This is the first poster for the horror zombie drama Maggie. The movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a midwestern farmer who is trying to protect his daughter (Abigail Breslin) after she becomes infected by a zombie virus that is threatening the world.
The movie was directed by Henry Hobson, and it looks like a refreshingly compelling zombie drama that is unlike many of the other zombie projects we are seeing developed today.
The second of three Jurassic World posters has been released, and it features the behemoth Mosasaurus about to eat a tiny looking great white shark. Yesterday a poster was released that showed Bryce Dallas Howard‘s character coming face to face with the genetically enhanced Indominus Rex dino.
The poster all lead to a new trailer for the film set to be released this coming Monday, so stay tuned for that. I’m sure it’s going to be awesome! The question is, will it bas as awesome as the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?
Directed by Colin Trevorrow , Jurassic World also stars Chris Pratt, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, BD Wong and Irrfan Khan.
“Your master deceived you into thinking you could be a Jedi.”
Star Wars Celebration 2015 will be featuring the world premiere of the first two episodes of Star Wars Rebels Season 2. We have an awesome trailer that show you what’s in store for Season 2.
The trailer is over three minutes long, and it’s packed with tons of cool footage that features the return of Captain Rex, and Darth Vader, who is back kicking all kinds of Jedi ass! I absolutely love that they’ve expanded the classic villains role in this series! Season 2 seems like it going to be even better than the first one!
Star Wars Rebels will return later this year on Disney XD!
It turns out that for the past two years, you could crash a Minecraft server pretty easily. A security researcher published the exploit Thursday and said he first discovered it in version 1.6.2 back in July 2013, which is almost two years ago. He claims Mojang ignored him and did nothing to fix the problem, despite his repeated attempts at following standard protocol and contacting the company in private.
“This vulnerability exists on almost all previous and current minecraft versions as of 1.8.3; the packets used as attack vectors are the 0x08: Block Placement Packet and 0x10: Creative Inventory Action,” Ammar Askar wrote. The exploit takes advantage of the way a Minecraft server decompresses and parses data, and causes it to generate “several million Java objects including ArrayLists,” running out of memory and pegging CPU load in the process.
“The fix for this vulnerability isn’t exactly that hard, [as] the client should never really send a data structure as complex as NBT of arbitrary size and if it must, some form of recursion and size limits should be implemented. These were the fixes that I recommended to Mojang 2 years ago.” Askar posted a proof of concept of the exploit to GitHub that he says has been tested with Python 2.7. Askar has since updated his blog post twice after finally making contact with Mojang. What he says essentially confirms that the company either didn’t test a claimed fix against his proof of concept, or lied about having one in the first place.
Today, it looks like Mojang has responded (at least indirectly) to the post with a patch. The company announced today that it is releasing version 1.8.4: “This release fixes a few reported security issues, in addition to some other minor bug fixes & performance tweaks.”
The release notes make no direct mention of the exploit Askar wrote about, and comments are closed on the post. But notably, two of the fixes listed are Bug MC-79079, “Malicious clients can force a server to freeze,” and Bug MC-79612, “Malicious clients can force a server to go out memory [sic]:”
At the time of this writing, Askar has yet to update his blog post a third time acknowledging the patch and/or commenting on whether it fixes the exploit.
Back in September, Microsoft announced it was buying Mojang for $2.5 billion, with company founder Notch moving on something new. The game is available on all major platforms, including PC, Mac, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Amazon Kindle Fire.
In this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, participants gather to receive instructions prior to their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) The Associated Press
In this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, Elge Larsson, playing headmaster Arrok Trantiforus sits in a library prior to the Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, participants walk through the castle prior to their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, participants are welcomed prior to their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, participants prepare for their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, Elge Larsson, playing the headmaster Arrok Trantiforus, left, talks to Dominik Dembinsky, right, to the start of their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, participants gather to receive instructions prior to their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, participants listen to instructions prior to their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, a participant listens to instructions prior to their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, participants walk across a bridge prior to their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated PressIn this picture taken on Thursday, April 16, 2015, participants gather to receive instructions prior to their Harry Potter inspired role playing game at the Czocha Castle, in Sucha, southwestern Poland. Some 140 enthusiasts coming from 50 countries and places as far-away as the United States will live the life of students and professors at the College of Wizardry for four days at the 13th century castle. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)The Associated Press
SUCHA, Poland (AP) — At a 13th-century castle in Poland, wizards and witches are sneaking through the halls and stone staircases of the College of Wizardry that opened this weekend for Harry Potter’s devotees.
In their magic cloaks and wielding wands, some 140 wizardry fans from Europe and the U.S. are studying witchcraft and potions in the live action role-playing game at the Hogwarts-like Czocha Castle in southwestern Poland.
From Thursday to Sunday, participants will live an academic life similar to that of the students and professors of Hogwarts, enacting an original scenario inspired by J.K. Rowlings’ saga about the young wizard.
However, the game — the third such one held here since November — does not follow the book’s characters or story line, and organizers stress it is not connected to the Potter franchise.
“I always wanted to be able to create living worlds, like book writers do or film actors,” said Dominik Dembinski of Polish group Liveform, which organized the event along with Denmark’s Rollespilsakademiet, which translates as Role Playing Academy. He added that he wanted the participants to “have some influence over it.”
“You want to be a part of this feeling” in this “simulation of a world,” he said.
Ahead of the game, the castle’s dining halls were hung with colorful banners, the tables laid with white cloths for collective meals. Secret passage ways were opened, leading to classrooms, laboratories and to other mysterious places. The participants were practicing their roles, mixing “potions” and testing their wands.
“My strategy is to put the independence of (the) college before anything else, “said Elge Larsson of Norway, as he was getting into his role of Headmaster Arrok Trantiforus. “I am afraid we will have some interference from the Polish Ministry of Magic. I will fight them nail and tooth.”
All made their way beneath archways and into the courtyard, where they received game instructions from tactics of combat to safety.
“When the character starts living in the flesh … and you have no idea where you are coming or where you are ending up, nothing beats it,” Larsson said.
Similar games inspired by the British TV series “Downton Abbey” and the legend of Robin Hood are planned this year.
Most personality quizzes are fairly even-handed affairs. You could be one sort of a thing in a list (Beatle, emotion, root vegetable) or you could be another, and they’re all roughly the same.
This quiz is not like that. It’s more like walking into a roomful of mousetraps, one of which is connected to a thermonuclear warhead.
By which I mean, there is one Harry Potter villain in this quiz that is worse than all the others, and you may need to consider some kind of hex to prevent finding out that you were secretly him all along.
Wands at the ready? Let’s play:
Note: no magic, muggle science or shamanism has been used in the creation of this quiz. If it turns out you’re He Who Must Not Be Named, consider us We Who Must Not Be Blamed.
