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Destiny 2 Players Literally Glow After Ranking Up in Lightfall
If you’ve been walking around the Tower in Destiny 2 recently, you may have noticed a few guardians emitting a golden glow. No, your game was not glitching out. It turns out that Bungie has introduced a new way to show love to players rising through the ranks of Destiny 2’s new Guardian Rank system.
Complete your objectives, participate in your rank-up ceremonies, and become bathed in gold, to be celebrated by your friends and random guardians alike. https://t.co/Pe96MxggFW
— Ben Platnick (@S3pirion) March 2, 2023
According to Ben Platnick, a VFX artist at Bungie, players who complete all of the objectives listed under their next rank and take part in “rank-up ceremonies” glow golden for an undetermined amount of time so players can celebrate them. The effect is similar to the halo that used to sit above players heads when they completed Nightfalls before it was removed.
Currently, it’s unclear if this golden effect happens every time players rank up or for specific ranks.
Massive Yandex Code Leak Reveals Russian Search Engine’s Ranking Factors
Yandex, the fourth-ranked search engine by volume, purportedly employs several ex-Google employees. Yandex tracks many of Google’s ranking factors, identifiable in its code, and competes heavily with Google. Google’s Russian division recently filed for bankruptcy after losing its bank accounts and payment services. Buraks notes that the first factor in Yandex’s list of ranking factors is “PAGE_RANK,” which is seemingly tied to the foundational algorithm created by Google’s co-founders.
As detailed by Buraks (in two threads), Yandex’s engine favors pages that: – Aren’t too old – Have a lot of organic traffic (unique visitors) and less search-driven traffic – Have fewer numbers and slashes in their URL – Have optimized code rather than “hard pessimization,” with a “PR=0” – Are hosted on reliable servers – Happen to be Wikipedia pages or are linked from Wikipedia – Are hosted or linked from higher-level pages on a domain – Have keywords in their URL (up to three)
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Ranking of Kings and Spy x Family Dominate Crunchyroll’s 2023 Anime Awards Nominees
We left 2022 behind in the dust weeks ago, but there’s still awards to be given for the previous year’s top movies and TV shows. It’s the same for anime too, as Crunchyroll finally unveiled the list of nominees for its annual Anime Awards ceremony.
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Twitter Blue perks now include higher ranking replies and 60-minute video uploads
Twitter Blue has enabled new perks for subscribers including “prioritized rankings in conversations” and video uploads up to 60 minutes in length, according to an updated feature list spotted by TechCrunch. Both features were promised by Elon Musk last month when he said Blue subscribers who pay $8 per month would get “priority in replies, mentions & search” and the ability to post long videos.
Reply priority is now in effect, with the support page stating that “this feature prioritizes your replies on Tweets that you interact with.” That seems to be the case on severaltweets I looked at, with Twitter Blue subscribers (many with few followers) appearing as the top replies. It’s not clear if users paying $8 per month will always appear at the top in replies, or whether or factors are also used.
soon, subscribers with the blue checkmark will get priority ranking in search, mentions, and replies to help lower the visibility of scams, spam and bots
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) December 12, 2022
Twitter support said earlier that priority rankings will “help lower the visibility of scams, spam and bots.” However, some users have expressed concern that the new system will lower the experience for non-paying users, or that paid priority might help spammers, trolls and others amplify their messages.
The new video rules will boost length from 10 minutes and 512MB to 60 minutes and 2GB at up to 1080p resolution, though only on the web — the 10-minute rule still applies to Android and iOS users. Twitter also notes that it may “modify or adapt your original video for distribution, syndication, publication or broadcast by us and our partners” or change the bitrate/resolution depending on a viewer’s internet speeds.
Musk said that Twitter will eventually pay creators for uploaded videos, noting that it might even exceed the 55 percent cut that YouTube offers. However, it hasn’t said whether that will be done with ads or other means. It’s also not clear how it may address piracy issues, given that much of its moderation team has been let go or quit.
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Valorant ranks order, distribution, and ranking system explained
Want to know about Valorant ranks and how the ranking system works? Like all competitive FPS games, Riot’s Valorant has an ascending ladder of titles to sort the player base by ability. Whether you’re starting out as a lowly Iron or maintaining your dominance as a mighty Immortal, if you play Valorant competitively your life is governed by the ranking system.
Valorant has a couple of different ways it measures ranking progress and the overall rating of players against each other. Each player has an overall Valorant rank, but there’s also a dedicated ‘Act rank’ for each act. On top of that, there’s also a concept called ‘rank rating’, which is connected to MMR. Here is everything you need to know about Valorant ranks, the current rank distribution, and competitive play.
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Wayflyer lands top spot in LinkedIn ranking of start-ups in Ireland
Other Irish start-ups to feature on this year’s LinkedIn list include Workvivo, Flipdish, Manna, Xocean, &Open and Tines.
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