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First season under county ownership shows overwhelming support for Mt. Crescent Ski Area – The Omaha News

By: Madison Bonin, Reporter OMAHA, Neb. – In January of 2022 Pottawattamie county took ownership of the Mt. Crescent ski area located 15 miles northeast of Omaha. Reporter Madison Bonin took a trip to Mt. Crescent to see how the county’s first year of ownership is going. With new owners comes new things and Mt.

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Gaming

Final Super Mario Bros. Movie Trailer Debuts At Nintendo Direct

Screenshot: Nintendo / Illumination / Kotaku Today, during Nintendo’s special Super Mario Bros.-themed Direct, we got a look at the third and final trailer for the anticipated, animated Super Mario Bros .Movie . Before the trailer rolled, we got to see the Hollywood cast, Miyamoto, and Illumination founder riff about how March 10 (which spells

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Memes and Misinformation – The Potential of Eleven Labs AI Voice Cloning – The Omaha News

By: Jamie Harvey, Reporter You might have seen them come across your TikTok feed or pop up in your YouTube recommendations–satirical videos featuring United States presidents playing video games with shockingly accurate voices. The creators of most of these videos use Instant Voice Cloning, an AI-powered tool offered by tech startup ElevenLabs. According to a

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Gaming

Here’s Every Single Video Game Remake You Can Play In 2023

Samurai-themed action-adventure Like a Dragon: Ishin! was originally released in 2014, but its recent remake was so solid, Kotaku staff writer Sisi Jiang called it the “best samurai game ever” way out here in 2023. That was mostly due to the appeal of the original game’s absorbing historical fiction, inspired by Japanese history, and not

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Gaming

Hogwarts Legacy Gets Animal Rescue All Wrong

Screenshot: WB Games / Kotaku The only true moral stance Hogwarts Legacy takes is that animal abuse is bad. One of the main enemy types you face are poachers, a quest takes you to a dragon fighting pit that will horrify, and Poppy Sweeting (bless her) is a Hufflepuff student determined to free every animal

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Gaming

Naruto Is Finally Ending (And Hopefully The Fandom Wars, Too)

Naruto’s grandfather’s grandson has big shoes to fill. Image: Masashi Kishimoto / Viz Media / Pierrot / Kotaku Yesterday, Viz Media announced that the end is neigh for the Naruto sequel series, Boruto: Naruto The Next Generations. Part I of the Boruto finale will air on March 26 and Part II is in production, according

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Gaming

Suicide Squad Game Delayed Again After Negative Fan Reaction

Image: WB Games / DC Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the upcoming online co-op action shooter from Rocksteady, has reportedly been delayed from its planned May release to sometime “later this year.” This follows last month’s release of new gameplay footage being met with a flood of negative reactions from fans and critics alike.

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Chainsaw Man’s Female Incel Is The Best Manga Protagonist ATM

Image: Shonen Jump / Kotaku Whether it’s video games or comic books, nerd media loves sexually awkward women. Or rather, the geekosphere only loves one type of sexually awkward woman. The ideal “femcel” is shy, selfless, and generally uninterested in male attention until the protagonist comes along. Mitaka Asa of Chainsaw Man is none of

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Fans Upset As AI Seinfeld Goes Back On Twitch Without Seinfeld

Nothing is the same in Nothing, Forever.Screenshot: watchmeforever / Kotaku That never-ending show parodying the ‘90s sitcom Seinfeld using machine-generated content, Nothing, Forever, is back on Twitch after being temporarily pulled offline in early February for generating some transphobic jokes. Unfortunately, this revival that creators Mismatch Media have dubbed season two isn’t quite like the

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Gaming

The Best Way To Get Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Only Decidueye

Image: The Pokémon Company First, there was Charizard, then there was Cinderace and Greninja. Now Decidueye is the latest seven-star tera raid in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. This limited-time event will give you a chance to catch the Alolan grass-type starter, who is otherwise not available in the games at this time. While there are

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