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What it delivered was a boring coming-of-age story with birds and baboons and big cats and jungleness and a kid who, despite being an almost Ranger on his own planet had NO IDEA how to use a double-sided sword and could barely fend for himself. What this movie advertised was a sci-fi-action-epic where Will Smith and his son have to battle against hyper-evolved Earth-monsters after a crash-landing. Jaden Smith yells the entire movie because he's mad that his ~*dad was never there for him and his sister.~* Despite the two being ACTUAL father and son in real life, they have virtually no on-screen chemistry, which we thought was impossible. He didn't think he should just USE THE FLYING SQUIRREL APPARATUS THE ENTIRE TIME WHEN HALF OF HIS BREATHING FLUID WAS DESTROYED?īack to the concept of this movie: it could have been good, but the story, the acting, the directing, the CGI (WHY CGI THINGS WE'VE SEEN BEFORE?).everything! Everything was bad! Will Smith's seriousface just comes off as unintentionally comical, but not in a HA-HA! type of way. Three-fifths of the way through the movie, we find out that Kitai's super awesome, wonderful suit HAS A FREAKIN' FLYING SQUIRREL APPARATUS WHICH WOULD CUT DOWN HIS TIME TO REACH THE TAIL-END OF THE SHIP BY HALF. THE MOST DANGEROUS THING IN THIS MOVIE IS THE THING THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM ON THEIR SHIP AND LIVE WITH ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS. Here lies the problem: despite this warning, it would seem most of Earth's animals and beings are a minor nuisance and not much different than TODAY'S animals, given that you were stuck in the jungle all alone with only a double-sided sword. Cypher explains to Kitai that he must wander through the "perilous" regions of Earth, a class-one quarantined planet on which everything has evolved to kill humans (WUT?) to find the tail-end of the plane with the second signaling device. ZOMG, BONDING TIME! Nope, Cypher has two broken legs and a damaged signaling device to let their home planet know they crashed. URSA in tow, their ship crashes on Earth, killing everyone aboard except for the father-son duo. Cypher is pretty much forced by his wife to drag Kitai along on his last routine mission before retirement. His father, Cypher Raige (Will Smith, OMG HIS RILL LIFE DAD!!!11) is a stone-cold, fear-suppressing commander type person who is sorta kinda disappointed his son didn't pass his training but will only yell at him to get his point across. Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) fails his Ranger training because he is unable to control his fear. Not a bad concept, but we'll get to that later. IT'S CALLED GHOSTING, PEOPLE, AND IT'S SERIOUS BUSINESS. Otherwise, it's fine! The Rangers are trained to become fearless and suppress their fear in order to become invisible to the URSA. They settle in a place they call Nova Prime, HOLD UP! This planet is no ordinary planet: it has alien monster things called URSA(s) that smell and sense fear. Humans are forced to leave Earth after it becomes uninhabitable due to their own negligence. Night Shyamalan, director of such flops as "The Village," "The Happening," and "The Last Airbender" didn't want to get his stink all over this poo-storm, HOW BAD CAN IT BE?"įirst of all, let's do a short synopsis. We also saw it from his perspective: "if M. WELL FOLKS, IT DIDN'T NEED ANY HELP HIDING ITS AWFULNESS BECAUSE IT'S JUST AWFUL. It seems like everyone involved with the film tried to hide the fact that Shyamalan was the director of this movie for fear that it would be terrible. In fact, I wouldn't have even thought twice about him being the director of this movie if wehadn't gone on IMDB firsthand to see for ourselves. He's got nothing left except twist endings and failed franchises. Night Shyamalan did with "The Sixth Sense." It's a freaking classic. Now, while we love the movie "Signs," which some people think is awful, you can't diminish the good work M. He's okay, but I think he's try-hard, and Oscar baity, and plus, he's "in the know" with Tom Cruise. We don't particularly like Will Smith either. If his dad wasn't Will Smith, I don't think he'd get half the recognition he gets. He seems to be an arrogant little twerp who is leeching off his dad's fame. "The Karate Kid" remake was nothing special. We also probably wouldn't have seen it on DVD, either. If it weren't for our sick curiosity, we wouldn't have seen "After Earth" in the theater. Josh and I made it a point at one time in our lives to only see "big" movies in the theater, such as actions, musicals, big theatrical movies, you know? Stuff that's better on the big screen. Welcome a post about the worst movie we have seen in a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong time. Perlie continues to hold Negan up while the two find a way to escape Walkers.Negan and The Croat meet for the first time years and Negan rescues Pearlie from falling to his death only for the marshal to hold him at gunpoint, still intent on bringing him to justice.However, they walk into a trap where most of them are killed. Maggie and the Tribespeople, and later Ginny, make their way to the stadium where The Burazi are holding out.The Croat learns from Perlie that he is looking for Negan.Ginny makes it to Manhattan where she notices Maggie about to burn her toy dinosaur.As Maggie and Negan prepare the group for what they are up against, one member, Luther, tries to blackmail Negan into leaving with Maggie as he is a wanted man.Perlie goes to an apartment to check on a relative only to find him dead and caught of Croat's traps and taken by the group during the night.( Who's There?, Stories We Tell Ourselves) Before she leaves, she discovers their granary are full despite Maggie saying otherwise. Ginny arrives at The Bricks but then escapes in the middle of the night.They in turn decide to help the two rescue Hershel and take down the Croat. Maggie and Negan encounter Amaia and Tommaso's group and helps them fight off The Croat's men.Croat executes a man trying to escape.He and his group track him down with Maggie to Manhattan. Perlie Armstrong tracks Negan to the bar he stayed at and executes the owner for "aiding and abetting" him.At night, Maggie and Negan evade both Marshals and Walkers. Marshals from the New Babylon Federation come and look for Negan. Maggie searches for and finds Negan at a bar to help her find the Croat as he is an ex- Savior and Negan was his leader.Maggie tracks The Croat to Manhattan and does reconnaissance to learn about the area.Croat wants her to find Negan and bring him to Manhattan, New York in exchange for the boy. Hilltop is raided by The Croat and his men kidnap Hershel Rhee.About a year before meeting Maggie again, Negan works on a farm and takes Ginny under his wing after her father is killed.The two and their son Joshua go on the run until Negan puts the two on a wagon train to Missouri promising them that he'd follow in suit. A few years before, Annie is beaten and robbed by five men and Negan, in a rage, kills them.Maggie proposes an idea to search for more people.The Croat's ear is grazed and he escapes. Around the time Negan encounters The Kingdom, he sees the depths of Croat's psychopathy after Simon shows him the aftermath of brutally torturing a girl for information, Negan attempts to put him down.( Old Acquaintances)Īfter the Global Outbreak Day +117-7,255 Main Show / Season 1 Interim In an attempt to contain the Wildfire Virus, they bomb all bridges and tunnels connecting Manhattan to the main land. The entirety of the human race is infected and the recently deceased, who did not receive extreme head trauma, begin to reanimate and devour the living. The Wildfire Virus suddenly becomes a global pandemic.The Global Outbreak 2010 The Global Outbreak (2010) Before the Global Outbreak TBA Before The Global Outbreak (TBA) It is helpful for manufacturers to receive an inventory of raw materials just before production. The method is used to describe a supply management model of having both goods and services inventory, based on demand. The company can also adjust the production process quickly to changes in customer demand. This further helps to reduce production costs. The process facilitates the production of only the required items. This helps to reduce waste and increase efficiency. They can then produce the required items as soon as possible. JIT works by having the company detect demand through customer orders. They can avoid the need to store large amounts of stock. 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According to the International Federation of Accountants, just-in-time inventory management can reduce total costs by up to 35%. While the Council describes this combiner threat as a massive, out-of-control problem, the threat they pose in the actual show feels very empty – Menasor, for instance, dies from one slice of Windblade's sword. The closest we get to any kind of "combiner war" on-screen is the brief scuffle between Menasor and Computron in "The Fall", which lasts for all of a minute. It's not really clear what combiners are supposed to be in this continuity: Starscream mentions that they're "still Autobots and Decepticons", implying that the combiners adhere to the usual factions, but other instances of dialogue treat them as though they're an entirely new faction of Transformers who have, by all indication, materialized overnight to wreak havoc on all and sundry. While Devastator receives some dialogue and characterization, Victorion appears out of nowhere seconds before she's assimilated by Starscream – even though she was the only combiner to receive a prelude video that hyped her up as a key player in the series. Later, the council talk again about using it to "control" the Combiners, but this time in the context of actually taking control of the existing Combiners.īeyond this, for a series named Combiner Wars, the series puts very little focus on the characters that it was ostensibly created to advertise, treating them as interchangeable background extras. At one point, Rodimus Prime talks about using it to "control" the Combiners, but apparently by this meant creating a new Combiner army. The Enigma of Combination is a similarly nebulous concept, with no real explanation provided of what it is, where it came from, or what it does, beyond the fact that it has created some (all?) of the Combiners. Caminus's cities have apparently been wrecked by the Combiner Wars, but whether this is collateral damage from Combiner brawls or the result of Combiners just plain smashing stuff, we are never told. No explanation is ever given for how or why this war started, or indeed for what the Combiners are doing exactly that constitutes a war. The prelude videos for the series vaguely allude to the " Combiner Wars" beginning shortly before the end of the Great War and somehow continuing to the present despite the end of Autobot-Decepticon hostilities. The story's setting, meanwhile, is supremely ill-defined. "The Council", for instance, spends a minute depicting Starscream flying over an empty Cybertron before leading into the action. As a result, the miniseries runs for forty minutes overall, which wouldn't be so bad if not for the obvious padding that permeates most episodes. Eerily, many of said criticisms also apply to the infamous Energon cartoon.Ĭombiner Wars is split into eight five-minute episodes. While Combiner Wars was advertised as a series intended for mature fans, the series was roundly criticized by the fandom for a variety of reasons. so as we go through the story we’ll have very sophisticated story ideas and sophisticated visuals. The first, Titans Return, premiered in November 2017, while the second, Power of the Primes, was released in May 2018. In November 2016, Machinima announced plans to create two sequel series, forming a complete set of tie-ins into Hasbro's " Prime Wars Trilogy" line. In January 2019, the Tumblr blog was deleted and all Prime Wars Trilogy content was delisted from Machinima's channel, including the Prelude videos, in advance of the announcement of Machinima's closure all videos were later made available for streaming via Rooster Teeth the following March. A year later, they returned to general viewing audiences via Hasbro's official YouTube channel, and in 2018 were uploaded to the Prime Wars Trilogy Tumblr blog, while the go90 release was removed as part of the service's discontinuation on July 30, 2018. įour prelude videos were released weekly beginning June 28 2016, followed by the premiere of the series proper on August 2, on the go90 platform in the U.S., and on Machinima's YouTube channel elsewhere… until Machinima changed the episodes' settings to "private" a few weeks after the release of the final episode. DeSanto, though it seems that at least two of them no longer want people to know about their involvement. Co-produced by Machinima and Hasbro Studios with animation done by Tatsunoko Production and voice recording by Bang Zoom! Entertainment, it is targeted at older audiences, and ties into the concurrent Combiner Wars imprint. Transformers: Combiner Wars is an animated web series. Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller test positive for everything illegal you could put in your body for competition. With a team in place and a new promoter, Ruiz seemed ready for one more opportunity and to look to become the first Mexican heavyweight world champ, ever. In a shocking move, Ruiz ended up on the Premier Boxing Champions banner fighting on April 20th fought stopping Alexander Dimitrenko as he picked up a fifth-round knockout his first stoppage in two years. Ruiz still had a name and skill, but now at 29-years-old, did he have time. Ruiz beat Kevin Johnson in Fresno, Ca, last summer. Ruiz’s time with Top Rank ended unceremoniously. Whether they know it or not, Ruiz and Robles had a similar plight as Robles during his tenure with Ruiz went from being viewed as the next star coach in boxing to losing most of his fighters once Oscar Valdez, Jessie Magdaleno, Michael Conlan, amongst others left him. was redeemed and during this time he had switched trainers like crazy from Freddie Roach, Miguel Diaz, Justin Gamber before finally finding a home at Legendz Boxing Gym with Manny Robles. Ruiz looked like the fighter many had raved about from the amateurs and not the one who had gotten a bit sluggish on club circuit, as his head movement and fast hands, gave the notoriously fast-handed Parker, all that he could handle, in fact most pundits, including myself, favored Ruiz on the cards for the bout, but the judges saw it another way (and that is all that matters in the end). Ruiz’s notable fight came in 2016 as he fought Joseph Parker for the vacant WBO heavyweight title in Australia. It felt like a pattern of facing opposition who were looking to survive against him while he looked to stop his foes while not wanting to risk getting knocked out which would jeopardize a future big fight. After beating former WBO heavyweight champion Siarhei Liakhovich in 2014 at the Selland Arena in Fresno, Ca, Ruiz went on a run that saw him winning fights, but never dominating as the talent always seemed to be there, but maybe the motivation not so much as he was fighting between the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, Ca, and essentially any other venue he could get a date, as he waited for his big fight. This is where I got to see and know Ruiz for a bit as he would fight on Top Rank’s regional circuit, often headling shows. Between a sluggish start and a jiggling body frame that didn’t resemble anything of a chiseled Greek god, it seemed as though a silent memorandum had been sent to keep Ruiz off television until his body was more appealing or his performances were more dominant. Ruiz infamously made his debut to the typical fight fan in his 21st professional fight on November of 2013 on the Manny Pacquiao versus Brandon Rios pay-per-view fight from Macao, China, as he was getting outboxed by Tor Hamer before Hammer quit in the corner after the third round. In fact, the biggest promoter in boxing, Top Rank Inc, signed him from the start of his career in 2009, a company known for building not just champions, but stars - yet Ruiz’s career so a lot of backroads. looks more like your co-worker than a pro athlete, but the old adage ‘you can’t judge a book by its cover’ seems to be nearly ideal when thinking of Ruiz Jr.Andy Ruiz Jr., a 105-5 amateur losing only in the most inopportune times at Olympic qualifying events or international competition. Ruiz fights from a orthodox, which means he favours his right hand as his power hand when fighting.Andy Ruiz Jr. His reach is 74 inches (74") which is 188 cm (1 meter and 88 centimeters). Ruiz is 6' 2" (6 Foot and 2 inch) which is 188 cm (1 meter and 88 centimeters). HOW LONG HAS RUIZ BEEN FIGHTING?Īndy Ruiz made his professional debut in March 2009, so he has been a pro for 14 years. 11, 1989, so he will turn 34 in 1 month and 1 day. In those fights, he fought a total of 36 rounds, meaning that they have lasted 12 rounds on average. Ruiz's last 3 fights have come over a period of 2 years, 8 months and 28 days, meaning he has been fighting on average every 10 months and 29 days. WHAT WAS RUIZ'S LAST FIGHT?Īndy Ruiz's last fight took place against Luis Ortiz on Sept. ANDY RUIZ PROFILE WHAT IS ANDY RUIZ'S RECORD?Īndy Ruiz's record currently stands at 35 wins, 2 loses and 0 draw. The Power Magic Pro is compatible with the following BlackVue dash cams. You can also add these adapters using the drop-down menu on top of this listing. If you're willing and qualified to install the accessory yourself, the easiest way to pull this off is by plugging directly into your car's fuse box using a set of Add-A-Circuit Fuse Tap Adapters. If you reside in Auckland, please consider our Auckland-based mobile dash cam installation service to get the Power Magic Pro fitted and hardwired for you. Package Contentsĭespite the BlackVue Power Magic Pro is relatively easy to wire up, it is recommended to be installed by a car electrician or a qualified installer. Specs taken from the official BlackVue website. Accessory Outlet (also known as the Cigarette Lighter Socket).LED indicator showing the current status and On/Off switch.Even with the timer function active, the battery level setting will still take priority in order to ensure that no matter what, your car will start later when you return. The Power Magic Pro can also be set to turn your dash cam off after a certain period of time as well. If the voltage drops below the set cut-off level, Power Magic Pro automatically cuts power to the camera, thus saving the battery from getting too low. When your vehicle’s ignition is off, Power Magic Pro monitors the vehicle's battery voltage while powering your dash cam. 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There are several different tournaments taking place across several different regions at EVO 2021 Online. The final day of competition on August 15 will feature the Guilty Gear Strive top 8 from the NA region and the Street Fighter 5 top 4 from the Asia region. EVO 2021 Online August 15 livestream schedule EVO 2021 Online August 14 livestream scheduleĮVO 2021 Online's August 14 streaming line-up includes the Guilty Gear Strive top 8 for the Asia region, as well as the Skullgirls 2nd Encore top 8 from the EU region. It will also include the Mortal Kombat 11 top 8 for the LATAM region. EVO 2021 Online August 8 livestream scheduleĪugust 8 at EVO 2021 Online will feature the Tekken 7 top 4 for both the Asia South and East regions. EVO 2021 Online August 7 livestream scheduleĮVO 2021 Online's August 7 schedule includes the Street Fighter 5 top 4 for the EU East and West regions, as well as the Tekken 7 top 8 for NA. Tournaments will take place on the weekends of August 6-8 and August 13-15. Throughout the event, players will compete in elimination tournaments in the five aforementioned games. These are the five video games that will be featured as tournaments in EVO 2021 Online:ĮVO 2021 Online takes place from August 6-16, 2021. It’s also a good idea to follow the official EVO 2, EVO 3, and EVO 5 accounts, as there’s a chance content could spill over into those channels should it become necessary. Be sure to turn on notifications, so that you’ll be made aware every time a new event is about to begin. Where to watch EVO 2021 OnlineĮVO 2021 Online is being broadcast entirely over on the official EVO Twitch channel. EVO 2021 Online is set to begin soon, so let’s dig into everything you need to know about the event. EVO is one of the biggest fighting game tournament events in the world, and it’s adopting an online format this year as we still battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2018, Sonic Mania became Sonic Mania Plus, with the release of the Encore DLC. In 2017, Whitehead, in collaboration with Headcannon and PagodaWest Games, developed and released their own original title in the Sonic series, titled Sonic Mania. In 2015, it was announced that Whitehead would be involved in his first non- Sonic game, Freedom Planet 2. Īlthough he, along with Headcannon, released a proof-of-concept video for a Sonic the Hedgehog 3 remaster in 2014, Sega did not greenlight the port. His remake was so successful that he, along with developer Simon "Stealth" Thomley of the studio Headcannon, would later be commissioned to remaster Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for mobile devices. The port was released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, iPhone and Android in 2011. In 2009, a video regarding Sonic CD from Whitehead was taken down, leading Eurogamer to report that Whitehead possibly faced a cease and desist letter from Sega, which Whitehead claimed was false. In an interview with Steven O'Donnell of Good Game: Spawn Point, Whitehead proclaims that he spent "about a year or so" convincing Sega to let him work on the Sonic CD port. In 2009, Whitehead produced a "proof-of-concept" video of Sonic CD running on an iPhone using his own custom engine, the " Retro Engine". Since 2009, he has focused on game development, developing various fangames based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series. In 2006, Whitehead worked as a freelance 3D animator with the company Kine Graffiti. He has also developed multiple remakes of classic Sonic games and most recently, the remasters in Sonic Origins. He is most recognized for his work creating updated ports of early games in Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, as well as being the lead developer of an original game in the series, Sonic Mania. This concept was completely overhauled into the Syntax seen in the final builds and the original TV design was reused as the head of the Tankbot enemies.Developing Sonic the Hedgehog video gamesĬhristian Whitehead, also known by his alias The Taxman, is an Australian video game programmer and designer.
Now it was not even Thanksgiving, and two students affiliated with Gunn were already dead. Then, a day later, a kid who’d graduated from Gunn the year before, Quinn Gens, had killed himself on the tracks. In McGee’s third month on the job, about three weeks before Cameron’s death, a girl from a local private school had jumped off an overpass. Twelve percent of Palo Alto high-school students surveyed in the 2013–14 school year reported having seriously contemplated suicide in the past 12 months. School counselors remained “overwhelmed and overloaded” with an influx of kids considered high risk, says Roni Gillenson, who has helped oversee Gunn’s mental-health program since 2006. While the intervening years had been quieter, they had not been comforting. Another recent graduate had hung himself. Starting in the spring of 2009 and stretching over nine months, three Gunn students, one incoming freshman, and one recent graduate had put themselves in front of an oncoming Caltrain. The 10-year suicide rate for the two high schools is between four and five times the national average. That morning the school district’s superintendent, Glenn “Max” McGee, called Kim Diorio, the principal of the system’s other public high school, Palo Alto High, to warn her, “This is going to hit everyone really hard.” McGee was new to the district that year, but he’d known the history when he took the job. The kids were usually “silly and joyful,” she later said, but that period, they were “utterly and completely silent.” She then asked how many had been in a class with him, and everyone’s hand went up. In her creative-writing class later that day, Tarn Wilson asked how many people were friends with Cameron, and a third of the students raised a hand. He must have sent the text only a few hours before he died. Cameron had gone to tryouts for varsity basketball but hadn’t yet gotten his required physical, so he had asked whether Alex thought he could get in to see the doctor the next day. He thought about a text Cameron had sent him the day before. The principal, Denise Herrmann, stopped him and told him, because she knew he was one of Cameron’s best friends, and he fell to his knees. Alyssa’s first thought: Is there another Cameron Lee at our school?, because the one she knew was popular and athletic and seemingly unbothered by schoolwork, an avid practitioner of the annoying prank of turning people’s backpacks inside out.Īlex Gil got to school a little late that day and saw people crying in the hallways. The teacher read a statement containing the words took his own life last night, and then a name, Cameron Lee. It was November 4, 2014, a few days after homecoming and maybe a month before college applications would start making everyone crazy. After a few minutes the teachers filed out, each holding a sheet of paper, none talking. Gunn High School, about 1,900 kids waited. Through the windows, they could spy the teachers packed in there. Now one of them, Alyssa See-Tho, was waiting outside the choir room for first period to start. In many parts of town, you can hear the warning of a passing train just about everywhere: the quad at Palo Alto High School the tables at Piazza’s grocery store, where kids from Gunn High School hang out after school the kids’ bedrooms after midnight.Ī few students had gotten in early to take some photos dressed as Scooby-Doo characters, part of an annual volleyball-team tradition. A bee goes in search of jasmine, stinging no one. The air is again still, like it usually is in spring in Palo Alto. “Ew, how old is that gum?” “The quiz is next week, dipshit.” On the road, a minivan makes a left a little too fast-nothing ominous, just a mom late for pickup. All at once life revives: a rush of bikes, skateboards, helmets, backpacks, basketball shorts, boisterous conversation. Then the gate lifts up, signaling that it’s safe to cross. The alarms ring and the red lights flash for a few seconds more, just in case. The kids wait until the passing train forces a gust you can feel on your skin. But a Caltrain at a crossing registers more like an ambulance, warning you fiercely out of its way. A Caltrain coming into a station slows, invites you in. Too fast to see the faces of the Silicon Valley commuters on board, only a long silver thing with black teeth. Five cars, double-decker, tearing past at 50 miles an hour. The kids on their bikes who pass by the Caltrain crossing are eager to get home from school, but they know the drill. First, from far away, comes a high whine like angry insects swarming, and then a trampling, like a herd moving through. |
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