Mikel Merino comes full circle with Spain in touching tale of fathers and sons | Sid Lowe
Having battled back from injury to make the World Cup, the matchwinner’s goal was a deserved payoff for unsung sacrifices esporist.org
And then, suddenly, there was Mikel Merino circling the corner flag again, another marvellous moment to emulate his father Ángel Miguel and embrace his son Marco. To hold those who got him here and the whole of Spain, who would have hugged him back if they had the chance. There was pandemonium up in Pamplona especially: on the day the San Fermín fiestas begin with the city wearing white shirts and red neckerchiefs in celebration of their patron saint, they celebrated the son they have out in the US too.
Merino was born in the Navarrese capital the day Spain lost to England at Euro 96. Now, wearing white and red like everyone back home, he had scored the late, late goal that sent the selección into the World Cup quarter-finals: a hero once more, the fiesta was taken to every corner of the country.
Continue reading...Jesse Eisenberg ønsker å spille inn « Now You See Me 4 » så snart som mulig
Det gikk ni år mellom «Now You See Me 2» fra 2016 og fjorårets «Now You See Me: Now You Don’t», men forhåpentligvis trenger vi ikke å vente like lenge på den fjerde filmen i serien. Jesse Eisenberg sier at han elsker å være en del av «The Four Horsemen» og ønsker å komme i gang med oppfølgeren med en gang. Han forklarer til The Wrap:
«Ærlig talt, jeg vil gjerne spille i « Now You See Me 4 » mer enn noe annet. Jeg har aldri følt meg lykkeligere enn når jeg spiller den rollen.»
Når det gjelder hva han liker ved rollen, forklarer han at det er en mer oppløftende karakter:
«Vanligvis spiller jeg deprimerte mennesker, noe som gjør meg deprimert, men når jeg spiller den selvsikre, arrogante tryllekunstneren, går jeg hjem hver dag og tenker: ‘Det var fantastisk.’ Det er den eneste rollen der jeg får lov til å stå rett i ryggen og ha på meg finere klær. Det er der jeg er aller lykkeligst.»
Arbeidet med en fjerde film er allerede i full gang, så vi får bare krysse fingrene for at Eisenberg får viljen sin, for vi er vel alle spente på å se hva som venter disse talentfulle illusjonistene, ikke sant?
Rapport: Game Pass har miljontals färre prenumeranter än för två år sedan
Under några års tid har det stått klart att allt inte står helt rätt till med Game Pass. Microsoft har inte redovisat några siffror för prenumeranter medan priserna har ökats på rejält. Under gårdagen meddelade som bekant Xbox-bossen Asha Sharma att det väntar stora uppsägningar hos Xbox-divisionerna och medgav samtidigt att Game Pass inte levererat på det sätt de hoppats på.
Hur många prenumeranter de har idag är oklart och många lämnade tjänsten efter den stora prishöjningen i höstas. Ett att priset istället kapades under våren sade Xbox-företrädare att folk börjat återvända till Game Pass - dock återigen utan konkreta siffror.
Den senaste officiella siffran är från 2024 och ligger på 34 miljoner prenumeranter, men nu skriver Wall Street Journal att de idag har runt 30 miljoner. Stämmer uppgifterna har folk alltså fallit av och Game Pass har senaste åren tappar i antal istället för att öka.
I och med den Xbox-reset som nu ska genomföras (vilket inkluderar ovan nämnda uppsägningar), så lär även Game Pass komma att påverkas - men på vilket sätt återstår att se.
Motståndet växer - över 162 000 vill stoppa Playstations digitala framtid
Det har väl knappast undgått någon vid detta laget att Sony från och med 2028 kommer att helt sluta ge ut nya Playstation-spel på fysiskt format. Något som väckt minst sagt starka reaktioner världen över och på change.org växer kampanjen "Don't Kill the Disc: Tell Sony to Keep Physical PlayStation Games" för varje dag.
Bakom initiativet finner vi den kanadensiska spelbutiken PNP Games som hoppas få Sony att tänka om, och beskriver det fysiska formatet som något livsviktigt för branschen. Speciellt när det kommer till att preservera för framtiden men också (så klart) ägande. En digital licens kan dras in, men den fysiska skivan består.
PNP Games beskriver den fysiska spelutgåvan som något betydligt mer än bara en distributionsform. Enligt kampanjen "Don't Kill the Disc: Tell Sony to Keep Physical PlayStation Games" på Change.org innebär en skiva ett spel som faktiskt går att äga. Den kan lånas ut, säljas vidare, bytas, ges bort eller sparas i samlingen. En spelbox som bara innehåller en nedladdningskod är däremot, enligt initiativtagarna, bara en digital licens i en plastförpackning - inte ett spel du verkligen äger.
På Change.org kan man bland annat läsa att:
"We are not against digital. We are against digital being the only option. A large and passionate community still wants a real, physical game they own outright, and Sony is about to take that choice away"
Kommer Sony faktiskt att lyssna? Man kan inte annat än hoppas, för oberoende av vad man tycker och tänker om fysisk media så kan nog de flesta se vikten av mediet. Vill du själv skriva på namninsamlingen så kan du göra det här.
Tror du att Sony kommer att ge vika?
Nirvana and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl says Kurt Cobain would've loved this new anime about gay girls
Yuri web comic-turned-manga The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy at All is getting an anime adaptation in January 2027, as Crunchyroll announced at Anime Expo. Among its sterling credits is an endorsement from Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl, who reckons late Nirvana singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kurt Cobain would've loved the series.
Nirvana's song Breed will serve as the opening theme of the anime, which stars two Japanese high school girls who frequent a music shop and share a love of Western rock music. One ends up infatuated with the other without realizing that the rock-savvy boy of her daydreams is in fact her female classmate in a punk getup, and the two unavoidably grow closer. The series' neon green motif, a sharp highlight in a sea of black-and-white panels, has earned it the nickname "green yuri" among English fans, with yuri referring to women-loving-women stories (complementing yaoi, men-loving-men).
Though many mainstream rock and pop bands have been featured in countless anime openings and endings, Nirvana is an extraordinarily rare type of license for an anime studio to pursue, let alone secure. Aniplex, parent to CloverWorks, the animation studio which will adapt the series, released a short interview with Grohl, conducted by series author Sumiko Arai, who discussed the song Breed and his thoughts on the series.
"Breed was always my favorite song to open a show with," he recalls. "We did it a few times, I think. The last time that Nirvana performed together with me and [Krist Novoselic] and Pat Smear, we performed for this benefit concert in Los Angeles after the fires. And we were trying to think of what song to begin with ... I think it's a great way to start the show."
With a physical volume of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy at All in his hands, Grohl says, "I think that Kurt definitely would've loved this." Arai, or perhaps an interpreter, seems to ask, "Really?" in response.
"Oh my god, yeah, of course," Grohl adds. "This is exactly – it seems like the same message, aesthetic, and the vibe. It's cool." It's a fair read. After all, Cobain was staunchly supportive of the LGBT community, famously saying, in early print liners of Nirvana's 1992 album Incesticide, that, "If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us -- leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records."
Reviewing a list of songs that will be used in the anime, Grohl adds, "These are amazing. What? Wow. Oh my god, this is a good playlist. This is incredible. Oh my god, it's so good, you have really good taste in music."
The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy at Allwas part of our list of the top 10 manga of 2024. I stand by my thoughts at the time, with the small caveat that the series' central relationship was a little less clear in early volumes, and look forward to the anime.
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