When just starting out in MultiVersus, you may find you’re being hammered as a beginner, but this may just be because you’re playing with the wrong character. Regardless of your playstyle, here are the best beginner-friendly characters in MultiVersus. Choosing the best character as a beginner in MultiVersus The best character for any beginner really just comes down to how you like to play. If you’re familiar with combo fighters, then you’ll already know your preference. However, if MultiVersus is your first time, then give each of these various characters a go, and see which one works for you. Bruiser Class – Shaggy Screenshot: PC Invasion These are all-rounders in MultiVerse or any combo fighter. They work at a variety of ranges and are adaptable. A jack of all trades, if you will. I would recommend the starting character, Shaggy, for any beginner in MultiVersus as the best. He has some pretty slick combos, a charge attack, and decent speed...

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The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) is one of the ocean's biggest mysteries. There are no photographs and no footage of a living colossal squid in its natural habitat. What we do know about this ocean beast is learnt from the few specimens that have been found in fishing nets or washed up on beaches. An international research team has come up with the ambitious plan to find and study the colossal squid in its natural home by 2025, the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of the species. Between December 2022 and March 2023, the team traveled to Antarctica four times to attempt to find the colossal squid. They used a polar tourism vessel called the Ocean Endeavor fitted with a deep-sea camera system that could be lowered to a maximum depth of 400 meters (1,312 feet).The colossal squid is thought to measure 14 meters (46 feet) and weighs at least 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds). It is a multiple world record holder, taking the title for the world’s largest invertebrate (in terms of weight at least). This elusive species is thought to live in the deep sea in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.While the team did not manage to find an adult, they have captured footage of a glass squid that measures 10-12 centimeters (3.9-4.7 inches). This footage is currently under analysis and could show either an unknown species, an adult Galiteuthis glacialis squid, or the first footage of a small juvenile colossal squid ever recorded. It appears at 2 minutes 33 seconds in the below video.                             “The colossal squid is an oversized poster species for how little we know about the ocean,” said Matt Mulrennan, Marine Scientist, the leader of the four 2022-2023 expeditions and Founder/CEO of non-profit Kolossal, in a statement sent to IFLScience. Glass squids are scientifically known as the family Cranchiidae, to which both the colossal squid and the Galiteuthis glacialis species belong. These are the only known Cranchidae that live in these Antarctic conditions. “The two known Cranchiidae taxa seen in the Antarctic are Galiteuthis glacialis and Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni. The squid seen here could belong to different life stages of either of those taxa – and is an exciting example of wild cranchiid behavior, as I cannot think of existing video footage of either of those squid in their natural environment,” said Dr Aaron Evans, who studies the Cranchiidae family and has been peer reviewing the footage.The footage shows large amounts of marine snow, which is organic matter falling into the deep ocean; this obscures the view of the mystery squid as it appears.“Identification of glass squids from footage can be tricky; some species have unique combinations of visible features, but other groups of species look similar enough that it’s very hard to confirm who they are from images alone,” said Dr Kat Bolstad of Auckland University of Technology (AUT), who is an expert on the colossal squid and has also been reviewing the footage.As well as the squid footage, the team filmed a whole range of other deep-sea creatures – more than 80 different species, including giant volcano sponges, Antarctic sunflower stars, and multiple species of tunicates, soft corals, siphonophores, and crinoids. Giant volcano sponges are thought to be among the world's oldest living animals, estimated to live for up to 15,000 years.Image credit: © KOLOSSAL / MULRENNAN“This glass squid observation adds to the 100 years of mystery surrounding the search for the colossal squid, as the true identification may ultimately never be settled. But during these exciting expeditions we also engaged many people – from students to retirees – about the spirit of ocean exploration and we found that Antarctica’s remote watery depths are alive, unique, and worthy of protection,” concluded Mulrennan. 

Somehow, Sunspot AR 3664 has returned. OK, not somehow. It simply moved around the Sun as the Sun orbits on its axis – but we wanted to do a Star Wars reference. Because, just like Palpatine, AR 3664 has put on a light show. It was responsible for the solar flares and coronal mass ejections that led to the spectacular auroral display a few weeks ago.Now, the sunspot has greatly diminished and it is not as imposing as it was at the beginning of the month. But it is still showing that we should not underestimate it. NASA reports that it released an X 2.8 flare two days ago, not as powerful as what this spot was able to release in the past month, but still among the most powerful this solar cycle so far.“Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts,” NASA said in a statement.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Space Weather Prediction Center currently warns of limited radio interference and power grid fluctuations, but mostly the event did not affect our planet as it was off to the side. Things might be different in the coming days. The sunspot might finally peter out not with a bang but with a whimper, or it might have one or several more flashes before disappearing.Predicting solar activity is a very important job because infrastructure can be severely damaged. But we do not know enough about the Sun to have long-term forecasting or know when a series of coronal mass ejections will be released. The Sun is observed and scientists work out what will happen in the next several hours.When AR 3664 released those flares and coronal mass ejections earlier this month, the Space Weather Prediction Center estimated it would create a severe geomagnetic storm before revising it to extreme once it got here, leading to the spectacular aurorae and some telecommunication issues that are being investigated.The activity of the Sun is not expected to slow down for the next several months. We are around the solar maximum – the peak of activity in the roughly 11-year-long cycle that the Sun goes through. It could be that the best of Solar Cycle 25 is yet to come.  

Surgeons in ancient Egypt may have attempted to treat cancer by cutting away tumors on patients’ skulls, new research shows. While observing the cancer-ridden crania of two Egyptian corpses, the study authors noticed cut marks that are likely to have been made by doctors who tried to remove the growths thousands of years ago.“This is an extraordinary new perspective in our understanding of the history of medicine,” explained study author Professor Edgard Camarós in a statement. “This finding is unique evidence of how ancient Egyptian medicine would have tried to deal with or explore cancer more than 4,000 years ago.”A wealth of ancient Egyptian texts point towards an intrepid medical tradition as doctors sought innovative cures for tooth decay, physical injuries, and various illnesses. However, given that cancer continues to represent a major hurdle for modern medicine, it’s highly unlikely that the ancients were able to successfully treat the disease. What’s astonishing, though, is that they appear to have made a pretty serious attempt at doing so.Evidence for this comes from two skulls, the earliest of which belonged to a man in his 30s who lived some time between 2687 and 2345 BCE. This particular cranium displayed a large lesion that is consistent with tissue destruction caused by a cancerous growth, as well as several dozen smaller, metastasized lesions spread across the skull.Around these smaller injuries, the researchers noticed cut marks that are likely to have been made with a sharp metal instrument, suggesting that they probably resulted from an attempt to surgically remove the tumors.The small metastasized lesions on the skull are surrounded by surgical cut marks.Image credit: Tondini, Isidro, Camarós, 2024“It seems ancient Egyptians performed some kind of surgical intervention related to the presence of cancerous cells, proving that ancient Egyptian medicine was also conducting experimental treatments or medical explorations in relation to cancer,” explained study co-author Professor Albert Isidro.The second skull belonged to a woman who was older than 50 when she died between 663 and 343 BCE, and showed evidence of tissue damage consistent with either bone cancer or a type of tumor known as a meningioma, which occurs in the membranes that surround the brain. This same skull also features a large wound that is likely to have been “produced in the context of a face-to-face frontal attack, with all characteristics of an interpersonal violent event involving a right-handed perpetrator.”Indications that this nasty injury healed may imply that the woman received some sort of medical treatment that ultimately enabled her to recover and survive, although the researchers are unable to determine the extent of brain damage she may have sustained. Finding such a vicious wound on a female adds another layer of intrigue to this study, as violence-related injuries are typically only seen in males.“Was this female individual involved in any kind of warfare activities?” ponders study author Tatiana Tondini. “If so, we must rethink the role of women in the past and how they took active part in conflicts during antiquity.”Exactly how these two ancient individuals met their eventual ends is currently uncertain, and it’s impossible to say if their cancer treatments were successful. However, given the “advanced stage of their malignant conditions,” there’s a pretty high chance that neither survived their illness.The study is published in the journal Frontiers In Medicine.

Using a non-political event like a college graduation ceremony to push your views that democracy will end if the candidate you do not like wins, to most people, seems inappropriate, but to MSNBC’s host of The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday, famous PBS documentarian Ken Burns doing just that recently was a cause for celebration. Ruhle began, “The last thing before we go, wise words from Ken Burns. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has done his best to remain politically neutral over the years. That is, until now. He explained this to the graduating students of Brandeis University on why he cannot stay silent about this upcoming presidential election. Watch this.”     Ruhle wants to portray Burns as the guy who made a baseball documentary in the 90s, but, unfortunately for her, he is also the guy who compared Florida under Ron DeSantis to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. As for Burns’s actual remarks, he waxed poetic about the upcoming election, “There is no real choice this November. There is only the perpetuation, however flawed and feeble you might perceive it, of our fragile 249-year-old experiment or the entropy that will engulf and destroy us if we take the other route. When, as Mercy Otis Warren would say, ‘the checks of conscience are thrown aside and a deformed picture of the soul is revealed.’” He also referred to Donald Trump as “is the opioid of all opioids. An easy cure for what some believe is the solution to our myriad pains and problems. When in fact, with him, you end up re-enslaved with an even bigger problem, a worse affliction, and addiction. A bigger delusion, James Baldwin would say, the author and finisher of our national existence. Our national suicide, as Mr. Lincoln prophesizes.” He urged the graduates to “not be seduced by easy equalization. There is nothing equal about this equation. We are at an existential crossroads in our political and civic lives. This is a choice that could not be clearer.” After the clip, Ruhle returned to add, “Strong words from the soft-spoken and great Ken Burns for taking us off the air tonight.” Like many in public broadcasting, Burns may have spoken in a relatively hushed tone, but “soft” is not an appropriate way of describing Republicans as drugs that will deliver “national suicide,” especially at a commencement address.  Here is a transcript for the May 28 show: MSNBC The 11th Hour 5/28/2024 11:58 PM ET STEPHANIE RUHLE: The last thing before we go tonight, wise words from Ken Burns. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has done his best to remain politically neutral over the years. That is, until now. He explained this to the graduating students of Brandeis University on why he cannot stay silent about this upcoming presidential election. Watch this. KEN BURNS: There is no real choice this November. There is only the perpetuation, however flawed and feeble you might perceive it, of our fragile 249-year-old experiment or the entropy that will engulf and destroy us if we take the other route. When, as Mercy Otis Warren would say, “the checks of conscience are thrown aside and a deformed picture of the soul is revealed.”  The presumptive Republican nominee is the opioid of all opioids. An easy cure for what some believe is the solution to our myriad pains and problems. When in fact, with him, you end up re-enslaved with an even bigger problem, a worse affliction, and addiction. A bigger delusion, James Baldwin would say, the author and finisher of our national existence. Our national suicide, as Mr. Lincoln prophesizes Do not be seduced by easy equalization. There is nothing equal about this equation. We are at an existential crossroads in our political and civic lives. This is a choice that could not be clearer.  [Jump Cut] Remember what Louis Brandeis said. The most important political office is that of the private citizen. Vote, you indelibly—please vote.  You indelibly underscore citizenship and most important, our kinship with each other when you do. Good luck and Godspeed RUHLE: Strong words from the soft-spoken and great Ken Burns for taking us off the air tonight.

An MSNBC legal analyst offered a wildly misleading defense of discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.  MSNBC Legal Analyst Charles Coleman Jr. lamented pushback against DEI in education and business during the May 26 edition of Velshi. Coleman ignored the discriminatory, racist and anti-Semitic nature of DEI and instead mourned that DEI would be replaced with equality and non-discrimination at North Carolina public universities.  “The Republican crusade against diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI for short, continues with the latest casualty being the entire state of North Carolina's public university system,” Coleman bemoaned. “The University of North Carolina's board of governors just this week moved to eliminate DEI initiatives across all 17 of its campuses.” He then proceeded to whitewash racial discrimination in hiring and admissions. “This move follows a growing number of schools and state legislatures gutting programs intended to boost representation for historically underrepresented groups,” he added.  This is nothing new for Coleman who has repeatedly demonstrated racist tendencies towards Caucasian men. The DEI evangelist has gone after white evangelicals, criticizing both their race and religion. Furthermore, Coleman has repeatedly posted  that America has a “[w]hite male problem” and even a “[w]hite male domestic terrorism problem.”  During the segment, Coleman went all out to defend DEI, even referencing a debunked McKinsey study purporting to show a business case for diversity. “There is research that shows that diverse teams lead to better outcomes in a number of fields, all the way from business to healthcare,” Coleman claimed, before asking his guest, Daily Beast Contributor Ameshia Cross, “What do you think about rolling back DEI and how that affects America's overall ability to innovate? And to progress?”  Dominik Whitehead, NAACP Vice President of Campaigns, and Cross both ignored the racism and the discriminatory nature of DEI. Cross even went so far as to flatly deny that DEI initiatives prioritized background over talent.  That is precisely what DEI means. It is racial discrimination in hiring and admissions rather than simply choosing the most qualified candidate or applicant. Even the liberal media has occasionally acknowledged this. A report by Bloomberg News, owned by leftist billionaire Michael Bloomberg, laid out how this worked in 2021. According to the media outlet, a mere 6 percent of jobs at major companies they analyzed went to white individuals in 2021. Simultaneously, white people made up 68.5% of layoffs at studied companies that shrank in 2021.  DEI has also been condemned as a source of anti-Semitism by a number of voices, including by a former DEI director at De Anza College, Tabia Lee. Lee said that she may have been fired for pushing back against anti-Semitism on campus and relayed this disturbing anecdote: “I was told in no uncertain terms that Jews are ‘white oppressors’ and our job as faculty and staff members was to ‘decenter whiteness.’” During the explosion of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel campus activity, several others noted the link between this ideology’s oppressor narratives and anti-Semitism. X owner Elon Musk labeled DEI as “fundamentally anti-Semitic.” Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has publicly said that DEI teaches students to label Jews as “oppressors” and even lends itself to justifications of terrorism against Jews in Israel.  Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman spoke up against both anti-white and anti-Semitic sentiment on campus at Harvard, blaming the DEI ideology for both. Ackman called DEI and an “oppressor/oppressed framework” the “intellectual bulwark” behind anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests.  Ackman also denounced DEI as racist: “DEI is racist because reverse racism is racism, even if it is against white people (and it is remarkable that I even need to point this out). Racism against white people has become considered acceptable by many not to be racism, or alternatively, it is deemed acceptable racism. While this is, of course, absurd, it has become the prevailing view in many universities around the country.” Conservatives are under attack! Conservatives are under attack! Contact MSNBC at (800) 952-5210 and demand they report on the dangers of leftist DEI ideology infecting American companies.

A doorbell camera caught the terrifying moment when carjackers in broad daylight fired shots as they walked up to family members saying their goodbyes in a driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, last week."I threw my hands up like, 'Hey, hey, hey,' and he just pulled me down," Heather Allen recounted to WAPT-TV regarding Friday's ordeal.'He jumps in the driver's seat, I'm standing on the outside looking in, and he points a gun at my oldest boy's face.'The station said Allen and one of her sons were outside the car parked in the driveway at the time of the crime — however, Allen's daughter, two grandchildren, and her oldest son were inside the car.Video shows one of the suspects opening the driver's side door and pulling a victim in the driver's seat out of the car. That victim is Allen's daughter, WAPT said."They kept hollering, 'Give me the keys, give me the keys.' My daughter was like, 'My babies, my babies are in the car,'" Allen recalled to the station. Allen also told WAPT, "He jumps in the driver's seat, I'm standing on the outside looking in, and he points a gun at my oldest boy's face."The station said Allen's son was able to get out of the car — and then she grabbed her grandchildren from the backseat. WAPT added that the whole time one of the suspects continued yelling for the keys.As it turns out, though, the suspects were unable to figure out how to get the car to move, the station said.'I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof — he's even scared. My daughter, she has shock, but they're safe.'With that, WAPT said Allen threw on the ground the keys to her own car, which was parked on the lawn. The station said the suspects then gave up on the car parked in the driveway and took off in Allen's car."I'm not sleeping. My oldest son, his anxiety is through the roof — he's even scared. My daughter, she has shock, but they're safe. They are in Batesville right now," Allen noted to WAPT.The family indicated that they've lived in the area for about three months — but now they want to move out of Jackson, the station reported."We can't stay here anymore," Allen added to WAPT.What happened next?Jackson police found Allen's car about two blocks away from the crime scene — and only 40 minutes after the incident, the station said."The cop said that the car looks good, but it's in the impound lot," Allen explained to WAPT. "I can't get it until they investigate it for fingerprints."Police Chief Joseph Wade told the station that his department is working to get Allen's vehicle back to her as soon as possible. "I had an opportunity to look at the video of Ms. Allen and her family being robbed and carjacked in their driveway," Wade told WAPT. "It was extremely disturbing to me. It was very concerning to me because a threat to them and their family is a threat to everyone."Wade added to the station that investigators have identified two persons of interest, but they are not in custody.WAPT said those with information can call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

I’ve had a lot of people ask me where they can find the Westerns I include here, so from now on I'll add a section with that information in these articles. You got the wrong pig by the ear Old Henry McCarty is a nobody, a human ghost deep in Oklahoma territory. His face is disfigured, with an eyelid that sags. His wife is dead — tuberculosis. His son considers Henry a nobody, and maybe he is, maybe there’s nothing extraordinary about this old farmer. Maybe he’s fated to a life of burying rocks. Or maybe, underneath his quiet, calm demeanor, something stirs. The opening scene leads to a voiceover from Henry: “My people were from New York, where I was born. By the time I was three, we'd made it to Coffeyville, Kansas, then down to Arizona, then New Mexico. I was in Mexico proper for a time. I've tried my hand at many a vocation. Some more marginal than others. Finally, I settled on the life of a farmer. Which is what I am.” Is that all he is? This is the question we ask ourselves as Henry stumbles across a half-dead, unconscious man and brings him to his home to recuperate; the men who did this to him are on their way. We expect this nobody to emerge as a hero somehow. In Westerns, this is rarely a clean-cut designation. Before you know it, our hero is shoving a man’s head in mud till he drowns. For the majority of my first watch, I had no clue what would happen next, or even what was happening in the moment or why. The detective element leaves you guessing who is the policeman and who is the criminal. "Old Henry" plays with this confusion. Where you can find it If you haven’t seen "Old Henry" already, watch it as soon as possible. I wish I could watch it again for the first time. Also I recommend using the subtitles, it’s pretty heavy on the mumbling. Amazon Prime - $2.99 to rent (this is the one I chose) AppleTV - $3.99 to rent Fandango - $2.99 to rent Roku has it for free, but I think there are commercials. If none of those work, shoot me an email at kryan@blazemedia.com and I’ll get you sorted. There’s tractors can do this now in quarter the time As an Okie, I’m partial to stories set in a fictional version of my state’s history. The genre gives me plenty of options. While filmed in Watertown, Tennessee, "Old Henry" takes place in the Oklahoma Territory in 1906, one year before Oklahoma became the 46th state. More specifically, we're in the wildlands surrounding Chickasha, a two-hour drive from where I live. In 1906, there were about 7,500 people living in the area. It was a simpler time, but simple isn't always better. The bareness of everyday servitude left people with no other choice. So, what you often see onscreen is a kind of submission. Get strong or turn sour. Part of watching a Western is the nagging fear of “how would I have survived back then?” The longer you watch the movie, the lighter you feel. “I don’t know how I’d survive, but I would.” Gloomy as this sounds, this thought experiment turns out to be liberating, somehow — a temporary respite from modern life. Jay and Silent Bob Strike the Unabomber Potsy Ponciroli, who wrote and directed "Old Henry," is an interesting guy. His other film work includes: "Jay and Silent Bob Reboot" (2019) and "Ted K: Unabomber" (2021), a fictionalization of Ted Kaczynski's story. His film "The United States of Insanity" (2021) explores the Insane Clown Posse. Note that both the "Ted K" movie and the ICP movie came out the same year as "Old Henry." The latter is Ponciroli’s only Western, which is shocking. The storytelling is phenomenal — propulsive, yet delicate. Odd for a Western, it premiered at the Venice Film Festival. It’s also the first of three Westerns Shout! Studios — the filmmaking branch of longtime quality home entertainment purveyor Shout! Factory — intends to make in partnership with Hideout Pictures. "Old Henry" has a small cast. No women. Seriously: There’s not a single actress in the movie. Scott Haze is brilliant as Curry, the man who may or may not be the lawman he claims to be. Stephen Dorff, as the damn-good villain Ketchum, sounds like John Marston, the protagonist of "Red Dead Redemption," a true work of art among video games. Ponciroli’s expertise in other genres is obvious. The camera glides through scenes, in harmony with the deceptive pace of the storyline and action. "Old Henry" definitely has a mystery/crime aspect, and at times, feels ready to spill into the horror genre. But new horror — the soundtrack occasionally evokes Disasterpeace's score for "It Follows." As Andrew Patrick Nelson pointed out, Westerns ultimately belong to the fantasy genre. The cinematography and set design throughout "Old Henry" is gorgeous, with the modern Western's color palette. Various sections of the film employ different color schemes, shadows, and lenses. One scene has a green glow, another is red, but in the daylight, you get the entire plains and sky without any impurities. Then, an avalanche of blue. A new reality of sharpened colors. Tim Blake Nelson While Kevin Costner may be our era's most representative Western hero, there's a case to be made Tim Blake Nelson. He is a talented actor. And his performance in "Old Henry" will leave you shaking your head as you say, “Well, how about that?” That alone is worth the price of admission. In interviews, Nelson has described "Old Henry" as a “micro Western," which he defines as "a small, simple tale set in an alternate timeline where an authentic, historical character plays in a fictional world.” He had learned to shoot for "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," which will appear as a Wednesday Western entry soon enough: "I was working with guns every day for about five months to be able to do the pistol tricks." Nightmares The nightmare sequences are beautiful and chilling, intensified by Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Jordan Lehning’s score. Lehning’s catalog is impressive. Alongside four solo albums, he boasts production, engineering, performance, and orchestral arrangement for musicians including Kacey Musgraves, Kenny Rogers, Caitlin Rose, and Justin Towne Earles. The whole of his work, not just his soundtracking, is frequently described as cinematic in nature. There’s a shifting gravity to the compositions beneath the nightmare sequences, which he captures hauntingly with “Fever Dream - Part 1” and “Fever Dream - Part 2.” The stark ambiguity of the sounds leaves the viewer uncertain about the ultimate message of the dream sequences. This exceeds the usual ambiguity that movies use to deal with dreams, especially nightmares. These scenes don’t match the brilliance of the dream sequences portrayed in "The Sopranos," but that’s only because no other TV show or film has. But like the feverish realism that colors Tony Soprano’s nightscape, the nightmare scenes of "Old Henry" achieve the fog of a revelation. Their power comes from their sudden appearance, a magical haze that lowers around us without our expecting it. These hallucinogenic dream sequences elevate the film above Westerns of prior eras, which lacked our technical sophistication and access to profound artistic breakthroughs. Ponciroli made "Old Henry" with the cheat codes for every prior innovation. Which I don’t mean disparagingly: Plenty of filmmakers have the same access and could never make a movie as wonderful and striking and powerful as "Old Henry." I love the bold creative choices that Western directors make, that any directors make. And experimentation always produces bundles of failure. Who cares? We watch Westerns because they have always — even at the height of their popularity — challenged the limits of control. Blessed are those hearts set on pilgrimage It’s beyond reasonable to believe in the existence of God: Just look at the world all around you, look up at the skies full of sunlight or the unending dark pebbled with stars and larger than we’re capable of knowing. At the very least, a concept of God can consist of only this feeling, of smallness in the face of endless enormities. This battle emerges in the first scene of "Old Henry." This also serves as our introduction to Wyatt, Old Henry's son. This interchange takes place under a swarming sky, as Henry and his brother-in-law Al are clobbering rock with shovels and pickaxes. Wyatt is moody, bored, hostile. Henry’s relationship to Wyatt is the true focus of the movie, and what a lovely thing to capture. Their connection begins with a conversation using Bible verses. The first reference comes from the “sayings of the wise” section of the Book of Proverbs, King Solomon’s masterpiece of morality. One night, God appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, “I’ll give you anything you want.” Solomon chose “a wise heart” so that he could discern between good and evil. When Wyatt insults the homestead, Henry recites Proverbs 24: 3-4. “By wisdom is a house built, and through understanding is it established. Through knowledge are its rooms filled with rare and beautiful treasures.” Check out the verses immediately before those: “Do not envy evil men, nor desire to be with them; for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.” Wyatt, sour, responds with Psalm 86, a prayer for times of suffering and distress. David’s song begins with pleading: "Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me for I am poor and needy. Preserve my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who puts his trust in you. You are my God; have pity on me, O Lord, for to you I cry out all day long.." When Wyatt asks Henry, “Who are you?” he responds with a familiar line: “I’m who I am.” Wyatt’s rejoinder: “Aren’t you always preaching about being honest? The truth will set you free?” From here, Henry’s past begins its quick unravel. But ultimately, his advice to Wyatt is simple: “Keep your head down, you’ll be all right.” Beyond the fact that keeping your head down is the posture of prayer, this instruction carries a certain foreshadowing worthy of love. As happens throughout the Psalms, the mood of Psalm 86 changes by the end, with David announcing: “Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.” As Roy Rogers was wont to say, “Goodbye, good luck, and may the good Lord take a liking to you. See ya next week.”

What are the best MOBAs? You'd be forgiven for thinking that all you had to choose from in the MOBA genre was League of Legends or Dota 2. They're both behemoths of the gaming landscape and have pretty much cornered the market on isometric team battlers but there are, however, a few up-and-comers that may stake a claim for the MOBA crown, as well as a few older entries that are still worth your time. MOBAs have been around for many years - the genre was originally born from player-made custom games. The first MOBA was a Starcraft custom map called Aeon of Strife, which then inspired the incredibly popular Warcraft III custom game Defense of the Ancients. Modders from the original DotA went on to create Riot’s League of Legends, and Valve’s Dota 2, bringing MOBA gameplay to even wider audiences. So, if you’re looking to take your first, wobbly steps into the MOBA genre, you may be wondering which MOBA will be the best fit - here’s the lowdown on the biggest MOBAs around to give you a headstart, many of which are easily some of the best free PC games you can right now. You’ll be defending the legends of the smiting storm in no time. Or something like that. Continue reading The best MOBAs on PC 2024 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: League of Legends ranks explained, League of Legends patch 14.10, League of Legends tier list