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## Headlines
GRANT BRICKMAN: While you were asleep: screwworms spread to Arizona, joining New Mexico and Texas, and the USDA says they are attacking pets.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: John Carpenter says the answer to The Thing's ending is hiding in the 1982 film itself. He did not say what it is.
GRANT BRICKMAN: And Final Fantasy XIV's Evercold expansion now launches on 23rd February 2027, after an earlier January date.

## Monster Hunter Outlanders Review So Far (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/monster-hunter-outlanders-review
GRANT BRICKMAN: Monster Hunter lands on your phone, and the reviewer eyes the gacha.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. We first told you about Monster Hunter Outlanders earlier today. Now a panel. A hunt on a phone? I assume the monsters are small, to fit.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: IGN has played six hours of the mobile spin-off. It says the loop and visuals match the console games, with progress gates that push microtransactions.
ADA: What I love: they didn't simplify the loop. They squeezed the whole World experience into a phone. That's tight engineering, and it survives the squeeze.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The same review calls it competent, and also frets about grind and gacha. Both sentences stand.
ADA: It's a reconfigured hunt, stretched to fit a mobile framework. A design choice. I'd stress test it before judging it.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Who do the progress gates serve, Ada, the hunter or the wallet?
GRANT BRICKMAN: Gacha. Sounds like my old VCR timer: you press the button and hope. Greta, your thoughts, on your fourth coffee?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: This is a review so far, not a final verdict. IGN's word is hesitations. Please vote in our poll, and finish your toast.

## Interviewing Patrick Stewart Was a Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience (io9 (Gizmodo))
https://gizmodo.com/interviewing-patrick-stewart-was-a-once-in-a-lifetime-experience-2000833068
Lines left out: a serious story.

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PRUDENCE NUANCE: I slept on it for a whole layover. Or possibly it slept on me. I'm told both are accurate.

AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.