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How the violent history of Mortal Kombat sparked a moral panic
In the early 1990s, parents and politicians waged war on the bloody fatalities hidden in a video game – and were pummeled into submission
A typical fatality from the 1990s Mortal Kombat game
With one punch, Daniel Pesina’s head was separated from his body. It flew through the air. Behind twinkled an arc of pixelated blood.
“Holy cow!” blurted Pesina. “You just killed me! You can’t do that.”
Seated alongside, Mortal Kombat lead developer Ed Boon smiled. “We can do whatever we want,” he said.
Pesina was a martial arts expert with dreams of cracking Hollywood (he played one of Shredder’s henchmen in Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze). Now he was on the brink of immortality. All thanks to his starring role in developer Midway’s new martial arts video game, in which, courtesy of the wonders of digitisation, Pesina portrayed fighters Johnny Cage, Sub-Zero and Scorpion
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Over the course of the past 10 years, Tye Sheridan has gone from having a small yet pivotal role in Terrence Malickâs 2011 sprawling drama
The Tree of Life to becoming one of the young rising stars of todayâs Hollywood with notable appearances in everything from
Ready Player One to a pair of X-Men movies. And while itâs not yet known if weâll ever see Sheridan reprise his role of Cyclops, aka Scott Summers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, that doesnât mean the future isnât bright for the talented actor.
In the next couple years, multiple Tye Sheridan movies will land in theaters and show just what kind of range the star of movies like
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Ready Player One was an expansive sci-fi action-adventure that introduced audiences to a dystopian world which was simultaneously old and new. More specifically, it centered around the disenfranchised lives of wayward strangers who are connected by their desire to discover the lost fortune of mysterious billionaire James Halliday, the creator of the virtual reality world known as OASIS.
Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance, this 80s loving otherworldly odyssey didn t become a critical darling but it grossed nearly $600 million at the box office and earned an Oscar nomination for its visual effects. Now that it s been over three years since this blockbuster blasted onto the big screen, what is the
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Andy Weirâs New Space Odyssey
A new novel from âThe Martianâ author is slightly more out there, but it still has plenty of particle physics.
âThe real world is a far richer and more complex tapestry than any writer could invent,â Andy Weir, the author of âProject Hail Mary,â said.Credit.Jason Henry for The New York Times
May 3, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
When Andy Weir was writing his new novel, âProject Hail Mary,â he stumbled into a thorny physics problem.
The bookâs plot hinges on a space mold that devours the sunâs energy, threatening all life on Earth, and that propels itself by bashing neutrinos together. He needed to figure out how much energy would be produced by two of those subatomic particles colliding.