Remember Rex Tillerson, Trump’s largely accomplishment-free Secretary of State?

Well he’s back, this time with some long overdue criticism of our Commander in Chief.

On Thursday, Tillerson spoke at a fundraiser for for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The former Secretary of State “let loose,” as much as that limestone rock of a man can be loose about anything.

“When the President would say, ‘Here’s what I want to do and here’s how I want to do it.’ And I’d have to say to him, ‘Well Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can’t do it that way. It violates the law. It violates treaty,’” Tillerson said.

Tillerson also complained that it was challenging to move from a “disciplined, highly-process oriented” corporation to work for Trump, “who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things.”

In the past, it was rumored that Tillerson once called Trump a “moron.”

Here’s what our normal, mature President had to say in response:

Yes, the president called Tillerson “dumb as a rock” and “lazy as hell.” 

And here’s how Twitter responded:

One person, however, said it better than any of us:

At least Twitter isn’t as dumb as a rock today.

There are 11 brand new fighters in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and almost all of them kicked my ass.

As I spent dozens of hours playing Ultimate in the last week, I unlocked tons of new fighters, including all of the new additions to the game from Chrom to Simon. Some of them gave me a really hard time in our one-on-one duels, and some of them infuriated me as they blasted my fighters off the stage time and time again.

Of course some of them were pretty easy. I am, after all, a lifelong Smash player and have the capacity to beat bots on a first attempt. But a surprising number of newcomers forced me into a second round.

This is by no means a power ranking of new Smash fighters. No. This is personal.

11. Ken

I beat Ken so easily it was honestly embarrassing for him. This Street Fighter legend came at me with basically nothing and I wiped the floor with him. I felt bad. I didn’t even take more than like 20% in damage. For someone who has spent his whole life doing martial arts, he sure didn’t put up much of a fight.

10. Isabelle

Oh Isabelle, when I saw you were going to be participating in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate I was excited. But then when I faced you one-on-one on the Animal Crossing stage and punched you so hard you exploded off-screen I felt bad. Isabelle’s attacks involve trying to rope in opponents with a fishing poll and growing a tree in hopes of chopping it down onto people. She was easy to beat and I didn’t feel great doing it.

9. Richter

Richter, the echo fighter of Simon from Castlevania, appeared to me after I had already faced and beaten Simon, so I knew all of his moves. He was tough, sure, but it wasn’t too difficult to dodge his projectiles and go in for the kill. Richter put up a valiant effort. 

8. Inkling

Inklings come from the family friendly world of Splatoon where the name of the game is to cover up stuff in paint. This translates very well into Smash, and I found myself immediately covered in fluorescent, bright paint. The Inklings moves were hard to for me to pin down, and to be honest it was a much closer fight than I would’ve liked, considering I was playing as one of my favorite fighters, Samus. Good game, Inkling.

7. King K. Rool

Now we’re getting into the really tough matchups. King K. Rool is not an easy fighter to take down. In my first round against King K. Rool, the fight was not even close. He blasted me out of the stage by reflecting one of my attacks with his down-B move. My next match up against K. Rool was too close for comfort, but I beat that gross green lizard fair and square. 

6. Chrom

My first fight against Chrom hurt because I was playing as Roy, who is basically the same fighter as Chrom. I got my ass handed to me, and I barely got a hit in. It was a match up of two swordsman and this bot defeated me easily, which was particularly tough because I had about 24 hours of playtime under my belt, so it’s not like I was still warming up. I came back for round two with Dark Samus, and was getting destroyed all the way up to about 80% before I shifted my strategy and went full-on ranged attacks. I tore him in half with a fully charged neutral-B blast.

5. Ridley

Ridley was an early new challenger in my experience with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, one of the first new fighters I came across, and I wanted him bad. I fought Ridley using Link, and Ridley literally wiped the floor with me. One of his moves is grabbing you and sliding you across the ground. Ridley tossed me into the lavas of Norfair and KO’d me before I ever got a good hit on him. It felt bad. I went at Ridley again and lost again. I was mad, I’ll admit, but I cooled off and got a handle on everything, coming back with Link again to blast Ridley away.

4. Daisy

I’ve always loved playing as Peach, so getting Daisy felt important. I came at her with Lucina, thinking that some aggressive sword action would take care of her quickly. I was so wrong. She hip-slammed me into oblivion. Young Link was up next, and unfortunately I couldn’t get the job done thanks to Daisy’s counter-attack where she throws Toad up like a human shield. Finally I got her with Samus, and then I celebrated by playing as Daisy for about an hour. Take that, princess.

3. Simon

Simon came out swinging in Dracula’s Castle, and I had no idea how to fight back. His whips were longer than I expected. His axes hit harder than I expected. He ended the first fight against me so quickly I thought there was no way I would unlock him. I felt that again as I lost to Simon once more, barely getting a hit in. Third time was the charm, I guess, as I killed him with a final smash move.

2. Dark Samus

I love playing as Samus, and I really wanted to play as Dark Samus in Ultimate. In fact, I was playing as Diddy Kong, and despite knowing the ins and outs of Samus’s mechanics, I was decimated. She kicked me around, blew me up, and launched my monkey ass to death. I tried again as Samus, my main. I died as Samus against Dark Samus. I was humiliated. I think I almost cried. The next 10-15 minutes between round two and round three were filled with fury. I came back against Dark Samus with anger and I destroyed her with Bowser. I butt-slammed her so hard she evaporated off the side of the screen.

1. Incineroar

Incineroar was the most challenging fighter I encountered in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. With most fights I understood where I went wrong when I lost. With Incineroar, I was just getting trounced and there was nothing I could do. I was playing as Corrin in our first encounter, a character I don’t really understand and frankly don’t care for. Incineroar came prepared with moves that baffled me and grapples that destroyed me. I came back for round two with Young Link, to put a little range between us, but this beefy feline once again slammed me so hard I flew out of the boxing ring and into my death. For round three I handed off the controller to my girlfriend who tried with Shiek, but she too got wrestled into a KO. I tried agin. I just couldn’t get any good damage on him. In round five I finally did it, I wrecked Incineroar (barely) with Dark Samus. I did it. It felt great to destroy that cat. It took about an hour to finish off, but I did it. 

Eat it, Incineroar.

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If you bought a lot Bitcoin in 2011, you’d be rich now. 

But if you bought Bitcoin a year ago, or even a month ago…well, let’s just say your portfolio would be a pretty sad sight. 

Which is why it’s funny that cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase still has this chart on its webpage. 

The chart, featured quite prominently on Coinbase’s site and noticed recently by Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer, tracks the performance of an imaginary $100 investment in Coinbase Bundle, a sort of fund that tracks the prices of the top 5 cryptocurrencies by market cap, listed on Coinbase: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Ethereum Classic. 

Unfortunately, not one of these coins performed very well in the last week, month or year. 

You could, however, set the chart to “all,” which starts the timeline at Jan. 4, 2013, and turns the imaginary $100 into $12,530.18. But Coinbase Bundle launched in September, so there was no way to buy into it in 2013. 

In any case, kudos to Coinbase for still having the courage to keep that chart online. 

As for Palmer, his comments from January, at the height of the crypto bubble, feel prescient now that the prices have plummeted. 

“While it’s great to see mainstream enthusiasm for cryptocurrency, I think the high valuations and inflated market caps serve more to distract from the real goal of these projects than anything,”  he wrote at the time. “My one hope is that when that does happen and people lose large sums of money, the negativity in the market doesn’t stifle technological innovation or interest in digital currency from the mainstream.”

Disclosure: The author of this text owns, or has recently owned, a number of cryptocurrencies, including BTC and ETH. 

This is it. End of the road for 2018. Which games did you play to escape the neverending dumpster fire of our daily IRL circus? Which were your favorites?

So many to choose from this time around. Blockbuster games are becoming more conscious of the space they occupy in pop culture, delivering an emotionally wider range of stories and experiences. This year, we’ve seen that even the biggest games can bring out tears as effectively as they elicit joy.

That’s in addition to gaming’s ever-thriving indie landscape, which has delivered a treasure trove of new and unexpected ideas shaped by small teams into epic timesinks and thought-provoking oddities. In fact, one of those titles claimed our coveted #1 pick for Game of the Year in 2018.

We’ll get to that. Let’s do this with a proper tension-building countdown.

10. Shadow of the Tomb Raider

The final chapter in this rebooted origin story arc for Lara Croft is like an idea perfected. The action is tighter, the tomb-set puzzles are more front-and-center, and the vast, beautiful open world is brimming with things to discover. No one summed it up better than Mashable’s own Tomb Raider expert, Ali Foreman.

“Capitalizing on the franchise’s best assets and tiptoeing around its flaws, Shadow of the Tomb Raider takes the latest imagining of our girl Lara out in style. From incredible graphics to artfully designed gameplay, Shadow of the Tomb Raider does not disappoint.”

9. Red Dead Redemption 2

Love it or hate it, Red Dead Redemption 2 nonetheless stands as a stunning technical achievement, the impressive product of eight years of work (and overwork). Rockstar Games’ sprawling Western epic is a 100-hour-minimum jaunt through a stylized and satirized take on a young United States. 

It’s been a divisive game, with some praising Rockstar’s dizzying attention to detail and others claiming exasperation over the game’s snail pace and overly self-indulgent plot. For fans, it’s more than just a tremendous standalone experience; it also elevates the series as a whole. It’s definitely not a game for everyone, but Red Dead Redemption 2 delivers a gorgeous bounty of uniquely memorable experiences for those who take the time to see it through.

8. Celeste

Celeste was the finest platformer to come out in 2018, not only because of its rich, inventive level design that is a perfect blend of precision and puzzling, but also because of its unrelenting wholesomeness. You’re not just climbing a mountain and collecting strawberries because there’s some treasure at the top or you’re saving someone in distress, you’re climbing because you need to prove to yourself that you can do it. 

Despite the depression, anxiety, and self-doubt that is holding you back, you can do this one thing. The challenges get harder and harder, but making it through difficult, seemingly impossible levels is so satisfying that it’s hard to stop pushing forward. Celeste is about climbing real mountains and mental mountains, and it’s an important, delightfully fun reminder that neither one is more challenging or more valid than the other. –Kellen Beck, Entertainment Reporter

7. Destiny 2: Forsaken

Not many games could bounce back from the disastrous first year of Destiny 2‘s life. It’s easy to forget how tremendous the sequel’s improvements felt when it launched in 2017. Destiny 2, the vanilla experience, streamlined so many frustrating pieces of the overall Destiny experience. But it also left the serious fans behind, with a notable absence of compelling “endgame” hooks that keep that 1,000-hours-plus players invested.

Destiny 2: Forsaken is a course correction. It directly addressed some of the biggest complaints fans had voiced over the preceding year, and it laid out a promising roadmap for the coming year’s expansions (which started on Dec. 4 with Black Armory), which focus more on what players want and less on what’s “expected” from an expansion pack. Forsaken made the Destiny experience something a longtime fan could get excited about investing in once again. 

6. Donut County

Donut County is the hole game. That’s its tagline. That’s its single mechanic. That’s its genre. And that’s its deceptive simplicity. In an industry where an ever-increasing demand for “more” characterizes mainstream design philosophy, creator Ben Esposito created the Millennial equivalent of a Buddhist game — teaching us to let all things disappear into an ever-expanding hole of emptiness. Whether a blade of grass or house, it’s all just garbage in the end.

But layered into Donut County’s fuck-it-all bizarre premise and Weird Twitter humor is an examination of the vacuous hole that defines human existence today. The hole represents everything about the nothingness that defines modern life: capitalist greed and waste, gentrification, the social disease of nihilistic irony, the seeming erasure of responsibility to one another as people. Donut County is at face value a satisfying, blissfully uncomplicated puzzle game. But several thousands of feet under the surface, there’s a whole world of meaning to be uncovered. -Jess Joho, Entertainment Reporter

5. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

No one summed up Assassin’s Creed Odyssey better than Mashable’s Alexis Nedd. From her thoroughly entertaining and informative review:

“I laughed my ass off playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. I gasped. I yelled at the screen. I marked specific NPCs as my personal nemeses and made it my business to make sure they paid in blood for what they’ve done. I fucked around. I fell in love. I sailed the Aegean Sea and got emotional about dolphins. 

Odyssey is a masterwork of storytelling and emotion where nothing is true and everything is permitted. I can’t wait to see where Assassin’s Creed goes next, but until then…I’ve got some ships to sink, people to seduce, and marks to murder. Chiare.” 

4. Tetris Effect

Who would’ve thought a freshened up remake would nab a Top 5 position on any Game of the Year list? Sure, it’s Tetris, the most legendary of legendary video games. But also… it’s still just Tetris.

Or is it? Tetris Effect is really more of a sequel than a remake. It takes the falling blocks puzzle foundation built by Russian computer engineer Alexey Pajitnov decades ago and reworks it into a framework that implicitly encourages meditation and self-care. It doesn’t just re-write the script on what this classic game can be; it perfects that idea. In the realm of Tetris game, Tetris Effect is easily the best. And in the 2018 landscape, it’s far and away one of the finest gaming experiences of the year.

3. God of War

In ye olde PlayStation 3 days, Kratos of Sparta was just a big, angry dude who killed Greek gods for fun (and bloody revenge). He slept with groups of topless women for healing and he stomped around doing his Angry Dude thing with all the depth of a slip of paper.

What the hell, 2018’s God of War?! Equal parts a confident step forward for a series and a meditation on an evolving industry (and the aging creative giants that have helped shape it), Sony’s latest Kratos adventure is a gut punch in terms of both the action-packed RPG-lite combat and the shockingly affecting father/son story.

More games (and game stories) like this, please.

2. Marvel’s Spider-Man

Hyperbole be damned, I’m just gonna go ahead and say it: Marvel’s Spider-Man is very easily one of the best Spider-Man stories ever told. Insomniac Games wisely set up a whole new fictional timeline (presumably with Marvel’s endorsement, if not insistence). 

That singular creative decision laid a foundation for Insomniac to tell a truly surprising story that torpedoes any expectations you might have for these oh-so-familiar characters. On top of that, there’s also the raw mechanical thrill of swinging through Manhattan’s concrete jungle as a spider-powered superhero, plus an abundance of hidden secrets and easter eggs that makes exploring it all worthwhile.

Marvel’s Spider-Man is an absolutely perfect video game take on the street-level Marvel hero’s life, and it’s packing a story that will make you laugh, scream, and even cry. (No, seriously. There are some real gut punches here.)

1. Return of the Obra Dinn

So often, Game of the Year picks are sprawling, epic affairs crafted over a period of years by teams numbering in the hundreds. If there’s an “opposite” to that kind of video game, Return of the Obra Dinn is it. It’s the creative vision of one man — Papers, Please developer Lucas Pope — and the product of a small team’s efforts.

Its smaller scope is a gift. Return of the Obra Dinn is a game that can be enjoyed at all levels of gaming experience. It’s proof that games don’t have to be epic to be excellent and memorable. Pope’s story of an insurance adjuster piecing together a 60-part murder mystery aboard a ghost ship is hard to look away from.

Fundamentally, Return of the Obra Dinn is a vast logic puzzle. But the delight is in the details. Spend a few hours soaking in the stylish monochrome graphics and undeniably catchy musical riffs and you’ll be hooked, unable to shake the unfolding mystery of this odd and beautifully constructed head-scratcher of a video game.

HONORABLE MENTION: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

What can really be said about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the latest entry in Nintendo’s long-running series of 2D-style fighting games? Not much! The game isn’t even out until Dec. 7. But early reports have been very positive, and no one’s ever hated a Smash Bros. game. 

HONORABLE MENTION: Hitman 2

It’s something of a miracle that Hitman 2 exists, given that the original publisher had once moved to shut down developer IO Interactive. That never happened: IO claimed its independence (and the Hitman rights) and partnered with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for this sequel. 

Hitman 2 isn’t a massive leap forward; really, it’s more of the same. But when “the same” is a near-perfect stealth-focused sandbox game built around creatively murdering bad people, it’s hard to complain.

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God is a woman and so is The Doctor – for one more season, at least. 

Jodie Whittaker, who’s currently playing The Doctor in Season 11 of Doctor Who, just confirmed that she will be returning to her role of extraterrestrial Time Lord in the legendary BBC sci-fi series for Season 12.

Whittaker told The Hollywood Reporter that she’s definitely not ready to hand over the Doctor Who-baton to another actor just yet. 

“It’s such an incredible role,” Whittaker told THR. “It’s been an extraordinary journey so far and I’m not quite ready to hand it over yet.” 

Just one previous Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, only lasted for one season (Season 1 in 2005.) The other actors have had between two and six years as The Doctor. 

While Whittaker’s performance as the first female Doctor in Doctor Who’s 55-year history has been widely praised by critics, there was a good deal of backlash when Whittaker was revealed as the 13th Doctor last year. 

Whittaker seemed pretty chill about it, though. She explained in an interview with the BBC that the character of The Doctor “represents everything that’s exciting about change.“

“I want to tell the fans not to be scared by my gender,” Whittaker said. “The fans have lived through so many changes, and this is only a new, different one, not a fearful one.”

Please bring your bad-ass attitude to Season 12, Jodie. 

There’s something about Super Smash Bros. that can bring people together. Its blend of simple and approachable mechanics, colorful cast of characters, and competitive nature is absolutely magnetic.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate nails every single thing that makes Smash such a beloved series. 

Netflix’s Dumplin’ isn’t built on rhinestones and stilettos. Yes, the small town comedic drama comes with plenty of that as-advertised pageant glam, but it finds crucial footing in a simple maxim from the Queen of Country: “Figure out who you are and do it on purpose.”

Originally told in Julie Murphy’s YA novel of the same name, the story of Willowdean Dickson and her protest in heels is one worth gushing over. Its self-acceptance narrative doesn’t tread new territory, but instead weaves numerous beloved pastimes into a coat of many colors fit for Dolly herself. 

Starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston, with massive support from an original Parton soundtrack and a number of talented drag performers, Dumplin’ explores how we treat “plus-size” and otherwise othered women in a world increasingly focused on the superficial. Although the film’s second act begins to border on preachy cliché, its glittery-yet-goofy approach to presenting a difficult topic to an adolescent audience manages to stay both entertaining and enlightening.

Check out some of Dumplin‘s strongest selling points below.

Dumplin’ digs into the often unspoken realities of body image

Upon first glance, Dumplin’ seems a whole lot like Netflix’s catastrophically problematic Insatiable, right down to the Southern beauty pageant setting. However, even a casual viewing of the film’s first 5 minutes makes it crystal clear that these creators aren’t making the same mistakes.

Ruminating on topics like shame and comparison, Dumplin’ forgoes a standard high school bullying plot line to explore the more nuanced realities of negative self-image. Viewers are not subjected to painful, prolonged sequences of name-calling, but instead are invited to witness the private psychological punishments that many who feel they are “less than” inflict on themselves. 

Whether you have struggled with body image or some other kind of self-doubt, Willowdean’s relatable and frank coming-of-age portrayal will have you asking, “Why didn’t I get to see this sooner?” 

Bo is our next Peter Kavinsky

Now, that’s not to say Dumplin’ is our next TATBILB. Lightning like that doesn’t strike twice. (Although, there is that sequel…) 

What Bo (played by Luke Benward) and Peter Kavinsky have in common is that they’re both really, really good boyfriends. Through a series of precious romantic gestures, including the gifting of a Magic 8-Ball and a meteor shower viewing invitation, Bo establishes himself firmly as a deserving and delightful love interest for Willowdean. 

As Willowdean’s self-consciousness mounts and the pair’s relationship becomes more complicated, Bo remains a true blue good guy. Patient, forgiving, and consistent, he is the perfect antithesis to the Jake Ryans of yesteryear. 

The drag queens and Dolly are to die for

As Parton herself has pointed out, drag and Dolly have always had quite a bit in common. Dumplin’ is the perfect, crossover representation of the shared fandom’s larger-than-life approach to love, beauty, and confidence. 

While Ms. Parton doesn’t appear in the film, a number of Dolly look-a-likes shepherd Willowdean’s journey—most notably, RuPaul’s Drag Race‘s Ginger Minj and Lost‘s Harold Perrineau.

Each moment the pair spends on stage is not only enjoyable, but also impactful. Glittery fountains of wisdom, Dumplin’s drag queens are the prettier, gutsier, bolder fairy godmothers 2018 teenagers demand.

As usual, Jennifer Aniston totally delivers

Par for the course, Dumplin’s trailer is a fairly misleading, presenting Aniston as a larger part of the film than she actually is. That being said, Aniston more than delivers as Willowdean’s former teen beauty queen turned self-centered mom, Rosie Dickson. 

Not nearly the caricature Dumplin‘s promotional materials depict her to be, Rosie is a layered woman with her own complicated relationship to confidence. Too often putting her appearance in place of her self-worth, Rosie doesn’t experience a revolutionary change of heart during the film, but does come to understand how her actions have harmed her daughter. 

At its core, Dumplin’ isn’t just about Willowdean making a point. It is about a mother and daughter crafting a loving relationship in the face of the unreasonable expectations society has placed on both of them. 

While imperfect, Dumplin’ asks not only its characters, but its audience to find loving common ground by admitting a simple truth. In the words of Dolly, “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” Amen, mama. Amen. 

Dumplin’ is streaming on Netflix and screening in select theaters now.

James Bond is both a top secret agent with a license to kill and a notorious womaniser. 

But it appears Bond might be a one-woman man now. At least, it looks as if 007’s bae from Spectre is returning to the next Bond movie, the 25th in the franchise. 

According to The Daily Mail, the director of the next Bond movie, Cary Joji Fukunaga, has announced that french actress Léa Seydoux will be returning to the franchise. 

“Léa will be returning,” Fukunaga told the Daily Mail. Presumably, Seydoux will be reprising her role as Dr Madeleine Swann, psychiatrist and the main love interest in Spectre.

It has long been confirmed that Daniel Craig will also be returning for his role of James Bond in the next movie, which is set to premiere in 2020. 

“Why wouldn’t I have the best coming back?”

Fukunaga went on to explain that he’s also be bringing back Ralph Fiennes, who plays the character M, along with Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris, who play Q and Moneypenny, respectively. 

“You have some of the best actors in the world here,” Fukunaga said. “Why wouldn’t I have the best coming back?”

Only once before has a “Bond girl” returned to the franchise after her relationship with Bond was over. Octopussy actor Maud Adams returned in View to a kill, but in a different role. 

If we go on and assume that Seydoux is returning as Bond’s girlfriend, she will be the first “Bond girl” to be the main love interest in two films.

Well, Swann and Bond did make a pretty damn good couple in Spectre.

Mashable has reached out to representatives for Léa Seydoux and Cary Joji Fukunaga for comment.