#through specific commands that are stored within the boosters

[arolesbianism]

I've been playing oni all day again and I'm rotating various dupe hcs in my mind... Might take a stab at designing some random dupes later to fuck around and wait nvm it's past midnight god damnit

[onlyfoils]

The Magic: The Gathering community is abuzz with anticipation for the upcoming release of the Marvel Secret Lair drops, scheduled to arrive in 2025. These highly anticipated products will feature a series of mechanically unique legendary Marvel heroes, each accompanied by a collection of reskins and/or reprints that align with the hero's theme.

Each Secret Lair drop seems to almost serve as a blueprint for Commander players looking to build a deck around each specific Marvel hero. The mechanically unique commanders offer powerful and thematic abilities that capture the essence of their iconic counterparts. Captain America, for example, is designed around throwing equipment at opponents, a nod to his signature shield-throwing ability. Iron Man can create treasure tokens, a reference to his vast wealth, and use these tokens to tutor up powerful artifacts, mirroring his technological prowess. Black Panther has the ability to store and move +1/+1 counters, a nod to his suit's energy storage capabilities. Storm can tap into the MTG mechanic of the same name, a historically powerful ability that has been used as a benchmark for card strength. Finally, Wolverine's cards feature powerful attacks that grow stronger with each combat, as well as including his regenerative ability.

One of the most intriguing aspects of these Secret Lair drops is the question of how WotC will address the community's concerns regarding mechanically unique cards. Following the backlash over The Walking Dead Secret Lair, WotC promised to always include "Universes Within" versions of these cards, which would be available through The List. However, with the recent removal of The List from booster packs, it remains unclear how WotC will fulfill this promise.

The price of these Secret Lair drops is going to be higher than usual, no doubt due to the expected high demand and the unique nature of the products. Previous crossovers, such as the Assassin's Creed Secret Lair, have sold out within hours, indicating that these Marvel-themed drops are likely to be highly sought after, and will similarly sell out quickly.

Whether you're a dedicated Magic player or a Marvel fan, the upcoming Secret Lair drops are sure to be a must-have. With their powerful commanders and thematic reprints, these products offer a unique opportunity to build decks inspired by your favorite Marvel heroes.

Are you excited for the Marvel Secret Lair drops? Which hero are you most looking forward to playing? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

[kioraismyplaneswalker]

Sorry in advance for the essay. I didn't expect to write an essay either.

Anecdotally (as someone who has worked in a game store for over 8 years but just the one store), yes and no. Magic sales are… hard to describe without pulling up actual sales data, but here's a vibe check I guess

In ye olden times (we'll go with 2015 because that's when I started), each standard set release was bonkers. The shop would open 100 booster boxes for singles and offered 100 booster boxes for pre-order most sets and they tended to sell - barring Battle for Zendikar which was so popular the shop had to open fewer boxes to keep with demand, most sets sold about 60% of the pre-ordered boxes prior to launch.

Special sets (Battlebond, Masters, annual commander decks, etc) were also really popular, in part because it was 1 set a year that really spiced things up and there wasn't any other way to get super spicy reprints.

Then we got the first iteration of the early sales promotion. Prerelease wasn't just for playing prerelease (at midnight of course) anymore, stores got an allocation of booster boxes to sell that weekend and after 3pm local time you could straight up buy a box!! It blew people's minds. Add in that that also heralded the ability to run prerelease before midnight, and it was a huge cultural shift that I loved because it meant no more 11pm to 7 tournament shifts for me

This resulted in increase magic sales, at least in my store. And that was before we became Premium (a program which came after this shift I think but before my next paragraph. all you need to know is some stores are special and get extra things/pilot programs that specifically might boost their sales over another)

The real shift came in 2020. Between The Year of Commander and the pandemic, Hasbro went wild. Suddenly special sets and masters sets weren't occasional things, alternating years. We were getting at least one of each in the same year - within a month of each other even due to shipping delays pushing Jumpstart out to late July with the first Double Masters right after it.

That's also when things got confusing for customers, because not only were there more sets releasing that year, and more commander decks (we'll come back to that) but the Set Booster came out with Zendikar Rising, just a year after Collector Boosters had come out. And a lot of people weren't playing paper magic at that stage of the pandemic, so when they did start going to shops again they had no idea what each pack was

(it is something I still have to explain on the regular. I'm honestly excited for Play boosters coming out next year just so I don't have to walk people through the "set or draft" conversation ten times a day anymore)

Releases have only accelerated since then, but what about sales? That was your original question (more or less) - does the scattershot approach to magic make wizards more money? (Not taking into account secret lairs but I can only imagine that's a money printing machine for them)

The short answer is yes. As a premium store, we send our sales data to wizards monthly. Every premium store (and premium applicant) sends wizards sales data for all wotc-made products (sealed magic products, d&d books, etc, but not sleeves or deckboxes since those are made by other companies) and they send surveys to all wpn stores after every release on top of that so they know what the movement of each set is actually like on the ground level.

And yeah, more magic is selling than ever, although box sales are less popular after the price hike last year and bundles are very popular but under produced (they're a single print run product and for popular sets distributors sell out at release, which means there's no restock potential), booster packs sell constantly and overall tend to make shops more money.

But stores also have to buy more - while set boosters are by and large more popular than draft boosters (due to higher chance at extra rares) and collector's packs (because of the price point), we need draft packs to run drafts still and don't know how many customers are going to want to draft their box. Add in the expensive masters sets (do we go deep because it's hot? But the week before launch - a month after our preorders are locked in - spoilers are done and the fanbase rallies against it because actually the value is terrible and oops now the shop has $20k in dead inventory) and it's a lot. It's risky.

Plus not every product is for every player. The collectors love Masters sets and collector boosters, the guy who can't afford any booster box at all thinks they're awful and overpriced but loves set booster packs because they still get some of the fanciness and extra rares without the mark up.

It's a double edged sword, because a lot of players think they should be (and they always have, to be clear. I had a lot of experienced players complaining about how bad planeswalker decks were and, yes, for them they were, but they were intended for new players who just wanted to try out a deck and they were perfect for that purpose)

So it's very easy for stores to overstock the wrong product (I'm looking at you, Midnight Hunt)

So yes, for wotc it's more profitable. And for shops, if we get lucky and don't back the wrong product, it can be vastly more profitable for shops. The shop I work at makes more money on magic than ever, but we also have more inventory on hand than ever, which isn't sustainable on its own since we have finite storage space (but that's what black friday is for I suppose)

Oh right, and I said I'd circle back to Commander decks. They're great, everyone loves them etc etc. Having more than one release per year has been awesome - Commander is only getting more popular and that annual release schedule they kept up through 2019 wasn't cutting it. But also having 2-5 decks come out with every set plus the special releases (universes beyond) is a lot to fit on the shelf and a lot for deck collectors to buy. There's definitely some fatigue there, but that's mostly turned into folks who used to preorder the full set of 5 for a given year buying 1-2 per set (aka still more decks than they used to buy but spaced out over the year giving them less wallet fatigue and not being sad that of the set of 5 one was bad because they don't buy that one now), leaving us with plenty to sell without going overboard. Overall we sell more than we used to but if they cut it down I'd appreciate it.

Tl;dr - anecdotally from the shop I work at, yes more product = more money and most of the people complaining about too many releases spend the same amount throughout the year they used to (or more).

I wonder if Magic The Gathering would paradoxically make more money if they had fewer set releases.

I wonder this because of the "this is too much too frequently, nuts to this" factor.

(Along with a lot more specific considerations, but I tried listing them individually, and stopped when I realized I could keep going for what felt like indefinitely.)

[entergamingxp]

Crucible Hands-On Preview — Amazon Enters the Hero Shooter Warzone

May 19, 2020 9:00 AM EST

Crucible, Relentless Studios’ first title, releases tomorrow and I got a hands-on look at the game a bit early.

A new competitor joins free-to-play competitive shooter landscape this week with Relentless Studio’s Crucible. Last week, I got the chance to try out the game with members of the development team and other members of the media. Walking away from the event, I was left with cautious optimism for the new hero-shooter, but with a feeling that Crucible is going to have a steep climb ahead of it to make it.

Crucible is the latest F2P hero shooter where teams composed of unique “Hunters,” each with special abilities and weapons, compete against one another in three different game types at launch. Relentless opted out of the “holy trinity” character roles that many games have, so don’t expect to see characters broken up into damage dealers, healers, and tanks. However, hunters will have skills that make them more conducive to those sorts of playstyles.

Each hunter has unique abilities and attacks that make each feel impressively different from the others. Before each match, players will pick from a handful of different possible skills that can be unlocked as they level up, lending to different builds that people can try for. Your character and skill tree are locked in before the game begins and before you know of who you will be facing off against since you aren’t able to swap characters during matches. This can make it tough to plan for the best build for your team, unless you are playing with friends.

During the demo, I became especially fond of the melee-focused Drakoul, who could yank foes him with a hook and bash them with his massive ax, while using the boosters on his back to dash away when things got too hairy. It was a new playstyle to have featured in a third-person shooter, though I admit, there were some foes I had especially tricky times dealing with.

Crucible’s gameplay feels very much like a melding of a MOBA and the reliance of having players increase their level to unlock new abilities by farming random mobs on the map while also combining a hero shooter’s more fast-paced gameplay. Wild inhabitants and fauna, native to the planet Crucible, are found around the arena lending themselves as natural sources of Essence, Crucible’s form of experience points. Hunting these monsters down reminded me of a lot of jungling in the MOBAs of my past. Accumulating Essence is an integral part of the game, as making sure your hunter is adequately leveled up, with as many of their skills unlocked as you can, will be a big part of whether or not you will live through a battle.

Players will be able to do battle in three modes at launch. Before you ready up for a match, you will pick you a hunter and how your skill tree will develop. Once the matches begin, you will be presented with a map of Crucible, where you choose the point you will be dropping at. Some modes have you selecting your drop point, and others you have a drop-leader that will pick a spot for your entire team.

  The first mode is Heart of the Hive that pits two teams of four in a struggle to capture the hearts of giant hives that spawn throughout the map. The first to capture three hearts then wins. Some of my favorite moments from the event were the tense battles between the teams over the hearts, feeling far more like a tense match during a MOBA than in any of the other hero shooters. Each death of a teammate or enemy would put that team down a hunter for nearly 30 seconds, meaning you had to plan out when to use your skills to use them to maximum effect.

The second mode is Harvester Command, where two teams of eight fight over control of five harvester points that are on the map, which slowly tick up each team’s counter. Whoever fills the bar first, with kills and holding harvesters, will win the match. It’s a fairly straightforward affair, and the one I think I had the least fun with. The map was just a bit too big, and the respawn times were a bit too long for this style of gameplay mode. I felt like more of my time was spent trying to get somewhere or find people to fight, than I did actually in combat. It wasn’t bad, and I still had a good time with it, it just didn’t do as much for me.

The last is called Alpha Hunters and this mode has the most unique gameplay mechanic of Crucible that I don’t recall seeing anywhere else. This mode is a small scale battle royal, pitting eight teams of two against one another. When a player is killed, they are out; there are no respawns and no way to call back in your partner. Relentless came up with a genius idea to help out the leftover teammates after their partner dies. When a player who has lost their partner finds another player in a similar situation, they can request a temporary alliance with them, creating a brand new team of two. When there are only three players left, any of these alliances are dissolved, and it becomes a free-for-all. These alliances can also be broken at any time or denied altogether. This new approach brings an all-new take that I would love to see expanded on going forward—perhaps including it in a future free-for-all game type where you could partner with anyone if you so chose. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all.

Speaking with Relentless, it became clear that one of the central focuses they had while developing Crucible was to create a competitive title that would make for a pleasant viewing experience on Twitch. A particular example of this that the developers drew attention to was how projectiles are handled. Each bullet and projectile has been given an appearance to make it appear visible during gameplay, letting viewers and players get a better idea of where they are being fired at.

The pacing of the game modes themselves, from how the gameplay flows to the number of characters each mode includes, has been designed around this Twitch-viewer experience mentality. Crucible always weighs this balance between fun for the player and fun for the audience. With such a focus, I asked the team if Crucible would be launching within Twitch integration. They explained that they have some fresh ideas for these but that they would be coming after launch. Nothing is yet set in stone, but some of the ideas they had on this front include allowing the audience to help choose the events that would happen around the map. Events are randomly assigned from a pool, traditionally.

When it comes to monetization, Crucible will include the seasonal battle pass model that has become popular in recent years. The paid version of the battle pass will cost you about $9.50 per season and can be bought using credits, Crucible’s currency, with a free version being offered as well. The free version will net you considerably fewer rewards but for no cost to you. Alongside the pass, players can spend their credits on specific cosmetic items, no loot boxes in sight, with the only stipulation being that the store’s stock will change with different things being featured each day. Relentless has also promised that all new hunters and game modes will be free for all players, no buy-in necessary.

Crucible is releasing missing a few features that I believe will hamper it, especially in the competitive scene, making it almost feel more like an early access release than a full release. The most significant omission is the lack of a Ranked or Casual mode for its game types. In-game voice chat or spectate modes are also missing in this retail release, so players will have to rely on outside programs to communicate vocally with their teammates. For a game with such a competitive and viewer-focused design mentality, the fact that these borderline mandatory features of the genre are to be MIA at launch is puzzling, particularly when you consider just how crowded the field has become.

There were other odds-and-ends that I encountered during my play session that will hopefully be addressed in future updates. One oddity was had to do with the practice mode. While this does give players different areas to test out the various Hunters, if you want to try out a different character, you will need to exit out of the practice mode entirely, change your character, and start up the practice again. A more obtrusive issue was how it appears Crucible currently handles a player’s disconnect when a match is found. A few times during the demo, after players encountered problems with matchmaking, it would kick all players currently matched back to the main menu, having to re-queue up for a match. I hope that this issue will be fixed sooner rather than later, as I could see this becoming a problem and used as an implement by trolls.

Crucible has its work cut out for it if it hopes to excite the competitive Twitch community. The game does have a lot going for it that will help it in this fight, being a fun experience that offers an exciting mix of elements from the MOBA and hero-shooter genres. Since it is a free to play title, it’s an easy sell to your friends to give a try, so long as they have a PC. Encounters in matches are fast-paced and can offer moments of tense excitement and rewards mastery of a hunters skills and playstyles, which will encourage diving into the various hunters. When it comes to the Hunters, the different feel of each means there is a good chance that you will find one that will fit your style.

That being said, Crucible finds itself hamstrung somewhat out of the gate. Without the label of “Early Access” attached, the lacking of ranked matchmaking will be a huge red mark on a title that wants to get into the competitive landscape. It will be challenging to build a competitive community when there isn’t yet a competitive ladder to entice people to refine their tactics or master characters. In terms of content, Crucible is on the leaner side of offerings, launching with only three game modes and ten hunters, another area that could have been made less of an issue had this been an Early Access release instead of the official launch. In comparison, competitors in beta are offering the same number of characters, and Blizzard’s monolithic hero-shooter launched with more than double the choices of characters and more game modes. We know that more modes and hunters are being worked on, so hopefully, these additional offerings will arrive soon after launch.

  My time hunting down enemies and capturing Hive Hearts was memorable, and I look forward to jumping in tomorrow for more matches. I miss my boy, Drakoul, and I’m looking forward to getting better with him while trying out other hunters too.

Crucible launches tomorrow, May 20, 2020, exclusively on PC. You can try it out yourself over on Steam.

May 19, 2020 9:00 AM EST

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[nervouswreck-96]

Supernova - Chapter 1

Not really much I can say here, other than…welcome to Supernova!

What you’re reading is the result of over a year’s worth of throwing ideas at the wall, seeing what works and what doesn’t, and trying to fit it into a meaningful Sonic story. I’ve been teasing this for about a month, so I hope this first chapter is worth it for you.

PART 1 - SIEGE

From the bridge of the ESS-1, Dr. Eggman had a view of the world.

It was staring him in the face, coming to him through a live camera feed from a satellite orbiting the earth, now flickering and waving on a color monitor built into his console. Fondling his chin in contemplation, he couldn’t help but lose himself in the imposing presence of the planet, as blue as the most brilliant sapphire, as smooth as a pearl from the ocean floor, yet as rough as the fibers on his own moustache. And now it was so close he could almost reach out and touch it.

“Master…”

An Egg Flapper, one of the many robotic assistants aboard the ship, took on the dangerous task of approaching its master with a message while his attention was focused elsewhere. It received no response from the doctor, not even a grunt of acknowledgement.

“Look at it. It’ll all be mine. All of it,” said Dr. Eggman.

The vaguely jetpack-shaped robot pressed on. “Master…”

“All of this. All mine. All of it…”

One more time, this time with maximum loudness factor.

“Master!”

This time, of all times, Eggman noticed. As did Flapper, who was knocked backward when his master threw his arms into the air in shock.

“WHAT…do YOU…WANT?” he said, as soon as he regained enough of his equilibrium to talk.

“The Master Emerald has been fully harnessed, sir,” said Flapper.

Oh, yeah…that.

Without a second thought, Dr. Eggman engaged a series of levers and buttons on the command console in a specific order. In one grand crescendo, a symphony of lights and monitors switched on across the bridge, each one providing its own distinctive noise upon start-up. The doctor then pulled a public-address microphone out of the console unit and held the activation button firmly against his palm, ensuring his message would be transferred to every corner of the ship.

“Attention all units, all classes!” said Dr. Eggman. “Clear the deck and prepare for launch! T minus thirty seconds!”

A countdown began on every screen on the wall of monitors in the bridge. 30 seconds.

With the pull of a lever, a series of rocket boosters along the undercarriage of the ship blasted untold amounts of green Chaos Energy towards the ground – just enough to warm up the volatile motors, but not enough to actually achieve lift just yet.

20 seconds.

Dr. Eggman pulled a specially designed four-point harness over his head and fastened himself into his massive captain’s chair. He would be the only one restrained, as he had placed enough faith in his ultra-resistant armor to protect his robots against the wild gyrations and inevitable collisions caused by take-off. There was no need to go through a long and complicated checklist before launch; the ship’s sophisticated automation system took care of that for him. It was just as well, since the list of things that needed to be checked would have been almost as long as the body of the ship itself.

10 seconds.

This was the moment. With one button push, the restraining bolts clamping the ship down would be released, and the Chaos Energy motors would release one final blast of energy, enough for ESS-1 to punch a hole in the overcast night.

Emphasis on would.

Dr. Eggman’s nerves contracted with each tick of the clock. Five seconds. Four. Three.

There was no two.

There was only a senses-shattering jolt below the floor of the bridge, as if the earth itself exploded under Dr. Eggman’s feet. Before his mind could even process what happened, he had been shaken completely out of the captain’s chair.

Staggering to his knees, he managed to take a brief glimpse back at the tattered remains of his “specially-designed” four-point harness and mentally added the Thompson Seatbelt Manufacturing Company to his ever-growing enemies list. He then scanned the rest of the bridge for any signs of structural damage...all the while wondering why all the lights had suddenly turned red.

The soothing, yet frantic monotone of the female voice synthesizer module would reveal all.

“INTRUDER ALERT. LAUNCH ABORTED. COMMENCING EXTERNAL LOCKDOWN.”

Those words were enough to pull Dr. Eggman off of his feet and toward the captain’s seat. His first act was to pull up a map of the ESS-1 onto the screen directly in front of him. The map was impressive in scope, almost too detailed to fit on one screen, showing a perfectly-scaled-down layout of the ship from deck to deck.

Impressive as the map was, Dr. Eggman was pretty sure that the blinking red dot on Deck 5 wasn’t originally there when he drew it.

With each refresh of the screen – once every second or so – the red dot had advanced just a little bit further toward the very core of the ship. Even after the lockdown, the voice synthesizer’s warnings grew faster, louder, and more frequent.

“INTRUDER ALERT. INTRUDER ALERT. INTRUDER ALERT.”

The doctor gulped at took place on his screen, hoping it would blow over. He wasn’t so lucky. Soon, another red dot appeared on the map, following a similar path to the first one. Moments later, a third dot appeared, this one ascending from the supposed entry point on Deck 5 to Deck 6.

Eggman pulled up live security camera feeds from the decks onto each of the monitors on his command console. Each screen carried a different camera; each camera captured a different angle and position; each position was far away from the other, leaving the entire ship covered.

Within seconds, out of the corner of his eye, Eggman noticed a break in the still, unmoving picture on camera one. A tiny blip, no larger than a few measly pixels across, had emerged on the screen for a split-second, only to disappear just as quickly.

A tiny, blue blip.

It…it can’t be…

“Computer! Rewind camera one!” said Eggman.

The footage from the first camera was rewound to a few seconds earlier, at such a speed that no blue blip was visible at all during the process.

“Zoom in and enhance!”

Moments later, the blue streak reappeared on a video screen to Eggman’s right, appearing and disappearing before his brain could even give the signal to his eyes to move in that direction.

“Master?” asked Flapper. As usual, Dr. Eggman ignored him completely, choosing to focus on the security footage.

“I SAID ZOOM!” repeated the doctor, pounding the control panel.

It would all become a moot point. Camera five – which occupied the largest screen on Eggman’s wall of monitors – would reveal the answer.

A figure…that’s all that could be made of it…had poked its head in from the right side of the picture. The security cameras were specially built by Eggman himself to ensure quality capture of the most detail and color, neither of which he was seeing on the screen. The mysterious form was so close to the lens that the camera’s auto-focus had difficulty coping with its subject. Eggman seethed as the picture seemed to come into focus, only to reverse itself time and time again.

“Grrrrrrr…FOOOCUUUUUSSS!!!” he said.

Eventually, through the hazy patchwork of pixels, a clear face finally began to emerge. A familiar face.

A mocking face.

“I…is he…?” said Eggman.

The figure on-screen was sticking his tongue out at the camera. Or more accurately, at the camera’s owner.

Soon after, Dr. Eggman watched as a white glove, possibly belonging to the intruder himself, reached over the very same unit that was broadcasting the images. Suddenly, the angle tilted sharply toward the ground, as if the camera was being pulled off its hinges. It was the last image camera five would ever transmit.

The unit did, however, survive just long enough to finally give Dr. Eggman a clear image of his tormentor. Flapper could practically feel the heat radiating off its master’s face as he made the match.

Of all times…that accursed hedgehog…

“Arm all missiles,” said Eggman, through clenched teeth.

It was a race against time. Not that Sonic the Hedgehog was fazed in the slightest bit. As far as he was concerned, he had this race in the bag.

A series of constantly-changing blurred lines formed his entire world. His movements followed an almost computer-like synchronicity as he flicked each leg in tune with the other, letting his arms drift behind him like the wings of a jet. His feet didn’t contact the ground so much as they skipped, bounced, lightly brushed against it, almost as if they never touched the floor at all. The only sounds were the syncopated pounding of his own feet and the rush of wind that formed a futile act of resistance against his legendary speed.

And the occasional roar of a heat-seeking missile, like the one passing by on Sonic’s right.

Of all the places on this entire barge he could’ve smashed through to get inside, it had to be the one where Dr. Eggman was storing ammunition. He couldn’t decide if he had the worst luck in the world…or the best.

As the missile ran parallel with Sonic, he didn’t shy away from the oncoming threat to his own life. He drifted toward the danger, feeling the adrenaline rush scythe through his veins, embracing the chance that every second could bring him closer to his own destruction.

The flash of a green light on the very front of the projectile indicated that its target was well in sight and the attack was ready. Even with milliseconds to spare, Sonic never diverted from his chosen path. He turned his head toward the right, gazing straight into the weapon of his attempted murder, flashing a friendly wink toward it as he would a passerby on the sidewalk.

Perhaps that gesture alone was what triggered the red light, the signal to finish the attack. Sonic watched closely as one massive blast of rocket fuel directed the explosive weapon straight for him.

Oh, think you’re so tough, eh? thought Sonic.

Even though it ventured so close to the hedgehog that he could clearly make out the serial number on the solid propellant rocket motor, he firmly stayed his course, holding back on altering his speed or direction to evade the missile’s path. After all, it just wouldn’t be fair to the missile, would it?

With absolutely no time to spare before becoming charred remains, the hedgehog revved up for a burst of extra speed. If all went right, there would be two booms sounding at roughly the exact same moment.

Bet you can’t keep up with this!

Finally, the heat-seeker struck the ground at its maximum velocity, deploying its explosive payload on the exact spot where Sonic…

…used to be.

Sonic was long gone, untouched. A sonic boom and a cauldron of flaming steel were all he left in his wake.

“Ha!” said the triumphant speedster. “Too easy!”

No sooner had he shaken off that first brush with death than he saw a bright, orange trail of light strike the ground directly in his path, ricocheting off the floor. Whatever it was, it created a harsh metallic ping that resonated off every surface. Sonic stepped off to the right, shifting lanes on the endless steel highway.

Soon, there was another. And another. And another that came from the other direction. Sonic’s lightning-quick situational awareness let him put two-and-two together.

First missiles, now bullets? Come on!

Even shifting positions did little to evade the oncoming barrage, as the two rounds of ammunition changed direction with him to converge on his new position. Undeterred, Sonic played along. With one graceful flick of his left leg, he glided across the steel corridor into the extreme left lane, floating mere inches over the hail of gunfire, and landed without sacrificing even a fraction of his previous heading and velocity.

One quick glance ahead told him the source of the gunfire. Small tanks were positioned at each side of the walkway, each tank outfitted with not just one, but three sub-machine gun barrels – all homing in on the hedgehog’s position. Even in the midst of the chaos that unfolded around him, Sonic stopped to ponder.

You really went to all this trouble for little ol’ me?

Without warning, Sonic shifted back to the middle of the walkway just as he crossed paths with the two tanks, and did something neither of them were prepared for.

He jumped.

At the point where Sonic was exactly perpendicular to both weapons, he had soared far above the point where they could see him, let alone reach him. Too slow to react to the change in position, the hails of gunfire stayed tilted toward the ground that Sonic had previously occupied, while panning forward as if he was still running along at his current speed.

The gun barrels had been pointed at each other.

The ammunition from each barrel tore through the other side’s tank like a hot knife through butter. One bullet to the heart of each unit was enough to create friction and ignite the combustible material within. The double explosion that resulted was inevitable.

Still soaring through the air, Sonic never got a chance to see the blast. He didn’t need to. The cushion of warm air that propelled him upward and forward was more than enough confirmation.

In a fleeting moment of whimsy, Sonic stretched his entire body parallel to the floor and spread out his arms and legs, like a superhero in flight. He had only just reached the apex of his jump, and he almost wondered if he would ever come back down…or if he ever wanted to. He looked down on the scene as it passed by below him like a blurred brushstroke. This was the scene he created, and its effects still echoed around him.

Explosions. Bullets ricocheting off the walls. And of course, the wind rustling his quills.

This was chaos. Chaos that he controlled. This is what he lived for.

But Sonic knew he would have to land sometime. Seeing a rare open patch of road, he seized his opportunity, and curled his body downward at just the right angle. By the time he hit the ground, he had transformed from supersonic hedgehog into the world’s deadliest bowling ball, rolling down the corridors in his very own Super Sonic Spin maneuver.

If he was going to have to land, then why not do it in style? After all, sometimes he felt like he had all the time in the world...

Just then, Sonic’s flight of fancy was shattered by a harsh, discordant crackle deep within his left ear. The noise gave way to the anxious voice of a young boy, someone who was not physically present at the scene.

“Sonic! Sonic, can you hear me?”

Sonic had almost forgotten about the miniature radio receiver he had placed in there to help coordinate the mission…the same mission he was supposed to be focusing on right now.

Heh. Tails. Always could count on ya to keep my head in the game.

“Read ya loud ‘n’ clear, buddy,” said Sonic, regaining his footing.

“What was all that racket down there?” Tails asked.

“Just some cleanin’ up I had to take care of. No biggie.”

Sonic wasn’t sure, but he thought he could hear a sarcastic scoff on the other end of the line.

“Uhhh…say, do you mind tellin’ me where you ran off to?” Sonic asked.

“I’m on the next deck up. I’m not exactly 100%, but I’ve got a good feeling the server room isn’t too far away.”

“Good work, buddy! What’s the plan?”

“Well, we get inside, and we pull whatever data we can from the main computer.”

“Good, good…WHOA!” In the middle of his conversation, Sonic realized he was still racing at subsonic speed…toward a concrete wall.

As it turned out, he had reached a fork where the road split off into two paths. Luckily, his reflexes were enough so that he made the proper left and right turns to keep moving without losing a step.

“What was that?” Tails asked.

“Sorry. Got kinda distracted there,” said Sonic, adding a sheepish laugh at the end. “Anyway, what was the rest of the plan?”

“Uh...that’s about it. After that we just…kinda wing it.”

Sonic beamed. “Now this is my kind of plan!”

Nothing further was heard from Tails, other than a faint sigh that was barely picked up by his in-ear two-way radio unit. Finally, Sonic was free of distractions, free to focus on what lay ahead.

This jungle of chain-link walkways and intricate metal pipes was entirely foreign to him. It blended in with every other monochrome, dull, silver and grey interior that he had torn through in his battles, yet this one, like all the others, was unique in the way that the dullness was all arranged. There was no sun, no sky, no stars, no visual reference for north, south, east, or west. For all he knew, he may have taken a wrong turn somewhere, causing him to veer back toward the hole he had entered through to get inside the ship in the first place.

It didn’t matter. His heart told him this was the way to go. And so it followed.

The visual and auditory functions of Sonic’s brain sent him more signals in one second than anyone else could dare experience in an entire day. Naturally, the hedgehog had to be selective of which ones to follow at which time. The ever-changing, blurred lines in his field of vision always had some semblance of order and connection to them in some places more than others. On his left, right, and above him, were the most frequent changes in those lines – mere distractions that he had long since learned to ignore. All that mattered to Sonic was the road in front of him. The road was his visual guide, the one constant of supersonic travel that he could always rely on.

Except when he couldn’t.

Whoa! What happened to the road?!

Sonic had come across something he hadn’t found on his journey so far, something he wasn’t willing to accept existed to him: a dead end.

He had no way of knowing it, but he had reached what was supposed to be a maintenance bridge connecting both ends of Deck 5, accessible only to Eggman’s robotic assistants. Unfortunately, since Eggman himself had never gotten around to starting its construction, it was accessible to no one. Progress had only made it as far as painting black and orange stripes where the bridge was supposed to start.

On the other side, where the bridge would’ve ended, lay a conspicuous security door that led to nowhere.

Wow! Great design job there, Eggman!

A cursory glance indicated that deck 5 wasn’t the only one afflicted. As far upward as the eye could see, there existed security doors with no possible means of entry, with no floor or bridge for anyone walking through, all floating in a straight line that traveled all the way down the ship, all surrounded by a glossy concrete wall. It seemed as if their only purpose was to serve as memorials to construction projects that never started.

Sonic‘s options were few. No roads in front of him, no roads above him, no roads below him to break his fall. The hedgehog was careering into what was essentially a giant hole in the middle of a starship, and it was far too late for him to put on the brakes. There was only one option left: jump the gap.

At the speeds he was traveling, the door on the far side of Deck 5 could be reached with little more than a mere hurdle. So Sonic did the most logical thing possible.

He aimed for Deck 6.

He just couldn’t help himself.

By the time Sonic had come to his decision, there were only two steps left before he reached the painted stripes that separated life from death. Not that it mattered. One was all he ever needed.

With one mighty flick of his right leg, Sonic propelled himself skyward. There was no time to consider whether he had gotten the launch angle right, no time to ponder whether what he had just done was the stupidest decision he could have possibly made. He needed to attack, and he needed to attack now.

Nearing the midpoint of the jump, Sonic curled himself into a somersault, each revolution of his body exponentially growing in velocity and force. Within seconds, he had lost all semblance of his hedgehog form, transforming into a whirling, gyrating cannonball of death and destruction. From here on in, the hedgehog closed his eyes, taking everything in as seconds seemed to turn into minutes. From his unique perspective on the world, he would have no idea if he had reached his target or not until the impact.  

All was calm. The wind buffeted him from all angles, whistling innocently against his ears, perhaps to distract him from what was to come. All was calm. All was calm—

CRASH!

The hedgehog felt every bone and muscle in his body shudder as the inevitable impact finally occurred. The natural daredevil had plenty of experience crashing into solid fixtures before, but this was different. His momentum was curtailed, but it wasn’t broken. Whatever he had crashed into, it had buckled. It had moved.

Yes! A direct hit!

Though the initial impact was made with his forehead, the sheer speed and power of his super-spin ensured that his entire body would make contact repeatedly. Whatever he crashed into, it felt like he had crossed paths with a truck. As his momentum continued to carry him, the motion of his super-spin began to carry the crumpled mass of steel around with him, shaping and forming the object around him into a cold, metallic cocoon.

Finally, Sonic’s momentum came to a halt. For the first time since he boarded the ESS-1, he had come to a full and complete stop.

It took a few seconds for the hedgehog to gather his bearings. After the directional sensors in his mind realigned themselves, he slowly willed himself back to his feet to dust himself off and wrench his crooked nose back into its proper position. Craning his neck around to take in his new surroundings, the first thing he noticed was the gaping door-shaped hole that a security door had filled not thirty seconds earlier.

That was all the sightseeing that he could handle. Time was running short. His legs were getting jumpy, having gone unused for an entire minute. And there was that…plan he had to keep tabs on…

“Yo, Tails! Can you read me?” Sonic asked, hoping his friend’s inner-ear two-way radio would pick up his voice.

Almost instantly, Tails’ voice came through. “Loud and clear! How far are you now?”

“Oh, I’d say pretty darned close.” For Tails’ sake, he omitted the part of the story where he nearly pancaked a concrete wall trying to get there in the first place. “Hey, you’re still on 6, right?”

“Yep! I’ve just been piecing together anything I can on now this ship works, and it’s really cool!”

“Tails…”

The fox could practically hear Sonic’s eyes rolling, even on the other end of the line. “Oh…right. ‘Don’t encourage him’,” said Tails, his face turning bright red. The two said no more about it, and shifted the conversation back to business.

“Listen, don’t wait up! Just keep up the good work, and I’ll catch up with you!” said Sonic.

“Okay! Over and out!”

With a new destination and a new purpose, and a straight and narrow corridor to guide him, the hedgehog threw back his arms and blasted off.

Sonic was racing against time. So far, he figured he was leading by a country mile.

Dr. Eggman had almost forgotten the halcyon days of ten minutes earlier when was ready to launch a starship into orbit. His current focus was on making sure it stayed intact for at least another ten minutes. However, before he knew it, a deadly cycle had started to develop. Just as soon as he dealt with an alert or a warning or some kind, two more appeared on Eggman’s dashboard.

EGG UNIT DESTROYED. EGG UNIT DESTROYED. UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY ATTEMPT SECTOR 5B. EGG UNIT DESTROYED.

Another seismic jolt to the ship brought Eggman to his knees. This one was accompanied by its own warning: DECK BREACH.

Each new alert triggered an alarm on the bridge, bathing every angle of the room in red light and a deafening sound ten times louder than the next one. Panic-stricken assistant robots ran – or flew – helter-skelter across the bridge. There was no plan programmed into their internal memory for this exact scenario. After the third intrusion, the warnings of the voice synthesizer began to overlap each other, combining with the alarms to create a cacophony of utter paranoia.

“INTRUDERALINTRUDERTALERTINTRUINTRUDERALERT--”

Finally, with the very real threat of losing his hearing on top of everything else, the captain took some action.

“SHUUUUT UUUUUUP!”

All alarms and vocal warnings on the ESS-1 obeyed their master and ceased. Out of sight, out of mind.

With his mind cleared…or at least as cleared as it could be…Dr. Eggman marched away from his command console. Every last one of his robotic assistants had been conditioned from years and  gigabytes worth of stored memories to expect some kind of explosion of their master’s temper. Chairs thrown across the room, keys and buttons on the command console smashed into powder, self-destruct buttons “accidentally nudged”…all were known to happen on his better days.

And yet, today, nothing of the sort happened.

Instead, despite everything, ever so subtly on Dr. Eggman’s face was a roguish smile. Flapper’s built-in facial expression recognition system told it something was amiss.

“Come along,” the doctor said. “We’re not licked yet.”

Floating along with trepidation, Flapper asked, “But…master…the hedgehog?”

Eggman whirled his head in his assistant’s direction, shooting a glare icy enough to bring any CPU to a shuddering halt. For many of Flapper’s distant ancestors, that same glare was the last image they saw before they were forcibly scrapped to make the spare parts to build their descendants.

“Come now, Flapper! Have you already forgotten about my…secret weapon?”

If this story seems kinda slow at first, don’t worry, because things are gonna get somewhere real soon. It’ll just take a bit of time to develop.

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Do you think the person in the Weblum is still Lotor?

*cracks knuckles* So let’s just go ahead and toss out an excessive and unreasonable amount of speculation here.

First thing I think is deeply interesting about “Webby”/Black Helmet, who I will call BH for the sake of convenience here: the established factions we’ve seen so far have very clear-cut aesthetics. You wouldn’t mistake a Balmeran thing for an Olkari thing, the paladin armor and Lions seem to align generally with Altean sensibilities and while the Galra as a species have a particular flavor to them, the Marmorans have a particular style to their architecture and fashion alike that is clearly distinct from the main empire.

That said, BH’s aesthetics are weird.

[two images of Black Helmet from Belly Of The Weblum]

They have those very distinctive indigo colors, that we’ve come to associate with the Marmorans, but their weapon and the boosters on their legs are very distinctly standard empire purple- they also have a lot of the orange and dark gray that’s expected there. So they seem vaguely Marmora-ish, but not a Marmoran- if they were an ally of Kolivan’s, the setup and narrative of the episode doesn’t make sense, and they wouldn’t muddle that indigo together with what are overwhelmingly lines and shapes that evoke the main empire.

Here’s the other weird thing: the Galra in general do not seem very big on helmets. When they are, they have a particular style they tend to go for with the eye-obscuring opaque visor. It creates a sort of M-shaped silhouette with the “wings” on either side of the helmet along the jawline- similar to the paladin helmets when they aren’t sealed.

BH’s helmet is unusual in that it’s basically more or less an open dome and the only reinforced parts of it are along the jawline and the back of the head. It has the most open faceplate we’ve seen- which is really interesting to me, because we’ve only seen one other helmet that has a similar setup, particularly around the jawline.

That being Allura’s.

It’s possible this person represents a new faction that we haven’t encountered yet- so they just seem as confusing to us as the Marmorans first did when we saw them, with their very different take on the galra aesthetic. But considering the symbol Keith spots on their armor is Zarkon’s stylized X-crest, I think that’s unlikely.

This person is affiliated with the empire, and with Zarkon, but for some reason they have something strange about the aesthetics of their armor. Their weapon is unique- not something we’ve seen in use by foot soldiers, and their armor is similarly, seemingly made just for them. 

Let’s talk about that crest, though.

Sendak has it on his ship, but I believe he’s the only one we’ve seen with that- and he’s one of Zarkon’s most loyal. If the Red Lion was on his ship because Zarkon expected, or perhaps had already, gifted Red to Sendak with the intention he would have piloted her if Zarkon had overtaken Black the way he intended to, Sendak is deep in Zarkon’s inner circle.

The only person we’ve seen to wear that symbol personally, in the shape of his flagship and the harness over his cloak, is Zarkon himself.

So something very interesting is going on here if BH is wearing Zarkon’s symbol personally, when as far as I know, even Sendak isn’t allowed that honor. Especially, because?

It’s most likely that BH is operating without Zarkon’s sanction at a minimum- behind his back.

Nothing about how BH is going about this is how Zarkon does things. If they’re not normally that quiet, they could be deliberately avoiding speaking to try not to be recognized. That could also explain that distinctive helmet of theirs. The only other group to utilize full-face opaque masks is the Blade, who, as they’ve stated several times, has a vested interest in being unrecognizable.

BH is also incredibly pragmatic, in a way we haven’t seen emphasized by main empire rhetoric- the fact that they’re willing to pair up with Keith and Hunk without even an implied complaint to get what they want, and after they have that goal, they make no effort to stop Keith even though they could’ve easily shot him in the head then and there, but basically just leave with a nonverbal “don’t try to stop me” is a deep far cry from Zarkon’s dogma of total domination at any cost.

If BH was reporting back to Zarkon with that kind of attitude- especially knowing these were Voltron Paladins that they let go, Zarkon would likely have them dragged off the way he did that unfortunate s1e1 commander who pulled his troops out too early.

Also, if Zarkon wanted Scaultrite, which Coran cites as one of the most incredibly difficult things to get, he would not send a single person, however talented, in a tiny ship. Zarkon has no reason to operate surreptitiously here. “Surreptitious” is not how the empire has rolled so far and they don’t seem keen on starting. Considering what Zarkon did to the Balmera, if he really wanted a Weblum, he likely would’ve run one down, fastened it to a planet, and converted it into a mine, or at bare minimum, sent a full-staffed cruiser to wrestle with one, even if they’d need smaller vessels or proceeding on foot to get inside of them.

BH was marooned on their own. Not only were they under-equipped and under-staffed if this was an empire mission, and not going about it the way the commanders we’ve encountered do, but they pretty clearly didn’t have anyone to call for help if this went south on them- as it already had by the time Keith showed up. They seem to have had some kind of getaway ship parked outside the Weblum, considering how they disappeared, but other than that, Keith points out that not intervening would be leaving BH to die.

Zarkon would not take those kind of risks, and I doubt he would send someone into a Weblum for only a single bag of Scaultrite.

Now, the material itself is suspicious- Coran mentions in the video that it has a lot of uses, but in the Space Mall episode he also makes it clear he doesn’t exactly expect to find a store stocking exclusively it- he has to comb slightly shady and esoteric locales to find it, and the merchant doesn’t even seem to realize what it is.

Also, the main, repeated emphasis of scaultrite? Is the Teludav- which doesn’t seem to be something the Galra have or employ. And as Coran points out, only a few people can use it. Allura among them. Suggesting it’s a Magic Thing.

So we have a random Galra who wants Scaultrite, but not that much of it, badly enough to go behind Zarkon’s back woefully underequipped and get themselves in mortal peril for it. Someone who is a quick responder, and calculating enough to know that working with Hunk and Keith is their best option for survival, and also levelheaded enough not to lash out for being mistrusted or attacked by Keith.

Someone who also has a very different operating attitude to Zarkon, but seems very closely tied to him- and who, if they are deliberately obfuscating their identity, that suggests they’re someone who they would expect a random layperson who might be passing through Weblum-infested space to recognize them.

And again, a Galra, clearly associated with the empire and Zarkon specifically, who seems to have a confusing amount of Altean aesthetics.

…Someone who happens to coincidentally have a lot of leverage on Keith because he and Hunk didn’t exactly keep their voices down talking about Keith’s Galra heritage within their earshot- and who Keith wasn’t exactly shy about tossing some barbed comments at about his conflicting feelings towards the Galra in general.

Which would sure be really, really awkward, if BH turned out to be the new antagonist that Keith might be potentially trying to lead the paladins against. 

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5 ways you are ruining your laptop with out understanding it

We often take our computers as a right. It is unhappy however proper. We engage with our computers so much, we rely on them so heavily, that we overlook what can happen once they stop operating.

Worse, there are infinite approaches that we sabotage ourselves, overloading the computer with useless information, ignoring normal renovation and forgetting to take recurring safety precautions. In brief, many of us are destroying our personal computer systems, one tiny mistake at a time.

Right here are a few common methods we destroy our personal structures and ways that we will smash bad habits.

1. you are forgetting to back up your files Allow’s admit, this was an actual pain. You’ll have to shop for an outside hard force, plug it in, after which manually drag all of your documents far from your desktop. but nowadays this manner is easy; you could use Time Gadget on your Mac, or Dropbox, or any variety of cloud services. you may take each vital piece of information and maintain a carbon copy on the web. Regardless of what happens on your physical laptop, your documents, pictures and motion pictures will all be stored.

2. you’re relying on awful passwords Most people recognize that vulnerable passwords are the kiss of death, but not every body knows what an awesome password looks like. The quality ones comprise letters, numerals and unique characters. They don’t encompass personal information, like your birthdate or home address. Bear in mind, you should use a different password for each carrier you operate. In case you cannot preserve tune of them, attempt a “keychain” carrier so that you can preserve them multi functional place. (Password-protected, of course.)

three. You have not removed pointless files Your difficult pressure is lots like your private home: In case your residing room is cluttered and chaotic, It’s difficult to get some thing accomplished. You could have downloaded a software that you used for numerous years, however, you not use it. Why hold it on your hard power? Maybe you have got vintage movies which are clogging space while you may without problems move this to a cloud service. The extra junk you’ve got lying around, the more you need to sift via it so one can find the stuff you want. Some of those packages will also be constantly running, which eats up your RAM. So take a few hours to do some spring cleaning. Your computer will thanks.

four. You do not replace your software “Windows XP works simply nice,” you believe you studied to yourself. “Why might I hassle to upgrade? It is all basically the identical, proper?” Which could sound logical to your head, but It’s very dangerous in a world overflowing with hackers. Companies robotically create new variations in their working systems to be able to patch vulnerabilities. You must do the identical for all your software program and apps as properly. The extra old they grow to be, the worse they will run, and the much more likely someone could be capable of commandeering them.

5. you are counting on vintage antivirus software

You acquire Norton AntiVirus software like five years ago and You haven’t observed some thing amiss. So why could you want to replace? Similar to your working gadget and apps, your antivirus software program wishes to be upgraded on an ordinary basis. Until you have the modern day version, your PC or mobile tool is basically simply asking to be hacked.

Bonus: you’re beating up for your computer Many computer proprietors attention their interest on the software, no longer the Device itself. but your laptop is vain without its bodily circuit forums, its cooling fans and its display. while filth collects on the keyboard, or heavy books are stacked in your laptop, or you problem your computing device to extreme temperatures, those all have an effect on your device. So take care of your PC. The higher you deal with it, the better it’ll deal with you. The way to Make Your laptop Run Faster Than It Has In A Long time There are two motives why humans may need to make their computers run Quicker. The first is, they may be PC geeks who really need to look how an awful lot pace they can get out on their computers. The alternative reason is, a regular ordinary computer consumer has a Pc that turned into as soon as fast but it has bogged down; Perhaps even extensively. Though we will speak about The first, it’s miles the latter of these we can help in this article.

Making an already fast laptop Faster is some thing some Pc aficionados strive for. The manner they go about gaining this greater computer pace is by overclocking. Overclocking is a process that makes the CPU run at a Faster speed than it is rated for. Glaringly, that is volatile. It can make a CPU burnout in no time. But, the individuals who do those styles of matters are familiar with the workings of their computer systems and they’re inclined to spend cash to update burned-out components because, absolutely placed, that is their hobby.

Is RAM the solution?

A variety of humans think they can benefit a lot extra computer speed than they already have through adding greater RAM. To an extent, this is actual. But, whilst the quantity of onboard RAM is doubled, the velocity of the pc does no longer, even nearly, double. In fact, the pc hardly ever selections up very much pace at all. It’s going to choose up some however no longer as tons as one might assume. this is because, the memory closest to the CPU, particularly the L1 and L2 cache, is a miles extra essential thing as to how tons velocity at which a pc runs than onboard RAM.

If a computer changed into going for walks fast and has suddenly bogged down or the PC has slowed down over time, it’s far impossible RAM is a element in any respect. In this example, which is a completely common one, a slowing computer in all likelihood owes its woes to a registry that has accrued a positive quantity of corruption.

Solving Registry Troubles Can be the answer

Registry corruption becomes gathered in a Windows registry due to the fact files are written to and deleted from a Home windows registry as a ordinary procedure. It takes place each time a PC is jogging a Home windows working machine. In different phrases, there isn’t very tons that may be finished to hold corrupted registry documents from building up. The excellent we are able to do is run a registry cleaner periodically to restoration these documents after the reality.

For all people who’s experiencing a pc slowdown and isn’t always sure whether or not registry corruption is the difficulty, unfastened registry scans are available. However, if one desires to honestly restore registry corruption, he or she will be able to have to buy a registry cleanser. Nonetheless, It is a bargain so that you can find out If you want a registry cleaner earlier than you clearly purchase one. So, it’s far well really worth getting a unfastened scan In case your laptop has bogged down and you are no longer positive why.

Accelerate Your computer one hundred and one computers are like people – they are attempting to paintings tremendous even as giving their great to defeat obstacles that might affect their performances. these devices also slow down after a few use, Just like how people experience after every week of work and academics. However, there are a few approaches that a person can do to convey again the best overall performance of his computing device rather of buying a “Speed up Your PC” e-book.

this text would love to proportion some pointers on rushing up one’s computer device and keep it up and walking in spite of heavy use.

One of the matters that make the laptop sluggish would be the rack of documents that are not prepared properly within the folders supplied in the gadget or aren’t but deleted. As an example, the computing device may encompass hordes of files that may be put in one single folder, or the recycle bin might be full. these areas need to be checked first because the device gets bored with detecting these files in bulk, specifically if the computer’s motherboard and memory are not capable of doing such tasks.

Furthermore, the person who owns the laptop must have the machine checked for any viruses or bugs which might be present. those information do no longer simplest make the machine sluggish, but they also risk the complete system specially the important files that need to never be changed. earlier than those viruses reason havoc, the proprietor of the laptop must have a anti-virus software hooked up so that every risk will be detected proper away.

human beings should also no longer use more than one programs at the same time. a few humans tend to open A lot of software program suddenly, which also requires Lots of the reminiscence of the pc. Eventually, the pc will gradual down if the memory is continuously overused.

pace boosters can also be hooked up. these software intention to clear up the list of things that makes the reminiscence and the motherboard overwork, which in flip slows down the whole machine. However, people need to additionally be careful in installing them considering the fact that Some of those velocity boosters are virus vendors.

If these pointers fail, the person must ask for expert assist. There is probably some elements of the computer that need to be replaced. Except the man or woman is capable of replacing the parts himself, he need to by no means try and do something technical in order to avoid any accidents or make matters worse. In some instances, But, the laptop would possibly simply need an upgrade, considering software program nowadays have become increasingly more complicated, which in turn will need a better system for it to run.