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Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
SeaWorld: Aquatica water park springing into Aloha to Summer event
Aquatica, SeaWorld Orlando's water park, is gearing up its springtime event named Aloha to Summer Celebration. The programming will include sand-castle artists, family-friendly dance party, games such as cornhole and ring toss (with prizes), all preceded by a welcome celebration with leis and tropical punch. Aloha to Summer eats will include limited-time island-inspired options such as teriyaki pineapple burgers and ponzu pork dumplings. There's also a new Tex-Mex men at the water park's Kookaburra Kitchen plus tropical sweets such as Hawaiian crumble Dippin' Dots. Disney to shut down Buzz Lightyear ride and give it a new spin The festivities, included with regular Aquatica admission, will be available Saturdays and Sundays between March 29 and May 11. The park's usual array of slides, lazy rivers and splash areas also will be in operation. Once Aloha to Summer wraps up, Aquatica will saw hello to AquaGlow, its after-hours, neon-driven, separately ticketed event. For more information, go to Email me at dbevil@ BlueSky: @themeparksdb. Threads account: @dbevil. X account: @themeparks. Subscribe to the Theme Park Rangers newsletter at Legoland Florida plans new roller coaster for 2026
Reuters
21-03-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Russia ships its Arctic oil to Syria for first time as sanctions limit buyers
MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - Two tankers hit by U.S. sanctions are due to offload Russian Arctic Oil in Syria for the first time, days after Moscow made its first known delivery of diesel there in more than a decade, according to LSEG data, a government source and local TV. One of the tankers, Aquatica, with some 100,000 tons of Russian oil onboard, is set to offload in Baniyas port soon, according to a government source and pro-government Syria TV. The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everything you need to know about the global energy industry. Sign up here. The vessel arrived on Thursday, but has yet to offload, according to the TV report and the government source. The second tanker, Sakina, is still on its way to Baniyas with another 100,000 tons of oil, LSEG data showed, and was set to arrive on March 25. Both vessels are subject to the U.S. sanctions imposed on January 10, as is the Umba storage tanker near the northern port of Murmansk where both vessels loaded the volumes in February, according to shipping data seen by sources. Russia has to look for alternative buyers of its Arctic oil since the U.S. sanctions in January hit producer Gazprom neft and the tankers shipping the crude. Syria is struggling to find a replacement for Iranian oil for its refineries, as it struggles with its own oil output. Syria's Baniyas refinery, the largest in the country, halted operations in December 2024 amid shortages following the suspension of Iranian supplies. Russia's Gazprom neft and Syrian oil ministry official did not respond to requests for comment. Russia shipped a diesel cargo to Syria onboard a tanker under U.S. sanctions early in March.
Forbes
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
New ‘ARK: Survival Evolved' AI Trailer Incites Fan Fury
ARK: Aquatica It is no secret that game publishers and developers are experimenting with AI in all sorts of ways, some of them more normal, streamlining internal processes and such, others more controversial, like the recent AI-infused Aloy conversation demo from Sucker Punch. But this? This is next level. ARK: Survival Evolved has debuted what appears to be a 98% AI-generated trailer for its new Aquatica expansion. That includes voicework, possibly a script, and certainly the video footage shown: Almost everything after the first-person intro has the trademark smoothness of AI video and something just feels…off about almost every scene. There are the trademark AI screw-ups, like a man swimming where his feet evolve into weird fin-like appendages as he moves. Also, AI video is mostly only able to be effectively rendered in very, very short clips right now that are just a few seconds long, which is how long each of the clips are that are shown here.. Fans hate this, as does the general public, and as you can see, it's become a news story. The trailer has an underwater (no pun intended) ratio of 500/21,000 likes to dislikes, with comments with thousands of votes saying something along the lines of 'you should be ashamed of yourself' or 'how do I delete someone else's video?' The video was supposedly delisted, but it's still visible and on the Snail page right now. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Again, AI is certainly being pushed into gamedev to some extent, much to the chagrin of many devs, especially artists and writers, but rarely to this blatant of an extent. The idea here, of course, is not really proudly displaying AI tech, but being able to save money by not paying artists or needing to take the time and energy to make an actual cinematic trailer. Why do that when you can spend a few hours messing around with AI video prompts and throw them all together with an AI narrator on top? There seems to be a split here between publisher Snail Games, who put the trailer out, and ARK developer Wildcard, with a tweet reiterating Aquatica is being developed by Snail, while Wildcard is focused on Survival Ascended and ARK 2, not decrying the trailer outright, perhaps, but putting some distance between them, and this was posted the day the trailer went live: I would think the reception of this trailer would be a cautionary tale to other studios attempting to do something similar. We've also seen this in other media like the ill-received AI-generated intro to Marvel's Secret Invasion, which is still brought up to this day. We will see more and more AI inserted into games whether we want it or not (or whether we know it or not) but this? This is ridiculous. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
Bloomberg
19-03-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trio of Sanctioned Ships with Russia Oil Briefly Signaled Syria
Three US-sanctioned ships that left Russia this month briefly signaled Syria as destination before changing course. Aquatica, an Aframax, sailed from Murmansk on March 1 carrying 680,000 barrels of Novy Port crude, according to ship-tracking data. The vessel was indicating Baniyas as destination at the start of its journey before switching to China on Wednesday.
