![]() ![]() Here the FMV ($2,000) is for a CGC 9.6 comic. Indicates a slabbed comic with grade info entered at 9.6. Similar to the above example, when the only available FMV comes from the No Grade category, we show the word “Raw” next to the value instead of a specific category range. ![]() When there are no sales for that grade we show the FMV for the most common condition. Indicates that the user entered a raw comic with a grade of 9.6. Indicates a raw comic with no sales info available at any condition range. Here the FMV ($1,234) is for a Raw 9.6 comic. Indicates a raw comic with grade info entered at 9.6. In this case, we show the FMV for the most common condition. ![]() Indicates a raw comic with no grade info entered. The items below show how value information is displayed for raw and slabbed comics on the COVRPRICE value ribbon. This approach helps to ensure that most of your comics have a reasonable value estimate based only on real sales data (not speculation). Our approach is as follows:ġ) If no condition info is entered for a comic, we will show you the FMV for the most common condition of that comic.Ģ) If you’ve entered condition info, we will show you the FMV for that specific condition, when it’s available.ģ) If that specific condition has no sale values available, we will show you the FMV for the most common condition of that comic (either raw or slabbed) Our goal is to provide our members with the closest FMV (fair market value) for all the comics in their COVRPRICE collection. HOW CAN I HELP COVRPICE CAPTURE MY SALES?Ĭomic Title, Issue #, Issue Year, and Variant Info (usually the cover artists last name)įor example: Captain Marvel #1 (2015) - Hughes Variant If you think we missed a sale that you want entered into CovrPrice just contact us at with information about the sale and our humans will investigate and add it for you. That’s why we do all the leg work and show both graded and raw values. Don’t get us wrong, grading is a great way to preserve and authenticate the condition of your comic, but it’s also important to know what the other 95% of your raw collection is worth. Also, most comic collections are made up of non-graded comics. However, if a seller states a comic is a 9.8 and a buyer buys it, one might infer that the buyer was in fact willing to pay that amount for that condition. Please Note: Since raw condition information comes from the seller’s listing itself, it should be viewed as subjective. When we’re able to determine the condition/grade of a raw comic, we’ll list that grade in blue next to the sale. ![]() We’re working hard to provide you with more information about the raw sales data we capture. With this in mind, CovrPrice only displays actual sales data (taken across multiple online marketplaces… not just eBay) to help you better determine the best value for your comics. Raw Sales Data COVRPRICE’S TAKE ON COMIC VALUESĪ comic is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. This will help our robots better identify and sort your sales more accurately. That’s easy, when listing your comics for sale on 3rd party marketplaces be sure you include the following:Ĭomic Title, Issue #, Issue Year, Variant Info (usually the cover artists last name), and Grade info.įor example Captain Marvel #1 (2015) - Hughes Variant - CGC 9.8 HOW CAN I HELP COVRPICE CAPTURE MY SALES? If you think we missed a sale that you want to be entered into CovrPrice just contact us at with information about the sale and our humans will investigate and add it for you. While we don’t capture 100% of every sale in the market we’re getting closer and closer to that goal. We only integrate sales for comics that our robots are confident are correct. (Trust us, we’ve tried) To ensure the quality of our data we error on the side of caution, valuing accuracy over quantity. It’s simply impossible for a human to determine the authenticity of every sale coming our way. “I sold a comic last week, why isn’t it showing up on your site?”Īt CovrPrice, we capture tens of thousands of sales DAILY. To see the most recent sales data for each condition be sure to look at the individual sales data listed in the tables below. Here we take the average for each condition and display it as a data point. Our goal for this graph is to show overall sales trends for officially graded comics. Slabbed Sales Data COVRPRICE’S TAKE ON COMIC VALUESĪ comic is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They then connect you to the internet again from their servers, so you’re technically using the VPN server’s internet connection to access the general web instead of your own. They use your internet connection to connect you to their own virtual private network. How Commercial VPNs WorkĬommercial VPN services use the same principle as a company’s virtual network. The connection is encrypted and secured so that outsiders can’t access data within that virtual private network. ![]() ![]() Virtual private networks use the public internet to create a connection to the workplace that is sequestered from the general space of the internet (read our remote access VPN guide). This is where the “virtual” part comes in. However, a physical connection to a company server is impossible in a remote office. Private networks consist of several computers and the server that connects them all, and they let users on different devices access the same data.Īlthough the devices on a private network can be connected to the public internet, data in the private network can only be accessed by the devices connected to it. If you’ve ever visited a public library or an internet cafe, you’ve probably used a private network. VPN stands for “virtual private network.” You probably know what a network is, so let’s look at the “virtual” and “private” parts of that name. Besides protecting your online privacy, a VPN can help you access better content, and you can even save money by getting better deals from other countries. No, it is certainly not a waste of money. Then we’ll finish the whole thing off with an overview of trends in global VPN usage. Then we’ll take a deep dive into the full list of statistics, looking closely at each one and what we derived from the raw data. We’ll go over a few quick VPN facts first, to give you a better picture of what VPNs are and how they’ve evolved over the years. The market for VPNs has been growing at an increased pace since the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s expected to surpass $92 billion in 2027.Today, nearly a third of internet users use a VPN.VPNs have been around since the 1990s when they were mostly used by businesses, but it wasn’t until the 2010s that commercial VPNs started gaining traction.That’s why we put together this list of the top 25 VPN statistics and facts to give you some insight into how and why people use these services. With more content available online than ever before, VPN use in the home has increased dramatically, as well. With COVID-19 forcing people into remote work, VPNs have become staple office software as a way to keep your connection secure while working online. 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Interact with your environment and let walls collapse or even discover new routes on your journey through Aventuria.Give priority to offensive or tactic in challenging battles Choose your spells, talents and skills wisely, since they dictate your strategy on the battlefield.Make decisions influencing your squad and the ending of the game.Master and finish the game on many different non-linear paths While we had tea and cake, she’d tell me about bowsies and blackguards, evading checkpoints and making ends meet in the most difficult of circumstances.Command up to 20 characters in your party and lead them to death or glory.A story with many twists and turns, fateful decisions and more than 20 challenging hours of playtime awaits you.Find the Vanquishers of the Nine Hordes and see what has become of Takate, Naurim and Zurbaran.Recruit mercenaries, find upgrades and build an indomitable army.Sounds like a solid plan, doesn't it? But then again, how cunning must one be to escape the dungeon's walls and how reckless must one be to gather and command the worst scum of the realms? She needs to recruit an army of Sellswords and rally the Vanquishers of the Nine Hordes around her. She intends to break out of prison and overthrow Marwan to claim the throne herself. She is neither fond nor proficient in matters of diplomacy or politics, so she chooses a more. First of all, she spends her days incarcerated in a dungeon and secondly, there is already a man on her throne: Marwan. Unfortunately, there are two problems that potentially foil her plans. Cassia, a young woman of noble descent, has only one goal: She wants to claim the Shark Throne, no matter the price and be it only for one day. The Vanquishers of the Nine Hordes long parted ways but life in Aventuria went on. Three years have passed since Count Uria´s plots. ![]() ![]() Every action has consequences, so make your decisions wisely. Blackguards 2 is the sequel of the turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver more hexfield battles and an even grittier story filled with violence and crime.Ĭhoose your playstyle: no matter if front line combat monster, mage or ranged fighter it's in your hands how you want to develop your character. ![]() ![]() To use the screenshot methods mentioned above on Windows tablets, you need to attach a physical external keyboard to them. Taking a screenshot on Windows tabletsĮven though they run on Windows, Windows tablets do not have the Print Screen key on their onscreen keyboards. The screenshot will also be saved to the “Captures” folder. Alternatively, you could view the images by clicking on “See all my captures” right below the camera icon.Ī keyboard shortcut alternative for taking a screenshot on windows using the Xbox game bar is “ Windows+Alt+Prt Sc.” The Xbox Game bar will take a screenshot immediately without launching the game bar. The screenshots you take using the game bar will be fullscreen, and they are automatically saved to the “Captures” subfolder in your “Videos” folder. If done right, a notification will pop up that says, “Screenshot saved.” To capture screenshots using the game bar, click on the camera icon in the toolbar at the top left corner of your computer screen. Simply press your windows key, search for “Xbox Game bar,” and open it. If pressing this together doesn’t do anything on your Windows 10 or 11 device, you’d have to manually turn on the game bar. Press the “Windows” and “G” keys together, and the game bar should come up as an overlay on whatever you’re doing. When you press the “Windows” and “PrtSc” keys together, your screen darkens, and it takes a screenshot of your entire screen. To take a full-screen capture and automatically save it to a folder, you can simultaneously press the Windows key and the print screen key. ![]() Then you can paste the screenshot to an image editing app.īut if you find all of this to be a hassle, there is a better alternative to these methods. There is an alternative to pressing the print screen button alone: “Alt + PrtSc keys.” Pressing the Alt + PrtSc keys saves a picture of your currently active window (not the entire screen) to the clipboard. To save, simultaneously press the “Ctrl” and “S” (Ctrl+S) keys on your keyboard and save to any folder or location you like. ![]() Once the picture loads, you can save the screenshot to any folder. To paste the screenshot when you’re in the paint app, right-click and select “Paste.” You can also use a keyboard shortcut by simultaneously pressing the “Ctrl” and “V” (Ctrl+V) keys. Your Windows PC comes with the Microsoft Paint app and Microsoft Paint is an image editing app.Ĭlick the Windows key, and search for “paint.” The Paint app will come up, and you can then proceed to open the app and paste the screenshot. ![]() If you don’t know what an image editing app is, don’t worry. To view the screenshot that your PC takes when you press the print screen button, you can open any image editing app on your PC and then paste the picture there. Pasting and saving screenshots taken using the print screen key This is the same functionality that you have used with copy/paste before, except it also applies to images. Simply pressing the print screen (PrtSc) key might not seem to do anything, but it actually takes that picture of the screen and saves it into the system’s clipboard. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() Additionally, the average kill time of bosses went down significantly, due to the massive influx of new gear from last week. ![]() Arcane has an extremely strong 2 set of the new tier (although 4-set is quite weak), which means that obtaining 2 set last week and then getting to used to it this week would be a significant DPS improvement. There are a couple of things that most likely caused this to happen.įirst of all, last week, people clearing for the first time would not have any of the new set bonuses yet. Before we get into the numbers, here's our Arcane guide writer explaining why this may be the case:Īrcane Mages shot up a a lot this week in the logs on Heroic and Normal difficulty. Week 2 of Aberrus is behind us and last week's tuning has had a chance to take effect, but despite not having received any changes, Arcane is dominating everyone, pretty much everywhere. ![]() Stay tuned here to the official World of Warcraft news site as we journey through the week together. (Reminder) Last Day for the May Trading Post, May 31 (Reminder) Purchase the Guardian Pack by May 31 (Event) Step into the Firelands During Cataclysm Timewalking (Event) Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Finder Wing 2 Opens (Event) Wrath Classic: The Joyous Journeys 50% Experience Buff Returns We look forward to seeing you on the tournament grounds. Level 80 Onyxia’s Lair: Face Onyxia in her lair in the level 80 version of this encounter Trial of the Crusader and Trial of the Grand Crusader: Undertake the challenges of the Trial of the Crusader and Trial of the Grand Crusader 10 and 25-player raid. Wrath of the Lich King PvP Season 7 Begins The Argent Tournament: Join the Argent Tournament to undertake new quests and daily quests while showing off your jousting prowess for new rewards. Trial of the Champion- Head to the Crusader's Coliseum at the Argent Tournament to begin the challenge in this 5-player dungeon. Sidereal essence may be exchanged for rewards from 10-player Hard Mode Ulduar gear at the Animated Constellation vendor in Dalaran. The final boss will also award a new currency: Sidereal Essence. Bosses killed with Defense Protocol Beta active award loot from the 10-player version of Ulduar. (New) Titan Rune Dungeons-Defense Protocol Beta: Embrace the challenge of Titan Rune Dungeons, where you’ll take on a new higher-level difficulty in which creatures and bosses have a variety of dangerous new effects as well as additional health and damage. ![]() It won’t be long before the Call of the Crusade goes out across the lands of Northrend. Heed the Call of the Crusade the Week of June 20 The icy winds of Icecrown continue to blow, and it won’t be long until they croon with the Call of the Crusade. We have another preview of what's coming this week, from in-game activities to articles, with the big news being the Call of the Crusade major patch coming to Wrath Classic!Įach week we’ll look ahead to what’s in store for World of Warcraft, share the latest news, and keep you in the know byte by byte. Here are all mounts that you can unlock from Legion Paragon caches.įor easier tracking, we recommend you to use the Paragon Reputation addon that replaces Exalted bars on the Reputation Frame with Paragon bars. Blizzard has increased the drop chance of mounts you can get from paragon caches, making it easier than ever to farm them. These are all the tokens that you can buy from her:įor every 10K reputation farmed beyond Exalted, you will receive a cache that has a chance to drop a mount. It's easy to unlock Legion Paragon Reputation mounts during Legion Timewalking.įirstly, Sign of the Legion increases Legion reputation gains from combat and quests by 50% for the duration of the event.Īridormi the Legion Timewalking vendor in Dalaran sells reputation tokens that increase your standing by 250 per token. ![]() ![]() ![]() The practice was not standardized until the 17th century. Mostow notes that Hearn misunderstood the term jigai to be the female equivalent of seppuku. The term was introduced into English by Lafcadio Hearn in his Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, an understanding which has since been translated into Japanese. In some popular western texts, such as martial arts magazines, the term is associated with suicide of samurai wives. The modern word for suicide is jisatsu ( 自殺). The word jigai ( 自害) means "suicide" in Japanese. The practice of performing seppuku at the death of one's master, known as oibara (追腹 or 追い腹, the kun'yomi or Japanese reading) or tsuifuku (追腹, the on'yomi or Chinese reading), follows a similar ritual. So hara-kiri is a spoken term, but only to commoners and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act. Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. It is commonly pointed out that hara-kiri is a vulgarism, but this is a misunderstanding. In Japanese, the more formal seppuku, a Chinese on'yomi reading, is typically used in writing, while harakiri, a native kun'yomi reading, is used in speech. Harakiri is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. It is also known as harakiri ( 腹切り, "cutting the stomach" often misspelled/mispronounced "hiri-kiri" or "hari-kari" by American English speakers). The term seppuku is derived from the two Sino-Japanese roots setsu 切 ("to cut", from Middle Chinese tset compare Mandarin qiē and Cantonese chit) and fuku 腹 ("belly", from MC pjuwk compare Mandarin fù and Cantonese fūk). When the Hōjō Clan were defeated at Odawara in 1590, Hideyoshi insisted on the suicide of the retired daimyō Hōjō Ujimasa and the exile of his son Ujinao with this act of suicide, the most powerful daimyō family in eastern Japan was completely defeated. Toyotomi Hideyoshi used an enemy's suicide in this way on several occasions, the most dramatic of which effectively ended a dynasty of daimyōs. This weakened the defeated clan so that resistance effectively ceased. Sometimes a daimyō was called upon to perform seppuku as the basis of a peace agreement. Samurai generally could carry out the act only with permission. Those who did not belong to the samurai caste were never ordered or expected to carry out seppuku. It was the assistant's job to decapitate the samurai in one swing, otherwise it would bring great shame to the assistant and his family. The most common form of seppuku for men was composed of the cutting of the abdomen, and when the samurai was finished, he stretched out his neck for an assistant to sever his spinal cord. Later, disgraced warriors were sometimes allowed to carry out seppuku rather than be executed in the normal manner. Samurai could also be ordered by their daimyō ( feudal lords) to carry out seppuku. Seppuku was used by warriors to avoid falling into enemy hands and to attenuate shame and avoid possible torture. The first recorded act of seppuku was performed by Minamoto no Yorimasa during the Battle of Uji in 1180. If the cut is deep enough, it can sever the abdominal aorta, causing a rapid death by blood loss. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the belly and drawing the blade from left to right, slicing the belly open. As a samurai practice, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely be tortured), as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offences, or performed because they had brought shame to themselves. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour, but was also practiced by other Japanese people during the Shōwa period (particularly officers near the end of World War II) to restore honour for themselves or for their families. Harakiri refers solely to the act of disembowelment and would only be assigned as a punishment towards acts deemed too heinous for seppuku. While harakiri refers to the act of disemboweling one's self, seppuku refers to the ritual and usually would involve decapitation after the act as a sign of mercy. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku ( 切腹, 'cutting belly'), also called hara-kiri ( 腹切り, lit. ![]() |