![]() Lackluster production values aside, Modern Combat: Domination doesn't feel like a budget shooter. The tinny weapons offer little kick and the music is as forgettable as the last bit of Muzak you heard while on hold with customer support. There are some rough edges like the pixel effects created by smoke grenades and a number of shadowy spots on the maps that are absolutely pitch-black. Visuals are mostly just bland, with the maps and soldier models seemingly recycled from a dozen other, older shooters. Presentation values are a bit of a drawback. Always making progress keeps you playing and helps to flatten the learning curve in the early stages when you're typically getting mowed down by more experienced players who know the maps. You gain enough experience for kills and wins to earn the initial handful of levels and unlock a bunch of new gear in a few hours of play in something like Domination. The experience system also works extremely well, with advancement moving at an accelerated pace, particularly in the beginning. You're never stuck with so little cash that you can't be competitive because even the wimpiest weapons provide enough firepower for you to be a threat to even higher-level opponents with superior weapons and armor. If you stay alive, though, you earn the coin needed to load up with additional gear. If you get killed, you lose everything, which forces you back to the shop with just enough money for something basic like an MP5 or a combat shotgun. Cash is used between rounds and during spawns to purchase gear like submachine guns, pistols, grenades, and body armor. Money and experience are awarded for accomplishments, such as kills, headshots, and level victories. The only way you get your hands on a gun like this one early on is if someone else drops it. Unless you have the patience of Job, it's best to jump into something longer lasting, like a Domination match. Rounds tend to end in no more than a minute because of the cramped maps and the fact that single kills send players to the sidelines, so you spend as much time staring at loading screens as you do shooting bad guys. ![]() While Domination and Deathmatch are superb renditions of old faves, the more specialized modes are hampered by really short rounds and really long loads. Familiar modes of play are the most entertaining. There are six game types, ranging from run-of-the-mill Deathmatch and Domination to more specialized endeavors, such as Escort, where you have to either kill or safeguard a boss player trying to escape the level, and Boom and Bust, where your goal is to set off or stop a missile launch. Two factions are included here in the Special Forces and Mercenaries, who use the same hardware and look so much alike that you need the assistance of red-and-blue chevrons floating in the air to separate friend from foe. That's a good thing because the offline mode is deadly dull due to poor bot intelligence that doesn't seem to have a clue, whether attacking or defending. Lots of players are online right now, too, so you can always get into a match. Support is provided for up to 16 players, which is the perfect number of soldiers to fight over the generally small maps because they are loaded with tight, dark corridors that see you bumping heads with enemies just seconds into a round. ![]() ![]() Sticking to the traditional dual-stick gamepad is likely preferable, unless you're a real Move expert or desperate for a different twist on shooter controls. It's rather touchy, though, and tough to use without careening all over the place. The most unusual element is optional support for Sony's Move motion controller. Navy SEALs Confrontation, particularly the gamepad controls and five grungy maps that take in the usual suspects, like a dusty Middle Eastern town dotted with Arabic all over its crumbling walls, as well as various urban wastelands and wrecked factories. You might also note similarities to the likes of Modern Warfare and SOCOM: U.S. It's all fast and brutal, with kills coming quickly and the tension palpable from the moment you spawn into a match. If you ever played the PC classic, you'll experience a lot of Counter-Strike deja vu. This is a traditional multiplayer shooter in both form and fashion, featuring pretty much nothing but industry-standard game modes, weapons, and maps. As enjoyable as Modern Combat: Domination is, don't expect any innovations here. ![]()
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![]() “The button on my jacket came undone and I felt some discomfort, but time passed and I had to make a shot so I didn’t notice that I was already aiming for someone else’s target,” he said. VCG via Getty Images Kulish (left) earned a silver medal in the 2016 Games. Irans olympian sharpshooter honed his craft during Syria’s civil war where civilians, mostly women and children, were often put in the crosshairs of live bullets. She’s been gaining a lot of international recognition since the 2014 European. This young sportswoman, who started sports shooting at 12 years old, has already won two gold medals and a silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics. Kulish blamed the mishap on a wardrobe malfunction. People online were amazed by this Olympic sports shooter and her stance during the competition. Okay, it wasn’t really a competition more like a joint exercise. Kulish was in fourth place after 30 shots as eventual winner Zhang Changhong of China led the eight-shooter group for much of the final.īut in the seventh series, he became the first of eight shooters to be eliminated after his 35 th shot misfire was deemed to be worth zero. The not-so-sharpshooter, who won a silver in the 10-meter rifle event at the 2016 Rio Games, sailed into Monday’s final of the 50-meter as he chased a second Olympic medal. Olympic shooters have one advantage, their focus is exclusively on shooting Nowadays in a lot of countries, Olympic athletes can get enough funding to. ![]() Who shoots into someone else’s target? Only people like me.” ![]() “I shot into someone else’s target,” the 28-year-old fumed, according to Reuters. Psychologists, motivational speakers, religious leaders and business professionals write them. Ukrainian shooter Serhiy Kulish, ranked second in the world, claimed a wardrobe malfunction led him to commit the blunder that caused him to miss the chance to medal at the Tokyo Games. This Olympian shot himself in the foot – by hitting his opponent’s target. Meh, wasnt there a sprinter who after years of competing learned his technique at the start was wrong (pushing off with wrong leg) I thought it was. Star boxer is fighting the norm, showing younger generations to never back down Amber English scooped her first Olympic gold medal after winning the Skeet womens finals today 26 July at the Asaka Shooting Range. US gymnastics star reveals how she has fought through imposter syndrome Olympic track star accused in massive cheating conspiracy Gregory`s interest follows Midland rivals Coventry`s decision to plunder top talent from Honduras, a country that is seen as one of the most up-and-coming nations in the world game, despite their narrow failure to get through their group in the Olympics.Ex-Tokyo Olympics official, ad execs arrested in bid-rigging scandal The president of the Sardinian club, Massimo Cellino, realises the importance of the young striking starlet to his side, so Villa may have to look elsewhere for a replacement for Nilis. OLYMPIC star Vitalina Batsarashkinas shooting stance has gone viral after the Russian star won two gold medals at the Tokyo Games. "My brother spoke to me of almost 16 million dollars," he stated, whilst confirming Villa`s interest in Suazo and adding that the Premiership outfit had made an official offer for him.Ĭagliari, however, are keen to retain the young forward and he is happy to stay to help them clinch a return to Serie A, despite reported interest from other clubs. ![]() The 20-year-old`s displays attracted the attention of Villa boss Gregory, who is looking for a replacement for broken leg victim Luc Nilis, and has confirmed an interest in Celta Vigo star Benni McCarthy.Īlthough it was believed that the Midlanders were ready to pay £5 million for his services, the player`s brother, Rene, spoke of the figure being over double that amount. Suazo performed superbly in Sydney, scoring four goals for his country - two against Nigeria and another brace, against the hosts Australia, in a 2-1 success. ASTON VILLA have targeted Honduran Olympic hero David Suazo but Cagliari have blocked John Gregory`s attempts to sign the exciting attacker. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he uses a “Photon” card while in “Photon Mode”, his body lights up When Kite Duels, his black outfit switches to white through a process called “Photon Transformation”. In the past, Kite’s attire included a pink shirt, brown pants and braces fitted around his belt. He also has a belt with two purple deck boxes for his cards. His attire includes a black trench coat with a high collar over a grey shirt, a finger-less black glove on his right hand, and white pants with black boots. Kite has light blue-grey eyes, pale skin and blonde hair that is curled up in a point with a dark green spiked front, also featuring dark green bangs. ![]() He was later revived by the power of the Numeron Code after Yuma’s and Astral’s final Duel. After defeating Mizar on the Moon, Kite deems Mizar the true Dragon Tamer and entrusts him to complete his quest after succumbing to the vacuum of space. When Hart was cured, he became friends with Yuma and Astral and cooperated with them in the Interdimensional War between the Astral World and Barian World, becoming directly involved with the Legend of the Dragons of Light and Time. Faker, a Number Hunter, and one of the main characters who was gathering “Numbers” for his father in order to help his formerly sick brother, Hart Tenjo.Īssisted by a robot named Orbital 7, Kite was the most direct adversary of the first three arcs, but his “Numbers” are now in the possession of Yuma Tsukumo and Astral. ![]() Kite Tenjo, known as Kaito Tenjo ( 天 ( てん ) 城 ( じょう ) カイト, Tenjō Kaito) in the manga and Japanese version, is the son of Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Generations of families with hopes and problems, rising and falling, and no one even remembers most of them. You can’t help but walk around and feel the gravity of how many lives have been lived and ended here. “Whereas a lot of states feel like they tear everything down and rebuild it every 10 years, New England has that sense of history. “An early consideration was: How do we make New England feel like an Arkane setting?” Smith says. ![]() In discussing Redfall’s fictional Massachusetts setting, Smith makes it clear that Arkane approached the location the same way it would Prey‘s Talos I: by treating it as a main character. It’s not a live-service game littered with microtransactions - Smith says there are none at all - it’s just an Arkane world that can be explored with friends.Įven the rural setting isn’t as much of a departure for the studio as it seems. Those details immediately recalibrated my expectations ,making it clear that the multiplayer component doesn’t signal a radical change for Arkane. In one building, I’d use context clues to realize I was walking through some sort of religious orphanage - an eerily empty one.Īn early consideration was: How do we make New England feel like an Arkane setting? I’d discover a whole lot of audio logs and lore snippets building out the world, be given multiple ways of infiltrating a manor, and get a whole lot of story through environmental storytelling. A lot of the hallmarks of those games were present in my playthrough. I wasn’t paired with a squad during my playthrough, allowing me to experience it as a single-player game like Dishonored 2 or Deathloop. I was immediately surprised to learn that Redfall is much more of a traditional Arkane game than I was expecting. Even Smith himself was all too aware of the difficulties of marketing a game that needs to be played to be understood (“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture,” he says on the subject). A recent gameplay trailer made it out to be another spin on Left 4 Dead, emphasizing co-op shootouts over the hybrid RPG-action style Arkane is known for. An Arkane settingīefore actually getting to play Redfall, I was entirely unsure about what it was. Engage with what it’s getting at, though, and you’ll find a searing takedown of the 1% underneath all that blood. Those who want to look away will find a fun vampire shooter here that has everything we’ve come to expect from an Arkane-developed game at this point, at least based on what I’ve played so far. That worldview doesn’t just inform Redfall, but puts it in lockstep with Smith’s long history of using games as a vessel for rich social commentary. “You literally have aristocrats in Dishonored saying, ‘I made more money during the plague than I normally do because I’m selling the elixir at a 1,000% markup.’ That’s vampiric.” “This is not new for us,” Smith tells Digital Trends. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ is just using a new technology to do the same thing that women do in so many walks of life, and are compelled to do it because of the demand for youth – and youth being equated with beauty,” she says. In other words, the sexualisation of young women is nothing new – what is new is the emergence of a canny and tech-savvy entrepreneur playing that game by completely remaking her online image. “I don't think there is a way of saying definitely how old a face is.” (Deets won’t say how old she is in real life).Īccording to Maggie MacDonald, a PhD researcher at the University of Toronto who specialises in porn platforms, the outrage elicited by Deets’s digital restyling speaks first and foremost to western culture’s tendency to attack “folk devil” rather than the underlying causes that make them emerge. You'd probably argue that face is certainly 16 and above, probably 18 or 19,” he says. “In some cases, you can argue that a face is clearly too young. Henry Adjer, a deepfake and digital media expert, says that it is nigh-on impossible to accurately determine the age of a face. Fashion Nova did not respond to a request for comment.Īny argument that Deets is catering to paedophiles is hard to back up. She laments having received “lots of” hate and threatening messages, and having lost one of her sponsors, Fashion Nova, following the controversy. Deets says they are all “hilarious” and “wrong”. Several other videos from various TikTokers followed, riffing on the allegation. In early July 2021, popular TikToker Bekah Day posted a video eviscerating Coconut Kitty for modifying her features to look “like a young teenager”, straight-up accusing her of pandering to the “p-word” (i.e. In October 2020, people on Reddit started discussing how Deets had clearly been using digital editing to restyle herself as a “prepubescent” girl, with many labelling the move “disturbing”. On OnlyFans, where she publishes explicit pictures and videos also sporting her new face, Deets has amassed 10,700 paying subscribers each shelling out £8 a month – 80 per cent of which goes directly to her.īut someone else has noticed the metamorphosis, too. ![]() She says that, before the change, she had about 700,000 followers on Instagram, and since then they have risen “exponentially” to over three million. Some said she looked like a teenager.ĭeets’s fans appreciated the transformation. Some argued that she looked considerably younger. In her new pictures, however – while her body remained unchanged – her face gradually morphed into something otherworldly: her chin became pointy, her lips waxed into a perma-pout, her eyes grew bigger and languid. ![]() An Instagram influencer and OnlyFans adult content creator going by Coconut Kitty, Deets had till that point looked like a woman in her late twenties to mid-thirties. Sometime in late 2019, Diana Deets started changing face. ![]() ![]() PLEASE NOTE - If drivers from these carriers are not available for collection and your parts were ordered express then we will use an alternative carrier to ensure your parcel ships from our warehouse the same day. Please enquire to confirm your parts are in stock before placing the order due to large quantities of orders being taken they sometimes may take 1-2 days to come back into stock.Īny orders placed after Midday may be at the risk of adding 1 extra working day (due to overnight shipments our end from suppliers)Īll goods will be delivered by Toll, Australia Post, Star Track or local couriers unless otherwise requested. This can sometimes be held up due to supplier issues. If parts do become no longer available or are placed on back order we do our best to advise with in 7 working days from time of order confirmation. 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Mechanic In A Bottle rejuvenates your equipment's fuel system so that it starts efficiently and operates in top condition. It removes all varnish in the fuel system without having to remove the carburettor, removes carbon deposits, removes water, reconditions rubber and plastic components and revitalizes old fuel. This synthetic fuel additive works in your power equipment with two cycle and four cycle engines. ![]() ![]() * Made in the USA (and USA EPA registered.) Fix poor or non-running engines with Mechanic In A Bottle. * Keeps engine in top working condition, avoiding repairs and down time. * Restores old, decayed fuel by breaking down carbon deposits and adding an octane booster to replace lost octane. * Removes water that causes corrosion and poor running. * Rejuvenates rubber gaskets that may have dried out from ethanol. * Reconditions rubber / plastic components. * Quickly fix engines without removing the carburettor. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main reason being STL files don’t generally exceed a few MB in file size, making them quick and easy to download. It’s also the file format of choice among hobbyists and makers for disseminating finished models, objects, and parts on community-sharing websites such as Thingiverse and MyMiniFactory. All slicers work with STL files – they’re the main file format of choice for 3D printing. One of the main benefits of the STL file format is widespread adoption by 3D printing slicer software. The process can degrade the overall resolution of the model and lower fidelity as the tessellation is more an approximation than a replica.īut, these discrepancies are generally negligible or easily fixed for the purposes of 3D printing. The resulting file doesn’t describe texture, color, scale, or units.ĭoing so effectively transforms the model into a collection of tiny triangles that drop in size but grow in number as a model’s complexity increases but remain vastly simpler than traditional CAD-generated surfaces and, especially, curves. Unlike other CAD file formats, which feature a host of information about a specific 3D model’s complex surfacing and geometry based on curves and splines (OBJ being one popular example), STL converts surfaces to a mesh or cloud of triangular faces and vertices through a technique known as tessellation. ![]() The idea was to create a file format as a simple and lightweight vessel for a 3D CAD model that’s easy to output to a 3D printer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, we know from the November 2022 CSRD draft that companies could see as many as 85 disclosure requirements encompassing 1,100+ mandatory and material data points. The reports will need to follow European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), which are drafted and expected to be adopted by the EU formally in June 2023 under the guidance of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG). (See where EFRAG fits into the ESG reporting landscape in the illustration below.) EU member states will then have until June 2024 to write the jurisdictional law within their country. This can be customized as you need, where the different sorting elements are simply stacked into this tuple in the order of importance for the sort.What kind of ESG data will the CSRD require companies to report? This works because a tuple is a legal key to use for sorting. Return (r, s1) # order first by 'fw'/'bw', then by nameįoolist.sort(key=sortfoo) # sorts foolist inplace R = 1 if s2 = 'fw' else 2 # forces 'fw' to come before 'bw' This does not require the functools module as in other examples: # task: sort the list of strings, such that items listed as '_fw' come before '_bw'įoolist = Here, Python can use a key as a str or tuple. So the solution, as I found, was to make a key which gives the right order. ![]() Afterwards, it determines which key is greater or lesser and puts them in the correct order. It builds a key list in a single pass through the list elements. One simple way to see it is that the sorted() (or list.sort()) function in Python operates on a single key at a time. Sorted(mylist, key=cmp_to_key(lambda item1, item2: fitness(item1) - fitness(item2))) ![]() Or: sorted(mylist, cmp=lambda item1, item2: fitness(item1) - fitness(item2))Ĭalling sorted() in Python 3 from functools import cmp_to_key If you want to reverse the sort order, simply reverse the subtraction: return fitness(item2) - fitness(item1) Calling sorted() in Python 2 sorted(mylist, cmp=compare) Using the minus operation is a nifty trick because it yields to positive values when the weight of left item1 is bigger than the weight of the right item2. In the particular case of the OP's question, the following custom compare function can be used: def compare(item1, item2):
![]() ![]() Dying is 100% optional, the already easy controls and gameplay can be customized with accessibility features to meet your own needs and wants. Oh, are you still reading? Go and get playing right now! We will promise you one thing: dying over 5000 times on one game has never felt this good. ![]() We know, we know, it might sound scary, but like Aristotle said: "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", and Quentin Tarantino put it even better: "Violence is one of the most fun things to watch." This game was supplied by the publisher or relevant PR company for the purposes of review. Luckily with great accessibility options this game is playable for a wider audience and not just a super frustrating experience. WARNING: Playing Sunblaze may cause massive brain growthYou know, to survive all the levels, your brain needs to do some work. Sunblaze is a deceivingly cute game that will definitely kick your butt. The ever-changing training room keeps on bringing you challenge after challenge, and you'll stay glued up on your controller for hours.īeing a parent is hard, but most likely not this hardOk, all the parents who have not lost their kids in a mall or other crowd ever, raise your hands? It's all good, at least you didn't lose them in a hostile superhero simulator full of lasers, evil bots, spikes, and. The training room is full of puzzles, brain-tickling challenges, obstacles, TNT, spikes, drones. Sunblaze, with a mission to complete your superhero training. In this tough, hand-crafted precision platformer, you’ll play as Josie, aka. After all, show us a parent who wouldn't want to train their daughter to be a superhero? But then suddenly the training room goes rogue, and. Her dad, a retired superhero, has fixed his superhero training simulator and lets Josie go in there to play around a bit. About This Game ”Whose blood is that on the walls?” -Josie ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If the base model isn't enough for you, a $52,990 Long Range version can go 330 miles between charges and offers the same $4,000 third row. It's no surprise the automaker continues to have success, even against newer rivals. Add another $4,000 for the optional third-row seat and you're left with an electric seven-seater that goes an EPA-rated 279 miles between charges for less than $54,000. One of the few automakers to lower prices for the 2023 model year is Tesla, whose Model Y entry-level crossover now starts at $49,990 in base form. Get pricing on the 2023 Mitusbishi Outlander. The standard powertrain is an adequate 2.5-liter four with a continuously variable transmission, which gives the Outlander 27 mpg combined. With a 2.4-liter inline-four, front and rear electric motors, and a 20.0-kilowatt-hour hybrid battery, the Outlander PHEV has up to 38 miles of range and 248 total hp. New for 2023 is a plug-in hybrid version of the Outlander, following up on the ho-hum previous generation with some genuinely good driving manners and all-electric range. While the way-back isn't particularly big, it's good enough for short jaunts or small passengers, and it should help the excellent Outlander earn some fans among compact crossover shoppers. The 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander shares much of its structure with the Nissan Rogue, but the Mitsu comes with a third-row seat that's not found on its cousin. 2023 Mitsubishi OutlanderĬargo Space: 11.7 / 33.5 / 79.7 Cubic Feet Get pricing on the 2023 Mercedes-Benz GLB. The 221-hp GLB 250 comes with either front- or all-wheel drive, but there's also a Mercedes-AMG GLB 35 variant with a turbocharged, 302-hp four-cylinder if your small family desires big thrills. Get pricing on the 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQB SUV. All trims have DC fast charging ability at a rate of up to 100 kilowatts – not phenomenal in this segment, but good enough to go from 10 to 80 percent in 31 minutes. Go for all-wheel drive and your rating drops to 232 miles for the EQB 300 or 221 miles for the more powerful EQB 350. ![]() The front-drive, 188-hp EQB 250+ is rated to travel 245 miles before its 70.5-kilowatt-hour battery runs out. With 10.7 cubic feet of cargo space with all seats up, the EQB isn't a massive, family-hauling machine, but its third row is good enough for average-sized adults over reasonable distances – think cross-town express, not cross-country road trip. Based on the GLB crossover, the EQB retains its sibling's optional third-row seat and seven-passenger capacity. The Mercedes-Benz EQB SUV is the smallest, cheapest fully electric vehicle the company offers. ![]() |