Subversion software5/29/2023 We assure you that you will not find any difficulty in our SVN tutorial. So it will help you to learn SVN quickly. I have started this tutorial from scratch. We have developed this SVN tutorial for beginners and professionals both. So it will be better to have some amount of exposure to the software development life cycle (SDLC) and working knowledge of developing web-based and non-web-based applications. In SVN, You are going to handle all levels of programming-based projects. You have a basic understanding of Windows commands. SVN is not a programming language, so you don't need to much worry about essential knowledge. SVN client is free and open-source.Ĭurrently, some supported clients are Tortoise SVN, Collabnet, and Visual SVN clients. It provides the interface that helps and allows us to interact with the server. It is a tool that is installed on the user machine to communicate with the SVN server. It can store the complete version of the requirements.It provides the read and write access to multiple destinations through the SVN client-server.The server operates on the central master copy of your projects in a database. It can store or hold the entire project CRS in the centralized remote device. It is a tool that is installed in the user machine. The client acts as the browser that accesses the data on the server. These components can be considered as web servers and web browsers. There are two core components of SVN they are as follows: It has a standalone server option (svnserver).It has language bindings for some programming languages like C#, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, and Java.It provides versioning of symbolic links.It provides file locking for the files that cannot be merged.It supports Internationalized program message.It supports atomic commits (Either it will occur or not).In 2009, Apache Incubator accepted it and made it a top-level apache product. It was operated much like CVS (Concurrent versions system). Subversion is open-source and comes under the Apache License, and it was developed by CollabNet Inc in 2000. Some other popular version control systems like Git are in trend now, but there are a large number of projects that are still running on the Subversion. It acts as the time machine for the developers and allows them to go back and browse the history of the project. SVN is used to manage the current and previous versions of files like source code, documentation, and files. It is an open-source tool for version control. ![]() ![]() It is a centralized version control system. It is called as SVN because of its commands (its command name svn). The examples were done on windows, but should also work on other operating systems like Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac. This tutorial helps you to understand the Centralized version control system. ![]() The version control allows you to track and work together with your team members at the same workspace. It is developed to co-ordinate the work among programmers. It is designed to handle minor to major projects with speed and efficiency. SVN is an open-source centralized version control system that is available for everyone at zero cost. Our SVN tutorial is designed for beginners and professionals. ![]() SVN tutorial provides basic and advanced concepts of SVN.
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Kindergarten math5/29/2023 If you’re a teacher-mom or dad, you never know when you need to take a sick day! Having these journals on hand makes for the easiest sub plans ever. However, the journals are the only paper copies I need for the month. In addition to the journals, we still do a lot of hands-on investigations. Set the copier to double-staple, and your math packets are done. ![]() I print the journals at the end of the previous month. ![]() Having the journals on hand ensures that my students will work on math skills every single day! Math for the Month is Prepped in Minutes! Some days, we simply run out of time to get in a full Math Workshop. The kindergarten day flies by – especially at the beginning of the year. I teach two half-day kindergarten sessions, and running out of time is my greatest challenge. Here’s what I love about using Kindergarten Math Journals… Meaningful Math Everyday Complete a page a day, and you’ve got math for the entire month. Pages include number sense activities as well as a variety of mathematical concepts rotated throughout each journal. Each month includes a journal cover plus 20 practice pages. My Kindergarten Math Journals are sold either individually by month or as part of a bundle for the entire kindergarten year. ![]() In this post, I will explain everything you need to know about Math Journals for Kindergarten, what’s included, and how to incorporate them into your daily math practice. When we transitioned back into the classroom, I knew that the math journals would continue to be an effective teaching tool. Kindergarten Math Journals have been a game changer in my classroom! I created these monthly math books when we were teaching remotely, and they worked really well online. Bible eye for an eye5/29/2023 ![]() The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.” Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The concept of restitution is also found in Leviticus 24:18, “Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution - life for life. Jewish tradition explains, “One who injures another' is liable to pay five kinds of penalties: for damage, for pain, for medical costs, for loss of livelihood, and for humiliation.” This verse was to ensure a proportionate penalty for the loss of life, limb, and future lost benefits. Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed for in the image of God has God made mankind ( Genesis 9:6). The penalty from shedding blood or taking the mother's life and the baby's life comes from all people being made in the image of God. One implication, however, is that the death of the baby seems to be judged according to the same principle that applies to the taking of other human life (e.g. It was simply a formula for proportionate punishment or compensation. The ESV Study Bible explains “as the preceding and following laws show (vv.26-37) ‘eye for eye’ was not taken literally. In the ancient Jewish commentary, “Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it ‘the price of an eye for an eye,’ Rashi, a 12 th-century Jewish Rabbi also known as Jarchi wrote, ‘he that puts out his neighbour's eye must pay him the price of his eye, according to the price of a servant sold in the market, and so of all the rest for not taking away of members strictly is meant, as our doctors here interpret it.’” Bible scholars believe that Exodus 21 contains the summary of judgments in specific situations that form a type of case law for making future decisions. Moses had spent significant time during the first three months of the Exodus settling disputes among the people by informing them of God's decrees and instructions ( Exodus 18:13-23). The weakest or poorest person among them had the same rights as the wealthiest or strongest. The law was to be their guide and standard. ![]() The people of Israel were different than the nations around them. The expression, “Might makes right” summarizes the rule of law in ancient times. The Egyptian rulers were arbitrary and unjust. In Egypt, the Israelites had been slaves of Pharaoh. Successfully traveling across the desert with 2.5 million relatives meant having a common set of rules and standards for everyone in the community. Imagine a three-month camping trip with almost everyone who lives in the city of Chicago! Over 600,000 men, not including women and children, left Egypt, and scholars estimate about 2.5 million people were in the Exodus ( Exodus 12:37). God gave Moses these commands only three months after the Hebrews escaped slavery in Egypt ( Exodus 19:1). The previous chapter of Exodus contains the Ten Commandments. It is in a series of commands regarding assault and injury. The first time the expression “ an eye for an eye” is used in the Bible is in Exodus 21:24. An Eye for an Eye in the Old Testament - Exodus 21:24 Both Jewish and Christian scholars believe that “eye for eye” was used by judges to create proportionate penalties for harm caused to other people or animals, and that people were not maimed in the application of this law. Many people wonder if “eye for eye” was used literally in carrying out biblical judgments. Yet this phrase is found three times in the Old Testament and is quoted by Jesus in the New Testament. An eye for an eye seems to be a simplistic form of justice that is focused on retribution. Hypercube graph5/29/2023 Thus, a Gray code cycle consisting of words of length n contains all the 2 n possible bit string combinations. Cyclic Gray Code A finite Gray code sequence is called cyclic if the transition between the last word of the sequence and the first is a single bit exchange that is the first and last strings differ by a single binary digit. Rather, Gray code is produced by applying the exclusive-or operation to consecutive bits of the equivalent binary number (Table. Where the binary counting system, like the decimal counting system, places the value of a bit or number on the digit’s position, Gray code does not. Gray code is a binary counting system in which consecutive numbers differ by a single bit. Gray Code Tightly coupled with the notion of binary counting is that of Gray Code. A layered Q 3 graph with M 3 outlined in the centerģ. Definition 6 (Word or String) The terms word and string are used interchangeably to refer to a binary number consisting of a sequence of zeros and ones.įigure 2. Definition 5 (Middle Level Graph) The middle layer graph, denoted, is a subgraph of containing the vertices in levels and (Fig. The level of the hypercube refers to the set of vertices of which contain I ones in their vertex string (Fig. Definition 4 (Vertex Levels of a Hypercube) When mapped to a coordinate axis, each vertex of a hypercube,, can be assigned a binary string of length n. Definition 3 (Hamiltonian Cycle) In a graph, a cycle c of, which contains every vertex of once, is said to be a Hamiltonian cycle, and for this reason, is called a Hamiltonian graph. Hypercubes of the first, second and third dimensionĭefinition 2 (Hamiltonian Path) In a graph a path that contains every vertex of once is referred to as a Hamiltonian Path. ![]() These graphs are denoted by, where n is the dimension (Fig. For the purpose of this paper it should be noted that all hypercubes refer to binary n-dimensional graphs. Definitions and Notations Definition 1 (Hypercube) A hypercube is the graphical representation of the edges and vertices in a single volumetric unit in any dimension n. Finally, this paper will look into how queue Gray codes can be used to search for paths and cycles within middle level graphs and the results of queue Gray code and antipodal tests on known Hamiltonian paths within various middle level graphs. This paper takes a look at various properties of the hypercube and the middle level graph as well as the use of Gray codes to develop some of these properties. As of 2006, with the aid of technology, and were the largest graphs of this nature to be proved to contain Hamiltonian cycles. There are a few strategies which can be used to disprove the existence of such cycles, but the middle level graph, as little effort will show, fails on these accounts. The difficulty in solving the problem is undoubtedly due in part to the unclear nature of Hamiltonian cycles in general, for there is no known method to prove the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle in a graph. The conjecture states that for every odd n-dimensional hypercube for, there exists a Hamiltonian cycle in the graph of the middle layers of the hypercube. First proposed in the 1980’s by Ivan Havel, the Middle Level Conjecture, under the name “The Revolving Door Conjecture” remains an open problem in mathematics unanimously thought to be true. The question of whether particular subgraphs of the hypercube are Hamiltonian is less clear. It is well known that these graphs are Hamiltonian. Introduction A hypercube, sometimes referred to as a n-cube, is the graphical representation of the edges and vertices in a single volumetric unit in any dimension n. ![]() This program is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.1. COPYRIGHT & LICENSEĬopyright 2008 Matt Spear, all rights reserved. If graph_maker is specified it will be called to create the Graph class as desired (for example if you have a subclass of Graph), this defaults to create a Graph with the parameters specified. Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-graph-maker-hypercube at rt., or through the web interface at. If graph_maker is specified and is it will be called to create the Graph class as desired (for example if you have a subclass of Graph). The recognized parameters are N, and graph_maker any others are passed onto Graph's constructor. # work with the graph FUNCTIONS new %paramsĬreates the N-dimensional hypercube graph. My $g = new Graph::Maker('hypercube', N => 2, undirected => 1) If the graph is directed then edges are added in both directions to create an undirected graph. Graph::Maker::Hypercube - Create the N-dimensional hypercube graph VERSIONĬreates the N-dimensional hypercube graph. Leah weller paul weller5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() They also had two singles, " That's Entertainment" and " Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?", reach No. 21 and No. 8 respectively in the UK singles chart despite not even being released as singles in the UK – they got there purely on the strength of the huge number of people buying import sales of the German and Dutch single releases. The Jam became the first band since the Beatles to perform both sides of the same single (" Town Called Malice" and " Precious") on one edition of Top of the Pops. "They're one of the new groups who have written the best songs. "I like them a lot," remarked Peter Gabriel, who enlisted Weller to play on his third album. The increasing popularity of their blend of Weller's barbed lyrics with pop melodies eventually led to their first number one single, " Going Underground", in March 1980. Although every subsequent single had a placing within the Top 40, it was not until the group released the political " The Eton Rifles" that they would break into the Top 10, hitting the No. 3 spot in November 1979. The Jam's first single, " In the City", took them into the UK Top 40 in May 1977. Paul Weller (left) performing with the Jam in Newcastle, 1982 He has been a committed mod ever since, declaring in a 1991 interview that, "I'll always be a mod. At his instigation, the Jam began wearing mohair suits onstage and he and Foxton began playing Rickenbacker guitars (as favoured by the Who and the Beatles in the mid-1960s). As a result, he began riding a Lambretta scooter, styling his hair like Steve Marriott and immersing himself in 1960s soul and R&B music. Weller became interested in 1960s mod culture in late 1974, particularly after hearing ' My Generation' by the Who. Brookes left the band in 1976, and Weller and Foxton decided they would swap guitar roles, with Weller now the guitarist. Joined by Rick Buckler on drums, and with Bruce Foxton soon replacing Waller on rhythm guitar, the four-piece band began to forge a local reputation, playing a mixture of Beatles covers and a number of compositions written by Weller and Brookes. Weller's father, acting as their manager, began booking the band into local working men's clubs. He formed the first incarnation of the Jam in the same year, playing bass guitar with his best friends Steve Brookes (lead guitar) and Dave Waller (rhythm guitar). Weller's musical vocation was confirmed after seeing Status Quo in concert in 1972. By the time Weller was eleven and moving up to Sheerwater County Secondary school, music was the biggest part of his life, and he had started playing the guitar. His love of music began with the Beatles, then the Who and Small Faces. Weller started his education at Maybury County First School in 1963. His father worked as a taxi driver and a builder and his mother was a part-time cleaner. Although born John William Weller, he became known as Paul by his parents. Weller was born on in Woking, Surrey, England, to John and Ann Weller (née Craddock). He was the principal figure of the 1970s and 1980s mod revival, often referred to as "The Modfather", and an influence on Britpop bands such as Oasis. Many of his songs with the Jam had lyrics about working class life. He had further success with the blue-eyed soul music of the Style Council (1983–1989), before establishing himself as a solo artist with his eponymous 1992 album.ĭespite widespread critical recognition as a singer, lyricist, and guitarist, Weller has remained a national, rather than international, star and much of his songwriting is rooted in English society. Weller achieved fame with the punk rock/ new wave/ mod revival band the Jam (1972–1982). Paul John Weller (born John William Weller ) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Bait and switch5/28/2023 ![]() They use the lure of attractive or incredible pricing only as bait to entice the potential consumer to the store. Rather, it is an attempt to mislead the customer through an alluring but insincere offer (the bait) in order to induce him to purchase a separate product (the switch) that usually generates a higher profit margin for the retailer and costs the consumer more.īait-and-switch operations have no intention of selling the originally advertised merchandise. The practice is dishonest because the retailer’s offer to sell a product or service is not a bona fide one. ![]()
Cinescope podcast5/28/2023 ![]() Published on Ep 29 - Bustin' Loose & D.C. Watersheds Mark Cosgrove and Steph Read find plenty of films to think about in March new films from. Hosted by Mike McPadden (author of "Teen Movie Hell" & "Heavy Metal Movies") & Aaron Lee (TV writer, former Exec Producer of "Family Guy") Crackpot Cinema Podcast’s tracks Ep 31 - Crackpot Beatles vs Bee Gees Weekly episodes are recorded using YouTube, Google Hangouts,, Audacity and Adobe Creative Cloud.CRACKPOT CINEMA reels through charming and/or alarming vintage films that have, deservedly or not, slipped into obscurity. The Lovecraft Tapes Keeper of Arcane Lore, Jeremy “BOOMstick” Johnson, guides Bryan Johnson, Matt Zielisch and George Gallagher as Investigators of the Unknown through an actual-play Call of Cthulhu podcast with plenty of horror, humor and mass confusion. So they come running when a certain famous director summons them to track down a missing Hollywood agent. Time has changed the HIAA investigators somewhat, but they’re still up for a good paying gig. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Alejandro Jodorowskys mystical magnum opus The Holy Mountain, three classics by the controversial Chilean surrealist. ![]() Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the. In This Episode: Three years have passed since the Green Grove incident. In Episode 88 of The Cinescope Podcast, Chad and Erik Woods talk about one of their favorite movies, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade The Cinescope Podcast on iTunes Show Notes Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on Apple TV Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade soundtrack on Apple Music Stats Released Dir. The Lovecraft Tapes | Episode 9 - Chapter 2: Dark Angles (part 1) Website // Instagram // YouTube // Facebook // Twitter (Usually at each other's expense) - Tales Of The Con is a celebration of Comic Con culture with a punk rock spin. We talk video games, movies, comic books, and real life stories while cracking jokes. Once a week the TOTC crew takes a comedic look at all the nerdy and geeky things we love. ITunes // RSS Feed // GooglePlay // Stitcher // Pocket Casts NSFW - Mature Language and salty attitudes Telephone shenanigans ensue as we reach out to our east coast representatives David (Washington DC) and Samantha (Florida) and give them a chance to ramble. We discuss the Star Wars animated shows Clone Wars & Rebels and how they relate to the overall canon of the newest movies. We talk about Adventure Time, Batman the Animated series, Gravity Falls, GI Joe, and even Spongebob. The Cinescope Podcast 57:58 Play Audio Add to Playlist 185 Listens 9 Likes In Episode 87 of The Cinescope Podcast, Chad and Sean Paul Ellis talk about one of their favorite movies, The Thing The Cinescope Podcast on iTunes Show Notes The Thing on Apple TV The Thing soundtrack on Apple Music Stats Released JDir. The crew compares cartoons from our childhoods (80s/90s) to modern animated shows. Cinescope is a podcast free of criticism or ratings, where host Chad Hopkins and guests celebrate their favorite movies, exploring story, characters, music, and relevance to the world around us. Cinescope is a podcast free of criticism or ratings, where host Chad Hopkins and guests celebrate their favorite movies. How do Germans go through puberty? Diagnosing Illness with Motorcycles? Did we Die & this is all a Dream? These are some of questions we've presented and We leave none unanswered especially the big one, "Why Would You Make This?" We open with a Comedy Skit, do Impersonations, Make a Sequel, & have a Quiz. We take you scene-by-scene through excruciating entertainment, pointing out wrongs & trying to make sense of it, all while desperately trying to stay on topic. What is Why Would You Make This? "Comedian" Jimmy Time, "Almost Doctor" Danny Money, & Pro Wrestler "Super King" Jay Delta discuss a bad movies and try to fix them. In Today's Episode: Accordion Hatred, British Acting Exchange, Holiday Blues, A Cheating Fetish, Grumbly Uncle Joe, Bully Union, Shivelfest and we make sense of Episode 60 in what we immediately deem the episode of bad jokes. Why Would You Make This? | Episode 63- Jack Frost (1998) NSFW Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkingtons On Cinema podcast 2: The Sequel. Segger embedded studio5/28/2023 ![]() Ranging .RV Review: Rockwood Mini Lite 2109S Travel Trailer By Tony Barthel Septem5 Yesterday we looked at the Coachmen Freedom Express Ultra Lite 192RBS and today we’re looking at the Forest River Rockwood Mini Lite 2109S. ![]() Forest River, Inc., Interactive Owner's Manuals. ![]() Midwest automotive designs for new rockwood mini lite floor plans available at colaw who do too?Interactive Manuals. New 2022 Forest River Rockwood Mini Lite 2205S. 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Edit Listings MyRVUSA Sell My RV! Find RVs. Also search nationwide inventory for Rockwood Mini Lite 2109S for sale. 2017 Forest River Rockwood Mini Lite 2109S Specs and brochures. Cinderace build pokemon unite5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Due to its dependence on levels and unusually high mobility and self-peeling for a long-ranged hyper-carry, Cinderace can also be played in the Middle lane so that it can have an early level advantage against all enemies. Cinderace can dominate games when ahead and it can come back in the late game on bad games through farming experience points alone.Ĭinderace is usually played in the Top or Bottom lane where it can farm safely with the help of a support or a defender. Cinderace wants to attack enemies from a distance and Eject Button helps him with that.Ĭinderace is your typical long-ranged hyper-carry. Cinderace, with his high attack speed, benefits from this Held item because the more attacks a pokemon can land, the more chances of the attacks being a critical hit.īuddy Barrier increases your HP by a lot and the shield when using the Unite move can be a solid trump card on team fights or 1v1s.Įject Button will make it harder for enemies to reach Cinderace. Scope Lens grants critical hit chance and increases critical hit damage. With Cinderace’s high attack speed, even high HP defenders are not safe especially in the late game where Cinderace really shines. Muscle Band grants bonus damage based on the target’s HP. Feint enables Cinderace to reposition himself to keep his distance from enemies and if they get close, it grants invincibility to help Cinderace avoid damage. Muscle Band is the biggest flat damage increase that also helps you beat down tanks.The Pyro Feint build turns Cinderace into a pokemon that is capable of carrying his team through his long-range attacks through his strong basic attacks and Pyro Ball. ![]() These are the best items for Cinderace to take bar absolutely none, the movement speed is huge and crit damage and chance just scale so well into the game you have to take it. If needed you can also snipe anyone running away with it. Use your Ultimate to nuke objectives like Zapdos, Drednaw or Rotom, and try to throw it out BEFORE the teamfight starts so you can get the movespeed. Flame Charge isn't terrible but it feels so bad to take in most games. If I can't risk fighting the enemy team I'll try and be annoying in their jungle and score goals for free and take any 1v1's I can get.įeint is also really good because it synergizes with your passive (by popping it below 50% HP when possible and start laying crits down like a carpet bomb) and a lot of pokemon in the game have abilities that autotarget you, and this also doesn't let speedsters 1 shot you (Gengar/Zeraora). If you really can't get anywhere near the enemy team or you risk dying, then you could take pyroball, but I never do. Level 1 Ember just does the most damage and can poke your opponent, if you're jungle you can start Dash to hop over the wallīlaze Kick is a guaranteed crit synergizing with Scope Lens, immunity to CC, and grants Attack Speed once you upgrade it which synergizes massively with your kit, The only downside is that in a teamfight it can put you in a bad spot, try to use it on the frontline as the fight starts so you can mow them down. Defend a goal if your teammates get bonked and go back to farming. ![]() If you're Mid/Jungle, farm and make sure you gank with both buffs available (1m respawn), look to pressure the enemy and score goals where they are weak and constantly farm your jungle. Don't feel like you have to score just because you're capped on points, defend your point and keep farming for EXP! Avoid fights unless you're sure you'll win since you're weak early. Hi, my name is Nahde and I have an 80% winrate in Veteran 4, quickly heading into Ultra and I've also been Diamond in League of Legends for multiple years and I wanted to share my build and why I think it's the bestįarm as much as you can early on if you're top or bot, farm the middle crabs near Zapdos when possible. Kosmos horology5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() But I’m talking emotional cowardice here. I don’t hold his physical cowardice against him, as I said-he’s not a fighter, and he gets involved in some highly dangerous situations against his will, so him comically wailing like Shaggy from Scooby Doo is tolerable to me. No, the reasons I dislike the whole Allen and Shion thing that Xenosaga 3 decides to make canon are as follows.įirst: He’s an emotionally gutless coward for literally more than 99% of the series. Mildly annoying at times, but in his cowardly way he’s dedicated, he’s got a good heart, and.well, that’s about it actually, since his character is rather flat, but he’s alright. And I don’t begrudge him his interest in Shion (although I sure as hell don’t understand it good lord is she a pill). So what I’m about to say is, honestly, me being objective, not letting my personal biases get in the way of the issue.Īlright, another note I’d like to make before I continue. I try never to let what I want override my ability to recognize what is, you know? It seems to me like the entire series is implying that KOSMOS and Shion are in love, but I concede that you can argue, probably effectively, that every instance of proof for this idea has some other intention, some other meaning. Then there’s all the implications of the previous lives thing, the way KOSMOS acts once she’s regained her lost ankly, if the game had just outright acknowledged that KOSMOS and Shion loved each other at some point, and left it at that, it would have been one of the few aspects of Xenosaga’s plot that was understandable and concluded well.īut although I personally believe that there’s a connection of love between them, I DO try to stay objective, both when I’m playing a game and when I’m ranting. To me, that is, all things considered, basically a statement of love, right there. Shion interprets this as essentially meaning that KOSMOS’s very heart wants to protect her, and it seems like a pretty legit understanding to me (though I am, granted, hardly knowledgeable about the way proposed AI behavior programming and such would work). Hell, there’s a scene where KOSMOS even seems to say she loves Shion, in as much capacity as she can-when Shion asks why KOSMOS watches over her in ways far beyond her programming, KOSMOS’s response is basically that protecting Shion is her highest priority, not as a part of her programming per say, but as a direct, interrupting value that comes from her core, able to supercede every other behavioral directive. Shion’s interactions with KOSMOS seem to personally focus Shion in a way that doesn’t happen with her interactions with anyone else, and she’ll allow KOSMOS in without a thought even when she shuts everyone else out. KOSMOS is extraordinarily protective of Shion far beyond the scope of her programming keeping Shion safe can be considered the ultimate priority for KOSMOS, and she will, and does, break the laws of her own construction to make that happen. I think there’s some real romantic potential there, and I swear, it cannot possibly just be my imagination that the games themselves hint at it. I personally have advocated, since Xenosaga 1, the idea of Shion and KOSMOS being involved romantically. Before we begin, let me just get this out of the way, to be fair and honest. Oh, I know what I’ll rant about! Allen and Shion. How about making half the main cast overall unimportant to the game’s events? Or continuing the decision of Xenosaga 1 and especially 2 to give Ziggy no significant relevance to the story? Maybe the fact that an entire game’s worth of events happened between Xenosaga 2 and 3, and is only related to the player through vague references and an in-game glossary? Perhaps the lack of background and depth for almost all of its villains, whether major or minor? Oh gosh, I should do a rant about one of the problems with Xenosaga 3’s story decisions. (Many thanks to my friend Jolt for his part in making this rant possible, and my sister for bouncing my ideas right back in my face and forcing me to get my shit together with my arguments.) |