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Guillermo del Toro reveals how James Cameron stepped in when his father was kidnapped When Guillermo del Toro’s father was kidnapped, the first call from the kidnappers came with a terrifying ultimatum. “We want 3 million in three days, 5 million in five days, or we chop his head off.” His father was held for 72 days. And as the ordeal dragged on, Guillermo says even his ability to cope with the situation began to change. “First third of the kidnapping, I go and hide in a closet, cover my ears, cannot talk while they’re talking. Last third of the kidnapping, I negotiate.” “My beard comes off. I have no hair on my face. And my mother loses all her hair during the 72 days. All the hair. Eyebrows, hair, everything.” During the crisis, James Cameron stepped in. He paid for a professional negotiator and even offered to help rescue Guillermo’s father. “He said, ‘I’ll get him in a cage in a helicopter.’ I said, ‘Jim, I’ll go in with Navy SEALs.’” “Even although we were in tragedy, I said, ‘Look, I don’t want you to solve it. We have to solve it.’” The family struggled to access the money needed for the ransom. When they told the kidnappers they thought they could raise $100,000, the call ended. When the negotiator arrived, he warned them that revealing how much they could raise might have made things worse. “The negotiator says that same day, ‘It’s going to stay between 70 and 75 days, and you screwed up.’”

In 2024, Nintendo declared war on emulators. March 4. Yuzu paid Nintendo $2.4 million, deleted its code, and handed over its domain. October 1. Ryujinx got a phone call. The GitHub organization vanished overnight. May 2024. Nintendo filed 8,535 DMCA takedowns to scrub Yuzu code from every fork. By 2026, Nintendo has collected $6 million in emulator settlements. Every major Switch emulator is dead. But Nintendo has a problem. His name is Zurdi. In March 2023, one year before the war started, he quietly built RomM. RomM is not an emulator. It's a ROM manager. It scans your legally-dumped game files, pulls metadata from IGDB, MobyGames, and Screenscraper, fetches box art from SteamGridDB, and pulls your achievements from RetroAchievements. Then it lets you play in your browser through EmulatorJS. Nintendo's own top IP lawyer admitted on the record in January 2025 that this is legal. Emulators only become illegal when they bypass encryption. RomM doesn't. It just organizes what you already own. 9,114 stars. AGPL-3.0. 400+ platforms supported. NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, GameCube, PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, Genesis, Atari, DOS, arcade, Flash games through Ruffle. Official apps for Playnite on Windows. Argosy launcher on Android. Grout for muOS handhelds and the Anbernic devices. Sync plugins for RetroArch, Steam Deck, and Syncthing. Multi-disk games. DLCs. ROM hacks. Patches. Manuals. Tag filtering. Share your library with friends with permission levels. Made the front page of Hacker News. Sony deleted 2,000 PS3, Vita, and PSP games from its store. Nintendo took down every Switch emulator in two years. Your digital library was never yours. Two guys in a Discord server built the museum they can't take back. (Link in the comments)

🇯🇵 Japanese anime voice actress Kana Hanazawa jokingly called Domino's Pizza live on a TV show and used anime character voices to order. But, for some reason, the employee who answered the phone didn't react. He just remained completely professional despite him probably recognizing the character voice. This may surprise many foreigners but in Japan we are told to remain professional even in this type of situation. x.com/haruka_no_yume…

Bro got the life's best chance but what he did 😭💀

The look that says a million things to us. I like her expressions 🩶🩶🤍

Two things: that look and that bounce! 🔥🔥

ABS and TV5: reuniting after a breakup GMA: airs the same teleserye in all 4 channels meanwhile the PTV subplot:

IKULONG SI SARA..!!! 😠😠

When you are in danger. you must pretend to be blind.

Kung sino man gumawa nito 🤣🤣🤣 galing mo hahahahaha

from a davao conyo to a rodrigo impersonator

Sensitive ⚠️: In Phillipines, Wife assaulted her husband over some random issues; Husband, a Police officer's brutal fightback send woman in ICU... ! Police HQ suspended him

@jesusfalcis Bata dds gaslighting at projection magaling. Lahat ng ginagawa nila pinoporject nila sa kalaban nila. Typical fascist tactic

“ITAGO NYO CCTV!” Good job mga ungas!

Mel Tiangco: matagal kayong hindi pumasok eh. 6 na buwan kayong nawala sa senado… Karen Davila: tapos eto kayo tumatakbo, umiiwas sa mga pulis, umiiyak sa senado, takot na takot kayo… HAHAHA women roasting the hell out of this stupid, cowardly senator. we love to see it! 😌

Alan Peter Cayetano teaching Mocha Uson and Banat By how to be effective propagandists. 👊 Yan ang Senate President ngayon. 👇

If Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III is removed as Senate President today, then let us stop pretending this is about “leadership change.” This is political surrender. Senator Alan Cayetano’s bloc is making one thing clear — they would rather protect the Dutertes than defend the Constitution and the independence of the Senate. History will remember the senators who chose loyalty to power over loyalty to the Filipino people. Shame on them.

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