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https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the- ... 1235947918

A film adaptation of hugely successful game series The Sims is finally in development after years in development hell

San Lumen wrote:https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the-sims-movie-luckychap-vertigo-entertainment-1235947918

A film adaptation of hugely successful game series The Sims is finally in development after years in development hell

I really do want to be positive about it (and hey, I play Sims 4 quite a fair bit mainly for my character stuff... goodness knows it's missing features, BUT that's for the gaming thread!).

Anyway, I want to be positive because of the thread, and I also genuinely have hope for it. Please be good...

I will give extra points if they speak Simlish all the way. ALL THE WAY.

In the spirit of my second-to-last post here: Megan Keith is a university student who has a literal track record of athletic success under her belt. She admitted that she finds 10,000m races so boring as to have never watched one from start to finish. Until recently, the only times she ever brought up the distance was to swear off ever running it. She hasn't even properly worked out how Olympic qualification works. None of this has deterred her from becoming the fourth-fastest British woman ever to run 10,000m.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/ ... ly-planned

Slovakia plans to be coal-free by 2024, 6 years earlier than originally planned

https://timesofmalta.com/article/parlia ... nt.1089991

Parliament unanimously approves Myriam Spiteri Debono as Malta's next President

She will be the third woman to serve as President of the island nation.

Behold the six-legged gazelle of Israel

It's real, and it was found on the Wadi Gaza reserve at the head of the Wadi Gaza(the river system that provides water to both Gaza and parts of Southern Israel).

San Lumen wrote:https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the-sims-movie-luckychap-vertigo-entertainment-1235947918

A film adaptation of hugely successful game series The Sims is finally in development after years in development hell

That's a bit weird. Do people look at The Sims and think "there's a rich narrative there."

The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:

San Lumen wrote:https://variety.com/2024/film/news/the-sims-movie-luckychap-vertigo-entertainment-1235947918

A film adaptation of hugely successful game series The Sims is finally in development after years in development hell

That's a bit weird. Do people look at The Sims and think "there's a rich narrative there."

It worked for Barbie, I suppose you could do a social satire with the Sims as well.

Shrillland wrote:

The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:That's a bit weird. Do people look at The Sims and think "there's a rich narrative there."

It worked for Barbie, I suppose you could do a social satire with the Sims as well.

you could make it like The Matrix

speaking of game adaptions

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/mono ... =109103429

'Monopoly' movie in the works with Margot Robbie as producer
"Monopoly is a top property – pun fully intended."

https://www.wwnytv.com/2024/04/19/water ... by-tulips/

Watertown's Flower Monument surrounded by tulips

Warhorse studios announced a sequel to Kingdom Come Deliverance sometime this year, with that and Manor Lords out next week it looks to be a good year for medieval games.

The minecraft movie releases next year (At this point in time: 2024), and in the same year GTA 6 will release (optimistic prediction).
If they release on the same day there could be a new EternalHorizons/Barbenheimer phenomenon

Aand we're back! >u<

https://www.wmar2news.com/local/a-decad ... rash-wheel

Mr. Trash Wheel has been cleaning Baltimore Harbor for ten years.

I'm a bit iffy as to whether or not it should go here, but given how negative so many of the airline and airport technology issues have been in recent months, I guess this should be an error on the lighter side of things: 101-year-old Patricia is being logged by American Airlines as a 1-year-old because their computer only stores birth years as two digits. There is literally nothing else to it (not even Patricia's surname; she'd rather not share), except that someone at the BBC caught American in flagrante delicto.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/golde ... =109691871

Golden retriever named Pancakes steals the show as wedding ring bearer

This isn't the first time, or even the first time in a week, I've had to wrestle with the appropriacy of posting here a story about a senior citizen's amazing travels for fear it might be taken the wrong way. But I've decided to go ahead with it again - the story itself is so extraordinary that I feel as though it deserves to be heard out by, literally, a general audience.

Lidiia Lomikovska should be like any other citizen of the Ukrainian warzone... well, not quite. She's 98 years old. The war in Ocheretyne, the little-known settlement where she normally lives alongside many members of her family, recently turned hot, forcing their departure. It got so hot, in fact, that it did not take long for her to accidentally lose her way.

For understandable reasons, Lomikovska was armed only with the clothes on her back, a pair of slippers, and a walking stick and a piece of wood which she used as a makeshift Zimmer frame. This should have been a recipe for certain death, but she instead went six miles - about ten kilometres - west without any further assistance. She even had time for a little nap or three.

She could have made it even further on her own steam, but she was eventually picked up by a police car; so desperate was she to go somewhere else that she managed to convince the police that she was around fifty years younger than she actually was. Our intrepid granny was taken from there to a safe place in an unknown quarter of Ukraine, where she recounted her story to the BBC.

(Crossposted to the Ukraine War Thread with some alterations to commentary, given the topical nature of this story.)