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satoshi-mochida · 3 months ago

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Nine Sols coming to PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One, and Switch on November 26 - Gematsu

Red Candle Games will release side-scrolling action platformer Nine Sols for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch on November 26, the developer announced. It will also be available via Game Pass.

Nine Sols first launched for PC via Steam on May 29.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

From the creators of award-winning psychological horror games Detention and Devotion, comes Red Candle Games’ latest title Nine Sols. The studio aims to deliver a stylized action platformer that’s cohesive and complimentary with its lore-rich narrative. It’s an ongoing, most ambitious project from this indie studio up to date.

Story

New Kunlun, the Solarian’s last sanctuary, has remained quiet for centuries. Inside this vast realm, the ancient gods left mortals with a promised land that is forever protected by the sacred rituals, yet the truth of this world remains unknown to most. Everything changes when Yi, a long forgotten hero from the past, is awoken by a human child. Follow Yi on his vengeful quest against the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm, and obliterate any obstacles blocking your way in Sekiro-lite style combat. Explore in unique “Taopunk” setting that blends cyberpunk elements with Taoism and far eastern mythology. Unravel the mysteries of an ancient alien race and learn about the fate of mankind.

Key Features

2D Sekiro-lite Combat – Slash, deflect, and charge into enemies and blow them up with the Taoist talisman! Each fight combines fast, brutal action sequences with classic platforming mechanics.

Intriguing Boss Fights – Ready yourself to fight the vicious ancient guardians and gruesome creatures. Be patient and utilize every move in your arsenal, mix up with Yi’s godly bow to defeat these larger than life figures.

Taopunk Setting – When cyberpunk clashes with Taoism, melding sci-fi elements with eastern mythology / fantasy, the experimental genre of Taopunk was born.

Hand-drawn Environments / Animations and Manga – Nine Sols is filled with meticulous hand-crafted, anime-style landscapes, sprite based hand-drawn animations, blending with Japanese manga inspired cutscenes.

Exploration – Traverse in the interconnected regions of New Kunlun. Discover secrets, piece together the story behind Yi’s revenge.

Aids from Inhabitants – Meet interesting NPCs of this world and interact with them to receive upgrades, gain new abilities, and discover useful technology.

Watch a new trailer below.

Consoles Announce Trailer

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#Nine Sols #Red Candle Games #platformer #Gematsu

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thefiresontheheight · 1 year ago

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“Gentlemen, I get it. None of us are interested in settling these habitable worlds the probes send us images of for the sake of some noble love of humanity. Not when we have nearly two dozen settled objects in our system. I won’t sell you extrasolar human exploration on some high minded ideals. I will, however, sell it to you on money.”

-Martin Veck, to the board of Zemco, 2558 Aztlan City.

***

“First time right kid?” Reade asked.

She’d been called forward to medical (a glorified storage locker with a console for the auto doc to tell you how badly you were fucked) by Pemaris, the med tech, who was dosing them all on their hormones that day.

“Yeah,” Qurazon giggled, and it hurt how much Reade loved that sound, “first time in the lead up to cryo. I mean, the rest of the cocktail Pemmy’s doing all makes sense, the contraceptives and rad treatment, but this stuff will slow my heart. And we’ll be on it for ten days. And then we’ll be asleep. For years.”

“Don’t think about it, kid,” she said, cause she couldn’t say their name, couldn’t let herself feel that time and distance. “Thinking about the size of the black or the length of the journey’s a quick way to lose it. We’re all just objects in space.”

“Another shot,” Pemaris said, deftly jabbing the kid as Reade stood.

“Pem,” she said as she stood, not immune to the gravitational pull of nicknames, “why’d I get called away? I was going over the ship’s OS error logs.”

“You two get along,” the stocky Terran, kissing the kid on the cheek as she squeezed passed, and out the door. “Better than me. That’s the last of the first day doses administered. Cryo in nine days.”

Suddenly alone in the space, Reade could not look at the kid. She ran her hand along the edge of an inset light fixture. There was a name carved there. Two names, corroded by time and human skin contact beyond recognition. They were in a heart.

“Just objects in space.”

“What do you mean by that?” the kid asked because of course they did.

“Ships don’t ever get retired you know. Once you’ve built it why rebuild when you can repair? They aren’t cheap. So they just keep getting sent out. This one probably takes all the way back to the original colonial boom in the twenty-six hundreds when it would’ve been carrying tens of thousands of true believers. Unless the reactor blows or it collides with a planet or falls into a sun or something this ship may outlast everything humanity has ever built. And yet when the drive is off it acts just like every other object in space. Just drifting on predictable gravitational paths unless acted upon by an outside force. No retirement date. Just out here until it gets lost.”

She pulled her hand down, shoved the kid away as they tried to embrace her.

“I was just trying to help,” the kid was saying, as something wet and slimy moved across Reade’s face.

“I don’t need your help! Or Aliyah’s or Paiiduino’s or anyone’s!”

“We literally had sex five hours ago.”

She was in the doorway. She was walking away.

“Brief collision. Objects in space.”

Nine days. Then sleep for years, her heart beating once a week. Then drop off the cargo, sleep again. Then back to the Sol system. Rinse and repeat. Be a big girl. No retirement. Objects in space.

"...while these [corporate re-education] programs have shown evidence of marginal positive effects (Meredithe et al.) and continue to be employed (Kine-Veck), they ultimately run into the same limitations as A.I. on interstellar hauls infallibly loyal to those possessing their security codes. That is, once outside effective communication distance companies cannot rely on any positive reinforcement. For this reason, it has been suggested that re-education instead focus on loyalty to the rest of the crew, rather than loyalty to the company." - A Proposal for Use of Romantic/Sexual Re-education on Interstellar Haul Crews, Delivered to the Board of VeckQwenZemco on New Armstrong, Mars, 2998 CE. *** The divorce come down and turn around was brutal. One moment your brain and biochemistry and hormones, all carefully wired by the re-education modules, make you fully believe that you have long been in a deep, committed, passionate relationship with the six to eight other people on the haul. You look at them and even though you know you'll only spend a few weeks of subjective time with them, maybe a month or two on a longer job, only a brief window out of cryo and not lagged by relativity, even though you know what you gave the company your written consent to do, your brain still loves them. Then you pull into orbit over Eridiani, or Luna, or wherever, you probably bang one last time, say your tearful goodbyes, and spend the next few weeks crying like you just lost the love of your life as the chemicals wash out and the deprogramming modules hit. The moment is over. But time spent on a company station meant time wracking up debt for oxygen, water, food. So, still on the come down, Reade looked for a course, signed the wavers, gave her consent, grabbed the meager belongings that had gotten her through seven of these hauls, now dating from over forty years ago given the time lost to cryo and near-light travel. File down to concourse-E. Begin again. "Here for the haul?" the skinny low-g kid of her in the line said. "Um, VeckGreenQwenZemco 3043-28897?" Reade sized them up. New kid. First haul. She could smell it on them. In a few hours she'd probably love them and have her brain inventing all sorts of bullshit justifications for the neurochemical feelings the company would induce in her in order to improve team cohesion and morale trillions of miles away from anyone else. In a few hours she'd love them for their optimism, their smile, their cheery attitude and all the questions. But not yet. Right now, still awash in the last break up, Reade savored the simple joy of being a miserable bitch. "Kid," she said, with a malicious grin, "you're gonna love me in a bit. But you're still gonna remember this so I want you to get a good earful of it before the re-education. I'm fucking hate you and hate that I have to do this and if I could I'd throw you out a fucking airlock." She pulled her headphones on and cranked the volume. It hurt, in her chest, and the least she could do was make someone else hurt with her. That freedom, at least, she had for a few more minutes.

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thehierophage · 5 years ago

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Holy Day Meditation for April 9, 2020 æ.v., the Feast for the Second Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law

April 9, 2020 æ.v. Dies Jovis, Sol 20° Aries, Luna 10° Scorpio An Vvi æ.n.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

The Feast for the Second Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law, The Greater Feast of Saint Rabelais, The Greater Feast of Saint Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, The Day of Beth, The Day of the Magician

Hebrew Letter: Beth

Numerical Value as Letter: 2

Numerical Value as Word: 412 (Beth+Yod+Tav)

Meaning: House.

Thoth Card: The Magus (Atu I)

Alternate Title: The Magus of Power.

Image:

Correspondences:

Tree of Life Path Association: Key 12 - Binah to Kether (from Sephira 3-1)

Astrological Sign: Mercury

Element: -

Egyptian Godforms: Thoth, Seshat, Imhotep (deified) and Cynocephalus

Geomantic Figure: Octagram

Gemstones: Achates/Agate, Opal

Perfumes: Mastic, Mace, Storax, Nutmeg, Euphorbium, Karaya, and all fleeting odors

Plants: Nutmeg, Vervain, Ash, Herb Mercury, Palm, Arnica, Mullein, Cinquefoil

Animals:Dog, Mullet, Monkey, Jackal, Cynocephalus ape, Civet cat, Weasel, Bee, Hybrids, Fish

Colors:

King Scale – Yellow

Queen Scale – Purple

Prince Scale – Grey

Princess Scale – Indigo, rayed violet

The Secret Instruction of the Master:

The True Self is the meaning of the True Will: know Thyself through Thy Way! Calculate well the Formula of Thy Way! Create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate completely. Work thou, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, in and for Eternity.

Mnemonic:

The Word of Wisdom weaves the web of lies,

Weds irreducible Infinities.

Liber Arcanorum Verse:

1. The lightnings increased and the Lord Tahuti stood forth. The Voice came from the Silence. Then the One ran and returned.

Genius of the House of Mercury:

Beعθaoooabitom

Genius of the Prison of the Qliphoth:

Baratchial

Recommended Text for Meditation:

Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX, Cap. 2

The Book of the Law Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX

as delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI

1. Nu! the hiding of Hadit.

2. Come! all ye, and learn the secret that hath not yet been revealed. I, Hadit, am the complement of Nu, my bride. I am not extended, and Khabs is the name of my House.

3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.

4. Yet she shall be known & I never.

5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright.

6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is theknowledge of me the knowledge of death.

7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. "Come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper.

9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.

10. O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing.

11. I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger.

12. Because of me in Thee which thou knewest not.

13. for why? Because thou wast the knower, and me.

14. Now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men and eat them up with blindness!

15. For I am perfect, being Not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just I am eight, and one in eight: Which is vital, for I am none indeed. The Empress and the King are not of me; for there is a further secret.

16. I am The Empress & the Hierophant. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven.

17. Hear me, ye people of sighing!

The sorrows of pain and regret

Are left to the dead and the dying,

The folk that not know me as yet.

18. These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk.

19. Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us.

20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.

21. We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake.

22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.

23. I am alone: there is no God where I am.

24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.

25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen!

26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.

27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason.

28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin!

29. May Because be accursed for ever!

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought.

31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness.

32. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise.

33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!

34. But ye, o my people, rise up & awake!

35. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy & beauty!

36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.

37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride!

38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law.

39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet--secret, O Prophet!

40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods.

41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death!

42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!

43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight!

44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.

45. There is death for the dogs.

46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?

47. Where I am these are not.

48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler.

49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a babe in an egg. )

50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green.

51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight.

52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well, & I will reward you here and hereafter.

53. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou shalt not be sorry. Thou art emphatically my chosen; and blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness. But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up.

54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: They are not of me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value!

55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto.

56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you.

57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still.

58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar is a King. A King may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty.

59. Beware therefore! Love all, lest perchance is a King concealed! Say you so? Fool! If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him.

60. Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell with them, master!

61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable.

62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body.

63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell's own worm.

64. Oh! thou art overcome: we are upon thee; our delight is all over thee: hail! hail: prophet of Nu! prophet of Had! prophet of Ra-Hoor-Khu! Now rejoice! now come in our splendour & rapture! Come in our passionate peace, & write sweet words for the Kings.

65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One.

66. Write, & find ecstasy in writing! Work, & be our bed in working! Thrill with the joy of life & death! Ah! thy death shall be lovely: whososeeth it shall be glad. Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age long love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none.

67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses!

68. Harder! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep -- die!

69. Ah! Ah! What do I feel? Is the word exhausted?

70. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!

71. But exceed! exceed!

72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine -- and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous! -- death is the crown of all.

73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee.

74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings.

75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words:

76. 4 6 3 8 A B K 2 4 A L G M O R 3 Y X 24 89 R P S T O V A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chose none, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word.

77. O be thou proud and mighty among men!

78. Lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among Gods! Lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. They shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418.

79. The end of the hiding of Hadit; and blessing & worship to the prophet of the lovely Star!

Love is the law, love under will.

#Thelema #Magick #Tarot

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guardiansspacepilot-blog · 6 years ago

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The sole f80 Review

Hey, treadmill reviews calm. Today we are looking at the sole f80. This is one of our top picks for treadmills under $ 1500. So this machine is super easy to assemble, which is one of the reasons we like it.

One person can put it together very quickly with just a little bit of help from a second when putting on the console. It'S super sturdy and it has a very high weight capacity at 375 pounds. There'S a 3.5 CHP motor in this treadmill, the frame, deck and motor have a lifetime.

Warranty parts have five years and labor has two. It also has a larger running surface. Most machines we look at are about 20 inches by 60. This is a 22 by 60-inch running surface. It'S also super quiet, so it runs about 60 to 78 decibels. [ Music ] all right, so the sole f80 is a folding treadmill and for people who don't have a dedicated space for their treadmill.

This is great feature. It'S really easy to fold: it's really easy to move, so you can kind of store it away and move it out of the way. We'Ll show you how that works, but there's a bar right here on the back end, if you don't grab the bar you'll, probably pinch your fingers, so you just cannot grab the bar, which is every other machine.

It'S really easy. It'S right here and it lifts super easy. If there's a hydraulic in there that helps you, you just stick it up and you'll hear it. Click into place and it'll sit all day itself. So, even if you pull on this, it's not gon na fall down. There'S a latch right here, which you pull to release and I'll show you that in just a second, but I want to show you how you can move this machine really easily. There'S four wheels so two in the front, and then these two back here you can place your foot and pull it down and wiggle it around this way.

You can also slide it this way, so it moves really easy um if you're just pulling it. You know side to side and not doing like massive moving I'll show you an easy way to move it too. If you pull this lever and the machine will lower itself with the hydraulic, so it goes down nice and slow if you're, just gon na slide it back and forth like out of a closet or just out of the way, it's really really easy to move like This it's just it's super light, so you can move it all by yourself.

Okay, now we're going to take a look at the features that the sole f80 treadmill has they're a little underwhelming, but it has everything you need to get a good workout in right.

Here. We have two fans and they're kind of pointless, especially if you're tall you're, not gon na, feel it. You have to sound really close to the console, while you're running to get anything out of there, so you're gon na expect to need a different fan. Next to your treadmill, if you want to breathe while you're running, there's five storage, cubbies, so one two and then three four five down here on the bottom, so a lot of space to hold your water bottles. There'S also this tray right here.

If you want to set your phone or your tablet or your book down the little lips, so that'll hold that on there, for you there's a nine inch LCD, backlit display and then, as far as heart rate monitors go. They have the handles where you can hold and check your heart rate. It also comes with this polar heartrate. Chest strap monitor, so this thing's really great when you're exercising cuz tracking your heart rate.

This way is the most accurate way you can do it. However, with this one there's a little bit of a lag time when you're first starting to run, it takes a couple minutes to display an accurate reading, it's kind of all over the board for the first minute or two, while it adjusts to picking up the rhythm Of your heart rate for the incline and the decline, you have these buttons right here for just a quick adjust one three, five, seven it skips up, but you can do larger integers for changing your incline right here.

They also have a smaller integer change. With these up and down buttons on the handlebar, if you use the handlebars a lot, they can sometimes get in your way, so you just have to get used to not grabbing on to the handlebar right here.

The same goes for the speed, so you can go and in a whole miles per hour and then some for changing speeds right here and then you can in a tenth of a mile per hour, if you're, using these up and down arrows right here on the Handle but this name goes, as you know, the decline kind of in the way, but you just have to get used to it.

There'S an mp3 plug where you can plug your phone or mp3 player in here, and it will project the sound from your speakers. So there's two speakers: there's no volume control on the console, so you'll have to adjust it with your device. It'S a little a little strange and then we can't really figure out a good application for this headphones jack.

If you want to plug your music in here, you could project it through your headphones here. Maybe that's a better option for some people if their cord gets in the way, there's really no other application for it, but that's it for the features.

The sol-fa TM has a nine inch LCD backlit display screen. It shows you your incline and distance, and over here it shows you your speed and calories burned with your overall time. This is just a standard track and it shows your progress as you're running it laps around a track.

Any workout that you select will show you like your speed and your incline variation here on this graph.

Then it shows your heart rate right here and then your heart rate zone, so whatever percentage your heart rate is at the you know, based on your heart rate zones, is gon na. Tell you what kind of workout you're getting so right now I have the chest strap line and it starts out a little a little wonky but as you've been running for a minute or two it'll, really sync, with your heart rate and so it'll give you a Good accurate read it just takes a second to get there to access their programs.

They have all the buttons right here. So there's a manual and then five standard settings you just hit, you know like he'll and it has one workout for a hillclimb fat burn. Cardio strength, interval, they're all the same.

You hit the button and it's one workout. You don't have to go through a bunch options or pick which one which can be a downside if you're looking for more options versus like beginner intermediate advanced the upside to this.

It'S a great machine for somebody who wants to step on the treadmill, push a button and start running, there's just no fuss with it. These two programs are for individual users, where you can customize your workout based on.

You know certain certain stats about yourself and then you can also do a heartrate customized workouts, where you set a target heart rate, and then you do your exercise from there. There are also incline options right here where you can adjust your incline and then the speed right here where you can go up and down with your speed as well.

So this is basically, you know a classic treadmill. It'S not super tech, heavy, it's great for people who just want to you know, get on and start running other machines that are more of a tech. Heavy machine are geared towards those who are comfortable with a tablet, and if you're, not somebody who's comfortable with that, you'd probably feel a lot more comfortable on the sole f80.

All right. So now we're gon na. Take you through the sole f80 as it's actually going, so you can get a good feel for the sound any of the noise output output. We'Re gon na turn on some music through the speakers.

So you can hear how that works and also show you the incline and decline and the speed capabilities. This treadmill can go from 0 to 12 miles per hour.

The incline that goes from a zero to a 15 % incline, so we're gon na start with the fan. Actually, you can hear the noise from the fan to kind of see what it does again. It'S just kind of pointless, but we'll show you anyway, so it has one setting you just turn it on makes a little bit of noise.

You can kind of see the power, but not really so we'll just turn that off and then with the music. We have a phone plugged in so that we can project it and there's no volume control on the console. So that's something you have to do from your device. So there's a little taste of that.

I'M going to go ahead and turn it on to a three with the manual setting and push start. Okay, so it'll go up to a three and we'll take it all the way to the 15 percent incline [, Music ]. One thing that I don't love about. This machine is that the handlebars don't extend very far back, so I feel a little insecure walking on it because my feet easily hit this belt cover.

So I have to stand back which takes me away from the handlebars.

That'S something that you can get used to. If you're an excellent runner - and you don't plant your foot in front of yourself - then it's you probably don't have to worry about it, but it is a consideration. So this is at 15 % incline, and this is the max that it'll go and you can't hit a zero just to take it all the way back to a flat.

The lowest interval it has is a 1, and then you have to use the arrows to get all the way back to a zero.

Ok, so that's a 1 and you just bump it down again and you can get it to 0 and then I'll increase the speed and you can listen for the sound that it makes as you run, [ Music ]. So this is not seven miles per hour, so this machine also comes with a cushion flex suspension.

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The android bobbed his head in acknowledgement at Julian’s status report; it was fortunate the crash had only inflicted superficial injuries and not critical or fatal ones. However, the absence of despair, trepidation and apprehension was a profound indication that the evacuees had not been as fortunate. Data noticed the deceased pilot ⸺ that was, he could differentiate between the boy’s scorched head and the back of his burgundy red collar. He was capable of distinguishing six human forms among the debris in total, which meant that the rest had been separated from them to meet their inevitable fate: assimilation. Although every fibre of his being implored to track down the evacuees and attempt to bring them to safety, logic reminded him that it was already too late. The only thing they could do at present, was to contact the Enterprise and try to initiate the Borg ship's auto-destruct sequence, or an equally as destructive method to annihilate the cube and save Deep Space Nine...

He mirrored the Doctor and rose to his full height, recalling the coordinates Captain Picard had issued to obliterate the Borg ship that had attacked the Sol system several months earlier. Although Data was uncertain all Borg cubes were identical ⸺ which he suspected they were ⸺, they could try to locate these coordinates, fashion a makeshift bomb out of salvaged phasers, and detonate it in order to vanquish their adversaries.

‘I can assure you, they will not,’ Data replied stoically ⸺ the Doctor’s sarcasm completely eluded him. ‘Doctor, it is imperative we discover a way to contact the Enterprise in order to apprise them of our situation, and inform them that will attempt to destroy the Borg ship from here. We must gain access to one of their consoles to transmit an encrypted message on a low frequency carrier wave so the Borg cannot detect it.’

He respectfully stepped over the pilot’s corpse and tried to feed his command codes in the yacht’s heavily damaged communication console. Unfortunately, the screen was irresponsive, only a couple of keys were operational, but that would not suffice. Nor could he initiate a distress beacon to notify the Captain that someone had survived the crash.

‘I have some experience with the Borg,’ he continued, his attention shifting back to the other Starfleet officer. ‘I had access to their collective hive mind when I tried to sequester Captain Picard from them, and I, myself, have briefly been subjected to their assimilation process, albeit for a different reason; the Borg Queen wanted to make me human instead of Borg. She had hoped it would persuade me to join her, willingly. Her efforts were... futile. Furthermore, during our previous encounter with the Borg, Captain Picard provided us with coordinates that appeared to be a vulnerable spot, a design flaw, if you will, and our collective targeting of this region precipitated the obliteration of the ship. Therefore, I suggest we locate those coordinates, cause an explosion, and thus eradicate the Borg.’

Data followed Bashir’s gaze, there appeared to be no Borg within their immediate proximity, but it was advisable to maintain a heightened sense of vigilance regardless.

‘Julian, if we encounter a Borg drone do not engage the them, for they will only attack us when provoked. Besides, every single one of them is protected by a personal force field that will adapt to our phaser frequencies, leaving us virtually defenseless,’ he advised his friend. ‘A prudent course of action would be to find a console, hack into their ship’s system, ascertain where we are in relation to the coordinates, establish the quickest itinerary to our destination, preferably crawl spaces, and utilise these to reach the ship’s Achilles heel.’

Before the Doctor could properly complete his sentence, a series of unfortunate events rapidly proceeded one after the other, like a chain reaction, and there was nothing the Starfleet officers could do to isolate the malfunctions nor prevent the external forces from internally and externally disintegrating the Captain’s yacht. The android attempted to placate the passengers by distributing consolatory words and advice with regards to their impending obliteration. None of it was heeded, nor appreciated. And after having received several derogatory remarks, he discontinued his attempts altogether.

He accessed the vessel’s status report, but after one superficial scan, he concluded that a complete systems failure was imminent. However, he wondered, which would transpire first? The ship exploding, or the annihilation of the yacht’s internal systems? Apparently, the former.

The odour that permeated the atmosphere and infiltrated his olfactory sensors, the humid temperature ⸺ 39.1 degrees Celsius ⸺ that reached inside the severely fractured yacht, and the ominous droning sound his auditory sensors detected were all distinct indications that they had arrived at their final destination… However, despite his adequate observations, he was unable to confirm the visuals; his ocular sensors were momentarily offline.

When his auditory sensors perceived someone’s movements, Data’s head rotated mechanically to the right, curious as to whom could have survived the crash. When he recognised Julian’s voice he surmised that if his emotion chip had been activated, he would have felt a surge of great relief.

‘One moment. I am in the middle of rebooting my systems, which have temporarily shutdown in order to shield my positronic brain. Stand by, please,’ he informed the Doctor, twitching his head in multiple directions as he supplied his systems with the correct command codes. ‘Rebooting… Rebooting… Reboot complete. All systems are operational and functioning within acceptable parameters. ‘Are you physically sound as well, Doctor?’

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Championship• Sheffield United slipped to third after Bristol City came from behind to take victory at Bramall Lane, with Andreas Weimann scoring his first career hat-trick. Chris Wilder’s side twice took the lead through Billy Sharp and Scott Hogan before Weimann completed a fine comeback to dent the hosts’ automatic promotion hopes. Leeds United returned second with their own heroic fightback at Elland Road on what proved a good day for the pack of teams chasing a play-off berth. • Aston Villa earned a fifth successive league victory, with Tyrone Mings heading home the winner over Blackburn Rovers after Tammy Abraham’s 22nd goal of the season had set them on their way. Derby County enhanced their own credentials of landing a top-six spot after obliterating Rotherham on home soil. Martyn Waghorn ran in a hat-trick as Frank Lampard’s side hit the Millers for six. Derby’s east Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest also remain in the hunt after a recording a late comeback win at the City Ground, where Molla Wagué struck the winner three minutes from time. Preston, who drop to 10th, lost for the first time since January. Tammy Abraham celebrates his 22nd goal of the season. Photograph: Alan Walter/Action Images • At the bottom, Bolton Wanderers put their off-field troubles to one side as they gave themselves a survival lifeline at QPR. Will Buckley and Callum Connolly both scored before Nahki Wells netted a consolation. Ipswich moved a step closer to relegation after falling to defeat at home to Hull, while Wigan and Brentford played out a stalemate. Aston Villa 2-1 Blackburn, Derby 6-1 Rotherham, Ipswich 0-2 Hull, Leeds 3-2 Millwall, Middlesbrough 0-1 Norwich, Nottm Forest 2-1 Swansea, QPR 1-2 Bolton, Reading 2-1 Preston, Sheff Utd 2-3 Bristol City, Stoke 0-0 Sheff Wed, Wigan 0-0 Brentford League One• Luton Town extended their unbeaten run to 27 matches as they moved seven points clear at the summit with six games to play. James Collins’s 21st goal handed Luton the lead en route to a 2-1 victory at Bristol Rovers, who pulled a goal back through the in-form Jonson Clarke-Harris, who has scored nine goals in as many games since joining in January. Barnsley squandered the chance to open up some breathing space between them and third-placed Portsmouth and fourth-placed Sunderland – who meet in Sunday’s Checkatrade Trophy final – after failing to beat Coventry at Oakwell. Charlton remain fifth after Lyle Taylor struck his 15th goal of the campaign. • Doncaster returned to sixth after, in effect, getting the job done at home to lowly Walsall inside all of 360 seconds. Goals by John Marquis and Mallik Wilks earned Grant McCann’s side a two-goal cushion inside four minutes, before eventually running out 3-1 winners. At the bottom, AFC Wimbledon secured their fourth win in five games on the road as Wally Downes’s side picked up a priceless three points. James Hanson was at the double to haul Dons to within two points of Scunthorpe and they remain inside the relegation zone only on goal difference. Southend, who sacked Chris Powell in midweek, slipped to their fifth defeat in six matches. Accrington 0-1 Fleetwood, Barnsley 2-2 Coventry, Blackpool 2-2 Plymouth, Bristol Rovers 1-2 Luton, Charlton 1-0 Bradford, Doncaster 3-1 Walsall, Gillingham 1-1 Rochdale, Oxford 2-1 Wycombe, Scunthorpe 1-2 AFC Wimbledon, Southend 0-2 Shrewsbury League Two• Macclesfield held league leaders Lincoln to a draw at Sincil Bank but Sol Campbell’s side finished the day at the foot of the Football League. Notts County raced into a 3-0 half-time lead at Stevenage and preserved that advantage to jump off the bottom, while Yeovil slipped closer to the drop after Newport won 2-1 at Huish Park. Scott Wilson’s 11th goal of the season earned Macclesfield the lead before Neal Eardley equalised for Lincoln, who sit eight points clear of second-placed MK Dons. Bottom club Macclesfield gave top-of-the-table Lincoln a fright at Sincil Bank. Photograph: Chris Vaughan – CameraSport/CameraSport via Getty Images • Fifth-placed Tranmere kept pace after racking up a seventh straight league win, cruising to a 3-0 win over Carlisle. Swindon earned back-to-back wins to halt 10-man Bury’s 14-match winning run and edge closer to the play-offs, with Ryan Lowe’s side dropping to third. Mansfield thrashed Exeter 4-1, with Tyler Walker and CJ Hamilton both at the double. There were also big wins for relegation-threatened Port Vale and Morecambe, with Tom Pope netting his 100th goal for the former, his boyhood club. Bury 1-3 Swindon, Cambridge 0-1 Colchester, Crewe 1-3 Cheltenham, Exeter 1-4 Mansfield, Forest Green 1-2 MK Dons, Lincoln City 1-1 Macclesfield, Morecambe 1-0 Crawley, Northampton 1-2 Port Vale, Oldham 2-0 Grimsby, Stevenage 0-3 Notts County, Tranmere 3-0 Carlisle, Yeovil 1-3 Newport Source link The post Football League: Weimann stuns Sheffield United as Derby romp to win | Football appeared first on 10z Soccer. #LeagueOne #LeagueTwo

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i thought this was a good idea Chapter 2

You wait in the lobby, weapons equipped, for a good thirty minutes, but none of the newly resurrected god tiers think to leave the floors they're on. There's a caucophony of voices in the atrium, and a bit of shouting. "Should we go up and meet with our, y'know, families?" John asks. "Hearing all of those joyous reunions and happy meetings is kind of bumming me out." "That's a good idea," Jade says. "I'd love to meet my alpha self." "Aren't we supposed to be managing things and mediating conflict?" Dirk asks, eyebrow raised. "If there's any fighting," Jake says. "Don't you'll suppose we'll hear it? This building echoes like nothing I've ever seen before." "Fine," Karkat says. "Go, if you want to. I'm staying down here." You, Aradia, Terezi, Vriska, Jane, John, Rose, Roxy, Dave, Dirk, Jade, and Jake all forsake your responsibilites for meeting your ancestors, guardians, and alpha selves. Kanaya joins you a minute later, as Rose and Roxy cheerfully reunite with their guardians, leaving Karkat in the lobby by himself. You've almost made it to your floor when he himself forsakes his post, abandoning the lobby for his guardians. You make it to the sixteenth floor and hop over the railing closest to your door. It's closed, but the doors marked with 1 and 3 are open. 2 is closed as well, but you can hear movement from inside, so you knock on the door. There's a series of heavy footsteps, then it flies open. "Sollux!" Mituna yells. He yanks you inside of (presumably) his block, babbling excitedly about ancestors and dream bubbles. "So, yeah," he finishes. "I got my brains and my psionics back, and some bitchin' new god tier powers, and two ancestors, and a descendant. It's totally radical!" "Yeah," you say, wondering where, exactly, your ancestors are. "C'mon," he says. "I've gotta introduce you to Psii and Sol. They'll be so psyched to meet you." You follow him into his leisureblock, where two adults are standing awkwardly. The shorter of the two gives you a slight wave. "Guys, this is Sollux," Mituna says. "He's my descendant." "Hang on," the adult that waved to you says. "If you're my decsendant, and he's your descendant, then who's the Psiioniic's descendant?" "Technically," Mituna says. "He's the Psiioniic's descendant. But since Psii's technically me, I thought we could share him." "That's not how it works," Mituna's ancestor says. "If you shared him as your descendant with the Psiioniic, then he could share you as his descendant with me, because we're technically the same person." "Aw, fine," Mituna says. "He's Psii's descendant, not mine. There, happy?" "Yes," Mituna's ancestor says. "Now, Sollux, I'm Soleil, or the Techniic if you'd like to be fancy. I'm Mituna's ancestor and your pre-scratch self. It's nice to meet you." "Uh, it's nice to meet you too," you say. Manners most definitely aren't your strong suit. Soleil turns to your ancestor. "Now, would you like to introduce yourself?" "Sure," your ancestor lisps. "I'm both the Psiioniic and the Helmsman, but you're welcome to call me Psii." You nod, unsure of how to respond. "I'm Sollux, or twinArmageddons if you have Trollian." "Nice," Mituna says. "Now how's about we play some vidya games?" "Power's out," you say. "Sorry." "Oh, yeah," Mituna says. "That was dumb." "Or, we could just talk to each other," Soleil says. "That only works if we've got something to talk about," Mituna says. "Otherwise, it's just small talk, and small talk sucks ass."

You spend about an hour an a half getting to know your 'family'. Psii was an anti-Empire rebel before the rebellion failed and he was installed as the helmsman for the Battleship Condescension, where he served for the rest of his artifically elongated life. Soleil became the Empress' chief software technician and a computer science pioneer after inventing a revolutionary programming language. Mituna played the game just like you did, but spent three sweeps in his session, and sacrificed his brains and his psionics at the very end to protect his friends against the Black King. As you're finishing up the story of how you spent three sweeps wandering the afterlife with your moirail, there's an ominous rumble from deep inside the building, then the power comes back on. "Sweet," Mituna says, glancing at the lights. "Now we can finally play vidya games." Good things, of course, don’t last, so as Mituna works on staring up his console, the lights flicker, dim considerably, then go back out. “Fuck,” Mituna says. “I have a feeling that I need to go back downstairs,” you say. “If the power’s flickering like that, something’s probably going on.” “There’s a downstairs?” Soleil asks. “Um, yeah,” you say. “We’re on the sixteenth floor. Did no one think to look over the railing?” “Holy shit,” Mituna says. “We can’t be the only trolls here.” “We aren’t,” you say. “The latest head count is 78.” “How the hell do you know this?” Psii asks. “I woke up about four hours before everyone else did,” you say. “The people who were alive at the end of the game woke up another four hours before I did.” “Wait,” Mituna says. “There are twelve of us, and we have twelve ancestors. That makes forty-eight. Where’d the other thirty come from?” “Our session brought another universe into existence,” you explain. “There were sixteen humans that were involved, and their session brought ten separate sprites into existence through retcon shenanigans. A third session linked up with ours, which added four cherubs.” “Humans? Cherubs?” Soleil asks. “Aliens, basically. Cherubs are a lot like snakes, and humans look a lot like we do now,” you say. “We were reincarnated as half-human, half-troll, and maybe a miniscule part cherub.” “I was wondering about that,” Mituna says. “I mean, I thought we were entirely human, but it’s not that much of a difference.” "Any other important information you neglected to tell us?" Psii asks. "Yeah," you say. "But I don't think you want to hear it." "Why not?" Soleil asks. "Well, think about it this way," you say. "Alternia was a violent place, and a lot of the violence was perpetrated by adults and highbloods. Guess who are currently inhabiting the bottom floors? Adult highbloods." "Shit," Psii says. "Anyone high profile?" "Orphaner Dualscar, the Grand Highblood, Mindfang, the Dolorosa, and Her Imperious motherfucking Condescension," you say. "Thank fuck we're god tier." "God tier?" Soleil asks. "It's where you get a bunch of fancy powers and wings and shit," Mituna says. "Check it." He ceases rocking back and forth on his heels to grab an apple from the fruit bowl and shrivel it up using Doom powers. Psii looks at the remnants of an apple like it's the coolest thing he's ever seen, and Soleil looks disgusted. "The powers are cool, yes," you concede. "But the best part is the conditional immortality." "Conditional immortality?" Psii and Soleil ask at the same time. "Conditional immortality," you confirm. "We can only die permanently under two circumstances; Just or Heroic. Just means that you've done so much evil that you actually deserve to die. Heroic means that you sacrificed yourself to keep someone else from dying." "What happens if we're mortally wounded but it isn't Just or Heroic?" Psii asks. "We die, but only temporarily," you say. "It takes about thirty seconds for us to either die permanently or ressurect." "So Her Imperious Fishbitch can kill us as many times as she wants, but we won't stay dead?" Psii asks. "Exactly," you say. "And because we're on a completely different planet with very little Alternian technology, it will take her sweeps of effort to elsalve us as helmsmen." "Got it," Psii says. "What happens when we get to the ends of our natural lifespans?" "God tiers stop aging at about 9 sweeps," you say. Psii nods. "I wondered how old I was." "Wait," Mituna says. "They're nine sweeps, and they're adults. I'm almost nine, am I an adult too?" "Almost," Psii says. "Cool," Mituna says. "How old is Sollux?" "Seven and a half," you say. "Half of the players from my session are, and the other half are six, because that's when they died." Mituna switches from flailing his hands excitedly to tapping on the counter. Since you started talking, he's been moving almost constantly, tapping or flailing or figeting or rocking on his heels. You wonder where he gets so much energy. Soleil seems to notice, too. "Mituna- He's cut off by the door to Mituna's block slamming open. "Sollux!" Karkat yells. "What?" you yell back, surprise evident in your voice. "What happened?" A feminine scream wrenches its way through your mind, followed by wailing. You freeze, and the wailing gets less intense, but doesn't stop. Fuck. Karkat shakes you by the shoulder. "Feminine voice, definitely older, won't regenerate, all others will," you gasp. "Fuck," he says. "The Condesce is having a regular old murder party down there, and, shit, are you sure it was only one?" You barely hear him. The wailing is loud, even after the first few seconds. The soon-to-be deceased must be very old and very powerful, psychically. "Yeah," you gasp. "Just one. Very old, very powerful, psionic, maybe telepath." "Shit, fuck, are you- can you help us keep her from killing more?" Karkat asks, an air of desperation in his voice. "I'll help," Psii says, with all the force of a command. "I'll- me too," you say. - The three of you leave Mituna's block at a full on sprint. Karkat leaps over the railing, then Psii does, then you do, then a new voice joins the caucophony, and you stutter, and your foot catches the railing, and you fall. The new voice is much weaker, but still strong, and much more masculine. Instead of screaming or wailing, it's yelling and swearing at you. You know on principle that this one's going to stay dead too. You haven't stopped falling, you realize. You go to catch yourself, but before you can, you flop bonelessly into someone's arms. Fuck. Dirk flashsteps over to the side, drops you, then rejoins the battle. You stand up, equip your shuriken, and throw yourself in with him. The Condesce has millenia of practice and training on you, so even with about fourteen of you fighting her, she's holding her own. The bodies on the floor are beginning to revive, and she can't keep them dead, meaning that the noise in your head is getting quieter and quieter, and you're able to focus. You throw shuriken after shuriken after psionic blast at her, and she dodges, but she's clearly getting tired. Roxy, Dirk, Kanaya, Rose, and Dave all attack her at the same time, and she can't block all of them at once. It's Dirk's sword that gets through, and cleaves her head off her shoulders. Everyone stops. Her Imperious Condescension's corpse falls to the floor as her voice continues wailing in your head. Threre's a beat, and it stops. Everything goes silent, except for the masculine voice that's stil yelling. "She's gone," you say. "She's not going to revive." A breath of relief echoes throughout the room. There are a few cheers and some clapping. Everyone relaxes. Someone who looks like an oldr version of Dirk steps forward from the back of the room. Dave sees him, and siffens. "Hey, Bro," he says. "Dave," Bro says. The room's gone quiet upon recognizing his presence. You heard stories of how shitty Bro was to Dave in the bubbles, and you don't doubt that everyone else has as well. "Dave," he repeats. "That was fight was fucking awful. Did you even try?"

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2020 Acura NSX review: The softer side of supercars

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2020 Acura NSX review: The softer side of supercars

It’s a wide boi.

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Supercars are supposed to miss the forest for the trees. These ragged-edge cars focus so intently on high-speed performance and high-cost trimmings that they’re often tough to truly utilize on a daily basis, relegating them to weekend warriors at best. But not the 2020 Acura NSX. This Japanese scalpel is more than ready to rumble on a backroad, but it carries a softness that gives the car more than enough pliancy to make for a quality grocery-getter, albeit one that’s a bit over equipped for the task.

Ever-present hybrid power

Impressive in daily driving

Never stops being fun

Don’t Like

Mediocre infotainment

Persistent windshield reflections

No Individual mode

Before I even get behind the wheel of the 2020 Acura NSX, I’m hit with that familiar kind of supercar weird-for-the-sake-of-being-weird-ness. On approach, the thin door handles pop out to greet me, which is a fun parlor trick. Thankfully, the doors open in the normal direction, as the NSX has absolutely no problem turning heads without bringing atypical hinges and butterfly doors into the equation.

With interesting angles in every direction, from flying buttresses out back to the aggressive front bumper, the NSX is like most other supercars in that it’s damn near impossible to blend in anywhere. Even beyond the show-off styling, my tester’s $6,000 Valencia Red Pearl paint job isn’t about to let that happen.

First impressions come quickly after sliding past the NSX’s door. Despite the body’s relative position to terra firma, the seating position is a little higher than I expect, giving me a greater feeling of normalcy than I encounter in, say, a McLaren or a Lamborghini. Visibility is quite good in most directions, with loads of forward sight (thanks in part to way-thin A-pillars) and superb blind-spot coverage from the mirrors that sprout from the body like antennae. The view out back is fine, considering there’s an engine a few inches behind me. Be mindful of the sun’s position, though: Too many direct rays from ol’ Sol and the front windshield begins to resemble a cheese grater thanks to serious reflections of the massive speaker grille below. It can be really annoying, especially in spirited driving or slow-speed neighborhoods where children and squirrels are likely to be in the street.

Overall, the NSX’s interior quality feels worth the $150,000+ cost of admission. Soft leather covers most of the dashboard, door panels, center tunnel and steering wheel, and what isn’t made from the smooth stuff is bedecked in carbon fiber (a $2,500 option) and satin aluminum. The small bit of piano black trim on the transmission controls, which should be very familiar to most recent Honda or Acura owners, is the only part of the interior that feels a little low-rent, and only then it’s because of its propensity to accumulate finger grime. The cup holders are small and only attach to a slot on the center console, but you can tuck them into the diminutive glove compartment when not in use. Other storage comes by way of wallet-sized slots in the door panels, a key- (and mask-) sized slot in the center console and a small hinged cubby against the rear firewall that houses the USB port. It’s tight, like many supercars, but there’s still a decent amount of room for my 6-foot frame to get comfortable.

Most mid-engined supercars throw owners a storage bone by way of front and rear trunks. But not the NSX — electric motors and other hardware live under the hood, so the only cargo storage is located aft of the engine. Not only is the trunk small, its proximity to the twin-turbo V6 means whatever goes back there has to be heat-tolerant. Put your bags of ice in the passenger-side footwell.

All of those silly concerns melt away from the second I push the start button. Just behind my head, the 3.5-liter, twin-turbocharged V6 growls itself awake before quickly settling into a quieter idle, something neighbors are bound to appreciate. A push of the Drive button puts the nine-speed dual-clutch transmission to work, which provides just a smidgeon of slip as first gear engages.

In the default Sport mode, the NSX proves to me that it can absolutely function as a daily driver. Despite lacking air or McLaren’s complicated hydraulics, the NSX’s static suspension is surprisingly comfortable, soaking up a wide variety of bumps and humps without unsettling the car or its occupants. The chassis’ inherent stiffness remains obvious, but the ride is far smoother than I went in expecting.

Small issues with the cabin disappear completely once the speedometer starts to rise.

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Gear shifts are unobtrusive, and in low-rev situations, the V6 (which produces 500 horsepower and 406 pound-feet of torque on its own) is content to putter along quietly — if it’s even running at all. In Quiet mode, the NSX will use its small battery to operate like any other hybrid, silently hustling along under electric power alone — Sport offers electric-only operation, too, but in more limited quantities. The V6 cuts in and out with little, if any jostling in the cabin. It’s Prius smooth, in a good way.

Twist the mode knob to Sport Plus, and the NSX emits some sort of magic substance that causes me to forget about literally anything that isn’t the car or the road directly ahead of it. I feel the frenetic energy start to rise as the engine dramatically increases its volume at all times, even though it’s a little meh on the tonal front at lower revs. The V6 calls on the help of three electric motors — two up front, one out back — to generate a net 573 hp and 476 lb-ft. As you’d expect, the electric motors absolutely assault me with torque at a moment’s notice, and it’s really evident in tight corners, where the front axle helps pull me through as Continental SportContact performance tires grip the pavement. It’s easy to approach a corner with more speed than expected, but thankfully, it’s also easy to shuffle out the other side. Between those points, optional carbon-ceramic rotors ($10,600!) will scrub speed with both excellent modulation and impressive haste, over and over again. It’s impossible not to have fun in the 2020 NSX.

My only real gripe here is that I wish I could mix and match the modes. I get it, Acura put these modes together to make sure the car exemplifies whatever it’s after, but if I really wanted to daily drive this car, I’d want the engine constantly in Sport Plus with the suspension in Quiet. Why the hell can’t I have that?

You never really hear the NSX’s turbochargers spool up until you really glom on the throttle, then it’s all you’ll hear.

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One thing that Acura has in common with every other supercar manufacturer is its middling-at-best infotainment system. Ripped straight from, oh, every single Honda Civic on the dealership lot, the NSX’s 7-inch head unit packs suction-cupped-Garmin-era graphics, just-OK response time and limited functionality. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are on offer, which means it’s pretty easy to ignore the standard setup altogether. The motif changes from red to blue depending on vehicle mode, but I kind of wish Acura could have put its own unique spin on this — or at least upgraded the 2020 NSX to the most recent (and prettier) version found on the Odyssey and other large adult Hondas. The gauge cluster is entirely digital, too, and while it’s weird that it’s tilted away from my eyes, it provides me with all the data I could possibly ask for. It’s easy to mess around with, too, thanks to super-simple scrollers on the steering wheel.

As for safety systems, you get… parking sensors. And non-adaptive cruise control. Want anything else? Buy a TLX.

With a starting price of $159,495 after destination, the 2020 Acura NSX is almost competing with two separate classes of high-performance vehicle. On the one side, you have the hardcore non-supercars like the Porsche 911 Turbo, the Mercedes-AMG GT R or, if you don’t need a six-figure window sticker, the mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette, all of which are excellent cars, but all of which lack the “What was that?” emotional appeal of proper supercars. Speaking of which, the NSX is positioned against some big names here, too, like the Audi R8 and, if you want to drop another $30k, the McLaren 570S. Those cars are more along the lines of the NSX, but they’re also a fair bit sharper than the Acura, too.

When a car is engineered with performance at the top of the masthead, comfort has to be put back into it. Sometimes it requires complex components, other times it just doesn’t happen very well. But the 2020 Acura NSX does an excellent job blending daily usability and performance in a way that other supercars don’t. Does it leave a little bit of skidpad rating on the table? Sure. But I’ll be damned if you can find a more entertaining way to commute in comfort.

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satoshi-mochida · 11 months ago

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Some games that are currently stuck on older consoles that I hope get rereleased in some way, Part 6:

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7

Rule of Rose

Comic Party(preferably based on the Dreamcast version that has a new character's Route)

Fate/Unlimited Codes(for those who don't already know, we actually DID get this localized on the PSP, though only digitally, and the license has long since lapsed.)