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National Geographic recently published the above photo of noted Science Guy, Bill Nye, as part of the 'Depression' section of 'The Five Stages of Climate Change Grief,' attempting to show the loss of hope for the world and humanity in general. However, the internet just sees one of their childhood heroes lookin' totally badass, so you know what that means - Bill Nye the Photoshopped Guy.

 

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Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy isn’t the easiest fantasy epic to bring to life on screen. The protagonist is a 12-year-old girl named Lyra Belacqua who runs around the grounds of Oxford University at the outset of the first book, Northern Lights (a.k.a. The Golden Compass in North America and some other areas), but that’s about as far as the “normal” goes. Turns out Lyra lives in just one of several parallel universes depicted in the series, and in hers people’s souls exist outside their bodies in the form of shape-shifting dæmons that assume a permanent form once their humans reach puberty. New Line had high hopes for turning the trilogy into the next Lord Of The Rings, but issues behind the scenes of 2007’s The Golden Compass as well as its underwhelming box office performance and critical reception put an end ...

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Some of the very best action from the most recent Games Done Quick charity marathon included classic Nintendo franchises like The Legend of Zelda, including a run made entirely without a sword. This weekend, dozens of the world's best speedrunners are at it again, taking on only the best classic titles from the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Things kicked off Friday at 12 p.m. ET with Bucky O'Hare on hard mode. Even more great titles are in the pipe, including Strider at 4:50 p.m., a block of Ninja Gaiden games at 6:10 p.m. to be followed by a block of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

On Halloween we'll get Bionic Commando, as well as a massive Mega Man block — six complete games in a little over three hours! Sunday we'll see Maniac...

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens is just six weeks away, and although most of us have been excited for it pretty much since the film was announced, we're now in the final stretch.

Disney has offered as much as it could leading up to the release, including the most recent trailer that aired last week.

Although director J.J. Abrams confirmed there wouldn't be any new trailers leading up to the film's release, Disney has released an entire batch of high-res stills from the trailers that fans can use to finally replace those low-res images being used as desktop wallpapers.

As Collider points out, the shots don't showcase anything new, but there are some pretty solid images of John Boyega as Finn and fan favorite BB-8 that should appeal to...

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Beauty and her little beast. (photo via croutoncrouton)

Beginning in November, all Xbox 360 titles offered in the free Games With Gold service will be playable on Xbox One. That's good, as the coming month's lineup otherwise looks thin.

Dirt 3, a well received but four-year old rally racing game, and Dungeon Siege 3, a middling RPG also from 2011, anchor the older console's offerings. Dirt 3 will be available Nov. 1 to Nov. 15, and Dungeon Siege 3 will follow from Nov. 16 to Nov. 30.

On Xbox One, players get the indie puzzler Pneuma: Breath of Life (launched in February) all month and then the indie "multiplayer swords-and-silliness action game" Knight Squad from Nov. 16 to Dec. 15.

Backward compatibility with Xbox 360 arrives on Nov. 12 alongside the console's new user interface....

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In what seems a natural extension of the already exciting Rocket League gameplay, developer Psyonix is adding a ton of gameplay options, called "mutations," in a free DLC update coming this winter. The highlight is a hockey mode, played with a puck on a field covered in ice.

The teaser trailer released today on the PlayStation Blog highlights a long list of optional modes, including the following:

• cubic balls
• demolition
• moonball
• beach ball
• ball bounciness
• ball max speed
• ball size
• ball type
• ball weight
• boost amount
• boost strength
• gravity
• match length
• max score
• pinball
• respawn time
• slo-mo
• time warp

More details will be revealed...

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Here is an embarrassing story about a bad purchase.

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Booze and leisure bloggers have no need for calendars, but we do require many of the same ointments, detergents, and jerkies that bring the rest of you into Walgreen’s on a regular basis. That trip is also how I know that Halloween hasn’t passed yet: The salted-pomegranate candy corn has yet to give way to next month’s gravy-flavored gummy bears, and the Tenuously Themed Plastic Crap Aisle is still running black and orange.

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People may still be losing their minds over the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer that aired Monday, but one YouTube user has just created one of the best supercuts around.

James Darling, co-creator of Science vs Cinema on YouTube, used footage from all three trailers and previously shown Comic-Con footage to produce a terrific supercut trailer.

Darling's fan-made video offers a different perspective on the story fans have been teased with in past trailers while still maintaining a cohesive narrative. If anything, it actually adds depth to what we've seen without ruining any of the official plot development.

Most of the time, the transitions from one trailer to the next are pretty seamless, but there are a few jumps that do stick...

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Music from Victory Records—home to Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, and other bands not named for days of the week—has been dropped from Spotify. The label claims this is the result of a dispute over royalties, as it seems instead of barely paying the artists, the streaming service isn’t paying the artists at all. Rolling Stone quotes a label statement saying, “Victory Records’ catalog was pulled ... as a result of Spotify not properly paying publishing revenues ... in blatant violation of US Copyright laws.” It seems a bit more complicated than that, however, as Spotify offered a remedy, but it was a contract that would have violated a previous agreement the label had with digital rights service Audiam. Victory’s artists are hardly the first to part ways with Spotify, but the service doesn’t seem to be hurting as a result. Overall streaming revenue outpaced revenue from CD ...

Aziz Ansari has gotten a lot of laughs for his standup routines and bestselling book on modern love and dating in the digital age, and now, he's bringing that to his own television show.

Netflix unveiled the first trailer for "Master of None," which stars Ansari as a facsimile of himself - a 30-year-old actor named Dev, living in New York City, dating, brunching, and Instagramming the hell out of life.The tone of the trailer seems much in line with FX's "Louie," though perhaps less dark and more optimistic. Anyone familiar with Ansari's comedy will find the jokes familiar - for instance, the difference in the type of online comments directed at women vs. men. And the trailer indicates the show will focus heavily on Dev's love life, as he considers the possibility of settling down and having a family soon.

All 10 episodes of "Master of None" will be available to stream on Netflix on November 6.

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More than 570 light years away in the constellation Virgo, a disintegrating planet orbits around a white dwarf — the leftovers of a yellow star after it died. The cause of the planet's demise is the zombie star itself; the white dwarf is extremely dense, and its enormous gravitational pull is tearing the rock apart, creating an enormous cloud of dust and debris that follows the planet on its orbit.

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Master swordsman Isao Machii is back! This time he’s here to cut a fastball in two.

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Movie trailers are what get us to fork over our box office dollars, but sometimes we don't always get our money's worth.

In fact, the movie we're sold on is often underwhelming or disappointing -- failing to live up to the quality of the ad that hooked us in. (We're looking at you, "Phantom Menace.") As theaters fill with previews for this Fall's coming attractions, here are 11 previews that proved to be better than the movie.

'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace' (1999)
Back when trailers hit the internet in thumbnail vid sizes, if you wanted to really the prequel's first teaser, you had to buy a ticket to see (cringe) "Meet Joe Black." Today, we'd take a blank-faced Brad Pitt eating peanut butter over Jar-Jar any day.

'X3' (2006)
Wolverine's "gotta rally the troops" speech at trailer's end, in concert with the action-packed trailer music and visuals, convinced us that Brett Ratner taking over for Bryan Singer may not have been such a bad thing. We were so, so wrong.

'Spider-Man 3' (2007)
Another threequel, another trailer that tricked us into seeing a movie with emo Peter Parker and Harry's pervy line delivery about pie. The trailer's final line -- "This could be the end of Spider-Man" -- proved unfortunately prophetic.

'Die Another Day' (2002)
Oh c'mon! Ice guns, frozen tundras revealed to be curvy ladies -- what's not to love?! This teaser is way cooler than anything in Pierce Brosnan's final Bond film.

'Avengers: Age of Ultron' (2015)
We're confident you watched this trailer more than the movie itself. "Ultron" isn't terrible, it's just, well, okay. And that's worse. But that creepy cover of "I Got No Strings" is the best.

'Quantum of Solace' (2008)
After "Casino Royale," we should have received -- as this trailer indicates -- "The Dark Knight" of Bond movies. Unfortunately, we had to wait another movie for that.

'Prometheus' (2012)
The first ad for the "Alien" prequel, borrowing from the 1979 film's trailer in chilling ways, is more of a true "Alien" prequel than the final film. They should have called it "Noble Misfire."

'Alien 3' (1992)
This first teaser for yet another threequel (seeing a pattern?) is very misleading -- especially with its promise of Earth's first xenomorph encounter.

'Where the Wild Things Are' (2009)
That Arcade Fire song, plus Spike Jonze's faithful (visual) adaptation of the much-beloved children's book, equals all the feels. The movie? Not so much.

'Sucker Punch' (2011)
Contrary to what the trailer makes you think, NO ONE wants to see flying girls punch giant, mini-gun wielding samurai.

'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012)
I'm just gonna leave this right here...

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