The official trailer for Netflix’s live-action One Piece series is here, giving fans a better peek at the new versions of their favourite characters in action.
Based on the manga by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece follows the enthusiastic and supernaturally stretchy young pirate Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), who is on a self-imposed quest to find the titular fabled treasure and become king of the pirates. Joining him are his Straw Hat Pirates: green-haired swordsman Roronoa Zoro (Mackenyu), burglar and navigator Nami (Emily Rudd), inventor and marksman Usopp (Jacob Romero), and strong-legged chef Sanji (Taz Skylar).
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“After the launch, I’m sure I’ll hear about some people pointing out how this character is missing or that scene is omitted, or this bit is different from the manga,” Oda wrote in a statement. “But I’m sure they’ll come from a place of love, so I intend to enjoy even those comments!”
The series will run for eight episodes, with Oda saying it will “take us up through you-know-where!!”
“Even after the shoot was over, there were numerous scenes the production agreed to re-shoot because I felt they weren’t good enough to put out into the world,” Oda continued. “On the other hand, there were also some lines that I thought didn’t feel like Luffy on paper… But when I saw the filmed scenes, I went, ‘It works when it’s Iñaki performing it as Luffy! As a matter of fact, it works great!!’…. There were so many things that had to be done to keep things from looking too unnatural in live action.”
If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you’ll get what you need.
What is Quordle?
Quordle is a five-letter word guessing game similar to Wordle, except each guess applies letters to four words at the same time. You get nine guesses instead of six to correctly guess all four words. It looks like playing four Wordle games at the same time, and that is essentially what it is. But it’s not nearly as intimidating as it sounds.
Is Quordle harder than Wordle?
Yes, though not diabolically so.
Where did Quordle come from?
Amid the Wordle boom of late 2021 and early 2022, when everyone was learning to love free, in-browser, once-a-day word guessing games, creator Freddie Meyer says he took inspiration from one of the first big Wordle variations, Dordle — the one where you essentially play two Wordles at once. He took things up a notch, and released Quordle on January 30. Meyer’s creation was covered in The Guardian six days later, and now, according to Meyer, it attracts millions of daily users. Today, Meyer earns modest revenue from Patreon, where dedicated Quordle fans can donate to keep their favorite puzzle game running.
How is Quordle pronounced?
“Kwordle.” It should rhyme with “Wordle,” and definitely should not be pronounced exactly like “curdle.”
Is Quordle strategy different from Wordle?
Yes and no.
Your starting strategy should be the same as with Wordle. In fact, if you have a favorite Wordle opening word, there’s no reason to change that here. We suggest something rich in vowels, featuring common letters like C, R, and N. But you do you.
After your first guess, however, you’ll notice things getting out of control if you play Quordle exactly like Wordle.
What should I do in Quordle that I don’t do in Wordle?
Solving a Wordle puzzle can famously come down to a series of single letter-change variations. If you’ve narrowed it down to “-IGHT,” you could guess “MIGHT” “NIGHT” “LIGHT” and “SIGHT” and one of those will probably be the solution — though this is also a famous way to end up losing in Wordle, particularly if you play on “hard mode.” In Quordle, however, this sort of single-letter winnowing is a deadly trap, and it hints at the important strategic difference between Wordle and Quordle: In Quordle, you can’t afford to waste guesses unless you’re eliminating as many letters as possible at all times.
Guessing a completely random word that you already know isn’t the solution, just to eliminate three or four possible letters you haven’t tried yet, is thought of as a desperate, latch-ditch move in Wordle. In Quordle, however, it’s a normal part of the player’s strategic toolset.
Is there a way to get the answer faster?
In my experience Quordle can be a slow game, sometimes dragging out longer than it would take to play Wordle four times. But a sort of blunt-force guessing approach can speed things up. The following strategy also works with Wordle if you only want the solution, and don’t care about having the fewest possible guesses:
Try starting with a series of words that puts all the vowels (including Y) on the board, along with some other common letters. We’ve had good luck with the three words: “NOTES,” “ACRID,” and “LUMPY.” YouTuber DougMansLand suggests four words: “CANOE,” “SKIRT,” “PLUMB,” and “FUDGY.”
Most of the alphabet is now eliminated, and you’ll only have the ability to make one or two wrong guesses if you use this strategy. But in most cases you’ll have all the information you need to guess the remaining words without any wrong guesses.
If strategy isn’t helping, and you’re still stumped, here are some hints:
Are there any double or triple letters in today’s Quordle words?
Two words have twice-occurring letters. One is a double letter.
Are any rare letters being used in today’s Quordle like Q or Z?
Right from the very first Barbietrailers, Ryan Gosling’s Ken was an absolute standout. He sings, he rollerblades, he talks about Kenergy on press tours! What more could you want?
Well, I’ll tell you. I want what was denied from me. What was denied from all of us, as audience members and as patients of Goslingitis. I want…the scream.
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If you’re a fan of Gosling’s work, and especially his turn in 2016’s The Nice Guys, you know what I’m talking about. Through some great miracle of nature, Gosling is able to produce a wonderfully high-pitched shriek that can wring comedy out of any situation. Frustration, anger, pain — you name it, a Gosling shriek can make it funny.
Yet in a movie like Barbie, where Gosling’s comedic talents are on full display, we’re missing that special scream. (The closest we get is his unhinged delivery of “I’ll see you on the Malibu Beach!” in the Ken-on-Ken showdown.) And to make matters worse, I know for a fact we almost had it.
When Barbie was filming its rollerblading sequence in Venice Beach, set photos and videos from onlookers flooded the internet. Among them was a clip that winds up in the movie, where a man assaults Barbie (Margot Robbie) by spanking her without consent. In retaliation, she punches the man square in the face. However, the clip from set features one thing that the film does not. A beautiful, extremely loud Gosling scream.
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The final Barbie sequence cuts Gosling’s scream painfully short, to the point that it is just a whisper — nay, maybe an idea — of a scream. For one brief moment, we held a Ken scream in our hands, only to have it ripped from us by a cruel, unforgiving edit.
Jokes aside, I can see why Gosling’s Ken scream didn’t make it into the film. It risks breaking up the rhythm of Barbie’s snappy introduction to the real world, where she’s bombarded by misogyny until she freaks out and throws a punch that lands her in jail. Do we really have time for another Ken punchline in the middle of a sequence that sets up the dichotomy between Barbieland and our world? Chances are the omission is for the best. For fellow fans of the Gosling scream, don’t despair: We’ll always have that grainy set footage.
John Boyega does a bang-up job in They Cloned Tyrone — Juel Taylor’s combination Blaxploitation throwback/conspiracy comedy-drama — but he’s also the on-screen avatar for its most indulgent flaws. The more Boyega’s drug dealer character Fontaine pulls back the curtain, along with the delightful duo of Teyonah Parris’s Yo-Yo and Jamie Foxx’s Slick Charles, the more the film feels the need to explain itself. And, unfortunately, the answers to its questions aren’t always satisfying.
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That being said, They Cloned Tyrone makes for both a fitting dramatic showcase for all involved and a wildly fun time for anyone watching, so its shortcomings don’t always matter in the moment. However, whether as a result of post-J.J. Abrams puzzle-box movie viewing, or because filmmakers like Jordan Peele have trained Hollywood audiences to spot deeper social metaphors, the movie always feels like it’s charging towards some grand unifying vision that never fully emerges when you think back on it.
So, what is exactly They Cloned Tyrone hiding, and why does its big reveal falter? Let’s dive in.
What’s really going on in (and under) The Glen?
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The film’s fictitious neighborhood, once overrun by crime and drug dealing, turns out to be the site of mysterious government experiments involving cloning. This much is clear from the trailer. However, the film’s earliest twist sees Boyega’s protagonist being shot and killed within the first 15 minutes, only to wake up with no memory of the event. From there on out, it isn’t hard to put two and two together — for the audience anyway, since we know the movie’s title. This recently awakened version of Fontaine is a clone, but the reasons why remain a mystery for now.
After the lead trio investigates a secret scientific bunker, they interrogate and accidentally kill a lab tech, who they note looks like a white man with a distinctly Black afro. Here, they also discover a white, powdery substance that makes them affable and docile. It’s not unlike an actual recreational drug (sometimes it even acts like laughing gas), but they soon discover that this chemical is being pumped into several products heavily marketed and consumed throughout The Glen: fried chicken, grape soda, even hair straightener. This, coupled with specific music tracks that seem to put people under hypnosis, leads to the further discovery of Pavlovian mind-control experiments, in which residents are forcefully conditioned to respond to these various stimuli with near-total obedience. One of those obedient residents includes yet another Fontaine clone; this one appears as a silent, unquestioning security guard working for Kiefer Sutherland’s ruthless government enforcer, Nixon.
After finding out the full extent of the experiment (or so it would seem), the trio goes back to their regular lives, now believing their roles in society to have been programmed and pre-ordained by mysterious suits for an unknown length of time. Fontaine in particular is troubled by this, since it means his purpose as a dope dealer is to drown his hometown in drugs and violence so that the rest of the country will ignore it, and so the men in black beneath it can keep conducting their obedience experiments undeterred. This would be a fine enough premise had the reveals ended there, but there’s one more big twist to come, and it unfortunately sucks the air out of the room.
Wait… Who’s the real villain? And why?
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When the trio enlist the help of friends and enemies alike to mount a raid on the underground facility, they discover an untold number of clones of everyone they know (including themselves). Fontaine ends up face to face with the local mastermind of the operation, albeit one who claims to answer to other people himself. It turns out to be a much older version of Fontaine, and ignoring the cartoonish old-man makeup job, it’s not an altogether terrible twist in concept.
However, while the “what” may be surprising, the “why” is rather convoluted, and works against the movie’s own themes. This is partially because the film spends practically no time exploring what made the older Fontaine this way, or what pushed him to run these experiments on not just his own neighborhood but on clones of himself. He claims it’s because no one should have had to suffer the pain he did when his younger brother was gunned down — a backstory hinted at but seldom explored for the Fontaine we’ve been following — but the jump from this origin story to mad scientist is a leap too far for the film to reconcile.
It turns out that, over several generations, the older Fontaine has been trying to breed out Blackness itself, slowly but surely isolating genes and creating a significantly white race of people (as evidenced by the aforementioned lab tech, and a handful of other white characters with Black hair). It’s in part a realistic depiction of the way genocides have sometimes functioned — the goal of the North Carolina Eugenics Board was to “breed out” African Americans through both sterilization and selective breeding — but to make a Black man the ostensible face of this operation, as well as the scientist who apparently devised the entire scheme, touches on a deep, dark element of racial self-hatred the film isn’t nearly ready to unpack.
It also doesn’t help that while the action is unfolding elsewhere, thanks to some of Yo-Yo and Slick Charles’ propulsive comedic shenanigans, the film keeps cutting to a sterile boardroom setting so the older Fontaine can explain this plan in a lengthy monologue to his younger self. It’s an uninteresting reveal presented in an equally uninteresting manner, adding little to what was already a loaded-enough saga of self-worth and forced circumstance. Plus, its quickfire resolution never affords the younger Fontaine the opportunity to reflect on this brand-new dimension of his own potential. If the older version of some other character were revealed to be in charge — or some other, unrelated person entirely — little about the movie would change. However, despite dropping the ball in this regard, They Cloned Tyrone does wrap up in a fun way that potentially opens the door to a follow-up film.
How does They Cloned Tyrone end, and will it get a sequel?
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Plans haven’t yet been announced for any sequels or spin-offs, but the film’s ultimate conclusion hints at the potential for all sorts of new iterations of this very story. After the trio frees the numerous clones being kept in hibernation, they decide to set off to Memphis (and elsewhere) to potentially free more clones wherever they might find them, since this operation appears to be nationwide. Reporters also flock to The Glen to report on the bizarre story of naked doppelgängers suddenly roaming the streets, and the film briefly cuts to its closing titles, before cutting suddenly back to a scene resembling Fontaine’s repetitive mornings. This time, however, the specifics are slightly different.
Far away, in a crumbling Los Angeles neighborhood, yet another clone played by Boyega goes about his familiar routine, which mirrors that of Fontaine. He ends up watching the news with several of his friends, who note that one of the clones roaming The Glen resembles him, and they refer to him as Tyrone. The film cuts to credits again, playing a version of Erykah Badu’s live performance of “Tyrone,” only with the lyrics like “You need to call Tyrone” cheekily changed to “Somebody cloned Tyrone” — an uncanny clone of the song itself.
With Fontaine, Yo-Yo, and Slick Charles setting out on a mission of sorts, and with other potential clones like Tyrone discovering the conspiracy for themselves, the movie’s final scenes offer up all sorts of possibilities for future installments. However, even as a self-contained story, these mere hints at how widespread the experiments may be are a fine enough exclamation point on a story that weaves numerous metaphors about oppression and poverty in modern America, albeit to mixed results. Either way, it’s great to see Boyega getting to flex his dramatic muscles while playing numerous characters, and we certainly wouldn’t say no to more of that.
They Cloned Tyrone is currently in theaters, and it premieres on Netflix July 21.
UPDATE: Jul. 21, 2023, 5:00 p.m. EDT This list has been updated with the latest and greatest antivirus software deals across the web.
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If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you’ll get what you need.
What is Quordle?
Quordle is a five-letter word guessing game similar to Wordle, except each guess applies letters to four words at the same time. You get nine guesses instead of six to correctly guess all four words. It looks like playing four Wordle games at the same time, and that is essentially what it is. But it’s not nearly as intimidating as it sounds.
Is Quordle harder than Wordle?
Yes, though not diabolically so.
Where did Quordle come from?
Amid the Wordle boom of late 2021 and early 2022, when everyone was learning to love free, in-browser, once-a-day word guessing games, creator Freddie Meyer says he took inspiration from one of the first big Wordle variations, Dordle — the one where you essentially play two Wordles at once. He took things up a notch, and released Quordle on January 30. Meyer’s creation was covered in The Guardian six days later, and now, according to Meyer, it attracts millions of daily users. Today, Meyer earns modest revenue from Patreon, where dedicated Quordle fans can donate to keep their favorite puzzle game running.
How is Quordle pronounced?
“Kwordle.” It should rhyme with “Wordle,” and definitely should not be pronounced exactly like “curdle.”
Is Quordle strategy different from Wordle?
Yes and no.
Your starting strategy should be the same as with Wordle. In fact, if you have a favorite Wordle opening word, there’s no reason to change that here. We suggest something rich in vowels, featuring common letters like C, R, and N. But you do you.
After your first guess, however, you’ll notice things getting out of control if you play Quordle exactly like Wordle.
What should I do in Quordle that I don’t do in Wordle?
Solving a Wordle puzzle can famously come down to a series of single letter-change variations. If you’ve narrowed it down to “-IGHT,” you could guess “MIGHT” “NIGHT” “LIGHT” and “SIGHT” and one of those will probably be the solution — though this is also a famous way to end up losing in Wordle, particularly if you play on “hard mode.” In Quordle, however, this sort of single-letter winnowing is a deadly trap, and it hints at the important strategic difference between Wordle and Quordle: In Quordle, you can’t afford to waste guesses unless you’re eliminating as many letters as possible at all times.
Guessing a completely random word that you already know isn’t the solution, just to eliminate three or four possible letters you haven’t tried yet, is thought of as a desperate, latch-ditch move in Wordle. In Quordle, however, it’s a normal part of the player’s strategic toolset.
Is there a way to get the answer faster?
In my experience Quordle can be a slow game, sometimes dragging out longer than it would take to play Wordle four times. But a sort of blunt-force guessing approach can speed things up. The following strategy also works with Wordle if you only want the solution, and don’t care about having the fewest possible guesses:
Try starting with a series of words that puts all the vowels (including Y) on the board, along with some other common letters. We’ve had good luck with the three words: “NOTES,” “ACRID,” and “LUMPY.” YouTuber DougMansLand suggests four words: “CANOE,” “SKIRT,” “PLUMB,” and “FUDGY.”
Most of the alphabet is now eliminated, and you’ll only have the ability to make one or two wrong guesses if you use this strategy. But in most cases you’ll have all the information you need to guess the remaining words without any wrong guesses.
If strategy isn’t helping, and you’re still stumped, here are some hints:
Are there any double or triple letters in today’s Quordle words?
No.
Are any rare letters being used in today’s Quordle like Q or Z?
Reddit has been on the receiving end of massive online protests from its own users over the past few weeks, with swaths of the platform being completely unusable by visitors at times.
So, the company has seemingly decided that now would be the perfect time to once again roll out r/Place, a big blank canvas where users can display pixel art on an online public space.
Naturally, Redditors have taken this opportunity to voice their opinions on Reddit in pixelated art form.
For example, “Fuck Spez” has been scrawled all over the r/Place canvas for all of Reddit’s visitors to see. Spez is the Reddit username used by the company’s CEO Steve Hoffman, who the platform’s users have blamed for many recent unpopular decisions made on the platform.
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Reddit announced the return of r/Place on Wednesday. The company launched previous versions in 2017 and again in 2022. Reddit explained that the 2023 version was originally planned for April, but various setbacks (and the blackout protests) pushed this year’s r/Place to launch on Thursday, July 20.
“Better late than never?” reads the r/Place announcement post from Reddit. The comments section quickly filled up with users posting “API” in the comments. This is a reference to the main issue users have with Reddit: the new exorbitantly priced API. Many popular third-party developers were forced to shut down their Reddit-based apps earlier this month after the company started charging a per-usage subscription fee for an API which was once free.
The developer behind Apollo for Reddit, a popular Reddit client app, shared that he’d be forced to pay $20 million per year for API access under these new terms. Redditors quickly rallied together and planned a days-long blackout protest, turning many popular subreddit communities private, which blocked visitors from accessing them. The days-long protests turned into weeks before Reddit started making veiled threats to remove moderators who didn’t reopen these online communities. While many subreddits subsequently reopened, Redditors found new ways to protest such as filling some of these re-opened communities with nothing but photos of comedian John Oliver.
In an effort to utilize Reddit’s recently relaunched r/Place for their new protest actions, some Redditors have started a new subreddit called r/PlaceAPI where users can strategize on messaging for their pixelated art takeover.
Regardless of these massive user blowback, Reddit has not budged on its API pricing. In fact, the company has made new, more recent decisions that have upset its user base. Last week, Mashable reported that Reddit has removed years of chats and message archives from users’ accounts while transitioning to a new chat system. Soon after that, Reddit also announced that it was sunsetting its popular Reddit Gold reward system, which further angered users.
Apple is so perturbed by a United Kingdom surveillance bill that its threatening to flat-out remove iMessage and FaceTime in the U.K. instead of complying with the proposed legislation.
The U.K. government is looking to update the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, the law that governs how security agencies can interfere with privacy to obtain investigatory information. BBC News reported that Apple has said it would remove some services — such as uber-popular communication features like iMessage and FaceTime — if the proposal becomes law, rather than weaken the security of their offerings.
Apple has saidthat it opposes other provisions of the proposed legislation, including having to the tell the U.K,’s Home Office of any product security features before they’re released and having to comply with changes like providing a backdoor to end-to-end encryption. Such provisions, Apple argued, purposefully weaken security for its customers.
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In a submission to the government, The Guardian reported, Apple wrote that the bill would “make the Home Office the de facto global arbiter of what level of data security and encryption are permissible.” The Home Office is thepart of the United Kingdom’s government responsible for security, immigration, and other policies.
The promise to cut FaceTime and iMessage is a big threat, setting up the possibility of a major battle between the government and the tech giant. Apple is sending a clear message that it is unwilling to stop end-to-end encryption at the request of a government.
The Home Office told the BBC the legislation was designed to “protect the public from criminals, child sex abusers and terrorists” but also added, “we keep all legislation under review to ensure it is as strong as it can be and this consultation is part of that process – no decisions have yet been made.”
If Apple follows through with their threat, it’ll almost certainly anger U.K. iPhone users. Imagine having an iPhone without Facetime or iMessage. It’s like not having an iPhone at all.
The proposed legislation is still under an eight-week consultation period, so nothing is official yet. Other tech companies, such as the encrypted messaging app Signal, have also threatened to walk should these news rules be approved.
So if you live in the U.K. you can still FaceTime your friends, at least for the time being.
SAVE UP TO 34%: As of July 20, both the Samsung Jet 60 Flex and Jet 75 Pet are just a few bucks more than their Prime Day all-time low prices, sitting at $208.99 and $261.49, respectively. That’s up to 34% in savings.
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The Samsung Jet 60 Flex and Jet 75 Pet both offer that sleek, slim aesthetic you’re looking for, plus an impressive amount of power. And as of July 20, they’re both on sale for up to 34% off. The Jet 60 Flex is on sale for just $208.99, down from the usual $299.99, while the Jet 75 Pet is on sale for just $261.49, down from $399. Both hit slightly lower prices for Prime Day ($199.99 and $249), but are still excellent deals. Before Prime Day, the Jet 60’s lowest price to date was $262.90, for comparison.
If you’re a pet owner, the Jet 75 Pet has an edge over the 60 Flex, with slightly higher air watts (200 vs. 150) and a mini motorized tool that removes fine particles and pet hair on furniture, rugs, and other surfaces. It also lasts up to an hour on a single charge, while the 60 Flex lasts about 40 minutes.
Where the Jet 60 Flex shines is its build — it’s nearly a pound lighter than the Jet 75 Pet (and one of our top picks for that reason) and comes in an eye-catching rose gold finish. Both, however, offer an easy breezy cleaning experience that allows you to maneuver from the stairs to beneath the couch and even above the cabinets in one fell swoop. You’re in for an enjoyable clean no matter which one you pick.
