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Pokemon COO says “we’re always paying very close attention to the feedback” when asked about Scarlet & Violet – My Nintendo News
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‘Fatal Attraction’ Stars on Updating the Original (With a New Rabbit Scene) and Feedback From Glenn Close: “Don’t F*** It Up” – Hollywood Reporter
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D&D maker promises to get player feedback for coming “open” license update
When Wizards of the Coast (WotC) rolled out proposed changes to its decades-old Open Gaming License (OGL), most average players and smaller creators had to hear about it via a leaked copy of a version sent to big content makers. Now, WotC promises any coming changes will be done through a “more open and transparent” process that will start a “robust conversation” around any new proposals.
In a post on the D&D Beyond forums today, WotC Executive Producer Kyle Brink writes that “new proposed OGL documentation” will be shared publicly on or before Friday, January 20. At that point, community members will have at least two weeks to offer feedback via a survey that will include specific questions and open-response fields.
WotC compared the new process to the one it uses for playtests of Unearthed Arcana documents, which are often used to solicit feedback on draft mechanics and gameplay ideas that haven’t been fully tested. Once the new OGL survey concludes, Brink says WotC will “compile, analyze, react to, and present back what we heard from you.”
We’re sorry (that you noticed)
Brink clarified a few types of fan-made content that the new OGL explicitly won’t affect, including videos, contracted services (e.g., paid dungeon master services), and virtual tabletop content. Brink also reiterated WotC’s recent promise that the new OGL won’t charge any royalties, won’t impact existing content licensed under OGL 1.0a, and won’t require you to license creative content back to WotC (all elements that were contradicted in the leaked version of OGL 1.1).
Brink’s post also offers WotC’s most direct apology yet for the OGL fiasco that led many tabletop publishers to abandon WotC in recent weeks.
“We are sorry,” Brink writes. “We got it wrong. Our language and requirements in the draft OGL were disruptive to creators and not in support of our core goals of protecting and cultivating an inclusive play environment and limiting the OGL to TTRPGs. Then we compounded things by being silent for too long. We hurt fans and creators, when more frequent and clear communications could have prevented so much of this.”
Brink’s post and other WotC communications have referred to the leaked OGL 1.1 as a “draft” that was shared with major content creators “so their feedback could be considered before anything was finalized.” But some in the community have challenged that characterization, saying OGL 1.1 was distributed with an attached contract that allegedly came with a signature deadline and pre-negotiated preferential terms for some funding sources.
“Wizards is going to try to say what we’ve seen of OGL 1.1 is a draft that they sent out for feedback. That’s a lie,” major D&D creator The Griffon’s Saddlebag said on Instagram last week. “Never once did WotC ask for feedback or say that it was a draft or any of these things. … The thing is that nobody signed it, that’s why they’re backpedaling and waffling on this.”
Wizards of the Coast has not responded to a request for comment from Ars Technica on the ongoing controversy surrounding OGL changes.
James Cameron Gave MM Keeravaani Feedback On RRR Music
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‘RRR’ music composer, MM Keeravaani on Monday, expressed gratitude as legendary Hollywood director James Cameron complimented his music in the SS Rajamouli directorial magnum opus period action drama film.
Taking to Twitter, Keeravaani shared a picture with James Cameron and SS Rajamouli and wrote, “The great James Cameron has watched RRR twice and gave feedback on my score !!! Ocean full of excitement.”
The great James Cameron has watched RRR twice and gave feedback on my score !!! Ocean full of excitement [?][?][?] pic.twitter.com/3PrrhMUAIx
— mmkeeravaani (@mmkeeravaani) January 16, 2023
“And he complimented on how the music in RRR varies in the volume and body unlike in typical western movies. A great honour and recognition for my work,” he added.
And he complimented on how the music in RRR varies in the volume and body unlike in typical western movies. A great honour and recognition for my work [?]
— mmkeeravaani (@mmkeeravaani) January 16, 2023
‘RRR‘ starring Jr NTR and Ram Charan bagged the Critics Choice Award for Best Song for its track ‘Naatu Naatu’. It also picked up the Critics choice award for Best Foreign language film in a ceremony held in Los Angeles.
MM Keeravaani’s track Naatu Naatu also received the best music core award at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) recently.
The official Instagram page of RRR has shared the update.
He also shared a heartfelt note on his official Twitter account and wrote, “Returning home after receiving 4 international awards for RRR including Golden Globe – with gratitude to Ramojirao garu & all the mentors who’d enriched my music by making me cross the boarders of Telugu states. Balachander sir, Bharathan Sir, Arjun Sarja and Bhatt Saab.”
Returning home after receiving 4 international awards for RRR including Golden Globe – with gratitude to Ramojirao garu & all the mentors who’d enriched my music by making me cross the boarders of Telugu states. Balachander sir, Bharathan Sir, Arjun Sarja and Bhatt Saab
— mmkeeravaani (@mmkeeravaani) January 16, 2023
“Congratulations to our Music Director #MMKeeravaani on winning the Award for BEST MUSIC/SCORE for #RRRMovie at @lafilmcritics,” a post read on RRR‘s Instagram account.
RRR is a fictional story based on the lives of two Telugu freedom fighters, Alluri Seetharama Raju and Komaram Bheem. Ram Charan and Jr NTR played lead roles, respectively. The film collected over Rs 1,200 crore worldwide. Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn and Shriya Saran also starred in the film.
‘RRR’ song ‘Naatu Naatu‘ recently bagged the prestigious Golden Globe award for Best Original song.
This lyrical composition of ‘Naatu Naatu’ by MM Keeravaani, high energy rendition by singers Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, unique choreography by Prem Rakshith, and lyrics by Chandrabose are all the elements that make this ‘RRR’ mass anthem a perfect dance craze.
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Apple’s Tim Cook to take 50% pay hit after shareholder feedback | Apple
The Apple chief executive, Tim Cook, is expected to have his pay cut by almost 50% this year to about $49m (£40m) after the billionaire boss asked the company to “adjust his compensation” in the light of feedback from shareholders disappointed at the fall in the company’s share price.
Cook, 62, who became CEO after the co-founder Steve Jobs stepped down before his death in 2011, was paid $99.4m in 2022 and $98.8m in 2021. But the company said in a regulatory filing late on Thursday night that it had set a “target compensation” of $49m for 2023.
“The compensation committee balanced shareholder feedback, Apple’s exceptional performance, and a recommendation from Mr Cook to adjust his compensation in light of the feedback received,” Apple said in the filing.
Cook’s annual base salary and bonus will remain unchanged at $3m and $6m respectively. But the “targeted” amount he will be given in share-based bonuses will fall from $75m last year to $40m this coming year.
The amount given in share bonuses will also be more dependent on Apple’s share price performance than it was last year. Now 75% of the share bonus is dependent on Apple’s stock market performance, up from 50% last year.
Apple’s shares have fallen by 23% over the past 12 months to $133.41 at the close on Thursday, raising concerns among some shareholders.
The company said 64% of shareholders backed its pay plans at its annual meeting last year but acknowledged that there had been a “notable year-over-year decline, as our annual ‘say on pay’ proposals have received much higher levels of shareholder support for many years”.
The shareholder advisory service Institutional Shareholder Services last year urged investors to vote against Cook’s pay package, saying there were “significant concerns” over the “design and magnitude” of the package. ISS pointed out that Cook was paid 1,447 times more than the average Apple employee.
Apple said it had reached out to investors to hear their concerns. “Those shareholders we spoke with that did not support our 2022 ‘say on pay’ proposal consistently cited the size and structure of the 2021 and 2022 equity awards granted to Mr Cook as the primary reason for their voting decision,” the company said.
“Balancing shareholder feedback, a desire to continue to create meaningful performance and retention incentives, and Mr. Cook’s support for changes to his compensation to reflect the feedback received, the compensation committee maintained the cash components of Mr Cook’s 2023 compensation and reduced his target equity award grant value,” it added.
Cook’s total $99.4m pay last year included $630,600 in personal security costs and $712,500 of private jet usage. His 2022 pay was slightly higher than the $98.8m collected in 2021 but that was more than 570% higher than the $14.7m he was paid in 2020.
Cook, who is sitting on a personal fortune of more than $1bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has said he plans to give away all of his fortune before he dies. In 2015 he told Fortune magazine that he planned to donate all of his wealth to charity after providing for his then 10-year-old nephew’s education.
“Stabilizing Feedback” Confirmed by MIT Scientists – Earth Can Regulate Its Own Temperature Over Millennia
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new research finds.
Scientists have confirmed that a “stabilizing feedback” on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check.
From global volcanism to planet-cooling ice ages and dramatic shifts in solar radiation, the Earth’s climate has undergone some big changes. And yet for the last 3.7 billion years, life has kept on beating.
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“On the one hand, it’s good because we know that today’s global warming will eventually be canceled out through this stabilizing feedback. But on the other hand, it will take hundreds of thousands of years to happen, so not fast enough to solve our present-day issues.” — Constantin Arnscheidt
Just how does Earth accomplish this? A likely mechanism is “silicate weathering” — a geological process by which the slow and steady weathering of silicate rocks involves chemical reactions that ultimately draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into ocean sediments, trapping the gas in rocks.
It has been long suspected by researchers that silicate weathering plays a major role in regulating the Earth’s carbon cycle. The mechanism of silicate weathering could provide a geologically constant force in keeping carbon dioxide — and global temperatures — in check. But until now, there’s never been direct evidence for the continual operation of such a feedback.
The new findings are based on a study of paleoclimate data that record changes in average global temperatures over the last 66 million years. The MIT team applied a mathematical analysis to see whether the data revealed any patterns characteristic of stabilizing phenomena that reined in global temperatures on a geologic timescale.
They found that indeed there appears to be a consistent pattern in which the Earth’s temperature swings are dampened over timescales of hundreds of thousands of years. The duration of this effect is similar to the timescales over which silicate weathering is predicted to act.
The results are the first to use actual data to confirm the existence of a stabilizing feedback, the mechanism of which is likely silicate weathering.How the Earth has remained habitable through dramatic climate events in the geologic past can be explained by this stabilizing feedback.
“On the one hand, it’s good because we know that today’s global warming will eventually be canceled out through this stabilizing feedback,” says Constantin Arnscheidt, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). “But on the other hand, it will take hundreds of thousands of years to happen, so not fast enough to solve our present-day issues.”
The study is co-authored by Arnscheidt and Daniel Rothman, professor of geophysics at MIT.
Stability in data
Scientists have previously seen hints of a climate-stabilizing effect in the Earth’s carbon cycle: Chemical analyses of ancient rocks have shown that the flux of carbon in and out of Earth’s surface environment has remained relatively balanced, even through dramatic swings in global temperature. Furthermore, models of silicate weathering predict that the process should have some stabilizing effect on the global climate. And finally, the fact of the Earth’s enduring habitability points to some inherent, geologic check on extreme temperature swings.
“You have a planet whose climate was subjected to so many dramatic external changes. Why did life survive all this time? One argument is that we need some sort of stabilizing mechanism to keep temperatures suitable for life,” Arnscheidt says. “But it’s never been demonstrated from data that such a mechanism has consistently controlled Earth’s climate.”
Arnscheidt and Rothman sought to confirm whether a stabilizing feedback has indeed been at work, by looking at data of global temperature fluctuations through geologic history. They worked with a range of global temperature records compiled by other scientists, from the chemical composition of ancient marine fossils and shells, as well as preserved Antarctic ice cores.
“This whole study is only possible because there have been great advances in improving the resolution of these deep-sea temperature records,” Arnscheidt notes. “Now we have data going back 66 million years, with data points at most thousands of years apart.”
Speeding to a stop
To the data, the team applied the mathematical theory of stochastic differential equations, which is commonly used to reveal patterns in widely fluctuating datasets.
“We realized this theory makes predictions for what you would expect Earth’s temperature history to look like if there had been feedbacks acting on certain timescales,” Arnscheidt explains.
Using this approach, the team analyzed the history of average global temperatures over the last 66 million years, considering the entire period over different timescales, such as tens of thousands of years versus hundreds of thousands, to see whether any patterns of stabilizing feedback emerged within each timescale.
“To some extent, it’s like your car is speeding down the street, and when you put on the brakes, you slide for a long time before you stop,” Rothman says. “There’s a timescale over which frictional resistance, or a stabilizing feedback, kicks in, when the system returns to a steady state.”
Without stabilizing feedbacks, fluctuations of global temperature should grow with timescale. But the team’s analysis revealed a regime in which fluctuations did not grow, implying that a stabilizing mechanism reigned in the climate before fluctuations grew too extreme. The timescale for this stabilizing effect — hundreds of thousands of years — coincides with what scientists predict for silicate weathering.
Interestingly, Arnscheidt and Rothman found that on longer timescales, the data did not reveal any stabilizing feedbacks. That is, there doesn’t appear to be any recurring pull-back of global temperatures on timescales longer than a million years. Over these longer timescales, then, what has kept global temperatures in check?
“There’s an idea that chance may have played a major role in determining why, after more than 3 billion years, life still exists,” Rothman offers.
In other words, as the Earth’s temperatures fluctuate over longer stretches, these fluctuations may just happen to be small enough in the geologic sense, to be within a range that a stabilizing feedback, such as silicate weathering, could periodically keep the climate in check, and more to the point, within a habitable zone.
“There are two camps: Some say random chance is a good enough explanation, and others say there must be a stabilizing feedback,” Arnscheidt says. “We’re able to show, directly from data, that the answer is probably somewhere in between. In other words, there was some stabilization, but pure luck likely also played a role in keeping Earth continuously habitable.”
Reference: “Presence or absence of stabilizing Earth system feedbacks on different time scales” by Constantin W. Arnscheidt and Daniel H. Rothman, 16 November 2022, Science Advances.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adc9241
This research was supported, in part, by a MathWorks fellowship and the National Science Foundation.
Sonic Team Listening To Frontiers Feedback, Wants To Take Series To “Greater Heights”
Sega’s latest release Sonic Frontiers takes the Sonic the Hedgehog series in a bold new direction with its “open-zone” gameplay. Obviously, Sega took a lot of feedback from focus groups in the lead-up to the latest release, and it intends to continue this trend going forward.
In a few tweets on social media, the game’s director Morio Kishimoto mentioned how the team is listening to the feedback about the new entry and said Sonic Team will take this into consideration when it comes to the future of the series. He added that the team still has “a long way to go” and would continue to go to “greater heights” to challenge itself. Here’s a rough translation:
Morio Kishimoto (@moq_46): “I got a lot of energy from everyone’s comments! I am very honored that so many people enjoyed it! After more than 10 years of trial and error, I was finally able to create this work. Open Zone is full of possibilities. Sonic games become more interesting. We will continue to challenge ourselves to greater heights.”
Sega also released a message this week – thanking everyone for the support and for being with Sonic every step of the way.
Have you tried out Sonic Frontiers yet? What would you like to see from the series moving forward? Comment below.
Paleoclimatologist uncovers ancient climate feedback loop that accelerated effects of Earth’s last warming episode
Against the backdrop of a rapidly warming planet, the need to better understand the nature and long-term impact of positive climatic feedback loops—processes that accelerate the effects of warming—becomes critically important.
One way to assess the role and impact of climatic feedback processes is to use modeling studies to look into the likely future based on what we know now. Climate projection models, for instance, are the tools behind the 1.5° C global warming threshold adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Alternatively, you can look into the past to see what happened at a time when the Earth was up to 1-1.5°C warmer than today. That is what UC Santa Barbara’s Syee Weldeab did in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The professor of paleoclimatology found feedback processes that have concerning implications for our modern, ongoing warming.
To get a paleoclimate perspective on global warming, Weldeab and his colleagues went back some 128,000 to 125,000 years ago to the peak Eemian warm episode. Oceans were up to 1-1.5°C warmer than during the Holocene (our current geological epoch). The authors examined marine sediment from the tropical Atlantic and found exceptionally strong warming of the intermediate water column during a brief interval within the peak Eemian warm episode.
“Remarkably, a substantially diminished Greenland Ice Sheet was capable of producing enough meltwater to perturb the density-driven circulation of the Atlantic Ocean,” Weldeab said. “This contributed significantly to the large warming of the intermediate waters we reconstructed.”
Typically, warm, salty water travels north from the tropics along the surface of the ocean and cools as it reaches northern mid and high latitudes. At this point, the now colder, denser water drops to the deep sea and travels back down toward the tropics. This interplay of density differences results in the currents that we’re familiar with today.
“What happens when you put a large amount of fresh water into the North Atlantic is basically it disturbs ocean circulation and reduces the advection of cold water into the intermediate depth of the tropical Atlantic, and as a result warms the waters at this depth,” he said.
While previous studies have discussed the disruption that meltwater caused to currents and temperatures at intermediate depths, the new paper reveals that this warming was “larger than previously thought.”
“We show a hitherto undocumented and remarkably large warming of water at intermediate depths, exhibiting a temperature increase of 6.7°C from the average background value,” Weldeab said.
This exceptionally strong warming has serious consequences, as the warm water impinges on marine sediment that contains abundant methane hydrates—a mixture of frozen water and methane. These deposits are not far below the surface of the seafloor.
Weldeab explained that at high pressure and low temperatures, the introduction of unusually warm water heats the seafloor sediment, and the ice-encapsulated gases begin to dissolve, releasing methane. Weldeab and colleagues used carbon isotopes (13C/12C) in the shells of microorganisms to uncover the fingerprint of methane release and methane oxidation across the water column.
“This is one of several amplifying climatic feedback processes where a warming climate caused accelerated ice sheet melting,” he said. “The meltwater weakened the ocean circulation, and as a consequence, the waters at intermediate depth warmed significantly, leading to destabilization of shallow subsurface methane hydrates and release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.”
It is not known for sure whether this feedback cycle will play out in the current round of global warming, though anthropogenic activity has created a higher rate of warming than the one that occurred in the Eemian period. These findings, according to the researchers, “document and connects a sequence of climatic events and climatic feedback processes associated with and triggered by the penultimate peak climate warming that can serve as a paleo-analog for modern ongoing warming.”
“Paleo perspective is a useful approach to help us assess what might come,” Weldeab said. “It doesn’t have to happen exactly like we found; every situation is different, but it gives you a direction where to look.”
Deep ocean warming as climate changes
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iOS 16 lets you turn on haptic feedback for your iPhone’s keyboard
Apple announced Monday that iOS 16 will let you switch on haptics when you type, meaning you’ll feel a tiny vibration every single time you press a key on your iPhone’s virtual keyboard. Apple’s haptics — powered by the company’s Taptic Engine — are some of the best out there on mobile phones (though many Android devices have caught up), and now you’ll get to feel a satisfying pulse while you’re chatting with your friends or composing an email.
Previously, if you wanted haptic feedback on your keyboard, one option was to turn to… Google. The search company added haptic feedback to its Gboard keyboard for iPhone in 2019. I personally gave up on using third-party keyboards years ago because it’s a lot easier to just use Apple’s stock keyboard, and I haven’t tried haptic feedback on a keyboard for myself. With iOS 16, I’ll definitely give it a spin.
Haptic keyboard feedback is just one of many iOS 16 updates revealed during WWDC 2022.