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Chaos engineering is a discipline where you experiment on your system or application to reveal its weaknesses and capacity failure. These are something that you did not think could happen while creating it. So, you would cause some failures on purpose on your system to show up its weaknesses to make the fixes and make your system and your application more resilient. Many popular organizations like Netflix, LinkedIn, and Facebook perform chaos engineering to better understand their microservices architecture and distributed systems....

“I’ve wanted to tell a story about acting for a very long time,” Kilmer says toward the beginning of the documentary. “And now that it’s difficult to speak, I want to tell my story more than ever.” Kilmer is an artist, one who takes his vocation very seriously and introspectively. An actor’s voice is more than a tool, it is their primary source of communication. Non-verbal exchanges are important, but dialogue is the primary idea delivery system in staged and filmed works....

Like its parent series before it, the story at the center of House of the Dragon once again focuses on family, power, and the contradictory interplay between those two concepts. If it follows the blueprint set forth by writer George R.R. Martin in his Westerosi history book Fire & Blood, this dance of the dragons will come along with plenty of violence, courtly intrigue, and dragons…oh, so many dragons. It’s fitting that House of the Dragon is the first of many Game of Thrones spinoff projects to make it onto HBO’s servers....

In their respective roles in prior, formulaic rock biopics, Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury and Taron Egerton’s Elton John are extremely professional. By contrast, Radcliffe throws himself into the character like he’s never lost amateur standing. He goes full tilt. Radcliffe plays Weird Al as if Harry Potter snorted an accordion and let it transform him into the character. He over-exaggerates the lip-syncs, overemphasizes the character’s early, innocent naiveté and enthusiasm to capture the incredible needs of the man with the accordion, and is overly desperate to be noticed....

For as secretive as Westworld can be about its many twists and turns, sometimes the show just comes right out and tells you its ultimate ending. As it did many times for the conclusion of Westworld season 4. Ever since midway through its third season, Westworld has been surprisingly open and upfront about the fact that the end is quickly coming for the human species. In season 3, the supercomputer Rehoboam was built specifically to keep humanity in line, control their violent impulses, and delay the inevitable apocalypse indefinitely....

Westworld Season 4 Episode 6 Anyone who has ever played video games can empathize with Caleb (Aaron Paul) during “Fidelity,” the sixth episode of the fourth season of Westworld. I was never the kind of person who could sit and do a speed-run of any game, probably because I didn’t have the hand-eye coordination necessary to succeed, and I tend to like to explore games rather than just going from point A to point B as quickly as possible....

All of a sudden, buzz shifted from whether Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers will beat Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV on Sunday — briefly, anyway — and squarely on the announced return of college football to gaming. Like Boise State’s epic Statue of Liberty play in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, nobody saw this one coming. The EA’s NCAA Football franchise dropped out of college more than seven years ago, a casualty of the debate over whether student-athletes should be compensated for the use of their likeness while those who weren’t battling for school pride on fall Saturdays reaped the financial rewards of a successful annualized sports game....

Except that there have been two previous attempts at a Supernatural spin-off, both getting a pilot episode aired during the show itself, neither of which were picked up by the network. Now, Dean Winchester himself, Jensen Ackles, is producing another attempt, with the first season of The Winchesters due to air on the CW this autumn. So, what does this one need to do to succeed where the two earlier attempts have failed?...

It turns out that Gaiman and the late Pratchett had discussed a possible sequel to their popular collaborative novel, and some elements from that effort, which would have been titled 668: The Neighbor of the Beast, have already been introduced. “The fact that we have Jon Hamm as the impossibly irritating angel Gabriel is something from the sequel we slid back in, [including] the relationship between heaven and hell, where we keep going back and forth between these two appalling places,” Gaiman told Variety back in 2019....

Usually, news like this would be met with overwhelming support from the vast majority of gamers who do not cheat or support the use of cheating software in video games. Only the cheaters are really going to complain about being banned for cheating (which is, hilariously, happening as we speak, particularly on a specific cheat distribution website which we won’t promote here). Yet, there seem to be more than a few Call of Duty players who feel that they’ve been down this road before and that the recent bans likely won’t amount to much in the long-run....

“Most of the lyrics are just computer-generated syllables sung by a Hungarian choir, very few were written, like the song of the bats and originally the final battle song lyrics,” Organi says via a recent Reddit post. “The music producer who wrote the lyrics of Radagon and the Elden Beast told me From Soft ordered him to turn the correct Latin lyrics into gibberish and so the producer turned them into gibberish…” The research itself is absolutely fascinating, and I highly recommend either reading more about it via the post link above or checking out Oragni’s YouTube channel, Antonius Tertius....

Who knows what evils lie at the heart of CBS’s Evil? Shadows know. We consulted a book of shadows (not the one Leland Townsend (Michael Emerson) skims, too many spoilers there) to cut into the left ventricle of the darkness feeding the network’s supernatural series, now in production for season 2. The blood of the police procedural pumps through the veins of the paranormal investigation show, but Evil transcends the statutes of those limitations....

The release of these shorts, which have very clearly been defined as separate entities on Disney+ rather than an ongoing show, has indicated that Marvel is willing to get a little riskier when it comes to the formats in which they tell their stories. There’s surely a place for short films within the context of the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe. What narrative opportunities could occur thanks to the addition of this platform, and are there any benefits to reviving these mini-movies?...

Ever since Halo: Combat Evolved arrived on Microsoft gaming console Xbox in 2001, the first-person shooter series and multimedia franchise has been represented by one character above all others. John-117 or “Master Chief” is the perfect video game protagonist. Stoic, powerful, and visually iconic, the Spartan super soldier in green MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor is an ideal player avatar. Not only does the guy look cool as hell but he never breaks kayfabe by taking off his bulky helmet with a shiny gold visor....

Netflix’s new Resident Evil series points the franchise in a very unexpected direction, completely changing what we think we know about the villainous Albert Wesker. Played by Lance Reddick (Fringe) in the new streaming show, the Wesker of this series is much more than just a mad scientist hellbent on world domination — he’s also a family man with two daughters with their own teen drama to sort out. Jade (Ella Balinska/Tamara Smart) and Billie (Adeline Rudolph/Siena Agudong) give us an inside look into what it’s like growing up a Wesker, and by the end of the first season, we’ve learned just what it means to be tied to such a dark legacy....

Rarely has a show been more successful in choosing an additional angle to present alongside sci-fi than Prime Video’s Outer Range. This eight-episode series starring Josh Brolin adds a dash of neo Western noir to its heady premise as Brolin’s character, the rancher Royal Abbott, discovers a mysterious time-altering Void on his massive Wyoming property. The first season of Outer Range deftly explored all the questions that arose from this supernatural occurrence and all around out into an enigmatic, yet satisfying ending....

Described by developer Iron Gate AB as “A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by Viking culture,” Valheim has quickly become one of the talked about (and played) PC games in the world. Elements of the survival title will instantly be familiar to fans of games like Rust and 7 Days to Die, but merely comparing Valheim to other popular PC survival titles doesn’t exactly capture what has helped Valheim sell over 2 million copies before it’s even left Early Access....

Shadowlands introduces a crafted legendries system that allows players to forge legendary items. While that means that you will no longer be entirely reliant on luck to get the legendary item you want most, actually crafting a legendary item will demand a lot of work, a lot of time, and…well…a little luck. Here’s what you need to know about how to craft legendaries in Shadowlands. What Do I Need To Craft Legendary Items in Shadowlands?...

Recently, Sony kicked off what is shaping up to be a month of major gaming reveals with its PlayStation State of Play presentation. Well, Xbox is following suit with their own digital presentation showcase designed to essentially replace what many assume would have been their E3 2022 event. The company is preparing a huge presentation that will tease upcoming offerings from Microsoft’s video game division. Since Bethesda has now officially joined the Xbox family of developers since their parent company was acquired by Microsoft two years ago, that studio will be joining forces with Xbox this year as part of this historic joint event....

Paramount+ has ordered a Yellowstone prequel series from creator Taylor Sheridan called Y: 1883. As the date in the title suggests, the show will follow the Dutton family during the pioneer era as “they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America.” The show will be executive produced by Sheridan, John Linson, Art Linson, David Glasser, David Hutkin, and Bob Yari. “I am excited to continue the story of Yellowstone and thank you to Chris, Keith and David for allowing me to keep on expanding the family for the fans,” Sheridan said in a statement....