On Saturday, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal, killing more than 3,800 people and injuring at least 7,000. Many charities and NGO’s are on the ground providing aid and medical assistance, To learn more about this disaster and how you can help, please click here. Meanwhile, Hellobaby is currently taking commissions from people who donate to relief efforts, no matter the amount.
If you’re like the audience member who attended this Stephen Hawking talk at the Sydney Opera House, you want to know what the renowned astrophysicist and probably smartest living person thinks about the recent breakup of One Direction. If you are like that person first of all what is the matter with you? And second of all Hawking had a comedic, gracious, and optimistic answer that should act as a salve to ease your burning loss. Hawking said that heartbroken fans should turn to theoretical physics, because if we one day discover alternate universes, there may well be one out there in which the band is still together, and all is right in the world.
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After a weekend of similar statements from people involved in the project, Konami has officially confirmed that its Silent Hills project will not proceed. The game had been previewed by an early “playable teaser” which was broadly considered an intriguing success. Film director Guillermo Del Toro had been working alongside renowned game designer Hideo Kojima on the project. Kojima recently parted ways with Konami, for whom he’s worked for the entirety of his career, in an ongoing and public manner, the details of which are still not entirely clear.
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Suicide Squad director David Ayer tweeted the first picture of Jared Leto “in-costume” (the actor is topless) as The Joker. It’s definitely a step away from Heath Ledger’s somewhat reserved portrayal of the chaotic clown, which by our estimation is a good thing considering how thoroughly Ledger dominated that role. Take a look for yourself and tell us what you think in the comments below.
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Rocksteady Games has released another trailer for the final instalment of Batman: Arkham Knight. The main thing this trailer features that we haven’t seen so far is a lot of cinematic shots of Batman and his companions serving up some good-old-fashioned hurtin’ on their adversaries. Tonally, the trailer is consistent with the previous one in establishing a sense of unstoppable doom for both the caped crusader and his beloved Gotham, but seeing the hero in action also serves as a reminder that Bruce Wayne generally always wins. Anyway the fate of the city will be on you, the player’s shoulders when the game is released this June.
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The Washington Post issued a report over the weekend stating that, according to an anonymous source from inside NBC, a probe investigating Williams’s reporting has uncovered 11 instances in which he may have exaggerated or otherwise lied about incidents he reported on. For reference, Williams was placed on leave from his post as the nightly news anchor on NBC when it was revealed that he lied about having been in a helicopter that was shot at in Iraq. Since then, doubts have been raised about his claim that rockets passed under a helicopter he was inside of in Israel, as well as his claims to have been in the midst of the Egyptian protests in Tahrir Square back in 2011. The Washington Post report didn’t detail what the other 11 “embellishments” were, and it’s unclear whether that information will ever be made public. To Williams’s credit, it seems like all of these instances involve him hyperbolizing his personal experiences rather than actually misreporting factual information in his capacity as a news anchor, but even still it’s not great to have a news anchor who has to make that kind of distinction in regards to telling the truth.
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The new X-Men film began production today, and we’ve already got our first look at one of the characters. Kodi Smit-McPhee is playing Nightcrawler in the forthcoming film, and director Bryan Singer gave us a quick video of the little blue weirdo teleporting in and out of frame in front of a black background. Are you not entertained?
