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Relaunch with a new collectible card game in 2020 is not a simple thing, and that's what Bandai with Digimon is trying to do in part, in a year in which it has begun to refresh the environment totally.

Beyond the difficulties due to the Covid situation, the world of collectible card games is truly vast. From brands that bet everything on them, I think of Yu Gi Oh or Magic, to others that "exploit" them as a support to the main activity, see Pokémon and the same Digimon. Net of skeptics, the new Digimon card game has immediately attracted the attention of the fandom worldwide. Immediately after the release of the first Starter Deck in Japanese many users have moved to translate the cards and find a way to play online. In fact, Bandai has not yet released an app to play online, the only official app released is a tutorial application to learn how to play where you can only make preset matches. And at a time when every trading card game has its own online version through the app many users have felt this lack, perhaps because of the difficulty in being able to find the cards or in finding people to play with given the situation due to Covid that we are going through.

And it is from this need that was born the project of ABitNerd, which around October 2020 began to program a fanmade simulator of the card game with the dynamics of the game automated (memory calculation, draws activated by effects, boost or nerf DP, etc. ...). At the official release of the game, at the beginning of the project you could play only by paying the Patreon of the project, there was immediately a lot of appreciation, net of some bugs that were still corrected in a few days, the project received more and more followers day by day. The strength of it was the ability to do a random matchmaking to quickly find an opponent and play so when you wanted, something very convenient given the times we live. The game was not, however, without flaws: it was easy to missclick, out-of-phase elements that without attention risked to make the wrong target of attacks or effects, also the lack of chat or timer could make games last for a long time for inactivity of one of the two players.

The project has however seen its closure on March 23, 2021 at the behest of Bandai itself that has contacted the producer of the fanmade asking the closure of the game, under penalty of legal action. ABitNerd tried to open negotiations but eventually gave in to Bandai's demands. The reasons for this action by the Japanese company can be mainly traced to two. The first is that although the game was fanmade and available for free was still present a Patreon access, which through monthly subscription allowed to have content in preview. This is a serious violation because fanmades dedicated to existing brands should not be for profit. The second reason, and probably more important, is that Bandai wants at the moment the game to be played mainly, if not solely, through the real cards. It is no coincidence that from April all official tournaments will be played in video call with physical cards, and no longer on sites that recreate the game table as Untap. Will also dictated by economic factors due to the sale of cards, limited by the worldwide pandemic.

In conclusion, as the ABitNerd project has shown, an official and enjoyable platform, which for example Untap is not, that allows to play a virtual version of the card game could help to increase the popularity of the game. It's also true that this kind of applications are often free to start and probably Bandai didn't feel ready for something like this, just think that an English version of the game was not immediately planned. But this doesn't mean that in the future it won't be developed and distributed, and the presence of a tutorial app bodes well. And perhaps the firmness with which Bandai wanted to block the simulator fanmade by ABitNerd is because he anticipated future plans. We must not forget that we are still at the beginning and we must be patient.

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No matter what happens, I’ll always believe in you. I can cross over to the other side of the sky if it’s with you. No matter how hard it seems, I’m sure we’ll be alright.

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Hey now, you’re an all star

listen to what I orchestrated

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Mi fanno morire quelle foto con la finestra tattica per mostrare lo sfondo photoshoppato + l’hashtag #iorestoacasa 

Ho provato a farne qualcuna anche io

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Cherry blossom and “supermoon” (Apr. 7, 2020)

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Cosmic Couples and Devastating Breakups

Relationships can be complicated — especially if you’re a pair of stars. Sometimes you start a downward spiral you just can’t get out of, eventually crash together and set off an explosion that can be seen 130 million light-years away.

For Valentine’s Day, we’re exploring the bonds between some of the universe’s peculiar pairs … as well as a few of their cataclysmic endings.

Stellar Couples

When you look at a star in the night sky, you may really be viewing two or more stars dancing around each other. Scientists estimate three or four out of every five Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have at least one partner. Take our old north star Thuban, for example. It’s a binary, or two-star, system in the constellation Draco.

Alpha Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor, is actually a stellar triangle. Two Sun-like stars, Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman, form a pair (called Alpha Centauri AB) that orbit each other about every 80 years. Proxima Centauri is a remote red dwarf star caught in their gravitational pull even though it sits way far away from them (like over 300 times the distance between the Sun and Neptune).

Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Davide De Martin/Mahdi Zamani

Sometimes, though, a stellar couple ends its relationship in a way that’s really disastrous for one of them. A black widow binary, for example, contains a low-mass star, called a brown dwarf, and a rapidly spinning, superdense stellar corpse called a pulsar. The pulsar generates intense radiation and particle winds that blow away the material of the other star over millions to billions of years.

Black Hole Beaus

In romance novels, an air of mystery is essential for any love interest, and black holes are some of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe. They also have very dramatic relationships with other objects around them!

Scientists have observed two types of black holes. Supermassive black holes are hundreds of thousands to billions of times our Sun’s mass. One of these monsters, called Sagittarius A* (the “*” is pronounced “star”), sits at the center of our own Milky Way. In a sense, our galaxy and its black hole are childhood sweethearts — they’ve been together for over 13 billion years! All the Milky-Way-size galaxies we’ve seen so far, including our neighbor Andromeda (pictured below), have supermassive black holes at their center!

These black-hole-galaxy power couples sometimes collide with other, similar pairs — kind of like a disastrous double date! We’ve never seen one of these events happen before, but scientists are starting to model them to get an idea of what the resulting fireworks might look like.

One of the most dramatic and fleeting relationships a supermassive black hole can have is with a star that strays too close. The black hole’s gravitational pull on the unfortunate star causes it to bulge on one side and break apart into a stream of gas, which is called a tidal disruption event.

The other type of black hole you often hear about is stellar-mass black holes, which are five to tens of times the Sun’s mass. Scientists think these are formed when a massive star goes supernova. If there are two massive stars in a binary, they can leave behind a pair of black holes that are tied together by their gravity. These new black holes spiral closer and closer until they crash together and create a larger black hole. The National Science Foundation’s LIGO project has detected many of these collisions through ripples in space-time called gravitational waves.

Credit: LIGO/T. Pyle

Here’s hoping your Valentine’s Day is more like a peacefully spiraling stellar binary and less like a tidal disruption! Learn how to have a safe relationship of your own with black holes here.

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Titans fans after Titans Episode 1x10: “Koriand’r” 

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Raven was always such a Savage!

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why can’t we give love give love, give love, give love -

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♪ I think we’re alone now There doesn’t seem to be anyone around I think we’re alone now The beating of our hearts is the only sound ♪

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☂️  the umbrella academy:

klaus in every episode

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You get in the biggest fights with the people you care about the most because those are the relationships you’re willing to fight for.

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Gobble Up These Black (Hole) Friday Deals!

Welcome to our 6th annual annual Black Hole Friday! Check out these black hole deals from the past year as you prepare to head out for a shopping spree or hunker down at home to avoid the crowds.

First things first, black holes have one basic rule: They are so incredibly dense that to escape their surface you’d have to travel faster than light. But light speed is the cosmic speed limit … so nothing can escape a black hole’s surface!

Black hole birth announcements

Some black holes form when a very large star dies in a supernova explosion and collapses into a superdense object. This is even more jam-packed than the crowds at your local mall — imagine an object 10 times more massive than the Sun squeezed into a sphere with the diameter of New York City!

Some of these collapsing stars also signal their destruction with a huge burst of gamma rays. Our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory continuously seek out the signals of these gamma ray bursts — black hole birth announcements that come to us from across the universe.

NICER black holes

There are loads of stellar mass black holes, which are just a few 10s of times the Sun’s mass, in our home galaxy alone — maybe even hundreds of millions of them! Our Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER for short, experiment on the International Space Station has been studying some of those relatively nearby black holes.

Near one black hole called GRS 1915+105, NICER found disk winds — fast streams of gas created by heat or pressure. Scientists are still figuring out some puzzles about these types of wind. Where do they come from, for example? And do they change the way material falls into the black hole? Every new example of these disk winds helps astronomers get closer to answering those questions.

Merging monster black holes

But stellar mass black holes aren’t the only ones out there. At the center of nearly every large galaxy lies a supermassive black hole — one with the mass of millions or billions of Suns smooshed into a region no bigger than our solar system.

There’s still some debate about how these monsters form, but astronomers agree that they certainly can collide and combine when their host galaxies collide and combine. Those black holes will have a lot of gas and dust around them. As that material is pulled into the black hole it will heat up due to friction and other forces, causing it to emit light.  A group of scientists wondered what light it would produce and created this mesmerizing visualization showing that most of the light produced around these two black holes is UV or X-ray light. We can’t see those wavelengths with our own eyes, but many telescopes can. Models like this could help scientists know what to look for to spot a merger.

Black holes power bright gamma ray lights

It also turns out that these supermassive black holes are the source of some of the brightest objects in the gamma ray sky! In a type of galaxy called active galactic nuclei (also called “AGN” for short) the central black hole is surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that’s constantly falling into the black hole.

But not only that, some of those AGN have jets of energetic particles that are shooting out from near the black hole at nearly the speed of light! Scientists are studying these jets to try to understand how black holes — which pull everything in with their huge amounts of gravity — provide the energy needed to propel the particles in these jets. If that jet is pointed directly at us, it can appear super-bright in gamma rays and we call it a blazar. These blazars make up more than half of the sources our Fermi space telescope sees.

Catching particles from near a black hole

Sometimes scientists get a two-for-one kind of deal when they’re looking for black holes. Our colleagues at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory actually caught a particle from a blazar 4 billion light-years away. IceCube lies a mile under the ice in Antarctica and uses the ice itself to detect neutrinos, tiny speedy particles that weigh almost nothing and rarely interact with anything. When IceCube caught a super-high-energy neutrino and traced its origin to a specific area of the sky, they turned to the astronomical community to pinpoint the source.

Our Fermi spacecraft scans the entire sky about every three hours and for months it had observed a blazar producing more gamma rays than usual. Flaring is a common characteristic in blazars, so this didn’t attract special attention. But when the alert from IceCube came through, scientists realized the neutrino and the gamma rays came from the same patch of sky! This method of using two or more kinds of signals to learn about one event or object is called multimessenger astronomy, and it’s helping us learn a lot about the universe.

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