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Niners’ Mac Jones beats odds, lets it fly in OT win over Rams

by admin October 3, 2025

Nick WagonerOct 3, 2025, 02:15 AM ET
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. — In the hours before Thursday night’s game against the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan approached quarterback Mac Jones and let him know that the short-handed Niners were more than touchdown underdogs against their division rivals.

“I don’t really pay attention to much to it,” Jones said, laughing. “Kyle came up to me, and he was pissed about it. He’s like, ‘Dude, I can’t believe they moved us to underdogs again,’ or like more [extreme underdogs] or whatever. And I’m like, ‘I don’t know what that means really, [but] like, yeah, let’s go kill them.’ He was pissed about it. I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m pissed, too.'”

Jones said he doesn’t pay much attention to social media and has little knowledge on the inner workings of odds making, but Shanahan’s motivational ploy seemed to work as the Niners’ backup quarterback delivered one of his best career performances and the 49ers pulled off a 26-23 victory despite missing many of their biggest stars.

The Niners entered the game as 8.5-point underdogs, according to ESPN BET, and Thursday night’s win was their first outright victory with odds that big since 2011 against the Philadelphia Eagles, when they were 9.5-point underdogs. It was also the largest upset of the 2025 season so far, surpassing the Cleveland Browns’ win against the Green Bay Packers in Week 3 as 7.5-point underdogs.

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San Francisco improved to 4-1 on the season and 3-0 in the NFC West despite missing starting quarterback Brock Purdy, top-three wideouts Brandon Aiyuk (knee), Ricky Pearsall (knee) and Jauan Jennings (ribs/ankle), and star tight end George Kittle. In addition, star defensive end Nick Bosa is out for the season with a torn right ACL.

To open the game, Jones was throwing to a collection of receivers and tight ends that had mustered zero catches for the 49ers in 2024, with Kendrick Bourne and Demarcus Robinson starting at receiver and Luke Farrell getting the nod at tight end.

Jones battled through a sprained left knee and a cramping forearm to finish 33-of-49 for 342 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions for a passer rating of 100.9.

“He played his ass off,” Shanahan said. “He was unbelievable in the first half. Got banged up a little bit there in the second half, and battled through it, and protected the ball. Going against that defense and throwing the ball that many times and not having a turnover and protecting it like he did, I can’t say enough good things about Mac.”

With a few extra days to rest before a Week 6 trip to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Niners don’t yet know how much longer they’ll need Jones to start. The team ruled Purdy out Wednesday, and though he has indicated his toe is still much better than it was following the initial Week 1 injury, Shanahan said there is no definitive timeline on Purdy’s return.

“Everything we told you guys last week is true,” Shanahan said. “He just reaggravated it, and it’s week-to-week. We don’t know how it’s going to heal, and hopefully it’ll be better tomorrow, and we’ll continue to go throughout the week.”

Niners quarterback Mac Jones went 33-of-49 for 342 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions in Thursday night’s overtime win over the Rams. Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images

Jones and the Niners’ cobbled-together group of pass catchers opened the game with a pair of touchdown drives as he hit Tonges and running back Christian McCaffrey to stake San Francisco to a 14-0 lead.

For most of the night, Jones was on point. He had only two off-target throws among his 49 attempts, a 4% mark that is his lowest in a start since Week 12 of 2022 as a member of the New England Patriots. Jones even handled the Rams’ pass rush well, going 6-of-9 for 53 yards and four first downs when pressured.

Many of his throws were to Bourne, whom the team signed before Week 2 against New Orleans. Coming off a game against Jacksonville in which he had three drops, Bourne had another key drop Thursday night and also had some issues lining up correctly, but he atoned for the mistakes by setting career highs with 10 receptions for 142 yards, including eight catches for first downs.

“KB has brought so much energy, so much juice to this team, and we love and appreciate him so much,” fullback Kyle Juszczyk said. “Guys that have played with him before knew that, but I think everyone that hasn’t has seen it right away. He’s definitely helped spark this team.”

As in San Francisco’s three other wins this season, the team also got key contributions from defensive members of its 2025 draft class. Second-round defensive tackle Alfred Collins forced and recovered a fumble at San Francisco’s goal line late in the fourth quarter to prevent a potential game-winning touchdown, and rookie safety Marques Sigle was in on the final tackle of Rams running back Kyren Williams to stop him short on fourth-and-1 at the Niners’ 11.

“[General manager] John Lynch is probably going to celebrate on that plane tonight,” linebacker Fred Warner said. “Our young guys really coming and playing big for us. I mean all these games so far … and they’re just getting started.”

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IShowSpeed crashes car after making it “fly” in Dukes of Hazzard stunt: “OMG I’m dead”

by admin September 18, 2025

IShowSpeed linked up with car YouTuber Westen Champlin during his 35-day tour around the US, who let the streamer jump a car over one of his ramps.

The YouTube star began his 24/7 stream on August 28, 2025, and has been traveling around the United States ever since in a $300,000 tour bus.

IShowSpeed quickly introduced an AI VTuber that takes over his stream while he’s sleeping, and was left stunned after a fan sold an apple signed by him for $500.

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On Wednesday, September 17, Speed and his crew went to Kansas to link up with YouTuber Westen Champlin to have fun with various cars.

IShowSpeed jumps car off ramp and crashes

After arriving to Champlin’s compound, Speed was introduced to all of the YouTuber’s wild builds, including an inverted truck and a diesel swap Rolls Royce Phantom that they’ve been working on building.

It wasn’t long, though, until the streamer began driving some of these vehicles and even made a car “fly” by driving it over one of Westin’s ramps in a stunt that seemed right out of the TV show Dukes of Hazzard. Speed went airborne while in the passenger seat, but was given the chance to drive over the ramp himself.

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After a few failed attempts, Speed hit the required 40mph and sent the car into the air… only to drive off the side of the next ramp and into the nearby light post, setting off the airbags in the process.

“Oh my God, I’m dead,” said the shocked YouTuber as the car came to a stop.

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After taking a minute to process what just happened and making sure his cameraman was okay, Speed made light of the accident.

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“I’m a real f**kin man now chat,” he joked.

This comes just days after IShowSpeed was in a Houston, Texas, mall when things became chaotic due to fans flocking to see the streamer – leading to him being banned by mall security.

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Game Updates

Build your own spaceship body as you fly in Jitter, an asteroid-heavy physics-based survival sim

by admin September 3, 2025

I guess the simplest way to describe Jitter is that it’s Heat Signature, the hectic spaceship hijacking game from Suspicious Developments, but you are the spaceship, not the hijacker, and also, you can glue pieces of other ships onto yourself, like in Captain Forever, and also, this looks a bit like Lemmings on the Game Boy. Boil that down, and we have a brand new subgenre, the Hot Lemming Boy Foreverlike, which… let’s maybe forget I wrote the words “Hot Lemming Boy Foreverlike”. Let’s proceed without further reflection to this video showcasing the combat.

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If the above description confuses and alarms you, there’s a cleaner one on the game’s Steam page. “Jitter is an immersive sci-fi exploration and survival game set on a mining colony and its outskirts in the Main Asteroid Belt,” it reads. “You assume the role of an experimental AI that maintains ship functions and engages with the crew on board. As you explore the mining colony, you will take on new missions, expand ships and bases using various modules, add survivors to your crew, engage in space fights, and repair the damage left by enemy fire and onboard accidents.”

Cue impressive scenes of your greenish top-down AI core chewing through asteroids like a lemming through a baguette. Shoo, lemming! That’s my lunch, not an asteroid, and since when do lemmings eat asteroids, anyway.

No time for lunch, though, because it’s time to talk about simulation systems. As in FTL, you’ll organise the generation and flow of power and oxygen around your craft as you expand it, ensuring that you still, for example, have the means to swiftly fix hull breaches while adding gun turrets to the design. It might sound like it requires a shedload of menus, but the largely mouse-based controls are quite simple for a game of this fiddliness. There’s a demo on Steam, if you’d like to try for yourself.

If the idea of playing an AI seems dry, may I draw your attention to the line above about your crew. It consists of named humans with fetching character portraits and bespoke abilities. You’ll shepherd them through boarding actions, opening airlocks and tactically clicking rooms to have them survive against greater numbers. Beware: if you lose one of the story-critical ones, it’s game over. This seems to rule out the possibility of being an Evil AI, alas, though there’s definitely scope for venting the odd humanoid in a fit of cybernetic pique.

I’ve enjoyed what I’ve played of Jitter, though it’s a bit too processing-intensive for my work laptop, with all manner of physics-enabled celestial body bouncing around the playing field. There’s no release date yet, but developers Berko Games posted in June that they’re now focussing on “the final major updates before our Early Access release”.

Their practical difficulties include living in Ukraine, a country that has been fighting off a Russian invasion for three and a half years. “It’s not easy working under drone and missile strikes, but your attention and support should remain focused on the game itself,” the developers comment briefly in a recent update about the game’s NPC vessel behaviour.

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No Man’s Sky adds fully customisable multi-crew spaceships you can build and fly with your friends

by admin August 27, 2025

Space can be a lonely place, what with it being – as a wise man once famously put it – so vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big and all. Which is where No Man’s Sky new Voyagers update comes in. Now, those long treks across the infinite expanse needn’t be quite so lonely thanks to the introduction of multi-crew space ships you can build, pilot, and stroll around with friends.

Customisable ships – not to be confused with No Man’s Sky’s existing customisable freighters, which essentially serve as gargantuan deep space bases – have been at the top of many a fan’s wishlist for quite some time. And today’s Voyagers update look to deliver and then some. After progressing to a certain point in the story, players gain access to a hangar-like workshop where new Corvette spaceships can be engineered both outside and within. Customisable components include hulls, wings, landing gear, engine parts, thrusters, and weapons, and all can be arranged to suit players’ whims.

And then there’s the habitable interior. “Add sleeping quarters,” developer Hello Games explains, “and you are ready to welcome a crew of friends on board. Add a mission radar and you are ready for adventure. A teleporter and you have an away team.” There’s also talk of med-bays and war rooms, or you can just add a window and watch the universe go by. And for thrillseekers, it’s even possible to flip open the Corvette’s airlock and go for a space walk together or, once within a planet’s atmosphere, sky dive to the ground.

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While newcomers to No Man’s Sky won’t have immediate access to Corvette construction given its unlock requirements, they’ll still be able to experience the feature in a brand-new limited-time Expedition. Alongside the usual array of cosmetic rewards, this’ll also unlock some ship parts players might find useful when trying to build their own vehicles in the core sim.

Hello Games says it’s had to rework “almost every part” of No Man’s Sky to accommodate Corvettes and their relative spaces, and to ensure crews can still roam their ship’s corridors and continue editing during the likes of warp jumps and planetary approaches. Much of the tech, it says, is shared with its upcoming Light No Fire, which will feature vast oceans players can similarly explore together on a single boat. This isn’t the first time No Man’s Sky has adopted technology implemented for Hello Games’ Earth-sized planet sim.

And it sounds like Hello Games is still far from done. “The most exciting thing about Voyagers for me,” writes Hello Games’ boss Sean Murray, “is the possibilities it opens in the future for No Man’s Sky, and I can’t wait to see where the team takes it from here.” And if you want to know more about No Man’s Sky’s Voyagers update, full patch notes can be found over here.

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