![]() Minerva may not have had the war goddess aspects of Athena, and she was certainly more focused on the domestic arts, but she was by no means a minor goddess. Athena/Minerva has tasked Annabeth with finding the Athena Parthenos so that she can reclaim the honor the Romans stripped of her by reducing her to a minor goddess. It was also way out of character that she needed Frank to explain Chinese fingercuffs to her, even if she was distracted at the time.Īlso, let's talk about Athena and Minerva. Having Annabeth go "OMG, so fattening" was so stereotypical, for a teenage girl, it was downright painful especially given that she wasn't even hinted to have that mindset before. As the movie Zombieland noted, fatties are always the first to get eaten during a monster attack. Annabeth thinks to herself about how fattening all the sweets are.um, what? I'm pretty certain that Annabeth gets a lot of physical exercise, particularly when it comes to training to fight monsters.įor that matter, I'm pretty sure keeping in shape is mandatory for all demigods. Aphrodite/Venus is having a tea party with Annabeth, Piper and Hazel. One of the most egregious instances was when the heroes are in Charleston, South Carolina. You could even make the case that Annabeth was making an effort to hide these sides of her in order to appear strong and in-control. Now, granted, you could argue that, since the original series was from Percy's perspective, it was a bit biased. She came across as far more self-conscious, critical and insecure than in previous books. ![]() I got my first grey hairs when I was a teenager, and early grayness is a bit of a genetic trait on my mom's side of the family.yeah, it sure will be fun when I'm 35 and have a head of completely grey hairs, but I digress.Īnyway, we finally get a look inside Annbeth's head, but it just felt off to me. It certainly isn't unusual for younger people's hair to grey up well ahead of schedule so not like it would be too hard to explain. We also finally get an answer to a question fan have been pondering since The Titan's Curse: what did Percy and Annabeth do about the grey streaks in their hair from holding up the sky? Turns out they did nothing, but the grey is starting to fade, so no big deal. After two and half books, Annabeth and Percy are reunited, and it feels so good. ![]() Well, Percy, Piper and Leo get chapters from their perspectives, but Annabeth is really the center of this particular book. Turn back now if you don't want any of that.Īs you may have guessed, Annabeth gets a bit of a special focus throughout this book. Wisdoms's daughter must walks alone as the Mark of Athena burns through Rome.Īs usual, spoilers of plenty beyond this point. Once in Rome, Annabeth must find the long-lost Athena Parthenos statue. She must shoulder the burden as leader of the quest, but also has a special task from her mother Athena. ![]() None are more conflicted than Annabeth Chase. Tensions remain high as the Greeks and Romans are forced to put aside old prejudices in order to work towards a common goal. The Argo II has arrived in New Rome and the journey to the ancient lands can officially begin. The seven heroes of the prophecy have been united at last. This time we’re continuing our look back at The Heroes of Olympus with a look back at The Mark of Athena This is less of a formal review, and more of a look back, along with my thoughts and observations. That means we're taking a look at Percy Jackson, its sequel series and its spin-off series. For those of you just joining the fun, this is my look back at the works of Rick Riordan. Welcome once again to the Riordan Retrospective.
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Quick battles are a decent way to spend five minutes here and there, but with few unlockables and no additional modes, stadiums, or characters, there's not much reason to spend any more than that. The problem is there's just not much reason to stick with it. Swapping your tactics on the fly and doing everything you can to win helps Battle League rise above some of its more noticeable issues, if only because it's so absorbing. For as many matches as I almost flattened the opposing team, there were just as many that could have gone either way. Even though the AI keeper has a weakness for letting perfect shots in, the challenge is positioning yourself to charge and fire off that shot, to begin with. This all happens as you try to pull off a desperate shot that, against all odds, actually makes it in the goal. Battle League is at its best when matches devolve into a mad scramble for ball control, with everyone shoving everyone else into the fence. There's a surprising amount of room to experiment. You settle into a rhythm of strategic tackles, risky trick shots, passing combos, and trying to land a perfect shot after a few matches. The core of Battle League works, at least, and it works quite well. The camera angle during the match means you never actually see them, so it's the same setting each time. Battle League has a good idea of mashing two Mario-themed stadium types together. The original Strikers could hardly win awards for dynamic pitch design, but the fields at least change in each match – grass, wooden floors, and so on. Even with the sometimes-relevant hyper-strike animations, the most personality they show is when you shove them into an electric fence. There just aren't many team-building options, and the characters themselves are strangely flat on the pitch. Three are power characters, two are hybrids, meshing technique and passing, one's speedy, and the other two are all-rounders. You build a team of four players from a roster of eight – and most of them overlap roles. One of the most significant issues is the lack of playable characters. Items are more useful in Galactic Mode, but you typically rely on tackles and clever passing more often. Bob-ombs blow up after walking a few steps, affecting friend and foe alike by interrupting their progress and making them lose the ball. Shells smack into friend and foe alike, interrupting their progress and making them lose the ball. Sure, there's a (small) selection of Mario power-ups to use on the field, but it almost feels perfunctory, and there's not much variety in how they perform. However, it still had the sense of fun that characterizes Mario games – using fireballs to slow opponents down or smacking golf balls off a giant mushroom.īattle League doesn't have anything like that. Mario Golf Super Rush launched similarly, without a decent-sized stable of characters or rotation of courses. Sports games don't need narrative framing, obviously, but the lack of it in Battle League highlights a bigger problem with the experience: It just doesn't feel like a Mario game. It made sense that Daisy suddenly rolled up one day and challenged you to a duel on the field, and it was just a small extra layer of fun.īattle League immediately thrusts you into the main menu with a set of cups or quick battle options. Back in the old days on the GameCube, the first Mario Strikers framed the Mushroom Kingdom's sudden obsession with soccer as a set of friendly competitions between characters. The former lack of fanfare is a bit more complex. Unless you've played the earlier Strikers games religiously, the tutorial is almost mandatory and does an excellent job easing you into the action. The latter is very welcome since Mario Strikers is surprisingly complex and multilayered. ![]() ![]() Mario Strikers Battle League opens with no fanfare and a massive tutorial. Mario Strikers: Battle League Review - Yellow Card It's a shame there's so little personality and even less to do in the game. ![]() At Battle League's core is a smart, tactical soccer game that rewards quick thinking, even more so if your plans fall apart and chaos reigns. It's a mismatched, unbalanced experience that falls short of its potential, which is particularly disappointing given how strong that potential is. Those two scenarios are indicative of Battle League as a whole. The match dissolved into a mess in the best possible way. Color me surprised when I swaggered into Galactic Mode's challenges and could barely keep the ball, and my keeper apparently forgot how to play. These finches are found mostly on smaller, drier islands. Grey warbler finch ( Certhidea fusca ). Least Concern. Until 2008, it was thought that this was the same species as the grey warbler finch. Green warbler finch ( Certhidea olivacea). You can find out more about identifying Darwin’s finches in our blog here. These include diet, habitat, and beak size and shape. They famously evolved to have different beaks which are suited to different food types such as large seeds and invertebrates, allowing them to occupy different niches.ĭarwin’s finches are all very similar in shape, size and colour, but there are a few differences which can help when identifying them. Once the original grassquits arrived at Galapagos, they diversified and adapted to the different environments found on the Islands, eventually becoming different species. It is thought that their ancestor, and closest known relative, is the dull-coloured grassquit, which is found on mainland South America. They are not actually true finches – they belong to the tanager family. The 14 th finch is the Cocos finch which is found on Cocos island, Costa Rica. Parasite chicks would have had to develop very similar markings if they also wanted to get fed.Darwin’s finches, named after Charles Darwin, are small land birds, 13 of which are endemic to the Galapagos Islands. This could mean that the markings help stimulate parents to feed their young, says Jamie. ![]() He showed that altered chicks were fed less than unpainted ones, but they weren’t kicked out of the nest by their parents. In a 2005 study, Cornell University scientist Justin Schuetz actually changed mouth markings of nestling grass finches by painting over a white spot with black. Claudia Mettke-Hoffmann, an animal behavior researcher at Liverpool John Moores University, says, for instance, that the glowing bumps outside of the beak in Gouldian Finches reflect light, possibly serving as a built-in beacon. Australian National University researcher Cassandra Taylor says the reflective quality of markings may help parents hone in on their chicks' mouths, "like little runways" guiding a plane down a dark path. SchefferĪnother is that the markings may help parents find their chicks in a dark nest. “Despite this, many Asian and Australasian grass finches, such as the Gouldian Finch, show elaborate mouth markings.”īlack-rumped Waxbill. “Many grass finches in Africa are hosts to brood-parasitic species but those in Asia and Australasia are not (and likely never have been),” Gabriel Jamie, a University of Cambridge researcher who studies the evolution of these mouth markings, wrote in an email. Some members of the Estrildid family don’t get brood parasites at all, and they still have the unusual mouth markings. Of course, evolution never stands still, so the parasite birds might have then evolved to mimic the markings, too.īut there’s one problem with this explanation. If the parasites came first, it could be that Estrildid finches evolved the markings as a defensive strategy, so parents can identify their own brood, says University of Illinois ornithologist Mark Hauber. The markings, then, would have helped finch parents reject the drop-ins and know their own chicks. So the big evolutionary question is which came first: the markings of Estrildids or the brood parasites that plague them?Īfrican Silverbills. But the chicks of birds that parasitize Estrildid finches have an extra advantage: The young of some of these nest invaders have similar mouth markings to the host chicks', possibly aiding a foreign chick's ability to compete for resources. ![]() Brood parasites are a special kind of insidious: They lay their eggs in other birds' nests and leave the parenting duties to the unwitting host parents-often to the detriment of the other nestlings. But why such elaborate patterns exist has been hard for scientists to pin down.Īt the heart of the debate has been the brood parasites that plague certain Estrildid finch species. ![]() Also sometimes called grass finches, this family of small birds can be found in Africa, Australia, and Asia, and the young of some species sport these unique mouth, or gape, markings. These marks-such as beaks rimmed with a black lining or glow-in-the-dark beads, and mouth roofs covered in trypophobia-inducing holes-are so disturbing to some that they've inspired comparisons to aliens.īut Estrildid finches are most definitely of this planet. Peer into the mouth of a hungry African Silverbill, Gouldian Finch, or other Estrildid finch chick, and you’ll see something unexpected, intriguing, and maybe even a little unsettling: strange mouth markings. ![]() Move back into the parent Rocket.Chat directory. 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It is extremely satisfying to build your first solar panel array while fighting for every resource, and then a few hours later have your 5000 strong robot army assemble a blueprint of that same array in 5 seconds while you watch. My favorite part is that basically any action or building (up to the far late game) usually pushes you to build it by hand once or twice, and then automate the process forever. If you ever enjoyed Tekkit (minecraft) or the more automated part of Dwarf Fortress, you will like this game a lot. I have been playing this for a few years and just started again with the release of the steam version. It feels like you're playing a symphony of borglike capitalist efficiency. coal stacks up because your furnaces aren't burning it because they're blocking on insufficient supplies of ore because you have insufficient electrical capacity because.). 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I have one warning to you which I am not aware of seeing elsewhere for it: something about the color palette gives me severe eye strain, to the point of "physically painful to play", in a way I have never experienced before or since. This game is fantastic, and ate ~20 hours of a business trip earlier in its development lifecycle. Al, the tongue is positioned behind the teeth and so forth. He looks like this f This is supposed to be a person biting their bottom lip. Puppets + Phonemes: So this is character animator when you open it up And if you don't have character animator you have to have after effects and you can download character animator from the adobe Creative Cloud as an app First thing you need to dio If you haven't already got a blank space like this you create new project Then you create empty puppet and we're going to create our puppet in photo shop Since we're working with photographs so hit that this is what I get And I removed the history really quickly Um this guy is one with a head and a body Currently I'm only interested in animating the head of a person So I'm going to throw out the instructional guide I'm going to throw out the body and these other things I'm going to just turn them off turn because I don't need them Open up the head I'm not going to use the eyes Not going to use the face The only thing I am really concerned with he is the mouth now mouths of character Amador puppets are broken down by phone aims There the various mouth shapes you get when you say these freezes Ah, looks like this. Those results to the Skill Share Project page and tell us about your experience that other way. Your project for this class, of course, will be to create a short animation using character animator and after effects, using your own photographs and your own voice. This is a fun way to make explainer videos to have a piece of video art where you can plug in any audio to your photographs mouth and have it lips. So that's what I'm going to show you guys today. I used character animator in a previous class to animates, um, illustrations, and I've seen a lot of projects that animate drawings, illustrations and cartoons have yet to see anything that talks about animating photographs. Today we're going to talk about animating photos using Adobe Character and made her a sub program of after effects. ![]() ![]() I'm David Miller, a Phoenix Errors on a multimedia artist. ![]() Thumbnail: the thumbnail image to use for the outfit in the outfitter. Afterburner effects can last for multiple frames, leaving a trail behind the ship. "afterburner effect": the effect that is created for every frame that the afterburner is firing. Sounds are only played if the ship has an associated "reverse engine" or "steering engine" hardpoint for a flare to be emitted from. 0.9.13, "reverse flare sound" and "steering flare sound" can also be used to define the sound that is played when reversing or steering. "flare sound": for thrusters, the sound that is played when the thruster is firing. ![]() 0.9.13, "reverse flare sprite" and "steering flare sprite" can also be used to define the image that is drawn for "reverse engine" and "steering engine" hardpoints on a ship. "flare sprite": for thrusters, the image that is drawn at each of the engine hardpoints when the thruster is firing. If no flotsam sprite is given, then the default flotsam box is used. "flotsam sprite": the image that is drawn when this outfit is dropped in space, either because it was jettisoned by a ship or because it was the payload of a minable asteroid. The category must be one of the following if it is to be purchasable: Most attributes are given as a single number, but there are a few "special" attributes:Ĭategory: which outfitter category to show this outfit in. For example, if you install two shield generators, your shield regeneration doubles. Many of the attributes are in units of heat or energy per frame a frame is 1/60th of a second. Outfits work by modifying the attributes of your ship. And, also as with the ship graphics, be sure that your GIMP file is at least high enough resolution to create an high resolution version. For example, the Flamethrower is aligned with the guns even though it is shown in the "Secondary Weapons" section with all the missiles.Īs with ships, it is often easier to add texture and color variation to the outfit images in GIMP rather than trying to texture map all the surfaces in Blender. In a few cases, it's ambiguous which direction something should point in. Turrets: top left, and angled slightly up in the Z axis.As another way of ensuring a consistent look, most outfits in a given section point in a certain direction: The outfitter view divides outfits into difference categories: "Guns," "Turrets," etc. The template is set up with sunlight coming from a certain angle and with the image rendered in an orthographic projection along the XYZ diagonal, so that a cube in your model will line up exactly with the cubical grid used as a backdrop for the outfits. That will ensure that your new thumbnails do not look out of place next to the existing ones. (Another open source program, Inkscape, is used for the vector graphics in the user interface.) You can download the original Blender and GIMP files for any of the graphics here.Īny outfit model you create in Blender should use the camera and lighting settings from this template. The thumbnail graphics for all the outfits in the game are created using two free, open source programs: Blender for creating the 3D models, and GIMP for post-processing the rendered images to look more grungy and less artificial. Polygonal collision detection algorithms.Motion blur rendering using OpenGL shaders.Using frame tweening for smooth animations.Tricks for creating special blending modes.Of course, you can also plunder innocent merchant ships if that's more your style."Įndless Sky is seeking votes on Steam Greenlight. If you have enough crew members to pilot both ships, you can also try to defeat the enemy ship's crew and capture it. 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Its title caught somewhere between the 4X majesty of Endless Space and the interstellar tourism of No Man's Sky, Endless Sky is an open-source, open-world game of exploration, trading, and combat. The speculation follows yet another Twitter exchange from the rapper, with Netflix changing their Twitter bio to read, "Petition to get Cardi B to guest star in Season 4 of You," followed by a pitch tweet from Cardi: "So it's episode 1 and I'm at Paris Fashion week shutting it down! I turn around and there stands YOU. But there is actually - I believe this is true - there's an actual petition." After being questioned further, he reiterated, "I can't say because I don't know." James Devaney/GC Images, Pierre Suu/GC Images Getty ImagesĪppearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Penn answered questions on a possible Cardi cameo, saying, "Well, I don't know, I definitely can't say. Some fans have previously speculated about whether Ellie (Jenna Ortega) from season two might reappear, after a specific conversation she had with Love (Victoria Pedretti) resurfaced - although this appears less likely now we know that the season is largely going to be set in London.Īs a Reddit user noted, "I'm rewatching season 2 and Love tells Ellie if the film thing doesn't work out you should go to culinary school in Paris. Could Joe wind up as a librarian at an elite university? Or land his first job in publishing? Only time will tell. Other than that, not that much is known about the fourth series although from the notes about these characters we can see that the art world and literary world of London may be explored and that academia, celebrity and privilege are strong themes. Apparently "Elliot’s employer is powerful, and Elliot always delivers, no matter how challenging the task." Netflix's You reveals surprise filming locationĪlison Pargeter plays paparazzi photographer Dawn and Adam James plays Elliot, who is described as "world-weary, calm, grounded, allergic to drama". Stephen Hagan plays "drug-loving bon vivant" literature professor Malcolm, who happens to be dating Kate, and Ben Wiggins plays aristocrat Roald.Įve Austin plays Gemma, "a member of a privileged circle of friends who met at Oxford" and Ozioma Whenu is Blessing, "a Nigerian princess with several post-graduate degrees" and a cryptocurrency investor.ĭario Coates plays Connie, a character who "attended Oxford with Kate and Phoebe’s friend group" and Sean Pertwee plays Vic "Adam’s personal driver/dealer/security." Niccy Lin plays Sophie "an entrepreneur in the body of a pampered jetsetter" who is protective of her artist brother Simon, played by Aidan Cheng. He has a fierce rivalry with fellow student Nadia." According to Deadline "Edward is popular and used to being the smartest student in the room. You producers have also let loose some seriously juicy info regarding the cast of the show and introduced a whole load of characters.īrad Alexander plays Edward, a university student whose dad owns a powerful news outlet. Who is in the You season 4 supporting cast? |
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