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Miis continue to live on through Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Mii lovers, never give up hope, as it turns out that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom still uses them to make its NPCs.
Ah, Miis. Easily the best thing to come out of the Wii, they were an incredibly fun and silly way to make versions of you and your friends, even if they’re pretty limited in what you can actually do. Still, they left a lasting impression on Wii owners, as they still exist right up to now, even having relevance thanks to the port of Miitopia on Nintendo Switch in 2021. One thing you might not know about them is that Miis are actually the basis of most of the NPCs you find in Breath of the Wild, with modding even letting you import Miis to customise the NPCs. Well there’s some good news for Tears of the Kingdom players who were hoping that would be the case in the sequel, as it is!
As shared by Alice, or HEYimHeroic, who made the original discovery for Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom uses the exact same system to make some of its more generic human NPCs. “Just like in Breath of the Wild, the human NPCs in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom use an advanced version of Miis!” wrote Alice on Twitter. “Modding the game allows us to import Miis as Tears of the Kingdom NPCs!” They even provided some modded NPCs to show you exactly what they mean, and yes, they did use the one and only Matt (those who know, know).
Deliveries-By-Drone Continue Expanding. Pizza Deliveries Planned for Seattle
“If all goes well, the company expects to deliver pizzas in 2024,” reports local news outlet KUOW, noting that Zipline has battery-powered drones that hover above a customer’s location “and lowers the delivery on a tethered droid.”
“Obviously, it seems pretty sci-fi and a lot of customers think this is totally insane when they first hear about it,” said Keller Cliffton, cofounder and CEO of Zipline, a delivery drone company. “But what has really struck us is that there are about seven days of sci-fi magical amazement, and then on day eight people are basically bored of it — bored of it in the way that there’s no way they’re ever going back to the old way of receiving things… Anybody can pull out a phone, press a button on that phone, and place an order that can then be delivered autonomously to the home in a way that is 10 times as fast, half the cost, and fully zero emission compared to the way we do instant delivery today.”
Scenes of hot pizzas lowering out the sky onto Seattle porches are contingent on Zipline receiving approval from the FAA for an operations and safety plan. That plan is in the works but not yet submitted to the agency. The FAA may impose restrictions tailored to Seattle’s busy airspace such as on flight altitudes, hours of operation and places to avoid…
The plans don’t end with pizzas. Last year, Zipline announced a separate effort to deliver medical products and lab samples for the MultiCare Health System around Tacoma… As with the pizza proposal, the earliest estimates for medical deliveries around Tacoma are sometime in 2024. Zipline has also made delivery deals with supplement retailer GNC in Salt Lake City, and with Associated Couriers in Long Island, New York to deliver medications… [Zipline] has already been delivering some products for Walmart to customers in the Bentonville, Arkansas area and prescription drugs for some health care providers in parts of North Carolina and Utah. But the Washington state plans would involve newer types of drones, which the company calls Platform 2 Zips.
Pagliacci Pizza’s co-owner told the news outlet that the drones “will enable us to scale our deliveries sustainably with up to 97% fewer emissions than cars.” They told CNET drones would deliver pizzas “while they’re still hot,” and told the Seattle Times that drone deliveries will make it possible to deliver pizzas to further away or difficult-to-reach locations. (“The Zipline drones can deliver goods to customers in a 10-mile service radius,” according to the newspaper, with drones flying more than 300 feet above the ground while remaining ‘nearly silent, designed to sound like rustling leaves in the wind,’ according to Zipline.)
Local news station KIRO notes that Zipline’s current system uses larger drones and small parachutes “for Walmart and other customers around the world.” And Pagliacci Pizza told them that since there’s no driver, tips offered during drone delivery would go to the kitchen staff.
Wednesday Zipline also announced a deal with wellness brand GNC, according to CNET, which “will begin with customers in Salt Lake City, with other cities to follow…
Zipline is also announcing a partnership with Associated Couriers to begin delivering prescription medications to patients at long-term care facilities in Long Island, New York. Associated Couriers plans to expand the service across the US and then internationally. The delivery company has already completed more than 600,000 deliveries to customers since 2016 using its previous iteration of drones….
Zipline is far from being the only company experimenting with drone delivery — Walmart, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon and startups like Flyby Robotics and Manna have also run trials and performed delivery services.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
S Club 7 Announce Reunion Tour Will Continue After Paul Cattermole’s Death / Hannah Spearitt Departs
While S Club 7 fans worldwide were rocked by the tragic news of Paul Cattermole‘s death last month, few will have felt the depth of the loss as much as the performer’s bandmates.
The ensemble were collectively planning a 25th-anniversary reunion tour, which was set to hit UK arenas later this year.
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Tales of the NORTHFIELD, VERMONT ‘PIGMAN’ Continue
Legends and tales of pig people have been around for centuries. Most of the older stories come from the United Kingdom, but America has had its share. One of these stories revolves around the alleged ‘Pigman of Northfield, Vermont.’ It’s a local yarn that has been repeated since the early 1950s, but interesting nonetheless. I’ve included someone’s personal account that made the rounds on the internet a few years ago:
My family lived in Vermont for several years, in a small town called Northfield, south of Montpelier.
There’s a local legend in Northfield, of a thing known as the Pigman. The story has multiple versions, as most do, but some parts are always the same. Back in 1951, the night before Halloween, this 17-year-old kid named Sam Harris went out on his own with a basket of eggs to cause some mischief. Nobody knows exactly what happened to him, just that he never came home and was never found.
Years later, some high school kids were out drinking behind the school one night during a dance when this ‘thing’ came walking out of the woods on two human legs. It was naked, covered in white hair, and was wearing a hollowed-out pig’s head like some grotesque mask.
Naturally, the kids tore out of there and went and told people. Word spread and some farmer admitted he’d seen a figure matching that description digging through his garbage one night. Some pigs had also gone missing recently. More sightings were made of “The Pigman”, as it became known, but many times the claims were just kids wanting to get attention.
Now, whether this thing is Sam Harris or this thing ate Sam Harris, nobody in town knows for sure. But what they do know is that it isn’t afraid of people, and it really likes to eat meat.
There’s a place just outside of Northfield known as The Devil’s Washbowl, with a river and waterfalls, and several caves. After more sightings of the Pigman were made out by The Washbowl, some people went investigating and found that one cave, in particular, was littered with animal bones, some of which were pigs. It got around that they’d found the lair of the Pigman, and it became popular for teens to go out to the Devil’s Washbowl at night and try to catch sight of him.
My sister and a couple of her friends went out to The Devil’s Washbowl their senior year. They took sleeping bags and flashlights and all the gear you’d take to go camping. I wasn’t there to give a first-hand account of what transpired, I was only 8 at the time. I can only tell you what was told to me.
There were six or eight of them, depending on who you ask, all couples. They picked several caves, one for each pair. My sister and her boyfriend were in their cave. She was rolling out their sleeping bags and he was trying to start a fire when they heard some shouts and then screaming from one of the other caves.
When they got there, the girl was curled up in a ball in the farthest corner of the cave, and her boyfriend was nowhere to be found. She told them that the Pigman had come trudging into their cave, completely undaunted by their presence. The guy had started shouting at it, both to drive it away and to get the others’ attention.
The Pigman casually picked up a large rock and struck the guy in the side of the head with it, knocking him unconscious. It picked him up, slung him over its shoulder, and shambled out of the cave just moments before the rest arrived. Nobody had seen it exit the cave, nor seen signs of it at all. They did find the rock lying on the cave floor with blood on it, and bare footprints in some soft creek mud outside.
The girls all drove into town and went straight to the police. The remaining boys, whether it was two or three of them, grabbed flashlights and makeshift weapons and scoured the woods around the area. The footprints disappeared at the edge of the road, and they lost the trail there.
Search parties were set up. Police and K9 units and a big coordinated effort including several other adjoining townships’ police forces. A couple days later, some articles of the guy’s clothes were found by a search dog. They had been left torn and scattered in an abandoned farmhouse a town over.
The missing teen’s photo was put up in the area, and one guy came forward. He said the other night, he’d awakened to the sound of someone lurking outside his house. He checked out his kitchen window and someone was rummaging through the trash can by his garage. The person was only wearing a faded and ripped pair of jeans. When the man hit the porch light, the intruder looked up and looked just like the kid in the photo.
The only difference was that his body was covered with white hair and his eyes looked kind of hollow.
NOTE: I was told that the locals occasionally catch a glimpse of the Pigman, though, I don’t believe anyone has turned up missing lately. Lon
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House of the Dragon, Rings of Power Continue Production Without Writers
Hollywood headlines have been all about the writer’s strike happening between the Writers Guild of America, representing film and television writers, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, representing various networks and streaming services—including Amazon’s Prime Video and Warner Bros’ HBO. As …
Xbox boss expresses “disappointment” with response to Redfall, pledges to continue work on the game
Microsoft’s head of gaming, Phil Spencer, has weighed in on the critical and player response to Redfall.
Speaking with Kinda Funny Games, Spencer lamented disappointing the Xbox community, stating Xbox Games Studios will “revisit” its process.
“There’s nothing that’s more difficult for me than disappointing the Xbox community,” said Spencer. “To watch the community lose confidence and be disappointed, I’m disappointed. I’m upset with myself. We’ll revisit our process.”