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Somehow, Rita Repulsa has climbed out of the space dumpster to threaten the entire world yet again. That’s the bad news. The worse news is that she’s going to go back in time to before the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were made mighty, morphin, and powerful.

The trailer for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always is a nostalgic affair that recognizes that not all memories are good ones. Yes, Billy (David Yost) and Zack (Walter Emanuel Jones) are teaming with the second generation crew, Rocky (Steve Cardenas), Kat (Catherine Sutherland), and Adam (Johnny Yong Bosch), but the original Yellow Ranger, Thuy Trang, died in 2001 in a car accident, and Green Ranger Jason David Frank died last year. Without both, there are two massive holes in the lineup. As a result, the trailer is appropriately down tempo, even with its exciting fan service.

Karan Ashley also appears as Aisha Campbell/the second Yellow Ranger, but new character Minh Kwan (Charlie Kersh) is introduced as Trini Kwan’s daughter, meaning she’s destined to become the next Yellow Ranger. In fact, it looks like that’s the main thrust of the plot — stopping Rita from destroying the world, and getting Minh Kwan up to speed on how to join the team.

Of course, the most fascinating thing about the trailer is that the Netflix show looks nothing like a Netflix show. The production has smartly avoided the Netflix house style in favor of making something that looks like it might have sprung straight out of 1994.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always lands April 19th. Get ready to pump your fist in the air while sobbing.

For years, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been considered one of the peaks of competitive gaming. CS:GO has long been adored by players thanks to its emphasis on quick reaction time, aim, and gameplay, with all competitive shooters released after it being held to its standard. Even as other games rose and fell in popularity, a dedicated group of fans has continued playing CS:GO and kept it as one of the most played first-person shooters on Steam at any given point.

So of course there had to be a follow up! On Wednesday, Valve released three videos to their YouTube channel and a website all dedicated to the next game in the franchise, Counter-Strike 2. While CS:GO receiving a sequel wasn’t a huge shock, the announcement itself was pretty much out of nowhere and a welcome surprise. Even better? The game is expected to have a Summer 2023 release so we don’t have to wait too much longer to get our hands on the finished product.

How long will the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test last?
Counter-Strike 2 is expected to ship Summer 2023.

Please visit the Counter-Strike blog for up-to-date information on the limited test and future announcements.

For those who won’t be able to wait for the game, it looks like there will be a limited test that players can sign up for and play in until the game releases. Also, when it does release it will be available as a free upgrade for CS:GO. It sounds like more information is on the way so we can expect future updates with more info about Valve’s latest game in the coming months.

Daft Punk fans were devastated upon the breakup of the duo in 2021. They shared the news with an eight-minute video titled “Epilogue,” which included the message: “1993-2021.” Last month, they announced the 10th anniversary edition of Random Access Memories, and the previously unreleased song “The Writing Of Fragments Of Time” is out now as a single.

“The Writing Of Fragments Of Time” is a collaboration with Todd Edwards, and it’s a groovy, laid-back tune with Giorgio Moroder telling a story over the hypnotic instrumental. At over eight minutes, it’s a song that transports its listener and leaves them feeling anew.

A press release about the reissue read: “The album marked a new creative approach for Daft Punk, recorded over the course of several years using analog equipment rather than digital, with first time collaborations with a host of musical luminaries including Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, Todd Edwards, and Paul Williams. Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary Edition, Daft Punk pull the curtain back on some of the intimate creative process behind the album: 35 minutes of unreleased music across nine tracks.”

Listen to “The Writing of Fragments of Time” above.

Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary Edition is out 5/12. Pre-order it here.

Gwyneth Paltrow is on trial, but not for anything related to her business. It’s over an incident that happened in 2016 on the slopes of Park City, Utah. A retired optometrist claims the actress and businesswoman violently crashed into her while skiing. Paltrow says it was the other way around. Wherever the truth lies, right now people can’t get over her courtroom look.

As per The New York Times, the trial entered its second day on Wednesday, with Paltrow expected to testify on the stand at some point during the next two weeks, which is how long it’s expected to last. It will be up to a jury to decide who to believe. The optometrist, one Terry Sanderson, has accused Paltrow of skiing “out of control” and hitting him in the back, causing a traumatic brain injury and four broken ribs, along with other serious injuries. Sanderson also claims the incident completely changed his personality, which a radiologist confirmed on Wednesday.

“Before this crash, Terry was a charming, outgoing, gregarious person,” said Lawrence D. Buhler, one of the lawyers, in the opening statement Tuesday. “After the crash, he’s no longer charming.”

Paltrow, who is countersuing but only for the cost of her legal team, has claimed she was downhill from Sanderson taking skiing lessons during a family vacation. Her lawyers say that while skiing she saw “two skis appear between her skis and a man comes up right behind her” before he struck her. Paltrow’s legal team claims that some of his trauma, including brain trauma, comes from before the incident.

A verdict is still a ways away, but social media has already turned this into the latest wild celebrity trial, in an age rich with them. Along with comments about her “goofy AF” lawyer, there were also jokes about Paltrow’s attire on Tuesday, which included an ovrersized, snug-looking white sweater — the very kind one would wear at a Park City ski lodge — and giant ’70s eyewear.

More than one person thought she looked like Jeffrey Dahmer.

(Via NYT)

Janelle Monáe received widespread acclaim for her role in Glass Onion and, more recently, dropped “Float,” her boastful, joyous February single. Monáe seemingly had the time of her life while preparing for and participating in this year’s NBA All-Star Celebrity Game despite not quite living up to a self-induced Allen Iverson comparison.

And she wants more people to have access to such positive experiences and opportunity.

On Wednesday, March 22, it was announced that Monáe is entering a partnering with the Warner Music Group/Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund “to expand the programs of her non-profit, Fem The Future, whose mission is to build a fem-forward future by creating opportunities for under-resourced girls and non-binary youth of color in music, the arts, and education,” per press release.

The partnership has been kickstarted by a $150,000 grant, serving “as a pilot for longer-term collaboration.”

“In partnership with the Social Justice Fund, we’re giving girls the chance to own their power — and change the world,” Monáe said in a statement. “The SJF grant will support Fem The Future as it develops programming for girls and non-binary youth and shines light on their talent — helping them build confidence, expand educational opportunities and make informed decisions about their bodies, their lives and their futures. A beautiful future begins with uplifting the next generation of artists, activists and freedom fighters.”

In January, Monáe was honored with the SheHer Award at the Critics Choice Awards. Her acceptance speech is relevant to Wednesday’s news.

“I’m Janelle Monáe, and my pronouns are she/her, they/them, and free-ass motherf*cker,” she said, adding (as relayed by People), “I try to make an effort in my work … to highlight the ones who have been pushed to the margins of society, who’ve been outcast or relegated to ‘the other.’ This is a deeply personal choice for me because I grew up to working-class parents: My mother was a janitor, my father was a trash man, and my grandmother was a sharecropper in Aberdeen, Mississippi.”

Janelle Monáe is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

A new trend in treasure hunting called magnet fishing has blown up over the past two years, evidenced by an explosion of YouTube channels covering the hobby. Magnet fishing is a pretty simple activity. Hobbyists attach high-powered magnets to strong ropes, drop them into waterways and see what they attract.

The hobby has caught the attention of law enforcement and government agencies because urban waterways are a popular place for criminals to drop weapons and stolen items after committing a crime. In 2019, a magnet fisherman in Michigan pulled up an antique World War I mortar grenade and the bomb squad had to be called out to investigate.

Fifteen-year-old George Tindale and his dad, Kevin, 52, of Grantham, Lincolnshire in the U.K., made an incredible find earlier this month when they used two magnets to pull up a safe that had been submerged in the River Witham.

George has a popular magnet fishing YouTube channel called “Magnetic G.”

After the father-and-son duo pulled the safe out of the murky depths, they cracked it open with a crowbar and found about $2,500 Australian dollars (US$1,800), a shotgun certificate and credit cards that expired in 2004. The Tindales used the name found on the cards to find the safe’s owner, Rob Everett.

Everett’s safe was stolen during an office robbery in 2000 and then dumped into the river. “I remember at the time, they smashed into a cabinet to get to the safe,” Everett said, according to The Daily Mail. “I was just upset that there was a nice pen on my desk, a Montblanc that was never recovered.”

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The robber, who was a teenage boy, was apprehended soon after the crime because he left behind a cap with his name stitched inside.

The father and son met up with Everett to return his stolen money and the businessman gave George a small reward for his honesty. He also offered him an internship because of the math skills he displayed in the YouTube video when he counted the Australian dollars. “What’s good about it is, I run a wealth management company and… I’d love him to work for us,” Everett said.

Although the safe saga began with a robbery 22 years ago, its conclusion has left Everett with more faith in humanity.

“I was just amazed that they’d been able to track me down,” he said. “There are some really nice and good people in this world. They could have kept the money, they could have said they attempted to get hold of me.”

“There’s a big lesson there. It teaches George that doing good and being honest and giving back is actually more rewarding than taking,” Everett added.

Treasure hunting isn’t the only allure of the hobby for George. His mother says the hobby has taught him a lot about water pollution and its effects on local wildlife. “George is very environmentally conscious. He always has been since primary school,” she said. “When he first started to do this, he was after treasure. Everything ends up in the rivers and canals.”

This article originally appeared on 04.25.22

Weatherman-turned-journalist Al Roker is known for his ability to chat amiably about all sorts of topics — unless the subject happens to be a random man’s erection (or lack thereof). It’s a lesson that Jameela Jamil learned the hard way.

As Decider notes, The Good Place and She-Hulk star dropped by TODAY on Tuesday to talk about her new podcast, Bad Dates. When asked to share a story about some of her own bad dates, Jamil told the crew of co-hosts how she once “Had a man take several steps into my apartment on what was supposed to be my first-ever booty call.” But things did not progress as anticipated.

“He collapsed three steps in and he broke all of his front teeth,” Jamil continued, as the hosts looked on in horror. “They flew across my apartment. He split his chin open and collapsed, and it’s because he misused a drug that excites a man’s sausage.”

This is where Roker clearly became uncomfortable. After staring at the camera, Jim Halpert-style, for an elongated period of time, the host did his best to move the conversation along. “Would you say that if you have the bad dates, it makes you appreciate the good dates,” Roker asked, to which Jamil responded: “100 percent!” But Craig Melvin, Roker’s co-host, wasn’t ready to stop talking about Viagra Man just yet.

“How long was the man out,” he asked — clearly oblivious to Roker’s visible desire to steer the conversation in another direction. Jamil must not have noticed either, as she responded: “It was a while.”

Which is likely how long it will be before Jamil is invited back on as a guest during Roker’s hour.

(Via Decider)

Larry June is scheduled to visit six Californian cities on his recently announced Larry’s Market Run Tour this spring and summer, but he brought everyone to the Palisades today, March 22, by way of the video for “Palisades, CA” with Big Sean and The Alchemist.

“Palisades, chillin’ in the shade, might take the Bent,” June coolly raps toward the end of the first verse. “Bettin’ on myself, and every time, n***a, it’s a hit.” Junes passes the flow off to Big Sean, who delivers a spoken interlude: “We off in the Palisades / Bettin’ on myself, every time, n***a, it’s a hit / You know, we talkin’ armed guards, gated communities, man / Royal family-type sh*t.”

Big Sean added on Instagram, “My dawgs @larryjuneftm n @alanthechemist ft. Me song + video ‘PALISADES, CA.’ Sh*t make me wanna count some money n take my vitamins, healthy! GOOD JOB LARRY [orange emoji, fire emoji, Earth emoji].”

“Palisades, CA” is the latest in a string of ambitious and indulgent singles from June and The Alchemist ahead of their collaborative project, The Great Escape. “60 Days,” “’89 Earthquake,” and now, “Palisades, CA” perfectly marry escapist visuals with brutally honest lyrics depicting the harsh journey necessary to bask in such luxuries.

“I show a different side of the city,” June told Uproxx last fall, speaking of his native San Francisco. “I’m from Hunter’s Point. I didn’t see too much of the Pier, or the nice avenues. I’ve never been to Alcatraz. I was just biking and sh*t. Now I’m just showing that a person of my color can do different sh*t. And I definitely belong.”

Watch the “Palisades, CA” video above.

Trump is probably genuinely worried about finding out what it’s like to be indicted. But as they say, every crisis is an opportunity. (A crisitunity, as Homer Simpson would say.) And so it’s no surprise that after he claimed that this Tuesday would be the day justice would come knocking — it wasn’t, by the way — his supporters would do what they often do: willingly line his pockets. Now we know how much, and the sum is predictably staggering.

As per Mediaite, the Trump campaign bragged to Fox News, the network that has come to his defense after ditching him for Ron DeSantis, that they’d raised a titanic $1.5 million since Saturday, when Trump first expressed alarm. Is it right for a self-professed rich guy to crow about taking cash from fans who might need it for other matters? Probably not. Will they mind? Ditto.

Of course, as we all know Trump wasn’t indicted on Tuesday. The following day he wasn’t either. That hasn’t stopped him from fantasizing about a perp walk that probably won’t happen. After all, authorities surely know that the big guy would use pictures of that even to fundraise and make the party of law and order even more skeptical of enforcement and the justice system. That said, the fact that he hasn’t been publicly paraded about by police hasn’t stopped people from using genuinely dangerous AI technology to make scarily realistic fake images of same.

(Via Mediaite)

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit announced his new album Weathervanes last month, releasing the lead single “Death Wish” as a preview. It looks like he has a lot on his plate this year because he also has an HBO Original documentary on the way called Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed.

The documentary is directed by Sam Jones and arrives April 7. A trailer is out today, March 22, serving as a compilation of snippets from Isbell’s public and private life. “When I have a hard day, I can’t just go home and have a drink. There’s no escape for me,” he says, ten years sober.

About music, he says, “Once you write a song, your mind isn’t focused on creating, your mind is focused on re-creating. You can only create something once, and if the tape’s not rolling, you’re just sh*t out of luck.”

Isbell has always been outspoken. Last year, he divulged his consideration of going into politics.

“I have considered it, but I’m gonna need about another ten years of study, and I’d like our kid to be settled into her self before she has to deal with a politician parent,” he responded to a fan on Twitter. “We’ll see if we still have a democracy in a decade.”

Watch the trailer for the documentary above.