Unfortunately, it was not without its controversies, which started as early as its cast was announced, with many expressing extreme dissatisfaction with the casting of actors of Indian and African descent, claiming it to be disrespectful to Greek culture and history, among several other historical inaccuracies.

Fuel was added to the fire after a Reddit user posted his findings of hidden, unverified reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, convincing many that the positive reactions to the movie are artificial.

Many have recommended to simply read the original Homer poem instead, while others have mentioned the older mini-series, due to being more faithful to the original piece.

However, a certain user of the social media platform “X” has expressed his wish of a Mel Gibson directed, source material accurate adaptation of the Odyssey, with funding of a 100 million dollars by Elon Musk. To the surprise of “X” users, the owner of the platform responded with a reassuring “I’m down”.

Will such an adaptation come to realization? Only time will tell. As of right now, the demand is there, and it seems to be a big one.

Is the positive reaction to “The Odyssey” truly artificial or is the movie truly as good as the critics claim? You can find out later this week, as we deliver an unbiased review from one of our journalists.

For any other news, stick with Two More Weeks.

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You can check every box on paper, but a good relationship and the right relationship are two very different things. If your partner has you slightly wrong, it might seem like a minor annoyance today. Over a lifetime, however, it changes everything. Here is what the science says about finding the right match.

Flip the script: It is about you, actually

Juliana Schroeder and her research team at UC Berkeley recently dropped a counterintuitive truth bomb in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. After conducting seven different studies involving romantic partners, family members, and friends, they discovered what actually drives relationship satisfaction.

The variable that consistently predicted the quality of a bond had absolutely nothing to do with how well you understood the other person. Instead, it all hinged on whether you felt they understood you. Most people think relationship work is outward-facing, but the data clearly shows that what we actually need is to feel known through and through.

Feeling unseen is literally killing you

This dynamic goes far beyond feeling warm and fuzzy on the inside; it is a literal matter of life and death. A two-decade study published in Psychosomatic Medicine tracked over 1,200 adults to see how their relationships affected their bodies. They found that people who consistently felt unseen or misunderstood by their partners suffered from increasing emotional dysregulation. Ultimately, this predicted a higher mortality rate across all causes. The researchers did not even look at toxic conflict or obvious red flags; simply failing to feel “known” takes a severe physical toll.

This lines up perfectly with the famous Harvard Study of Adult Development, which followed participants for over 80 years. The researchers concluded that your relationship quality at age 50 predicts your physical health at age 80 much more reliably than your cholesterol levels or career success. Having someone truly in your corner matters more than a good diet.

The Michelangelo effect

Psychologists have a brilliant term for the ultimate relationship green flag: the Michelangelo effect. This happens when a partner sees the person you are capable of becoming and treats you exactly like that future version of yourself, rather than who you currently are.

Research tracking couples from young adulthood all the way into their 90s proves that this dynamic works at every single stage of life. Simply put: who your partner thinks you are has a funny way of becoming exactly who you are. If they see a masterpiece, you become one.

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While many of the younger audience members of the franchise foamed at the mouth after seeing women in bikinis for the first time, many mature and non-virgin users noted that bikinis are not necessarily goonerbait. The discussion around this subject has been the center of attention on TikTok as the two groups clash over whether Fortnite is giving in to competition and adding more cleavage to remain relevant, or if it is just the fantasies of porn-addicted gooners, virgin losers, and incels who equate attractive females to gooner material.

Worst of these discussions have been taking place on X, formerly known as Twitter. As always right wing grifters were first to hijack a kids game for their political agenda, some declared the new skins as a win vs the woke cancel culture, while others took it even further, as shown here:

Despite all the drama, one truth is clear: the competition in the gaming industry is at an all-time high, and many companies are willing to do what so many thought would be impossible.

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Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, has spent a career studying animal behavior, and his position is unglamorous. Humping is ordinary dog stuff. The meaning lives entirely in the circumstances: who started it, who received it, what happened in the ten seconds beforehand, where everyone was standing.

The data does not support your theory

Bekoff and a crew of citizen scientists logged 312 mounting incidents involving around 40 dogs at local parks, which is a genuinely uncomfortable amount of time to spend watching dogs at a park with a clipboard. Males were responsible for 58% of them, females 42%. Body size turned out to be irrelevant.

Here’s where it falls apart for the amateur behaviorists. In roughly 65% of cases, researchers concluded the dog had simply drifted into a physical position and instinct did the rest. No agenda. Play explained another 26%. And dominance, the explanation basically everyone jumps to first, accounted for about 9%.

It’s stress, not a power grab

Dr. Karen Sueda, a board-certified veterinary behaviorist at VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital, told Vetstreet that a dog working on your leg is almost never staging a coup. She reads it as displacement behavior, the canine equivalent of jiggling your knee in a waiting room. Feelings pile up, the dog has nowhere to put them, and something has to give.

A stranger arriving at the door will do it. So will a chaotic day at daycare, or the confusing emotional cocktail of being told off by someone you love. Owners typically reach for neutering as the solution, and it frequently disappoints. Testosterone can linger for as long as six weeks after surgery, and if the dog was already at it beforehand, hormones may have stopped being the driver a while ago. By then it’s just a habit with a long history.

And then there’s Reggie

Some dogs are simply committed. Bekoff describes a dog named Reggie whose owner reported that he went after water bowls, beach balls, other dogs from whatever angle presented itself, and human legs, at any hour. Turned down, Reggie moved on without visible distress.

Bekoff also raises a possibility that should quietly humble every owner: the dog being mounted may be issuing an invitation you cannot detect. Smells, sounds, small visual signals. The dogs are having a conversation. You are not in it.

So the next time it happens, skip the apology and look at what just occurred. Reggie’s owner never worked it out. Reggie, for his part, never appeared to want an explanation.

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