Granted, the Mass Effect franchise sometimes struggled to achieve that lofty goal, but many of the best moments in Mass Effect history come down to a tough choice that leaves you staring at the screen wondering what to do. In many cases, there is indeed no “right” decision. The trouble comes when you try to look far enough ahead to see all the possible angles and decide which decision is the right one for you....

“I ran into my master out on the streets of New York a few years after I graduated,” Diallo explains now, referring to how faculty who live in the residential dormitories with Yale undergraduates are called ‘masters’ of their charges. “And I greeted him the way I always had,” Diallo continues, “which starts with the title ‘Master.’ And in the streets of New York City that’s a weird thing to call an older white man, and it became immediately clear to me that I had unknowingly taken on this very, very strange dynamic, this kind of bizarre title and relationship to a person....

The promotion is, on paper, rather simple. Various McDonald’s stores have recently started serving Happy Meals in special Pikachu containers. The container is cute enough, but the real prize is the pack of Pokémon TCG cards located inside. Each pack contains four of 50 cards (which includes base cards and their “holographic” variants) that feature starter Pokémon from various generations. The cards are specially marked and feature some other (relatively minor) differences, but for the most part, they resemble the real deal....

“There’s two bits of imagery that are used and used again,” Garland says about recurring stone figures in Men. “One is called the Green Man and one is called Sheela na gig, and they’re bits of imagery you find in many churches but they predate medieval times, and they’re all over Europe and in fact stretch beyond Europe, and they’re interesting because they’re powerful bits of iconography and they provoke a response in one form or another....

Before we get started, I should point out that this list is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of Superman actors (sorry John Rockwell and Bob Holiday…I’ll get to you in future articles, I promise). Instead, these are the guys who made the most impact in the cape. A list of Superman voice actors would be far too long for this piece, too, but I had to make an exception for one guy (our first entry!...

Millennium debuted in 1996, with Lance Henriksen starring in the role that was written with him in mind. His character was Frank Black, a retired FBI profiler who joined a private criminal consulting outfit named The Millennium Group. While possessing some psychic abilities, Frank’s story is very much familial as he tried to insulate his family from outside dangers and horrors, much of them stemming from the fast-approaching new millennium....

But the hardness of Monster, which speaks to the very dehumanizing nature of its title, comes from where we’re first introduced to Steve as played by a riveting Kelvin Harrison Jr.: He’s a teenager, terrified by a criminal justice system that has vilified him as the proverbial monster from the minute he was charged with felony murder. If we’re asked to see the world as Steve does, through tears in a dimly lit jail cell, then the young character’s movie can become as bleak and narrow as the personality that the DA’s office attempts to hang on him....

Moon Knight Episode 3 The third episode of Marvel’s Moon Knight, “The Friendly Type”, winds up feeling like a puzzle-solving diversion for the most part, and that’s a bit frustrating considering there are only six of these bad boys in total and we’re halfway through them by the end of it, but we do get to learn some key information about Marc Spector and Layla El-Faouly during the events that play out, so it’s not a total loss....

Marvel’s Moon Knight isn’t lacking in story. Arguably, it has too much story for its own good. In the first three episodes alone we were introduced to a mentally unwell ex-mercenary with a murky past estranged from a wife he’s been lying to for years. Inside him is at least one identity (with another on the way) created to fill a role that the main identity is unable to. We’ve also been told that the central identity is in fact the earthly avatar of the moon god Khonshu....

What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)? Have you ever encountered a scenario where you were prompted to provide further information after entering your username and password to access a website, a banking app, or another device or system? The name of this system is “multi-factor authentication” (MFA). Multi-factor authentication (MFA) confirms a user’s identity by utilizing two or more factors, such as a code, token, PIN, biometric data, or a combination of these, before providing access to data or a system....

“This is torture, in the form of baseball.” There have previously been six Original Video Animations (OVA) bonus installments over the course of My Hero Academia’s previous five seasons. Each has been used in creative ways, whether it’s superfluous Quirk showcases, valuable training exercises, or compelling backstories and origins for popular supporting characters. There’s even been a gratuitous zombie installment that feels like Halloween-themed DLC for the series. All of this is to say that My Hero Academia has had fun with its OVAs, but they’ve always been opportunities for fun experiments rather than epic storytelling....

My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 17 “I’m never at that dinner table. I know the reason why so well that it hurts.” Family has always been a major component of My Hero Academia and a driving force for many characters, albeit in many different capacities. Everything that Midoriya, Uraraka, or Iida do all boil down to their family in one way or another, but Shoto Todoroki is a prominent exception where his family and the dysfunctional dynamic that’s festered over the years is a crucial part of his character....

“You’re right. I just want to destroy.” There’s an inherent risk of ruining the magic that surrounds certain characters by answering all of the questions that contextualize them—especially when it comes to villains—but My Hero Academia has not only avoided this particular story struggle, but excelled in the territory and turned the challenge into some of the show’s most powerful episodes. They’re the perfect amount of dark and haunting without feeling exploitative or off the mark from what the series should represent....

My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 9 “Save people to win.” “Win to save people.” My Hero Academia’s current season has done an excellent job in highlighting many of the series’ more neglected characters, but it’s also functioned as an opportunity to demonstrate how much Class A’s most celebrated heroes have upped their games. My Hero Academia begins with Katsuki Bakugo arguably as the second lead after Midoriya and even though the friendly rivalry between these two has never faded, the two characters have been pulled in very different directions....

When a novel is marketed with the hashtag: #WTFthatending, you know it’s going to pull a big move. Sarah Pinborough’s 2017 thriller Behind Her Eyes pulls a move so big that Keyser Söze himself would salute the audacity. Not only does the novel swap genres halfway through, shifting from psychological thriller to supernatural fantasy, it swaps lead characters. Literally. Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna’s six-part Netflix adaptation follows suit, with a final episode that prompts viewers to revisit everything we’ve seen until that point....

“I apologized to Dexter [Soy, one of his creative partners on Green Lantern] and to Tom Raney [his art partner on Future State: Green Lantern],” Thorne tells us in an interview about the new run, “because the first things they had to draw that I wrote had a cast of thousands.” But it works: the new book launches with Lanterns from several corps accompanied by a veritable who’s who of DC’s cosmic stable standing in a smoking pile on Oa....

The two episodes that constitute the “back half” of Stranger Things season 4 both premiere on July 1. And lest you think Netflix is shortchanging you with only two episodes, please be advised that the combined runtime of these two installments is pushing four hours! That’s a lot of minutes but then again, Stranger Things season 4 still has a lot of ground to cover. Will Eleven be able to help her friends and stop Vecna once and for all?...

There’s a lot to get into regarding this report, but for the full details of how this list of games was discovered, I highly recommend you read the original article. What you really need to know right now, though, is that the technique described in that article was subsequently verified by other users who were able to replicate it in order to discover similar data. While the technique has since been blocked by Nvidia, the list of previously unconfirmed and unannounced PC titles that were discovered via the service has obviously made its way online....

I received many feedbacks on writing about Oracle Weblogic application server, so here you go. In this article, I will explain how to download and install Oracle Weblogic Server 12c on Linux environment. Downloading Oracle Weblogic 12c Open your favorite Internet browser Go to the following URL Click on “Quick Installer for Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux” or hit the following direct link to download the installer It will prompt to enter the credential (don’t worry if you don’t have, you can create one in free)....

Den of Geek: What I’m pleasantly surprised with the film is that it’s much more of a World War II movie, with just a twinge of the monster in there, which I love. Was that really the balance you were going for from the get go? Julius Avery: A lot of war elements and then there’s a lot of sci-fi and horror, as well. What I really wanted to try and do is create compelling characters that you want to follow and get behind, before they get thrown into hell....