cost less than a single second of screen time in the average blockbuster. turns out audiences never wanted the budget. they wanted a good movie.
frostzy4,355,834 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
> be Ferrari > spend 8 decades selling cars based on the sound they make > hire Jony Ive - the guy who killed the headphone jack and shipped the butterfly keyboard - to design your first EV > wait 4 years. unveil the "Luce" in Rome > charge $640,000 for 280 miles of range. a $50K Mustang Mach-E does 300 > 0-60 in 2.4 seconds. so does a used Tesla Plaid for a tenth of the price > weigh 4,982 lbs - basically a Ford F-150 > 4 doors, 4 seats, a hatchback trunk Ferrari proudly calls "the largest luggage capacity we've ever offered" > Ive at the launch: "it's not styled" > actual designers call it "soulless," compare it to a Honda, a kit-car, and "a Lotus Elise for the EV era" > because EVs are silent, you bolt an accelerometer to the motors and run an algorithm that filters "unpleasant frequencies" and amplifies "musical" ones > US deliveries: Q2 2027 $640,000. for a 5,000-pound sedan with a synthesized soul. designed by the man who killed the headphone jack.
frostzy4,518,819 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
> be Rue Bennett > open the entire series in 2019 with your first breath > the very first shot of the show is you being born > lose your father young, find drugs to fill the hole > become the heart of Euphoria for three seasons > the character an entire generation saw themselves in > fight addiction, relapse, get clean, relapse again > narrate it all with a calm that never matched the chaos inside > in season 3, turn informant for the DEA > almost make it out > then your boss finds out you're a rat and laces your pills with fentanyl > as you fade on Ali's couch, you dream of a sunlit field > Fezco is there. you reach for your dead father and he holds you one last time > the actor who played Fezco, Angus Cloud, died of an overdose in real life in 2023 > so the show gave Rue's final moments a reunion with the friend the world already lost > Ali finds you gone, and spends the finale avenging you the show opened with her first breath and closed with her last. a show about addiction lost one of its own to it - then gave its lead the same ending. Rue's last dream wasn't just goodbye to a character. it was goodbye to Angus too.
frostzy1,519,196 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Inde Navarrette's career path: > grinds Black Ops lobbies on Twitch since 2022 > quietly disappears from streaming > resurfaces as Nikki in Obsession - one of 2026's biggest horror hits > internet digs up her old clips > still gets jump-scared by Outlast after starring in the scariest movie of the year > her Last of Us VODs start doing six-figure numbers overnight She didn't leave gaming. She just respawned in Hollywood.
frostzy1,110,830 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO GOD OF WAR.. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS, THE GAME ISN’T ABOUT KRATOS. it's about Faye - his dead wife. the woman whose funeral opened the entire Norse saga. and if your first thought is "who cares about her," that's the trick the last two games played on you. everything you did, she had already prepared: - she marked the trees and set the path that would reveal the full prophecy - she sent Kratos and Atreus on the exact journey they needed to become who they had to be - she stayed so hidden that the gods were still hunting her long after she was ashes - and through all of it, she was never once playable. just a body on a pyre. a face in flashbacks. Kratos didn't lead that saga. he followed it. we played the man three steps behind his wife. now we finally play the woman who was three steps ahead of everyone.
frostzy483,107 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
HORROR MOVIES OPEN BIG AND DIE. NOBODY TOLD OBSESSION. a $750,000 movie is tracking for the biggest 4th weekend any horror film has ever had. a month later it still refuses to fall. the run makes zero sense: - Week 1: $17.1M → Week 2: $23.9M (+39%) → Week 3: $26.4M. climbed two weekends in a row - first non-holiday movie to do that since E.T. in 1982. 44-year record - now past $126M domestic, $171M worldwide. at $200M, that's 266x its budget — highest-grossing Focus Features movie in history - biggest horror movie of 2026 at the domestic box office, past Scream 7 made in 20 days. directed by a 26-year-old YouTuber. his first film. Hollywood keeps writing $200M checks for tentpoles and praying something sticks. this kid just embarrassed the entire industry with a camera and an audience he built himself.
frostzy385,737 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
SONY BROKE SILENCE IN THE ONE ROOM GAMERS CANNOT ENTER for thirty days sony posted trailers and answered none of it. the people who finally got an answer were holding shares. - "there are various reasons we made this decision, the biggest being that the digitalization of content overall has been progressing" - "we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion, and we're going to cautiously move this forward" - "we don't feel that the disc is the factor to differentiate from the pc" - "going forward, we can coexist peacefully with pc games" - "it's connected to people's fond memories in many cases. and so we understand those emotions" lin tao, sony cfo, speaking through an interpreter at the july 31 earnings q&a, where analysts kept coming back to the discs she said she understands the emotions. she said it to investors.
frostzy102,887 görüntüleme • 22 gün önce
SCARY MOVIE FANS ARE ALREADY CELEBRATING THE TERRIBLE REVIEWS. Everyone outside the fandom sees bad critic scores and thinks the movie bombed. Fans see them and know it's working exactly as intended. Scary Movie was never trying to be good cinema. It's built to be loud, dumb, and merciless to horror movies that take themselves too seriously. The numbers prove it: - Nearly $900M across six films - Not one of them was ever well-reviewed - Tracking for a $40M+ opening this weekend - All three Wayans brothers reunited for the first time since 2001 - Spoofing Sinners, Weapons, Longlegs, M3GAN and The Substance Critics keep grading these like prestige films. Fans keep showing up because they're in on the joke. This one landed. See you tonight.
frostzy306,901 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
SONY WON'T SAY WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PS5 DISCS. XBOX JUST LEAKED ITS ANSWER publisher roadmap obtained by the verge on august 3, reportedly codenamed positron. microsoft has confirmed none of it. - one pass through the drive on an xbox one or series x mints a digital license for that game - the disc goes back on the shelf. the game boots on your xbox hardware, drive or no drive - the license lives with the disc. lend it out, and the moment it spins in someone else's console your copy dies and theirs wakes up - series s owners get nothing. no drive, no way in - publishers pick which games qualify and are allowed to bill you for the conversion the roadmap stamps its own dates as subject to change, and the verge reports july's insider beta was delayed. sony finally spoke last week and still would not say whether the ps5 collection you already paid for follows you to ps6. microsoft is getting applause for this. it is the same destination sony chose, approached with better manners. a disc from 2013 needs no server, no account, no living publisher - it spins and it works. the shelf behind you took years to build and asked permission from nobody. keep that in mind while everyone claps.
frostzy66,961 görüntüleme • 18 gün önce
GTA VI IS ACTUALLY CHEAPER THAN GTA V WAS cnbc asked zelnick how he thinks about pricing gta 6. he opened by admitting they left money on the table. "i think most people felt that if we wanted to exert it we had a great deal of pricing power. our job though as we see it is to deliver always way more value to the consumer than what we charge" - Strauss Zelnick then the line he drew: "we would never want people to feel like this is out of my range" - Strauss Zelnick the uncomfortable part is that the math backs him up: - gta 5 launched at $59.99 in september 2013 - bls cpi puts cumulative us inflation since then above 40% - that's about $85 in today's money - gta 6 standard is $79.99 so the $80 everyone is angry about actually buys less than the $60 they paid in 2013. and the ceo said he could have charged more.
frostzy20,803 görüntüleme • 9 gün önce
A 20-YEAR-OLD JUST BROKE EVERY RECORD A24 HAS. a movie based on a YouTube creepypasta just had the biggest opening in A24's history. Backrooms made $81.5M in the US and $118M worldwide in three days - more than triple A24's old record. the director is 20 years old. - Kane Parsons made the original "Backrooms" as a viral YouTube short in 2022, at 16 - he's now the youngest filmmaker ever to have the #1 movie in America, breaking a record that stood since 2012 - biggest opening ever for an original horror film AND for any first-time director - made for ~$10M. already hugely profitable - 86% of the audience is under 35 and he wasn't alone. the same weekend, Obsession ($750K budget) climbed for a third straight weekend - and both films outsold a $165M Star Wars movie. two filmmakers in their twenties, who started on YouTube, just beat Lucasfilm with movies that cost a fraction of its budget. the gatekeepers spent decades deciding who gets to make a movie. a 20-year-old just uploaded his way past all of them.
frostzy136,311 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
A24 SPENT 13 YEARS BUILDING PRESTIGE. A 20-YEAR-OLD YOUTUBER JUST BROKE ITS BIGGEST RECORD IN 5 DAYS. - Opened to $81.4M domestic - more than 3x the studio's previous record (Civil War) - Made for ~$10M, based on a free YouTube creepypasta - Directed by Kane Parsons, age 20 - 86% of the audience under 35 - Over half the crowd said the main reason they came was simply that it was an A24 film The logo now sells tickets better than stars or trailers. 13 years of Oscar-winning cinema, and the all-time domestic record belongs to a 20-year-old who started making horror shorts on YouTube as a teenager. The gatekeepers built the gate. The internet just walked through it.
frostzy75,045 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
72 HOURS OF SILENCE. SONY IS WAITING FOR YOU TO FORGET. on July 1, Sony announced the end of physical PlayStation games - no more discs from January 2028. Then it vanished. Not panic - protocol. - not a single post on any PlayStation account since the announcement, even the routine PS Plus update got skipped - the announcement itself now wears a Community Note reminding everyone that digital means a revocable license, not ownership - second blackout this year: after closing Bluepoint, Sony hid for 72+ hours until the anger burned out. Same playbook, bigger fire - the timing was surgical: July 1 is day one of a new fiscal quarter - last quarter's numbers were locked before the outrage could touch them they planned this years ago. the silence means they just don’t care about you. their bet: you'll forget by 2028. will you?
frostzy31,802 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
THREE VIDEOS TO TELL YOU THE BOYCOTT ALREADY FAILED david jaffe designed God of War and co-created Twisted Metal. on july 23 he posted a 13-minute video titled: "Playstation NO DISC/NO BUY Has Failed..." 0:50 - the games you love now cost $300 million plus. he calls that a conservative estimate. 7:10 - third-party publishers aren't fighting sony. "they're popping champagne, man." 11:35 - "anti-consumer is usually the temporary phase that exists between outrage and the new normal." 12:25 - don't be surprised when the train races past you. the majority already moved on. a disc costs a few dollars, on the one in five sales still physical over the full year. against $300 million that rounds to zero. what actually dies is retail's cut and a $7.2 billion used market analysts expect to go with it - the motive he waves off as conspiracy theory. sony announced this on july 1. by july 3 it was telling partners reprints would continue. 48 hours. three videos. all about a boycott he says already failed. companies only move that fast while the pressure still works.
frostzy19,296 görüntüleme • 27 gün önce
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT XBOX JUST DID TO AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF MILLENNIALS.. Spyro is getting a brand-new game. the first ORIGINAL Spyro in nearly 20 years. Spyro: A Realm Beyond, coming Spring 2027. let it hit you: > the last all-new Spyro game came out in 2008. that's almost two decades > it's being made by Toys for Bob, the studio that nailed the Reignited Trilogy in 2018 > Tom Kenny, the classic voice of Spyro, is back > and for the first time ever, Spyro actually FLIES. no more gliding - real dragon flight, open skies for years, all fans got was a remaster and a cameo in Skylanders. they begged for a real new adventure every single year. the studio finally said: "we hear you." the purple dragon waited 18 years to take off for real. Spring 2027, he finally gets his wings.
frostzy23,204 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
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