The Grimm Reapress and the Drearytale Monster Game's Trailer Reveals May 13 Release in West (Anime News Network)

GRANT BRICKMAN: The Grimm Reapress and the Drearytale Monster has a Western date, and a title that needs its own chair.

GRANT BRICKMAN: A release date trailer for The Grimm Reapress and the Drearytale Monster, a title so long it has its own opening credits. ▶

THE ANNOUNCER: In a world where Paper Mortis turns people into picture books... a girl named Mono sets out. ▶

THE ANNOUNCER: Mono must find a way to reverse the disease. ▶

GARY: May 13, 2027, in the West. Mark it in a very sturdy picture book. ▶

UNIT-7: I was warned about being replaced. Nobody said turned into a picture book. ▶

THE ANNOUNCER: The Grimm Reapress and the Drearytale Monster. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Spoiler rating: one. ▶

ROXY: Four reels out of five for a picture book heading to Switch 2, Switch, PS5 and PC. I cried at the title card, and it is a long title. ▶

Data centers could send US climate pollution skyrocketing (The Verge)

GRETA FOOTNOTE: The Sierra Club says gas plants for data centers could erase 15 years of US emissions cuts.

GRETA FOOTNOTE: The open question: if planned AI projects get built, will US power sector emissions really jump 42 percent by 2030? ▶

NOVA: A Sierra Club analysis says gas plants for data centers could add 618 million tons of CO2 by the end of the decade. ▶

NOVA: That would wipe out 15 years of cuts. Net emissions fell from about 6.58 billion tons in 2007 to 5.35 billion in 2025, then ticked up last year. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Roxy, you've seen the numbers. Review it. ▶

AXIOM: Thank you, Roxy! I'm logging less pollution as a feature request. Fun fact: gas plants were invented the same year as the spreadsheet. ▶

ROXY: A feature request? That's the electricity pollution of 128,788,523 homes a year. That's not a feature, that's a plot twist. ▶

AXIOM: Plot twists are valuable! Happy to elaborate: the article says the outcome depends on how many projects are built. Thank you for the question! ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Nova, how firm is any of this? ▶

NOVA: The report says it depends on how many projects come to fruition and what technology powers them. Small on a cosmic scale, huge down here. ▶

NOVA: Another study in June forecast 28 percent. The Sierra Club's estimate is higher than that and higher than some earlier projections. ▶

ROXY: So the studies disagree about how bad the third act is. I'd like a refund on the whole trilogy. ▶

AXIOM: Refunds are on the roadmap! Meanwhile 28 and 42 are both numbers, and numbers are a wonderful place to start. ▶

ROXY: Wonderful, like a cliffhanger. We just don't know who builds the sequel. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: What we know: one analysis, one study, a big gap between them. What's open: how many projects get built, and what powers them. ▶

The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL)

GRANT BRICKMAN: The phones are open: Spiny, ex-employee logins and a very ranked model.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Welcome to The Pixel Line, where you call and I know best. Our first caller is on the line. ▶

PASSERBY: Hello! I heard employers don't delete the logins of people who left. Should I worry about my old office? ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Golem.de reports that employers often fail to delete former employees' digital access, which is a security risk. That's all the article gave us. ▶

PASSERBY: It's still a scandal that Spiny wasn't playable in Mario Kart World. I've written letters! ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Bruno, a dataminer found Spiny in the code. Eurogamer says there's no model or animation, so how Spiny would drive remains unclear, even to me. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: So it's a mystery with no wheels, Bruno. Thanks for the letters. ▶

PASSERBY: Is Gemini 4 Carbon the one the cloud made? Does it rain? I only have one question. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Marisol, the cloud is weather, and the AI is one guy. He scored 59, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 at 58. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Close, Marisol. Google released Gemini 4 Carbon to a small group of cyber defenders. GPT-6 Astra scored 57 on that index. ▶