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Creatures of the deep dark ocean come in all shapes and sizes, but until now only one species of vampire squid has been known to be cruising along down there. However, Vampyroteuthis infernalis – which was discovered in 1903 – has now been joined by a second member of the genus, called Vampyroteuthis pseudoinfernalis, collected from the South China Sea. While V. pseudoinfernalis may not look like much, the new species has several differences to the OG of the vampire squid world. Notably, V. infernalis does not have a tail while the new species does, and the photophores, light-producing organs found on the side of the body, are on a different location of the body of the new species of squid.            Despite their name, vampire squid are scavengers, and float through the ocean eating debris and marine snow. They are not squids at all but sit in their own family called Vampyroteuthidae, explains the Monterey Bay Aquarium. In 1903, when V. infernalis was first discovered, the specimen was originally thought to be a species of octopus, but was later reclassified. The new species was collected near Hainan Island in the northwestern South China Sea in September 2016 from a depth of 800-1,000 meters (2,624 -3,280 feet). The specimen was photographed and measured, and DNA was extracted to compare to other known squid species. Previous other specimens have been found that were originally believed to be different species, but turned out to be juveniles of V. infernalis. Fortunately, the DNA results and morphological comparisons confirmed that this was a brand new species of vampire squid. The authors describe the specimen in the paper as “extensively gelatinous”. Further differences between the two species include V. pseudoinfernalis having a broad, elongated wing of the lower beak. Despite their differences in appearance, the molecular evidence also strongly suggests that the two species share a common ancestor. The study is published in Zoological Systematics.

Sexting has previously been linked to an increase in mental health problems for teenagers, but a new study challenges this idea. It argues that efforts to reduce sexting among adolescents may not help prevent mental health issues after all.Anyone who has gone through their teenage years will likely remember how formative and complex they were. Adolescence is a time when the body develops from being that of a child to that of an adult, and with it comes a range of physiological and psychological changes. At the same time, the influence our social relationships have – especially with our peers - tends to increase, which also leads to the initiation of romantic and sexual curiosity.The rise of the digital age has brought with it additional changes and pressures that impact adolescents. Smartphones and digital media are now important forums for socialization as well as for sexual exploration. “Sexting” is one such outcome, which is an umbrella term covering all forms of sending, receiving, and forwarding explicit sexual messages and images online. As time has gone on, the prevalence of sexting among adolescents has increased, though its levels have stabilized in recent years.Sexting isn’t unproblematic, despite it being an established part of the contemporary social world. Sexual images may be shared without consent, their production coerced, and they may compound existing sexual double standards. At the same time, there are concerns that sexting may be linked to growing mental health problems among teenagers. However, previous research has tended to focus on cross-sectional studies that only reveal a snapshot of the situation at a specific time. They don’t account for the possibility of pre-existing differences between those who sext and those who do not.This is where a new study comes in. Researchers from Norway analyzed longitudinal panel data to find out whether high scores on sexting are indeed associated with depression symptoms and conduct problems, and whether poor mental health is associated with changes in sexting over time.The data was drawn from MyLife, a longitudinal research project that examines the health and development of adolescents in Norway. The researchers examined a sample of 3,000 teenagers aged between 15 and 19 who took part in at least one of three assessments in the period from 2019 to 2021. Using standardized questionnaires, the researchers measured sexting, depression symptoms, and conduct across each time point.Sexting was measured through three questionnaire items based on the Pennsylvania Youth Risk Behavior Study. Participants were asked about sharing or sending sexual photographs or videos, with responses that ranged from “never” to “every day or almost every day”. Depression symptoms were measured with a nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire that was modified for adolescents and included items covering low mood, sleep problems, and low energy. Conduct problems were measured by questions concerning stealing, bullying, and destroying things.The analysis found that the proportion of teenage sexting varied over time, with 30.5 percent of girls reporting engaging in it at the first time point, then 36.7 percent at the second, and 33.7 percent at the third point. On the other hand, 33.1 percent of boys reported engaging in sexting at the first time point, then 29.9 percent at the second, and 21.6 percent at the third. At the same time, depression symptoms appeared higher among girls, while conduct problems were higher among boys.The results were then subjected to a random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM).“This approach separates differences between individuals (between-person effects) from the effects of fluctuations around the individual’s average level (within-person effects)”, the researchers explain in their paper.This effectively means the team could explore whether changes in one variable predict changes in others over time in the same person. The results showed no significant within-person effects on depression symptoms, either in boys or girls.“High sexting scores relative to a person’s average at one time point thus appears to have no association with depression symptoms being higher than the person’s average at the next time point”, the team write.Interestingly, conduct problems among girls measured at one point were associated with increased sexting at a later point, which suggests that conduct problems may lead to more engagement with sexting, rather than it being the other way around. For boys, “there were no significant associations between conduct problems and sexting.”“The analyses provide unique knowledge that can help disentangle the complex interplay between sexting and mental health during adolescence. We found no evidence to support sexting as a cause of deteriorating mental health over time,” the team concluded.However, the study has its limitations. Firstly, the questionnaires failed to distinguish between consensual and non-consensual sexting, which could have a range of impacts on mental health that differ from consensual sexting. Another limitation concerned the fact that parental consent was needed before teenagers could participate. This may have introduced bias into the responses due to the sensitive nature of the survey.Nevertheless, the results are interesting.“Extending previous cross-sectional research on sexting among adolescents, this longitudinal study suggests that such sexual practices are not predictive of the development of depression symptoms or conduct problems”, the team explained. “Although our data show poorer mental health among adolescents who more frequently participate in sexting, the results do not indicate that sexting increases depression symptoms and conduct problems over time.”“An important implication of our findings is that interventions to reduce sexting among adolescents are unlikely to help prevent mental health problems.”Rather than focusing on interventions that aim to prevent sexting, they argue, further work should try to educate adolescents on the importance of sexual consent and protecting another’s privacy when engaging in this activity.The paper is published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

You do not want to end up on the business end of a skunk. These black and white animals look incredibly cute on the surface, but with a flick of the tail, they can unleash an almighty stench that lingers for days if you don't know how to get it off.As a defense mechanism, it’s incredibly effective – but as a human who had no intention of eating the damn thing anyway, getting sprayed by a skunk can be a bit of a nightmare. If you’re currently staring teary-eyed at your screen wondering “how do you get rid of skunk smell?”, fear not. The American Chemical Society has come through with the answers.How to get rid of skunk smellThere’s a common misconception that dousing yourself in tomato juice can tackle skunk spray, but the truth is that all this does is cover the smell. The real key to getting rid of skunk smell centers around oxidation, as that way you can transform the stinky compounds it contains into odorless sulfonic acids.   How to get rid of skunk smell:Skunk spray on human skin is best tackled in the shower with some soap and vigorous scrubbing. We know it smells bad, just hang in there.For dogs or fabrics you aren't precious about changing color, you can create an oxidizing mixture made up of hydrogen peroxide (as the oxidizing agent), baking soda, and some baby shampoo. Watch the video to find out the best ratio.Apply that mixture to the affected area and let it sit for five minutes.You can repeat this step if needed, but the ACS warns it can lighten your dog’s fur so avoid unnecessary rounds.What are skunks spraying?Skunk spray contains a pungent mix of sulfur-based compounds known as thiols. They’re highly volatile, so you can smell them in the air almost instantly, but the smell then lingers thanks to thioacetates that continue releasing that awful rotten egg smell for days. That is, unless you can get the spray off.All those smelly compounds are packed into an oily yellow liquid that the skunk stores in glands positioned around its anus. When it lands, it acts as a lachrymator, making your eyes water in a way similar to tear gas. Nature really did a number on us when it made something so cute smell so bad.  How to avoid getting sprayed by a skunkThe smell of skunk spray is so intense that some people throw up from it. Add to that the burning in your eyes and it’s an experience you’re better off avoiding altogether. The best way to do that? Keep out of the way of any skunks.Look out for the warning signs – Cooking up that stinky cocktail takes work – and once they use it, they’ve got to make more. As such, skunks will avoid spraying threats if they can. First, they’ll raise their tails (sometimes do a handstand), stamp their, feet, hiss, and point their butt in your direction. If you ignore all of those warning signs, you’ve really got it coming to you.Avoid going into skunk territory at night – Skunks are nocturnal, so you’re most likely to run into one when it’s dark. Unfortunately, that also means they may be harder to see. If you don’t spot the skunk until it’s too late, the bad news is they can hit you from a range of 3 meters (9.8 feet). The smell of their spray is so strong that we can detect it in 1 part per 10 billion, which the ACS says is like one pinch of salt on 100 tons of potato chips.Keep an ear out for skunks – Skunks make lots of noises, from defensive hissing, screeching, and grumbling to more adorable stomps and squeaks. Their camouflaged bodies make them harder to spot when they’re active at night, but if you can hear a skunk coming, you just might make it out of their way before disaster strikes.As for teaching this advice to your dog? Well, good luck with that.

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck both began and ended the week on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night with Friday’s installment featuring a lead-off panel discussion of President Biden’s ABC interview with Good Morning America co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos with the presidency in peril thanks to Biden’s cognitive decline. Houck told fill-in host Mike Emanuel the answer to Stephanopoulos’s final question about whether he’d feel for democracy if Trump wins was “the answer that really concerns” liberal journalists and leftist allies “even more so than maybe some of the cognitive” answers “about him forgetting whether he watched the debate or not, or where he pauses mid-thought and he moves on.”     Houck also addressed Stephanopoulos questioning with some coming off as tough on paper, but his tone was softer: You know, George Stephanopoulos teed this up for him. George Stephanopoulos – a lot of these questions, he did ask some of the questions that needed to be asked, but I think some of them came from a place of concern, like he was a concerned son or grandson of Joe Biden, urging him to get out of the race and that was the last question of the interview notably. So, that was how the interview ended on a really bad note, not just from a cognitive standpoint, but from a policy standpoint, because this is the thesis of the Biden campaign. Physician Dr. Houman Hemmati was also on-set and opined on Biden’s refusals to submit to independent neurological testing (click “expand”): EMANUEL: [H]ow do you react to that comment? HEMMATI: Yeah, that's interesting. You know, look, as a doctor, I've learned how to do mental status exams. There is a full steam mini-mental status examination. It takes, like, 10 minutes to do max. You ask simple questions, remember three different words, count down from 100 by seven, subtracting 7, 7, 7, handful of other easy things. Read, a thing – a piece of paper that says, close your eyes and actually perform the task, et cetera. Why doesn't he do that? I can do it right now for him on television if he wanted to. But he doesn't, because I think they know what the answer may be. This is time for the person who is the leader of the free world to actually submit openly and transparently to something that is pretty obvious he is in need of. Later, Hemmati and Houck also discussed the shocking piece published last week in New York magazine by Olivia Nuzzi entitled, “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden”.  Hemmati went first and said this “was obvious to people who have been looking at the President for quite some time” and argued “[e]ven several weeks ago, I tweeted that the President is exhibiting signs of Parkinson Disease, perhaps, or Lewy Body dementia”. Houck noted Nuzzi spoke “to Fox Digital about why she made this decision to write the story now, when she had this information in January” and he “encourage[d] people to take a look at that, because it would – no matter what you think about it, it's really disturbing stuff and these are the real anecdotes that really, I think, move the needle, because New York magazine is a really liberal magazine that a lot of power players read.” In between, Emanuel asked the two about MSNBC host Joy Reid’s deranged Fourth of July TikTok video saying she’d vote for Biden even if he was in a coma. Houck lampooned Reid for spending her day off worrying about Trump: Joy Reid? On her TikTok? On the Fourth of July? Mike, I mean, this is what some of these people do with their free time. Where they are sitting around, thinking about Donald Trump. It reminds me a few years ago, Ana Navarro from CNN and The View was skiing, and Utah or Colorado, and something, and she was trying to – saying, I'm trying to have a good time, but I'm too busy thinking about Donald Trump and these Hitler references and talking about voting in a coma. She is fulfilling all these type – stereotypes people have about her and the left. Houck returned at the end of the hour for The Nightcap segment with the debate being whether Biden can turn his campaign around. Our managing editor agreed with Republican strategist Matt Gorman’s take that it’s too late.     “It’s going to be hard to turn this boat around. These things should have happened last weekend after the debate. You know, the post-debate – or post interview discussion on ABC, the look of the four panelists, my colleague Jorge Bonilla tweeted that out, they looked like they were out of wake. That said it all,” he argued. To see the relevant transcript from July 5, click “expand.” FNC’s Fox News @ Night July 5, 2024 11:04 p.m. Eastern [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: ABC’s Stephanopoulos Scores Big Biden Interview] MIKE EMANUEL: Let's take a deeper dive into all this drama with NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck, and board-certified medical doctor, Houman Hemmati. Gentlemen, welcome. CURTIS HOUCK: Thanks. Mike. EMANUEL: George Stephanopoulos asked President Biden if he would be willing to get an independent medical evaluation. Let's play it. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Biden: “I Have a Cognitive Test Every Single Day”] GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Would you be willing to undergo an independent medical evaluation that included neurological and cognitive tests and release the results to the American people? PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Look, I have a cognitive test every single day. Every day, I have that test. Everything I do. EMANUEL: Let's start with our doctor, how do you react to that comment? DR. HOUMAN HEMMATI: Yeah, that's interesting. You know, look, as a doctor, I've learned how to do mental status exams. There is a full steam mini-mental status examination. It takes, like, 10 minutes to do max. You ask simple questions, remember three different words, count down from 100 by seven, subtracting 7, 7, 7, handful of other easy things. Read, a thing – a piece of paper that says, close your eyes and actually perform the task, et cetera. Why doesn't he do that? I can do it right now for him on television if he wanted to. But he doesn't, because I think they know what the answer may be. This is time for the person who is the leader of the free world to actually submit openly and transparently to something that is pretty obvious he is in need of. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Biden Asked About His Reaction If Trump Wins Race] EMANUEL: Stephanopoulos also asked the President, what if he loses in November? STEPHANOPOULOS: And if you stay in and Trump is elected, and everything you're warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January? BIDEN: I will feel as long as I gave it my all, and I did the goodest job. EMANUEL: Give my all. Does that show he's out of touch, Curtis? HOUCK: Yeah, Mike. I mean, if you're a liberal partisan, a liberal journalist, this is the question, the answer that really concerns you, even more so than maybe some of the cognitive ones about him forgetting whether he watched the debate or not, or where he pauses mid-thought and he moves on. You know, George Stephanopoulos teed this up for him. George Stephanopoulos – a lot of these questions, he did ask some of the questions that needed to be asked, but I think some of them came from a place of concern, like he was a concerned son or grandson of Joe Biden, urging him to get out of the race and that was the last question of the interview notably. So, that was how the interview ended on a really bad note, not just from a cognitive standpoint, but from a policy standpoint, because this is the thesis of the Biden campaign. EMANUEL: Then, there is MSNBC's Joy Reid calling for keeping Hitler out of the White House. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Joy Reid Says She Would Vote for “Biden in a Coma”] JOY REID: If it's Biden in the coma, I'm going to vote for Biden in the coma. I don't even really particularly like the guy. A lot of his policies, I don't like him. He is not Donald Trump, right? Yeah. Hitler, White House, we keeping them out, keeping Project 2025 out. That's all I care about. Up and down the ballot from the rooter to the tooter. School board, all the way up to White House and everything in between. Governors, members of Congress, I'm just going to vote all the way down to keep these people out. EMANUEL: Dr Hemmati, how do you assess that one? [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Rpt: “Conspiracy of Silence” to Protect Joe Biden] HEMMATI: You know, this is a ridiculous set of comments, and I expect it during election season, right? We're at a pretty crazy time right now where there's a lot of hysteria and a lot of panic, and when that happens, you're going to see very big public figures using their platform to spread more hysteria and so, to me, it's expected, I don't think it's going to move the needle for one candidate or the other. EMANUEL: Pro-tip, Hitler references don't typically go well. What's your take, Curtis? HOUCK: This is the thing. Joy Reid? On her TikTok? On the Fourth of July? Mike, I mean, this is what some of these people do with their free time. Where they are sitting around, thinking about Donald Trump. It reminds me a few years ago, Ana Navarro from CNN and The View was skiing, and Utah or Colorado, and something, and she was trying to – saying, I'm trying to have a good time, but I'm too busy thinking about Donald Trump and these Hitler references and talking about voting in a coma. She is fulfilling all these type – stereotypes people have about her and the left. EMANUEL: New York magazine, “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden”. We’re nearly out of time, but this was striking to me. She said she'd been noticing differences going back to January. Doc, why didn't you report on it six months ago? HEMMATI: I think it was obvious to people who have been looking at the President for quite some time. Even several weeks ago, I tweeted that the President is exhibiting signs of Parkinson Disease, perhaps, or Lewy Body dementia, and I got attacked for making a partisan statement. I said, this is not a partisan statement. This is a medical statement that just looks at how he is behaving and acting mentally as well as physically, with his rigidity, the way his face looks, how it looks so different than before and now, everyone is finally jumping on this, because they are realizing you can't hide from absolute fact. EMANUEL: Quick, final word, Curtis. HOUCK: Yeah. I mean, this is – it's interesting, Olivia Nuzzi, came out – this – she spoke to Fox Digital about why she made this decision to write the story now, when she had this information in January, encourage people to take a look at that, because it would – no matter what you think about it, it's really disturbing stuff. And these are the real anecdotes that really, I think, move the needle, because New York magazine is a really liberal magazine that a lot of power players read. EMANUEL: Right. Curtis, Houman, thank you so much. HOUCK: Thanks, Mike. HEMMATI: Thank you. (….) 11:53 p.m. Eastern [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Get Up and Joe; Has Biden in the Spotlight This Week Helped or Hurt?] EMANUEL: We know that Hakeem Jeffries is having a meeting with top House Democrats on Sunday. There's also been reporting about Senator Mark Warner trying to gather Senate Democrats together to ask the President to step aside. Curtis, what about you? HOUCK: Yes, I mean, I'm with Matt. It's going to be hard to turn this boat around. These things should have happened last weekend after the debate. You know, the post-debate – or post interview discussion on ABC, the look of the four panelists, my colleague Jorge Bonilla tweeted that out, they looked like they were out of wake. That said it all. EMANUEL: [LAUGHS] Alright!

The San Francisco Pride Parade was one for the books — and not in a good way. Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez covered the parade, and what she discovered was “the number-one most disturbing” scene she claims ever to have witnessed. Much of the debauchery took place in the “Fetish Zone,” a sectioned-off area where Hernandez recalls seeing a man lying in an inflatable pool of urine — as well as multiple people urinating on each other. “These men were there to position themselves so as many people as possible could see them — children included — some fully erect,” Hernandez tells Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” Those children were in attendance with their parents, who Gonzales is shocked would allow them to attend such an event. “Do they seem to be horrified at the fact that there are fully erect men where their children are?” She asks. “Are they enjoying it? Like what are the parents doing when they run into this?” Hernandez interviewed some of those parents, and their responses were disturbing, to say the least. “Some of the parents were saying ‘Well, we brought our kids here because my daughter is trans,’” she says. “I spoke to a father who said that it was really his son decided to be a trans girl and he wanted to bring him to this event because he wanted to show his son that there were other people like him.” “It was shocking and horrifying again to watch the innocence leave the eyes of these kids, who are being accosted by fully naked men and these adults performing sex acts on each other,” she adds, noting that there were plenty of sex acts being performed in the “Fetish Zone.” While San Francisco banned public nudity in 2012, those behind the parade were able to get a permit to allow public nudity at the event. “This took place only with permission from the San Francisco local government,” Hernandez explains. “I want to go up to every parent and be like ‘What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you bringing your child here? These are obvious pedophiles that are positioning themselves so that your child has to see their fully naked body, and you’re okay with that,'” she adds. Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A German court has effectively banned all members of the Alternative for Germany (AFD) party from owning firearms. The AFD is a right-leaning populist party that — like Marine Le Pen's National Rally party in France — has grown increasingly popular despite a concerted suppression campaign by the leftist German establishment, which has sought to ban, vilify, and criminalize the AFD outright. The party was founded in 2013 by free market economists keen to strengthen German sovereignty and enraged by the European Union's bailout of Greece and other debtor nations. Over time, the AFD attracted the ire of leftists over its members' criticism of mass migration, open borders, gender ideology, climate alarmism, Islamization, and the European slide toward continental post-nationalism. The AFD emphasized in its 2017 manifesto, "We believe in direct democracy, the separation of powers, the rule of law, social market economics, subsidarity, federalism, family values, and Germany cultural heritage." Clearly, something about the party has begun to resonate with Germans in recent years. After all, the AFD gained six seats and placed second with 15.9% of the national vote in the European parliamentary elections last month, handily beating German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's establishment Social Democratic Party. According to Reuters, the party's membership has also grown by 60% since January 2023. The German powers that be have worked to neutralize the AFD's gains at the polls. In the wake of the AFD's strong electoral showing last month, a Bavarian court ruled that the country's domestic intelligence agency could surveil a regional association of the party as a suspected extremist group. In certain German states, such as Saxony and Thuringia, the party had already been classified as a "right-wing extremist" group. Last week, leftist activists successfully petitioned to de-bank the AFD. Deutsche Welle reported that the AFD's donation account had been deactivated and that the Berliner Volksbank confirmed its receipt of the leftists' petition. The AFD will not only find it difficult to raise money but find it impossible to raise firearms in self-defense against the kinds of savage attacks an AFD politician suffered in early June. 'Membership in a party suspected of anti-constitutional activities regularly leads to the presumption of unreliability.' The 22nd Chamber of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court revealed on July 1 that membership in the AFD precludes German citizens from owning firearms. This ruling is at odds with another regional court's determination last year that suspicion of a party's elements does not alone justify the revocation of members' firearm licenses. According to an English translation of a court release, the chamber determined that "membership in a party suspected of anti-constitutional activities regularly leads to the presumption of unreliability under gun law under the applicable strict standards of gun law, even if the party has not been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court on the grounds of unconstitutionality." The case centered on a married couple associated with the AFD whose permits to keep their combined 224 firearms were revoked. They have since been ordered to hand over or destroy their firearms as well as any related parts or ammunition. The administrative court claimed that its ruling did not violate Article 21 of Germany's Basic Law, which permits for the free establishment of political parties but apparently does not protect against any disadvantages for parties deemed undesirable. The administrative court has reportedly enabled the couple to appeal the decision to the Higher Administrative Court in Münster. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A man told police he shot a burglar who broke through a window of a Tampa, Florida, home in the middle of the night over the weekend, and the alleged burglar was found dead.Tampa police said officers responded to the Palmetto Beach Community for a reported burglary around 4:19 a.m. Saturday, WTVT-TV reported.The man who fired the shot stayed at the scene and is cooperating with investigators, police added to the station.Police said when they arrived at the home in the 1300 block of South Bermuda Boulevard, a man at the home said he shot an intruder who broke in through a window, the station noted.Investigators said officers found a male in his early 40s suffering from a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead, WTVT reported.The man who fired the shot stayed at the scene and is cooperating with investigators, police added to the station. There is no threat to the public, police noted to WTVT.How are observers reacting?Commenters underneath the station's Facebook post about the incident appeared decidedly behind the man who pulled the trigger:"Standing your ground against somebody who wants to harm you and saving the taxpayers money — good job!!" one commenter wrote. "Essentially you saved other people's lives because he can’t do it again.""Actions have consequences. I guess the intruder found that out for himself," another user said."I have a feeling that a lot of people are going to f*** around and find out in Florida," another commenter declared. "We keep more than pistols around here. All legal; all handled properly; all for our protection. One under the pillow, too.""Let that be a lesson learned for others; you intrude, you leave in a body bag — period," another user warned."The homeowner had every right to," another commenter said. "Break into my house, and you will meet your maker lickity split.""When are these criminals gonna realize that people go to bed with a gun under their pillow?" another user wondered.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

We all thought Palworld would find some kind of success, but I don’t think anyone - even its creators - expected the seismic splash that it made on Steam back in January. At its peak, Pocketpair’s monster-driven survival game pulled in more than two million players at once. Now, some six months later, it averages just over 100,000. That’s a big decline, but Palworld is one of the lucky ones - big games, especially middle-budget survival and horror projects, arrive, thrive, and die at an alarming rate, and the competition is more extant than ever. It’s a tough world out there. Once Human, one of the most popular games on Steam already, has every chance of success, but in such a crowded genre, how does it stand out from rivals like Stalker 2, Soulmask, and the esteemed Palworld itself? Speaking exclusively to PCGamesN, developer Starry Studio explains. Continue reading Soaring on Steam, Once Human may be the biggest survival game ever MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best sandbox games, Best open-world games, Best survival games