#and more people should be aware >8I

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do you have a topic or game or something that you're super passionate about? like that you can write like 50 pages about without stopping? if so, literally please write it, its literally one of my favorite things reading and listening to people talk about things they're into

OH so many things honestly XD

First one that comes to mind: Eyeshield 21 is an underrated masterpiece of a manga >8I It is a sports manga about American Football...so I think people dismiss it. It also came out around the time One Piece, Naruto, ect were coming out so it got buried...but it was SO FUCKING GOOD >8I

Like everything I learned about how to write interesting, likeable characters with compelling character growth that doesn't rely soley on cheap reasoning and shoe-horned romantic subplots I learned in this manga >8I It was the first series I wrote fanfiction for actually...so it means A LOT to me 83

(Read more for the full rant XD)

So yes, Eyeshield 21 is about football and about a group of highschoolers wanting to get to the big bowl game and play before they graduate, so there is big stakes in it....but AH it is SO much more than that! Like when not playing football, the training and interactions with the characters are SO GOOD! Each one you can just watch slowly going through transformations that are believable and well paced. That they are coming to grips with struggles I have gone through: Parents not liking a hobby, wanting to be good at one thing but having talent elsewhere and giving up on a dream, of being in the shadow of a more successful sibling.... just some real shit. The characters, even the minor ones, all have really great quirks that make them memorable within moments, then each gets so much depth in so few panels and lines, like you really just can understand quickly each character, their motivations, without any monologues! Flashbacks are kept to a minimal and for impact, not just for "tragic backstory". Not to mention even the villains, the people whom you are coded to dislike...are GIVEN CHANCES TO GROW! Like Agon comes off as generally despicable, but then you realize he has always been talented/gotten what he wanted and people just fed into that all his life. When he is forced to confront how awful and wrong that behavior is, how it is affecting his brother....he changes! It forces him to reflect and you see it play out in that football game! He pays for his behavior BUT also learns to do better! THAT is character development! The Haha brothers also went from being your typical Japanese gang bullies to coming into their own, no longer bullies but actively helping the team, wanting to grow, opening up about their past and hobbies and just....realizing they were called losers by their own parents and that want to be "someone" caused them to be bullies, but football/the team showed them they could be appreciated without being jackasses just SO FUCKING GOOOOOODDDD!

Also... NO ROMANCES. There are no couples established, no romantic scenes. It keeps the drama on how the team builds. Not to say it isn't clear certain characters don't grow to care for each other, but they don't focus on it like a laser or make a single character's trait as "love interest". This means the lady characters DO get to really shine. Even minor characters who are the girlfriends of some of the players have enough quirk and bite that you just love em. Just the focus on the interpersonal between everyone, rivals and comrades, the whole Sakuraba growth from idol to throwing that away to pursue what he wants.... *chef kiss* If you haven't read Eyeshield 21, I would highly recommend it! You don't have to know American Football to understand it and the manga is really good about making the sport easy to follow for the story. Not to mention top-notch art (drawn by the guy doing One Punch Man now) and again, just a very well paced story that will make you hyped on emotions every damn game and moment in between. Every struggle and just won't be a character you forget! (There is an anime but it isn't ...very good which makes me upset as the actual manga is SO GOOD >8I)

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Just thinking of some things I would love to get into more detail about if/when i do my rewrite for my own mental health LMAO

Obv I’d change all the garbage. id love to explore a unique avenue for a ‘revolution’ that doesn’t just lift directly from history and is its own thing without comparing fictional robots to real life people suffering like wow fuck off no thanks. More intimate personal stories, a much better development time period for deviancy rising, GAYS. SO MANY GAYS. TRANS ANDROIDS FFS.

I just have this general feeling too that like... being forced to repress any feelings or not even being aware of them because of software or whatnot and suddenly having that start to break down and feeling things needs so much more exploration? Like idk maybe its because I have a really volatile and generally confused relationship with my own emotions but I feel like it should be 1000% more tumultuous and scary and confusing for all of them and it’d be way more interesting. to me anyway 8I

Id definitely really wanna explore Markus’ creativity and emotional side. He’s so passionate and thoughtful I need MORE. Imagine his thoughtful moments in quiet being spent drawing or painting on whatever he can find or just exploring outlets for the intense emotions he feels. Imagine him growing this interest without Carl coaxing him, Carl just kind of helping him let it flourish and giving him safe space to explore. It’s gotta be overwhelming just starting out understanding your emotions, for all of them honestly, but I feel like Markus could have to most beautiful exploration of that. And then being surrounded by so many androids dying around him like geez wow bby. ;-;

Also totally probably projecting but like... Connor talking about testing himself regularly reminded me hardcore of growing up as a queer kid and not having the knowledge to understand what was happening to me yet. I literally used to lay awake at night testing myself for hours to see if I was gay, like I was so terrified. It’d be so interesting to explore Connor having some intensifying paranoia and unrealized fear about his budding emotions and deviancy, especially having like... another ‘consciousness’ literally in your head checking on you constantly. Like damn. Not to mention being autistic and the utter confusion of possible alexithymia probably super intensified by being in denial of them for so long. 

I’d love to develop that moment Connor has when he watches Markus’ broadcast, where you can see something is going on in his head and Hank asks him but it never gets more attention until he actually meets Markus and suddenly we’re supposed to believe Markus can convince him right on the spot to deviate XD  GROWING ADMIRATION OVER TIME CONFLICTING WITH HIS MISSION IN A MORE APPARENT WAY. Much more interesting 8I

And like of course the obvious problems with the game that I would trash and burn in a garbage heap.

Kara I feel like... she got the most emotional development, so I have less I’d want to change for her I guess. Id be interested in exploring her having an interest in family more obviously, seeing mothers out and about, children playing, maybe an interest in books and fictional worlds as an outlet for being cut off from that etc (she does have a huge children’s library right in her brain!!!). obv id change the major bs like the constant victimization, racism and horrifying concentration camp disgustingness. But that too is part of the trash fire lmao. Also way more romance development with Luther, and more development for Luther in general because Luther is fucking amazing we need more.

idk i have a lot of thoughts 8I

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CGI Influencers Like Lil Miquela Are About to Flood Your Feeds

It doesn’t get more 2018 than this: In mid-April, a Trump-supporting Instagram influencer named Bermuda hacked the account of fellow influencer Lil Miquela, who has over a million followers. Wait, no, there’s more: Bermuda refused to return the account unless Miquela promised to “tell the world the truth”—the truth being that Miquela is not a human being. And in case you haven’t caught on yet, neither is Bermuda. Both are CGI creations.

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Lil Miquela has been a source of fascination for many on Instagram since not long after her account launched in April 2016, but for her first two years of existence, no one could definitively say who or what was behind the operation. The Bermuda hack-slash-PR-stunt solved at least part of the mystery, linking Miquela to Brud, a Los Angeles-based startup that specializes in “robotics, artificial intelligence and their applications to media businesses”—but the entire saga remains a master class in postmodern performance art, with Miquela announcing that she was “no longer working with [her] managers at Brud.” (For those who are curious about the nitty-gritty, The Cut has a good tick-tock of exactly how the hack and subsequent “reveals” played out.)

The entire charade will likely continue on for some time, if not indefinitely, and the exact operational logistics behind Lil Miquela’s account may never become clear. What is clear, however, is Miquela’s influence—and the fact that when it comes to confusing encounters with hyper-realistic CGI humans, she’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The Rise of the Brandfluencatars

Miquela isn’t just a flashy stunt: She has serious money-making potential. Already, the virtual influencer has partnered with Giphy and Prada and posed wearing Diesel and Moncler. In February, Miquela said she had never been paid to model a piece of fashion on her feed, but that could change at any moment. (Lil Miquela’s PR representatives did not respond to queries about whether she has posted any sponsored content since that statement.)

The demand from brands is certainly there. Just look at what happened to Shudu, a CGI “supermodel” created by fashion photographer Cameron-James Wilson. Her account went viral when Fenty Beauty reposted a “photo” of Shudu “wearing” the brand’s Mattemoiselle lipstick; since then, Wilson says, he’s gotten offers from a bounty of brands in the fashion and tech worlds, all hoping to work with the CGI model.

But virtual models and influencers like Lil Miquela and Shudu raise thorny questions. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission updated its endorsement guides to require influencers to disclose their marketing relationships and identify paid posts with a hashtag like #ad or #sponsored—but it’s not clear how those rules would apply to influencers who aren't human, and whose backers, like Lil Miquela’s, are shrouding themselves in mystery. “If this influencer doesn’t disclose that a post is paid for, who is the FTC going to go after?��� asks Adam Rivietz, cofounder and CSO of the influencer marketing company #paid.

Beyond that, Rivietz says, virtual influencers like Lil Miquela raise other concerns. After all, why should followers trust the opinion of someone who doesn’t exist? “Virtual influencers aren’t trying on a clothing brand," Rivietz points out. "They can’t tell you, ‘This shirt is softer than another and that’s one of the reasons you should buy it.’ They’re not real people, so they can’t give a totally authentic endorsement.” (Then again, according to Ryan Detert, CEO of the influencer marketplace Influential, those are the very traits that make virtual influencers so attractive to companies: “They’re much easier to control.”)

In the near future, Rivietz thinks, many companies may begin building their own digital influencers, simply because it’s a more efficient way of controlling the message that reaches their target audiences. Human influencers, too, might begin embracing CGI alter egos to protect their relationships with their existing sponsors. “They could make a duplicate version where it’s like, ‘This is my real-life feed where I post certain things, but then here’s my avatar of myself where maybe I work with different brands or do more risqué things,’” Rivietz says.

Wilson, the creator of Shudu, suspects that digital doppelgangers will extend beyond even the world of influencers, and sees Shudu in part as a way of acclimating a mainstream audience to the idea of digital humans. “I think it’s only natural that we will have avatars of ourselves eventually, or characters,” he says. “The reason I want to get people into it now is because that is going to explode.”

More Human Than Human

There are already a number of startups working on commercial applications for what they call “digital” or “virtual” humans. Some, like the New Zealand-based Soul Machines, are focusing on using these virtual humans for customer service applications; already, the company has partnered with the software company Autodesk, Daimler Financial Services, and National Westminster Bank to create hyper-lifelike digital assistants. Others, like 8i and Quantum Capture, are working on creating digital humans for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality applications.

And those startups’ technologies, though still in their early stages, make Lil Miquela and her cohort look positively low-res. “[Lil Miquela] is just scratching the surface of what these virtual humans can do and can be,” says Quantum Capture CEO and president Morgan Young. “It’s pre-rendered, computer-generated snapshots—images that look great, but that’s about as far as it’s going to go, as far as I can tell, with their tech. We’re concentrating on a high level of visual quality and also on making these characters come to life.”

Quantum Capture is focused on VR and AR, but the Toronto-based company is also aware that those might see relatively slow adoption—and so it’s currently leveraging its 3D-scanning and motion-capture technologies for real-world applications today. The startup is currently piloting one use case for a luxury hotel, where a “virtual human” concierge greets guests in the lobby via a touch screen or kiosk and helps them check in; guests can then access that same virtual human concierge from their rooms and ask for anything from restaurant recommendations to help adjusting the lighting or opening the curtains.

An example of Quantum Capture's interactive, photo-real humans, which are powered by chatbots and AI.

Quantum Capture

Down the line, Quantum Capture’s Young thinks that, just as it might become commonplace for Instagram influencers to have CGI alter egos, celebrities may start creating digital doubles. “There’s a really interesting revenue model built around that, wherein you might not get access to the talent themselves, but you might get access to their digital avatar, and the actual human being will make money off of the use of their avatar,” says Young.

If that latter sort of use case sounds familiar, it’s because it’s exactly the plot of the 2013 movie The Congress, in which Robin Wright, playing herself, agrees to sell off the film rights to her digital image. In that movie, things go predictably and dystopically wrong—and indeed, Young says he doesn’t see 3D-scanned celebrity doppelgangers taking off until questions around rights management can be firmly locked down.

But it’s not hard to see a dystopian tinge even in today’s rising ranks of virtual humans. Lil Miquela commands a following of 1.1 million followers—more than double the number she boasted in December—and though the influencer has used her power for good, encouraging her followers (known as “Miquelites”) to donate to Black Girls Code and be better allies to transgender people, it’s not hard to imagine another CGI account using its influence to spread hate or political discord. It’s easy to eye-roll at a headline about two feuding CGI celebs. But they won’t be the last—and their successors might not be so immediately easy to spot as fakes.

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IOS 10.3: Six new functions to attempt right away

Apple has simply launched the legitimate version of iOS 10.three for everyone, the final fundamental software program update for iPhones, iPads, and iPods before the large iOS eleven rolls out in June.

Do not assume apparent modifications on this version of iOS, but there are some subtle tweaks that can be worth the improve.

1. Apple Identity Profile

Click for your profile to access your iCloud, iTunes, App Store and Own family Sharing information in a single place and scroll down to see a list of all of the Apple gadgets linked to these debts.

You’ll nevertheless want to log in to the Find my iPhone app on your phone or internet browser to access all of them, but it’ll prevent from having to dig via the settings to get entry to every account.

2. ICloud storage breakdown

In case you pay for added storage on Apple’s iCloud, this subsequent one might be mainly useful. You can now see exactly how you are the use of your iCloud garage by clicking on the iCloud alternative in this new profile segment. Faucet the graph on the top of this segment to determine out exactly what the storage hogs are. This offers you a tool and software-precise breakdown detailing what number of gigs of the garage are being used by every.

If you haven’t activated the two-aspect authentication in your account (that you should), You’ll be aware a new “suggestion” section right beneath your profile in the essential settings page. Apple may additionally use this space to present you other suggestions to enhance your tool’s overall performance, however, for now, this is the best idea that seemed on my cell phone.

3. Weather in Maps

In case you’re a fan of Apple’s proprietary Maps app, you will now have a glimpse of the Climate wherever you go. The state-of-the-art update adds a tiny Climate worm to the lowest right-hand nook of the screen showing the present day Climate situations in that vicinity. For a seven-day breakdown of the Weather, just three-D Touch the Weather computer virus or maintain retaining to open the Climate app in a new display.

4. Discover my AirPods

Register on your Discover my iPhone app and you ought to now see the AirPods as one of the devices related to your account. Click on to see the remaining known place of the ‘Pods after they were paired with your phone or ping them to make them ring. just ensure you’re no longer sporting them In case you need to preserve your listening to intact.

Apple has not disclosed the reliable release date for iOS 10.three, which means that those functions are still a problem to change. And the final version of the update may additionally still turn out to be inclusive of the “theater mode” or another features Apple desires to debut earlier than WWDC in June.

5. App compatibility status

Chances are, you will be conserving on to 3 apps which have stopped receiving updates, which may be making your phone gradual and buggy.

IOS 10.3 makes it clear to identify the culprits right from the Settings menu. Click at the Approximately choice in your Widespread settings and watch for the information to load. When you have any non-well-suited apps lying around, you ought to see an arrow appear subsequent to the range next to Applications. Some other Click must then take you to the App Compatibility page listing the offenders.

A higher way to Save your files

One of an essential modifications in iOS 10.3 is one you can not truly see or attempt. Apple is taking the first step in switching all of its devices to a greater advanced record system referred to as the Apple report system (APFS).

Apple’s new file device replaces the prevailing Hierarchical file system (HFS+) and has more potent encryption, garage optimization among different upgrades.

What does this suggest for you? What You’ll notice proper away is an extended setup time and a small bump in garage space. however, over time, this will simply progress overall performance over time, efficient garage and an extra solid platform.

Reading for 1Z0-0.5: Oracle Database 11g: New capabilities for 9i OCPs

In case your latest Oracle DBA certification is for 9i, then it’s miles starting to get a bit dusty. There are still agencies jogging release 9i of Oracle for his or her database, but that variety is steadily shrinking. Whilst Oracle 12c is launched, that fashion will in all likelihood accelerate. Past that, taking new features tests maintains you privy to the modern competencies of the Oracle database. Even as Reading for the improve certifications I’ve often determined new additions which might be useful to me in the process. facts Technology specialists who do now not replace their capabilities as Generation modifications will quickly be left in the back of. That stated If you are reading this article then you are possibly planning to take the 1Z0-half examination. In it, I will attempt to provide some insight into the test to assist manual your examine plan.

All of the goals in order to be included in the 1Z0-0.5 examination are listed at the Oracle Education website. There is a full-size range of functions that have been added both in Oracle 10G or 11G that aren’t on that list. There could be no take a look at questions for these features. The subject lists from Oracle Education are constantly whole. The brand new features for 9i OCPs exam has 80-four questions that should be replied in two hours. The questions are split into seventeen problem areas. each topic will generally have one or two questions asked.

Most people of the test is on functions that have been introduced in 11G. There are more than one regions with 10G-precise upgrades — specifically Records Pump (which became a prime new characteristic of 10G) and a few Backup and Recuperation upgrades that were delivered with 10G. The automated garage Control situation location is mainly big due to the fact ASM turned into delivered in 10G and had massive improvements in 11G. Likewise, the Square Tuning location is huge at the exam due to sizeable changes in both releases.

Whilst you are Analyzing, Don’t get stuck up inside the wrong information. New capabilities exams will not be testing whether You can administer an Oracle database. The most effective candidates taking this exam should already be Oracle Licensed DBAs and so your capacity to administer the database is taken as a given. The styles of questions that you are probably to peer on the examination include:

Z0-050 may be testing your information of records instead of revel in-based totally questions. that is a need for upgrade exams given the nature of the fabric. analyzing the relevant portions of The new features documentation to be had with the Oracle 10G and Oracle 11G is one vicinity to begin Studying, however, will now not be enough to bypass the examination. In case you are the use of the manuals as your observe supply, you’ll additionally want to use the management manual, set up manual, the Backup and Recovery guide, and the ASM guide (among others) to Discover the information you need. before you schedule the check, you have to be familiar with All the objectives. Good fortune at the examination.

Matthew is an experienced DBA and developer. He holds Oracle DBA Certifications for releases 7, 8i, 9i, 10G and 11G; and Oracle Expert Certifications for Sq. and alertness Express; and is an Oracle PL/Sq. Developer Certified Companion. He’s the writer of numerous Oracle certification publications, which include one for 1Z0-1/2. His web site, www.Oraclecertificationprep.Com, is dedicated to imparting hyperlinks to assets for Oracle certification preparation.