![]() ![]() RT IGN: Bill & Ted 3 just needs to happen already. RT mrojaycutler: To be a legend, you have to train like one. Ribbon is cut at arnoldsports Europe! /p/tcugGCDcWv/ 7 years ago RT Schwarzenegger: We are officially open. RT FLEX_Magazine: Kai Greene's training philosophy & favorite exercises for building massive biceps: ow.ly/C0DOt 7 years ago RT TeamBeyondnet: The Nintendo 64 turns 18 years old today! 7 years ago RT gamespot: Creative but unsightly add-on allows for more comfortable controls in games like Smash Bros. RT GreenManGaming: RT to win!!!! > /GreenManGaming… 7 years ago I will use that as reference from now on. RT jecom_online: Please RT If you want the L2/R2 Trigger Grip for PSVita PCH-1000. Great walk-through ! /cornswolioTV/s… 4 years ago I know so many people who would buy it ! /cornswolioTV/s… 4 years ago #bindingofisaac #Isaac #afterbirth - EU physical release would be great.Review: Max Payne 3 (Xbox 360 / PS3 / PC).Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD revealed and heading to the UK October 25th 2012.It’s Turbo Time: 4GEE Network Rolling Out In The UK.How to greatly reduce input lag on the LG 42LW650T 3D TV.It deviates enough from the original (and the movie) to make for. But even with all of the hiccups, GoldenEye 007: Reloaded's campaign is incredibly entertaining. More information about the re-release of Goldeneye can be found on or over on the Goldeneye 007: Reloaded Facebook page Blood, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence. Heres a short video of some online multiplayer action courtesy of IGN, Enjoy. I know it will never compare to the N64 version, but I’ll certainly give it a try (via rental) when it releases on November 4th.Īfter selling my N64 along with the best games quite some time ago-and being a Goldeneye die-hard-I am pretty excited about being able to play Goldeneye once again, at least for 5 days anyway (thanks Blockbuster). It is Activision instead of Rare which will be publishing it, so im not too sure on how it will turn out. The Hugo Drax character (From the 1979 film Moonraker) will be available to download for free and is playable in both split screen and online multiplayer modes, wielding his Moonraker laser pistol. PS3 gamers will also be given an extra downloadable character alongside their purchase. The PS3 version will release with a special ‘Double O-Agent Edition’ which has PSmove compatibilities and a few other extras thrown in. Being a re-release doesn’t mean it’s the Wii version with prettier graphics either, oh no, the team behind it have developed a brand-new engine for the Xbox 360 and PS3. A couple of things to expect in the remake are enhanced HD visuals and increased environment frame rates of 60fps.
0 Comments
![]() When you compare Panda with Kuma, it’s not even close. ![]() She ignores Kuma’s advances and sits around while Xiaoyu goes on and on about how important Jin Kazama is to her. As another hanger-on of Ling Xiaoyu, Panda never gets to do anything of note. Panda is, unfortunately, shoved into the background. No matter how you cut it, that’s an amazing thing. This series has a dancing panda bear on its roster. Like if Roman Reigns called himself Super John Cena. He’s a decent supporting character, but can’t stand on his own.Īnd let’s face it, even though Armor King looks utterly badass, there’s that name. Then in his death, he pushes forth a far better storyline involving King, Marduk, and the second Armor King. He trains the second King and acts as a mentor. He convinces the first King to get off the sauce and get his life back together. Armor King is more of an inspiration than his own, fleshed-out character. There are four Kings in Tekkenlore, and the first Armor King has the least going for him. Having both of them show up in the same game is a good move in the sense that it’s a reminder that Jin and Kazuya are both jerks who deserve to be taken down a peg or three. Miguel epitomizes righteous vengeance in his style and actions while Leo simply hangs out at a cemetery and takes part in a mundane mystery. While she’s given a revenge story in her first appearance, she’s immediately overshadowed by Miguel, whose revenge story against Jin Kazama is way more explosive. The androgynous Rock Howard cosplayer is one of the newer characters and doesn’t really do much for me. He ends up working better as an extension of Hwoarang, who gets some added dimension when Baek is brought back into the series. He mopes every once in a while as a break from being the most generic-looking mook in the Tekkenseries. Other than pissing off Marshall Law and having that swept under the rug by later games, Baek does little more than occasionally feel bad. That makes it all the more depressing that Baek, vanilla Tae Kwon Do practitioner, has the same starting point and simply exists. They even got an iconic villain design out of it. When Namco introduced Siegfried into Soul Edge, they gave a white bread warrior a backstory about accidentally murdering his father in battle and turned it into one of the series’ best character arcs. It goes with her use of the Perfect Plex, I guess. Michelle and Julia become a mother/daughter luchadora tag team. Her saving grace is her Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ending. The first Tekken Tag Tournament is a cavalcade of lame, 20-second endings and Michelle’s was probably the absolute worst, showing nothing more than she and Julia sitting down on a grassy hill and having a conversation that we can’t hear a word of because the only audio is from the stock ending music. She has so little personality that her endings are a cure for insomnia. When it comes to the original core cast, Michelle’s just so forgettable. Listen, the most entertaining thing Michelle Chang’s ever done is throw a tomahawk at Heihachi in the Tekkenanime, and it was only entertaining because Heihachi caught and shattered it with his teeth. That face she makes at Ogre during the Tag 2 intro sure is something. Namely that Angel has a sinister and violent streak barely buried under her righteous demeanor. Her Tekken Tag Tournament 2 update did at least add a little personality, and that’s a plus. Maybe she helped him chill out enough during that tournament to romance Jun Kazama and create Jin as some kind of prophecized “chosen one” thing? Who knows? After the game, she falls into obscurity and only shows up in the non-canon Taggames. She exists for the sake of attempting to draw out the goodness in Kazuya, but isn’t actually part of him (unlike Devil). She starts off in Tekken 2 as Devil’s alternate outfit, which fittingly makes her the final boss if you play as Devil. ANGEL First appearance: Tekken 2Īngel is one of those characters whose origins and identity are supposed to be all mysterious, but she doesn’t do enough to make that mystery worth caring about. That said, his metallic Clark Still appearance is totally sweet. His defining characteristic is that he’s shoddy and falls apart. So when you look at Prototype Jack, you’re left with Jack without any of the substance. He’s a drone that broke away from what he was created to be. Jack is great because he’s the Judgment Day T-800 mixed with the Iron Giant. Just goes to show that nobody in Tekkenis 100% crap. ![]() Okay, there is that one move where she does a selfie with her opponent right before they collapse to the ground. As a secondary Xiaoyu, Miharu doesn’t add much. A classroom-developed, student-tested system that increases pharmacology test scores…decreases and prevents medication errors in the clinical setting…improves NCLEX pharmacology scores…and expands understanding of pharmacological agents! The 2nd Edition of these test-yourself review cards cover critical Automatically generate flashcards from class notes.
![]() A dark mass of shadowy hands then proceeded to disintegrate Alphonse's physical body, while a disembodied figure named Truth showed Edward the secret behind perfect human transmutation in exchange for his left leg. Upon their mother's death, they attempted to revive her by performing human transmutation, a practice officially considered taboo among alchemists. Transcription: ' Hajimari no Hi' (Japanese: はじまりの日)Īs Edward and Alphonse depart for Liore by train, their childhood is shown in flashback where they learned rudimentary alchemy from their father's books. In the brief battle that follows, McDougal is easily sliced to death by the Führer, who later credits Mustang and the Elric brothers with helping to accomplish the mission. The Führer confronts McDougal as he attempts to escape. Luckily, the Elric brothers, Major Alex Louis Armstrong, and Mustang succeed in thwarting McDougal's plans to bury Central in ice. ![]() Edward suspects the use of a philosopher's stone, but is unable to confirm his suspicion. This creates an alchemic reaction encompassing the entire command center. The Elric brothers and the state military are forced to confront McDougal again when he simultaneously activates numerous transmutation circles in Central. However, Edward becomes enraged by McDougal calling him 'small' and McDougal finds an opening and escapes. Edward and Alphonse ambush and successfully capture their target. They are called upon by the Führer King Bradley and Colonel Roy Mustang to hunt down the 'Freezing Alchemist', the rogue state alchemist Isaac McDougal. The Elric brothers, Edward and Alphonse, have already made a strong reputation for themselves despite Edward's short military career. Transcription: ' Hagane no Renkinjutsushi' (Japanese: 鋼の錬金術師) While episodes 63 and 64 do not use opening themes, they use 'Rain' and 'Hologram', respectively, for the endings. From episodes 51-62, the respective opening and ending themes are 'Rain' ( レイン Rein) by Sid, and 'Ray of Light' by Shoko Nakagawa. From episode 39-50, the respective opening and ending themes are 'Period' by Chemistry, and 'Shunkan Sentimental' ( 瞬間センチメンタル Shunkan Senchimentaru, lit. From episode 27-38, the respective opening and ending themes are 'Golden Time Lover' by Sukima Switch, and 'Tsunaida Te' ( つないだ手, lit. From episode 15-26, the respective opening and ending themes are 'Hologram' by Nico Touches the Walls, and 'Let It Out' by Miho Fukuhara. The respective opening and ending themes for the first 14 episodes are 'Again' by Yui, and 'Uso' ( 嘘, lit. Ten pieces of theme music were used in Brotherhood. īrotherhood's music composer is Akira Senju. Funimation released the episodes on Blu-ray and DVD in five volumes, each of thirteen episodes on May 25, 2010. A total of sixteen volumes were released, with the last one on November 24, 2010. Other volumes feature four episodes and no OVAs. Three more OVAs were included in the fifth, ninth and thirteenth volumes alongside four episodes. The first one contains two episodes and an original video animation (OVA). Īniplex began releasing the series in DVD and Blu-ray on August 26, 2009. English dubbed episodes of the show started on American cable channel Adult Swim from February 13, 2010, onwards, as part of their Saturday anime block. All episodes were also available on American subscription service Hulu, showing 14 days after their original airing, as well as via Australia's Madman Entertainment. Funimation suspended streaming of the series for a few weeks in May following the accidental leak of an episode of One Piece from its servers before it had aired in Japan. Anime distributor Funimation streamed English subtitled episodes four days after the Japanese air dates on both its website and its YouTube channel. ![]() It received its English language premiere five days later on Animax Asia, with Japanese audio and English subtitles. The series premiered on April 5, 2009, on MBS-TBS's Sunday 5:30 pm JST anime timeblock, replacing Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The series comprises a total of 64 episodes and four original video animations. Unlike the first anime, which added original elements to the story, the second series follows the manga. The series follows the story of two alchemist brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to restore their bodies after a disastrous failed attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy. Yasuhiro Irie worked as director, and Hiroshi Ōnogi as writer. Cover for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 's first DVD and Blu-ray releaseįullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, known in Japan as Alchemist of Steel: Fullmetal Alchemist ( 鋼の錬金術師 フルメタルアルケミスト Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Furumetaru Arukemisuto), is the second independent anime adaptation developed by Bones from the Fullmetal Alchemistmanga series by Hiromu Arakawa. The recording scripts vary from audio books to navigation instructions, and from prompted answers to witty jokes. In order to cover some of the vast variety of human speech, we first need to record 10-20 hours of speech in a professional studio. The first phase is to find a professional voice talent whose voice is both pleasant and intelligible and fits the personality of Siri. How Does Speech Synthesis Work?īuilding a high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) system for a personal assistant is not an easy task. In order to provide the best possible quality for Siri's voices across all platforms, Apple is now taking a step forward to utilize deep learning in an on-device hybrid unit selection system. However, given its extremely high computational cost, it is not yet feasible for a production system. Deep learning has also enabled a completely new approach for speech synthesis called direct waveform modeling (for example using WaveNet ), which has the potential to provide both the high quality of unit selection synthesis and flexibility of parametric synthesis. Parametric synthesis has benefited greatly from deep learning technology. Recently, deep learning has gained momentum in the field of speech technology, largely surpassing conventional techniques, such as hidden Markov models (HMMs). Hybrid unit selection methods are similar to classical unit selection techniques, but they use the parametric approach to predict which units should be selected. Modern unit selection systems combine some of the benefits of the two approaches, and so are referred to as hybrid systems. Therefore, parametric synthesis is often used when the corpus is small or a low footprint is required. On the other hand, parametric synthesis provides highly intelligible and fluent speech, but suffers from lower overall quality. Unit selection synthesis provides the highest quality given a sufficient amount of high-quality speech recordings, and thus it is the most widely used speech synthesis technique in commercial products. There are essentially two speech synthesis techniques used in the industry: unit selection and parametric synthesis. Recently, combined with speech recognition, speech synthesis has become an integral part of virtual personal assistants, such as Siri. Speech synthesis-the artificial production of human speech-is widely used for various applications from assistive technology to gaming and entertainment. This article presents more details about the deep learning based technology behind Siri’s voice. The resulting voices are more natural, smoother, and allow Siri’s personality to shine through. Starting in iOS 10 and continuing with new features in iOS 11, we base Siri voices on deep learning. Siri is a personal assistant that communicates using speech synthesis.
Buttons and controls feel solid and despite the 2-Series’ entry level status it has the same premium feel to it as its larger stablemates. The front seats offer excellent support and plenty of head and leg room for even taller passengers. The interior of the 2-Series is a mix of high-quality materials and soft touch plastics. The BMW 2-Series has been a refreshing return to form for the Bavarian manufacturer and the 2017 model year sees a brace of new engines and updated specifications introduced to the popular little entry-level sport coupe.What’s it like inside? Following the launch of the Taycan, expect additional Porsche models to receive the full-on electrification treatment, such as the future production version of the Mission E Cross Turismo concept and a version of the Macan. As electric powertrain technologies become more widespread, the likelihood is very high production costs will eventually come down.īut for now, in order to continue making lots of money, Porsche needs to spend it wisely. To give you a better indicator just how profitable Porsche is for VW, last year it made 4.1 billion euros ($4.65 billion) in operating profit and 23.5 billion euros ($26.6 billion) in revenue. If all goes to plan, this investment is expected to improve profit by about 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) annually after 2025. Meanwhile, Porsche is investing more than 6 billion euros ($6.8 billion) through 2022 on electric cars alone. Porsche will absorb those added costs instead of passing them down to the customer. The Taycan, for example, will cost 6,000 euros to 10,000 euros more to build than, say, a Panamera. To maintain its edge, Porsche needs to invest more money in self-driving and electric car development. You see, Porsche is vital to VW Group’s overall profits because it is its most profitable brand. The ultimate goal is to maintain parent company Volkswagen Group’s 15 percent target return on sales. The German automaker’s plan is to increase earnings before interest and taxes by around 750 million euros ($850 million) annually beginning this year through 2025. ![]() Specifically, Porsche is currently formulating an ambitious plan to boost operating profit by 6 billion euros ($6.8 billion) over the next eight years by streamlining operations, cost-cutting, and increase digital business offerings. But according to Bloomberg, Porsche is already preparing a plan to increase profits over the next several years because it’s about to spend more in EV development. Porsche is certainly no exception, evidenced by the all-electric Taycan, due next year. EVs cost more to build than conventional vehicles.Īutomakers everywhere have acknowledged that electric cars are the future. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |