As a long-time arcade-goer‚ Tekken is a series near and dear to me. I wasn’t a fan of Tekken 8’s pre-release material‚ and some of the roided-out character intros didn’t appeal to me. After over 30 hours‚ I’m thrilled to say my concerns were misplaced‚ and Tekken 8 is becoming my favorite entry in the series. Welcome to the King of Iron Fist Tournament The Tekken Team has the undesirable job of trying to make one of the most complicated fighting games on the market accessible for newcomers. They mostly succeeded‚ and Tekken 8 is a complete package anyone can enjoy‚ from the most die-hard strategist to the most vehement button masher. While sweaty Tekken fanatics like myself will find most of their enjoyment online‚ a significant portion of the player base is not interested in fighting other players. If you’re in that camp‚ there’s still plenty for you to enjoy in Tekken 8‚ starting with the story. Screenshot: ...

No one likes to have any Pal getting depressed in their base. But if you have one‚ can you fix their Depressed status in Palworld? How does the Depressed status work in Palworld Each Pal that you have captured has a specific Sanity level. This sanity level goes up and down depending on several factors. If the Pal is stressed due to work‚ does not get enough food‚ or even lacks entertainment‚ it can lead to them losing their Sanity level. Once the Sanity level goes down by a significant amount‚ the Pal will become depressed. And once a Pal is depressed‚ they will have a tired face and will refuse to work‚ even if you try to assign them somewhere. This significantly hampers the productivity of that Pal and also inhibits your progress. How to cure the Depressed status in Palworld Screenshot: PC Invasion The best way to cure the Depressed status of your Pal is to use High Grade Medical Supplies on them. To make the High Grade Medical Supplies‚ yo...

Every character in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has a wildly different playstyle and entirely unique methods of traversal‚ so choosing your main is a difficult process. While characters are better suited for certain situations‚ a few of them are still much better than the rest. The Best Characters in Suicide Squad KTJL You can switch between each of the Suicide Squad members at will when exploring Metropolis and the game encourages you to regularly swap your main character for different missions‚ so you’ll spend a lot of time playing as each of the game’s main characters. Still‚ if you’re trying to choose a main‚ it’s better to invest in some characters first. These are the best characters in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Harley Quinn Screenshot: PC Invasion Harley Quinn is one of the most mobile members of the Suicide Squad with the ability to grapple to ledges and swing around the battlefield with he...

After the infamous Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League early press previews‚ one of the biggest negative backlashes from the community was the cluttered HUD. Thankfully‚ there are many HUD customizations in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. All ways to customize HUD in Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League As someone who likes to play games HUDless if possible‚ I’m glad that Rocksteady Studios included several HUD options in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Related: How to use Social Squad in Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League To customize your HUD in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League‚ go to the Options menu. Here‚ go to the Interface tab. Here’s the full list of HUD customization options: HUD – On/off Mini-map – On/off Aiming Reticle – On/off Larger Persistent Center Dot – On/off Enemy Health Bars – On/off Enemy Health Bar Prompts – On/off Damage Numbers – On/off ...

Long before radio broadcasts‚ movies‚ and television series‚ the circus was the biggest and greatest entertainment industry in the United States and beyond. Spectators couldn’t wait to catch a glimpse of the talented trick-riders‚ fearless fire-eaters‚ amazing acrobats‚ and exotic animals. Since the first circus ring opened to the public the late 1700s‚ a lot has changed. Source

Several San Francisco residents are suing city officials over an allegedly “illegal” program that provides taxpayer funds to black and Latino biological men who “identify as females.” In November 2022‚ Democratic Mayor London Breed‚ who is listed as a defendant‚ announced the “Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) Program‚” which provides “low-income transgender San Franciscans with $1‚200 each month‚ up to 18 months to help address financial insecurity within trans communities‚” according to a press release. Judicial Watch‚ a nonprofit legal group‚ filed the suit on behalf of several plaintiffs Monday against Breed‚ arguing the program is unconstitutional because of its “preferential treatment.” “Specifically‚ Plaintiffs contend that any expenditure of taxpayer funds or taxpayer-financed resources on the GIFT program is illegal under Article 1‚ section 7 of the California Constitution because the program’s grant of preferential treatment to biological males who identify as females is immediately suspect and presumptively invalid and cannot survive strict scrutiny review‚” the complaint reads. The lawsuit named Breed; José Cisneros‚ treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco; John Doe‚ the executive director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives of the City and County of San Francisco; and Carmen Chu‚ city administrator of the City and County of San Francisco‚ as defendants. The GIFT program initially opened to 55 applicants and provided an income as well as access to “gender-affirming medical and mental health care‚” according to Breed’s press release. The funds were first distributed in January 2023 and will continue through 2024‚ according to the program’s website. Undocumented individuals can also apply to the program if they meet the other criteria‚ according to the website. “We know that our trans communities experience much higher rates of poverty and discrimination‚ so this program will target support to lift individuals in this community up‚” Breed said in a statement. The plaintiffs allege that the program is little more than racial and sexual discrimination since only transgender minorities can apply and asked the court to enjoin the city from using taxpayer dollars to fund the program‚ according to the complaint. “The transgender extremists running San Francisco are illegally using taxpayer money to hand out free cash to transgender individuals based on race and sex in blatant violation of the state’s constitution‚” Tom Fitton‚ president of Judicial Watch‚ said in a press release. Breed‚ Cisneros‚ and Chu did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com‚ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post California’s Cash Handout Program for ‘Trans’ Residents Is ‘Illegal‚’ Lawsuit Alleges appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A federal agency is working with left-of-center nonprofits to increase voting among prisoners and former prison inmates under an executive order from President Joe Biden designed to increase election turnout.  The Federal Bureau of Prisons has partnered with and regularly consults on voting issues with the League of Women Voters‚ the American Civil Liberties Union‚ the Campaign Legal Center‚ and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee.  Emery Nelson‚ spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons‚  which is part of the Justice Department‚ confirmed the arrangement to The Daily Signal.  “The FBOP meets quarterly with the D.C. Board of Elections‚ the League of Women Voters‚ the American Civil Liberties Union‚ the Campaign Legal Center‚ Disability Rights D.C.‚ The Sentencing Project‚ and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee‚” Nelson said. The League of Women Voters is helping the prison agency to distribute an informational voting video that is “scheduled for completion by the end of February 2024‚” Nelson later added.  The partnerships result from Biden’s Executive Order 14019‚ signed in March 2021‚ which calls for “soliciting and facilitating approved‚ nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises” to promote voting across the nation. Republicans in the House and Senate‚ as well as government watchdog groups‚ have pressed unsuccessfully for the Biden administration to disclose what third-party organizations it is working with.  The Daily Signal previously reported that one agency‚ the Indian Health Service‚ has worked with the ACLU and Demos‚ a liberal advocacy group that helped draft Biden’s executive order.  “What’s deeply troubling is that most of these organizations have a history of being allied with the policies of only one of the two political parties‚ and this is clearly a partisan effort to keep the current president in power‚” Stewart Whitson‚ legal director for the Foundation for Government Accountability‚ told The Daily Signal. Whitson’s organization‚ a conservative government watchdog group‚ filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department‚ parent agency of the Federal Bureau of Prisons‚ seeking its strategic plan to carry out Biden’s executive order on voting.  The Foundation for Government Accountability first exposed a July 2021 “listening session” on implementing Biden’s order that included staff from the White House Domestic Policy Council and numerous left-leaning organizations‚ including some of the Bureau of Prisons’ partners.  “The best hope to stop this is for good‚ principled federal employees who witness a weaponized government get-out-the-vote effort for the Left to use whistleblower protections to report what they’ve seen‚” Whitson said.  The arrangement between Biden administration agencies and outside political groups is “anti-democratic‚” said Scott Walter‚ president of the Capital Research Center‚ a conservative-leaning watchdog that tracks nonprofits. “How anti-democratic of the White House to entangle itself in election administration with groups like the ACLU and the League of Women Voters—politicized nonprofits fighting for agendas that most Americans in this democracy don’t support‚” Walter told The Daily Signal. “If a Republican White House tried such a stunt with‚ say‚ Charles Koch’s Believe in People‚ which is also a 501(c)(4) nonprofit‚ the media and congressional outrage would rightly be deafening.” The Federal Bureau of Prisons is following Biden’s executive order to partner with nonpartisan organizations as well as local governments to promote voting‚ said Nelson‚ the bureau spokesperson.  “Specifically‚ in 2023‚ the FBOP partnered with the League of Women Voters (LWV) and the District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) to offer civics education classes and voter registration drives at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Cumberland and the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Petersburg‚ two of the institutions with the highest number of D.C. residents‚” Nelson said in an email‚ referring to prisons in Maryland and Virginia‚ respectively.  “The FBOP is working with the LWV to virtually offer the civic/voter education class‚ Nelson added. “This is expected to be launched at FCC Hazelton [in West Virginia] in February and will be offered throughout the FBOP‚” Nelson added.  The Bureau of Prisons sent letters to all states that allow eligible incarcerated individuals to vote‚ Nelson said‚ and the bureau also has partnered with other local nonprofits.  “The FBOP is partnering with Chicago Votes to bring voter education and registration to MCC Chicago as well‚” Nelson said‚ referring to Metropolitan Correctional Center Chicago.  “In November of 2023‚” he added‚ “the FBOP partnered with the DCBOE [District of Columbia Board of Elections] to offer a presentation to a Topeka‚ Kansas‚ high school voting club regarding incarcerated individuals voting rights.” Nelson said the Bureau of Prisons “is working with Los Angeles County to engage individuals in the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) Los Angeles and FCI Terminal Island [also in Los Angeles] to continue to strengthen their partnership with the FBOP.” A total of 24 Republican state legislators in Pennsylvania last week signed onto a lawsuit to block Biden’s executive order on getting out the vote.  In December‚ Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced legislation through the House Administration Committee that would repeal Biden’s order. The month before‚ Senate Republicans‚ led by Bill Hagerty of Tennessee‚ wrote to Biden asserting that his order could violate the federal Antideficiency Act‚ which bars agencies from spending money that isn’t authorized by Congress.   “The order outlines various activities in which agencies are to engage‚ including promoting mail-in voting and partnering with third-party organizations to register voters‚” Hagerty says in the letter‚ which was signed by 22 other Senate Republicans‚ including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell‚ R-Ky. “Federal agencies should be focused on their defined missions in a nonpartisan manner‚ not using taxpayer funds for voter mobilization efforts with potentially partisan impacts.”  None of the private organizations named in this report responded to inquiries Monday from The Daily Signal. However‚ the same organizations signed on to “best practices” suggestions for the Bureau of Prisons in February 2023 to ensure that federal inmates who are eligible can vote. Those recommendations to the Bureau of Prisons included “identifying a voter coordinator‚” “facilitating voter registration‚” “distribute voter registration forms‚” “learn about the absentee ballot process for incarcerated voters who are residents of a given state or territory‚” “disseminate state-specific voting information that incarcerated voters need‚” and “provide opportunities to access voter information throughout incarceration.” Although convicted felons are barred from voting on at least a temporary basis in most states‚ certain incarcerated individuals—such as someone awaiting trial—are eligible to vote.  Biden’s executive order specifically called for providing voting access and education to U.S. citizens in federal custody‚ according to a 2021 White House press release.   “The order will direct the attorney general to establish procedures to provide educational materials related to voter registration and voting‚ and to the extent practicable‚ to facilitate voter registration‚ for all eligible individuals in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons‚” the press release said. “It also directs the attorney general to coordinate with the Probation and Pretrial Services Office to develop similar procedures for eligible individuals under its supervision.”  Last year‚ a coalition of left-leaning organizations led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights issued what it called a progress report on how federal agencies are complying with Biden’s order on increasing voter turnout.  That report said the Bureau of Prisons had “work to do.” “If comprehensively implemented‚ it should significantly increase voting access for eligible voters incarcerated in BOP facilities—who face some of the highest hurdles to participating in our democracy‚” the coalition’s progress report said‚ adding later: “While BOP issued some helpful materials and has been working on making changes to provide voter registration services to eligible individuals under federal custody or control‚ they have been slow to implement such changes.” U.S. District Judge John Badalamenti of the Middle District of Florida has yet to issue a final ruling in the Foundation for Government Accountability’s lawsuit to obtain the Justice Department’s strategic plan to implement Biden’s order.  However‚ in a footnote in August citing the Freedom of Information Act‚ Badalamenti criticized the Justice Department for asserting “presidential privilege” to prevent releasing the strategic plan.  “It cannot be that every document that is received by the president’s immediate White House advisers and their staff is protected by the presidential communications privilege so long as those advisers and their staffs may‚ at some point‚ rely on the document to brief the president on some matter‚” the judge’s footnote says.  “Were that the policy‚” he added‚ “agencies could elude FOIA’s congressionally enacted purpose—to ‘pierce the veil of administrative secrecy and to open agency action to the light of public scrutiny’ … and withhold any document merely by sending it to any White House adviser or their staff.” Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com‚ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state.  The post EXCLUSIVE: How Biden Pushes Inmate Voting With Help From Interest Groups appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has rescinded guidance allowing personnel to issue new licenses for people trying to change their gender from their biological sex‚ citing the importance of the “security‚ reliability and accuracy of government-issued credentials.” The department sent out a technical advisory on Jan. 26 stating a patron’s gender on his or her driver’s license or identification card must be taken from a primary identification document. And on Tuesday‚ the department’s director of communications told The Daily Signal that the move is important to “enhance the security and reliability of Florida-issued licenses.” “The department is charged with important statutory duties‚ to include issuance of Florida driver’s licenses and identification cards‚ and to issue replacement credentials under specific circumstances‚” said Molly Best‚ director of communications for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. “Expanding the department’s authority to issue replacement licenses dependent on one’s internal sense of gender or sex identification is violative of the law and does not serve to enhance the security and reliability of Florida-issued licenses and identification cards‚” she told The Daily Signal. “The security‚ reliability and accuracy of government-issued credentials is paramount.”  Updates-to-IRO8-Gender-Requirements-002Download In January 2023‚ department Executive Director Dave Kerner tasked senior department leadership with making sure that the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ policies‚ procedures‚ guidance and advisories were consistent with both “statutory law” and the department’s authority. This latest development is a result of that move‚ Best said. She noted that “the rescission pertains solely to replacement license requests” and that “no changes have been made to the process of establishing gender on a newly issued Florida credential‚ governed by [Section] 322.08‚ F.S.” Leftist groups‚ such as the ACLU of Florida‚ responded to the decision with criticism. “All transgender and non-binary people should have access to an accurate ID‚” the ACLU of Florida said in an “X” post on Tuesday. Access to accurate IDs is personally meaningful for trans folks but also practical‚ ensuring they can travel‚ apply for jobs‚ and enter public establishments with less risk of harassment or harm.https://t.co/67heQkee1a— ACLU of Florida (@ACLUFL) January 30‚ 2024 “Transgender Floridians can no longer change the listed gender on their [driver’s] licenses‚” the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper reported. “A state memo further says that someone ‘misrepresenting’ their gender‚ meaning not using their sex assigned at birth‚ constitutes ‘criminal and civil’ fraud.” Transgender Floridians can no longer change the listed gender on their driver licenses.A state memo further says that someone "misrepresenting" their gender‚ meaning not using their sex assigned at birth‚ constitutes "criminal and civil" fraud.https://t.co/snKSMbQ1fu— Douglas Soule (@DouglasSoule) January 30‚ 2024 Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the url or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state.  The post Florida Says Driver’s Licenses Must Reflect Biological Sex‚ Not Gender Identity appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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