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It was not to be for the Boston Celtics in the 2022 NBA Finals. Steph Curry punched his ticket to undisputed immortality as one of the games greatest singular forces of all time with an MVP effort, Klay Thompson got closure and bragging rights as the key ingredient to the Warriors dynasty considering his prolonged absence during their decline, and Draymond Green got to fill in the Cs Game 4 T.D. Garden handout t-shirtwhich sports an empty banner spotwith the trios fourth championship as a trio together. If you want to throw in former essential piece-turned-bench luxury Andre Iguodala into the mixhe like Thompson, was also elsewhere during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasonsand you have a core that has proven dynastic.

Is the Celtics core capable of the same? Its tough to tell if the Jays, Marcus Smart, and Robert Williams can win four championships together, but the goal right now is simply to win one. Jaylen Brown (25) and Jayson Tatum (24) are young enough that this team can become that with the right pieces around them.

Sadly enough, its evident the pieces Boston currently surrounds them with are not enough, though thats not to say both Cs pillar pieces were exemplary during the NBA Finals themselves. Both were turnover prone and struggled from the field during the series relative to the regular season and postseason run before it.

A move has to be made. The easiest trade to get done is one that Danny Ainge made before and Brad Stevens must explore again: trading Daniel Theis. CBS Sports Sam Quinn mentioned a possible return that Theis and a pick could yield:

At a bare minimum, the Celtics should be doing everything in their power to attach future draft capital toDaniel Theisfor someone who can give them playoff minutes. Theis will make $8.7 million, and with a first-round pick or two, could probably get the Celtics another starting-caliber wing.

While a wing could be a fine addition to the fold, its plausible the Cs could open up their search to an upgrade at any position for Theis $8.6 million 2022-23 salary.

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Of course, the Denver Nuggets are not in dire need of a starting center given the presence of back-to-back MVP Nikola Jokic at the pivot. That said, there is a very real need for a big behind the Joker, and Daniel Theis would be the perfect addition for Denver. For the Cs, Monte Morris would be the perfect return for the German center.

Marcus Smart showed that the point guard position is covered, but Payton Pritchard was a tad shakier in his role in the NBA Finals after a hot-shooting playoff run preceding it. At 24-years-old in his first Finals his second season in the league, that is forgivable, but that doesnt mean Boston cant find a backcourt mate off the bench that take some of that responsibility off of him in the meantime.

Morris would be the best point guard available around Theis salary, and would be worth ceding a pick in the process as a career 39.4% 3-point shooter.

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Its a weird year for video games. Were 19 months into a fresh console cycle and support for the PS4 and Xbox One is finally tapering off as developers shift focus to the PS5, Xbox Series X and PC cloud gaming platforms. The pandemic slowed or paused development on a generation of games, and studios of all sizes are being absorbed by the biggest names in the room. The industry is in flux and the rest of the year reflects this instability. Put simply, there arent a lot of huge games coming out in the second half of 2022.

Right now, the video game space is made up of delays, big promises and more delays. That doesnt mean theres nothing to look forward to between indie and AA developers, cloud libraries and mobile games from Netflix of all companies, this period of transition will still be packed with plenty of things to play.

The 2022 holiday release calendar definitely looks thinner than it did a few months ago, but the first half of the year was fairly busy with games like Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Gran Turismo 7, Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Tiny Tinas Wonderlands. And those are just the well-funded releases with big, shiny ads the year has also been good for indie and AA titles like Neon White, The Quarry, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, Sifu, Tunic, OlliOlli World and Salt and Sacrifice already available. The summers peppered with even more small but fantastic-looking games, like the cyberpunk cat simulator Stray, Sam Barlows Immortality and the wildly anticipated Cuphead DLC, all due out by the end of July.

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Weirdly enough, Netflix is also helping to fill in the gaps with a new push into mobile gaming, and its latest titles are a treat. Poinpy, the new game from the creator of Downwell, is particularly addictive. Netflix is also publishing the next titles from the studios behind Monument Valley and Altos Odyssey, and all of them are free, without ads or microtransactions, as long as you have an active Netflix subscription.

On top of all that, mid-tier publishers like Devolver and Annapurna have a steady stream of strange, high-quality games coming out at all times. And, of course, theres Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus Premium, NVIDIAs GeForce Now and even Google Stadia cloud-gaming services that bring hundreds of classic and new titles to essentially any device with a screen.

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So, yeah, there are plenty of fresh games heading our way this year; its just that there wont be many AAA blockbusters out of Microsoft or Sony. Whether we like it or not, these studios set the pace of the industry, and gaps in their release schedules can make it feel like development has stagnated across the board. And right now, there are a lot of AAA gaps. What makes it worse is the fact that Microsoft and Sony have announced and then abandoned multiple huge projects over the past few years, giving all of us something concrete to miss in every showcase.

In late 2019 and 2020, Microsoft announced massive games including Fable, Senuas Saga: Hellblade 2, Everwild, Avowed and Outer Worlds 2, and it hasnt said much more about these projects since. On top of that, theres everything going on at Bethesda, the largest brand under the Xbox Game Studios banner. Bethesdas shiny new sci-fi RPG, Starfield, was delayed out of 2022 earlier this year alongside Arkanes online vampire shooter, Redfall. Meanwhile, it looks like Elder Scrolls 6 has at least five more years left in development, and Fallout 5 may not come out until the next console generation. The biggest Xbox exclusives still landing this year are High on Life, As Dusk Falls and Pentiment, three mid-sized games, two of which were literally announced this month.

Sony is in a similar situation. It has more AAA exclusives hitting the market in the second half of this year than Microsoft, with Forspoken, God of War Ragnarok and The Last of Us remake on the calendar, but there are still plenty of unknowns in the PlayStation lineup. Final Fantasy XVI was a highlight of the PS5 announcement stream in 2020, but we just got a release window of summer 2023 for that one. Theres been zero to little information about other games Sonys had in the works for years, including Wolverine, the Knights of the Old Republic remake and Spider-Man 2. A standalone multiplayer mode for The Last of Us is still MIA, and weve yet to get details on the multiple game projects that Naughty Dog is also working on.

There are a couple of big cross-platform games due to come out this holiday season, including Hogwarts Legacy and The Callisto Protocol, but fanfare for these titles has been fairly muted so far.

As for Nintendo, its playing by its own rules, as always, and it has Splatoon 3 and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet on the roster this year, plus whatever it announces during its next Direct showcase. It has its own troubles of course Breath of the Wild 2 was pushed back to 2023, and then theres Metroid Prime 4, which was announced in 2017 and yeah.

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The sense of insufficiency in the industry this year is the result of the console makers announcing things too early, with too much fanfare and too many impossible release windows. Of course the pandemic didnt help, but as it stands, these studios promised the world and then went quiet on multiple massive franchises, and the silence is particularly deafening as we enter an anemic six months of AAA releases. Thankfully, there are so many amazing indie games available right now and coming later in 2022, and between cloud, mobile and PC services, there are more ways to play these titles than ever.

As Jonathan Blow would say, time is a construct anyway, and thinking of life in terms of weeks, months and years is a futile effort to logically contain chaos. Long story short, theres a lot to look forward to in the video game universe. It may not all be coming this year or the next, or the next but with more games to play on more platforms than ever, we should all be plenty entertained.

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Neil Patrick Harris is playing an as-yet-unannounced villain in the upcoming Doctor Who60th anniversary special, and a number of fans on social media are convinced he will be reprising an existing Whovillain -- one that hasn't been on TV in over 50 years. A promotional photo of Harris released to announce his casting -- seen below -- has led a number of fans to believe that he will play the role of the Celestial Toymaker, a character who originated in 1966, and was played by Michael Gough, the celebrated English actor who would go on to appear in a number of Tim Burton projects, including playing Alfred Pennyworth in Batman.

The Toymaker was the central antagonist in "The Celestial Toymaker," a serial from the third season of Doctor Who. Only one part of the serial is available to watch now, although the story has since been novelized, and the character of the Toymaker has appeared in two other novels and a number of audio productions.

The Celestial Toymaker is an ancient and powerful being, who found his way to our universe after being expelled from another. He exists by a different set of scientific rules, giving the impression that he can bend the rules of reality itself. He also has the ability to control people, turning them into his "playthings." Bored by his immortality, he engages foes in contests, where they will either die or be trapped by his side forever.

Digital Spy did a pretty solid roundup of some of the responses that nailed down the Toymaker as the most likely villain of the anniversary special, which will feature at least two iterations of The Doctor and past companions.

"I am convinced it is The Toymaker. He even had prior history with the Doctor before they even met in the original 1960s serial, not to mention his reality warping powers to throw trials and games feels suitably 'special,'" fan James Johnson tweeted, and then added set photos featuring a toy store set, and a decoration featuring the caption "Toy Maker of the Year."

The story in which the Toymaker appeared is mostly classified as lost media, with only the fourth part of the four-part serial known to be preserved in the BBC archives. Significant chunks of early Doctor Whohave been lost, as the BBC used to routinely get rid of masters, not realizing that there would be an audience for them in the future. As a result, film was destroyed or given away, and magnetic tapes were recorded over. Doctor Whostands out among other BBC series, as fans recorded audio from the episodes, so virtually all of the missing content exists as an episode soundtrack (although some, including "The Celestial Toymaker," have damaged audio).

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The Umbrella Academy season three will see the super powered heroes come face to face with the Sparrow Academy

The Umbrella Academy follows a group of estranged children with super powers who reconnect as adults in the wake of their adoptive father, Reginald Hargeeves, death.

As they witness the oncoming apocalypse in the first season, the superheroes are transported back in time to the 1960s where they are separated once again.

They must now find a way to prevent the apocalypse before it happens in the present day.

The new season will see the Umbrella Academy encounter their alternate timeline replacements at the Sparrow Academy.

The series features a cast of well-known actors, many of whom have previously appeared in other shows about super powers.

Who is in the cast of The Umbrella Academy season 3?

Elliot Page as Viktor Hargreeves

Viktor, originally known as Vanya is one of the seven adopted children, and while at first it appears that they have no superpowers, Viktor is actually the most powerful of all them all.

Page, who came out as transgender in 2020, is an actor with several well-known projects on his CV, having starred in the coming of age drama Juno alongside Michael Cera and in psychological thriller Hard Candy.

He also played the superhero Kitty Pryde in two instalments of the X-Men franchise, Ariadne in the Christopher Nolan blockbuster Inception, and Courtney in the horror film Flatliners.

Tom Hopper as Luther Hargreeves

Hopper has the powers of superhuman strength and durability - he was given the designation of Number One to reflect that he was considered the most useful of the super-children.

Hopper played Sir Percival in the fantasy series Merlin and also starred as Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones.

He played Billy Bones in the pirate series Black Sails and has also starred in the films The Hitmans Wifes Bodyguard, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

Aidan Gallagher as Number Five

Number Five, who has the power of time travel and teleportation, became trapped in the future as an old boy where he saw the devastation of the apocalypse before returning to The Umbrella Academy to warn the others.

Gallagher appeared as a child actor in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, a series about the rivalry between a set of quadruplets.

He has also starred in two Nickelodeon TV movies and two short films.

Robert Sheehan as Klaus Hargreeves

Klaus, whose power is to speak to the dead, is a recovering drug addict who uses substance abuse to suppress his powers.

Sheehan is best known for his role as Nathan, a young offender with the power of immortality in the E4 comedy series Misfits.

His other roles include playing Carles Casagemas in the Aretha Franklin biopic series Genius, and Dalton Monkhouse in adventure comedy series The Last Bus.

David Castaeda as Diego Hargreeves

Diego was originally designated as Number Two and has the power of trajectory manipulation.

Castaeda played Nicholas in the comedy series Jane the Virgin and Jorge Castillo in the drama series Switched at Birth.

He also appeared in the films The Guilty, Sicario 2: Soldado, and The Ascent.

Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison Hargreeves

Allison, who has the power to influence reality, was transported to Dallas during the Civil Rights Movement after the failed to stop the apocalypse, where she had to navigate segregation.

Raver-Lampman also appeared in Jane the Virgin, playing Lily Lofton and Molly Tillerman in the animated series Central Park.

She is also due to star as Sam in the horror comedy film Gatlopp, which completed filming this year.

Justin H. Min as Ben Hargreeves

Ben features in the series as a ghost, having died before the Umbrella Academy first disbanded, and can only be seen by Klaus.

Min played Cameron in the miniseries Dating After College and Yang in the sci-fi series After Yang.

He also featured in the short films My Best Friend Max, How I Became An Adult, and American Refugee.

Colm Feore as Sir Reginald Hargreeves

Reginald is the adoptive father of the super children, and brought them together so that they would one day save the world.

Feore played Henry Taylor in the action series 24, Dr. Francis Dulmacher in the comic book series Gotham, and General Brockhart in House of Cards.

He has had several major film roles, appearing in Greta, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Thor, and Chicago.

When is The Umbrella Academy season 3 on Netflix

Season three of The Umbrella Academy will be released on Netflix on 22 June with all episodes being released at the same time.

Season one and two are available to watch on Netflix now.

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Enshrined over the weekend at The Florida Boxing Hall of Fame, Samoan powerhouse David Tua had his mighty fists cast for immortality. And what a superb fighting machine the prime David Tua really was. Indeed, its been said (and it is echoed here) that Tua has to be ranked as one of the finest, yes, one of the greatest, heavyweights never to have won a world title. Sure, absolute legends such as Sam Langford and Harry Wills have to be remembered when we think of all-time greats who were, for whatever reason or reasons, denied world championship honours, but as far as modern terms go, Tua stands out.

Upon his 1996 arrival on the world stage, this courtesy of his near decapitation job on John Ruiz (who would recover from his KO at the hands of Tua to go on to become one of the most durably stubborn heavyweights of the day), Tua had fans in a frenzy. Short and stocky, Tua was compared to Mike Tyson, to Rocky Marciano. Fast of hand, brutally powerful and, we would find out in due course, blessed with a chin to rival The Rocks, Tua seemed to have it all. Maybe he did, apart from good luck; which is an ingredient all fighters need.

Tua would demolish good, more than capable fighters like Ruiz, David Izon, and Oleg Maskaev (Izon and Maskaev extending Tua into the late rounds), while his out and out war with Ike Ibeabuchi in the summer of 1997 is rightfully referred to as an all-time great heavyweight battle. Tua lost that one, but Ibeabuchi might have left a bigger piece of himself in the ring in victory (a bigger piece of his mental health).

Tua went on to stop Hasim Rahman (a somewhat controversial stoppage win) and Obed Sullivan, before he got his one and only shot at a world title. Lennox Lewis boxed magnificently in decisioning a Tua who was carrying a rib injury that compromised his movement. Tua would never get another crack at the ultimate. Tua would lose a decision to Chris Byrd, he would rebound with a KO win over an unbeaten Fres Oquendo, taking the NABF heavyweight belt, and he would ice Michael Moorer in way less than three minutes in his fight after the Oquendo win.

Tua would then box a draw with Rahman in their rematch, and that was it at world level. Aside from an impressive-looking KO win he scored over Shane Cameron in what was a big fight in New Zealand, Tua had pretty much fired all his bullets. Finally, in 2013, after a loss to Alexander Ustinov, Tua retired at 52-5-2(43). He was never once stopped.

So Tua fell short, especially when we consider the great things he looked capable of achieving when he burst into prominence. But Tua at his best gave us some superb performances, some great and memorable highlight reel KOs that would have made a Marciano or a Tyson proud. Explosive, fast, hard to hit clean, carrying nuclear power bombs in each hand, protected by a granite chin for when a punch did land, blessed in his prime years with bucket-loads of energy and stamina. Yes, Tua did seem to have it all.

In total, Tua took out five men who were each at one time or another a world champion. Its just a pity for Tua that these fights did not take place at a time when the title was on the line. As it is, Tua is more revered, admired and is better remembered than plenty of fighters from his era who did become world champion. Tua was special, he was thrilling to watch. Even though he never reached the mountain top, Tua ranks as one of the best of his time.

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This article is part of a monthly series celebrating Kitterys history, as Maines oldest town counts down to its 375th birthday

There are roughly 19,500 cities and towns in the United States, according to the website Statistica. Only 42 can claim to be the birthplace of a Declaration of Independence signer.

The humble seaside town of Kittery, Maine, is one of them.

William Whipple was born in Kittery in 1730, in a house that still stands near the back gate of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. In 1776, as a member of the Second Continental Congress representing New Hampshire, Whipple was one of 56 men who literally put their lives on the line by signing the Declaration of Independence.

Sharp-eyed readers will note the 42 American communitieswhich produced a signer does not equal the 56 men who put their name to this fabled document. Thats because some cities were generous enough to provide more than one hometown hero to the cause, and a few signers were not even born in the colonies.

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And yes, history geek that I am, I actually went through the list of birthplaces for these great patriots and counted them, in order to appreciate just how unique Kittery is in this regard.

Boston, naturally, had the most native sons putting quill to the Declaration, with four, including future president John Adams, who was a good friend of Whipples. Eight of the signers were born in nations of the United Kingdom before immigrating to the Colonies.

As Maines oldest town counts down to its 375th year of existence here in 2022, it seems like an ideal opportunity to review how Whipple came to take his place among the giants of his era.

Whipples path to immortality was unique among the other signers, in that he was not a man of higher education or pedigree. He was also the only signer to originally hail from Maine.

Born in January 1730, Whipple grew up at the site of what is now 88 Whipple Road, just outside the Navy Yard. The home located there today is privately owned, but bears a plaque installed by the Daughters of the American Revolution to commemorate its historical significance.

On the opposite side of the Yards back gate, located on a tiny parcel known as Howells Park, stands an interpretive historical sign celebrating Whipple as Seaman-Soldier-Statesman-Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

As a member of Congress, Whipple would later serve with renowned lawyers such as Adams, physicians such as Benjamin Rush and New Hampshires Matthew Thornton, and flat-out geniuses like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. But Whipple shipped out to sea as a cabin boy in his youth, rather than pursuing studies in the classroom.

His decision to go to sea was perhaps inevitable, not only as a boy growing up in Kittery in the 1700s, but also as a member of a well-established seafaring family. Through his mother Mary, Whipple was descended from the Cutts, a celebrated clan of Kittery shipbuilders and mariners, and namesake of local sites such as Cutts Island.

His great-grandfather, Robert Cutt, established a prominent shipyard in Kittery. His grandfather also named Robert Cutt had captained a ship in the fleet of the powerful Pepperrell family, according to John Eldridge Frosts book Colonial Village. His father, William Whipple Sr., was a sea captain as well.

Remember, life on the water aboard wooden sailing ships in the mid-1700s was not for the weak it was a life of danger and adventure. But young William thrived, becoming master of his own vessel by the time he was 21 years old.

He sailed the West Indies-European-African trade route, and by several accounts was on at least one occasion captain of a ship carrying a cargo of slaves. Before the age of 30 he earned enough of a fortune to leave the sea behind.

Whipple eventually crossed the Piscataqua River to settle down inPortsmouth, going into business with two of his brothers as a merchant. One of his brothers died shortly afterward, but William and Joseph Whipple continued the business.

William then married their wealthy first cousin Katharine Moffatt, who was also a grandchild of Robert Cutt. He moved in with his wife and father-in-law John Moffatt at the Moffatt-Ladd House, which today remains one of Portsmouths most popular historic attractions.

Although he first made a name for himself as a Kittery resident toiling at sea, it was in Portsmouth that Whipple would truly establish his legacy, emerging as a leader of the American Revolution.

As was the custom of the time, he was referred to as Capt. Whipple in deference to his accomplishments at sea. He was held in such high regard he was appointed to Portsmouths committee of safety, which oversaw local affairs as a sort of shadow government of the Patriot cause under British rule.

Whipple was also selected to serve in New Hampshires provincial assembly, and appointed colonel in charge of the local militia. As such, he was then addressed as Col. Whipple in correspondence and written accounts, as well as in person.

Finally, in 1776, the former cabin boy was chosen as one of the colonys representatives to the Second Continental Congress. It was in this capacity that he signed the Declaration of Independence that July, and also championed the creation of a strong Navy.

In his letters, as befits the tough old Yankee salt that he was, Whipple often comes across as downright pugnacious in his advocacy for American independence.

War with all its horrors is preferable to an inglorious peace, he once wrote to fellow Signer Josiah Bartlett.

On another occasion, again writing to Bartlett, he declared, in order to obtain such a peace as will establish happiness in America, we ought to make the most Strenuous exertions for war. We ought to be United in Council & Formidable in the Field.

One of the aspects of Whipple I find so fascinating is his man of action persona. There were undoubtedly greater thinkers than the small-town Maine native in this fabled Congress, but few were more willing to back the power of his pen with the strength of his sword.

In 1777, while still serving as a delegate, Whipple was appointed a brigadier general of the New Hampshire militia. While he headed one brigade, the renowned Granite State warrior John Stark commanded the other.

Whipple took part in the pivotal Battle of Saratoga, and in his journals reports exchanges of cannon fire with the British. He also helped negotiate the terms of surrender in what became the first great American victory of the war, which encouraged France to step in as allies to the Patriot cause. Afterward Whipple was given the honor of escorting the defeated British Gen. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne back to the coast outside Boston and ship him back to England.

Whipple also took part in the less-successful Battle of Rhode Island, and was mere feet away when a cannonball took out the leg of one of his aides.

Over the course of his maritime career, Whipple acquired a slave named Prince, who remains a fascinating Seacoast legend in his own right. According to local folklore, the two were preparing to depart for a military campaign when the general exclaimed something along the lines of, Hurry up, Prince, weve got to go and fight for our freedom.

But I have no freedom to fight for, Prince replied.

Whipple, it is said, looked into the young fellows eyes and proclaimed, From this moment on you are a free man, Prince. Hurry up now and we will fight for our freedom together.

We do know Prince was officially issued hismanumission papersshortly before the Generals death in 1785.

Whipple left Congress in 1779 due to failing health, but still rode the circuit as an associate justice of New Hampshires Superior Court. He was on horseback when he suffered an attack and fell to the ground. He died a few days later in November 1785 and is buried in Portsmouths North Cemetery.

But in recent years, a new tradition has emerged in which Gen. Whipple returns to the town of his birth to give a public reading of the Declaration of Independence he signed in 1776. Whipples Reading will take place this year on Saturday the 25at 9 a.m., in USS Thresher Memorial Park beside Town Hall.

A series of other events are taking place in Maines oldest town as well throughout the year, to celebrate Kitterys 375th birthday. Information about these festivities is available at kittery375th.com.

D. Allan Kerr is a member of Kitterys 375th Celebration Committee.

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Dislyte is a turn-based style battle game. It is an RPG that is set in a modern mythological world. The Lone Star event in Dislyte got released a few days ago. Dislyte released Staff of Immortality in this event as a rare Namecard. While youre at it, why not go through our Donar, Catherine, and Drew esper guides.

Dislyte has well over 60 heroes known as Espers, and our Dislyte Tier List ranks them all. If you are interested in the builds of Espers, then consider reading our Meredith, Nicole, Unas, Triki, and Lin Xiao guides. All of these Espers are divided into four Elements in Dislyte that define their abilities.

If you dont know how to make up a team, we have a guide on how you can prepare the Best Dislyte Team. In which, you can choose any of the Best characters. If you feel like the options are limited, check out the five Best Support Espers guides. You can use Esper Fusion to make your Espers strong.

You might be wondering what exactly is the Staff of Immortality. Youll find that in Dislyte, the Staff of Immortality is a Profile Banner in the game; meaning the Staff of Immortality is the background display of your profile. It is like the Profile Banner that you get by buying the Welcome Pack III. But that one is animated, unlike the Staff of Immortality banner. It is a name card designed for Ollie, the Osiris in the game.

During The Lone Star event in Dislyte, you can get the Staff of Immortality. Youll have to collect 1000 Ancient Coins to buy it by completing different tasks in-game. And to get a total of 1000 Ancient Coins, youll need to play the game regularly and complete the tasks.

Once you have 1000 Ancient Coins, you can head over to the Ancient Coin Shop. There are several different items that you can buy using Ancient Coins. Some items of the Event are,

You can get only 1 Staff of Immortality from the event. And that is all you need. You dont need another Namecard or profile banner as it wont have any use. To get the Staff of Immortality in Dislyte, tap on it, and confirm the payment of 1000 Ancient Coins, and there you have it.

The question arises, is it worth it? Before we answer it, one thing to keep in mind is that it is a limited-time event item. Chances are there wont be any event with Staff of Immortality. So if youre a collector of limited-time event items, then the Staff of Immortality is for you. Well get on that in a while.

Anyways, for all the players, whether youre a collector or a Free-to-Play (F2P) player, you need to consider a few things. First of all, the cost of Staff of Immortality in Dislyte is 1000 Ancient Coins.

Put it this way, you can get 2x Golden Record for 800. Or, you can go for the Lengendary Abilimon, or Legendary Starimon by adding 500 Ancient Coins over the 1000 Ancient Coins.

One thing to keep in mind is that Starimon promotes Espers in Dislyte. It might be a tough choice for players whore starting new to choose Staff of Immortality over Legendary Starimon.

Using Starimon is one of the best methods, but it isnt the only method to Promote Esper Star Rating. If you want to take it slow, check out our Dislyte Best Leveling Guide for Espers.

Although it is a limited-time banner, it has nothing special. It doesnt even have any animations. If it had any, then wed have recommended getting one. Youll be spending time and stamina for this casual Banner. But if youre a collector, then the choice is yours.

If youve decided to get the Staff of Immortality banner in Dislyte, heres how itll look in-game.

The Staff of Immortality is one of the limited-time event items. Thats why it is good to have items if you want to flex on your friends in the future. But to get it, youll either have to use up a lot of gems for the stamina. Or youll have to spend lots of time getting the Ancient Coin.

And if youre a free-to-play player, there are better options for you. Again, this is based on our personal opinion, its totally up to you to decide if the limited-time Namecard Staff of Immortality in Dislyte is worth it or not.

With the Best Team prepared, you can test yourself in the Sonic Miracle or Ritual Miracle. Here, youll get to face different bosses. Talking about bosses, if youre having a hard time beating Siegfried, check out our Best Strategy & Espers to Beat Siegfried in the 12-8 Dislyte guide.

Did you miss getting the Pre-Register Rewards? Then here are Dislyte Codes to help you get started. With these codes, youll get tons of free stuff to make early-game easier for you. You can check out our Dislyte Beginners Guide where we have jotted down some important information for new players. You can Create Dislyte Clubs and get Friendship Points from players you make your friends.

Got any more related to Dislyte? Check out our Dislyte Wiki, where weve covered almost all of the questions might have.

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In 1960, British theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson published a one-page paper in the journal Science that offered perhaps the most hopeful vision ever conceived of humanitys technological future. Dyson imagined that an advanced civilization would meet its heightened energy needs by building a sphere around a star to absorb its energy output.

The paper focused more on theory than engineering, and Dyson provided scant details on what such a megastructure might look like or how we might build one. He described his sphere only as a habitable shell encircling a star. But that was enough to captivate and inspire astrophysicists, scientists, and sci-fi writers. In some depictions, the Dyson Sphere, as it became known, appears as a massive ring encircling a star and reaching nearly to Earth. In others, the Sphere completely encases the sun, a hulking megastructure capturing every bit of that stars energy. In addition to scientific works, Dyson Spheres have appeared in novels, movies, and TV showsincluding Star Trekas a home for advanced civilizations.

Dyson himself understood the challenges of constructing such a massive structure, and he was skeptical that it might ever happen. Nonetheless, his Sphere has stirred ambitious ideas about the future of our civilization, and it continues to be offered as a solution to some of humanitys most dire dilemmas. Harnessing the total energy of our sunor any starwould solve our immediate and long-term energy crisis, but when civilization gains access to the complete energy output of a star, meeting our terrestrial energy needs is just the beginning.

With so much energy available, we could direct high-powered laser pulses toward exoplanets that we think may contain life, immeasurably expanding our chances of communicating with distant civilizations. These Dyson-powered beams could travel farther into the universe than anything currently possible, penetrating the higher-density areas of space, such as dust clouds, which decay the signals we send now.

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Alternatively, we could use that power to help reach exoplanets directly by harnessing the energy we need toas some astrophysicists postulatemanipulating the space-time continuum to shorten the trip via experiments in quantum gravity. One intriguing option relies on creating so-called Kugelblitz black holes with pure photons, which have already been theorized to power the interstellar starships of the future. By warping space-time itself, we might be able to travel faster than light or create wormholes that provide shortcuts for crossing the galaxy.

More enticing still, the near-limitless energy made available by Dyson Spheres could solve some of the most perplexing barriers to life extension. Proponents of cryogenics recognize that widespread and longer use could create energy demands that far exceed whats currently available. And in 2018, researchers Alexey Turchin and Maxim Chernyakov posed that artificial intelligence might be able to digitally reconstruct people in a simulated world using DNA and other information from the deceased. Creating simulations rich enough to satisfy a race of near immortals would require huge amounts of energynot to mention clearing the many ethical and philosophical hurdlesbut the researchers proposed that Dyson technology could deliver the needed power.

Dysons ambitious vision seems more relevant than ever today. If technology continues along its current growth curve, global energy demands could increase by 50 percent in the next 30 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources will help in the near term, but a long-term solution will require more daring engineering. Dysons Sphere could be a bold solution, but it comes with obvious physical and mechanical problems, and its not clear whether these could be solved even by a civilization many thousands of years more advanced than ours.

As a professor at the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Technical University Berlin, Ive devoted decades to understanding the possibilities related to advanced alien civilizations. Ive coauthored five books on extraterrestrial life, and my interest in this science inspired me to study Dyson Spheres as a possible form of advanced alien technology. Around a decade ago, I became intrigued by the kinds of large engineering projects an alien civilization might undertake.

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In 2010, I looked at the feasibility of building a Dyson Sphere. Working with Brooks Harrop, a former physics student of mine at Washington State University in Pullman, we found numerous problems with the common conception of a Dyson Sphere, the most important of which was the spheres risk of collapse. A rigid concentric sphere around a star would experience a gravitational pull on every point. No material known today could resist that force. Engineers might counter this with a complex thruster system that keeps the shell in place via a counteracting force, but given the enormous mass of the shellmost conceptions imagine the structure to have a radius of 93 million miles, the distance between Earth and the sunsuch a system would consume a huge fraction, if not all, of the energy collected by the shell in the first place.

But say we could overcome these problems and manage to build the sphere far into the future: How would it survive meteors, asteroids, or radiation and solar flares? An object with the mass of Halleys comet would crash into the structure with a kinetic energy of more than 1 million hydrogen Tsar bombs, the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated.

Dyson foresaw those risks and acknowledged that a shell or ring surrounding a star would not likely be feasible. But the physicist proposed a solution: A loose collection, or swarm, of objects traveling on independent orbits around a star, harvesting its energy while avoiding most of the physical and mechanical problems of a solid Dyson Sphere. The satellites could be built over time and delivered gradually to the network, increasing the swarms energy production over time.

A Dyson Swarm of about 10 million satellites could fulfill humanitys energy needs. Thats a lot, but modern satellite constellations are creating precedence for such an engineering feat. SpaceX can launch 240 Starlink communication satellites a month, and as of February 2022, it already has more than 2,000 in space. The fleet could number in the tens of thousands by its completionnot Dyson Swarm amounts by a long shot, but enough to fuel our imagination.

To overcome the challenges of Dysons original concept, Harrop and I set out to find a realistic design for its replacement, the Dyson Swarm. We called our idea Solar Wind Power Satellites (SWPS). While traditional solar panels use the energy of visible light, our satellites would harvest the electrons that make up half of the solar wind. (The other half consists of protons and alpha particles.) Fast solar wind has a velocity of ~750km/s-1making these electrons richer in energy than those in the visible light hitting a solar panel. The heart of our SWP satellite is a long metal wire pointed at the sun, which would be charged to produce a magnetic field and then direct incoming electrons into a spherical metal receiver. These electrons would produce a current, which would in turn maintain the magnetic field in the wire and create a self-sustaining system between the two.

Most of the current would remain to power an infrared laser beamed toward receiving stations on Earthinfrared is optimal due to the transparent infrared window in our atmosphere, which allows wavelengths between roughly 8 and 13 microns through without absorption. After the laser sends its electrical energy to the receiving station, the remaining electrons would fall back onto a ring-shaped sail, where incoming sunlight can excite them enough to keep the satellite in orbit around the star.

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Each SWP satellite would have a mass of about 3.7 metric tons (about three times the weight of a GPS satellite) and would provide a continuous power output of about 2 megawatts per 24-hour day, meeting roughly the energy needs of 1,000 U.S. single-family homes. A full swarm of SWP satellites could fulfill all of humanitys energy needs.

These satellites could be built with relatively simple, inexpensive materials; the major construction expense would be 950 feet of copper wire per satellite. And because they use solar wind as their energy source, these satellites would absorb a minimal amount of heat and operate at nearly 100 percent efficiency. Traditional solar cells, by contrast, are expensive to produce because they require high-purity silicon for their semiconductors, and they have a notoriously low efficiency, about 20 percent.

A few technical hurdles stand in the way of a Dyson Swarm. While SWP satellites require little maintenance, theyre not self-cleaning. If positive ions rather than electrons from the solar wind get caught in the sail, they would reduce the efficiency of the satellite and, over time, degrade the system. We also didnt solve how to maintain a steady location in space amid variations in the solar wind, or how to arrange the orbits of millions (or eventually billions) of satellites around a star. And while small-scale, power-beaming laser systems have made large strides in recent years, a system that works in space is still a challenge. Small temperature changes of less than a degree Celsius would result in large changes to the lasers wavelength and output efficiency. Keeping a constant temperature in space is a headacheits difficult to transport heat from hotter to colder bodies where there is no atmosphere. We havent solved every problem of the Dyson Swarm yet, but maybe another civilization has.

In my book The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds, coauthored with William Bains, a senior research fellow at Cardiff University, we argued that once life arises on a planetary body, it will eventually evolve to become intelligentassuming the planet stays habitable long enough. The basis of this argument is that all major transitions in the evolution of life on Earth seem to have occurred several times independently from each other, or via different biochemical pathways. That would suggest that some of the trillions of other planets in the universe could have experienced this same evolutionary process, and a subset of life forms on those planets could have evolved to become intelligent. Have they advanced enough to build a Dyson Sphere? Freeman Dyson hypothesized that if they did, we could detect it.

Traditional Dyson Spheres with a solid shell might emit waste energy in mid-infrared wavelengths, detectable by current human instruments. At least one research team has looked for such a signature. Jason Wright, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, and Matt Povich of California State Polytechnic Universitys Physics and Astronomy department, used data from NASAs Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to search for a strong infrared signal in space, which would be expected from a Dyson Sphere. That search failed to find a Sphere, but perhaps the reason our telescopes havent seen any megastructures in space is that the aliens have come to the same conclusion we did in our paper: A gigantic, solid Dyson sphere is impractical, even for a civilization more advanced than our own.

Though we might never see our sun encased in a megastructure, or draw our energy from millions of satellites orbiting around it, the scienceand science fictioninspired by Dysons Sphere continues to animate some of our most ambitious thinking about life on this planet and beyond. That might be its most valuable contributiongiving us an ambitious target to aim for, and making way for a revolutionary discovery in the attempt.

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No Twilight dunks. No Teen Wolf gags. No tired references to any supernatural teen fiction of my bygone youth. Those are the promises I made to myself when I agreed to write about the new Sims 4 Werewolves game pack. And yet I accidentally wound up mating with an alpha werewolf, joining up with the rivals to his pack, and making plans to bite his new toddler.

The fanfic is writing itself and I am powerless to stop it.

My Sims 4 Werewolves session started appropriately. I created a young adult werewolf with an undercut, nose rings, the cute new patchwork baggy jeans in the Werewolves game pack, and allowed the randomizer to bestow her the name Margaret Ruff. Folks who have the Pets expansion will recognize the many fur color, pattern, and painting options available to make a rather unique werewolf with the same tools. I still think they look a bit like Jim Carey in a Grinch costume, but they did grow on me.

I expected (wrongly) that I would need to inject a bit of my own drama into werewolf life, so I made Margaret a vegetarian, a kleptomaniac, and set her up with a job as a night shift babysitter. Everything turned tails up very fast. Moonwood Mill's one affordable starter home is actually pretty cute as default homes go, showing off a bit of rustic cabin flare. I originally thought it odd that it came with neither TV nor computer, until I found out how prone werewolves are, even in human form, to wrecking their appliances at random with accidental superhuman strength. Margaret could barely browse the fridge for a snack without breaking it.

I quickly set aside concerns for Margaret's property because I couldn't be bothered with placing her on an eternal sink, stove, and fridge repair routine. Instead, she wandered Moonwood Mill. Frankly, I recommend spending as little time as possible at your own home because Moonwood is stacked with common spaces and community lots. I've always felt "eh" about Live Mode, but these areas actually felt worth spending time in.

There's a library and gym combo in an old warehouse, effectively a community center, where Margaret researched the secrets of werewolf lore. There's a bar with a secret clubhouse bunker beneath it where she snatched many a wolf nap. There are sewer grates full of secrets that she partially explored.

Most important are the Moonwood Collective pack's treehouse and the Wildfang trailer, popular hangout spots for their respective members. Margaret needed to get into one of these packs for a little stability: She couldn't stop breaking her sink and had just three simoleons to her name. Getting sent home from her only joba twice-weekly babysitting gigfor transforming into werewolf form in a rage certainly hadn't helped.

The Moonwood treehouse is where Margaret got to know Kristopher Volkov, chill alpha male of the Moonwood pack. He seemed like a decent guy, immediately choosing to help calm Maraget's rising werewolf fury when she showed up. Every werewolf has a fury meter that fills over time, especially under a full moon (every eight days by default), and when it finally maxes out they'll lose control, transform into a wolf, and go on a rampage around town scaring other Sims or smashing up their own homes.

Kristopher quelled her rage meter and delivered a bit of explanation: the Moonwood Collective wolves are all about mastering their rage and living in harmony with humans, unlike their rivals the Wildfangs who take pride in their wolf strength and see the Collective's attitude as cowardly. Margaret, vegetarian evangelist, babysitter, and lover of a good cable-knit, seemed like a perfect fit for the chill Collective.

The fanfic is writing itself and I am powerless to stop it.

Kristopher thought so too, because he started inviting himself over to her house. Often. Kristopher was so intent on spending time with Margaret, unbothered by her perpetually leaking sink, that I decided, what the hell, let her flirt with him. That one decision launched a drama worthy of a young adult paperback and now I have no idea how to stop it.

As soon as Margaret flirted with Kristopher I was notified that she'd found her fated mate, the one werewolf she's meant to be with. I tested the boundaries quickly, finding that she got tense flirting with anyone who isn't her fatemate. I scoffed. Of course my young adult Sim werewolf was destined to be with the grey-in-his-beard alpha, who was an unknown number of years older than her. Immortality is a high level werewolf skill in the tree, after all.

Though I mock my accidental YA novel setup, I rolled with it. Margaret and Kristopher had a whirlwind courtship the likes of which many Sims have experienced: flirting on the couch until 2am, a first kiss under a waning moon outside the library, and WooHooing in a bush across town.

But Margaret was still a growing wolf. She quickly went from a pup, to runt, to prime wolf. I used her ability points to unlock skills for treasure scavenging, enhanced smell, and night vision, while she gained passive abilities like control over when she entered her wolf form. At each new wolf rank she also gained a trait that I didn't pick. She started out excitable, gaining more fury while in a playful mood, which was fine.

Then she became prideful of her wolf abilities and also developed "wolf brain" making intellectual pursuits more difficult. Uh oh.

Much as I personally appreciated Kristopher's werewolf philosophy, I knew Margaret was meant to be a Wildfang. She made quick friends with the Wildfang alphaconveniently Kristopher's estranged adopted daughterand joined the crew. She got a weekly jerky allotment, a werewolf magazine subscription, and the expectation that she'd start spreading her werewolf prowess all over the world.

It didn't come between her and Kristopher at first, though I was fully intending for her to tell him Wildfangs rule pretty soon, and surely that was not going to go over well. Not two days later, Kristopher called to tell Margaret that he'd adopted a toddler, a little girl named Perry who almost immediately developed a grudge against her. Is Kristopher planning to turn her wolf when she's old enough? Or should I go behind his back and have Margaret do it herself? This furry family tree got pretzel-shaped in a hurry.

Sims 4 Werewolves may be billed as a Game Pack, not expansion, but the new neighborhood, skill tree, super customizable werewolf form, and the built-in drama of wolf life add way more than I expected to the game. I normally turn my nose up at Live Mode and go back to building my little houses, but I need to find out just how unhinged the next chapter of the Margaret Ruff series gets.

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