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Giants’ Kadarius Toney sports ‘Suicide Squad’ visor in practice

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It was no laughing matter to see Kadarius Toney back on the practice field.

Toney wore a facemask visor with a print of the Haha tattoo associated with Jared Leto’s Joker character in the “Suicide Squad” during Giants practice Friday. The second-year wide receiver also is a rapper who goes by the artist name “Yung Joka.”

Toney, who mostly treats Yung Joka as a separate persona from his football identity as a first-round draft pick, released his latest album “Warrior 3” in the offseason, and the Giants played a track during a training camp practice. PristineAuction.com once sold an authenticated Toney-autographed Joker figurine with his tagline – “Why so serious?” – for $128.99, records show.

Kadarius Toney’s sun visor has the words, “Ha Ha,” written on it during practice at the Giants training facility in East Rutherford.
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Kadarius Toney answers questions from reporters.
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It’s not the first time that Toney has created a buzz with an unusual visor. He paired a Louis Vuitton-logoed visor with his Joker-themed mouth guard during the first week of training camp, and a photo circulated by the Giants official Twitter account received nearly 3,000 likes.

While specialized visors are fun in practice, NFL rules still strictly govern usage in games, so Toney must put the visor back on the shelf. For years only clear visors were allowed, though now, through a partnership with Oakley, players are allowed to wear visors with a pinkish-blue hue.

Toney was a limited practice participant Friday and is questionable to play Sunday after he showed up on the injury report (hamstring). He originally tweaked his hamstring last month, returned to practice after preseason games were over and played seven snaps in Week 1, but then the hamstring “tightened up” and forced Toney out of certain team periods of Thursday’s practice, according to Giants head coach Brian Daboll.

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343’s Halo Infinite Launches Cyber Showdown Event January 18

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Screenshot: 343 Industries

Starting tomorrow, Halo Infinite begins its third major even since launch, called Cyber Showdown. And things might be getting ‘80s, Tron-style.

Developers 343 have attempted to play the details of the event close to their chests, which of course only ever results in dataminers revealing absolutely everything instead. So while all we officially have at this point is an ambiguous teaser from before the weekend, since then details from reliable leaks and mines have piled up.

The teaser certainly implies some neon-80s arcade machine magics. As a Spartan fiddles with a Space Invaders-like game, called Slipspace Invaders (DYSWTDT?), he’s shot from behind by a rival player. But instead of dying, he seemingly finds himself spawning inside another world, his suit changing from blue to pink, and a new neon mohawk on his helmet.

Weirdly, disappointingly, the Spartan is stood against the most dreary grey background, looking like it could be anywhere on Infinite’s bland maps. But beyond this, despite the imminent start of the event, nothing else was shared. So in leapt the dataminers to do 343’s PR job for them.

With that in mind, take everything reported here with a pinch of salt. But the leakers are saying the event will start at 1 p.m. ET Tuesday, and this time run for two weeks.

It will be played, the say, across Capture The Flag, Slayer, and Attrition, while adding new mode, King Of The Hill. There are ten ranks to gain that also imply a very vaguely ‘80s vibe. The ranks go like this:

  • Rank 1 – Boring stance
  • Rank 2 – Weapon coating
  • Rank 3 – Underpants-skid-like nameplate backdrop
  • Rank 4 – CRAIG! (emblem)
  • Rank 5 – Silly visor
  • Rank 6 – Armor coating
  • Rank 7 – A little sword to dangle off your weapon
  • Rank 8 – A slightly less silly visor
  • Rank 9 – AI Color (and sadly not the best new helmet ever)
  • Rank 10 – Neon mohawk for your spacehat

It seems it’ll be about completing starred challenges, although it’s unclear how they’ll be spread out across the event’s fortnite. That should put some minds at rest, after the disappointing game-a-day of the Christmas event. The good news is, all that lot is free, while there will be a bunch of cyberpunk-ish items in the store for your real-life money. Stuff like a “Synthwave Coating”:

I mean, if I were a video game developer, I’d seed my game code with all sorts of mad bullshit to trick the miners, and then leak out equally nonsensical information, just to have fun. Which is reason #439 that I am not a video game developer.



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VFX Artist ‘Unwraps’ Classic Apollo Pic to Show Us What Buzz Aldrin Saw on The Moon

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Fifty-two years after the first historical Moon landing, we’ve been given a brand new perspective of a classic Apollo-era photo.

Reddit user and visual effects artist Michael Ranger, AKA rg1213, chose the iconic photo of Buzz Aldrin taken by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission, and ‘unwrapped’ the lunar vista reflected in the astronaut’s helmet.

 

The result is a never-before-seen, 360-degree astronaut’s-eye panoramic view of the Moon.

“What makes this process exciting for me is the fact that this is real,” Ranger wrote on Reddit. “If I get any inkling whatsoever that something like this is fake or false, my interest in it completely evaporates. This is great because it’s real!”

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the Moon. (NASA)

The photo in question is an iconic one, taken in July of 1969. Aldrin stands near the leg of the Eagle lunar module, his left arm cocked. In the reflection on his visor, his shadow stretches out in front of him, the module shines in the harsh light of the unfiltered Sun, and Armstrong stands with the Hasselblad camera held at chest height.

If you look carefully, you can see Earth, right at the top of the visor.

Ranger’s reconstruction follows a previous attempt in February of 2019, and an earlier version from a few days ago using a lower resolution photo.

“I took this famous image of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, zoomed in to his visor, and because it’s essentially a mirror ball I was able to ‘unwrap’ it to this 2D image. Then I opened that in the Google Street View app and can see what [Aldrin] saw,” he explained.

The latest version uses the highest resolution image available, taken from the comprehensive Project Apollo Archive on Flickr.

(NASA/Michael Ranger AKA u/rg1213)

“Using that higher quality photo, I created this unwrapped panoramic 360-degree image, which I opened in a free 360-degree viewer and recorded this video with it,” Ranger wrote. “In addition to the higher resolution of the film scan and the uncompressed file format, I sharpened and color corrected it in Photoshop rather than on my iPhone like the first one, which led to better results.”

He also color-corrected the gold tint of the visor – a protection measure against solar radiation – and added more space around the edges of the visor for a more realistic representation of the inside of Aldrin’s helmet, he said.

 

The Apollo 11 mission, which launched on 16 July 1969 to land Armstrong and Aldrin on the Moon on 20 July, was the first time humanity had set foot on a world that wasn’t Earth. Many photographic and video assets have been retained, and are available on the public domain.

Last year, a film restoration specialist used artificial intelligence to enhance some Apollo 11 mission footage, bringing it to 24 frames per second for an incredible crisp and clear experience of iconic mission moments.

We don’t think Ranger will be the last to attempt this, either. Based on the comment thread, other Reddit users seem inspired to try their hand at finding hidden views in Apollo photographs.

 

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