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ROCKSTAR IS SELLING A $400 GTA 6 COLLECTOR'S BOX WITH NO GTA 6 IN IT
Rockstar unveiled The Goodtime State: Vice City Collection on September 24 for $399.99. It shipped up for preorder at that price in the US, and it launches November 19, the same day as GTA 6. It does not contain GTA 6. Not a disc, not a digital code. The store listing just notes the game is sold separately, which is a hell of a footnote on a four hundred dollar receipt. What you get is 11 pieces of merch built around Macca the Gator, a fictional TV show inside the game's world. The six-inch figure has a twist-open base and shows Macca enjoying a smoke and a flamingo blood martini. Then Oakley Frogskins, a crossbody bag, a New Era snapback, a magnetic mirror, a Chunkee the Manatee shot glass, a swizzle spoon, a razor blade keychain, pins, stickers and a double-sided poster. The box weighs 24 pounds and doesn't qualify for free shipping. GTA 6 is digital only, so adding the $79.99 Standard Edition puts you at $479.99, and the $99.99 Ultimate puts you at $499.99. Fans did that math instantly. A Cults3D user uploaded their own gator recreation on September 24 and charges less than $2 for it, with a message on the bottom of the model asking about $400 and no disc. Rockstar usually can't keep GTA merch on the shelf for minutes, but this thing was still available to preorder four days later.
GROWN MAN LOSES A WRESTLING MATCH TO AN EMU IN THE MIDDLE OF A DEVON ROAD, ALPACA WATCHES
James Barker was driving the A381 near Salcombe, Devon, when he came across a grown man in the road locked up with an escaped emu. He pulled over to let the guy get hold of it, then decided it was too funny not to film. Correct call. The video goes how these things go. The man gets the emu to the ground, which is where his day peaks, and then the bird gets back on its feet and knocks him on his backside. He can be heard shouting "emu down, emu down" like a man calling in air support that is never coming. Barker, 46, filmed it on September 9, and the scuffle ran at least 20 seconds before the bird ended it. An alpaca stood inside the farm gate and watched the entire thing. No assist. The ending is the part that stings. The emu walked back to the gate under its own power, and the man went over and closed it behind the bird. He contributed nothing to the outcome except his own body. Barker's wife Ro posted the clip and it's past two million views, so he is now famous in the worst available way.
GIANTS TRADE A DRAFT PICK FOR 9
The Giants gave up a 2027 fifth-round pick for J.J. McCarthy, the 10th overall selection in the 2024 draft, who spent Sunday as Minnesota's third-string quarterback behind Kyler Murray and Carson Wentz. The Vikings are 3-0 and did not agonize over it. The file on McCarthy: an entire rookie year gone to a preseason knee injury, then 10 starts in 2025 for 1,632 yards, 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions on 57.6 percent passing. He went 6-4 in those starts. Minnesota took a Day 3 pick for him anyway and called it a day. New York is shopping because Jaxson Dart's knee ended his regular season in Week 2, leaving Jameis Winston, who posted a 19.0 QBR against the Rams and a 27.9 in Sunday's 12-7 win over Tennessee where every point came from field goals. ESPN points out the Giants signed Winston to a two-year, $13 million extension 22 days before trading for an alternative. Harbaugh still says Winston is the starter, which is the thing coaches say the week before he isn't. The family part writes itself. McCarthy won a national title at Michigan under Jim Harbaugh and now works for Jim's brother John. The Giants also scouted him hard in 2024 and took Malik Nabers sixth instead. CBS graded it as a clean split for Minnesota and a possible downgrade for New York.
TRUMP SAYS THE US HAD THE FAIRFORD SUSPECTS 'UNDER VIEW FOR A LONG TIME.' A FARMER FOUND THEM AT 12:45 A.M.
At about 12:45 a.m. Sunday, police got a call about three suspicious vehicles heading toward RAF Fairford. The caller was a local farmer who told the BBC she came across masked men with three large vans, and said officers turned up roughly 15 minutes later. What she set off: armed police, five arrests near the village of Whelford, a 400-metre cordon, Army explosives experts sending a robot to inspect three white vans, and around 85 households evacuated. Whelford sits less than half a mile from the base, which American B-1s and B-52s have flown from since March, when Keir Starmer finally signed off on US strikes against Iranian missile sites. Then Trump spoke. He told reporters the men "were looking to do big damage to our fort" and that "we had them under view for a long time, and we got them." Two problems. Fairford is a British base. And BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said there was a "clear inconsistency" in that story, with Whitehall sources telling him this was not an intelligence-led operation. By Monday afternoon the whole thing had deflated. The five, British nationals from London aged 23 to 25, were released on bail after "extensive interviews and enquiries." No charges. Counter terror chief Laurence Taylor said the investigation is not over and they are weighing every angle, including foreign-state proxies acting "knowingly or unknowingly," plus Russia, non-state groups, and the fact that Fairford has been an anti-war protest target for decades. Iran's embassy in London called the links to it unfounded and malicious.
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- nbcnews.com - Bomb squad searching vans near U.S. air base in Britain as five men arrested
- cbsnews.com - 5 British men arrested near U.K. air base used by U.S. forces released on bail, police say
- cnn.com - RAF Fairford: UK police arrest five men on suspicion of terror offenses near air base used by US forces
GIANT DEEP-SEA BUG GOES FIVE YEARS WITHOUT EATING BECAUSE IT ROBBED A BACTERIUM
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences wanted to know how a supergiant deep-sea isopod survives more than five years without food, and it turns out the thing is running a scam. Bathynomus jamesi lives around 898 meters down, where dinner only shows up when something above it dies. So it built a stomach that expands to fill two-thirds of its body cavity, gorges during the rare feeding event, and then sits on a mud-like paste of nearly fully digested food for years. Its gut even skips the usual digestive bacteria in favor of Chlamydiae, which are linked to storing fat. The better trick is genetic theft. The team sequenced the genomes of B. jamesi and its shallower cousin B. doederleini and found ND1, an energy-metabolism gene that started out in a symbiotic bacterium and got spliced into the isopod line through horizontal gene transfer. Then it copied itself and cranked to ultra-high expression, with histone acetylation acting as the dimmer switch. Lead researcher Jianbo Yuan called the transfer extremely rare, since bacteria and animals are not exactly close relatives. To prove ND1 does the work, the team dropped it into zebrafish, nematodes, and human cells. It behaved like a metabolic switch, conserving energy and stretching survival through cold starvation.
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- smithsonianmag.com - This Massive, Deep-Sea Roly Poly Can Go Years Without Food Thanks to a Huge Stomach and a Stolen Gene, Study Suggests
- scientificamerican.com - Giant armored crustaceans survive thanks to a gene stolen from bacteria
- refractor.io - Stolen gene lets deep-sea creature go without food for years
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