News Game of Thrones Game of Thrones Could Have Ended in a Film Trilogy… or Filmed Vertically‚ Both Terrifying Options It’s the worst kind of Chose Your Own Alt-History. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on February 23‚ 2024 icon-comment 0 Share New Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest RSS Feed Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss sat down for a profile with The Wall Street Journal recently (in no doubt to promote their next project‚ Netflix’s adaptation of Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem trilogy). During that interview‚ the two confirmed what has long been rumored: Benioff and Weiss wanted to end Game of Thrones with a film trilogy meant to premiere in theaters. Instead we got the two final seasons‚ thirteen episodes total‚ of questionable television. The movie idea was axed by AT&;T‚ the corporation that owned HBO at the time‚ and the execs reportedly asked Benioff and Weiss if they could shoot episodes vertically so people could easily watch on their phones. And to add insult to injury‚ the phone conglomerate also expressed interest in what The Wall Street Journal described as “snackable mini-episodes.” The idea of shooting a show like Game of Thrones vertically is‚ frankly‚ horrifying. Benioff and Weiss were similarly horrified. “Dysfunction kills more projects than anything else‚ whether it’s interpersonal dysfunction or institutional dysfunction‚” Weiss told The Wall Street Journal. The two promptly moved over to Netflix after Game of Thrones ended‚ in part because they wanted to avoid similar discussions in the future. “When you sign a five-year deal with a company‚ you want that company to be stable so you can be left alone to do your work and not have to worry about it being bought by the phone company‚” Benioff said. “Finding the smoothest ride in the ocean was key.”  We’ll never know if the three-movie ending that Benioff and Weiss envisioned would have resulted in a better ending for Game of Thrones‚ something that is an admittedly low bar. That opportunity‚ however‚ has long since passed. We’ll have more Benioff and Weiss television in our faces soon‚ however‚ as 3 Body Problem comes out on Netflix on March 21‚ 2024. [end-mark] The post <;i>;Game of Thrones<;/i>; Could Have Ended in a Film Trilogy… or Filmed Vertically‚ Both Terrifying Options appeared first on Reactor.

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The Peak of the Mountain Unique is one of the best helms you can get in the game‚ so it makes sense that players are searching hard for it. This guide will detail how to get the Peak of the Mountain Unique in Last Epoch. Last Epoch: How to get the Peak of the Mountain Unique Players can get the Peak of the Mountain Unique in only one way in Last Epoch: by defeating The Mountain Beneath boss in the Lightless Arbor dungeon. Lightless Arbor becomes available when you reach the Surface Zone. The Lightless Arbor is one of the three optional dungeons available in the game and requires a key to enter. Players can get the key to the Lightless Arbor by defeating bosses in the Monolith of Fate or through random drops of standard enemies. The latter has a rarer drop rate. Image: Eleventh Hour Games Once inside the Lightless Arbor‚ you must defeat the Mountain Beneath boss for a chance for the Peak of the Mountain Unique to drop. It’s not a one hundred percent drop‚ but itR...

Not having your custom loadouts working in MW3 can totally throw your whole game off. Having to resort to the basic loadouts isn’t exactly ideal. Here is what you can do to get your loadouts back in Modern Warfare 3. A few methods to get your loadouts back in MW3 Issues with loadouts can arise in several situations. Sometimes‚ it happens with Zombies‚ other times with multiplayer. Luckily‚ there are fixes for both. Enter and exit a Zombies lobby – All you need to do to get your custom loadouts working in MW3 is enter and exit a Zombies lobby. Somehow‚ this triggers your settings to reset and return all your custom weapons. Just enter‚ then exit a zombie’s lobby. Extract from Zombies – If the previous solution doesn’t get them working‚ you can try playing and extracting from a Zombies game to fix your custom loadouts bug in MW3. Remove ‘Hijacked IFF Strobe’ – There are some bugs in Modern Warfare 3. Sometimes‚ having the Hi...

I haven’t seen a game come out with as many bugs as Helldivers 2 for a very long time. Recently‚ the seemingly cursed game has been having issues with the new Helldivers 2 Daily Order no longer showing up. These are a great source of medals‚ so frustrating when they’re not there. How to bring back your Daily Order in Helldivers 2 This issue can be caused by a variety of things. Some of them may be caused by you and some by the game itself. However‚ chances are the issue is on the Helldivers 2 end. Its issue with bugs is a big problem‚ not just in the game’s combat. Already completed your Daily Order You may have already completed your Helldivers 2 Daily Order for the day. This means you’ll have to wait until the next 24-hour cycle before you get a new one. You should be able to check how much time you have left on the last one and when the next one will show up by the timer beside your daily order. Until the timer resets‚ you’ll have no Daily O...

Since you have made it here‚ you’re most likely wondering about Cursed Ammo in MW3. We have you covered‚ as this guide will detail the effects of Cursed Ammo and how to unlock it. How to unlock Cursed Ammo in MW3 Cursed Ammo is an Munitions box in Modern Warfare 3 exclusive to the Horde Hunt limited-time event. Players can unlock Cursed Ammo by collecting 200 Mimic skulls and bones during Zombies matches. You can do this by either finding Mimic skulls in chests or killing Mimics in the field. Collecting 200 is incredibly challenging‚ considering Mimics aren’t very common and can be hard to find on the map. To speed up the process‚ make sure to play the Mimic Mania Hordepoint mode. You can collect more Mimic skulls and bones in this mode than the standard ones. If you don’t want to play Mimic Mania Hordepoint and decide to collect skulls and bones elsewhere‚ you will have the best luck finding Mimics while completing bounty contracts. Remember to check all ...

Politico is a member in good standing of the “establishment media.” Its journalists rotate in and out‚ to and from other pro-Biden outlets. But when Politico has a reporter who delves into the Biden family influence-peddling business‚ you can expect that work to be ignored routinely. Ben Schreckinger authored a book in the fall of 2021 titled “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power.” The publisher promised it would reveal “the secrets lurking in the deep recesses of Joe’s family tree to his son Hunter’s foreign deal-making spree—and the Trump gang’s ham-handed efforts to exploit it.” Nobody in the pro-Biden media wanted a Biden tell-all‚ even from within its ranks. Schreckinger wasn’t all over TV selling his book the way every salacious anti-Trump author was rewarded. Brian Stelter‚ then still with CNN‚ even gave a dust-cover blurb for the book comparing the author to Bob Woodward‚ but didn’t book him on his show “Reliable Sources.” The cycle repeated on Feb. 18‚ when Schreckinger reported for Politico on President Joe Biden’s brother James. When James worked as a consultant to the Americore hospital chain in 2017‚ he suggested his brother could help‚ and spoke of plans to give Joe equity and a board seat. Instead‚ Americore went bankrupt‚ wreaking havoc in rural communities. It still faces a federal prosecution of a $100 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare. On the same day in 2018 that James Biden received a $200‚000 payment from Americore‚ he made out a check for that amount to his brother Joe‚ which he claimed was a “loan repayment‚” but he hasn’t proved the loan. None of this mattered when James Biden testified in a closed session before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Feb. 21. ABC‚ CBS and NBC could barely mention the president’s brother after he testified‚ except to repeat his transparently false claims that Joe was never involved in his lobbying schemes. It’s like no one at these networks has ever relied on Politico for their stories. The “PBS NewsHour” ignored James Biden entirely in its eight-minute segment on how Russian collusion is somehow aiding the Republicans again. The New York Times put the story on page A-14 under the fact-defying headline “Biden Had No Involvement In Transactions‚ Brother Says.” The Washington Post story was on A-11 with a headline displaying a similar contempt for the public record: “Brother denies Biden was involved in his business deals.” What makes this routine more annoying is that Hunter Biden attempted to avoid a closed hearing because Republicans might come out and distort the overall picture of his testimony. Now James Biden has a closed hearing‚ and the Democrats and their affiliated media outlets came out and pretended the president has never “played a role” in the Biden lobbying business. Both newspaper accounts acknowledged James Biden is “an integral part of the Biden family‚ though often in the background.” Yes‚ that’s easier when the media has an incredible incuriosity in what he does behind the scenes. But they loaded their stories with Democrats’ talking points‚ including the claim that this whole inquiry has accomplished nothing and should end. The contrast between the media’s treatment of House Republican oversight hearings and their hopelessly devoted romance with Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 panel is stunning. One party is compared to the Avengers‚ and the other is the Keystone Kops. The legacy media careen between journalistic savagery masquerading as “accountability” and robotic repetitions of preposterous Biden family denials. It’s a shame that they couldn’t all simply investigate whoever is in power‚ like lonely Ben Schreckinger. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the url or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post Why Won’t Legacy Media Investigate James Biden? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Each year since 1961 Western Writers of America has bestowed on a respected individual its Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the field of Western history. Previous Wister recipients include Oscar-winning director John Ford and actor John Wayne‚ Pulitzer-winning Kiowa poet and novelist N. Scott Momaday‚ historian Robert M. Utley and such bestselling novelists as Elmer Kelton and Tony Hillerman. Named for the author of the acclaimed 1902 novel The Virginian‚ the Wister is WWA’s highest award. The 2024 recipient is Quintard Taylor‚ a leading scholar in the history of the black experience out West.  Quintard Taylor Professor emeritus and the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt professor of American History at the University of Washington‚ Seattle‚ Taylor is the author of In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West: 1528–1990 (2024) and editor of the anthology African American Women Confront the West‚ 1600–2000 (2003). He was born in 1948 in Brownsville‚ Texas‚ where his great-grandfather was born into slavery‚ his father managed a cotton plantation and his mother worked at menial labor. Taylor himself holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota‚ Minneapolis. In 2007 he founded BlackPast.org‚ an online encyclopedia of black history boasting 55 million users.  “Dr. Taylor’s work reflects the evolving and dynamic understanding of the black experience in the American West‚ a topic that had been long overlooked‚” said Max McCoy‚ WWA’s executive director. “As a pioneer in the effort to bring that experience to a wider audience‚ he richly deserves this‚ our highest award.”  Established in the early 1950s to promote the literature of the American West‚ the nonprofit WWA has approximately 600 members worldwide‚ including writers and editors of fiction‚ nonfiction‚ songs‚ poems and screenplays. WWA will honor Taylor and its other award recipients at its annual convention‚ scheduled for June 19–22‚ 2024‚ in Tulsa‚ Okla.

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A uniformed cop in Mississippi was arrested by her colleagues and hauled off to jail in her police cruiser after she allegedly stole a pair of sneakers while on duty earlier this week.Around noon on Wednesday‚ Robin Conner‚ a 33-year-old police officer‚ drove her police cruiser to a Dick's Sporting Goods store in her precinct of Columbus‚ Mississippi‚ near the Alabama border‚ about 60 miles northwest of Tuscaloosa. While there‚ she tried on a pair of sneakers valued at $140. She then allegedly tried to walk out of the store with the shoes still on her feet‚ but an employee stopped her. The employee detained her before calling 911‚ the New York Post reported.When Columbus Police Chief Joseph Daughtry received word about Conner's alleged actions‚ he was both embarrassed and outraged and determined to make the arrest himself. Daughtry and his assistant chief went to the sporting goods store‚ slapped cuffs on Conner‚ and took her to jail in her patrol vehicle."We’re going to treat her like we would anybody else‚" Daughtry stated.Conner was booked into the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center‚ charged with misdemeanor shoplifting for stealing goods worth less than $1‚000‚ and given a $862 surety bond. She is scheduled to appear in court on April 4. It is not clear whether she has retained an attorney.Conner was initially placed on administrative leave‚ but the Columbus City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to fire her. It was actually Conner's second stint with the department. She had worked there previously and left before returning to the force approximately two years ago‚ WTVA reported. Daughtry called the entire situation a "gut punch." "We have a job to do‚ and we're held to a higher standard‚" he explained. "And the community is just starting to trust us‚ and to take this gut punch really hurts.""That’s why we fulfilled our obligation‚ not only to the store‚ but to the community."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!