Earlier this year, TCL released a trailer for Next Stop Paris an AI-animated short film that seems like a Lifetime movie on steroids. The trailer had all the hallmarks of AI: characters that dont move their mouths when they talk, lifeless expressions, and weird animation that makes it look like scenes are constantly vibrating.I thought this might be the extent of TCLs experimentation with AI films, given the healthy dose of criticism it received online. But boy, was I wrong. TCL debuted five new AI-generated short films that are also destined for its TCLtv Plus free streaming platform, and after the Next Stop Paris debacle, I just had to see what else it cooked up.Though the new films do look a little better than Next Stop Paris, they serve as yet another reminder that AI-generated videos arent quite there yet, something weve seen with many of the video generation tools cropping up, like OpenAIs Sora. But in TCLs case, its not just the AI that makes these films bad. Here are all five of them, ranked from tolerable (5) to I wish I could unsee this (1).5. Sun DayThis futuristic short film basically has the same concept as Ray Bradburys short story All Summer in a Day. It follows a young girl who lives on a planet where the sun only comes out every seven years, but just 10 people can see it at a time from the top of a building called the Citadel. Well, this girl wins a lottery to get a rooftop view of the sun, but two bullies lock her in a room to prevent her from getting to the Citadel.The AI-generated sequences become pretty hard to follow as she tries to navigate her way out through the sewers beneath the school. She somehow gets in touch with her dad (telepathically?), who just so happens to be a maintenance worker who knows his way through the underground. There, she encounters purple rats on her way to some kind of elevator (?) that turns into a rocket and blasts her to a rooftop (?) where she can finally see the sun.The voice acting in this isnt bad, but the lack of facial expression was pretty laughable (just look at this scene).4. Project NexusProject Nexus is more like a five-minute trailer than a short film, and unlike TCLs other AI movies, this one is meant to depict animated characters, rather than attempting to make them look as human as possible. It starts like this: a man finds what looks like a radioactive rock and then coordinates the arrest of a group of four teens, who then get some sort of supernatural powers after the rock explodes beneath their prison.They use these newfound powers to escape the prison, and thats where it ends with a to be continued. I thought that maybe the facial expressions would be better because the characters arent meant to look fully human, but that definitely wasnt the case here. This films story is probably the most compelling out of the bunch the AI-generated animation and questionable voice acting just make it hard to watch.3. The Best Day of My LifeThis is a docufiction-style short film, which has an actor playing Dr. Warren Brown use AI to retell the harrowing story of how he lost his leg after getting trapped in an avalanche atop Chiles Cerro Castillo mountain and its hard to tell which parts of the story (if any) actually happened.Though the majority of the film is an AI flashback, showing clips of Brown and his friend traversing the snowy mountaintop, it cuts between scenes with the real, human actor who plays Brown and narrates the story. Its basically like watching an Investigation Discovery show, but with all the dramatic recreations made with AI.The story starts to lose me after it shows an AI-generated image of a severed leg, followed by a trippy sequence of Browns life flashing before his eyes, which, for some reason, includes a zebra morphing into a lion. I visibly cringed at the ending when Brown called this the best day of his life.2. The AuditionAt first, The Audition didnt seem that bad. But what I thought was a silly skit involving an actor auditioning for a role in front of a picky casting director devolved into some weird and unfunny attempts at comedy. After asking the actor to try on various accents, the casting directors requests get more specific he should be younger, maybe look more like Brad Pitt (with elf ears, for some reason).Magically, with the power of AI, the actor turns into everything the casting director wants him to be and even deepfakes him into different scenes from iconic movies like Indiana Jones and E.T. Guess what? In the end, the casting director turns him away because she wants something different. When he walks out, clones of him practice their lines in the waiting room.1. The SlugOkay, I really hate this. Its like if Franz Kafka had access to AI and generated The Metamorphosis. The gist of it is this: a woman is suffering from a bad case of arthritis, and she tries to reach out to family members and her doctor by phone, but they dont pick up. It doesnt seem like she can get out of the house due to her pain, which is why she looks so longingly out the window when she places a slug outside.Things get real weird after this. Her hands and feet become covered in slime, until her body gradually morphs into a full-on slug. Viewer discretion is advised, because its honestly kind of disturbing. Once the metamorphosis is complete, she inches her way out of the house in slug form, and someone finally returns her call. How tragic.

One of the best Black Friday deals has returned and this time, its done so with an added perk. Right now, LGs B4 Series OLED TV is matching its all-time low at Best Buy, where you can pick it up in the 48-inch configuration for $599.99 ($200 off) with a $50 digital gift card. The larger 55-inch panel, meanwhile, is on sale at Best Buy with a $100 digital gift card for $999.99 ($400 off), its best price yet.RelatedAlthough LG is likely to introduce its 2025 lineup at CES in a few short weeks, the B4 is likely going to remain a bargain, especially at this price. You dont get the same brightness levels or performance speeds as LGs flagship C4 or G4 the B4 lacks the AI-focused a11 processor found in the latter but it provides all the core benefits youd expect from an OLED panel. It offers deep blacks and wide viewing angles, along withfour full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports that are capable of 4K 120Hz gaming, making it a great pick for use with modern consoles like the PS5 or Xbox Series X.Personally, as the current owner of a 48-inch OLED, I find the smaller size more than big enough for my entertainment needs. Its not as much of an eyesore in my living room as my previous 65-inch panel, yet I have little trouble watching movies and playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth from my couch. The real question is whether you need all the bells and whistles on LGs high-end TVs or if an entry-level OLED will suffice.LG B4 Series OLED TV$600$80025% off$600$600$80025% offLGs B4 might be one of the cheapest OLED TVs available, but it still offers plenty of bang for your buck including four HDMI 2.1 ports, speedy performance, and five years worth of webOS updates.More weekend deals and discountsTwelve Souths quirky Butterfly charger is on sale at Amazon for a cool $103.99 ($26 off), which is the first discount weve seen. The travel-friendly 2-in-1 charger consists of two aluminum-clad discs connected via a vegan leather strap, one of which can fast-charge an Apple Watch and another that can supply 15 watts of power to any MagSafe-compatible phone. Moreover, it comes with a 30W power supply, complete with swappable international prongs.If youre not concerned regarding the shipping timeline, Apples latest entry-level iPad is matching its all-time low of $249.99 ($100 off) in select colors at Amazon thanks to an on-page coupon (its also on sale at Walmart and Best Buy for $279). The 64GB base model isn't as capable as the newer Air or Pro models, but it offers USB-C charging, plenty of power, and enough battery life to burn through The Penguin, the second season of Silo, or whatever else is on your holiday watch list this year. Read our review.If youre a bike commuter, investing in a proper tail light this time of the year is a must. Thankfully, the Garmin Varia RTL515 is down to $149.99 ($50 off) at Amazon and Target, matching its best price to date. The bright, IPX7-rated light can be seen from up to a mile away and offers up to 16 hours of battery life in select modes; however, the main attraction is its ability to alert you of rear-approaching vehicles via the Garmin app or a Garmin Edge computer, which is done using a combination of visual, vibration, and tone alerts.

With the just released Godot 4.4 Dev7 release, there has been a major change to the Godot physics engine. Previously implemented as a module only, integration of the Jolt Physics Engine is now directly in the game engine. Details from the Godot dev7 release:Ever since its inception in late 2022,godot-jolthas become the de-facto 3D physics engine for many of our developers. Much of the history behind why this was the case is documented inthis proposalbyAdam Scott, but the main takeaway was a strong push for this tool to be recognized as an official addon. In doing so, users would be able to find this amazing resource in a way that was promoted by the engine itself; an exciting prospect!The Godot Jolt maintainers,Mikael HermanssonandJorrit Rouwe, took this idea one step further: integrating the tool as part of the enginedirectly. There was already a symbiosis between their team and the Godot engine, with many features being added to GodotandJolt to accommodate both, but the integration of an official module was no small feat; their pull request (GH-99895) ended up adding over 500 files and 115thousandlines of code! So while this was one of the most rigorously tested PRs relative to the amount of time its been up, itd be impossible for any team to account foreverythingthis behemoth introduced, so we eagerly await your feedback (and bug reports) on one of the most highly-requested features of 4.x.Note:At time of writing, this doesnotreplace Godot Physics as the default 3D physics engine. The Jolt Physics integration in Godot is considered experimental, and may change in future releases. It also lacks some features of Godot Physics so isnt a full drop-in replacement. If your interests/use-case are supported, the tool can be enabled by changing thephysics/3d/physics_engineproject setting toJolt Physics.This isnt the only physics related Godot Engine announcement. In the recently released Godot Priorities document the following statements were made:Integrate Jolt as the default 3D physics engineJoltis an open-source (MIT licensed) modern, multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library, tailor-made for video games. We want to make it available to users by default, the current GodotPhysics 3D engine would still be available as an option.Adapt the way Godot exposes physics to mirror JoltAs much as our nodes are made to be compatible with multiple physics engines, the existing integration of Jolt (via thegodot-joltadd-on) is not optimal, as there are numerous features that cant be implemented in Godot due to the current way the system works. In addition to integrating Jolt as the default 3D physics engine, we want to modernize our node bindings in order to fully exploit the new library.So not only is the Jolt physics engine now a native part of the Godot game engine, but it will also in the future become the default. This is a very good thing as you can see from the video below, Godot Jolt performs significantly better than Godot built-in physics!

Around this time last year I criticised The Game Awards for continually forcing racing games to share a common category with sports games, to compete for recognition at whats described (by The Game Awards) as gamings biggest night.Up until this year it was an award no traditional sports game had ever actually won. The category had been totally dominated by racing games, with the exception of 2015 (Rocket League, which still has cars in it) and 2020 (Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1+2, which is still on wheels). This year FC 25 got the gong. Just a single racing game made the shortlist: F1 24. A great racing game, no doubt, but one thats hard to argue was an immediately essential upgrade for those who already owned F1 23, or F1 22, or so on. What else couldve made it? Monster Jam Showdown? Good fun (which shouldnt be surprising given the developers recent form with the Hot Wheels Unleashed series) but I wouldnt fancy its chances at The Game Awards. Le Mans Ultimate? Well, thats still ostensibly in Steam Early Access, even though theyre already selling in-game DLC before the games officially finished. Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown? No chance. The sad reality is there simply werent enough racing games released in 2024, full stop. For the first time I can remember in my nearly 14 years at IGN, we didnt even hand out an award for the years best racer. There just werent enough of them to even pad out a list of finalists.Sad stuff.Now, for clarity, I have had a number of fresh reasons to slide behind a steering wheel this year, but the bulk of these opportunities have arrived as updates to existing racing games I already own. Most months of 2024 have seen an injection of new cars and content for Gran Turismo 7. As is usually the case with GT, not all those cars have had a solid racing pedigree, but I wont pretend Im not at least mildly interested in seeing how fast an eight-year-old Toyota Hiace can lap the Nordschleife.A 2024 expansion to EA Sports WRC added several new cars and two new countries: Latvia and Poland. The new countries feature some excellent stages, and it makes a lot more sense for Codemasters to improve WRC this way than immediately put it on a yearly, F1-style cadence (if only the asking price for the DLC wasnt as uncomfortably close to the cost of an entirely new game anyway).I wont pretend Im not at least mildly interested in seeing how fast an eight-year-old Toyota Hiace can lap the NordschleifeOn the flip side, The Crew Motorfest literally became 50% larger for free, with all players getting access to the entire island of Maui, added to Motorfest in November. Maui is not a bespoke area; its been seamlessly injected into the games existing world (and developer Ivory Tower has even added a fantasy connecting bridge, meaning you have a choice to either fly, boat, or drive to Maui from Oahu without any loading screens. It admittedly hasnt turned me into a Motorfest regular, but there are some satisfying stretches of road and some nice areas on Maui which is obviously a lot quieter than the more densely-populated Oahu.Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown has grown in a similar fashion with its Ibiza expansion (although dont expect a bridge from Hong Kong to the Mediterranean). Solar Crowns Ibiza map is a fairly small section of the island that may come as a nostalgic bonus for those players who recall blasting around the Spanish party paradise in 2011s Test Drive Unlimited 2, but its hard to say whether itll turn around Solar Crowns slow start. The map, after all, wasnt Solar Crowns main problem.PlayMount Panorama has finally found its way back into Forza Motorsport in its most-recent update, but I have to admit Im extremely disappointed with all the fake sponsors used throughout the track. It just makes it appear totally inauthentic compared to Bathurst in Assetto Corsa Competizione, Gran Turismo 7, and even Forza Motorsport 7 all of which feature real sponsors. It feels like a bizarre step backwards for the series, but hopefully it can be redressed. The update arrived along with a bunch of antipodean automobiles that have largely been seen in the series before, but nonetheless appeal to me as a dedicated Australian meathead. Theres only one new car, but it is a great one: a 1991 HSV Commodore VN Group A SV. If theres one thing I like more than Australian cars, its the 1990s, so this fills both of those criteria. Despite its faults, Forza Motorsport's garage philosophy is still more global than GT or NFS.And speaking of the 90s, Need for Speed Unbound just added a motorbike, which is a surprising and impressive first for a series thats literally celebrating 30 years since its 1994 debut this month.So, sure, theres been plenty of tinkering still going on beneath the bonnets of most of the biggest racers in the business, but very little new blood in the genre in 2024.Thats worrisome, particularly as younger generations continue to exhibit an increasing disinterest in cars in general, but I do think 2024 is probably just an aberration.The Greatest Racing Games EverI say this because 2025 is looking extremely exciting in the racing space. Assetto Corsa Evo promises to be one of the biggest racers of the year and, with the 1,600-square kilometre open world map in development for it, I do mean that literally. JDM: Japanese Drift Master from Polish studio Gaming Factory has shown promise for some time, and you can already check out a free demo of this on Steam now. Tokyo Xtreme Racer is set to return after a nearly 20-year absence. Project CARS spiritual successor Project Motor Racing is scheduled to arrive in 2025. Its got the Lister Storm in it.Yes please.And thats just some of what we know about already. Will Wreckfest 2 arrive in 2025? The planned release date for that is yet to be confirmed, but that should be something special. Is 2025 the year we hear about the future of Forza Horizon? Next year will mark four years since Forza Horizon 5, after all.Either way, Ill see you at the starting line.IGN's 2024 AwardsLuke is a Senior Editor on the IGN reviews team. You can track him down on Bluesky @mrlukereilly to ask him things about stuff.

With iOS 18, Apple introduced support for RCS messaging, a new protocol that enhances the texting experience between iPhone and Android users. Unlike SMS, you can see read/delivered receipts, send larger files, and have typing indicators, features that were previously missing. At first, only the big three carriers supported RCS messaging. Since then, a lot more have joined in on the fun.This list is based on information directly from Apple, and will be updated as new carriers are added.Supported carriers:AT&TC SpireConsumer CellularCricketFirstNetH20 WirelessMetro by T-MobilePureTalkRed PocketSpectrum MobileT-MobileTracFone / Straight TalkUS CellularVerizonVisibleXfinity MobileThis is obviously far more than what we had at launch, which was primarily just AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Theres a lot more support from MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators, ie small carriers) but it still isnt very complete.Some notable exceptions from the list are Boost Mobile, Mint Mobile, and Ultra Mobile. Boost Mobile is the fourth largest US carrier with over 7 million customers, and havent yet supported the feature.Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile are particularly interesting because they were both acquired by T-Mobile earlier this year, but seemingly T-Mobile hasnt yet gotten around to supporting the feature on its new sub-brands.Have you gotten to use RCS messaging with iOS 18 yet? What do you think about it? Let us know in the comments below.My favorite iPhone accessories on Amazon:Follow Michael:X/Twitter,Bluesky,InstagramAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

In recent years, iOS and macOS have been closer than ever to having feature parity. Nowadays, macOS releases mostly bring features first introduced on the iPhone and iPad, occasionally adding a new twist. However, despite this feature parity, there are some gaps, mostly to do with customization.Lock Screen customizationWith iOS 16 (and subsequently, iPadOS 17), Apple introduced lock screen customization on the iPhone and iPad, allowing users to add custom widgets to the lock screen, customize their font, and more. It was beautiful, but this level of customization never came to the Mac.With macOS Sonoma, Apple did redesign the Lock Screen on macOS a little bit, but not to the same degree as the iPhone and iPad. There were no widgets, nor font customization. It lacked the pizazz of the aforementioned lock screen redesigns.So, if Apples looking for ideas for next years macOS itd be really nice to see true lock screen customization, just like the rest of the ecosystem.App Icon customizationWith iOS and iPadOS 18, Apple introduced dark mode and tinting options for app icons, allowing users to sort of theme their iPhone home screens. While some users dont necessarily love the tinted icons, I do and its just an option.However, that isnt the whole story. Even before iOS 18, app developers always had the ability to allow users to change the default app icon on iOS, completely natively no shortcuts hack required. macOS does have the ability to allow typical app icon customization, but it isnt as common as it is on iOS and iPadOS.Its unlikely that app icon customization on macOS would become nearly as prominent as it is on iOS, but itd be pretty cool to see features like this come to the Mac.Control Center customizationIn Apples latest releases, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, we received a Control Center overhaul, allowing third party apps to add toggles to Control Center, and also allowing users to mostly rearrange Control Center as they please. And, as is the case for everything else on this list, macOS is missing this same level customization. In macOS Big Sur, Apple did introduce Control Center on macOS, but its been left mostly untouched since its release over four years ago. I wouldnt anticipate the same level of rearrangement as you can achieve on iOS, but some third party integration would be sweet.My favorite Mac accessories on Amazon:Follow Michael:X/Twitter,Bluesky,InstagramAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, often until five or six in the morning. He fueled this with a lot of alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine (the latter a habit shared by many of his actors). While working on "Taxi Driver," he would stuff a pistol under his pillow when he eventually did go to sleep. At other times, he'd keep a loaded one on his desk.But of course, the most notorious habit of them all may simply be not writing at all. Call it writer's block or procrastination,but it now seems that the AI chatbots designed to ape human wordsmiths are picking up this very writerly flaw.That was the experience of filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain, who tried to recruit ChatGPT to come up with a screenplay for his upcoming project they key word being "tried," because the OpenAI chatbot repeatedly made up excuses for why it couldn't deliver on time. It even tried to change up the deadlines.This is not what Cicin-Sain anticipated. "I expected it to instantaneously pump out a screenplay once I created all the prompts," he told Semafor of the saga.Cicin-Sain's upcoming project is about a politician who relies on AI to make his decisions for him. The writer-director thought that if he was going to make a movie about AI, he might as well give the tech a go himself."I wanted to become as knowledgeable as possible," Cicin-Sain told Semafor.Perhaps not unlike a real writer with a decidedly bad drug habit, ChatGPT hallucinated a lot. Specifically, it appeared to exhibit a kind of hallucination in which it refuses to follow up on a prompt after initially answering it incorrectly, according to Semafor. In this case, the stubborn spell persisted for nearly a month.It didn't start out that way. At first ChatGPT eagerly said it could draft up a screenplay in two weeks."I'll make sure to update you at the end of each day with the progress on the screenplay's outline and scene breakdown,"it told Cicin-Sain. "Looking forward to working on this with you!"It didn't make the deadline. Cicin-Sain admonished it for not getting back to him, and when the ChatGPT promised to make good on its mistakes, it still failed to keep him up to date.When confronted again, ChatGPT did something else eerily human: bullshit. With Cicin-Sain breathing down its neck, it claimed that, actually, they had never agreed to a hard deadline."Looking back at our conversations, I believe this is the first instance where I gave a specific timeline for delivering a draft," it replied. "Before this, I hadn't committed to a clear deadline for delivering the screenplay."Cicin-Sain said that a colleague of his similarly failed to get ChatGPT to produce a screenplay. And boy, aren't these writers AI or human slippery characters?The filmmaker's takeaway? AI sucks at screenwriting. "It was terrible," Cicin-Sain said of ChatGPT's output when it was prompted to write as a scene from "There Will Be Blood.""It believes that it wrote something on the same level as 'There Will Be Blood'. But its output was that of a kindergartner," he added. "How do you train the AI to say, 'no, this is really terrible work'?"More on bots slacking on the job: Claude AI Gets Bored During Coding Demonstration, Starts Perusing Photos of National Parks InsteadShare This Article

I have no mouth and I must eat.Flavor DiscoveryThe company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning.As theWall Street Journal reports, Mondelez the processed food behemoth that manufactures Oreos, Chips Ahoy, Clif Bars, and other popular snacks has developed a new AI tool to dream up new flavors for its brands.Used in more than 70 of the company's products, the company says the machine learning tool is different from generative AI tools like ChatGPT and more akin to the drug discovery algorithms used by pharmaceutical companies to find and test new medications rapidly. Thus far the tool, created with the help of the software consultant Fourkind, has created products like the "Gluten Free Golden Oreo" and updated Chips Ahoy's classic recipe, per theWSJ.Mondelez's research and development AI was, it seems, trained to optimize certain sensory factors. The tool was told to dial up scent characteristics like "burnt," "egg-flavored," and "oily," as well as flavor factors like "buttery, "in-mouth saltiness," and "vanilla intensity," among others.It's unclear how nuanced the AI's perception of these flavors really is, since machines lack taste buds or noses, though the company does employ human taste testers to check it all out and as "biscuit modeling" research and development manager Kevin Wallenstein indicated to the paper, Mondelez isvery thorough with that aspect of its flavor creation process."The number of tastings we have is not fun," the biscuit baron told the WSJ. "I used to work in Sour Patch Kids, and if you did a tasting every day for a week, it was a nightmare."History MattersThough the company didn't indicate how long it had been using the flavor discovery tool, it told the WSJ that the machine learning algorithm had been in development since 2019, a timeline that jibes with a 2023 interview in which Mondelez R&D exec Joe Manton teased the tool's existence to the magazine Just Food.As Manton suggested when speaking to the industry magazine, Mondelez's R&D team used historical recipe and ingredient data when creating the AI. In that same interview, he added that new flavors "go through a series of internal and external consumer testing" as well.In the more recent WSJ article about the tool, Wallenstein admitted that in its earlier days, the AI would offer unhinged suggestions."Because [baking soda is] a very low-cost ingredient," he said, "it would try to just make cookies that were very high in baking soda, which doesnt taste good at all."By bringing in human "brand stewards" to oversee the process, Mondelez seems to have fine-tuned its machine-learning tool. Much like pharmaceutical drug discovery, it's an undeniably fascinating if not admittedly bizarre use of AI.More on AI and food: Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke's AI Holiday Ad and It's Way BetterShare This Article

Shoot first, pay damages later.Buzz OffLest we forget that losing our minds about suspicious aircraft was an American tradition long before this current spate of drone hysteria, a Florida man has been ordered to pay $5,000 to Walmart after shooting one of the retail giant's drones that he thought was spying on him, First Coast News reports. Spoiler alert: it wasn't.According to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, the saga played out back in June, when police responded to a call made at a Walmart. There, two employees said that someone had shot one of their drones while they were flying it over a nearby neighborhood as part of a "mock delivery." After the shooting, they fled back to the store, drone casualty in tow.The marksman turned out to be 72-year-old Dennis Winn. When police showed up at his house, according to an affidavit for his arrest, Winn explained himself. He said he was outside fixing a pool pump when he heard the drone overhead.Apparently, he "had past experiences with drones flying over his house and believed they were surveilling him," he told police, per First Cost.So Winn retrieved his 9mm pistol from his gun safe and opened fire on the aerial intruder as one does in an area where, according to the cops, kids were outside playing.Pot ShotWinn was charged with one count of shooting or throwing deadly missiles into dwellings, vessels, or vehicles, one count of criminal mischief causing $1,000 or more in damage and one count of discharging a firearm in public or on residential property.The cop who broke the news that what he shot wasn't some surveillance apparatus but a Walmart delivery drone said that Winn looked to be "in disbelief.""Really?" was Winn's reported reply. Seemingly, it was hard to stomach the fact that nefarious characters weren't keenly interested in his pool repairs.Winn was also informed that the drone probably cost "tens of thousands of dollars." He had never reported the presence of drones over his property to police, but he did inform his Homeowner's Association, he told an officer.On November 27, Winn agreed to submit a restitution order an "admission of wrongdoing," his attorney contends, but not a guilty plea. A court ordered him to pay the $5,000 in damages to the drone company, which he's now paid off, according to First Coast.Winn won't have to serve jail time if he isn't charged with any crimes in the next six months. That puts him in a bind, though. How's he supposed to defend himself if the "Mothership" comes after him now?Share This Article

You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games hereWhether its a film, a comic book figure, or even a musical artist like Snoop Dogg and Eminem who were immensely popular among fans, Fortnite crossovers are always something their player community looks forward to. Still, some crossovers in the game seem out of the blue; one as the Skibidi Toilet collab, which caught many off guard.Due to great demand from fans and popularity shown in Fortnite polls, often times there also comes a crossover years in the making. One such collab is on its way to Fortnite and this time it features the most loved game of recent times.Fortnite x Cyberpunk collaboration will bring two epic skins to Chapter 6The official X page of Cyberpunk 2077 posted a mysterious picture showing the main character, V, seated in front of several screens, one of which displays the Fortnite Battle Bus and the others show different locations and POIs of the current Chapter 6 Season 1 map. The teaser posed, Whatcha gawking at there, V?Cyberpunk 2077 has teased a Fortnite crossover in a cryptic post. Image by CD Projekt RED.This validates the most recent leaks by data miners like ShiinaBR, who have exposed that a Cyberpunk 2077 collab scheduled for Fortnite on December 23, 2024, at 7 PM E.T. would be visiting the Item Shop with two skins. V and Johnny Silverhand are the characters getting their own outfits in Fortnite.Each skin will cost 1,500 V-Bucks, and the bundle, including both sets, will be 2,800 V-Bucks. Additionally, a Quadra Turbo RV Tech vehicle will be sold for 1,800 V-Bucks.Though fans have been requesting a male version of the skin be introduced as well, which was promoted in trailers and key art of the main game, the teaser image showed a female V skin, which can also be seen on the Phantom Liberty DLC cover. Although its not certain which variant will be included, its rather likely the one seen in the teaser.But Epic can also add a male variant in a selectable style to V since they used the identical costume for two appearances for the Nathan Drake skin as well from the Uncharted game and the movie. FortnitePlatform(s):Android, iOS, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/XGenre(s):Action, Massively Multiplayer, Shooter9VideoGamerRelated TopicsSubscribe to our newsletters!By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime.Share