Duo Meaning

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Hi r/worldbuilding! Got taken down 'cause it had a Kickstarter promo, so now it's not! haha... :/ (And yes, we know someone is going to say Dinotopia! But that's a compliment to us! :) ) We are Elena and Olivia, a twin creative duo and industry animation artists/production designers. After years of working at major studios like Disney, DreamWorks, and Sony Pictures Animation, we’ve stepped out to build our own independent project! We’re creating Genesis, a high-end, mature indie animation project utilizing a "tradigital" aesthetic (a hybrid 2D/CG style, blending CG with hand-painted, texture-heavy matte backgrounds). We wanted to share a look into the world-building behind it, which tackles a setting you don't see very often in animation: a deeply researched, speculative pre-Flood ancient world. We know people will have opinions on stuff like this! Just keep it civil, as much as reddit can do! haha The World: A Different Kind of Ancient Instead of standard high fantasy, we’re exploring early human history through a speculative, high-concept lens. We are building an environment based on ancient pre-Cataclysm theories, treating it with the same grounded sci-fi rigor you'd see in Dune, but maybe less sci fi lol. The Atmospheric Canopy: One of our favorite world-building pillars is exploring the "Vapor Canopy" theory. In this world, a dense, high altitude atmospheric layer creates a hyper-oxygenated, greenhouse-like planet. This means massive flora, unique animal behaviors, and a completely different color script than our modern blue skies...think diffused, luminous light that shifts the entire atmospheric perspective. Cross-Cultural Tech & Textiles: Because this society predates modern historical eras, we’ve been designing the world by blending early Bronze Age, Mesopotamian, and global ancient cultures. The ship-building techniques, architecture, and textiles rely heavily on raw, organic engineering...but scaled up to a massive, epic proportion to reflect a thriving, advanced ancient civilization. The Tree of Life (The Triquetra Ecosystem): We’ve also designed our own interpretation of the Tree of Life. Visually and structurally, its massive, intertwined trunk and root systems represent the Trinity. Because of the hyper oxygenated environment, this tree acts as its own self-contained mega-biome. It hosts numerous distinct ecosystems living entirely within its canopy, branches, and roots, creating a vertical world of unique flora and fauna that depends entirely on the tree for survival. Anyway, you can see more GENESIS art at https://www.elioliart.net/bible-art-elioli and genesisanimated.com if you want to learn more about it. :) EDIT: Here are our animatics! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTZxqYEaZRc&list=PLJ-ydWyevIjV4gcxNNZ1u3DMlAm6Yzfcn EDIT: WOW!! Thank you for the response! We thinking keeping it within world-building conversations is best for this particular subreddit...it's about the art anyway, right? :) We're excited to show you what's in store for the project, so follow along! EDIT: 4 k?? dang! Ok... cool cool. Thank you for the words, skepticism, and for the rousing "pleasant" conversations! We hope you guys can create somthing that inspires YOU! Whether you love the project or hate it, and that's the great thing about art. You can always counter-culture this as well. We're sure if we all ever met in person, we'd get along. :) submitted by /u/elioliart to r/worldbuilding [link] [comments]

Jessie and Spider-Man In a Halloween episode of "Ultimate Spider-Man", Jessie and the Roberts kids go to a museum in Manhattan for a project or something, I don't really remember. They end up meeting Spidey, accidentally release Morgan Le Fey, and they actually become friends by the end of the episode... This show was weird, but I love it anyways Scooby-Doo and... A lot, actually The Scooby-Dooniverse is insane, man, the Mystery Gang has met characters like The Justice League, WWE Wrestlers, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dick Dastardly, Abraham Lincoln, Sherlock Holmes, Johnny Bravo, must I go on? Shovel Knight and Kratos There's some GOW crossover DLC for Shovel Knight, where you actually get to fight Kratos. I'm not 100% sure if it's canon (It's been a debate in the VS Community for years at this point), but I'll put it here anyways Futari Wa, Splash Star, and Yes 5!/Yes 5! Go Go Precure In the 2023 Mini-Season known simply as "Otona Precure '23", we see the Yes 5! team as adults, in Episode 3, I'm pretty sure, we also get to meet the adult versions of the Splash Star duo, meaning they canonically exist in the same universe. Later in the show Cure Black and Cure White show up, though we never get to meet adult Nagisa and Honoka. And before you say anything, no, "Precure All Stars" isn't canon, if anything, that's it's own separate universe submitted by /u/Iamacarson to r/TopCharacterTropes [link] [comments]

Source: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/launch_learning_whatsnext THE SHORT VERSION (TL;DR) There’s a lot of words ahead, but here’s the gist of it: With the first season of Marathon we’ve created a strong core community. We're embarking on a multi-season journey built around growing from the seed of this strong community. We’re looking to solve some pain points for players: Making the game less grindy, more rewarding Making improvements to things like the UI/UX, matchmaking, end game meta, playing as solos/duos, etc. Smoothing out onboarding We’re also going to build out more of the core game: Adding new fun and mind-bending content: new and updated zones, Runner shells, new combatants, weapons, loot, and more Building systems to make progressing more interesting We want to build more survival experiences for different moods, like if you want to full sweat or lean back and chill. Exploring more pure PVP, PVE, and PVP-lite experiences Continue experimenting with experimental queues to learn more around these experiences Other highlights: We're bringing back Duos for Season 2 with a rotating Duos queue. We're testing some experiments in Season 2 around PVE and PVP-Lite modes. We’re expanding the max size of your Vault and increasing faction progression rates in Season 2. We’ll talk more about Season 2 content like Night Marsh, the new Cradle progression system, and the Runner shell Sentinel, the week of May 25. If this summary has your interest piqued, read on below for more info on these topics. THREE MONTHS LATER If this were a recording, this is where you'd hear me press play, the synth beats with the lulling hum of a playful but elusive baseline would collide with your eardrums and my voice would greet you with a warm and simple "Hello." So let's just imagine that's happening and get started... Nearly three months have passed since we've flung you across the stars and crash landed you onto the dangerous and mysterious lost colony on Tau Ceti IV. For the development team, myself, and all of the talented teams at Bungie and Sony that have been supporting us, it has been quite a wild ride. From launch to now, we've watched you tackle the challenges of Tau Ceti, learn to navigate its threats, discover new ways to engage with one another, and create infinite unique stories of survival. And through it all, we've been watching, listening, and trying new things in an effort to learn more about you all. As we come closer to the end of our first season and the subsequent start of Season 2, we wanted to take some time to reflect on the learnings of Season 1 and how that informs our thoughts about what we want to achieve as we build future seasons. So please come take a walk with us as we reflect a bit on Marathon. 2026_Marathon_Weaponless_Press_Kit_Large_005.jpg BEFORE Marathon’s roots go back to the original trilogy of the 90s, where you, as a lone security officer, defend a colony ship above the distant planet Tau Ceti IV. Your fight for survival begins a long journey of discovery in which you learn about ancient alien races, the dangers of AI evolution and "rampancy," and the complex nature of dimensional reality, among many other themes. As we moved towards bringing those ideas to life, we brought together a team to make a social survival experience, one built around a few core concepts and themes: Everything is potentially dangerous: Create an environment where everything is a hazard or threat. This includes fauna and flora indigenous to the planet, weather patterns, NPC enemies, and other players. Preparing is important: Feel high value in bringing and utilizing the right resources for the problems you encounter. Every run moves you forward: Ensure every run feels like it's pushing you forward, raising the floor on your possibilities. Bigger risk, bigger reward: Create an environment where you can take on more risk of death to gain better rewards. Use your judgment: Focus on open-ended decisions. Let players tackle challenges in open-ended ways. Fight, flee, and evade based on your judgment of the scenario. Create loose alliances, compete to gain resources for your own betterment, or wait out the battles and scavenge the field. Surviving matters: Prompt players to consider survival as the core win condition and ensure that living feels successful. Building on these concepts, we constructed the game around high-impact decisions, feeling the push and pull of making a game that felt too complex, confusing, and punishing versus one that felt learnable and punishing enough to keep survival as its central theme. We iterated with expanding groups of players, making shifts in our core gameplay and features as we got feedback through our tests. In the end, we landed on a game where we felt we had achieved a balance in which we were provoking players to learn, take risks, feel the glory of successfully surviving, and the tragedy of catastrophic failure, all in the pursuit of creating compelling stories of traversing the mysterious and dangerous environment on an alien planet. And then we put that game in a cannon and launched it out into the world beyond us... Rook_Cinematic_4.jpg WHAT WENT WELL Out of the gate, it was exciting to see the core community build around the tense survival experience we created. The sheer number of stories the community has shared of their moments running across the planet, battling the UESC, getting into heated fights with other Runners, and yes, sometimes dying to the errant tick nest or poison plant, were overwhelmingly inspiring. The love we've seen for the world we've created has been unimaginably exciting as well. Fanart, lore videos, video edits, and music shares have become a common staple of our internal chats. For all this and more, we are highly thankful for the community that has come to join us for this first season. You are the reason we do this, and our gratitude for all of you cannot be expressed enough. Throughout Season 1, we've also been building a lot of muscle to deliver a more responsive and iterative live game to match the pace at which players have been playing. We launched Cryo Archive, our first endgame map, and Ranked Mode. We launched our experimental queue, including experiments around Duos and Sponsored Kit queues. We've tackled a variety of balance patches and hotfixes as we've seen problems in the live game. We launched the mid-season C.A.R.R.I. initiative focused on playing with and against others in new ways. With each release, we've been learning and getting better at understanding the needs of our live game operations and upgrading where we've seen opportunities. But as many of you know, Season 1 has not been without some hiccups and challenges, so let's discuss these a bit. 2026_Marathon_Cryo_Unlock_Press_Kit_LARGE_08.jpg WHAT WE'VE LEARNED Where do we start? Developing a new game is always a challenge, and creating a live game in 2026 is no simple effort. There are millions of moving parts to a game, especially a player-driven and systems-dense game such as Marathon. Let's start at a high level with some themes we've observed around the Marathon game and community. Marathon is overwhelming to learn. Marathon for new players can be an overwhelming experience. After a short tutorial, you're often thrown into the fire to learn a lot of concepts, navigate a lot of screens, filter through a ton of loot, and build muscle memory with a lot of mechanics fairly quickly in a hostile environment where other players can bring you down and take your stuff. It's easy to hit a wall if you're not spending lots of time, don't have a consistent crew, or are not super skilled. Matches can feel like a death spiral for some players. You kit up, you go in, you die to a spawn rush, or someone gets the jump on you as you're looting. Faction progress can feel like a slog, and you struggle to get mats and credits out to upgrade. You rarely get out of that loop, and the endgame of Cryo can feel so far away as you inch your way forward in the precious hours you have to play every week. And doing it solo just makes it all harder... Still figuring out the balance mix of the endgame. Bubbles, ‘nade spam, and snipers can make it feel like every engagement at the endgame, with all the stuff everyone has accumulated, is chaotic, fast, and stressful in a bad way. Taking time to make important tactical decisions can feel like a luxury. Spawn rushing and lobby clearing are dominant strategies that pull the pacing too far and make matches too predictable. Matchmaking can be a blessing or a curse. Sometimes you don't want to sweat. Gripping your precious loot every moment as you creep your way to the exfil while spinning your head around like a chicken to make sure another Runner doesn't drop on top of you with a shotgun is a fun and intense experience. But after a few runs of that, sometimes you need to power down and just want to frag out or relax and play a different way. It's hard to find that chill moment in Marathon. As we’ve been learning these lessons, we’ve also been experimenting and observing some additional areas to help us explore avenues to improve Marathon: Sponsored Marsh / Perimeter are helpful to create a more chill environment to play, especially if you've just been stomped or want to focus on getting some quests done over duking it out for loot. A lot of people have been playing the Sponsored Kit queues, and we're excited to see how it helps the overall loop of economic gain and progression. Sponsored Kits can be a good way to up the floor over the season and help recovery. Escalating from lower-end kits to middle-end kits over the season can make it easier to get back into the fight, especially for players who play less. Our matchmaking systems need different dimensions. In Season 1, they were focused on making sure players with less experience and knowledge were being kept away from those with more. This resulted in some good, which is newer players being protected for longer, and some bad, which is some unfortunate small pooling happening in the later parts of the season. The result was a constant battle we fought between match quality and queue times. We need to be careful with how many queues we're running. Throughout the season we added more queues which inevitably split the population more and led to some increased queue times. As we go into future seasons, we want to be more judicious with how we handle the amount of queues better. We've been absorbing so much over this season thanks to feedback, research, and play data from you all. It makes our heads spin sometimes. We're dizzy with it. But learning is just the first step to improvement, so let's discuss what we're planning next. Runner_Shell_cinematic_Destroyer_3.png WHERE WE WANT TO GO When we were bringing Marathon out for players, our aspiration started with a simple statement: We want players to experience the thrill and danger of surviving on the edge of the explored universe. Our plan is to commit to that mission by both going deeper and expanding on that definition. To that end we have two main paths we're walking down starting with Season 2: A BETTER SEAT-GRIPPING EXPERIENCE WITH MORE MIND BENDING SCI-FI: First and foremost, we want to continue to evolve the challenging and tense experience that our players have come to love while leaning further into the wild world we've created. We want to build on it with new content and systems that challenge you in new ways to grow, collaborate, and compete with one another in your quest to thrive in Tau Ceti’s deadly environments. New zones, zone changes and variants, new shells, new weapons, new equipment, and loot galore. New systems that change how you progress in a season. New contracts that add to the journey of exploration and gaining favor with the factions. And changes to parts of the game that meaningfully help you reexamine what you already know. In Season 2 we'll be starting that journey with some things we'll be adding to the mix, including a new dimension of challenge with Night Marsh, a new defensive Runner shell Sentinel, new weapons and equipment, a revamp to how you acquire Runner shell stats to give you more options with the Cradle, and increased progression rates for faction and Runner levels. S2_KeyArt_16x9_4K.jpg Beyond Season 2, we're working on some interesting ideas that will help to escalate the game and bring new areas of Tau Ceti to life. As we develop this new content, we’re focusing on how we bring new and interesting challenges to the game for both veterans and newcomers alike. Just a note, these ideas are in development, and so in the interest of transparency, we're going to enumerate them below but they'll likely take better shape and change as we learn more over Season 2. A new zone that leans into more alien elements and mind warping debuffs. New enemies from Tau Ceti and beyond, big and small alike. New weapons that fill out the battery side of the arsenal. New ways to exfil that create interesting tradeoffs between how much loot you carry versus how safe they are. We’re also dedicating a strong effort to smoothing out the experience and solving issues we already see, as well as any new issues that arise, in a quick and responsive manner. This includes not only balance changes and improvements to the user experience, but also ensuring you can find good value in playing a little as well as playing a lot, and that you can better find the right challenges for your gear and skill level as you grow in the game. In Season 2, we’ll be adding a Duos rotating zone queue. In Season 2, we’ll be adding a new matchmaking system that helps players find better quality matches with more flex for higher-end players. In Season 2, we’ll be expanding the max size of your Vault. For Season 2 and beyond, we're working on a set of UX improvements to help make setting goals and getting into a match smoother. For Season 3 and beyond, we’re working on improving our onboarding experience to make it less overwhelming for new players. For Season 3 and beyond, we’ll be making changes to the contract system to improve how you interact with Priority and other contracts. MORE OPTIONS TO CHILL AND NEW SURVIVAL EXPERIENCES: The second theme is about how we want to evolve Marathon as a whole to be an experience where you can find more novel ways to play when you're stressed out from a nail-biting run and just need to cool off or have fun without the stress. Options where you can go full sweat or lean back and chill. This means new ways to play that accommodate different friend groups, moods, and time availability to allow you to experience the thrilling survival of Tau Ceti in the way that fits your needs. In Season 2, we will be experimenting with two modes, one at the beginning of the season and one towards the middle/latter half of the season. The experimental mode at the beginning of the season will focus more on PVE, but with a light touch of PVP. The second experimental mode will be a PVE-only mode that’s focused on crews being tasked with completing objectives together and making some progress across matches. We’ll continue to run experimental queues beyond these two offerings for Season 2 and beyond, testing the waters around other mechanics (such as perhaps a more purely PVP-focused mode) with the potential for these to become part of the core game loop or permanent new ways to play. Big things coming down the line! So with all this talk about the future, let's wrap this up with one last reflection on this year-long journey we're going to take together. Marathon_Launch_Cinematic_Selects_02.jpg NOW AND AFTER If this were a recording, this is where I'd pause the music and bring my hands together and stare thoughtfully off in the distance. I'd begin to say something, and then probably stop myself and take a few deep breaths before continuing. Today we're approaching the end of Season 1, but our eyes are on the road from here to beyond 2026 and into 2027 and our hands are working to pave that road as we speak. The journey ahead is one that will see the game expand in scope, depth, and breadth of what it has been for Season 1, all in the interest of bringing to life the vibrancy and passion that we have as a team for sharing our love of survival challenges with you all. To look more directly at our plans and goals for the next year: Season 2 is on the horizon and we'll be sowing the seeds for a lot of our future plans via new content such as Sentinel and Night Marsh, systems, and experiments around new play modes that may become permanent in the future. Season 3 we're planning to introduce a lot (and I mean a lot) of revisions to our early experience, including big updates to Perimeter, alongside a new Runner shell, and additional (no spoilers) content. Season 4 we're focusing on building more depth into the existing extraction loop. Season 5 we're looking at bringing the whole ecosystem of (PV(P)VE) play together and evolving our weird sci-fi world in new ways. For those of you who have joined us on this journey, we want to thank you. Your feedback, your endless support, and your passion have become the echoing chant that fuels us to conjure new ideas, create new solutions to problems, and have fun doing it. We're excited for you to join us as we grow this game around you and the community you've created. For those of you who may be on the fence about whether or not we're the right game for you: thank you as well. We're excited to welcome you when you're ready to take the dive so keep checking back in with us as we walk this journey and if you get the itch, we'll be more than happy to have you. Alright, this is where I hit the stop button. I've written a lot of words. Time to get back to work and turn words into releases. Thank you infinitely, --Joe. submitted by /u/DTG_Bot to r/Marathon [link] [comments]

Edit: TL;DR. Yes. More than likely it does. It's either a Duo or a Binding Blade Harmony. Hear me out because the bonuses are really weird, but they CAN be “Business as usual.” And as such mean we’re getting a Duo Hero. So, RB Bonuses go as follows: There’s one game bonus that represents the lead or backpack of a previous Harmonized Hero, and one that goes in order of every FE title. Specifically, that Hero-related bonus has one season where it represents the lead, and the next represents the backpack. It goes in some weird zig-zag pattern, but it also goes backwards, with the next season representing the Harmony that came before this one… In this case, this season may represent Harmonized B!Ike (Roy specifically), and the next would represent Ferox Fir. As such, we’re not getting a new Harmonized Hero on Brides and it will be a Duo instead (makes sense considering we’re getting two Harmonies at the start of next month). BUT this is only the case if the last season’s bonus was… I guess Blazing Blade to represent Lyn? I don’t remember last week’s bonuses at all, so I can’t tell… But if that’s not the case, then yeah, it’s a Harmony led by Binding Blade, in which case…… Who would they even pick at this point? Idunn? Fir again? Igrene again??? Edit (5/13): oh. They just… Spoiled the TT banner. It’s got at least Ash on it, that’s for sure. submitted by /u/Aqua-Dot to r/FireEmblemHeroes [link] [comments]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7204024/2026/04/17/lebron-james-nba-future-retirement-lakers-cavs-warriors/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twhq&source=twitterhq The hypothetical tour, like so many other things dealing with James, is something people believed he’d want. Just like they believed he’d be unable to meld his style around the Lakers’ guards or stomach the organization prioritizing its future around younger stars. That warmup session in Dallas came shortly after the Lakers played their best basketball since the 2019-20 championship season, a stretch of play that helped stoke James’ passion for winning and repair bridges that had been damaged during his eight years with the Lakers. After months of speculation that the two parties were headed for a divorce, a strong March changed the Lakers’ landscape and, potentially, the future between the organization and player. Winning, sources said, increased the chances of James and the Lakers extending their partnership. Around the league, rumors also persist that one last run in Cleveland, or a superstar Steph Curry-James duo in Golden State, are plausible possibilities as well. Per team sources, the Warriors’ interest in James this summer remains serious. The Cavs, and the prospect of a goodbye tour where James’ journey began, are also still widely seen by rival executives as a legitimate possibility. But in both cases, the luxury tax poses obstacles that likely mean James would have to make major financial concessions to come their way. His decision, whatever it might ultimately be, will undoubtedly have family considerations heavily factored in. And the prospect of relocation that comes with some of these options is nothing to gloss over, with one executive from an interested team sharing that James’ reluctance to leave Los Angeles has been no secret among outside suitors. submitted by /u/jonsnowKITN to r/nba [link] [comments]

I have a brother and sister in law who are a traveling physical therapist duo. Today I was lifting something above my head and my elbow locked, as it occasionally does, and I had to drop the item to try again. Not only did they both clock it at the same time, but after I said “oh it just does that sometimes!” They both said “what do you mean….?” In the exact same calculating tone. After chucking about low locked in they both suddenly were, I was informed I am now going to get an at home PT session after work 😆 submitted by /u/No_Crow_2265 to r/CasualConversation [link] [comments]