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Following Her Story and Telling Lies ($6.99), Sam Barlow is back with IMMORTALITY. IMMORTALITY is a new FMV game published by Half Mermaid and it is all about Marissa Marcel, a film star who made three movies. None of the movies were released and she has disappeared. IMMORTALITY features the three lost movies and it looks like another interesting experience from Sam Barlow. Watch the IMMORTALITY teaser trailer below:

As of now, IMMORTALITY is confirmed to release in 2022 on Steam and more. Beyond Steam, the launch platforms are yet to be announced. Hopefully mobile is among the launch platforms or soon after considering both Her Story and Telling Lies released on mobile. As with Sams other games, Im definitely going to check this out whenever it does release next year. If youre interesting in IMMORTALITY (I know right), you can wishlist it on Steam here. Have you played Her Story and Telling Lies yet and which is your favourite FMV game on mobile?

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'IMMORTALITY' from Sam Barlow (Her Story, Telling Lies) Is an FMV Adventure Set to Release in 2022 on PC and More - Touch Arcade

Sam Barlow, the creator of non-linear FMV mystery games Her Story and Telling Lies, revealing his new project earlier this week called Immortality. Platforms besides PC have not been announced for this game yet, but as with the last two titles its possible it may come to iOS at some point.

Immortality had been previously teased by Barlow under the working title Project A?????? but now we have a full glimpse at what could be in the store for this game. It allows you to explore a recently discovered cache of film reels from the lost movies of actress Marissa Marcel, who vanished under mysterious circumstances.

You can check out the announcement trailer for Immortality below, which doesnt reveal a whole lot but shows three posters for Marcels lost movies: Ambrosio, Minsky and Two of Everything.

The trailer also reveals the project includes notable screenwriters Allan Scott (Dont Look Now, The Queens Gambit), Amelia Gray (Mr. Robot, Telling Lies) and Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway.)

Due to the nature of Barlows games, its possible Immortality will make use of live-action segments in the form of Marcels lost movie reels.

I have always been fascinated by moviemaking, said Sam Barlow, the creator of Immortality. Delving into the history of cinema and sharing Marissa Marcels work with players is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity. We hope to use this footage as a lens to explore the medium and peek inside the second half of films first century. Perhaps it can bring closure to the questions around Marissas disappearance also.

Immortality is set for release sometime next year. The only platform currently confirmed for it is PC, but further platforms are expected to be announced at a later date.

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Her Story and Telling Lies creator reveals new game Immortality - Pocket Gamer

Euro 2020 is surely the last opportunity for Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld, Eden Hazard and the rest to achieve immortality with Belgium.

Tottenham supporters hijacked the moment somewhat with their misty-eyed and wistful reminiscence, but it did nothing to undermine the individual and collective achievement. As Toby Alderweireld put it, 350 games together and counting alongside Jan Vertonghen is a truly remarkable testament to their longevity and quality. And on to more they go.

Their latest appearance together came as Belgium beat Croatia 1-0 to complete their preparations for Euro 2020. Alderweireld and Vertonghen both started against the World Cup runners-up, marking their 90th shared game at international level. The most-capped players in the Hungary, Scotland, England, Czech Republic, Netherlands and Turkey squads have not featured as often for their countries as Alderweireld and Vertonghen have together for Belgium.

For over a decade they have formed the base of a spine that soon developed from promising to phenomenal although it was not without its complications. Alderweireld and Vertonghen first partnered each other at international level in October 2009: a chastening 2-0 loss to Estonia that put the 2010 World Cup further out of reach.

Belgium did not feature at a major tournament from their last-16 exit to winners Brazil in 2002 until their quarter-final defeat to eventual runners-up Argentina 12 years later.They have now lost two of their last 48 competition qualifiers dating back to October 2010 and scored the most goals while conceding the fewest in reaching this summers finals.

But this might be the current generations final hurrah. There is a World Cup creeping over the horizon in 18 months yet the circumstances that pushed this tournament back a year means these fine Belgian chocolates are approaching expiration, or at the very least their best before date as a unit.

Ten members of Roberto Martinezs squad are in their 30s, with the reigning PFA Player of the Yearreaching that landmark on the eve of the last-16 ties to make that a full starting XI. A great one, too: Mignolet; Alderweireld, Boyata, Vertonghen, Vermaelen; Hazard, Witsel, De Bruyne, Chadli; Mertens, Benteke.

Jeremy Doku is not only the solitary teenager, but the one player under the age of 24. The 26-man squad contains 11 that were at the 2014 World Cup, 15 from Euro 2016 and 18 that reached the World Cup semi-finals three years ago. The five that have dropped out since then include a third-choice keeper (Koen Casteels), a retiree (Vincent Kompany), two that have long since headed to the Chinese Super League (Marouane Fellaini and Mousa Dembele) and one Adnan Januzaj.

It is a quite stunning lack of churn from a side that has at least 283 more combined caps than any other country at the tournament, and 111 more than second-favourites England and fourth-favourites Italy put together.

They will favour experience and established synergy when many other contenders have opted for something fresh and different. The postponement of Euro 2020 opened national team doors across the continent for potential starters Jack Grealish, Jamal Musiala, Jude Bellingham, Ryan Gravenberch, Reece James, Pedri, Florian Wirtz and Phil Foden; Belgium have kept their pathways even to the bench mostly blocked.

Time dictates that the firstProject 2000talent pool will have to be watered down soon but they have one last opportunity to be co-signatories of history. Beyond the Alderweireld and Vertonghen partnership, Thibaut Courtois and Eden Hazard have played 251 games together for club and country, Axel Witsel and Dries Mertens have featured alongside one another at international level 70 times and Kevin de Bruyneand Romelu Lukaku have 60 communal caps.

This group has reached two quarter-finals and a semi-final together and are good enough to advance that far again, although a possible meeting with France in the last four provides yet another obstacle if their two-decade journey is to end in immortality. It would certainly be a far cry from getting turned over by Estonia as unused substitute Hazard watches Emile Mpenza and Roland Lamah toil up front.

Euro 2020 is finally here and what better way to celebrate than with a preview show to mark the launch of our new multi-sport website Planet Sport?

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Webster was much possessed by death

And saw the skull beneath the skin;

And breastless creatures under ground

Leaned backward with a lipless grin.

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls

Stared from the sockets of the eyes!

He knew that thought clings round dead limbs

Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

Donne, I suppose, was such another

Who found no substitute for sense,

To seize and clutch and penetrate;

Expert beyond experience,

He knew the anguish of the marrow

The ague of the skeleton;

No contact possible to flesh

Allayed the fever of the bone.

. . . . .

Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye

Is underlined for emphasis;

Uncorseted, her friendly bust

Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

The couched Brazilian jaguar

Compels the scampering marmoset

With subtle effluence of cat;

Grishkin has a maisonnette;

The sleek Brazilian jaguar

Does not in its arboreal gloom

Distil so rank a feline smell

As Grishkin in a drawing-room.

And even the Abstract Entities

Circumambulate her charm;

But our lot crawls between dry ribs

To keep our metaphysics warm.

1918, 1919

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Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation

Summary

In the first stanza, the speaker says wistfully that therewas a time when all of nature seemed dreamlike to him, apparelledin celestial light, and that that time is past; the things I haveseen I can see no more. In the second stanza, he says that he stillsees the rainbow, and that the rose is still lovely; the moon looksaround the sky with delight, and starlight and sunshine are eachbeautiful. Nonetheless the speaker feels that a glory has passedaway from the earth.

In the third stanza, the speaker says that, while listeningto the birds sing in springtime and watching the young lambs leapand play, he was stricken with a thought of grief; but the soundof nearby waterfalls, the echoes of the mountains, and the gustingof the winds restored him to strength. He declares that his griefwill no longer wrong the joy of the season, and that all the earthis happy. He exhorts a shepherd boy to shout and play around him.In the fourth stanza, he addresses natures creatures, and saysthat his heart participates in their joyful festival. He says thatit would be wrong to feel sad on such a beautiful May morning, whilechildren play and laugh among the flowers. Nevertheless, a treeand a field that he looks upon make him think of something thatis gone, and a pansy at his feet does the same. He asks what hashappened to the visionary gleam: Where is it now, the glory andthe dream?

In the fifth stanza, he proclaims that human life is merelya sleep and a forgettingthat human beings dwell in a purer, moreglorious realm before they enter the earth. Heaven, he says, liesabout us in our infancy! As children, we still retain some memoryof that place, which causes our experience of the earth to be suffusedwith its magicbut as the baby passes through boyhood and youngadulthood and into manhood, he sees that magic die. In the sixthstanza, the speaker says that the pleasures unique to earth conspireto help the man forget the glories whence he came.

In the seventh stanza, the speaker beholds a six-year-oldboy and imagines his life, and the love his mother and father feelfor him. He sees the boy playing with some imitated fragment ofadult life, some little plan or chart, imitating a wedding ora festival or a mourning or a funeral. The speaker imagines thatall human life is a similar imitation. In the eighth stanza, thespeaker addresses the child as though he were a mighty prophet ofa lost truth, and rhetorically asks him why, when he has accessto the glories of his origins, and to the pure experience of nature,he still hurries toward an adult life of custom and earthly freight.

In the ninth stanza, the speaker experiences a surge ofjoy at the thought that his memories of childhood will always granthim a kind of access to that lost world of instinct, innocence ,and exploration. In the tenth stanza, bolstered by this joy, heurges the birds to sing, and urges all creatures to participatein the gladness of the May. He says that though he has lost somepart of the glory of nature and of experience, he will take solacein primal sympathy, in memory, and in the fact that the yearsbring a mature consciousnessa philosophic mind. In the finalstanza, the speaker says that this mindwhich stems from a consciousnessof mortality, as opposed to the childs feeling of immortalityenableshim to love nature and natural beauty all the more, for each ofnatures objects can stir him to thought, and even the simplestflower blowing in the wind can raise in him thoughts that do oftenlie too deep for tears.

Wordsworths Immortality Ode, as it is often called, iswritten in eleven variable ode stanzas with variable rhyme schemes,in iambic lines with anything from two to five stressed syllables.The rhymes occasionally alternate lines, occasionally fall in couplets,and occasionally occur within a single line (as in But yet I know, whereerI go in the second stanza).

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The first Eternals trailer is pretty enigmatic, but it does introduce new fans to the basic concept of the film: The Eternals are a group of immortal, superpowered aliens who settled on Earth thousands of years ago. And they chose not to interfere in human affairs until now.

That until now thing is kind of a head-scratcher because it introduces a silent question hanging over the films head. Why did these heroes ignore 7,000 years of genocide, war, and natural disasters, including Thanos killing off half the worlds population? It doesnt seem to be a King Arthur situation where they just took a really long nap. They just decided it wasnt their place to interfere.

This is an unavoidable problem when telling a story about immortal characters and/or a secret civilization living alongside our own. In Wonder Woman, the Amazons were physically secluded from the rest of the world, with Diana choosing to leave the island of Themyscira during WWI. In the Old Guard comics and Netflix movies, the immortal heroes secretly fought in numerous wars throughout history. Meanwhile, the Minions franchise found a tongue-in-cheek explanation for why the Minions didnt team up with real 20th century villains like Hitler. They were frozen in an ice cave from 1812 to 1968.

The writers of the Transformers franchise werent quite so circumspect, positing that the Transformers worked alongside Harriet Tubman. This inevitably led people to wonder why the Transformers didnt do more to end slavery. Not the kind of question you want people to ask about a new Marvel spinoff.

We cant judge a full movie based on its trailer, but The Eternals writers may have an uphill battle on their hands here. While audiences will happily suspend their disbelief for fantasy concepts like magic and immortality, we have a different response to real historical events. The initial conflict of The Eternals will touch upon something like Star Treks Prime Directive (Should a powerful, high-tech civilization interfere with someone elses cultural development?) writ large over the course of human history. That means theyll have to find a very good explanation for why this is the right moment for the Eternals to take action.

*First Published: May 24, 2021, 1:44 pm CDT

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom. Specializing in sci-fi movies and superheroes, she also appears as a film and TV critic on BBC radio. Elsewhere, she co-hosts the pop culture podcast Overinvested. Follow her on Twitter: @Hello_Tailor

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The highly anticipated 'Highlander' reboot is in the works and 'Man of Steel' Henry Cavill is in talks to take the lead in Lionsgates reboot.

As per THR, the role of Cavill isunknown so fary, but it is expected to be one of the films two leading roles.

Chad Stahelski, who is known for directing all the John Wick movies, is attached to direct the upcoming movie with Kerry Williamsonwriting the script. Amanda Lewis, Patrick Wachsberger and Gregory Widen will produce the project.

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Ive been a huge fan of the original property since I saw it in high school, Stahelski previously told THR. Such great themes of immortality, love and identity are all wrapped up in such colorful mythology. I cant think of a better property that gives the opportunity to create interesting characters, mythic themes and action set pieces.

For the unversed, the first 'Highlander' movie was released back in 1986 and chronicles the climax of an ages-old war between immortal warriors, depicted through interwoven past and present-day storylines. The movie starred Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, and Sean Connery.

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Cavill rose to global fame playing Superman in 2013s 'Man of Steel' and in other DC films. Meanwhile, he has been busy filming Season 2 of 'The Witcher' for Netflix, and he recently signed up to play Sherlock Holmes again opposite Millie Bobby Brown's titular performance in 'Enola Holmes 2'.

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A new panini sandwich concocted in a Marvel superhero themed food innovation science lab restaurant that can shrink and expand meals comes with an eye-popping, super-sized $100 price tag aimed at Disneyland visitors traveling on a Tony Stark budget.

The new $99.99 Quantum-sized Pym-ini Sandwich coming to the Pym Test Kitchen when Avengers Campus debuts June 4 at Disney California Adventure ranks among the worlds most expensive sandwiches.

Whats in the sandwich? For that price, it better come with super powers and side of immortality.

The new Marvel lands Pym Test Kitchen, themed to Ant-Man and the Wasp, will serve meals that have been shrunk or expanded in size. The foods will be resized using Pym Particles, the same technology used to shrink Ant-Man and the Wasp, according to the backstory for the restaurant.

The most shocking item on the Pym Test Kitchen menu: The $100 Quantum-sized Pym-ini Sandwich, which comes with salami, rosemary ham, provolone and sun-dried tomato spread on toasted focaccia. Its served with marinara dipping sauce and an arugula salad.

The super expensive Disneyland resort sandwich was unveiled this week as DCA prepares to open the new Avengers Campus next month. The Pym Test Kitchen website initially listed three sizes for the Pym-ini sandwich: $14.99 for a single serving along with $57.99 and $99.99 for larger versions, according to WDW News Today.

The $58 version of the panini is no longer on the Pym Test Kitchen website. The $100 sandwich now includes a new addendum to the menu explaining that the meal serves 6-8 guests after the high-priced family-sized item started making headlines on Disney fan sites like Inside the Magic, AllEars and Disney Food Blog.

The $100 Avengers Campus panini will be one of the most expensive food items at the Disneyland resort. Napa Rose at Disneys Grand Californian Hotel offers a $155 Vinters Menu with wine flight for $155. Steakhouse 55 at the Disneyland Hotel has a Porterhouse for Two on the menu at $138.

The cost of the Quantum Pym-ini works out to about $12.50 to $16.50 per serving with the average price about the same as a $14.99 single serving.

But its the $100 Disneyland sandwich price tag that will have Avengers Campus visitors talking and social media influencers buzzing.

The triple-digit price tag puts the Marvel superhero sub in rare territory among the worlds most expensive sandwiches.

A 2020 Money Inc. list of the top 10 most expensive sandwiches in the world includes the $120 Wagyu rib-eye and foie gras cheesesteak from Philadelphias Barclay Prime, $150 Von Essen Platinum Club from the Michelin-starred Cliveden House in the United Kingdom and $225 Bacon Bling from the U.K.s Tangberrys Cafe.

The Guinness Book of World Records named the $214 Quintessential Grilled Cheese Sandwich from New Yorks Serendipity 3 the most expensive sandwich in 2014.

A grilled cheese sandwich said to bear an image of the Virgin Mary sold on eBay in 2004 for $28,000.

The Pym Test Kitchen panini doesnt have super-premium ingredients such as Wagyu beef, foie gras, white truffles, quail eggs, Kaluga caviar and 24-karat gold dust like many of the worlds most expensive sandwiches.

The $100 Disneyland sandwich unlike most of the other contenders on the list of the worlds most expensive sandwiches is designed to be eaten by more than one person.

The $100 Ant Man and the Wasp panini price tag is in line with the $100 6-foot Giant Sub at Subway but that mega-meal serves 25 people. Jimmy Johns serves a 16-inch J.J. Gargantuan Giant for $18.99 that Eat This, Not That calls the most expensive sandwich at popular fast food chains.

Disneyland is no stranger to high-priced meals. A seven-course dinner for 12 at 21 Royal Street in New Orleans Square will set you back a cool $15,000. If you invite Tony Stark, he might pick up the tip.

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It is a moment that Josh Taylor will never forget after glancing up during a stroll after landing in Las Vegas. With his face and name plastered over an enormous billboard outside Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, the stature of this Saturdays historic fight became apparent.

The Prestonpans southpaw (17-0) is aiming to become the first British fighter to hold all four world titles in one weight division when he clashes with undefeated American Jose Ramirez (26-0).

The Scots rapid rise through the professional ranks now sees him stand on the brink of becoming the undisputed world champion after just 18 fights, with the culmination of his journey initially difficult to process after soaking up the atmosphere under the famous bright lights.

It was pretty cool the first time I saw my face up on the billboard outside the hotel, Taylor admits. It was a pinch me moment.

All the hard work, dedication and dreams had come true. It has come to fruition but the dream hasnt finished yet. I still have to go in there on Saturday and do the job. I quickly snapped back out of it. But it was pretty damn cool to see my name up in the big lights in Las Vegas.

Its a dream come true. Its a very good feeling knowing all my hard work, dedication and sacrifice has paid off. Ive reached this level in my career and its good to see it. It was good for the first 10 minutes but now that Ive seen it a few times, Im used to it now. Im still very focused on what I still need to do.

Taylor hopes to replicate his hero, Ken Buchanan, who captured undisputed status at lightweight in 1971. But despite the daunting stage that awaits him, in what will be just the seventh world title fight the sport has seen since 1988 with all four world titles on the line, a calm demeanour covers the 30-year-olds face.

Im not getting blown away by the occasion, Taylor maintains with real conviction to his words, now just days out from the fight. Because Ive been around this sort of thing many times. Ive been involved with Carl Frampton, David Haye and George Groves for big fights so Im not fazed by the big stage.

Ive also been involved on the big stage myself at the Olympics, two Commonwealth Games and things like that, world title fights. Im just enjoying the whole experience, soaking it all up, making sure that I enjoy every single minute of it.

Amid the evident pride and amicable build-up between both fighters, there is the inevitable sense of hostility beneath the surface. The post-Covid world has deprived both fighters of the opportunity to invade each others space in the build-up. It is usually moments like these that can often light the fuse and spark a grudge to harness once that first bell rings.

Josh Taylor of Scotland fights Jose Ramirez of America this Saturday

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But while Taylor is at ease with the tranquility that currently lingers in the humid Nevada air for now, he admits the mask may slip during the final hours before both men touch gloves.

The nastiness will come, Taylor promises. Theres still plenty of time. Ive not seen Ramirez yet. Im not going to be snarling at him through a computer screen.

Theres plenty of time to go and see Ramirez and get into fight mode. Im looking forward to seeing him and seeing him at the weigh in.

Im looking forward to sizing him up and we might get a bite out of him. We will see what hes like. Theres plenty of time for me to get in the fight zone. Im not wasting my energy for now, Im keeping it for when it is needed.

Ramirez vs Taylor will stream live and exclusively in the UK on FITE for 9.99. Live coverage begins at 1.30am UK time.

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Josh Taylor expects nastiness towards Jose Ramirez ahead of chance at immortality - The Independent

Josh Taylor is itching to etch his name into the history books against Jose Ramirez by becoming Britains first undisputed world champion of the four-belt era.

Only four other male fighters from around the world Oleksandr Usyk, Bernard Hopkins, Jermain Taylor and Terence Crawford have held the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO titles consecutively in their divisions.

And the 30-year-old 'Tartan Tornado' knows he will achieve boxing immortality if he can add 28-year-old American Ramirezs WBC and WBO belts to the light-welterweight titles he already holds in Las Vegas on Saturday.

He said: To be on the doorstep of achieving it is crazy.

This is why Im so motivated my name will have some kind of greatness attached to it if I win this fight.

Undisputed world champion in the four-belt era, the first person from Britain to do it, the first person in Scotland to do it, and there are only four other fighters in the world to have done it.

Its a really, really special club to be a member of and its one that puts my name in the history books so people will hopefully be talking about me when Im long gone.

Lennox Lewis was the last undisputed world champion from Britain after his 1999 victory over Evander Holyfield completed the set of WBC, WBA and IBF titles in the three-belt era.

While Taylors fellow Scot, Ken Buchanan, became Britains first undisputed world champion in 1971, when he held the WBC and WBA world lightweight titles.

Taylor added: I never thought Id hear my name mentioned in the same breath as Kennys as an undisputed world champion.

Even when I turned professional, people were saying, Can you be as good as Ken Buchanan?

I was, like, Dont disrespect the man, this is an all-time British great and youre putting me in the same breath. Come on, thats ridiculous.

But now its a realistic goal and Im just a few days from achieving what he achieved.

Im close to Kenny as well, Ive seen him a lot over the years.

Id love to go home and see him with the belts and say, Look, Im just like you, Champ.

Taylor only sees his clash with Ramirez, who is also unbeaten, ending one way.

He said: Ive visualised this fight over and over, thousands of times in my head, Ive imagined it in lots of different ways, and every single time its me winning.

My speed, power, skill, accuracy, boxing IQ, my brain will be different to anything he has faced before.

The ball is in my court, the way I want to take the fight on, Im better than him in every department and my skill levels will be the difference.

Hes a very good fighter, he comes forward, puts the pressure on and hes very good at what he does, so Im not here disrespecting him.

I just believe Im better than him and he is going to have to prove me wrong.

Ramirez v Taylor will stream live and exclusively in the UK on FITE for 9.99. Live coverage begins at 130am UK on Sunday, May 23.

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