Sentences with phrase «series interesting over time»

Authors of series use several strategies to keep their series interesting over time.

Not exact matches

It has been argued that, following a series of high - profile political scandals over the Code (David Blunkett resigned for a second time over a conflict of interest; and Tessa Jowell's husband was implicated — separately — in a furore over his financial dealings), that it should be administered by a more impartial figure than the Prime Minister.

Also, although the film, through flashbacks and narration does a fair job of compressing over 100 years of time into about 2 hours of film time, it would have been interesting to tell Adaline's story more in a limited - TV series in which each decade of her life experiences could have been shown in more detail.

Ed shares my exasperation, as there's only so many times you can regurgitate the same series of stats to rationalize your predicted winner in a category like this one, where the most interesting thing to ever happen outside of Gangs of New York losing to Chicago and The Aviator losing to Ray was Hugo winning over The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Instead of being interested in repairing — or at least addressing — his superficial relationship with Susie, Tony spends his time reminiscing over a time when life felt like a series of fantastic promises when in fact, we learn, it's nothing but a series of holding pens.

«We're trying to create a community where children are our permanent interest,» says Canada, «and a child who has struggled is connected to a series of adults who stay with the child over long periods of time.

«We're trying to create a community where children are our permanent interest, and a child who has struggled is connected to a series of adults who stay with the child over long periods of time.

This series of exercises can be used over approximately three to five hours of classroom time and takes students from a general exploration of jobs students might be interested in, through vocabulary related to specific positions, into discussions of ideal employees and, finally, through the job application process.

At some point in your life, you may have had to make a series of fixed payments over a period of time — such as rent or car payments — or have received a series of payments over a period of time, such as interest from bonds or CDs.

Over the weekend, while watching the Orioles win yet another series on their way to an American League title, I spent some time with a new e-book called Quantitative Value Investing in Europe: What Works for Achieving Alpha... Where the study really gets interesting is when the authors combine low price to book value with six - month relative strength.

A way of paying for goods over time if you don't have all the money up front (often used for cars): an initial deposit is usually paid, followed by a series of regular payments to cover the balance and any interest over a fixed amount of time, the same as repaying a loan.

- Toriyama didn't even know what an RPG was when he took the offer to work on Dragon Quest - had he known the series would go on for over 30 years, he would have declined the position - he finds that designing characters for Dragon Quest games is fun, but also rather difficult - Toriyama isn't interested in designing wholesome characters, so he doesn't have many variations to offer - coming up with designs becomes increasingly difficult every time - Toriyama used to come up with a lot of fanciful designs, but most of those were shot down - he loves designing mosnters - thanks to more staffers, Toriyama doesn't have to do as many designs as he used to - he plans to do his best for Dragon Quest XI

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Anyway, fans of the Rainbow Six games have been waiting some considerable time for another game in the franchise, but the wait is, almost, finally over as Rainbow Six: Patriots gets a rather interesting trailer that seems to indicate a bit of a change for the series.

Newly created Wall - Walls refer to an earlier series from the 1980's, and attest to Bickerton's continued interest to mine and recontextualize a cohesive cadre of themes over time.

---- It would actually be really interesting to see a series of plots that show how the datasets of measured sea and land temperatures have evolved over time as they have been improved with adjustments such as this.

The residuals from each ring are then robustly averaged, for each year, giving a time series of yearly estimates of the departure of the climatic variable of interest over the full time span.

I would be interested to see the time series of the PDO, AMO and SOI to get some sense of how they changed in the post 1960 period to drive the temperature changes to resemble the changes we have seen over the past 50 years.

It does not have the appearance of the complete Yamal series and rather looks like a cyclical representation of deltas over the Yamal series time period with little interest features in any given decadal time periods..

Heffernan's book gives many examples and references in describing willful blindness as a psychological phenomenon by which human beings, through a series of small decisions made over a period of time, unconsciously choose to perceive a reality that preserves their own interests.