All posts tagged: Crazy

The Crazy Taxi Remake Revives the Dreamcast Era’s Zany Energy

The Crazy Taxi Remake Revives the Dreamcast Era’s Zany Energy

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The Dreamcast era of games was a fever dream of wild, original ideas — Space Channel 5, Seaman, Shenmue, Chu Chu Rocket, Power Stone, Jet Set Radio and more — and perhaps nothing exemplified it better than Crazy Taxi, a game with its pitch in the name. Now, Sega is bringing its zany taxi driving classic back for modern consoles with Crazy Taxi: World Tour — and I got my hands on it for a short preview. At a hotel in downtown Los Angeles, Sega lined up a half-dozen games for its summer press showcase, but my retro gaming heart was fixed on Crazy Taxi. Our current string of remasters is bringing some iconic games to modern audiences, but some, like Silent Hill 2 Remastered and Metal Gear Solid Delta, are based on games so canonized that the revivals aren’t surprising. Crazy Taxi wasn’t a milestone in gaming, but it’s a standout representation of the kinetic energy found in the best of Dreamcast’s game catalog, and I’m delighted to see it brought back. Mind you, …

Zach Cregger on ‘Crazy’ ‘Weapons’ Prequel Movie About Gladys’ Origin

Zach Cregger on ‘Crazy’ ‘Weapons’ Prequel Movie About Gladys’ Origin

Published by Daniella Wilson

Zach Cregger is ready to work his magic with the prequel to Weapons that will focus on breakout character Gladys. During Collider’s Directors on Directing panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, the filmmaker shared a status update on the planned feature follow-up to his 2025 horror hit that won Amy Madigan the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as Aunt Gladys. The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that Cregger and Zach Shields are penning the script for the project that is in development at New Line Cinema with the working title Gladys. “First of all, I’m really excited about the Gladys movie, and I loved working with Amy,” Cregger told the crowd. “I loved that character. For the movie Weapons, it really made a lot of sense not to dive into her backstory because the device of Weapons was to keep her very mysterious.” He added, “However, there’s an amazing story to be told about where Gladys comes from and how she became what we know her as. It’s got a lot of twists …

Mayflies have crazy, acrobatic sex

Mayflies have crazy, acrobatic sex

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Researchers studying copulation in mayflies pulled off a stunt worthy of the naughtiest ancient Greek myths. Just like Hephaestus used an unbreakable net to trap his wife Aphrodite and her lover Ares in the middle of their adulterous act, a team of scientists in Germany deployed a long-handled net to catch mating insects, and then used freezing spray to preserve the moment for study.  And that’s not even the strangest part of the study titled, “When mayflies have an erection: functional morphology of the genitalia in Ecdyonurus.”  Frozen in the act Mayflies are a group of strange winged insects with dramatic life cycles. They live as larvae in freshwater for most of their lives. When they finally become adults, they stop eating (their gut closes off and turns into a balloon) and they exist to fulfill a single mission—sex.  Before the Insect Systematics and Diversity study, researchers knew very little about mayfly mating. It’s easy to see why, since …

‘The Right Amount of Crazy’ | Fintan O’Toole

‘The Right Amount of Crazy’ | Fintan O’Toole

Published by José Betancourt

In January, when The New York Times asked Donald Trump whether there were any limits on his global powers, he replied, “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind.” Since whatever morality he ever possessed has long since departed, the remaining question is whether he has also lost his mind. Given that, in the course of his war on Iran, he has chosen to present himself to the world as a genocidal maniac—posting on Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will”—the answer may seem all too obvious. Yet to arrive at it we have to tease out the relationships that are always at the heart of his persona: the complex connections between performance and reality, method and madness, bombast and bombs. With Trump, these oppositions are never absolute. The borders between them are always porous. On the one hand, there’s no doubt that in Trump’s chaotic mind there lurks the Madman Theory, a belief …

30 Numbers From 2025 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

30 Numbers From 2025 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, 2025 has truly been a historic year. No matter which side of the fence that you are on, nobody can deny that we have witnessed seismic political changes over the last 12 months. Meanwhile, the AI revolution is transforming our lives in ways that we don’t even understand. But despite all of our advanced technology, we can’t stop the endless barrage of natural disasters that has been pummeling us in 2025, and hunger continues to spread all over the globe. Of course war has been a major theme from the very beginning of the year to the very end of the year. Humanity has been facing one major crisis after another, and people are steadily getting angrier and more frustrated. Our world is changing at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking.   If you always wanted to live in “interesting” times, you have certainly gotten your wish.   The following are 30 numbers from 2025 that are almost too crazy to believe… #1 As 1999 began, a …