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Dark Souls and the like allow players to allocate stats and produce builds in abundance, which offers replayability and experimentation with all resources that it has available. Mortal Shell, rather, restricts players to static builds as part of its particular Shells. This certainly sets Mortal Shell apart from its Souls-like counterparts, and is executed well in its first installment, but Mortal Shell leaves itself wide open for sequel potential as a result of how small in scope its initial entry is....

If Kings XI wins: #1 RCB will be eliminated because the maximum they can get to will be 12 points. Sunrisers Hyderabad (18), Chennai Super Kings (16), Kings XI Punjab (14) and the winner of the game between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals (14) will be out of reach of RCB. #2 Kings XI will not only strengthen their chances of qualifying for the playoffs but also have a shot at finishing in the top two, provided both CSK and SRH won’t win at least one out of two games left, and KXIP wins both of their remaining games....

Upon Hurricane Ian’s Florida arrival, buildings were subjected to Category 4 hurricane winds, torrential rain and up to 12 feet of storm surge in western Florida coastal cities like Fort Myers and Cape Coral. A new study from a team at the University of Notre Dame found buildings that were up to date with building codes tended to fare best, and while bringing older buildings up to code could prevent damage, it would require a significant investment....

A night later the loudspeaker went silent: Baghdad’s electricity had been cut. According to U.S. officials, the Iraqi regime had turned out the lights. Whatever that ploy was supposed to accomplish, it only worsened the public’s anxiety without slowing the Coalition’s advance. Before the end of the next day, U.S. forces had taken over the city’s airport. By Saturday morning a column of American tanks was rolling through part of the capital....

There is no doubting that Klopp is one of the most entertaining coaches to watch in European football. His passion for the game, which leads to scenes like these, is what makes so many around the world fall in love with the current Liverpool manager. Jurgen Klopp was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and grew up in the Black Forest village of Glatten with 2 older sisters. He held aspirations of becoming a doctor as a youngster, but by his admission, he felt that he “was not smart enough” to become one, recalling a conversation with his headmaster who said, “I hope it works out with football, otherwise it’s not looking too good for you....

However, tall football players also find it difficult to control the ball and keep up with shorter and faster players. On the up side, taller players always have the odds in their favour during aerial duels, either offensively or defensively. It is not surprising to find out that taller players dominate the list of most headed goals for instance in the Premier League. Having taller players in a team gives a manager an extra tactical option of long balls forward....

The answer is yes. There’s no need to recap the story of the reporter and his heinous print rip-offs. The guy was brought along too quickly at the greatest newspaper in the country. He was black and he was a suck-up and, depending on whom you listen to, one or the other or a combination of the two led higher-ups to elevate him way beyond his experience, his ability and his work ethic....

The note began with neat, cursive handwriting, suggesting the lights were still on. It included a message for Kolesnikov’s wife, Olga, whom he had married only three months before; Russian officials kept that part private when the letter was discovered last week. On the back of the paper, the writing is smudged, nearly illegible. By then, apparently, the lights had gone out for good. “I am writing blind,” Kolesnikov scribbled....

Philadelphia 76ers Best-case scenario: For the Philadelphia 76ers, starting their season against the Miami Heat is the best possible setup. Expectations are already low, but their first loss of the season will push those down to a deep crawl. It sets the tone for what they will actually endure—losses on top of losses. If things go the way the tanking Sixers see fit, they’ll lose enough games to get the No....

Hold the applause, please. What’s truly remarkable about Fischer’s speech is its awful timing. This is hardly the EU’s shining moment. The euro has dropped 24 percent since it was launched 16 months ago. The big project on the EU’s foreign-policy agenda–its much-advertised “stability pact” for the Balkans–has been bogged down in the usual Brussels red tape and has delivered only a tiny fraction of the promised aid. All the talk of a new, more muscular European defense and security policy remains mostly that: just talk, with governments squeezing already inadequate defense budgets....

The IPL storm is striking us and sadly it will be your last competitive tourney and I can’t help but track you closely, Zak. Fast bowlers in India have rarely been fast and have barely been icons, you were and are a bit of both. When I first saw you coil into that high leap at the stumps, like a spring unleashing potential built up in it, I was thrilled, curious, excited, relieved and joyous – to say the least....

In his tender memoir, “The Film Club,” out-of-work Canadian film critic David Gilmour feels his 15-year-old son Jesse against the very tips of his fingers. Here, Gilmour coaches, inveigles and scolds Jesse into finish some homework. Then he describes the results. His son has completely tuned out. “It was a kind of boredom, yes, but a rarefied kind, an exquisite, almost cellular conviction of the irrelevance of the task at hand....

Early footage looked strong, but the announcement was out of the blue, so it was hard to get appropriately excited. Nevertheless, Guardians of the Galaxy released to positive reviews, and quickly won the hearts of those who gave it a shot. Peter Quill and his merry band of misfit crew mates spend their time bickering through the whole plot, only stopping momentarily to save the galaxy from an external extremist threat....

Pirates are always found to be intriguing and have often been used in popular entertainment as substitutes for mysterious elements, which reveal much more than what sees the eye. Similarly, G5 Entertainment and Artifex Mundi have planned their game around this theme in ‘Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart, Collector’s Edition HD’ and the chief antagonist of the game is played by a pirate zombie. One couldn’t miss the clear resemblance to Jack Sparrow’s hallowed look in the Pirate movies....

How Early Video Games Worked At the time, all home video game consoles used the mathematics-based Logic Technology, where variables were used to determine relations and deduction. This enabled the same or similar graphics to be reused in a limited number of basic games. The technique was innovated by Ralph Bayer’s Brown Box military project that eventually became the Magnavox Odyssey. This is also why all the home video games of the first generation of consoles all looked the same....

In that spirit, here’s something to digest: There have been 21 rookies this season who hit a home run for their first big league hit. TWENTY ONE! That seems like a lot, right? Maybe even a record? Well, yes and yes. MORE: 10 single-season MLB feats we’ll never see again Our pals at Baseball Reference crunched some numbers and told us that those 21 first-hit home runs are indeed the most in MLB history, smashing the old record of 14 set in 2018....

What Do We Know About Sun Valley? The news of this UI update comes to us from Windows Central, which heard of this development through Microsoft sources. Sun Valley is currently planned to launch in a larger update with the codename “Cobalt.” Cobalt is planned to release in the holiday season of 2021, so it’s still a little way off. Because Microsoft has not officially announced this update, we don’t have a lot of information Sun Valley; all we have are some nuggets of information....

The charges are surfacing at a critical time for the Kennedys. It’s a particularly important season for Joe, the six-term congressman and oldest son of RFK. The next generation’s rising star, Joe wants to sit in the governor’s office on Beacon Hill, above the bronze statue of his uncle Jack. In an ordinary year he should have little to worry about: no Kennedy has ever lost an election in Massachusetts, and the nomination of centrist GOP Gov....

Unlike purely scripted forms of media, games have an added degree of interactivity; movie-goers don’t get to decide if Anakin Skywalker succumbs to the Dark Side, but players can determine if Kyle Katarn or Revan will. The choice between being a noble Jedi or a ruthless Sith lord has long been a feature of the franchise’s games, but not recently. Most recent Star Wars games have often forgone that complexity in favor of exciting multiplayer or scripted single-player storylines....