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We're all used to warnings and promos ahead of films, from candy-filled "let's all go to the lobby" sequences to a polite-yet-firm reminder to power phones off. Sometimes, those sequences get a cute touch-up (my favorite is probably this wild, vulgar parody from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force film), but starting this week, moviegoers can expect something a little darker—as in, a harrowing warning that sounds like it might have been written by Edward Snowden.

It wasn't, however. Instead, the message was written, and is delivered, by Snowden film director and script co-writer Oliver Stone.

The Oscar winner appears in the one-minute clip, seated in a lovely den—complete with decadent furniture and giant bottles of assumedly fine liquors—with a smartphone in his hand. He starts describing the many things "this amazing little device" can do, from mass communication to cat-video streaming (and we're shown a few kitties briefly to make the point).

Telsa Model Ss in the company's European production center in Tilburg, Netherlands. (credit: Getty Images | Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg)

In Tesla’s Q2 2016 financial statement released today, the company reported a net loss of $293 million for the quarter, making it Tesla’s 13^th straight quarterly loss. (By Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, the company lost only $150 million. GAAP standards account for certain things on a car company’s balance sheet, like leased vehicles, differently than non-GAAP bookkeeping does.)

Despite the loss, revenue for the company was up 31 percent year-over-year, with GAAP revenue coming in at $1.3 billion for Q2 and non-GAAP revenue at $1.6 billion.

Still, during Tesla’s Q4 2015 earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised that the electric vehicle company would be profitable before summer. But production issues have continued to plague the company, although Musk and Telsa Vice President of Finance Jason Wheeler were adamant that the company is out of the woods on production issues, despite missing production goals in Q2.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leaves after speaking during his campaign event on August 3, 2016 in Daytona, Florida. (credit: Getty Images)

During a brief, unofficial Reddit AMA one week ago, the Republican nominee for president of the United States, Donald Trump, had kind words for NASA and US space policy. “Honestly I think NASA is wonderful! America has always led the world in space exploration,” Trump responded to a question on NASA's role in his administration.

Evidently Trump no longer feels that way. During a "town hall" Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Florida, about 75 miles up the coast from Kennedy Space Center, the presidential candidate offered some extemporaneous remarks (see video) about America's progress in space. "By the way, look at your space program, look at what's going on there," he said. "Somebody just asked me backstage, 'Mr. Trump, will you get involved in the space program?' Look what's happened with your employment. Look what's happened with our whole history of space and leadership. Look what's going on folks. We're like a third world nation."

Somehow during the last week, when NASA demonstrated progress with its SLS rocket, a US company received a license to make the first-ever private launch to the Moon, SpaceX successfully tested a rocket that landed on a boat, and NASA's Juno spacecraft reached the halfway point of its first orbit around Jupiter, America's space enterprise has gone from always leading the world to being worthy of a developing country.

This is the SFW version of the spin-off's card selection.

Board game smash hit Codenames has earned countless accolades and awards since its 2015 launch due to its ease of play, surprising depth, and family friendliness. The game revolves around giant packs of words, which means a simple "add some more words" offshoot or expansion was inevitable, but the game's first official follow-up wastes no time erasing the phrase "family friendly" from the recommendation list.

Codenames: Deep Undercover began appearing at Target shops in late July, and this week it finally officially launched at more Targets (and will, for now, remain an exclusive at the US big-box chain) for $20. The 200-card set only differs from the core game in one key aspect: dirty words. Players split into two teams, and they're each led by a "spymaster" who must help his or her teammates figure out which face-up words on a table belong to their team—and must do so with one-word clues, which makes the clue-giving process pretty tricky.

But while the original game's word list mostly consisted of neutral words and proper nouns, C:DU takes the blue route, consisting mostly of sexual words (squirt, vibrator), slurs (bitch, slut), and double entendres (clam, pickle). The game also comes with Codenames' first official set of blank cards, on which players can write their own vulgar or gross words of choice, along with more stylized versions of its "bystander" cards.