![]() She begs to be his apprentice so that she can reach her goal of True Final Boss status. As the battle progresses, Desco is impressed by Gig's attitude and sheer volume of evil he portrays to others. He receives a summons from Fenrich for an interview, however, he comes to this Netherworld with the intent of its destruction. Gradually, Gig regains his memories and turns good again by the time he and Revya face Drazil, though he retains his post-reincarnation personality. Drazil then sent Gig and the 3 World Eaters Thuris, Feinne and Raksha, to destroy all life on Haephnes so Drazil could take all their souls. Vigilance was among the souls taken by Drazil, who erased his memories and turned him into the bloodthirsty murderer Gig. In truth, this left the flow of souls vulnerable to outside forces that would take them when they traveled to the afterlife, and gradually lead to fewer and fewer souls and fewer beings being born in Haephnes. However, he was killed by Median the Conquerer, who had been tricked by Drazil, the ruler of a world of the same name, into killing Gig, believing his death would erase death from the world. ![]() Gradually, it's revealed that Gig was once a good entity named Vigilance, who served as the Master of Death in the world of Haephnes, whose purpose was to guide souls to the afterlife. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Revya planned on using Gig's powers to protect Prodesto and Gig went along with it, while planning to take control of Revya's body if he/she were to use too much of his power. Gig waited inside the Onyx Blade until the day it was held by a young teenager named Revya. With Gig sealed away, the World Eaters went into slumber. Gig came to the continent of Prodesto 200 years ago and used his 3 titans, the World Eaters, to ravage the continent until he was sealed away into a sword, called the Onyx Blade, by Layna and Virtuous. He's cocky and smug, and all he wants is a physical form of his own.” Eventually, he fused with the hero, thanks to the oddly vital Layna. He was nearly killed by Layna, who sealed his soul in an onyx blade. He is feared by all as the Master of Death and God of Destruction. He has powers beyond the wildest dreams of any mortal. “Leader of the World Eaters that nearly destroyed the world 200 years ago. Personality Story Soul Nomad and the World Eaters ![]() He has two floating blue pauldrons hovering around him. He wears a grey purple shirt and black pants. He has white hair which covers his right eye. Gig looks to be a young human male in his twenties.
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![]() “We put it underwater, and everything just went up. In building the costumes of Wakanda, which Carter called one of the biggest challenges of her career, she had to account for the physical immersion of her designs in water. Sound mixer Russell Williams II was the first Black person to win two Oscars, sharing the best sound award for both “Dances With Wolves” and “Glory.” Fellow sound mixer Willie Burton also has two sound awards for “Dreamgirls” and “Bird.”Ĭarter has a total of four career Oscar nominations, including for 1992’s “Malcolm X” and 1997’s “Amistad.” Her credits also include “Selma” and the Tina Turner biopic “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” for which Carter recreated Tina Turner’s most iconic looks from the ’70s and ’80s, including the famous gold metallic fringe dress and high-waisted miniskirts. ![]() He first won in 1990 for “Glory.” Mahershala Ali is the only other Black actor with two Oscars, for 2016’s “Moonlight” and 2018’s “Green Book.” While newly minted EGOT Viola Davis has four Oscar nominations, she has only won once, for 2016’s “Fences.” Harris Goes to Paris” and Shirley Kurata for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which was the surprise winner of the Sci-Fi Fantasy award at the CDGA.ĭenzel Washington made history in 2002 when he won his second Oscar for “Training Day,” the first Black person to do so in an acting category. She was 101.”Ĭarter beat out Catherine Martin, who won the BAFTA and Costume Designers Guild awards for her work on Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis.” She also beat Mary Zophres for “Babylon,” Jenny Beaven for “Mrs. I share this with many dedicated artists whose hands and hearts helped manifest the costumes of Wakanda and Talokan. The Marvel family, Kevin Feige, Victoria Alonso, Louis D’Esposito and their arsenal of genius, thank you. Together, we are reshaping how culture is represented. Ryan Coogler, Nate Moore, thank you both for your vision. This past week, Mable Carter became an ancestor. She endure, she loves, she overcomes, she is every woman in this film. “Thank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman. “Nice to see you again,” Carter said as she took the stage. ![]() Carter has become the first Black woman to win two Oscars.Ĭarter, who in 2019 became the first Black person to win the Oscar for costume design for her work on Marvel’s “Black Panther,” was recognized for the film’s sequel, “Wakanda Forever.” In her speech, she thanked director Ryan Coogler and asked late “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman to look after her own mother, who recently died at 101. ![]() ![]() These games experienced runaway popularity at their height and retain a dedicated fan base to this day. Shepard and their crew are always some version of glorified space copsīioWare’s famous space opera trilogy, Mass Effect - now packaged into the single Legendary Edition and released on modern consoles - arguably suffers from a similar problem. The Collider piece paints a compelling picture of the show’s root problem: What happens when we love a story’s characters but hate the ideological foundation of their jobs? Can the two even be separated? It became the subject of viral tweets and a Collider article asking the question of whether subsequent seasons of the show might not see the beloved cast transferred to an entirely different and depoliticized line of work, like becoming firefighters, post office workers, or even public school teachers. Despite being a far cry from Oakley-stunting, tactical vest-wearing, thick-necked white male depictions of police, the characters on the show could not escape the reckoning sweeping through the media landscape. A show in the creative lineage of other workplace sitcoms like The Office and Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is about a fictional police precinct in Brooklyn, staffed by a young and diverse crew of wisecracking cops. ![]() The far-reaching fallout from these traumatic events and revelations wound up affecting the world of entertainment, notably including NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Maybe policing, as a concept, was bad? Maybe it couldn’t be reformed, but should be abolished instead. Police corruption, which had previously been glossed over by reformist appeals to root out the few bad apples, was finally cracked wide open, revealing the racist structural rot underlying the entire institution. Several city councils even introduced measures to reallocate police funds to social programs with vastly inferior budgets. Follow along as we deep dive into the great unknown.Īfter the wave of protests last summer following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor (among others), the topic of defunding the police began to see more frequent and serious public discussion. What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction - in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond - to see how storytellers and innovators are imagining the next 10, 20, 50, or 100 years during a moment of extreme uncertainty. ![]() Plus, DAM eliminates file-part-assembly stage to achieve optimal download process.ĭAM downloader will recover downloads due to unexpected events or errors, such as lost connections, power outages, or network problems. Unlike other products of its kind that split download in parts only before download begins, DAM dynamically segments download throughout download process, reuses connections without extra connect steps, and maintains connections busyness. DAM uses dynamic-file-segmentation, no-filepart-appending logic to achieve best download speeds. With Download Accelerator Manager, you can download at fastest possible speeds using DAM smart download logic accelerator, schedule, recover, resume, and manage downloads. Most importantly, regardless of Web browsers or media websites get updated, this tool will still work! Unlike other media downloading programs, MediaGrabber features smart universal media capturing logic, which can grab general media not only from all Web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc.), but also from your wanted Internet software. Download Accelerator Manager is an ideal accelerator software to ultimately increase download speeds, resume, schedule, and manage downloads.ĭownload Accelerator Manager offers you a tool-MediaGrabber-that lets you easily grab and download your wanted Web videos and music from sites, like YouTube, MetaCafe, Facebook, etc. ![]() Download Accelerator Manager (DAM) is an all-in-one downloader, that empowers you to download Internet files and save Web videos, music, from sites like YouTube, easily with the fastest speeds. ![]() that does not deend on blender tools, it's just how this bee is done. ![]() yes, it is impossible to get below 20k triangles if you don't want to edit the head.Īs you see, your head alone (selected) is made of over 12.2k quads, ie: around 25k triangles. And if the model is to be animated in VR chat, using the full armature that the model has, it will be even worse, trust me.īut you can try different things, at least!Ībout your last comments, and the fact that you can't reduce much triangles. But if you later need to join that head with the simplified body, it will be worse. select head vertices, the press p, and select "selection", Done. You can split your mesh easily in blender, too. "Is there a possibility just to make the head in a different part of the body's part so that I can decimate only the body using Unity? Because I have nice Unity plugin for reducing the Tris but need to make the head a different part or mesh than the whole body. It can be done, imho, but it will require a lot of tries and patience, and restarts if it becomes a mess. It's not as easy as those people that advised you to use blender thought perhaps. if yes, of course, reducing body vertices could make it move differently than intended, who knows. I also noticed your model is fully rigged, so it could be ready to be animated in VRchat?. So, based on your question info, you'll have to reduce your "quad" model below 10k quads, acting on body obnly, I guess. But exporting back your "quad" model to pmx, triangles will be restored by the exporting process (so 1 quad will become 2 tris). You may have noticed that converting 2 tris to 1 quad has reduced total faces count (of course) from about 45k to 25k. Now loop tools work as expected, and you can try my suggested path above So you have to remove doubles first: in edit mode, press W to get the "specials" menu and press "remove doubles" Then I noticed another problem: there are doubles (how I noticed? some loop was still not working, so I guessed that. with this menu command:Īfter which you get your model almost entirely in quads ![]() don't loose your head :))Īfter importing your real model into blender (using mmd_tools addon), I saw it's quite dense, but made of triangles instead of quads.Īs said below in comments, loops work only on quads, but fortunately blender can convert triangles (tris) to quadratic shapes (quad) - 2 tris become 1 quad. You can do this on arms, legs, torso, just be sure to do it simmetrically, and just where it don't alter too much your body shape and. That's it, you reduced you vertex count without ruining your shape! You can also "dissolve" several edge loops together:just leave some loop between them, like here: Now press X to get the "delete" menu, and use "dissolve edges" Tip: a useful simplified way to select a loop is to select one of its edges while keeping pressed the ALT key (and, as always, SHIFT if you are adding to a previous selection) You can also get the same menu floating, like in the picture, using the shortcut CTRL EĪnyway you can select loops in any way, with the many selection tools of blender. Select two vertices sharing an edge, like in the picture below, How to simplify it body without touching its head?Įxample: select a "loop" of vertices (this is a particular one that goes over all the model'storso) obj format so you can't open it in blender directly, you have to import it: blender has a "Wavefront (.obj)" importer by default, use it with default settings, it works well. zip archive, just different): find a suitable program for your computer system (eg:, free and open source). rar format, so you have to unrar it before (it's like a. I'll try showing you some simple way to simplify (by hand) your model body: I downloaded a full body human mesh from this site. I will be very appreciated if someone helps me with that. Is it possible to separate the head from the body and have it separated mesh so that I can decimate only the body without changing the head and by keeping everything in tact without messing something like the bones and/or the lip sync ? The problem is that the whole body including head, body, hands and legs are under one mesh, but I want to reduce only the body's polygons so that the face doesn't look messed up in the Chat. ![]() Therefore people advised me to use blender to do that, so I downloaded Blender and imported this avatar to it: I noticed that it has over 40k polygons which is double the polygons that Avatar needs to be to be uploaded to VRChat. So I downloaded an Avatar from the net, used Unity to upload it to VRChat and successfully did it right, but there was no lip sync. I had 0 skill with Animation programs, but I watched some tutorials on how to upload my own Avatar model to VRChat. I started playing VRChat and discovered that we can create our own avatar. This publicity indicates both optimism that they may be the panacea for whatever ails higher education, as well as caution and trepidation that this may in-fact be some sort of new fad in higher education. MOOCs have experienced an unprecedented explosion of publicity. ![]() Our endeavor was to understand why this is so. All the students in the sample already were motivated enough to make it until the end of the course, and still, there are significant differences in their posting behavior. In our research, we focused on the group of students who finished the course with passing grades, with the specific interest on their social learning behaviors. We took such step prior to investigating collaborative interactions of who talks to whom and why. The research focuses on identifying learner needs and situational factors relevant for collaboration. In relation to their “MOOC”-characteristics, similarly to many other xMOOCs, these two DelftX courses had low completion rates, “knowledge-acquisition” approach to learning design, and relatively low forum activity. ![]() The focus of the Water Treatment course was to learn about urban water services, including basic drinking water and waste-water treatment technologies. The focus of Solar Energy was on the discovery of solar energy power and the design of a complete photo-voltaic system. The courses Solar Energy (ET3034TU) and Introduction to Water Treatment (CTB3365) have a long tradition at the TUD as regular campus courses with a good reputation worldwide. ![]() This paper is about the experiences with the first two MOOCs developed and executed at the Delft University of Technology (TUD) on the edX platform. Refining this further, a categorisation of existing MOOCs is provided that maps to broad institutional interests. This takes into account what is currently available and identifies what new opportunities can be explored. What opportunities do they offer to universities, especially from the point of view of research-focused campus-based institutions which have not yet engaged with MOOCs and have little history with online courses? Given the complexities of the MOOC-scape, this paper provides a means for contextualising the options within an institutional landscape of educational provision as possibilities for MOOC creation, use and adaptation. Like many universities globally, South African university leaders and those responsible for course, curriculum, and learning technology development are coming to grips with the implications and possibilities of online and open education for their own institutions. MOOCs offer opportunities but are also pose the danger of further exacerbating existing educational divisions and deepening the homogeneity of global knowledge systems. This paper aims to stimulate discussion of the potential for new educational technologies to ensure social inclusion for virtual and physical vulnerable learner groups The challenges and options for future online education initiatives are based on insights and ideas of international scholars and researchers reflecting on potential barriers for learners and online education. Practical answers to contemporary, ICT-supported educational challenges are provided as options to fuel the debate. ![]() The current dichotomy of xMOOC and cMOOC are used to mark some of the unexplored MOOC territory. In order to align the future conceptualization of MOOCs with the vision and philosophy of Europe, potential tensions of contemporary and future education are listed. This exploratory paper picks up elements from the European Commission’s educational vision and philosophy behind Opening up Education, the resulting initiative of the MOOC platform, and takes this as a starting point to look at potential challenges for developing MOOCs that include vulnerable learner groups. ![]() I don't know what their agreement was for the display. This would be between Neptune (SKY) manufacture and Neptune (aquarium store). This is just my understanding based on what information is out there. So his results may actually be a bit later due to this. One thing about Dana (again I do not know him personally) is that he actually follows up with the manufacture on the results, findings, and questions for a more accurate report. I'm not sure how busy Dana is these days in his retirement (he is usually pretty busy at least when I used to visit the other forum) but I would expect his results to come out after. I don't believe they can do that until Neptune gives them the green light. I found the BRS video that was posted yesterday interesting since they said they may have numbers next week to share. I'm sure more and more info will come out as they progress further along. So it has been revelled, we see pictures, videos, and demonstrations at conventions. I am assuming here but that is why you are not seeing any test results since this is still on-going. Based on the last Lets Talk Reef they lifted the NDA so that some of the NSI users can speak a bit more freely about their experience and post videos and/or pictures but they still have rules in place since it isn't launched yet. I'm interested to see Dana's results but that is again just a test lab. Hobbyist will need to have a list of goals if they want to upgrade or migrate. Priced is aligned with similar offerings by other manufactures. Two different ways of managing heat yet provide that spread. They are going with more LED's (153 I think) but running them at lower power (or so I read) for thermal management and external supply compared to Philips using more heatsink. Similar model to Philips Gen 2 with passive cooling but went about it differently. They ignored ATI Straton yet hint it will be tested soon or is on the list. I guess my nit pick here is that they really should ignore the spectrum and just say they prefer blue so it isn't for them. ![]() On the flip side they like the form factor, cooling, spread and included power supply. We know they love the blue look so obviously this light wouldn't be for them. They continue to allude it being an inferior light due to it being a more natural spectrum. I still don't understand their stance on the Philips Gen 2 light. I'm guessing if you want shimmer this would be the route to go. They have them over the in-house tanks and Ryan swapped over to them at home although will use 2 x a360x Kessil's. ![]() Both NSI user and a tester / reviewer of the light. Some of the older amusement machines still exist in the building, like the Metal Typer machine and the crazy mirrors.They are in an interesting position. ![]() In 1989, after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, the old miniature golfcourse was demolished and the entire facility was remodeled. In many ways the elimination of the Plunge marked the end of the Boardwalk's original purpose, since the site began as a bathhouse. However, in 1963 the building was repurposed and made into the a mini golfcourse, due to the declining interest in indoor swimming. This was also the location of the Water Carnival, where aquatic acrobats and "human submarines" would come to perform superhuman feats. Historically, the building used to hold a large indoor pool called the Plunge. The Barbary Coast Restaurant serves burgers, deli sandwiches, and espresso. Entertainment features at Neptune's Kingdom include the Smuggler's Arcade, with pinball machines and video games downstairs, the upstairs' Captain's Game Deck with eight pool tables, air hockey, fosse ball, snacks, and beer, and Buccaneer Bay, a two-story 18-hole miniature golf course. ![]() ĭracula 's puzzles often involve locating and using items to progress, and many revolve around an object called the Dragon Ring that is reused throughout the game. ![]() Progression in Dracula is linear: the player cannot backtrack to the game's primary areas once they have been completed. Each screen is panoramic and allows the player to look around in 360 degrees. In a manner that has been compared to Myst, Dracula restricts player movement to jumps between static screens in the game world. The player uses a point-and-click interface, with a cursor locked in the screen's center, to navigate the game world, gather items, interact with non-player characters and solve puzzles. The cursor is a magnifying glass, indicating that the player can zoom in.ĭracula: Resurrection is a graphic adventure game that takes place from a character's eye-view in a pre-rendered graphical environment. Fourth and fifth entries in the series, developed by Koalabs and published by Anuman, appeared in 2013. ![]() After Dracula 2 's release, the Dracula series went on hiatus until the 2007 announcement of Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon by Kheops Studio and MC2 France. Dracula and its direct sequel, Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (2000), reached combined global sales above 1 million units by April 2007. In North America, it became a top title for DreamCatcher and sold 170,000 units by 2003. Selling 200,000 units worldwide by September 2000, the game was a commercial success. Reviewers praised the game's graphics and some of the puzzles, but criticized the voice acting, plot and the game's brevity. There were dubbing mutations in French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Hungarian and Czech.ĭracula received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to Metacritic. In North America, it was published by DreamCatcher Interactive the following year. The game underwent a rapid development cycle of 8 months, and was first launched in Europe in October 1999. Building from myths, legends, Bram Stoker's novel and films about vampires, Dracula 's creators sought to create a follow-up to Stoker's story that was imbued with the same atmosphere of dread as its predecessor. It was the company's first traditional video game: the team had previously created software with an educational and cultural tourism emphasis, a style that informed Dracula 's design. Production of Dracula was led by Jacques Simian of Index+. The player assumes the role of Jonathan and uses a point-and-click interface to solve puzzles and navigate the game's world, often with the help of an object called the Dragon Ring. Jonathan subsequently travels to Borgo Pass in an effort to rescue her. Seven years after the death of Count Dracula, Jonathan Harker's wife Mina finds herself mysteriously drawn back to Transylvania. Set in 1904 Transylvania, the game serves as a follow-up to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Dracula: Resurrection is a 1999 graphic adventure video game developed by Index+. ![]() “Oh,” said he, “I do not attend preaching. The latter asked him where he went to church. In the story of “The Path to the Bush” is an account of the beaten track through the forest to the praying huts of the native converts, and the faithful girl hinting to her sister that “the grass grew on her path.”Ī new student had come to the university and called to see Professor Tholuck. Bishop Leighton frequented a grove in a public park which was at last left to him as his own property. In time of encampment Washington reserved to himself a thicket where he could pray undisturbed. The song-birds in our fields have a chosen branch on which they continually perch for their morning and evening songs. We should have set places for the worship of God ![]() I am not satisfied with serving God in private: it is my duty and privilege to honour Him regularly and constantly in public.’” On asking the reason of her constant attendance, as it was impossible for her to hear my voice, she answered, ‘Though I cannot hear you, I come to God’s house because I love it, and would be found in His ways and He gives me many a sweet thought upon the text when it is pointed out to me: another reason is, because I am in the best company, in the most immediate presence of God, and among His saints, the honourable of the earth. “I have in my congregation,” said a minister of the gospel, “a worthy aged woman, who has for many years been so deaf as not to distinguish the loudest sound and yet she is always one of the first in the meeting. As a thankworthy opportunity for increase in goodness. In natural disposition, Peter and John did not very exactly correspond with each other but diamond polishes diamond, and these two precious stones may have advantageously polished each other. When it was that they parted never to meet again, we have no record. They appear in company again in the mission to Samaria ( Romans 8:14), and in recognising the work that had been done by Paul and Barnabas among the Gentiles ( Galatians 2:9). John wrote his Gospel to exalt himself at the expense of Peter, must take its place among the delirantium somnia the morbid imaginations, of inventive interpretation. Passing rivalries there may have been, disputes which was the greatest, prayers for places on the right hand and the left ( Matthew 20:20 Mark 10:35) but the idea maintained by Renan, that St. The eager affection which, now more strongly than ever, bound the two together is seen in Peter’s question, “Lord, and what shall this man do?” ( John 21:21) and now they are again sharers in action and in heart, in teaching and in worship. It is to John that Peter turns for comfort after his fall, and with him he comes to the sepulchre on the morning of the resurrection ( John 20:6). John takes Peter into the palace of the high priest ( John 18:16), and though he must have witnessed his denials, is not estranged from him. The two had been sent together to prepare for the Passover ( Luke 22:8). John and Andrew had striven which should be the first to tell Peter that they had found the Christ ( John 1:41). ![]() They had been sharers in looking for the consolation of Israel, and had together received the baptism of John ( John 1:41). They had been partners as fishermen on the Sea of Galilee ( Luke 5:10). They were probably about the same age (the idea that Peter was some years older than John rests mainly on the pictures which artists have drawn from their imagination, and has no evidence in Scripture), and had been friends from their youth upward. The song is sung by Trap Geek.The union of the two brings the narratives of the Gospels into an interesting connection with the Acts. ![]() Awaken (From "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pillar Men") (Trap Remix) song from album Awaken (From "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pillar Men") (Trap Remix) is released in 2020. Listen to Trap Geek Awaken (From "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Pillar Men") (Trap Remix) MP3 song. Spanish-language podcasts are a perfect solution for taking our intermediate skills to the next level. You will get way more out of the listening experience if you have the chance to read it first. I’ve noted below which ones provide transcripts for free or for a fee. To maximize your learning if you are a novice or intermediate listener, look for podcasts that provide transcripts. Language acquisition proceeds best when the input is not just comprehensible, but really interesting, even compelling so interesting that you forget you are listening to or reading another language. This means as much exposure to listening and reading as you can possibly get! ![]() However, there’s nothing that will affect your proficiency like getting language into your head. ![]() That’s certainly ideal, and conversation will improve your fluency in speaking. Most people will tell you that the best way to keep up your Spanish is to use it. Of course, let me know in the comments if I’m missing one of your favorites! New podcasts are constantly coming out, so I do my best to keep updating as needed. Spanish Language Podcasts (for Advanced Speakers)ĥ. Beginner Spanish Podcasts(for Beginner/Novice Levels)ģ. Intermediate Spanish Podcasts (for Intermediate Speakers)Ģ. You can simply click to jump to the category you are looking for:ġ. And don’t forget: you can control and slow down the speed of the audio if needed. While I love my Spanish shows on Netflix, the flexibility of podcasts can’t be beat: you can improve your proficiency while commuting to work, folding laundry, or exercising. Here are the top Spanish podcasts out there, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or looking to brush up on your advanced skills. This is a curated list of the best-of-the-best. I could create a giant database that would keep you scrolling, but my guess is that you’re not here for that. ![]() This post is all about the very BEST “learn Spanish”– or improve your Spanish– podcasts. Inside: The best podcasts for learning Spanish and the best Spanish language podcasts. |