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Game of Thrones has been teasing Season 8 for months, and the hints kept coming during the 2019 Super Bowl.

Ok, ok, it was an ad for Bud Light, but we’re desperate here!

The footage showed a Westeros battle between a The Mountain-esque figure and someone else donning Bud Light gear :(. Then a fire-breathing dragon showed up and the iconic theme music began.

Game of Thrones returns April 14. Bud Light is available…always?  Read more…

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Super Bowl LII isn’t even over and we already have an MVP.

Ahead of the kickoff on Sunday night, Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch stole the show during the presentation of the Walter Payton Man of the Year award. 

As the camera panned across the players gathered on the field for the presentation, it caught Lynch — decked out in a branded sweatsuit from his apparel line — sitting down, while everyone else around him was standing

He was also seen trying to avoid the camera during a speech by another player, J.J. Watt, by hiding behind Watt’s head. Read more…

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Higher. Further. Faster. 

Before Avengers: Endgame comes to wreak havoc on the lives of the superheroes we already know, Captain Marvel will step up to introduce a brand-new hero. 

Brie Larson plays Carol Danvers, an Earthling who gained some powers but lost her memory, and now finds herself back on her home planet trying to recapture her murky past. Also, there’s a two-eyed Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and a really cute cat! What’s not to love?

Captain Marvel arrives in theaters March 8. Read more…

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Usain Bolt really just did that. 

The retired Olympian tied the NFL’s record for the fastest 40-yard dash, clocking in at 4.22 seconds, and he wasn’t even wearing specialized running spikes. He did it in literal sweatpants and casual sneakers.

People were not surprised at all that the nine time gold medalist is … fast. 

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A whole soccer match came to a halt when a cat decided to go for a run across the field. 

During a Premier League game between Everton and Wolves on Saturday, a feline player wandered onto the pitch and started sprinting. 

“A black cat is on the field!” the announcer said, convinced that someone had smuggled “kittles” into the stadium. 

The two teams watched the cat run back and forth across the field, stopping the game entirely. The crowd, meanwhile, cheered whenever it managed to evade the stadium security’s best efforts to corner it.  Read more…

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If you want to understand the zeitgeist of the last decade, just scroll through FuckJerry’s Instagram account — it’s a growing archive of viral jokes and videos sourced from every corner of the internet. But social media users are over FuckJerry’s unfair content stealing, and #FuckFuckJerry is working. 

Comedians are leading the campaign to unfollow FuckJerry, a massive meme account and media giant that “curates” and reposts content from other creators. The account is run by Elliot Tebele and a team from Jerry Media, and since its creation in 2011 has gained a following of 14.3 million. 

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It hasn’t been a good Saturday for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.

Northam made headlines on Friday after his personal page from a 1984 yearbook surfaced featuring a photo of two men: one wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and a hood, and the other in blackface. Hours after the offensive image surfaced, the Virginia governor released a statement.

Northam, a Democrat who was elected to the office of governor in 2018’s election, quickly faced calls  to resign from within his own party. Among those calling for his exit are Virginia House Democrats, the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, assorted would-be candidates for the 2020 presidential election, and a growing lineup of others. Read more…

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Fortnite is a video game, a meme machine, an occasional subject of controversy, and now… a concert venue.

Marshmello set up shop on a virtual stage set up inside the game on Saturday. He was there to perform, and that’s exactly what he did. The proof is all over social media.

Fortnite maker Epic Games treated the whole thing like an actual, real world event. Construction work on the stage began earlier in the week, as players discovered when they ventured into the Pleasant Park section of the game’s map and visited the football field found there.

It took a couple days.

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Will Smith is a cool dad, but he’s not above trolling his own celebrity children on social media.

The 50-year-old actor has quite the hilarious Instagram presence, and he gave his 27.5 million followers a real treat on Friday when he uploaded some archival footage of his son Jaden.

You see, back in 2005 when Jaden was six years old, he did what so many kids before and after him have done: He cut his own hair.

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Groundhog Day has been a movie and a musical, so why not make it a virtual reality game next?

Sony Pictures has teamed up with Tequila Works — the studio behind 2017’s wonderful indie efforts Rime and The Sexy Brutale — for Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son. It’s a……… sequel? To Groundhog Day? Set 26 years later, where you’re playing as Phil Connors’ son as he’s caught in the same kind of time loop as his dad?

Sure, why not?

This game looks completely cuckoo bananas, though it’s not yet clear if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. There’s reason to be hopeful with Tequila Works at the helm though! And Groundhog Day, the 1993 film, is such a wonderful, well-told story. Any chance to spend a little more time in that world is a welcome thing. Read more…

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