Nintendo is on one of the hottest streaks of its 128-year history: The new Nintendo Switch console is a bona fide smash hit, and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition is still in very high demand. 

But while the Nintendo Switch is super-great, I'd urge you to at least think twice about picking one up this holiday shopping season.

While all eyes are on the Switch, the 6-year-old Nintendo 3DS has quietly become one of the best deals in video-game history. You can get started with the Nintendo 3DS for a lot less than the Switch, and play some of the very best games of this or any other generation.

Here are a few reasons why the Nintendo 3DS might be the console to pick up for the Nintendo fan in your life this holiday season. 

SEE ALSO: Nintendo just unveiled a new portable console — here's what it is and why you should want one

1. Price

The Nintendo Switch costs $299. Meanwhile, the cheapest member of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems costs $79. 

Wait, "family" of systems? Stick with me here, because this is where it gets a little complicated. Nintendo offers a selection of consoles, in different shapes and sizes, all of which can play Nintendo 3DS games. 

The lineup, as you'll see on store shelves this holiday season:

Nintendo 2DS ($79)— Not only is it the cheapest option, but it comes with a game pre-installed. You can buy a 2DS bundled with "Mario Kart 7,""New Super Mario Bros 2," or, starting on Black Friday this year, "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D." The drawbacks: It doesn't offer Nintendo's neat glasses-less 3D feature (if that's what you're into), you can't scan Nintendo's Amiibo figurines without a dongle, and it doesn't support buying and downloading classic Super Nintendo games like "Super Mario World," as the others do.

New Nintendo 2DS XL ($150) — The most recent addition to the line, and probably the best balance between power and price on the menu. It boasts a clamshell design, so you can fold it up and shove it in a pocket or backpack without worrying about damaging the screen. The only real trade-off is that you lose that same glasses-less 3D feature. But honestly, you won't miss it. 

New Nintendo 3DS XL ($199) — The best of the best, the tip of the top. It has all the same specs as the 2DS XL, but also has that 3D feature. It's not strictly necessary, but the 3DS XL is for those who don't want to limit their options.

2. Aesthetics

Props to Nintendo for letting users customize their Nintendo Switch consoles — you can buy the system's Joy-Con controllers in an expanding range of colors, adding some flair. 

But if you want something that really stands out, the 3DS might be the console for you. 

When you buy a Nintendo 2DS, it'll come with a version of the console in a color scheme to match the game it comes with — red and blue for "Mario Kart 7;" green and gold for "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D." 

There's also a $159 version of the New Nintendo 2DS that looks like a Pokéball, of "Pokémon fame." Otherwise, you can get it in a slick-looking black-and-blue or black-and-orange configuration. 

3. Battery life

The Nintendo Switch gets three, maybe four hours of battery life when it's not connected to power, depending on what you're playing. 

Meanwhile, the New Nintendo 2DS XL and New Nintendo 3DS XL both get around 7 hours of playtime — though you'll get less if you use the 3D effects on the 3DS. The 2DS tops out at around 5.5 hours, which is still better than the Switch.

Tim Ferriss, the productivity expert, author and inspirational speaker, is an avid reader, and has highlighted many books on his show and through his blog, seeking to share some of the same wisdom that inspires him.

From self-help to science fiction, there is something for everyone, and these 10 tomes have been selected from the many that make up Ferriss’s library. See what he recommends and why, and get ready to spend your Sunday mornings curled up with one — or several — of these books.

SEE ALSO: 3 smart strategies geniuses like Albert Einstein and Elon Musk use to learn anything faster

1. Anything You Want by Derek Sivers

What’s worth doing in life? This is the question that fabled entrepreneur Derek Sivers answers in this audiobook, packing 10 years of experience into a compact 90 minutes.

Ferriss's take: “Short, hilarious and profoundly practical. I’ve reread these 40 lessons dozens of times," Derek is a philosopher-king among startup contrarians, and he knows how to get what he wants, however odd. I love this guy.”

2. Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Tara Brach, a Buddhist student and therapist, wants to show the world how to trust in the innate goodness of humanity. Self-doubt is a part of the modern human condition, leading to many profound sources of suffering, but through a variety of storytelling techniques from case histories to guided meditations, readers can emerge from this book free of constrictions.

Ferriss's take: “This book was recommended to me by a PhD neuroscientist and is what finally helped me tame anger, one of my most destructive (and persistent) emotions. It’s easy to aim for 'successful' and be miserable. This book is the antidote.”

3. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

The creator of the Dilbert comic strip in this book wants to help you succeed, but by telling you all about his failures. Scott Adams doesn’t offer a roadmap in his book, but rather examples to glean tips and tricks from that make it easier for luck to find you.

Ferriss's take: “Scott, the creator of Dilbert, has an incredible approach to 'career planning' that's as effective as it is unusual. He’s beaten all the odds and can help you do the same.”

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter, but falling oil prices have hurt the economy and made it harder for the country to pay its oil workers.

To give its economy a boost, the Saudi Arabian government has been working in recent years to transform hundreds of square miles of desert into new cities that create jobs and diversify the economy away from crude oil.

One of the developments under construction is the Knowledge Economic City, set to be complete by 2020.

Take a look at the master plan below.

SEE ALSO: Saudi Arabia just announced plans to build a $500 billion mega-city that's 33 times the size of New York City

Saudi Arabia is building the Knowledge Economic City in Medina, located 60 miles from the Red Sea coast.

Amr Dabbagh, Governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority, announced the project in 2006.

Source: The Knowledge Economic City Company

The$7 billion development will measure 51.6 million square feet when complete.

The city's master plan calls for retail, office space, and over 1 million square feet of housing.

The fall TV season has not been great —for critics, at least. 

But broader audiences shouldn't care about that too much. In fact, some of the most critically panned TV shows that premiered this fall are loved by audiences, and have the ratings to prove it. 

"The Good Doctor," for example, has quickly gained a devoted audience to become the most-watched show on television, beating ratings darling "The Big Bang Theory" with 18.2 million tuning into the third episode.

Critics, on the other hand, aren't so into it. 

We compiled a list of the shows that critics hate but audiences love, from "The Orville" on Fox (which just got picked up for season 2) to "Wisdom of the Crowd" on CBS. We used critic and audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes, and the differences are staggering.

Here are the new TV shows that critics hate, but audiences love:

SEE ALSO: The 6 worst TV shows of the fall 2017 season, ranked

6. "Valor"— The CW

Critic score: 24%

Audience score: 56%

Difference: 32%

Summary: A drama about an elite unit of helicopter pilots, a failed mission and MIA soldiers.

What critics said: "There's no reason a military drama can't be blended with a soapy melodrama, but Valor doesn't seem to have the right formula just yet."-Screen Rant

5. "Wisdom of the Crowd"— CBS

Critic score: 28%

Audience score: 83%

Difference: 55%

Summary: A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge, crowd-sourcing hub to solve his daughter's murder and to revolutionize crime solving in San Francisco.

What critics said: "The series is playing with a lot of timely issues, but, at least based on the pilot, not with a lot of thought." -Los Angeles Times

4. "Dynasty"— The CW

Critic score: 54%

Audience score: 84%

Difference: 30%

Summary: A reboot of the sudsy drama about two wealthy families feuding over their fortune and children.

What critics said: "The script strains to make it all relevant, referencing other current dynasties including the Kardashians and the Trumps, but the whole enterprise nonetheless feels dated." -The Boston Globe

ISIS' territorial control in Iraq and Syria is eroding.

In Syria, the fall of its self-declared capital in Raqqa and its last military bastion in Deir ez-Zor have forced ISIS toward the Iraqi border.

In Iraq, the liberation of Mosul and Tal Afar have ISIS fighters retreating toward the Syrian border, where they are being hunted down in a final push by Iraqi forces.

On October 21, President Trump said"the end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight."

This week, Vladimir Shamanov, a former military officer who leads the Defense Committee in Russia's lower house of parliament, said that by the end of this year ISIS "won’t exist anymore as an organized military structure."

While ISIS is losing large swaths of its home turf, it still operates in a number of countries. Here are nine places where the fight against ISIS is not slowing down.

SEE ALSO: Here's how many foreign ISIS fighters have returned home from the battlefield

Egypt

The Egyptian government has been fighting Islamist insurgents since the military took power in 2013. Most of the fighting has happened in the Sinai Peninsula, where ISIS proclaimed a province in 2014.

Egypt has been under an official state of emergency since April, after a attack killed dozens of members of Egypt's minority Christian population.

Hundreds of Egyptian police and military servicemen have been killed in battles with jihadists. In an ISIS attack on an army outpost in Sinai in July 2016, 23 soldiers were killed and at least 26 were wounded.

In late October, at least 54 policemen and conscripts, including several officers, were killed in what appeared to be a well-planned ambush. Though no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, authorities have not ruled out ISIS.

The latest attack took place in the Giza governorate, which means the insurgency is spreading beyond the Sinai Peninsula — a worrisome sign that may have led President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to reorganize his security leadership.

Libya

Libya became a safe haven for terrorist groups after Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown in 2011. It currently has three different governments claiming authority over the country, and the lack of a strong central authority and a unified security force has allowed militias to fill the void.

ISIS seized the coastal city of Sirte — Gadhafi's hometown — in 2015. At its peak, ISIS was thought to have over 5,000 militants in Libya. In addition to causing chaos there, they were aiding jihadist groups in Egypt and other parts of North and West Africa.

Though ISIS lost control of Sirte in December 2016, they still have what officials have described as a "desert army" operating in the regions south of the city. That army has shown signs of trying to gain ground in the country.

The US launched its first airstrike in Libya under President Donald Trump in September, 150 miles south of Sirte, reportedly killing 17 militants.

A major concern among European officials is that as ISIS loses territory in Iraq and Syria, its fighters could relocate to Libya. Among those fighters may be Westerners who could use Libya's role as a transit point for migrants to return home.

Yemen

Yemen has long been a battleground in the fight against Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups. While the Saudi-led military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in country has received much of the attention, ISIS' presence there has gotten the notice of the US.

ISIS created its Yemen branch in 2014, during the chaos that followed the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012. Since then, its attacks have killed hundreds.

US forces launched more than 100 airstrikes against Al Qaeda in Yemen this year, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. October saw the first US airstrikes against ISIS in Yemen. According to US Central Command, the three strikes on ISIS training camps reportedly killed 60 militants.

Though there are more movies being released now than ever before in the business, less people are motivated to go to the theater to watch them. 

With so many movies available on streaming, and TV technology making your living room rival your neighborhood multiplex, there’s more than enough reason to just sit back and enjoy at home. 

But there’s still something special about going to the theater and experiencing a good movie on the big screen. 

Here we highlight seven titles coming to theaters in November that we think are worth you spending your hard-earned cash on. 

Note: Titles listed below as limited releases will likely expand to more cities throughout the month. 

SEE ALSO: The 5 best new shows of the fall that you have to watch, ranked

1. “Lady Bird” — November 3 (limited release)

Actress Greta Gerwig’s first solo directing effort is a semi-autobiographical, bittersweet look at her teenage years. Saoirse Ronan gives a perfect performance as Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, a high school senior who can’t wait to escape her hometown of Sacramento, and the confines of Catholic school, and go off to college in New York. Through the year we journey with her on the highs and lows of teen life and her relationship with her mother (an Oscar-worthy performance by Laurie Metcalf).

There have been many great movies that have looked at teen life, and Gerwig has elevated the genre a beautiful balance of sincerity and deadpan comedy.

2. “Thor: Ragnarok” — November 3

The latest movie from Marvel Studios is a little different than the rest. Enlisting the talents of indie director Taika Waititi, the third movie in the Thor franchise focuses more on fun and the relationships of the characters than an impending doom (though there’s that, too). Chris Hemsworth has done great work playing Thor, but in this one you can just tell he finally was challenged to show off some of his acting skills.

3. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” — November 10 (limited release)

It’s hard to mess up a movie that features Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell. But with the writing-directing of Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges”), these talents are given material that even elevates their games.

McDormand plays a mother who is fed up with the lack of progress the local police force has made in solving her daughter’s murder, so she decides to motivate them a little by posting three huge billboards that call out the sheriff (Harrelson) specifically for failing her. With a extremely dark comedic tone, the movie explores loss and redemption.

Oh, and Rockwell’s performance is really, really special.

• Many investors are worried that the time has come for an economic downturn.
• Morgan Stanley has compiled a list of stocks its analysts think are primed for growth regardless of macroeconomic conditions.

Morgan Stanley has released a list of stocks its analysts think could outperform markets regardless of what may happen to upset economic conditions.

These "secular growth stocks," as the bank calls its eighth annual report, out Wednesday, are companies in which the bank's analyst are bullish and see an upside beyond the usual business cycle.

"While our US Equity Strategy team has remained positive on an equity market they believe is 'Classic Late Cycle,' for some long-term investors, it may make sense to focus not on the cycle, but through the cycle," the bank said. "Indeed, Morgan Stanley Research has long focused on identifying multi-year secular trends — powerful long-term drivers that can reshape or disrupt economies, sectors, and business models."

To compile the list, Morgan Stanley screened the thousands of stocks generated revenue growth for the past three years. It then focused on those rated overweight or equal weight by its analysts to find which had a three-year compound-annual-growth-rate forecast of at least 15% for earnings per share and 10% for revenue.

Here are the 16 stocks that could see revenue with a CAGR of more than 20% through 2019:

SEE ALSO: These stocks could get cut in half over the next year — or worse

16. CyrusOne

Ticker: CONE

Sector: Telecom Services

Market cap: $5.65 billion

Revenue CAGR (2016-2019e): 20%

EPS CAGR (2016-2019e): 20%

Year-to-date stock performance: +27.5%

Source: Morgan Stanley

Get real-time CONE charts here>>

15. Nvidia

Ticker: NVDA

Sector: Technology

Market cap: $118.14 billion

Revenue CAGR (2016-2019e): 20%

EPS CAGR (2016-2019e): 23%

Year-to-date stock performance: +91.73%

Source: Morgan Stanley

Get real-time NVDA charts here>>

14. Veeva Systems

Ticker: VEEV

Sector: Technology

Market cap: $8.58 billion

Revenue CAGR (2016-2019e): 20%

EPS CAGR (2016-2019e): 18%

Year-to-date stock performance: +44.14%

Source: Morgan Stanley

Get real-time VEEV charts here>>

• Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez and retired Yankee Alex Rodriguez have been dating since February.

• The two celebrities told Vanity Fair they have a lot in common as two Latino New Yorkers who shot to fame at a very young age.

• "This is the first relationship I've been where I feel like we really make each other better," Lopez told HOLA! USA.

J-Lo and A-Rod are together — and they're very happy, according to their recent Vanity Fair cover story.

That's despite the fact fans sometimes mistake the retired Yankee for Lopez's security guard.

"When I was on the Yankees and we won the world championship you wear the pinstripes and you think you're pretty cool,"Rodriguez told Jimmy Fallon. "But then you hang out with Jennifer and they confuse me for the security guard all the time."

People reported the singer and actress began seeing the former baseball star back in February.

Recently, the two stepped out together at the 2017 Met Gala hand-in-hand.

Here's a look inside their relationship:

SEE ALSO: A look inside the marriage of world's richest couple, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos — who met at work, were engaged in 3 months, and own more land than almost anyone else in America

Rodriguez and Lopez first met all the way back in 2005. Lopez's then-husband Marc Anthony threw out the first pitch at a Mets game.

Source: Vanity Fair

They reconnected last winter in Beverly Hills. Lopez was eating lunch after filming a promo for her TV show "Shades of Blue." She saw Rodriguez walk by the restaurant.

Source: Vanity Fair

"I almost yelled out 'Alex,' but I am the shyest person when it comes to things like that,” she told Vanity Fair. Still, Lopez ended up heading outside and tapping Rodriguez on the shoulder.

Source: Vanity Fair

If rock-n-roll or old-school blues rock and its derivatives are your thing, the pickings these days are slim.

Washy synthesizers and ornately produced rap dominate, which is fine. I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about St. Vincent's "Masseduction," and one of my kids is bringing a lot of contemporary hip-hop into the house, which has actually given me an excuse to revisit the Public Enemy catalog.

But of course I was raised on rock on the 1970s, and at the moment, the authors of that art form are aging toward their final rewards. Presumably. Keith Richards might live forever.

The year 2017 was actually a great one for the dinosaurs. Numerous classic rock Rexes released new albums, and they were all quite good.

Here's a rundown of my favorites:

The Rolling Stones, "Blue & Lonesome"

This might be my favorite Rolling Stones album ever, and I'm a student of their vaunted run of records from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s that featured "Sticky Fingers,""Exile on Main Street," and "It's Only Rock 'n Roll."

"Blue & Lonesome" consists entirely of blues covers, so in a sense it's a true back-to-the-beginning effort from Mick, Keith, Ronnie, and Charlie. The Stones started out as a cover band, determined to preach the gospel of American blues, as Keith once put it. 

The Stones' core garage-band vibe matches up perfectly with heavy, rollicking blues numbers originally composed by Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Willie Dixon. Imagine the young, raw Stones of the early 1960s combined with decades of experience and modern production. The result is just great, but the revelation is Mick Jagger's skill as a harmonica player.

You don't really get a lot of high-profile harmonica albums these days, but the instrument is crucial to the authentic Chicago blues sound, and Mick is a master. As Richards said when recounting how the album — recorded in just a few days and released in December of 2016 (I've grandfathered it into my 2017 list) — came about, he and Ronnie Wood were working up a few blues cover to get the band back into a groove, and Mick's "harp" playing inspired them to keep going.

The goal was basically to get Mick playing more harp, Richards said. Was it ever worth it! (And for good measure, Eric Clapton joins in for a few tracks.)

Jeff Beck, "Loud Hailer"

Beck was one of the three former Yarbirds guitarists — the other two were Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to invent the British blues-rock sound of the 196os. But Beck didn't stick with vibe, while Clapton refined the form and Page went on to start Led Zeppelin.

Beck moved in a progressive direction and has been relentlessly and restlessly reinventing himself ever since. It's kept him young, and because he doesn't sing, he's open to new vocal talent. Which he found and then some on "Loud Hailer" in Rosie Bones of the eponymous UK group Bones.

Beck's tone is rich, gruff, scratchy, supple, energized, and virtuosic, usually all at the same time. He has power to burn, and combined with Bones' fierce, confrontational vocals, he unleashes the incandescence on proggy, punky gut-checks such as "Live in the Dark." 

This is a dark, futuristic album that sounds like the soundtrack to something bad. Beck is trying to get our attention. And at 73, he proves he can do it again and again.

This is the most in-your-face record I've listened to from anybody in years. When Beck isn't blowing your mind with the effects he can extract from a Stratocaster, he's captivating your imagination with beautiful phrasing and, huge, chunky riffs.

"Scared for the Children" is the ballad, if you could call it that. More like a warning. Heed it.

Robert Plant, "Carry Fire"

In his late sixties, Plant — with his group the Sensational Shape Shifters — has been exploring a kind of world-music-meets-The-Band semi-solo career.

Zep is ain't, but the yowling, yelping, shrieky vocals that made Plant such an icon in the 1970s aren't really suited to a musician of his stature, as he himself has said many times when asked about a Zep reunion.

Instead, on "Carry Fire," we get a rumbling, meditative Plant, backed by a versatile, crackerjack lineup. Almost all the songs feature rolling, drone-like structures, evocative of Middle-Eastern music and folk. It's hypnotic, and for fans of Plant's post-Zep record with Jimmy Page, an extension of a slightly bluesy take on those traditions, heavy and serious.

What it is, in the end, is classic rock for the thinking person. Standouts are the title track and "Bluebirds Over the Mountain," a simultaneously menacing and uplifting exercise in thrum and feedback that features a guest appearance by Chrissie Hynde.

You can put this one on an endless loop.

Daily fantasy presents a new challenge every week, with football fans looking to put together the best lineup possible from a menu that offers literally every player taking the field on Sunday.

Last weekwas another hit-or-miss week for our value plays — Josh McCown was a top-four quarterback at a fraction of the price you'd expect to pay for one, and Mohamed Sanu found the end zone to end the day as a top-10 receiver. That said, other picks like Marquis Goodwin and Nelson Agholor didn't pan out.

This week, we're back at it, trying to identify the best, affordable players for your DraftKings lineup. Everyone wants to load their teams with studs sure to light up the box score, but it's finding the undervalued players that allows you to max out your budget on the likes of A.J. Green and Russell Wilson this week.

Below we've picked some of our best value plays for daily fantasy this week. Consider them when trying to find a few extra dollars to upgrade elsewhere in your lineup.

QB: Carson Wentz, $6,100

At $6,100, Carson Wentz isn't as great a value as is normally included in this column, but getting an MVP candidate and NFC player of the month at the eighth most expensive quarterback feels like a steal and will still save you an extra $1,000 compared to the top QBs on the board. Wentz is at home facing a Denver defense playing its third straight road game, so there's potential for a breakout game.

RB: Derrick Henry, $5,000

Derrick Henry has been feast or famine this year for fantasy owners, but at home against a Ravens team that sports the third worst rushing defense in the league he'll have the chance to put together a solid performance. If he can get the touches, he'll be a good addition to your lineup.

RB: Alex Collins, $4,600

Last week Alex Collins ran for 113 yards as the Ravens routed the Miami Dolphins. Collins has the type of speed that is hard to believe with your own two eyes, and has always looks like he's about to break out for a long touchdown.

As the year gradually draws to a close, most of us will start to think of what 2018 will bring — specifically where our travels might take us.

If you're in need of some inspiration, Business Insider has teamed up with The Indie Traveller to bring you a comprehensive list of the most inspiring, wanderlust-inducing, and influential travel Instagram accounts on the planet.

In order to pinpoint the biggest travel personalities on the photo sharing app, Marek Bron — who is behind the blog — created an algorithm to analyse hundreds of accounts (filtering out any brands or group accounts.)

It measured the accounts on several metrics including follower count, follower ratio, account activity, and engagement rate.

The "Top 100" list shows the accounts that are not only popular among users, but also highly active, and get a lot of engagement from their followers. It includes some of the biggest names in the travel influencer world, but also some exciting rising stars.

Business Insider has compiled a list of the top 30 most influential accounts according to the algorithm.

From dreamy travel couples to professional photographers, influencers, and ambassadors to some of the world's biggest brands, scroll down to see the most beautiful and influential travel Instagram accounts on the planet, ranked in ascending order alongside their impressive follower counts.

30. @californiathroughmylens — 19.5K followers.

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Josh McNair runs the California Through My Lens travel site with his wife, which is used by over six million people. The shot above is taken from the North Dome at dusk in Yosemite National Park.

29. @lebackpacker — 454K followers.

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Belgian-born self-taught travel photographer Johan Lolos just returned home after a five-month summer road trip of across 17 countries, a project he called the "Peaks of Europe." He is also Toyota’s latest 4×4 ambassador. Check out his blog here.

Above, he's pictured in Elgol, in the Scottish Highlands.

28. @chloe_t — 251K followers.

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Aussie-born Chloe Ting says she is a "Gymshark Athlete." In addition to her globetrotting on Instagram, you can follow her fat burning and fitness tips viaher YouTube channel.

• JetBlue is a boutique US airline that incorporates elements from both full-service and low-cost carriers.
• I recently flew JetBlue for the first time from New York to Seattle.
• JetBlue's in-flight experience lived up to its billing as a service-oriented airline. 

Since its founding in 1999, JetBlue has been one of America's favorite airlines. As an aviation journalist, I've spent the past few years covering JetBlue as a business, but I haven't actually had the chance to experience its service. Chalk it up to spending most of my life living in the shadows of Delta and United Airlines fortress hubs; Atlanta and Newark.

That all changed in October when I went on a business trip to Seattle, Washington and used it as an opportunity to finally fly JetBlue.

As an airline, JetBlue occupies a unique place in the US airline market. On one hand, you have full-service legacy carriers like American, Delta, and United. On the other hand, there are low-cost carriers like Southwest or even ultra-low-cost carriers like Spirit and Frontier.

JetBlue occupies a space somewhere between the legacy carriers and low-cost Southwest. It's a tweener with elements taken both from full-service as well as low-cost airlines. For instance, JetBlue operates mainly point-to-point service like low-cost carriers while the legacy airlines use a hub and spoke model. But unlike low-cost airlines, JetBlue's aircraft are stylishly appointed with some planes even equipped with a luxurious Mint premium cabin.

As a result, the New York-based airline is generally referred to as a boutique carrier.

But back to my experience onboard JetBlue. Here's a closer look at my flight to Seattle.

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My journey started with a trip from my home in northern New Jersey to JetBlue's base at JFK Terminal 5. Getting off the AirTrain, I was greeted by this sign and some digital kiosks.

JetBlue's terminal sits on real estate once occupied by TWA's iconic Flight Center. The remnants of that facility are being converted over to a luxury hotel.

Click here for more on the TWA Hotel.

At the terminal, the first thing I encountered was the check-in kiosks.

Passengers are directed to the digital kiosks for check-in or to print out checked baggage tags. Since my boarding pass was stored on my iPhone, all I needed was a baggage tag. The airline had several employees on hand to assist anyone struggling with the kiosks. 

With my checked baggage tag applied, I simply walked over to the handful of luggage conveyor belts where another employee scanned my bag and boarding pass using a handheld device. With my bags dropped off, all I had to do was go through the TSA checkpoint and then onto my gate. 

Overall, JetBlue's check-in process is simple, efficient, and highly intuitive even for infrequent flyers. 

Most skyscrapers are behemoths of steel, glass, and reinforced concrete.

As part of an ongoing project, researchers at Cambridge University, architects at Perkins + Will, and engineers at Thornton Tomasetti are proposing a timber skyscraper, called the River Beech Tower, in Chicago, Illinois.

The team sees the wooden tower concept as an especially sustainable type of architecture since the material is renewable.

Take a look at their proposal below.

SEE ALSO: Legendary architect Zaha Hadid changed architecture forever with these stunning designs

The River Beech Tower would be located along the Chicago River, according to Andy Tsay Jacobs, director of the Building Technology Lab at Perkins + Will.

The 80-story skyscraper, made entirely from wood, would feature an intricate facade ...

... and serve as an office building.

• Civil rights attorney Larry Krasner is the heavy front-runner to win the race to be Philadelphia's next district attorney, a powerful position in the heavily incarcerated city.
• While he has never served in government, he has a long career of suing police for civil rights abuses and defending activists in court.
• District attorneys' races have become the frontline in the battle to reform criminal justice and end "mass incarceration," with millions of dollars being poured into local races over the last year.

Civil rights attorney Larry Krasner has always been obsessed with what it takes to make change. At the age of 11, he got into a debate with his Sunday School teacher about whether it was right to break the law for the greater good. The two were arguing over the Civil Rights movement and protests over the Vietnam War — events that shaped his life and perspective.

Today, Krasner is running for district attorney of Philadelphia, a powerful position in a city with the highest rate of incarceration, the highest poverty rate, and the third highest violent crime rate of the US's 10 most populated cities, though crime has dropped significantly in recent years. 

At 56, he is pursuing elected office for the first time after a 30-year career defending radical activist groups like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Philadelphia. He's also sued police for civil rights violations more than 75 times.

"I was born in '61. So in '68 when I'm watching TV … I'm seeing the Vietnam War and the protests and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago," Krasner told Business Insider.

"I remember all that and, even more importantly, I remember [Martin Luther] King. … It was a very visual time, and when you are a 7- or 8-year-old kid and you're watching this happen ... it's compelling. The war was compelling. It was all compelling. And then, they were getting killed. [Robert F. Kennedy] was speaking out against the war. And then he is dead. And then King is dead, and he's dead because of white supremacists."

Krasner, well-dressed in a sharply cut blue suit, tinted horn-rimmed glasses, and a well-kempt head of silvery hair, doesn't look the part of a political outsider.

With his raspy but measured speech, he could pass for a senator in a liberal state. But make no mistake, Krasner may be the most progressive candidate for such a major office in years. The center of his campaign platform is ending "mass incarceration," the constellation of state and federal policies that have put more than 2 million Americans behind bars.

And though nearly all of the candidates in the seven-person Democratic primary he won in May promised reform, all it took was one look at their careers, he said, to convince him to run for office for the first time in his life.

Some of the candidates "were flagrantly authoritarian during their careers," Krasner said. "And yet all of a sudden I'm hearing about their 'Which way is the wind blowing now' virtues, and I just figured this is ridiculous."

"Somebody real has got to get into this, because these people aren't going to change anything."

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Lawyers are usually 'technicians' for the movement, not the leaders

Krasner is widely expected to win the general election against his Republican opponent, Beth Grossman, due to Philadelphia's 7:1 Democratic registration advantage, but he isn't spending the final days of the campaign resting.

With the November election weeks away, Krasner is spending every day hitting the pavement courting voters — over the course of the weekend he would run from debate to community meeting to city forum.

Though he sounds excited, Krasner is also keenly aware of how winning will upend his life, his successful and lucrative criminal defense and civil rights practice, and his family. His wife, Lisa M. Rau, is a judge on the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia and has been unable to attend any campaign events out of ethical concerns.

If elected, Krasner wouldn't be the first progressive district attorney in a major US city, but he might be the most radical — though he is loathe to use the term. When I asked him whether he considered himself an activist after spending his career defending the rights of activists and suing police, he demurred.

"I don't think I deserve that much credit," he said. "I consider myself an activist's lawyer. I consider myself to be a movement lawyer." After a little pressing, Krasner launched into a story, as he often does. He referenced the relationship between William Kunstler, the famous civil rights lawyer and activist, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I think [Kunstler] used to refer to the lawyers as 'technicians' for the movement," he added.

That idea, of lawyer as a "technician" to a movement is central to Krasner's idea of himself. Though he is a charismatic figure, he seemed uncomfortable to suddenly be the face of Philadelphia's leading movement for change.

President Donald Trump's roaring victory in last year's election has cast a shadow over the DA's race ever since candidates began throwing their hats in the ring last September — almost as much as that of Seth Williams, the city's last elected DA.

Williams resigned in June after a year-long corruption scandal and was sentenced to a five-year prison sentence for, in the words of the judge, feeding "his face at the trough" of public money.

When Krasner announced his candidacy in February, in an 11-minute video surrounded by local activists, he joined a crowded Democratic field of former assistant district attorneys and a judge.

David Rudovsky, a civil rights professor at University of Pennsylvania's law school, told Business Insider they were all "trying to out-progressive each other" on everything from mass incarceration and racial injustice to the death penalty.

At a debate in April that Rudovsky moderated, he told the seven Democratic candidates, "It sounds like you all are running for public defender."

A PAC associated with George Soros put $1+ million behind Krasner's campaign

Over the last several years, the push for criminal justice reform has centered around electing progressive district attorneys, an acknowledgement that DAs make the day-to-day decisions of what cases to pursue, what charges to press, and who gets a second chance.

Much of that push has been led by billionaire financier George Soros, and his "Safety and Justice" PACs, which funneled more than $3 million into seven DA races in 2016. The PACs reportedly put more than $1 million behind the Krasner campaign, a fact detractors have repeatedly seized upon.

Krasner concedes that the "Soros money"— as it's been called locally — "amplified" his message and may have widened the margin of his primary victory, but it is clear he established himself long before it arrived.

Though Krasner began his campaign in February, months after the entrance of Joe Khan, the establishment front-runner, and others, he was widely seen as driving the primary conversation. 

Rudovsky, the Penn Law professor, said Krasner's entrance drove candidates to the left, where Krasner stood out as someone who had long fought for the principles that all were espousing.

His detailed platform, released on day one of his campaign, calls for an end to cash bail imprisonment, reviewing convictions and freeing the wrongfully convicted, ending "stop and frisk" and civil asset forfeiture abuse, and standing up to police misconduct.

By Krasner's account, the detail in his platform far surpassed that of his opponents, who he says looked "like they were polling to figure out what they believed."

It’s the shock of seeing Norman Bates, knife in hand, clad in his mother’s clothes, grinning maniacally in the swinging lamplight. It’s the realization that Kevin Spacey spun us a bunch of lies, and was actually Keyser Söze the whole time. It’s finally connecting “I see dead people” with Bruce Willis being shot at the beginning of “The Sixth Sense.”

When movies pull the rug from under us, it’s one of the greatest thrills that cinema can provide.

As Hollywood continues to reboot countless old properties, it’s easy to think that the days of original and surprising storytelling are long behind us. But these films prove that Hollywood still has a few tricks up its sleeve, ones that have kept us talking for years, and have cemented their place in film history.

Beware of spoilers! Here are the best plot twists of the 21st century:

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20. “Unbreakable” (2000)

An incredibly unique and unexpected film about super-hero comic books and their myths, which at the end reveals itself to be its own unique origin story. Bruce Willis is an average guy, David Dunn, who after surviving a train crash that killed 130 passengers, wonders if he may have special powers. Elijah (Samuel L. Jackson), a comic book store owner with a rare bone disorder, uses his deep superhero knowledge to help David mine his past and test his abilities until he finally discovers he can see the criminal acts of those he comes into contact.

M. Night Shyamalan directs the story as if it is a mysterious drama, with only a hint of the supernatural underneath as we too wonder what is exactly happening and if there might be some truth in Elijah’s comics. When David shakes Elijah’s hand at the end of the movie he sees that his guru has orchestrated terrorist attacks, including his train crash, as he tells David his purpose in life is to be the villain “Mr. Glass” to David’s superhero. The twist reveals that we have been watching what, in retrospect, feels like an incredibly naturalistic story of what it must be like to discover you really are a superhero. –Chris O’Falt

19. “Get Out” (2017)

A half-century after “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?,” writer Jordan Peele revisited the iconic film’s plot for his directorial debut: Awkwardness ensues when a white woman (Allison Williams) brings her black boyfriend (Daniel Kaluuya) home to meet her supposedly progressive parents (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford). On a $4 million budget, Peele not only modernized the relevant-as-ever social satire — “Get Out” premiered at Sundance four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration ushered white supremacists back into the White House — but also made a resplendent mystic-action-horror-revenge fantasia.

The Armitage family’s evil ploy is to help their loved ones live forever by implanting their brains into younger black bodies, subject to secret slave-like auctions. In the finale, the bad guys are slaughtered and a jocular TSA official saves our hero and countless future victims. Perhaps the biggest twist of all is Peele’s table-flip to anyone who thought he was just a sketch-comedian. —Jenna Marotta

18. “Atonement” (2007)

A seven-time Oscar nominee unfolding mostly over one day at lush London estate in 1935, Joe Wright’s drama hinges on the false testimony of teen playwright Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan). She’s jealous that her older sister, Cecilia (Keira Knightley), has charmed the housekeeper’s son, Robbie (James McAvoy). As comeuppance for Robbie accidentally entrusting Briony to deliver a racy love note, Briony claims he raped a Tallis cousin, sending him to prison.

Robbie is freed to enlist in World War II, and the audience learns that he rekindled his romance with Cecilia, now estranged from her family (she knows Briony lied; the actual rapist married Cousin Lola with Briony looking on). However, this too is a fiction, from Briony’s novel: Robbie and Cecilia respectively perished in Dunkirk and the Balham train station bombing. Christopher Hampton penned the 2007 film, based on Ian McEwan’s acclaimed saga. —JM

The iPhone X is finally here, which means it's time to start worrying about breaking it. 

With an all-glass back and huge bezel-less screen, the iPhone X is practically begging to be dropped and shattered. Plus, iPhone X screen repairs are expensive ($280 if you don't have AppleCare+) and the fixing the back could be even pricier. 

So, you have two choices: Forgo a case to show off your beautiful new phone, or choose from any number of stylish, durable, and useful cases to protect your investment. 

Business Insider compiled some of its top picks for iPhone X cases. Here are our favorites so far:

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For the Apple-obsessed: Apple iPhone X leather case

Apple's leather cases have long been a great option for any new iPhone. With the X, Apple is rolling out new colors for both its silicone and leather cases, including the dark aubergine case pictured above, fuchsia, and bright blue. 

And if you're a fan of folio cases, Apple also introduced a brand-new premium leather folio case that costs $99.

Apple's standard leather case costs $49 and is available in stores or on Apple's website. 

For those who want to show off: Spigen ultra hybrid iPhone X case

There's a line of thinking that says if you're going to spend more than $1,000 on a phone, you shouldn't hide it underneath a case. That's where clear cases come in. 

A crystal clear case like this one from Spigen will offer a bit of protection for your phone without hiding the design. Spigen's is slim, simple, and works with wireless chargers. 

The case costs $12.99 on Amazon (it's available for Prime, too).

For the stylish yet understated: Sonix brown tortoise iPhone X case

I've been a fan of Sonix cases for over a year for two reasons: they're stylish and they have small bumpers to help prevent screen breakage. 

While most of Sonix's cases are clear with overlaid prints, the company recently launched a new line of leather and tortoise cases. The tortoise finish is subtle, fashionable, and matches the high-end vibe of the iPhone X. 

The Sonix brown tortoise case costs $45 and is available through the Sonix website, as well as several third-party retailers. 

• Only three countries in the world currently have a constitutional right to own a gun: the US, Mexico, and Guatemala.
• Six other countries used to have a constitutional right to bear arms, but they've since repealed those laws.
• The US is the only country with a right to keep and bear arms with no constitutional restrictions.

The right to keep and bear arms is a longstanding, often glorified right protected by the US Constitution.

Americans own nearly half of all the civilian-owned guns in the world, and on a per capita basis, the US has far more guns than any other nation.

Certainly, many countries are awash with guns. Among the nations with the most firearms are Serbia, Yemen, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia.

There are only three countries, however, that have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms: Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States — here's why.

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Mexico

Just south of the US border, the Mexican government has a strict hold over civilian gun ownership. Although Mexicans have a right to buy a gun, bureaucratic hurdles, long delays, and narrow restrictions make it extremely difficult to do so.

Article 10 of the 1857 Mexican Constitution guaranteed that "every man has the right to keep and to carry arms for his security and legitimate defense." But 60 years later in 1917, lawmakers amended it following Mexico's bloody revolution.

During the rewriting of the constitution, the government placed more severe restrictions on the right to buy guns. The law precluded citizens from buying firearms "reserved for use by the military" and forbid them from carrying "arms within inhabited places without complying with police regulations."

Today, Mexicans still have a right to buy guns, but they must contend with a vague federal law that determines "the cases, conditions, requirements, and places in which the carrying of arms will be authorized."

In 2012, The New York Times reported that only members of the police or military can buy the largest weapons in Mexico, such as semiautomatic rifles.

"Handgun permits for home protection allow only for the purchase of calibers no greater than .38," the Times wrote. One man who wanted to buy a pistol had to pay $803.05 for a Smith & Wesson revolver.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle of all is that there is only one shop in the entire country where Mexicans can go to buy guns, and it's located on a heavily guarded army base in Mexico City.

Guatemala

Like Mexico, Guatemala permits gun ownership, but with severe restrictions. The right to bear arms is recognized and regulated by article 38 of the current constitution, which was established in 1985.

"The right to own weapons for personal use, not prohibited by the law, in the place of in habitation, is recognized," the document says. "There will not be an obligation to hand them over, except in cases ordered by a competent judge."

Although Guatemalans are not allowed to own fully automatic weapons, they are allowed to buy semi-automatic weapons, handguns, rifles, and shotguns if they obtain a permit. Still, that can be difficult.

For example, individuals who want to purchase a gun for private security purposes need approval from the government. They are also limited in how much ammunition they can own, and they must re-apply and re-qualify for their firearm licenses every one to three years, according to GunPolicy.org.

Despite the restrictions, guns are widely available in Guatemala. In fact, it has one of the highest gun ownership rates per capita in Latin America, according to Insight Crime. The same organization also noted that 75% of homicides in Guatemala involve a gun.

United States

Although Mexico and Guatemala both have a constitutional right to bear arms, the US is in a league of its own simply because it is the only country without restrictions on gun ownership in its constitution.

The second amendment states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Those words were adopted in 1791 and have since inspired other countries around the world to provide their citizens with the right to own guns. Only 15 constitutions (in nine countries) "ever included an explicit right to bear arms," according to The New York Times.

They are Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Liberia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the US. All of those countries, excluding Mexico, the US, and Guatemala, have since rescinded the constitutional right to bear arms.

Tech companies and NFL quarterbacks have a surprising amount in common.

While tech stocks carry outsize influence, often dictating the direction of the whole market, professional football teams are also at the whim of their signal-callers. The market would crash if tech stocks started failing — the dot-com bubble anyone? — just in the way an injury to an NFL team's starting quarterback usually spells certain disaster.

Now, as the NFL season kicks off, many casual football fans are trying to get up to speed on which players and teams to watch. And there's no better place to start than with the guys who are throwing the passes.

Below is a breakdown to help make sense of it all, with a special focus on the tech companies that best embody some of the league's most notable quarterbacks.

Aaron Rodgers is Amazon

Remember when Amazon was just an online bookstore? Well, before Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was an MVP and Super Bowl champion, he was just NFL legend Brett Favre's backup.

It took Amazon and Rodgers years of quietly toiling away at their respective trades, plotting world domination, for them to break out and realize their immense potential. Amazon is now disrupting every industry in sight, while Rodgers is continuing his reign of terror over opposing defenses and once is again expected to carry his team to a fantastic season. And, like Amazon, Rodgers is showing no signs of slowing.

Also notable is how both Amazon and Rodgers faced their share of doubters during their respective ascents. Short-sighted pessimists first questioned Amazon's initial foray into online bookselling and then scratched their heads when the retail juggernaut broadened its scope. Rodgers suffered the indignity of slipping to the 24th pick in the NFL draft, despite being projected as a top selection, and then was stuck as Favre's understudy for three full seasons.

Tom Brady is Apple

The two undisputed kings of their respective fields. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is a five-time Super Bowl champion and a two-time NFL MVP, and he is widely considered to be one of the best to ever play the game. Apple is the biggest company in the world, is still growing rapidly, and holds more cash than many small nations.

Both Brady and Apple got where they are today because of legendary leadership. Brady has benefited greatly from the tutelage of Patriots coach Bill Belichick, one of the greatest and winningest coaches in NFL history. Apple prospered under the visionary guidance of CEO Steve Jobs, who designed such landscape-altering products as the iPhone during his tenure.

That's not to say the two have always had it easy. Brady tore an ACL in his team's first game in 2008 and missed the rest of the season. Similarly, Jobs was fired in 1985, a move that almost destroyed the company. Needless to say, both entities bounced back, and today they are viewed as unstoppable forces.

Cam Newton is Facebook

Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton experienced almost immediate success upon entering the NFL in 2011, winning the Offensive Rookie of the Year award and eventually carrying his team to the Super Bowl. Facebook initially had a little tougher time gathering steam, but it still managed to grow its market cap by roughly 50% over its first two years after going public in 2012. It has since become one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Further, Newton is already one of the elite few to have been named an NFL MVP (in 2015), while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of roughly $70 billion.

That's not to say their respective ascents were without hiccups — both were accused of stealing early in their careers. Newton was suspended from the University of Florida football team in 2008 after he was arrested on suspicion of stealing a laptop from another student, while Zuckerberg was sued over claims that he stole the idea for Facebook from the Winklevoss twins.

They both recovered swiftly. Newton transferred to Auburn, where he won a national championship and the Heisman Trophy as the country's top player, while Zuckerberg was able to move past the lawsuit to become the highly respected billionaire CEO he is today.

Apple announced three new iPhones this year: the iPhone 8, the iPhone 8 Plus, and the high-end iPhone X.

Those three phones start at $699, $799, and $999, respectively.

The most expensive iPhone model this year, the iPhone X, in many ways represents the future of the iPhone.

That said, there are several reasons it's worth considering an iPhone 8 model instead of the iPhone X:

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1. The iPhone X is more expensive than the iPhone 8.

This might be the most important factor for many people.

The iPhone 8 starts at $700, while the larger iPhone 8 Plus starts at $800.

The iPhone X, on the other hand, starts at $1,000.

It's simple math: You can save at least $200 by going with an iPhone 8, which, keep in mind, is still a brand-new phone from Apple.

2. The iPhone 8 and the 8 Plus are powered by the same brains as the iPhone X.

This is probably the most important reason to consider the iPhone 8 and the 8 Plus over the iPhone X: Functionally, they're all identical.

Each is powered by Apple's new A11 Bionic chip, a neural engine, and the M11 motion coprocessor. The only difference is how the phones use these features: The iPhone X uses the A11 chip and neural engine for its new face-detection system, Face ID, which the iPhone 8 does not have.

And all are also running iOS 11, which means you're getting the same great apps and ecosystem in the iPhone 8 as the iPhone X.

3. Touch ID is a proven entity. Face ID is not.

Since the release of iPhone 5S in 2013, Touch ID has changed the way we use our iPhones — unlocking the device, storing passwords, and using our fingerprints to pay for goods via Apple Pay.

Touch ID is a known, proven entity. Based on early reviews and impressions, Face ID seems to work well — most of the time — but is less reliable, and more importantly less fast, than Touch ID.

For what it's worth, Apple says Face ID is less prone than Touch ID to being tricked, and can work in most situations where you think it wouldn't: in the dark, and if you make changes to your face — try growing a beard, or adding a pair of glasses, or changing your hair, or throwing on a kooky outfit, Face ID should still work.

Still, we're in the early days of the iPhone X. Technology is not infallible, and it's impossible to predict what could go wrong with this unlocking method. (Thankfully, the passcode backup still exists.)

By choosing an iPhone 8, however, you choose to forgo being a guinea pig for Face ID.

Few games are as delightful and downright joyous as "Super Mario Odyssey," the new Mario blockbuster on Nintendo's Switch console.

It's a great game unto itself, and it's a game that celebrates Nintendo's long history. Look no further than "New Donk City," one of the game's many massive open worlds, for proof of this duality.

And it's here, in New Donk City, that I experienced the most incredible moment of "Super Mario Odyssey."

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WARNING: This piece speaks in detail about "Super Mario Odyssey," and contains spoilers.

It's clear from the name of the city, and the endless references to Donkey Kong, that he must be somewhere. Right?

Did you notice that the street Mario's walking away from here is named "Cranky Road"? That's a reference to Cranky Kong, the aged ape who originally starred in "Donkey Kong" in arcades. This old fogey right here:

Perhaps you didn't know: The character known as "Cranky Kong," who appears in various "Donkey Kong Country" games, is actually the original Donkey Kong. I hope you were sitting down for that. The character in the "Donkey Kong Country" series named "Donkey Kong" is actually Donky Kong Jr. Really!

New Donk City is even run by Mayor Pauline — the same Pauline who appeared in the original "Donkey Kong" game as the damsel in distress.

Mayor Pauline is not Princess Peach, to be clear.

This is Princess Peach, who is also in "Super Mario Odyssey":

There have been several "damsel-in-distress" characters in the history of Mario games. Pauline was the very first, appearing in the original "Donkey Kong" game as the woman who "Jumpman" was trying to rescue from the eponymous ape villain. The Kong family is now known for heroics rather than stealing ladies.

In the case of "Super Mario Odyssey," Pauline is now a mayor and she's seeking Mario's help for energy-related issues. She actually doesn't mention Donkey Kong.