Sentences with phrase «as real world events»

Showing what happens when a humdrum office life doesn't go according to plan, the short game examines the weight of decision making and consequences, both as gaming devices as real world events.

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And, because of the long lead time needed to produce a video, YouTube isn't able to respond in real - time to TV or world events as campaigns on Twitter might.

It continues, «As more real - world miles accumulate and the software logic accounts for increasingly rare events, the probability of injury will keep decreasing.

Some of the kinds of transactions that Bitcoin can support include so - called M of N transactions, which require agreement between a certain subset of a group, and can be used for escrow, mediation, or shared financial management; time - locked transactions, in which bitcoins are distributed on a strict schedule, useful for trusts or wills; and even data - conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real - world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.

How It Works Typically, geolocation apps do two things: They report your location to other users, and they associate real - world locations (such as restaurants and events) to your location.

As more real - world miles accumulate and the software logic accounts for increasingly rare events, the probability of injury will keep decreasing.

A press release elaborated on its plot: «The comic depicts early events in Colonel Sanders» life that eventually led to the discovery of his real super power: the combination of a pressure cooker and secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, better known as his world - famous Original Recipe Chicken.»

We have in place strict guidelines for our trending topic reviewers as they audit topics surfaced algorithmically: reviewers are required to accept topics that reflect real world events, and are instructed to disregard junk or duplicate topics, hoaxes, or subjects with insufficient sources....

A realistic narrative is, as Aristotle taught, a sequence of events that, in retrospect, «had» to happen or could happen in the real world.

Philosophy is great when dealing with abstract, human concepts (beacuse it's process is based around the human as the standard) but without some way to test philosophical treaties, you are just doing thought experiments which may or may not have any bearing on events in the «real» world.

It is precisely this coincidentia of the opposing realms of the sacred and the profane that makes possible Christianity's celebration of the Incarnation as an actual and real event, an event that has occurred and does occur in concrete time and space, and an event effecting a real transformation of the world.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

Even if it made sense to speak, as Whitehead does, of a «world» as the «relative actual world» of a unique event — then how do such «worlds» stand in relation to that real level of abstraction (cf. 2.4) on which actual worlds and actual experiences interact and interpenetrate one another, the level which Whitehead sometimes defines as «nature»?

The paradigmatic fictional works of the twentieth century either present accounts that make dramatic sense in themselves, but tell of events or sequences that could not occur in the world outside the storytelling; or they meticulously describe events that could occur or perhaps actually have occurred in «the real world,» but in such fashion as to display precisely their lack of dramatic coherence.

The IHSA School Streaming Program allows students to gain real - world broadcast production experience, as they stream school events on the internet.

And just as the campaign would use new media tools to encourage voter turnout and other action in the real world, they built their list of online activists in part at physical events:

The researchers looked at real - world observations and confirmed that this temperature pattern does correspond with the double - peaked jet stream and waveguide patter associated with persistent extreme weather events in the late spring and summer such as droughts, floods and heat waves.

That's not quite the same thing as reacting to real - world driving events.

Our website, archdigest.com, offers constant original coverage of the interior design and architecture worlds, new shops and products, travel destinations, art and cultural events, celebrity style, and high - end real estate as well as access to print features and images from the AD archives.

Speakers at this event include executives from companies such as: Love.com, America Online, Cupid.com, Friendfinder, MingleMatch, True.com, Weblogs Inc, Userplane, Korea Datahouse, Trilibis, Keynote, Market Data Enterprises, ComScore Networks, Hitwise, Relationship Exchange, DatingRev, Spring Street Networks, One Real World, Online Personals Watch, Look Better Online, Did-It.com, SoHo Digital, Trufina, Boehm - Ritter, Donat Wald and RevShare Corporation.

You need to see this one on the biggest screen possible, and let it wash over you as if you had stepped inside the most incredible video game experience ever created — one in which events in the manufactured universe can have lasting and serious real - world consequences.

Loosely based on real events, «Heavenly Creatures» follows two teenage girls, Juliet (Kate Winslet) and Pauline (Melanie Lynskey), as they meet, fall in friend - love, obsess over male movie stars, build up an increasingly ornate fantasy world and, ultimately, plan and execute a murder.

Despite its attempts to construct itself as a crime drama and psychological thriller, rather than exploit a pontificating agenda to appeal a more balanced audience, Captive remains an unsatisfactory account of a notorious real - life event that made headlines around the world, owing to the phenomenal spiritual awakening of a cold - blooded murderer and rapist.

Anchored by an all - star cast and based on real events, the movie is a look at two seemingly different worlds, in which nothing is as simple as black or white.

You can see this as recently as last year's Bleeding Edge, a fiercely funny 2001 - set New York City tale that pits the ominous bloom of the Internet Age against the real - world events of one terrible Tuesday.

Some, of course, will object on principle to the mere act of turning events such as the Iraq War and the 9/11 attacks — two of Greengrass's previous subjects — into pulse - pounding thrills in the first place, arguing that he's exploiting real - world trauma for the sake of shallow entertainment.

Players will battle in real Monster Jam events in eight authentic stadiums on the path to the Monster Jam World Finals. In head - to - head multiplayer, players can compete against friends and family to earn ultimate bragging rights as the best monster truck driver.

But it's not as gross as watching actors as talented as these try to make something out of a script that contrives human interaction in such a way that Love Actually becomes quasi-fantastical in its attempts to sell the events as something born out of love — you know, the kind of stuff that gets people by in the real world, not the sweet syrupy stuff in movies.

And, as many of you PBL practitioners could tell, that 30 - minute «Introductory Classroom Activity» sure sounds (almost) like an Entry Event — there's an engaging activity, a connection to the real world, a challenge and a preview of what the task is.

Help students link the game's content to events in the real world with classroom talks and writing assignments or by providing other media, such as documentaries and news clips.

The long term vision is software - based assessments that are «Embedded, low - anxiety, formative — not the assessment event that creates stress for teachers, principals, students, and families,» said Cameron Evans of Microsoft, and that serve as «durably predictive short term metrics,» said John Katzman of «real - world outcomes» like happiness, employability, and civic responsibility.

By creating an environment that makes learning the constant and time the variable, uses real - world experiences as learning events, and puts a premium on student maturation and development, the EdVisions model encourages young people to develop into active thinkers who take charge of their own learning.

The tracks, carved on a lake beside the event hotel and extending several miles depending on the configuration, feature — like with Lapland Ice Driving — the real - world layouts of circuits such as Spa - Francorchamps and Barcelona, minus the elevation changes, naturally.

«We can speak to them through social media, and what we are seeing from that digital aspect is that it comes back into the real world, so that we can do print exclusives as opposed to digital exclusives that we are offering to members, and we have been multiplying these mini events, they are very much social media — almost flash mob — because you can bring together Shonen Jump Alpha fans on the fly.»

One of the primary factors in my decision to self - publish was that I felt like Veil of Civility, as a political thriller tied to real - world events, had a certain shelf life that could mean big changes for the manuscript if it were to sit around waiting on the traditional route.

It's been a bumper year for gaming, which is probably just as well, as events in the real world have been less than stella.

The game's plot is based on multiple real - world people and events in Miami such as Cuban, Haitian, and Biker gangs, the 1980s crack epidemic, the Mafioso drug lords of Miami, and the dominance of glam metal.

The developer proclaims that Project CARS will be the first racing game to properly simulate all aspects of the grueling endurance race, which is often haled as the challenging motorsport in the world, with events that take run in real time running through a 24 hour day and night cycle against a full 55 car grid to present the player with every possible condition the real life racing drivers face.

Live events offer a somewhat different element of participation in what is essentially a more technical variant of fantasy football; as players predict the results of fights on an upcoming real - world UFC fight card to earn rewards for Ultimate Team mode.

Going beyond the location of Afghanistan from the original game, it sees Tier 1 travel the globe in missions that mirror real - world events, such as eliminating pirates on the Somali Coast.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

With Animal Crossings 24 - hour clock, the games unique events can be in synch with real time as day turns to night in the real world.

The game does a great job of presenting real world sporting events as fun mini-games.

Probably the least reported - on event by the media at this year's Game Developer's Conference was the «Gangs Of GDC» real - life game, created by NY game developer Gamelab (Diner Dash, Arcadia), and described by them as «the world's first... massively multiplayer mobile phone fighting game or MMMPFG» - so we got them to write a postmortem of it for Gamasutra.

The plot of the game based on various people and events in the real world, such as the Miami Cuban, Haitian gangs, and motorcycle, the cr@ck epidemic of 1980, the barons of Miami mobster drugs and glam metal sovereignty.

Regardless, Reboot Develop is shaping up as the most unique, premier and high - end games industry event in Europe and there are plenty of reasons to attend the conference taking place in historical seaside city of Dubrovnik, aka «real world King's Landing».

As in earlier releases in the Mario & Sonic Olympic series, the 2012 London game features characters from both the Nintendo and Sonic game universes, arrayed into Team Mario and Team Sonic allowing players to compete as their favorite characters in real world sporting eventAs in earlier releases in the Mario & Sonic Olympic series, the 2012 London game features characters from both the Nintendo and Sonic game universes, arrayed into Team Mario and Team Sonic allowing players to compete as their favorite characters in real world sporting eventas their favorite characters in real world sporting events.

The Nintendo 3DS version of the game continues the fun of earlier DS releases in series with returning favorite real - world sports, and new events as well.

The action is based on real events that took place in Bohemia (Czech Republic) in 1403 and the game is all about realism: the game's map is modeled after one from the real world, the combat system is as realistic as it gets and, most importantly, time doesn't stop for the player: the game's story goes on whether you choose to follow it or do something else instead.

Each of these championships include different events and prizes, and it's being built as «a motorsport package that feels very authentic to the real world and motorsport in general.»