The NBA finals have been made to beg after forcing the Boston Celtics Game 7 of the Eastern Conference. Now the finals between Miami and Denver arrive.
The 2023 NBA Finals are unprecedented. That means these two teams have never faced each other in the finals before. The Miami Heat vs. Denver Nuggets matchup will make history in the competition for this main reason. But that won’t be the only one.
And if it wasn’t enough to have an unprecedented finals, we also have two of the best players of the last decade facing off against each other. Nikola Jokić and Jimmy Butler. The Serbian and the American, face to face. The Joker vs. Predator.
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What day and time to watch Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals between Denver and Miami?
On Friday, June 2, 2023, the historic first game of the NBA Finals between the Miami Heat with Jimmy Butler and the Denver Nuggets with Nikola Jokić will take place.
The game will have maximum viewership as we are witnessing a matchup that is NBA history: a finals series between these two teams has never been seen before, and they boast two players who are currently the best in the league.
As for where to watch the games, in Spain, the NBA rights are held byMovistar+. However, you can bypass that and directly subscribe to the NBA League Pass for access to the finals. Alternatively, you can use our VPN services.
The first game of the NBA Finals 2023 will take place at the following time and date:
Friday, June 2 at 2:30 AM in Spain: Miami Heat vs Denver Nuggets (NBA League Pass and Movistar+). Time zones: 6:30 PM PDT / 9:30 PM EDT
The entire finals schedule has already been set, with consistent dates and times for all games. We will keep you updated as the finals progress. Best of luck to both teams!
At the gates of seeing Margot Robbie starring in the movie we all deserve, we review the eight most controversial Barbies in history! I assure you that you do not expect them.
March 9, 1959. Without knowing it, the world was about to change thanks to (or because of) a doll. Barbie has been everything during her almost 65 years of life: feminist icon, simplistic stereotype, astronaut… Under the slogan “Be what you want to be”, thousands of different models of the doll and her gang have tried their luck in the tempestuous market. However, not all of them have ended up succeeding. Wherever Barbie steps, no one is left indifferent. On the verge of seeing Margot Robbie starring in the movie we all deserve, we review the eight most controversial Barbies in history! I assure you that you do not expect them.
Remember Stacy Malibu, the doll from ‘The Simpsons‘ who said “Don’t ask me, I’m just a girl”? Well, it’s based on a real example: when Barbie was allowed to speak in 1991, she said “Will we ever have enough clothes?”, “I love shopping!” and “Math class is hard!”. For whatever reason, she was pulled off the shelves to keep quiet.
7-Tanner, Barbie’s dog
In 2006, someone thought it was a good idea to give Barbie a dog to walk him, pet him, watch TV with him and… uh… clean up his poop. Barbie Forever (like Batman) was accompanied by a stick that collected the dog’s droppings, which you could then put in her mouth to make her do her thing again. The funny thing is that it wasn’t removed because it was obviously disgusting, but because children could choke eating those little pieces. Things you see.
6-Disabled Barbie
In Mattel’s attempt to represent all the girls in the world, they created Becky, Barbie’s disabled friend who goes everywhere with her wheelchair. The idea is great! The problem is that they forgot one small detail: the chair didn’t go through the door of Barbie’s house. Take a sledgehammer to the real world.
5-Kissing Barbie
Who more, who less, has picked up Barbie and has made kissing sounds when she is near Ken, but… So much to want to paint her lips and activate a button that leaves her lips marked on whoever you want? The doll came out in 1978 and even then the idea that a woman is only good for kissing a man was more than outdated.
4-Barbie Oreo
What were they thinking? In 1997, Oreo entered into a commercial agreement with Mattel to create dolls based on their product line. The result, you can see. Terrible decisions.
3-Barbie rapper
In the early 90’s, nothing was more popular than rap. The commercials wanted to avoid it, there wasn’t a single TV show without its corresponding hip-hop beat (remember ‘Pokérap’?) and, of course, Barbie had to join in. The problem is that the design of the dolls looked like they were made by a sixty year old man who has never listened to anything hipper than Frank Sinatra. The ad was so infamous that it is still remembered today as one of the most serious mistakes in Mattel’s history.
2-Barbie babandsitter
There’s nothing wrong with Barbie being a nanny (she has to get money somewhere), but what was a problem in 1965 is that, for some reason, a book titled “How to Lose Weight” was associated with the profession with one simple piece of advice: don’t eat. Oops.
1-Barbie mom
As the Barbie world expanded to infinity and beyond, among all the doll’s different professions, someone decided it would be a good idea to have a line of pregnant dolls that could give birth. The result is creepy and worthy of a body horror movie. The controversy came not from the image itself, but that it could lead to a wave of child pregnancies and the fact that she didn’t have a ring on her finger. Yankee dramatics.
Singer Sia explains how autism has changed her and affected her personal and professional life.
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (Sia) is recognized worldwide as one of the best singers of today, but since her early days, she has also been known for her peculiarity. The artist has chosen not to show her face in public for years, and an aura of mystique has always surrounded her, quickly becoming part of her charm.
Although it is an artistic decision, there has always been speculation about the possibility that this characteristic may be due to something more, and it could be related to the latest revelation about her. As confirmed by Sia herself in a podcast hosted by Rob Cesternino, she has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), more commonly known as autism.
“I must put on my human suit”
“For 45 years, I felt like, ‘Now I have to put on my human suit,’ and it’s only been in the last two years that I’ve truly felt like myself,” she explained on the podcast, which perfectly explains her relationship with fame and her own art. Sia hasn’t gone into too many details about her symptoms, but she has explained the consequences of her disorder:
“No one can truly know you or love you when you’re filled with secrets and living in shame. Finally, I was able to sit in a room full of strangers and share our deepest, darkest, most shameful secrets […]. Everyone laughed with us, so for the first time in our lives, we didn’t feel like pieces of garbage. This way, we can start going out into the world and just operate as humans and human beings with hearts, without pretending to be anything different.”
Interestingly, Sia faced significant criticism in 2021 for directing the film “Music.” The movie revolves around a singer with autism and how it affects her life. For the role, Sia chose young actress Maddie Ziegler, but social media heavily criticized the director for not casting an actor who actually has Autism Spectrum Disorder.
“I think this movie is beautiful and will do more good than harm. If I’m wrong, I’ll be paying for it for the rest of my life,” Sia stated at the time, and time seems to have proven her right. However, undoubtedly, this film was already a glimpse into what it feels like to be in her shoes.
Diablo IV is already practically among us and we give you all the keys you need to be able to get into it without having to think about it.
Diablo IV is just around the corner and chances are you already have it pre-ordered. In fact, there are many incentives to do so. Between the pre-load, the possibility of playing it a little earlier than the rest of the mortals and the very fact of being assured that you will be able to enjoy it from the very minute it is available, Blizzards has given us plenty of reasons to want to make our reservation of one of the most anticipated games of the year.
Now, all of this can get confusing. That’s why we’re here today. To guide you through the jumble of dates, facts, and to-dos that is Diablo IV’s release. Here we’ve compiled all the information you need to enjoy Diablo IV from minute one without having to worry about anything more than pre-ordering it.
If you want to make sure that you will not have any problem to play Diablo IV at its release, the best thing you can do is to pre-download the game. The possibility to pre-download the game will start on May 30 at 13:00, Spanish time. How to do this will differ subtly between PC and consoles. On PC you will only need to enter Battle.net, go to the games section, search for Diablo IV, select the final version and click Download. On PlayStation and Xbox you will have to enter their respective stores, search for Diablo IV and start the download there.
When can I start playing?
When you will be able to start playing will depend entirely on which edition of the game you have purchased. If you bought the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition, you will have early access that will allow you to play four days before the game’s official release, on Friday, June 2. If you bought the normal edition, you will have to wait until the official launch day, Tuesday, June 6. In both cases, the launch time in Spain is not considered midnight, as usual in these cases, but one hour later, at 1:00.
In short, you will be able to play Diablo IV as of these dates depending on the version of the game you have purchased:
If you have the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition: Friday, June 2 at 01:00 a.m.
If you have the normal edition: Tuesday, June 6 at 01:00 a.m.
NVIDIA, to ensure that the launch of Diablo IV goes as smoothly as possible, released on May 30 drivers specifically designed to improve the performance of its cards with Diablo IV. Although in principle the GeForce Experience application should update automatically or at least alert you that you have a new update available, if this is not the case, the drivers you need to download are the GeForce Game Ready 535.98 WHQL. With that, you will have your computer ready to play Diablo IV with the experience that NVIDIA has been refining for its users.
What’s up with PvP?
A lot of people are going to dive headfirst into PvP in Diablo IV and it’s normal. It has been part of the experience of playing Diablo for many years and it is normal that it is an intrinsic part of the experience. Now, Blizzards have already warned that this will not be honorable combat, but real carnage where we can expect the worst to happen and where people should go in knowing that people are not going to fight fairly.
That said, if you want to fight in player vs. player battles you will have to head to specific areas of Sanctuary called Fields of Hate, where players will be able to battle against each other to proclaim themselves the strongest. In any case, a word of warning. In Diablo IV’s highest difficulty mode, death is permanent, and that doesn’t change in the Fields of Hate. Therefore, if you want to avoid getting an upset, do not go into these places unless you are very clear about the consequences of your actions. And that nobody there thinks to play fair.
Do I have to checkout once I have purchased the game?
Diablo IV is intended as a game as a service and weight means that, to have all the content that will be released, we will need to go through box. With periodic battle passes, the first one in early June, and with content that advances the campaign every three months, the game will have a progression of 27 free and 63 premium categories. Thus, there will be three battle pass modes, divided between free, premium (which gives us access to premium rewards) and accelerated (which gives us access to premium rewards with 20 levels already completed and a gift gesture).
In summary, the price of each of the battle pass modalities is as follows:
Battle Pass: Free; only access to 27 rewards from the reward tree.
Premium Battle Pass: 1000 platinum, equivalent to 9.99€ ; gives access to the 90 rewards of the reward tree.
Accelerated Battle Pass: 2800 platinum, equivalent to 24.99€; gives access to all 90 rewards in the reward tree, with 20 rewards already unlocked and a gift gesture.
Conclusion
With this you already know everything you need to know to enter Sanctuary without fear. All that’s left is to get ready and enjoy Diablo IV.
Liko and Roy are the new protagonists of the Pokémon anime, but they are still far from the power of Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town.
The farewell to Ash Ketchum and his Pikachu in Pokémon happened not long ago, and the official anime series now features two new protagonists: Liko and Roy. With the Galar region as the new place to explore and great adventures ahead, the series has been rebooted, making it clear that the characters are complete rookies… and demonstrating just how useless they can be.
While Ash had already become a meme for spending so many years chasing the Pokémon League without achieving anything, he finally silenced all the fans by becoming a Champion after defeating Lionel and several other Elite Four members. But Liko and Roy have a long, long way to go before reaching Ash’s level of experience and accomplishment.
They are still learning to fight
In the last episode of the anime, Liko and Roy fight together against Captain Pikachu, the new mascot of this anime if we take into account that Roy has Fuecoco and Liko has Sprigatito. Both fight with their pokémon against the fearsome Pikachu, but soon they fall before they don’t know how to fight him.
As soon as the fight begins, Captain Pikachu uses Double Team, which greatly increases his evasion, as Pokémon gamers know. Faced with this, the two protagonists do not know how to react, and decide to launch the strongest attack of each one of them. but what happens? Basically, that neither manages to hit their rival and both end up exhausted, which leaves them sold before the power of Pikachu.
The episode takes its time to explain the move and help the audience, along with the protagonists, understand how to battle in Pokémon. This new formula allows for a complete reset and provides detailed explanations of concepts that had already been clarified before. It’s amusing to see that we have returned to a level lower than the original Ash, but it adds an enjoyable twist to the storyline.
All the series premieres that arrive on Apple TV + this June make it worth subscribing to the service, even if it is only this summer and for free.
If you like series, Apple TV+ is the streaming platform you have to have along with HBO Max. At least if you like crime, science fiction and fantasy. Their productions are a delight: See, Severance, Silo, Foundation, etc.
The Crowded Room is probably the most anticipated series on Apple TV+ this June, due to the fact that it features Tom Holland in a role he hasn’t seen before.
The new limited series, written by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman and executive produced by Tom Holland, will consist of ten episodes.
The story begins in 1979 when a man named Danny Sulivan finds himself in the middle of a murder and is quickly detained by the police to investigate his involvement.
When Detective Rya Goodwin tries to find the real perpetrator of the crime through Danny, she learns of his unusual past, which puts her in an even more difficult situation, as she believes Danny could be the real culprit.
The Snoopy Show (season 3): June 9
Apple TV+ is back once again to bring us the charming children’s show based on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic book. The previous season ended in August 2022, leaving viewers wanting more.
However, that same year, in December 2022, a Christmas special was released. Like the previous two, the third season will consist of three seven-minute short films, each with its own story.
Swagger (2 season): June 23rd
Swagger, a sports drama series inspired by NBA superstar Kevin Durant and his life experiences as a basketball player, presents sports fans with a one-of-a-kind experience.
Even for non-basketball enthusiasts, the series is very interesting in capturing the drama and struggles of the superstar as a teenager.
While the first season focused on the world of elite youth basketball and its challenges, the second season will delve deeper into the championships and tell more about the famous NBA star.
Hijack: June 28
Hijack is a high-octane thriller created by George Kay (Lupin and Killing Eve) and Jim Field Smith (Criminal and Truth Seekers), and starring the brilliant Idris Elba (Luther).
Due to the actor’s fame and thanks to its peculiar premise, Hijack has become one of the most anticipated series of the month, along with The Crowded Room.
Find out what is the new record that Tom Cruise has broken with Top Gun: Maverick one year after its premiere.
Top Gun: Maverick is one of the greatest cinematic phenomena of recent years. The film, starring action hero Tom Cruise, has proven to be one of his best, as reflected by critics. But it has also managed to become one of the most-watched movies, with enormous box office success worldwide.
Such is its power that, one year later, the feature film has once again broken a new record. It is unheard of in the industry and something only enormous films with periodic re-releases like Avatar or E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial have achieved before, so Tom Cruise can be more than pleased with this accomplishment (although not literally, as that’s quite a feat).
Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film in Japan… which is no small feat
As reported by Deadline, Top Gun: Maverick has broken a new box office record in Japan one year after its original release. The film is still being screened in Japanese theaters despite its initial release in May 2022, and it has become Tom Cruise’s highest-grossing film in the country, raking in a whopping $101.5 million.
In doing so, the movie has surpassed Cruise’s 2003 film, The Last Samurai, which was a massive hit in Japan. This milestone is significant, placing Top Gun: Maverick as the second highest-grossing film of 2022, only behind the monumental success of Avatar: The Waterbender. There is no doubt that this achievement even opens up the possibility of a potential Top Gun 3 in the future, although considering the long wait for the second installment, it may not seem too realistic.
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Magic: The Gathering visits the Lord of the Rings universe and the result is some incredible cards, both in art and in their respect for lore.
The Lord of the Rings is a beloved fantasy classic that has greatly influenced virtually every major name in fantasy. Including Magic: The Gathering. So the announcement that the world’s most famous card game was going to make a collection featuring J.R.R. Tolkien’s characters seemed like the perfect mix. It’s not just that the audience for both franchises overlapped to some extent, but the beautiful artwork that Magic cards are known for could give us a new glimpse into the world of The Lord of the Rings like we’ve never seen before. And now that they’ve finally started to unveil them, the result is even more impressive than expected.
With a video of just over twenty minutes explaining the collection, its contents and showing some of the cards, Wizards of the Coast has already shown 120 of the more than 300 cards that will complete this collection called The Lord of the Rings: Tales from Middle-earth. So far we have already been able to see mythical characters such as Aragorn, Legolas, Gimly, Gandalf or Saruman, as well as Frodo and of course the One Ring, which even has its own game mechanics: the one ring tempts you.
Given the importance of the franchise, The Lord of the Rings: Tales from Middle-earth will get special treatment in terms of the quantity and quality of the products they will be releasing. For those who are new to Magic: The Gathering they will release a Starter Kit and Jumpstart booster packs, two ways to start playing without having to build your own deck beforehand. For those who already have some experience or want to get into a non-competitive mode, they will release four commander decks, a format where up to four people can play at the same time, with decks themed around humans, hobbits, elves and Sauron’s forces. Finally, franchised Magic players will have draft and collection booster packs, as usual, and collectors will have the aptly named collector packs, which contain cards with special artwork and borders, giving the cards a unique look.
As if this were not enough, they have also wanted to make this collection feel even more unique by making several special editions of the cards. There are editions of some cards that are numbered, there being a limited quantity of them with an exclusive illustration, there being one of them that stands out above all the others: the unique ring.
In Elvish, with a special treatment and with a unique unit existing in the world, it may only appear in English collector’s packs. There is only one unique ring card with this illustration and the text in Elvish in the whole world, which will give its owner even more the feeling of being in possession of a unique and special object. Especially since it is likely to end up being the most expensive card in Magic history.
While cards from the set will continue to be unveiled until June 9, The Lord of the Rings: Tales from Middle-earth set will be released on June 23 and will be legal in all formats except Standard and Pioneer. In addition, the cards will be playable a little earlier in Magic: The Gathering Arena, being available on June 20 at around 17:00. All this makes for a great opportunity to get into the world of Magic: The Gathering for all those who are curious and like The Lord of the Rings, if only for the sheer gorgeousness of the card art and the care and fidelity with which they have treated J.R.R. Tolkien’s story from Wizards of the Coast.
Only eight years after its creation, the Hulk was already launching his own manga preparing the Marvel landing in Japan. Only that of Bruce Banner there was little left.
Marvel has always looked to Japan, believing that there was a whole world there to develop. First it was with the tokusatsu TV series Spider-man or Battle Fever J, and then with an attempt to reach a new audience by telling new stories they would understand. In the early 70’s, Spidey tried to become a Japanese hero by changing Peter Parker for a certain Yu Komori, who was much more violent than the original. Let’s not fool ourselves: it was really a bit more of the same as the first issues of Lee and Ditko, but with a new design. Of course, at the same time, the Emerald Giant made his appearance in a manga so obscure that it has not even been attempted to be published outside the country.
Hulk was born in 1962 at the dawn of the cold war and atomic fear, and his first comics, where his gray complexion hid a kind of Doctor Jeckyll and Mister Hyde on the cheap, did not make you imagine that he would become a key character to understand the comics (and life) of the XXI century. And yet, only eight years later, he was already releasing his ownmanga in preparation for Marvel’s landing in Japan. Only Bruce Banner had very little left.
In ‘Haruku: Monsutaa Komiku’ the protagonist was Doctor Araki, a survivor of Hiroshima whose parents died in the nuclear blast. In a cluster of bad luck (and a bit of masochism), he goes to Nevada to work on the gamma bomb, where he meets Ricky Tendo (Rick Jones) and Mitsuko (Betty Ross). The story of the monster’s creation is the same, but not so much what came after.
And this Hulk cries. A lot. He rages, becomes super strong and does not stop crying over and over again, with stories similar and at the same time radically different from those written by Stan Lee in his day. And the fact is that the comic is unknown even to the company’s biggest fans. So much so, that not even in this period where the fans need to have absolutely everything has it been reissued in English, remaining a distant point in the history of the great M.
Curiously, although it could pass for a desperate commercial maneuver, behind this manga is Kazuo Koike, the author of that masterpiece that is ‘Lone Wolf and his cub‘, while the drawings, with an undeniable Tezuka-like air, are by Yoshihiro Morifuji. Morifuji took advantage of the fact that Hulk was not known in Japan to plagiarize cartoons and covers to taste, by the way, including the sound effects in English. He who doesn’t succeed is because he doesn’t want to.
Twitter has updated its Community Notes program so that its participants can add contextual notes to misinformative images.
From time to time, good news on Twitter is welcome. Elon Musk’s social network has expanded the functions of its Community Notes program, which is used to check the veracity of the information provided in tweets on the platform. With this new update, users in the program will now be able to add contextual notes to images attached to tweets.
The Community Notes feature already existed before Elon Musk’s arrival on Twitter, and allows the social network’s own users to add context to tweets that may contain misinformation or incomplete data that can be misinterpreted. Previously, users who are part of the program (which enabled a waiting list for new members a few weeks ago) could only add contextual notes to the tweets themselves, but now it will also be possible to add notes to images attached to a tweet.
From AI-generated images to manipulated videos, it’s common to come across misleading media. Today we’re piloting a feature that puts a superpower into contributors’ hands: Notes on Media
Notes attached to an image will automatically appear on recent & future matching images. pic.twitter.com/89mxYU2Kir
The Community Notes program takes on special importance if we take into account that Elon Musk does not seem to care much about what people say, even if it is false, as long as they “express themselves freely”. A few days ago, it became known that Twitter withdrew from the European Union’s Code of Best Practices on online disinformation, something that will not prevent the platform from being sanctioned if it does not put more means in place to prevent the spread of disinformation.
In a world that is increasingly polarized and where the extreme right is gaining ground in many countries, social networks should have a system in place to prevent the spread of misinformation, including a human moderation team that is able to understand the context and look out for the well-being of users. On Twitter, which fired most of its moderation team, we have Community Notes. It’s something, I guess.
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