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A video of Marjorie Taylor Greene giggling after the mention of people and children dying of COVID has resurfaced after she announced her appointment to a new House subcommittee that will investigate the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Due to to her loyalty to Kevin McCarthy during the contentious Speaker of the House vote, Greene has been rewarded with a number of committees and this latest appointment is not going over well.

“I’m honored to serve on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic,” Greene crowed on Twitter. “It’s time to reveal the truth on the origins of COVID, the authoritarian Democrat response, vaccines, and Fauci’s NIAID involvement in gain-of-function research.”

According to Politico, the pandemic subcommittee will basically be a feeding frenzy for anti-Fauci conspiracy theories:

The subcommittee is likely to be at the center of a multi-pronged, GOP-led effort to investigate coronavirus policies. That’s expected to include pandemic restrictions, the origins of the virus and decisions by high-profile health officials, including Anthony Fauci, who stepped down from his post as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser last year.

Following Greene’s appointment to the right-wing subcommittee, people on Twitter dug up a video from July 2021 where Greene can be seen laughing at the mention of “skinny people” and “children” dying of COVID while a reporter attempts to confront the congresswoman with the real-life dangers of the pandemic. The quote tweets for the video have been filling up with people blasting McCarthy for expecting people to believe that Greene can be trusted to deliver the facts about the government’s pandemic response.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via Politico, Acyn on Twitter)

There are, I think, two things that we need to talk about if we’re really going to discuss Poker Face, the new big-deal mystery-of-the-week Peacock series that stars Natasha Lyonne and comes from the brain of Knives Out creator Rian Johnson. One of the things is smaller, more targeted, and probably more relevant to you if you clicked on this to see if some guy you don’t know thinks the show is good and worth your time. The other is a bigger macro thing about, like, television in general, and the way we tell stories. Both are important. The second one is probably more interesting to me, just because I’m into that stuff. But let’s start with the first. That’s why you’re here. You’re not made of time.

Poker Face is fun. Natasha Lyonne plays Charlie, a woman with a mostly unexplained but 100 percent accurate ability to look at someone and know if the thing they just said to her was a lie. It’s not that she knows the truth all the time, or that she can tell why someone isn’t being honest, but she definitely knows when someone tries to yank her chain. This is a useful skill to have in your pocket, sometimes, but it turns out it can also get you in trouble. When we meet her in the first episode, she’s working as a hostess at a rinky-dink casino in Nevada because she used her gift in a way that a) kind of kneecapped her career options, and b) you can pretty easily guess by seeing the title of the show. It’s a whole thing. They explain it about a third of the way through the first episode. Adrien Brody is there when it happens, giving it the full Adrien Brody, which I mean in the best way possible.

Then… some things happen. For… reasons. There are spoilers here that I want to dance around a bit, in part so you get to experience them with fresh eyes and in part so that people on the internet do not yell at me. The point of it all is this: she needs to go on the run a little bit. And while she’s on the run, she stumbles into mysteries that could use solving. A murder here, a wrongly accused trucker there, justice needing to be done for any number of reasons. And she uses her gift to get that justice, often in — you will be shocked to hear, given the Natasha Lyonne of it all — quirky and/or eccentric ways. Again, it’s fun. A little dark sometimes. There are guest stars galore. John Ratzenberger shows up in one episode. I enjoyed that.

It’s a really great use of Natasha Lyonne, too. You know how sometimes you’ll see an actor or actress in a particular role and things snap together in your brain and you’ll be like “ohhhhh, right, this is what they should be doing”? That’s what we have here. She gets to use all of her tools: the fast-talking, the sideways glances, the thing where you — and the other characters on the show, especially the ones in this show — underestimate her a little bit at your own peril. Combine all of that with the gravelly voice and disheveled appearance and it’s almost impossible to avoid the Columbo comparisons here. Which is kind of the point. This brings us to the second thing.

At some point in the last 20-30 years, television started veering away from using episodes as little individual stories and started using them as little pieces of a larger puzzle. Not every show, sure, of course. There are dozens of shows with titles like NCIS and FBI and CSI and any other combinations of capital letters that still do this. But what happened is these shows started falling out of favor a bit. They didn’t win awards. People like me didn’t watch and recap them every week. You started hearing showrunners say things like “actually, this season is more like a 12-hour movie,” which is, in hindsight, a wild thing to use as a selling point. Who would ever want to see a 12-hour movie? Movies should be two hours or less. I’ll go as high as two and a half, tops, if it’s really necessary and a committee of sensible people from the Midwest watch it and agree. Anything longer is madness.

But it brought us some really good stuff. And then some less good stuff. Lots of things tried to become addictive binge watches in ways that hurt the quality of the show. You had a cool first episode and a cool finale with lots of… stuff… in between. It’s an exhausting way to tell a story if you do it wrong. And anyway, what’s so bad about entertaining people for an hour a week and then letting them get on with their lives? There’s something admirable about that, especially when there are an almost unreasonable amount of options out there.

And so, enter Poker Face. And Rian Johnson, himself no stranger to taking an old formula people liked and giving it a glossy new sheen in the present. The Knives Out movies are basically just Agatha Christie stories with Daniel Craig doing some accent work, no superheroes or monsters or plans to take over the world. It’s easy to forget because it’s James Bond investigating a slew of very famous people for murder, but those movies are shockingly small in scope compared to the other blockbusters out there. That is what’s going on with Poker Face, too. We are going back in time, but with the resources of the future. There’s something cool about that.

Yes, Columbo is the obvious inspiration here, right down to the yellow-font title cards and the thing where each episode opens with 10-20 minutes without the main character and with a very clear depiction of who did the murder and why. It’s not a whodunnit as much as it is a hows-she-gonna-get-em, which can be just as satisfying when done right. Also, like Columbo, there’s barely anything connecting the episodes from one to the next. A casino tough guy played by Benjamin Bratt is trying to hunt her down and sometimes he shows up five minutes too late and grumbles into his cell phone about it, but that’s all. It’s… I don’t know. The word I want to use here is refreshing. The stakes are low in a macro sense but extremely high on a micro level. This is still the wildest stuff that has ever and probably will ever happen to the characters in each episode. But then Charlie leaves and stumbles into another mystery and life goes on. That’s okay, too.

Let’s close with two more things, both of them equally important.

ONE: We should be doing stuff like this. A lot. Isn’t that the point of having all these options? I said a similar thing a few weeks ago when Netflix dropped Kaleidoscope, their CYOA heist series that was probably better on paper than in practice, but it applies here, too. We can have big huge television projects that play themselves out over a whole season (or multiple seasons if we want to get crazy), and we can have fun/intense little mysteries that wrap up after an hour each week. Neither one is inherently better or worse. Either can be great if done at a high level. Variety, baby. Mix it up. Give the people some choices.

TWO: There was once an episode of Columbo where a robot helped him investigate a murder. I rarely have an excuse to bring that up and I don’t know when I’ll get one again, so I’m going to say it here. And I’m going to post the picture of Columbo shaking hands with the robot. Here, look.

We are all doing pretty great here. Rian Johnson, Natasha Lyonne, me, Columbo, that robot, all of us. Really nice work.

The first four episodes of Poker Face premiere on Peacock on January 26, with the remaining episodes dropping weekly after that

Metallica is teaming up once again with Trafalgar Releasing for a global listening party in a theater (possibly) near you. For one night only on April 13, the band’s new album, 72 Seasons, will let fans hear it ahead of its official release the following day.

“This is a monumental opportunity for Metallica fans to be the first to hear the new album,” Trafalgar said in a statement. “We are thrilled to be a part of this historical global moment – connecting Metallica with their fans once again.”

The band previously used Trafalgar to bring their S&M² reunion event with the San Francisco Symphony to theaters in 2019.

“72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves,” James Hetfield previously explained about 72 Seasons in a statement. “The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are.”

“I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today,” he added. “Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”

Tickets for the global premiere of Metallica’s new album go on sale starting March 2.

72 Seasons is out 4/14 via Blackened Recordings. Pre-order it here.

The Oklahoma City Thunder are in year three of what many expected to be an extended rebuild. Sam Presti and Oklahoma City’s front office have amassed an unmatched stable of future draft picks and, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander already on board via the trade that sent Paul George to Los Angeles, the Thunder had a leg up in the rebuilding process.

Still, Oklahoma City entered the 2022-23 campaign with very modest expectations, especially after word broke in late August that No. 2 overall pick Chet Holmgren would miss his rookie season with a foot injury. In fact, the Thunder closed with a 22.5-win over/under in the betting market, and that came on the heels after 46 combined wins in the last two seasons. Then, Oklahoma City opened the season with an 11-18 record that was well ahead of pace but also relatively anonymous in nature. In recent days, though, the Thunder have been rolling to the point where Oklahoma City has already exceeded its over/under with more than 30 games remaining.

Oklahoma City is 7-2 in the last nine games, and the two losses came by only six points combined. The Thunder have a sparkling +9.8 net rating in that sample, including the No. 1 defense in the league, and even with opponent shooting luck baked in, Oklahoma City’s fundamentals are strong. The centerpiece is Gilgeous-Alexander, who is averaging 30.7 points per game with a 62.4 percent true shooting mark this season. He is a lock to reach the All-Star team. In addition to his counting stats, Gilgeous-Alexander leads the NBA in drives, maintains a sterling 10.8 percent turnover rate by the standards of a lead creator, and has scored at least 21 points in 27 of the last 28 games. The Thunder are above-average (114.4 points per 100) with Gilgeous-Alexander on the court, and that feels like a small miracle given the nature of a roster still in flux.

Elsewhere, 2021 lottery pick Josh Giddey is enjoying the best stretch of his young career. Giddey is averaging 19.4 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 6.2 assists in the last 13 games, shooting 53.2 percent from the field, and he is finding a new level of consistency and partnership with Gilgeous-Alexander that is wildly encouraging. From there, Oklahoma City is legitimately frisky on defense, and not only in the recent sample. The Thunder are in the top ten of the NBA in defensive rating this season, giving up 111.7 points per 100 possessions. Playing without a dominant rim protector, Oklahoma City is vulnerable in certain areas, headlined by defensive rebounding, but the Thunder make up for that with fantastic positioning, a top-five turnover rate, and the consistency to contest shots at a high level.

On Wednesday, the Thunder will host the Atlanta Hawks with a chance to reach the .500 mark and to match the season-long win total (24) from last season. That is far from a lock, but Oklahoma City is firmly in the play-in race as of late January, and that is already a win for an organization that still has plenty of firepower to build for the future.

Where do the Thunder rank in this week’s DIME power rankings? Let’s assess.

1. Denver Nuggets (34-14, Last week — 3rd)

Denver ascends to the top spot despite a home loss to OKC this week but, given that the Thunder are rolling, that result isn’t so bad. The Nuggets are an outstanding 20-4 since early December, and Denver has been virtually unstoppable on the offensive end.

2. Philadelphia 76ers (30-16, Last week — 4th)

Philadelphia only played two games this week, but the Sixers went 2-0 on the road in Portland and Sacramento. The Sixers may not be the second-best team in the league, but they are a long way from the 12-12 start and now in sole possession of the No. 2 seed in the East.

3. Boston Celtics (35-14, Last week — 2nd)

Road losses happen, and the Celtics just had two in a row in the state of Florida. Would it surprise me if Boston won the next four games at home to vault back to the top? No, it certainly wouldn’t.

4. Milwaukee Bucks (30-17, Last week — 5th)

The biggest thing for Milwaukee is the return of Khris Middleton on Monday. Amusingly, the Bucks scored 150 (!) points in his first game back but, broadly speaking, the Bucks just can’t be the same on offense without Middleton. He unlocks everything.

5. Memphis Grizzlies (31-16, Last week — 1st)

The DIME curse continues. Memphis was atop the rankings and our focus team last week. The Grizzlies just lost three in a row. Water is wet, but there is no need for panic for a very good basketball team.

6. Brooklyn Nets (29-17, Last week — 7th)

Everyone understands the Nets aren’t the sixth-best team in the league without Kevin Durant, so let’s get that out of the way. Still, Brooklyn’s season-long profile is strong and a pair of road wins over the Jazz and Warriors were encouraging to end the week.

7. Sacramento Kings (27-19, Last week — 8th)

Sacramento is the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference. It is January 25. That is borderline unbelievable for thorough NBA observers over a long sample, but having the best offense (117.9 points per 100) in the league goes a long way.

8. Miami Heat (27-22, Last week — 10th)

The Heat have a top-five record (11-5) in baseball since Christmas. That’s an arbitrary endpoint, but the Heat just beat the Pelicans and Celtics at home over a three-day period and the next two games are against Orlando and Charlotte.

9. Cleveland Cavaliers (29-20, Last week — 6th)

Cleveland has leveled off lately, but it’s not terribly shocking when you consider the team’s losses. The Cavs don’t have a “bad” loss in the bunch, losing on the road to the Nuggets, Jazz, Wolves, Grizzlies, and Knicks with a home loss to the Warriors. It isn’t great, but Donovan Mitchell missed part of that run. The Cavs are fine.

10. L.A. Clippers (26-24, Last week — 17th)

The Clippers just swept a three-game road trip. Non-coincidentally, there were no back-to-backs in that stretch. L.A. is now 16-9 with Kawhi Leonard in the lineup this season, and the Clippers host the lowly Spurs on Thursday with another day of rest in between games.

11. Oklahoma City Thunder (23-24, Last week — 15th)

OKC might be able to build on the success discussed above. The Thunder have four of the next five at home and FiveThirtyEight’s ELO model (which is results-based) gives them a 70 percent chance to make the playoffs. That dips considerably when the RAPTOR player projections are incorporated, but the actual results are very, very intriguing.

12. New Orleans Pelicans (26-22, Last week — 9th)

The Pelicans are 3-10 in the last 13 games. Obviously, there are caveats with neither Zion Williamson nor Brandon Ingram on the court for an extended period, but the recent results are not great.

13. New York Knicks (26-23, Last week — 11th)

Alarm bells were going off after four straight losses, but they were quieted when the Knicks beat the Cavs on Tuesday. New York has a very interesting test in Boston on Thursday, but until then, the Knicks can take some solace in sole possession of the No. 7 spot.

14. Phoenix Suns (25-24, Last week — 24th)

The Suns recently went through a stretch with nine losses in ten games, cratering both in the standings and in these rankings. Devin Booker hasn’t played since Christmas and, in short, that caps Phoenix’s ceiling without any other context. Quietly, though, the Suns just opened a homestand with four straight wins. None were necessarily landmark victories, but they all count.

15. Golden State Warriors (23-24, Last week — 12th)

If the Warriors weren’t the Warriors, it would be hard to get terribly excited. Golden State is below .500 in late January with a comical 6-18 road record and six losses in the last nine games overall. You can find positives, like a +7.0 net rating with Steph Curry and Draymond Green on the floor together, but the overall product hasn’t been good during the team’s title defense.

16. Utah Jazz (25-25, Last week — 18th)

Utah’s 10-3 start feels like a lifetime ago, but the Jazz have found something again in recent days. That manifests with five wins in the last seven games, and the two losses came to Philadelphia and Brooklyn. In taking a big-picture look, Utah is the No. 8 seed in late January, and no one expected that.

17. Atlanta Hawks (24-24, Last week — 13th)

The best stretch of Atlanta’s season happened in the middle of January with five straight wins against solid competition. Seemingly on cue, the Hawks gave away a 19-point lead at home to the Hornets and struggled on offense in a loss to Chicago just two days later. Atlanta is still in a better spot than it was a few weeks ago, but it isn’t as if every problem is solved.

18. Dallas Mavericks (25-24, Last week — 14th)

Oof. The Mavericks had a rough home loss on Tuesday, wasting a 41-point, 15-rebound showing from Luka Doncic against the Wizards. Dallas is just 2-7 in the last nine games, and the defense is yielding more than 1.22 points per possession. It’s hard to stay afloat, much less win, with that defensive resistance.

19. Minnesota Timberwolves (24-25, Last week — 16th)

Minnesota has an incredible knack for laying eggs. The Wolves lost to the Rockets on Monday and, before that, Minnesota racked up losses to Detroit (twice), Charlotte, San Antonio (twice), and other flops. When it’s good, it’s good. When it’s not, it’s really not.

20. Los Angeles Lakers (22-26, Last week — 20th)

The Lakers lost to the Clippers on Tuesday, which never goes over well. Before the end of the night, though, word broke that Anthony Davis could return on Wednesday, and that should give Los Angeles a jolt. If Davis does come back against the Spurs, it will be rather amazing that the Lakers managed to go 10-10 without him.

21. Washington Wizards (21-26, Last week — 25th)

It was a very good week for the Washington Professional Basketball Club. The Wizards won all three games, including road victories over the Mavericks and Knicks. Washington still seems to be stuck in a burning desire for the play-in, but the Wizards are back within one game of the No. 10 spot.

22. Chicago Bulls (22-25, Last week — 22nd)

DeMar DeRozan and company would be higher on this list if not for a blown lead in Indiana on Tuesday. Even with that loss, the Bulls are still a frisky 11-7 in the last 18 games, ranking in the top ten of the NBA in net-rating since mid-December. Is that going to be enough to satisfy a team with real expectations? Probably not, but it’s something.

23. Portland Trail Blazers (22-25, Last week — 21st)

A 5-12 mark in the last 17 games paints a pretty dire picture for the Blazers. Then, a closer look shows you that three of those wins came against the Hornets, Pistons, and Spurs. It’s really rough, and frustration appears to be boiling over as the Blazers now sit outside the top ten of the West.

24. Toronto Raptors (21-27, Last week — 23rd)

Toronto’s upcoming schedule gauntlet could be pivotal. The Raptors play the next seven games on the road against Western Conference opponents, and that is the last thing the team needs as they sit in the No. 12 spot in the East.

25. Orlando Magic (18-29, Last week — 26th)

Orlando beat the Boston Celtics by a wide margin on Monday, furthering the reality that the Celtics can’t seem to win in Florida. That was preceded by a blowout loss to Washington (not great), but the Magic are a few steps above the dregs at the bottom of this list.

26. Indiana Pacers (24-25, Last week — 19th)

Yes, the Pacers won on Tuesday, and this might be too low. But it’s been gross lately. Tyrese Haliburton’s absence has cratered Indiana’s offense to the tune of a league-worst 107.7 offensive rating during a 1-7 stretch. Indiana’s comeback win over Chicago did ease the pain a bit, but that came against a Bulls team on the second night of a back-to-back with travel, which probably contributed.

27. Charlotte Hornets (13-36, Last week — 29th)

The biggest impetus for Charlotte’s rise this week was a nice road win in Atlanta. The Hornets trailed by 19 points in the second half of that game, only to ride Atlanta’s collapse and some late heroics from Terry Rozier to victory. Of course, the Hornets then lost the next two games by very lopsided margins, but a 2-2 week isn’t so bad given the state of the roster.

28. Detroit Pistons (12-37, Last week — 27th)

The Pistons are 1-7 in the last eight games, and the defense is just gross. Detroit allowed more than 1.2 points per possession in that sample, and that included a 150-point drubbing at the hands of the Bucks on Monday.

29. San Antonio Spurs (14-33, Last week — 28th)

It was a very light week for the Spurs with only two games, both of which were losses. San Antonio has lost five of the last six games and, in each loss, the Spurs have given up at least 131 points. That’s the recipe for a league-worst 119.9 defensive rating for the season.

30. Houston Rockets (11-36, Last week — 30th)

Houston did win its last game, beating the Wolves at home on Monday behind 42 points from Jalen Green. It’s tough to ignore the long-term, though, and the Rockets are 2-18 in the last 10 games with a gross -11.0 net rating.

The Ticketmaster hate train on social media may seem like a classic case of monkey see, monkey do to some, but to others, this disdain has been brewing for years. From quietly changing their refund policy, accusations of inflating ticket prices, and allegations of colluding with ticket scalpers, the live event ticket conglomerate has justifiably earned itself a few hundred thousand angry patrons.

While other entertainers have remained quiet or even sided with the company (see Bruce Springsteen), pop superstar Taylor Swift, her longtime producer Jack Antonoff, and country singer Zach Bryan have vocalized their displeasure. As one of the highest-selling and most followed musicians, Swift and her millions of fans’ (Swifties) anger sparked enough of a response online to cause the United States Senate Committee to hold a formal hearing about the monopoly Ticketmaster owns over live events and whether or not it was time to do something about it legally.

Other countries like Mexico (thanks to a Bad Bunny ticketing debacle) and Canada have already hit the company with fines and a class-action lawsuit, so all eyes are on the United States to see what legal punishment they implement. But while we wait for the decision, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert decided to turn the hearing into a mock commercial on behalf of the company that is equal part enraging (because, you know, capitalism) and hilarious.

Watch the video above.

If you haven’t been on “TWICE Twitter” in the past 24 hours, fans have been up in arms (in a good way) after the reveal of the group’s first subunit project, on top of last week’s release of “Moonlight Sunrise.” It may not be an actual single or EP fans have been waiting for, but it’s still something worth celebrating.

Following the leak of JYP Entertainment registering and trademarking “MISAMO” late last year, fans have been speculating and anticipating the announcement of TWICE’s first subunit. Given the name, it would be composed of the group’s three Japanese members Momo, Sana, and Mina.

Yesterday (January 24, or midnight of January 25), in the midst of all the “Moonlight Sunrise” hype, it was revealed that the MoSaMi subunit – or MiSaMo, or even better, MiMoSa – took part in singing the soundtrack to a Japanese drama. Titled “Bouquet,” the OST (an abbreviation for “original soundtrack”) will be featured on Liason-Children’s Heart Clinic on TV Asahi.

The Japanese trio shared a short behind-the-scenes clip that shows a glimpse of the group’s recording session, with some cameos from Momo’s dogs Boo and Dobby.

Hours after following the subunit’s project, TWICE surprised fans by dropping a couple of remixes to their English single “Moonlight Sunrise.” The remixes include a house, club, and R&B mix, as well as an instrumental.

TWICE is a Warner Music Japan artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The first round of performers for the 2023 Grammy Awards has been announced.

The performers for the Sunday, February 5 show will include Bad Bunny, Brandi Carlile, Kim Petras, Lizzo, Luke Combs, Mary J. Blige, Sam Smith, and Steve Lacy. The show will again be hosted by Trevor Noah.

The full list of Grammys nominees was published in November and includes many of those billed to perform. Bad Bunny is up for three awards, including Best Pop Solo Performance for “Moscow Mule,” Best Música Urbana Album for Un Verano Sin Ti, and the big one, Album Of The Year.

Meanwhile, Lizzo is also up for Album Of The Year for Special, as well as Best Pop Solo Performance for “About Damn Time,” Best Pop Vocal Album, Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year, and Best Remixed Recording for the Purple Disco Machine Remix of “About Damn Time.”

Beyoncé is the most-nominated artist of the year with nine including Record Of The Year, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Performance, Song Of The Year, Best Dance/Electronic Album, and Album Of The Year for Renaissance.

First-time nominees for awards include GloRilla, Kim Petras, Latto, and Tobe Nwigwe.

The Grammys will air live on 2/5 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT on CBS, Paramount+, and Grammy.com.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Slowthai is set to return with his third studio album this spring. His latest, UGLY, a backronym for U Gotta Love Yourself, will arrive in March. On the album, Slowthai will deliver his signature searing, politically charged raps, but will also experiment with more melodic sounds.

He said in a statement:

“The first album was the sound of where I’m from and everything I thought I knew. The second album is what was relevant to me at that moment in time, the present. And this album is completely me — about how I feel and what I want to be… it’s everything I’ve been leading up to… This album was me trying to emulate the spirit of the brotherhood ethos that bands have. Music is about the feeling and emotion that goes into it. Like an artist making a painting, it’s the expression of that moment in time. I really felt like I didn’t want to rap, whereas before, rap was the only way I could express myself with the tools I had. Now that I have more freedom to create and do more, why wouldn’t we change it up?”

Ahead of UGLY, Slowthai has shared “Selfish,” a new, grungy rock-influenced track, on which he lets go of the expectations of others, in favor of a better life for himself.

Check out “Selfish” above and the album artwork and tracklist below.

1. “Yum”
2. “Selfish”
3. “Sooner”
4. “Feel Good”
5. “Never Again”
6. “F*ck It Puppet”
7. “HAPPY”
8. “UGLY”
9. “Falling”
10. “Wotz Funny”
11. “Tourniquet”
12. “25% Club”

UGLY is out 3/3 via Method Records. Pre-save it here.

People love GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64. A legend in dorm rooms and sleepovers across the world, GoldenEye is still in many people’s minds one of the best multiplayer experiences ever made. Not only is it one of the many reasons the Nintendo 64 is famous for its multiplayer, but it also is credited with being one of the first console first-person shooters to take off — before GoldenEye, that genre was largely considered a PC only experience.

So when it was announced that GoldenEye would be coming to the Switch, people were understandably excited, but they didn’t still have a release date to work with. On Wednesday, to surprisingly little fanfare, Nintendo announced that GoldenEye would finally be hitting the N64 collection on the Nintendo Switch Online service on Friday, January 27.

Friday is the perfect day to release a game famous for its multiplayer. It’s when everyone has nostalgic memories of getting home from school, rushing to their friends’ house, and playing into the early hours of the morning while screaming at whoever decided to choose Oddjob. While the Switch won’t be able to replicate that experience perfectly, its online multiplayer and portability will give us the closest experience you can get without breaking out the old N64.

It’s that time of year again when everybody who has ever seen a movie decides to give their two cents about which one deserves to win an award and which acclaimed movie darling ends up with nothing for some weird reason. But awards season also gives us a chance to reflect on all of the past mistakes that the Academy has made, and that’s what awards season is all about — holding grudges over past losses.

One pretty famous director who goes by the name of Steven Spielberg seems to still be mad about a certain movie being shut out at the award shows over a decade ago, when there were still just five nominees in the Best Picture category. The director applauded the decision to open the category to 10 nominees, which opens up the pool for more fan-favorite blockbusters to earn a nomination, like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way Of Water did this year.

“I’m really encouraged by that,” the director told Deadline, adding that it should have happened a long time ago. “It came late for the film that should have been nominated a number of years ago, Christopher Nolan’s, The Dark Knight. That movie would have definitely garnered a Best Picture Nomination today, so having these two blockbusters solidly presented on the top 10 list is something we should all be celebrating.”

Spielberg probably wasn’t expecting his 2008 feature Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull to secure a nomination (sorry, maybe next year) but he did think that The Dark Knight should have been recognized. Heath Ledger did win a posthumous Academy Award for his portrayal of the Joker that same year.

As for this year’s ceremony, Spielberg secured his first-ever screenplay nomination…along with his ninth directing nom for The Fabelmans. The man has been around for a while, after all. Michelle Williams did receive a nomination for her role in the drama, along with Judd Hirsch.

Even though we can’t retrospectively award movies with honors, Oscar’s season is always the best time to bring up the famous snubs and rally around everyone who agrees with you. There are so many people out there who also believe Laura Dern deserved an Oscar. You are not alone!

(Via Deadline)