Update: Shortly after announcing her interest in playing Among Us with streamers on Twitch, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now setting up and about to go live.
According to her original tweets, Ocasio-Cortez has expressed an interest in using the live stream to encourage more people to vote.
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to play Among Us on Twitch to help get people to vote. The New York Representative hasn’t played before, but streamers are already champing at the chance to get her on their stream.
Anyone want to play Among Us with me on Twitch to get out the vote? (I’ve never played but it looks like a lot of fun)
She sent out a follow-up tweet asking for recommendations on who she should play with on Monday. It’s a good strategy as nearly 400,000 people are watching streamers play Among Us on Twitch right now. Early voting is happening right now, too.
The United States has been setting records for voter turnout in 2020. More than 29 million people had voted by October 19, up from the 6 million that voted by this point in the 2016 election. It never hurts to get more people to vote, though.
Among Us is just the game to spread the word with, too. It’s been getting more and more popular over the past few months. It broke more than 4 billion views on YouTube in September and has more than 300,000 people playing on Steam right now. It helps that you can murder Toad in the murder mystery simulator (with special character mods), too.
Other groups have started to take advantage of games to get the vote out. More Than A Vote, a voting rights group, is releasing content about the importance of voting on 2KTV, the in-game NBA 2K show. We’re bound to see more as the election date grows closer.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez made waves in the game industry earlier this year when she tried to stop the US military from recruiting through platforms like Twitch. The measure she proposed was voted down in August. We don’t know when she’ll be hopping on Twitch to finish tasks, but we’ll update you once we do know.
The first trailer for Netflix movie Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, starring Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman, has arrived, bringing an unflinching look at blues music pioneer Ma Rainey (Davis) and her road to stardom in the late 1920s. The movie is based on the play of the same name by August Wilson, who also wrote the play Fences, which was adapted into a feature film back in 2016 starring Davis and Denzel Washington.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will be Boseman’s final film, following his death in August of this year. It follows his earlier Netflix release, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, which is considered an Oscar contender. Check out the trailer below.
In the film, Boseman plays Levee, Ma Rainey’s rival and a trumpeter who dreams of making his own mark on the Chicago blues scene. According to the movie’s official synopsis, it will focus on Ma Rainey’s battle against her white manager for control of her music. Levee apparently has an eye for Ma Rainey’s girlfriend and may just end up sparking a series of events that spark an “eruption of stories revealing truths that will forever change the course of their lives.”
Boseman and Davis will be joined by Coleman Domingo, Gylnn Truman, Michael Botts, and Taylour Paige. The film will be produced by Denzel Washington and directed by Tony Award Winner George C. Wolfe.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will premiere on Netflix on December 18.
For the month of November, Disney+ has some original programming headed your way you’ll want to check out–mainly because it’s Star Wars related. On top of that, there are more original series, movies, and TV shows headed your way for November 2020.
That’s not the only Star Wars content coming in November. On November 17, a brand-new Star Wars Holiday Special arrives. While the original Star Wars Holiday Special was terrible–to put it lightly–the new one will feature many stars of the film franchise in Lego form, and probably lots of jokes about how terrible the original special was.
Below, you’ll find everything coming to Disney+ for the month of November.
New on Disney+ in November 2020
Friday, November 6
Disney Goldie & Bear (s1)
Disney Goldie & Bear (s2)
Disney Junior Fancy Nancy: Fancy it Yourself (s1)
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
Mr. Magoo
The Mandalorian Episode 202 – “Chapter 10”
Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Episode 107 – “The Big Egg Switcheroo”
The Right Stuff Episode 106 – “VOSTOK”
Weird But True Season Finale Episode 313 – “Camping”
One Day At Disney Episode 149 – “Leslie Evans: Senior R&D Imagineer”
Friday, November 13
Petra: City of Riches
Ultimate Viking Sword
The Mandalorian Episode 203 – “Chapter 11”
Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Season Finale Episode 108 – “Baby Gorilla Grace”
Inside Pixar Premiere
The Right Stuff Episode 107 – “Ziggurat”
One Day At Disney Episode 150 – “Mark Gonzalez: Steam Train Engineer”
Tuesday, November 17
LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
Wednesday, November 18
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse “Supermarket Scramble” & “Cheesewranglers”
Friday, November 20
Planes
Planes: Fire Rescue
Marvel’s 616 Premiere
The Real Right Stuff Premiere
The Mandalorian Episode 204 “Chapter 12”
The Right Stuff Finale Episode 108 “Flight”
One Day At Disney Episode 151 “Season Finale”
Friday, November 27
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
The Adventures of Yellow Dog: Far From Home
Marvel’s Spider-man: Maximum Venum (s3)
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Party Animals (s1)
Alaska: Port Protection
Black Beauty
The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse “House of Tomorrow” & “Hard to Swallow”
The Mandalorian Episode 205 “Chapter 13”
Simpsons Forever | Favorite Episodes of November 2020
Fallout: New Vegas was released 10 years ago–on October 19, 2010–and to mark the occasion a group of Fallout 4 modders aiming to recreate the classic has released a new trailer of their progress. The Fallout 4: New Vegas project uses the Fallout 4 creation engine tools, with some impressive results.
The new video is just under two minutes, but in it you get a broad look at the world of New Vegas as reimagined with the prettier sheen of Fallout 4. It’s especially impressive when you consider that Fallout 4 took place in and around Boston, far from the dusty and mountainous desert depicted in New Vegas.
The Fallout 4: New Vegas team has been dropping comparison screenshots on its Facebook page. The mod group hasn’t given a release date or details.
Fallout: New Vegas has gained cult classic status, having been created as a Fallout spin-off by Obsidian. When Microsoft purchased Obsidian, it was nearing completion of its space-faring RPG The Outer Worlds. But now that Microsoft has acquired Bethesda, it owns both the Fallout franchise and the studio that made New Vegas, leaving open the possibility of a New Vegas 2.
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The season finale of Lovecraft Country is a plot-heavy, dense affair.
In the season finale of Lovecraft Country, the Autumnal Equinox finally arrives, and our heroes battle Christina for immortality and ownership over magic. The episode ties up every loose thread — perhaps a bit too neatly. And the ending is, if not happy, fitting and earned. We’ve known for some time that our heroes would not emerge from this dark ritual unscathed.
Unfortunately, the sort of hocus pocus that dominated this episode was also the focal point of “Whitey’s on the Moon,” the weakest episode of the season. Lovecraft Country is at its best when it anchors its fantastical occurrences in real-world, historical context, like in “Rewind 1921” and “Meet me in Daegu,” rather than freewheeling with its own brand of magic spells and rituals. The journey was more thrilling than the destination.
Here are all of the Easter Eggs and references we found in “Full Circle,” the tenth episode and season finale of HBO’s Lovecraft Country. You can read all of our episode reference guides below:
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1. It’s Not Personal
Christina makes a point of telling the family that her need to kill Tic is nothing personal; it’s a necessary sacrifice in order for her to achieve immortality. It’s further reinforcement of what the show has depicted about Christina since the beginning: Despite her empathy for Ruby, and despite her understanding and identification with being a second class citizen, she still aspires to the power of white men, even at the cost of black bodies. It is a common criticism that third wave feminists lob at second wave feminists–that “feminist” advocacy too often refers to the rights and privileges of white women exclusively, rather than women of color.
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2. Not Guilty
We see Dee reading a newspaper, which reports that Emmett Till’s killers were found Not Guilty. This is unfortunately true. The two real-life murderers were Roy Bryant (the husband of the white woman who leveled the accusation at Till) and J.W. Milam, who was Bryant’s half-brother. An all-white jury found them Not Guilty, and in a subsequent interview with Look Magazine, they openly confessed to their crimes. In 2017, Carolyn Bryant recanted her testimony that Till had harassed or menaced her.
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3. Afua Taught Me
Hippolyta tells Dee that “Afua” taught her how to draw comics. This is a reference to Afua Richardson, a real-life African-Native-American artist who drew all of Dee’s artwork for the show (the comic book as well as the doodles in the Negro Travel Guide).
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4. Highland Park Collective–Ready Or Not
The rap song that plays while Tic and Leti are descending in the elevator is “Ready or Not” by Highland Park Collective, feat. Gizzle. They are, according to their self-description on Spotify, “a group made of East Coast raised, West Coast residing gentlemen that have been writing, producing and creating content for brands small and large for years.”
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5. Life Could Be A Dream
The song that everyone sings along to in the car is “Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)” by The Chords. This is also our first hint that “Ruby” isn’t actually Ruby. The original Ruby disliked this song and said in Episode 1 that it was “Sh-Boring.” But in this scene, she’s the one who’s leading the singalong.
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6. How Leti Survived
In case you were confused, the reason why Leti survives the fall is because Christina (disguised as Ruby) restores the mark of Protection on her. Presumably, she was keeping her word to Ruby, who made her promise not to hurt her sister. Later, when Ji-Ah reads Christina’s mind, we see a brief memory of Christina reciting the incantation after Leti falls. There are some other cool scenes that flash by during this sequence as well. We see Tic teaching Dee how to train and care for the Shoggoth, which explains why it follows her in the episode’s final scene.
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7. See What The Lord Have Done
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8. Supreme Happiness
The Dumas quote that Tic uses in his letter to Montrose is a thesis for the entire series: “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” One of the show’s common themes is confronting trauma, both immediate and generational, and by doing so, spinning it into something positive and redemptive. Leti is pregnant with a child that will benefit from Tic’s sacrifice, and Montrose has an opportunity to redeem himself as an abusive father by being a positive presence in little George’s life.
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9. Christ Figure
Tic dies in a pose that resembles Jesus’s martyrdom on the cross. It’s a common shorthand in Western literature and film that implies the character sacrificed himself for a greater good.
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10. Robot Arm
Lastly, we learn something that we theorized about in the prior episode: Dee was the mysterious figure in the hood with the metal arm, who gave Tic the “Lovecraft Country” book and pushed Tic back through the portal. We see Dee’s new robot arm in the show’s closing scene. Evidently, Hippolyta makes it for Dee after her original arm withers away from Captain Lancaster’s curse.
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Election season is in full swing, and different organizations are ramping up their efforts to get people to vote on election day, November 3. One voting rights group, More Than A Vote, has created a campaign in NBA 2K21. It’s different from the typical cable network spot and is ostensibly an attempt to reach out to where millennial and Gen Z voters are.
More Than A Vote will release episodes on 2KTV–the in-game NBA 2K show–highlighting the personal voting experience of well-known sports-affiliated people, as well as the historical context of why voting is important. 2KTV can also be watched on its official YouTube channel. The show covers everything NBA 2K, including a teaser of NBA 2K21’s next-generation console gameplay, as well as interviews and gaming tips.
In the first episode, ESPN analyst Maria Taylor will talk about her experience witnessing voter suppression. According to Axios, the second episode will have Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young citing his experience as an 18-year-old in the last presidential election. “This time I understand what’s at stake,” says Young.
More Than A Vote is organized by “Black athletes and artists working together” to combat “systemic, racist voter suppression by educating, energizing, and protecting our community in 2020.” LeBron James and Odell Beckham Jr. are counted among the group’s members.
This isn’t the first time a project concerning the fall presidential elections has arrived in a video game. The Biden campaign debuted its Joe Biden-themed island in Animal Crossing on October 16. The island contains Biden yard signs, a basement full of trains, and a polling place with voting information. Previously, the Biden campaign also released custom Biden yard signs for Animal Crossing players to stick in their virtual lawns.
NBA 2K21 is out now on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox One, and Stadia. The game releases on November 10 for Xbox Series X/Series S and November 12 for PlayStation 5.
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Pokemon Sword and Shield‘s Crown Tundra expansion launches later this week, and new details about the DLC continue to trickle in ahead of its release. We learned some more tidbits about the expansion’s new Dynamax Adventures feature during a recent episode of Japanese show Pokenchi, including how Legendary Pokemon encounters will work.
Dynamax Adventures lets up to four players cooperatively explore Pokemon Raid dens together. As Serebii reports, players will battle three Dynamax Pokemon successively while exploring a Raid den. After each battle, you’ll get to choose which route to take through the den, which will determine which Pokemon you battle along the way. Any HP or PP you lose during a battle will also carry forward, but you’ll have the opportunity to heal your Pokemon by encountering certain characters or finding berries as you explore.
If you successfully defeat all three Dynamax Pokemon, you’ll encounter a Legendary Pokemon at the end of the den. These Legendaries will have a 100% catch rate, meaning you’re guaranteed to capture the Pokemon if you can successfully defeat them. Pokenchi also confirms that you can only catch each Legendary Pokemon once.
The Crown Tundra expansion launches on October 22. It introduces a variety of new content to Sword and Shield, including the eponymous Crown Tundra–an arctic region that’s home to a ton of returning and new Pokemon, including Galarian forms of Slowking and the Legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. There will also be a helpful new item called the Ability Patch, which makes it much easier to get a Pokemon’s Hidden Ability.
Ahead of The Crown Tundra’s release, The Pokemon Company is giving away eight free Pikachu for all Sword and Shield players. Each of these comes wearing one of the different hats that Ash has worn throughout the Pokemon anime. Beyond that, Pokemon Go compatibility is also coming to Pokemon Home by the end of the year, and you’ll receive a free Gigantamax Melmetal in Sword and Shield for transferring a Pokemon from the mobile game.
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Like in Breath of the Wild, the Koroks will be hiding out in various places around the world map, and you’ll be able to run around and find them in between battling hordes of Ganon’s minions. The trailer also confirms that Hestu, the larger dancing Korok who expanded your inventory slots in Breath of the Wild, will be returning in Age of Calamity as well. You can watch the video below.
Nintendo has been sharing a variety of trailers for Age of Calamity since the game was first unveiled last month. Previous videos have given us looks at other returning characters, such as Impa and younger versions of BOTW inventors Robbie and Purah. The most recent trailer focused on the villainous Yiga clan and teased a new shadowy threat behind them.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is set 100 years before Breath of the Wild, during the Great Calamity that devastated Hyrule and sent Link into a century-long slumber. In addition to Link himself, the game lets you play as a handful of other characters, including the four Champions of Hyrule–Revali, Urbosa, Daruk, and Mipha–as well as Zelda and Impa.
Age of Calamity launches exclusively for Switch on November 20. If you have save data for Breath of the Wild on your Switch, you’ll receive a bonus weapon when you start Age of Calamity: the Training Sword. Nintendo is also re-releasing the four Breath of the Wild Champions Amiibo figures alongside the game on November 20. You can learn more in our Age of Calamity preorder guide.
While Peter Parker has dealt with a number of new challenges since Marvel relaunched The Amazing Spider-Man in 2018 – from the return of Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter to a long-distance relationship with Mary Jane – one villain has been at the heart of the series from the beginning. The mysterious Kindred has spent months plotting against Spider-Man, and now we finally know the identity of this twisted villain.
Keep reading to learn Kindred’s true identity and why they hate Peter Parker so much, but beware of full spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man #50 ahead!
Kindred has been one of the main, consistent focal points of the series over the past two years. From the beginning, it’s been clear Kindred is someone with both a close connection to and a deep-seated grudge against Peter Parker. He’s also seemingly a character with the power to raise the dead, travel between the living realm and the afterlife and command an army of undead insects. But who is Kindred really, and is he truly a master of death or merely a clever con artist?
With The Amazing Spider-Man #50 kicking off the “Last Remains” story arc, we finally have an answer to the first question. Kindred is none other than Peter Parker’s best friend and occasional enemy Harry Osborn.
Art by Patrick Gleason. (Image Credit: Marvel)
As longtime ASM readers will know, this isn’t the first time Harry has plotted Peter’s destruction. Harry inherited his father Norman’s mantle as Green Goblin way back in 1974’s The Amazing Spider-Man #136. That kickstarted a recurring pattern of Harry plotting to kill Spider-Man in revenge for Norman’s death, only to be stricken with amnesia and return to his normal life. Harry ultimately died in 1993’s The Spectacular Spider-Man #200 after consuming a lethal variant of the Oz serum.
The Peter/Harry dynamic was further complicated when Harry returned in 2008’s The Amazing Spider-Man #545 (one of several major changes to Spider-Man’s world caused by the infamous One More Day storyline). Harry’s return was explained with the reveal that Norman had staged his son’s death (with a little help from Mysterio) and sent him to a long-term drug rehab facility in Europe. Since his return, Harry has mostly been an ally to Peter, choosing to focus more on raising his son Normie than reviving old grudges.
However, it would seem Harry hasn’t forgotten the past or forgiven his BFF for all the losses the Osborn family has suffered. In fact, writer Nick Spencer hints this plot twist builds directly on Harry’s 2008 resurrection and the fact that his rivalry with Peter was buried and forgotten far too easily.
“When Kindred first appeared back in the very first issue of our run, with very few hints given, people were already guessing it was Harry,” Spencer told CBR. “And that tells you everything you need to know about why it had to be him, funny enough. There is something about that wound that did not quite heal right. And as a writer, that’s the kind of thing I find myself drawn to.”
Spencer continued, “I’ve said before, but Amazing Spider-Man is the only comic I’ve read throughout basically my entire life without pause. So it’s the one where I have the best aerial view, and what really struck me is how, for a book that is driven so much by a moral lesson about responsibility, there are so many things that have been sort of swept under the rug, never to be mentioned again. There was something fascinatingly meta about that conflict, and the longer I looked at that, the more drawn to it I became. To my eyes, Peter Parker was in need of a fearless personal inventory. And Kindred is very much the personification of that.”
As for Harry’s ultimate goal and whether his powers over life and death are what they seem, we’ll surely learn more as “Last Remains” plays out over the next several months.
