![]() But if the line doesn’t continue to fall past +6, there’s no reason to think that they still like Buffalo. The reason being: once a line has moved, there’s little reason to believe that sharps are still finding value at the new number.įor example, if the Bills go from +7 to +6 behind just 25% of bets, there’s a very good chance that sharps were betting on the Bills at +7. Circa Sports in Las Vegas (and now Colorado) is a market-setting book for college football. ![]() If you can time things well, you can pick off a good number at your book after it’s moved elsewhere.Īt Sports Insights, you can sort reverse line movement only by certain books. ![]() Those that do will often move first when they get a big bet from a respected player, and the rest of the books will follow quickly after.įor the books that follow blindly, that’s called “moving on air.” They didn’t actually take any bets that required them to move a spread, they just saw a market-setting book move it. You should also pay attention to where lines are moving, as some books welcome sharp action, while others don’t. And two, you never know why someone moved the line - they could be moving it one way just to come back on the other side even bigger. One, it can get your account limited, since sportsbooks hate this practice and believe they shouldn’t be punished for being slow. The benefits to steam chasing are obvious - you believe you’re getting the best of the number alongside smart bettors with the ability to move lines - but there are drawbacks. If you were quick, you could have jumped on a +140 or +145 at a sportsbook that hasn’t moved yet. But despite all the interest in the Astros, the line made a big move from +145 to +130 toward the White Sox, over the course of a few hours, signaling that someone smart liked the Sox at that price. Houston was seeing about 60% of the betting action. The Chicago White Sox opened at +145 against the Astros. Let’s look at an example from MLB Opening Day in 2023 using the Sports Insights products. And if you’re paying attention, you can often get a good number at your book after it’s already moved at a market-setting book. Our Bet Signals at Sports Insights can give you real-time reverse line movement notifications. As such, when they load up on one side, oddsmakers have reason to believe that that side is more likely to win, so they’ll adjust lines accordingly, even if more bettors like the other side. Sharp bettors (sharps) have long track records of success, and their opinions are respected by sportsbooks. ![]() The most likely reason for reverse line movement is that the unpopular side is drawing a lot of action from sharp bettors. Reverse line movement is typically an indication that a bettor or group of bettors with the money and respect to move a line is on that side. Or, in a moneyline sport, if the Yankees moved from -180 to -170 while receiving 70% of bets. Reverse line movement in sports betting is when a line moves away from the side receiving the majority of bets.Īn example would be the Patriots falling from -7 to -6 despite attracting 75% of spread bets. What Is Reverse Line Movement in Sports Betting? That’s what we call reverse line movement. The line, however, doesn’t always move toward the more popular side. If Duke opens as a 7-point favorite over Notre Dame, for example, and bettors immediately rush to back the Blue Devils, the books may increase the spread to -7.5 or -8 to try to even out the flow of money.Īfter all, if they’re able to achieve a 50% split, they’ll walk away with a profit no matter the outcome of the game (because of the juice). Just as the price of any commodity can increase with higher demand, lines can change based on how the market reacts to them, as sportsbooks may attempt to limit their liability on one side of a given bet. Sports betting lines ( spreads, moneylines, over/unders) don’t move easily, but they certainly aren’t stuck in place.
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At this point, you should have just about every weapon in the game – if you haven’t, make sure to check out the Shacknews Resident Evil Village page for a collection of other guns to help you on your way. Keep in mind, magnum ammo is exceedingly rare, so use it wisely. You’ll eventually come across three houses, the M1851 Wolfsbane magnum is in the last house, inside the Moreau’s Hidden Weapon treasure chest.Īfter you unlock the magnum, you’ll likely want to equip it quickly so you can use it on the next enemy you see. Open the gate with the crank and follow the path up the hill. Exit the mill and you’ll be facing a metal gate that needs the crank. As you exit, you will go up a long elevator ride and into a wooden mill. ![]() In terms of actually reaching the Wolfsbane magnum, you will need to defeat Moreau then work your way out of his location. You will need to use the crank on the gate to gain access to the Wolfsbane magnum. While most of this is actual treasure you can sell him, some of it is powerful weaponry, like the M1851 Wolfsbane. This location is only accessible after you have defeated Moreau and are in possession of the crank – which is also used to acquire the Finest Fish in the Lone Road area.Īs you progress through Resident Evil Village, the Duke will inform you of some treasure that has been left around the village. ![]() The M1851 Wolfsbane magnum is found in Moreau’s Lab area, to the deep south. If you’re preparing to dive deep into lycan territory, you’ll want to first unlock the M1851 Wolfsbane. As the name suggests, this thing is the bane of wolves, which means it can obliterate lycans. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The M1851 Wolfsbane revolver is a monstrously powerful magnum in Resident Evil Village. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. The Handcannon is worse than both in almost every way, the only condition I would use it is if I have terrible aim and waste lots of ammo and can't find magnum rounds. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. The Wolfsbane is almost the same gun, in function and performance (slightly better against wolves, slightly worse at other enemies). If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
![]() And communications was not able to support larger, more mobile armies. Air support was in its infancy and unable to play a major role. Both sides were experimenting with poison gas. Machine guns had also come into use, which magnified the killing potential. One reason for this was that artillery, while much improved and more deadly than ever before, was difficult to direct in an effective manner. In fact, since the end of 1914, the front lines in France had changed remarkably little, despite and tremendous loss of life. Casualties on the Somme managed to exceed even those of Verdun, for a very modest gain of ground. It had been eased in part by the commencement of the other major western campaign of 1916, the offensive by French and British troops on the Somme, just east of Amiens. The bulk of the fighting at Verdun was over by November 1916. According to Alistair Horne in The Price of Glory, “the compressed area of the battlefield became an open cemetery in which every square foot contained some decomposed piece of flesh.” For this reason Verdun today has not only one of the largest war cemeteries in Europe, but a huge “ossuaire” where some 150,000 unidentified and unburied corpses - or fragments of corpses - are interred. Bodies which had been buried were disinterred by shelling, chopped to pieces and reinterred again. As in other First World War battles, nearly 70% of the casualties were caused by artillery. Estimated German and French losses on the Verdun battlefield are 420,000 dead, 800,000 gassed or wounded nearly a million and a quarter casualties. The pockmarked surface of the battlefield, although green again, can still be seen today at the battlefield. Forests had been reduced to splinters, villages had disappeared, and the surface of the ground had been so pockmarked by explosions that shell hole overlapped shell hole until the ground resembled the surface of the moon. The landscape had been permanently altered. By the time the battle settled down in the fall, over 20 million shells had been fired into the battle zone along a front of just 15 miles. Robert Nivelle, counterattacked in October, retook both forts as well as much of the ground lost earlier in the year. The Germans, through flukes more than though military force, were able to capture Fort Douaumont, just outside Verdun, and then laid siege to Fort Vaux, which was eventually forced to surrender in early June from lack of water. ![]() In fact the battle bled both sides white, with the French ceding some ground at the front lines, but tenaciously holding on to the city. Despite the shelling and the bitter fighting which continued at Verdun in 1917, the major battles there (except for the final offensive, which would be supported by the Americans) had already been fought the year before.īeginning in February 1916 the Germans had launched a major offensive with the objective of either taking Verdun, which they felt would have a devastating effect on French morale, or by “bleeding France white” through a battle of attrition. ![]() If the pull succeeds, the Skirmisher automatically and unavoidably hits the target with their Ripjack. This effect has +25 Aim over the Skirmisher's innate Aim, and is affected by height advantage, the target's Defense, and the target's Cover, but distance has no effect. ![]() At least, not in this part of the post.Īttempts to pull a human enough target adjacent to the Skirmisher. A Skirmisher additionally having the option to fire and reload is only a little more flexible than a non-Skirmisher only being able to reload and then fire in a turn they weren't going to move anyway.īut it's still an excellent skill for defining a class.Īlbeit in a sufficiently straightforward way in the context of XCOM 2 that it doesn't provide a lot for me to talk about. A Heavy firing and then reloading was avoiding having to lose an entire turn to reloading, which was huge. Mind, Marauder is functionally a little less impressive than Bullet Swarm simply because XCOM 2 is more willing to provide actions that don't end the turn. This is the biggest pressure toward 'don't move' on the Skirmisher: where the default rule is that moving isn't costing you an offensive action, for the Skirmisher every action point is a potential shot at the enemy!Īlso: huzzah in Bullet Swarm -the actually-defining skill on the Heavy- being made into a class-defining skill! Much like Long War does with Infantry, in fact. The game does consistently refer to using the Ripjack to attack in each such case, but the game does a poor job of conveying that this is a mechanically meaningful statement and not just a flavorful description.įiring the primary weapon doesn't necessarily end the Skirmisher's turn, consuming just one action point. Unlike the Claymore, it really is a proper secondary weapon, with three tiers to be upgraded through and being affected by Breakthroughs, but the specifics can be a bit unintuitive because its stats are only applied on a few specific skills. It's also specific to the Bullpup, which can get a bit confusing when using their multiple ranged attack skills that don't use Shotgun-style Aim climb. This fact anchors basically every single one of their skills and their overall play dynamic, as many of their skills are designed to somehow or another help them offset the Bullpup's short-range qualities, and/or complement that quality. Their primary weapon, the Bullpup, actually uses the same Aim climb rules as a Shotgun, making it extremely accurate when up close but suffer badly when firing from a distance. I'm honestly not sure why the game describes them this way. There's very few situations in which it actually makes sense to have a Skirmisher do any kind of hit-and-run behavior. ![]() It is technically possible to have a Skirmisher fight in a manner that could be accurately described as hit-and-run, as they have two skills that involve attacking by getting in the enemy's face and can then Grapple out of reach on the same turn, but most of the time a Skirmisher should either be holding still or closing on enemies. In any event, the game's own description of them being a 'hit-and-run attacker' is. Surprisingly, they're designed so these two pressures aren't completely contradictory, though it's still a bit awkward. Possibly also an intention to have some Grenadier hybridization, given a couple of grenade-oriented skills they have, though if so it's pretty limpwristed.Īnother, non-trivial, part of the Skirmisher being just plain weird is that they're unique among classes for having strong pressures toward holding still in a turn and strong pressures toward moving more than usual. ![]() In practice, this comparison doesn't work out particularly, as Skirmishers end up heavily defined by their ability to manipulate positioning, particularly their own but also secondarily enemy positioning, but I do suspect the developers had something along those lines in mind. They even get their own version of Bladestorm! Just as the Reaper can be viewed somewhat like a Ranger/Sharpshooter hybrid with stealth from Rangers and Squadsight and all from Sharpshooters, the Skirmisher can be viewed somewhat like a Sharpshooter/Ranger hybrid, specifically a Gunslinger Sharpshooter they can output many low-strength shots per turn, and they have modest skill focus on melee abilities. ![]() If you go: We did lessons at Pines Ice (which always has a good Groupon!) and hid out half of the boiling-hot summer skating inside the Scott Rakow Youth Center on Miami Beach. Learn to Play provides everything but the undergarments.Add skates, jersey, shoulder and elbow pads, gloves, shin guards, helmet, stick and bag, and this single mom was lookin' at close to $1,000.Those " socks" are really just tubes, like leg-warmers. Hockey players wear special underwear, which their socks get stuck to.The intrigue: Parente declined to give a dollar value for the gear, but I can tell you it saves a lot. Roughly 3,000 kids have gone through the program since its inception about eight years ago.What they're saying: "The NHL and NHLPA saw a need for a program run by NHL Clubs that would help to continue to increase youth hockey participation," team spokesperson Chrissy Parente told Axios. There's a $225 fee, but it includes free gear.The Florida Panthers have spots available for their Learn to Play program - developed to reduce the cost barrier for kids starting the sport - at the IceDen in Coral Springs (and Palm Beach County).ĭetails: Kids ages 5 to 9 get six weeks of instruction with Florida Panthers alumni and USA Hockey-certified coaches.What's happening: I had to pay the piper, but other parents of hockey-playing kids may not have to. Did he choose something cheap and convenient, that his mother understood, like running? Of course not.Last year, I told my TikTok-addled kid that he could pick a sport - any sport - as long as he got off the stupid phone. Then in Vive-La-Rooney, the two start to hang out more, and Josh finally admits his feelings for Maddie, which she also tells him. The two had a romantic, somewhat intense moment, where they locked eyes and almost kissed. In Secret-Admirer-A-Rooney, Josh wanted to ask Maddie out and she was revealed to like him back. The two first met in Cowbell-A-Rooney and Josh was revealed to have feelings for Maddie, after instantly falling in love with her, which he revealed to Liv. They are one of the main parings in Liv and Maddie. Teammoshforlife.Maddie and Josh (also known as Mosh) is the popular, very romantic, official paring between Josh Willcox and Maddie Rooney (later Willcox). Not to mention that liv was no help either I felt like she forced maddie to pick diggie, all because liv assumed that maddie wanted him. Like I'm sorry josh treats you like a queen and give you everything, and you leave him for a guy who damaged your heart so bad you were scared to date anyone, all because he sang a song about love. But by singing in front he was forcing maddie to make her decision right then even though she wanted more time and put it don't make me look bad in front of these people. And then singing in front of everyone to make her have all eyes on her, also just supper rude to josh to just humiliate him in front of all those people. Using Joe like that was also so Wrong and just rude. He kept pushing her to pick him and he used joe to get in to the wedding because he new maddie would be there with josh. Why? Well he made it seem like him leaving the second time was her fault. Also I felt like diggie manipulated maddie to get back with him. ![]() He never took maddie feelings in to a count. To me everything diggie did was just so selfish. So of you missed her why didn't you come back like week after you left or even the 2 day after you left? You only came back because you saw maddie happy. So then diggie comes back after seeing the picture of her ad josh, he's all like I want you back I missed you everyday. Then we find out that diggie want to leave again? Like excuse you didn't even discuss this with maddie you just decided that she would just half to deal with you gone again? So they breakup. Of course this makes maddie mad because after him leaving for so long and finally coming back she wanted alone time, but he did care. For starters maddie wants to do a movie night, so diggie invites all he friends. So then finally diggie gets back and things between him and maddie are supper weird. ![]() But as we saw, and as liv explained the long distance was really hard on maddie, she dealt with it the best she could probably knowing that he'd be back soon. ![]() When it came to him leaving the first time to tundra, maddie and him agree that he should go and that they would do long distance. Where to start he was okay in the first season I guess, but nothing great. To me Miggie just seemed like a lot if work and awkward standing around and not good communication at all. Also they like never really had any problems, their relationship was so smooth and chill, it felt so nice. It also seemed like josh made maddie really happy like more then diggie ever did. Secondly like literally every date they went on was so cute. For starters josh played tree house horses even though he hates heights, all because he was trying to show maddie that he really really like her and wanted to date her. I 100% agree josh was wayyy better, And hello way more cute. Hi, so like I see that this is old but I'm still gonna say something. ![]() You get one job and simply don't have the time outside of work to practice all the tests you need to pass in order to get a new one. There are more and more of these sites, and keeping up to date with all of them is a full time job in itself.įor this reason, it's very easy to plateau in a programming career. ![]() And if you want a new job, you need to be highly practicsed at what can be fiendishly difficult tests run by sites like Hackerrank, which you have to pass even to get an interview. If you want to stay employable as a programmer, you need to keep up to speed with new techniques and new languages. It's not just the hours in the job - although these can be long - it's the hours that need to be spent programming outside of your working day. The real issue with programming jobs, though, is the working hours. It's harder and harder to get a pay rise and more of our work is being centralized and automated, so that at some point soon I suspect that pay may even start to fall. And as such, we are being continuously squeezed. ![]() The problem is that programming is still a cost centre. I look at how much people in front office banking jobs are earning and it's hard not to feel that I've made a serious mistake. In two years' time I might be on £70k ($92k). Programming is badly paid, in decline, and takes up all your free time just to stay ahead of the game - let alone to also find a new job. I work as a computer programmer and I am beginning to curse my bad luck and stupidity for having chosen this particular career. Not only is having a desktop app for these kinds of services easier on your system resources, but you’ll find that they’re also more convenient. Disable OS notifications for frequent conversations.Always stay logged in and receive notifications.Directly answer from notifications with Quickly Reply.Drag and drop photos and enjoy group conversations.According to the app description, the following features are supported: WhatsApp Messenger is no different, and those looking for a native desktop app solution have struggled for eons to find something that’s not only free, but works as advertised with any catches, such as annoying ads and banners.įreeChat for WhatsApp uses the WhatsApp web app to its advantage, and allows you to have all of your WhatsApp conversations on your desktop in the form of a native application that runs in the OS X environment. ![]() ![]() Rather than living in a power-hungry web browser all day long, it’s nice to have resource-friendly native desktop apps running on your Mac instead. Anyone who uses WhatsApp Messenger who has been looking for a truly free native-style desktop app experience on their Mac has been hard-pressed to find a really good client that didn’t have hidden costs and worked extremely well in the same package.įortunately, FreeChat for WhatsApp is an app on the Mac App Store that you can download on your Mac at no cost whatsoever, and it will work exactly how you would expect a WhatsApp Messenger client to work on your Mac without any hidden costs, ads, or caveats Living the native desktop app life For more information on Skunk Studios games, visit. Skunk Studios is a San Francisco-based game development studios where dynamic game design, art, and sounds are combined to make games that everyone can play and enjoy. Screenshots of ÂVarmintz Deluxe are available online: Worldwide and Local High Score Rankings Varmintz Can you help this raccoon get past all the obstacles Reach the top of the level to advance to the next.The full version of ÂVarmintz Deluxe," available online for $20, includes these features: All 50+ levels contain a variety of challenging obstacles and in-game enemies, some of which include: rabid dogs, lumberjacks, cowboys, joggers, and skateboarders. ÂVarmintz Deluxe includes a range of characters and stars five "Varmintz," a scrappy Raccoon posse in search of Golden Eggs. Varmintz Deluxe - Varmintz Deluxe brings back classic hop-and-dodge style gameplay in a fast-paced, character-rich environment. Bn s phi iu khin ln lt 5 ch chn vt qua nhiu chng. Skunk Studios invites players from around the world to download the free ÂVarmintz Deluxe demo from this location: Varmintz Deluxe 1.0, Tr chi i tm nhng qu trng vng Varmintz l mt game kh hay. ![]() ![]()  Skunk Studios®, creators of highly entertaining games for the mass market, announces the official launch of "Varmintz(tm) Deluxe," a downloadable game that brings back classic Âhop-and-dodge style gameplay in a fast-paced, character-rich environment. Your mission in this game is to get the five Varmintz, some sort of raccoons, to the safe place inside their dens. Your Steward additionally offers access to a selection of useful amenities, each once per day. Here is the signature ability that the Kyrian bestow upon their champions: Summon Steward: Call your steward to bring you a Phial of Serenity that can be consumed to restore some of your health and remove all Curse, Disease, Poison, and Bleed effects. If you choose to join the Kyrian Covenant, you’ll gain two unique abilities-one class ability used in combat, as well as a signature ability that summons a steward to assist in your adventures. ![]() ![]() This alliance also gives the player access to a Covenant Sanctum, a city only open to players who have forged a pact with its rulers. Each Covenant offers its champions abilities, along with other powers and cosmetic rewards that can be unlocked through a Covenant Campaign-an epic storyline unique to the faction-and other activities over time. When players reach maximum level and have explored the first four zones, they’ll be able to pledge themselves to a Covenant, like the Kyrian. While adventuring, it's best to stay vigilant-you might even cross paths with Uther the Lightbringer and other long-passed heroes of Azeroth who now wander this world. These are but a few of the entities you’ll encounter in Bastion. Only by striking them down can the Kyrian cleanse themselves and achieve ascendance. Listen to the soothing chimes of floating bells as you wash away the dust of life in sacred pools.Īs you prepare for Ascendance, you will journey deeper into the resplendent fields of Bastion-your opportunity to demonstrate your value to the Kyrian.Īs the Kyrian shed the burdens of their past lives, physical manifestations of their tormented thoughts are expelled from their bodies. It is here that you begin your Ascension training, purifying your soul through ritual cleansing by shedding the flaws of mortality. Akin to other Kyrian sites, this pristine sanctuary is patrolled by anima-fueled Centurions and is kept clean and shining by diligent Stewards, who scrub each cobblestone by hand until it has a polish that only feathered elbow grease can achieve. Your first stop in Bastion is the Vestibule of Eternity. You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to question the nature of your own existence. Unsure if you truly have moved on from the world of the living? We understand that this new reality may be difficult to accept. However, it quickly becomes apparent that underneath Bastion’s glistening veneer lies unrest: The Kyrian’s anima-the soul-born essence that fuels their eternity of service-is on the verge of being completely depleted.īefore you can help them-and make them take your warnings of Sylvanas and the horrible truth of the Maw seriously-you must prove your worthiness as an aspirant and overcome all trials to earn your Kyrian wings by Ascending. Long has it been since a soul has been sent to their gleaming realm, and the locals are astonished by the arrival of a living mortal. Yet Azeroth’s Champions are able to escape and soon make their way to the noble Kyrian in Bastion. The whole thing is done without any dialogue, and made in memory of Yvain Gnabro, a character animator who worked at Blizzard and Blur Studios before he passed away in June.īastion is the fifth Overwatch character to receive a character focused animated short.When Sylvanas Windrunner pierces the veil between life and death, you and your allies are pulled into the Maw, where the most wicked are damned to suffer for eternity. No other members of the game’s cast are featured in the short, save for a brief cameo from Reinhardt. Bastions turned against the humans during the Omnic War, and their ability to morph into turrets made them a heavy force on the battlefield, which leads to some not so pleasant memories. It’s not all cuteness and discovery, however. It also explains how he came to have the cute little bird that accompanies him and hitches a ride on his shoulder. “The Last Bastion” focuses on the titular robot that we’ve all come to know and be frustrated by as he reawakens from a decades long deactivation. It’s Gamescom, and that means that we finally get to see the next Overwatch short that Blizzard talked about last week. |