According to a 2010 study conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Intel, eight out of ten American adults get frustrated waiting for technology, with half admitting to acting inappropriately or out of character as a result.
So, if I finish the game as a Siren, and decide to start from scratch as a Ninja (or as the promised DLC character, the cyborg Mech Romantic), I can take my levels in badass with me, giving me Level 1 character the ability to burn through the initial challenges of the game, or help out higher-level characters in multiplayer.
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Our subway system may not be as spotless or as sterile as Hong Kong's or Tokyo's, but it's got character.
This is a shame, as adding a second playable character (of any sex) or replacing Kratos as the protagonist would have been a welcome change for the aging franchise.
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It says at least as much about the American national character as "The Glass Menagerie" or "Our Town, " and deserves to be seen at least as often as those two classics especially when it's done like this.
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Books depicting either a fat or thin girl called Alfina as the central character elicited similarly polarised responses from a second group of 150 reception and year one schoolchildren.
That is because, while the plots and jokes of movie sequels are mostly thinner than the original, there is scope to improve on a successful game with technological enhancements (such as better graphics) and features such as new weapons, vehicles or character abilities.
We can glimpse humanity in it or we can write him off as just another character in the reality TV show of our times.
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Had he been instilling character as a coach, or merely fear?
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T-shirt, Mr Gates is as much a character in the television films as the characters he discusses: King Solomon or Don Francisco de Souza, Ivory Coast's most notorious slave trader.
As for what good or service to supply, the character of the entrepreneur is intimately involved.
They were for the animated character, or avatar, the boy used as a stand-in for himself on the Internet.
Boyd approaches L'Enfance as a quasi-opera or folk opera, and character is key.
Since it is on the expertise, judgment and character of these authors, as much or more than on procedure, that the whole enterprise rests, this needs reform.
Whether the people he has surrounded himself with see their positions as a public trust or as a prize in a lottery will ultimately determine the character of Gus Dur's government - and his place in history.
In communities across America, whether religious or secular, fields of play are often seen as workshops of character.
The cheerful female character, who as yet has no name or form, will join the Takalani Sesame show, as it is called in South Africa, on 30 September.
As to character, there is no hint of unhappiness or rejection in the easeful Blair passage from private school to Oxford to barrister's chambers.
"For a white person reading a book, they're very rarely going to go, 'I'm just assuming this is a black character' if he or she isn't marked as such, " he said.
Nowadays we tend to interpret any type of character or behaviour that departs from our standards of tepid normality as a symptom of some underlying disorder.
All four say one of the biggest things they've had to work on is not the dancing or singing or acting but trying to stay in glum character and not smile even as hundreds of people in the theater erupt with laughter.
So you can change the way your Iron Man or your Hulk character looks (and better crafting will lead to improved stats as well) but only by unlocking skins.
While risk-taking can be beneficial in small doses, this character trait can too easily lead someone to treat investing as he or she might treat gambling, with all the potential for gambling that entails.
In co-op mode, each player takes their character of choice, and plays through the whole campaign as either Kirk or Spock.
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It goes without saying that atavistic emotions such as class revenge or the sheer joy of exercising absolute power are wholly alien to the character and political philosophy of Britain's present prime minister.
Once derided by critics as an example of society's increasingly gnat-like attention span, the site's 140-character limit has in many cases inspired users to be as witty, insightful or informative as they can be in as few words as possible.
Rudd has been playing one version or another of this character for years, and he has some of his giddiest moments ever as Pete drives his daughters to school while belting out songs that his wife hates and eating forbidden cheeseburgers.
Data's character is a bit of a diva, or "an aspiring robot celebrity, " as Ms. Knight put it.
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In that way, the organization or the journey, both in character and complexity, becomes a critical ingredient in achieving any success as a leader.
Some might see this crisis-of-faith as very convenient when the show is reaching a point where it can do with or without the character (Jones appears very little this season).
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