Start your year off with a dose of wholesomeness. 

Redditor u/bork1138 took a picture of their parents’ heartwarming tradition of competing in Mario Kart 64 to decide who has to make the daily tea. According to bork1138, they’ve been doing this “religiously” for the past 18 years. 

Here’s a photo of the couple in an almost identical position in 2014:

The OP says their father’s go-to character is always Toad, and their mother mains Wario for battle and Yoshi for Grand Prix. 

“Just a collision can lose a balloon,” bork1138 wrote about their mother’s love for Wario.

The parents usually play a round of Grand Prix and then a “best of 3” on Battle before choosing who has to make the tea.

According to bork1138, the beloved Nintendo 64 was actually their Christmas present in 1999, but it’s been taken over by the dueling parents. By now the couple has gotten pretty good at it.

“I’ll be honest, although I’d moved out years ago, from what I’ve seen it’s fairly even,” bork1138 said.  “They both know all the tricks, to the point where few years back they had to agree not to use shortcuts or cheats as they would bicker.”

Someone give these two a Twitch channel.

In 2009, Disney paid $4 billion to acquire Marvel. Less than 10 years later, in 2018, Marvel movies accounted for more than half of Disney’s $7.3 billion box office haul.

I’d say that was a good investment, wouldn’t you?

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In Disney’s final box office tally of 2018, just three movies accounted for slightly more than $4 billion in global ticket sales. Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther account for the lion’s share with $2.05 billion for the former and $1.35 billion for the latter. Ant-Man‘s global box office of $623 million brought in the rest.

(And in case you’re curious: Black Panther had the box office edge over Infinity War in the U.S., $700 million to $679 million.)

Pixar delivered the other big piece of Disney’s year. Incredibles 2 made $1.24 billion worldwide, with $609 million of that coming from U.S. audiences. Nothing else in the studio’s slate even came close to breaking $1 billion, though Ralph Breaks the Internet and Mary Poppins Returns are notably still in release with more overseas openings still to come.

There were some notable misses in 2018. The much-hyped, Ava Duvernay-helmed adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time was Disney’s lowest performer of the year, with just $133 million earned globally. And Solo: A Star Wars Story marked a low point for the series; its global box office of $394 million is lower than that of every other non-animated Star Wars release to date.

(Star Wars: The Clone Wars is still the reigning champ of poorly received Star Wars movies at the box office. The animated movie, which was really just a three-episode arc of the TV series that had been stitched together, made just $68.3 million in 2008.)

The missed opportunities with Star Wars and Wrinkle were seemingly just enough to make 2018 the runner-up in Disney’s all-time best box office years. (Not to suggest that $7.3 billion in one year is in any way a bad thing.) 

It’s hard to top 2016, or really overstate the importance of Star Wars to Disney’s business (Solo‘s misstep notwithstanding). That earlier year was bookended by the Dec. 2015 release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Dec. 2016 release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. 

The rest of 2016’s total — a whopping $7.6 billion — came from a mix of titles: key Marvel releases (Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange) and popular animated features like Moana, Zootopia, the live-action-ish The Jungle Book, and, of course, Finding Dory.

The 2019 calendar is likely to hit similar heights, or even exceed them. In addition to Captain Marvel, out in March, the MCU as a whole is headed for a watershed moment just a month later, in April’s story arc-capping Avengers: Endgame. It’s a similar situation with Star Wars: when Episode IX hits theaters in December, it’ll be finishing off a journey that George Lucas started, sans Disney, all the way back in 1977.

Then, in addition to those, we’ll be getting three freshened up remakes of Disney classics: Dumbo in March, Aladdin in May, and The Lion King in July. Those will also be joined by a pair of major sequels: Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4.

Disney likes to brag that it’s the only studio in Hollywood history to have made more than $7 billion at the box office in one year. Could 2019’s lineup have the juice to push into $8 billion territory?

It’s a new, weird world. 

The deep space exploration craft New Horizons has sent back the first detailed images of an ancient world floating more than 4 billion miles from Earth, formally known as 2014 MU69. The clearest glimpse yet of MU69 shows that it’s shaped like a snowman, with two roundish lobes that have been fused together. 

It is by far the most distant world a spacecraft — and by extension humanity — has ever explored.

“What this spacecraft and this team accomplished is unprecedented,” Alan Stern, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, said from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on Wednesday.

New Horizons — which previously revealed the majesty of Pluto in 2015 — swooped just 2,200 miles from the surface of MU69, which has been temporarily nicknamed Ultima Thule (the International Association of Astronomers will eventually endow MU69 with its official name).

These images, though, are not of that absolute closest approach. Over the coming days and weeks, New Horizons will continue to transmit back more images that will reveal greater detail, and closer views of the object.

“So stay tuned,” Jeff Moore, the New Horizons geology team lead, said on Wednesday. 

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MU69 is of profound interest to scientists. This world lies in a far-off group of objects, called the Kuiper Belt, that ring the solar system. Temperatures here approach absolute zero (minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit), which is as cold as it gets. Consequently, scientists suspect that these ancient objects have been preserved in relatively pristine condition since the beginnings of the still-forming solar system, some 4 billion years ago. 

Seeing MU69, then, is like peering into the solar system’s past. 

Moore believes MU69 is composed of small icy bodies that are about 4.5 billion years old. Over time, these objects likely coalesced, and eventually two of these objects began to spiral close to one another. One day, they touched. Now, they’re stuck together.

Viewing MU69 is like looking at some of the “only remaining building blocks of the solar system” said Moore. 

And as the New Horizons team suspected, this world is indeed reddish, and likely made up of different ices that have been subjected to space radiation for billions of years.

“Now we can definitely say that Ultima Thule is red,” said Carly Howett, a New Horizons planetary scientist.

As the New Horizons team still awaits more detailed images of MU69, New Horizons will continue to journey deeper into space. 

Perhaps scientists will spot another faint, distant object, and send New Horizons that way. The craft itself, while now 13 years old, won’t hold them back

“The spacecraft is in peak health,” said Stern. 

Aquaman just slid past Wonder Woman‘s international box office, earning over $822 million (Wonder Woman earned $821.8 million globally).

This makes Aquaman the second-highest DC Extended Universe global box office, behind 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

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Wonder Woman is still winning the domestic box office (it reached $330 million while Aquaman is around $189 million), but Aquaman‘s international sales have boosted its performance immensely, particularly in China. 

Both Aquaman and Wonder Woman made their debuts in Dawn of Justice, along with Ezra Miller as the Flash. The film reached the $873.6 million mark globally – a goal Aquaman is on track to achieve, having been in theaters only two weeks thus far. 

Wonder Woman remains the most critically acclaimed DCEU movie from Warner Bros., based on its Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores. It has a sequel due out in 2020. 

Aquaman is now in theaters.

h/t The Hollywood Reporter