![]() ![]() "We've often talked about the mysterious nature of the person who drops off the book," Singleton said. He thinks the man who delivers copies of "Oxygen Thief" is the book's writer, but it's been a couple of years since he's seen him. "Oxygen Thief" has been such a homegrown operation that the author not only served as his own editor and cover designer, but has also sold the book in the streets and would personally ship it to retailers, sometimes taking on orders for thousands of copies.ĭouglas Singleton, a buyer and manager at McNally Jackson, said the store has sold more than 200 copies of "Oxygen Thief," the in-house record for a "consignment order." Asked if he has met the author, Singleton said he wasn't sure. First published by the author in 2006, the book has slipped on and off the charts ever since, apparently dependent on the occasional tweet or other online comment. Some books catch on immediately, others take their time, but "Oxygen Thief" has really followed the scenic route. 'Who the hell is it?' I think it's a very powerful place to write." The author went unnoticed outside this Manhattan bookstore recently despite high demand at that location. "It couldn't be more naked, but at the same time. "It has an unusual negative space," says the author, who on email uses the names Tom Wilkinson and Stanley Easyday and prefers to be identified as O2Thief. Known to his growing fan base as "Anonymous," he has given us one of the more unusual self-published successes: "Diary of an Oxygen Thief," a 147-page fictionalized memoir, or autobiographical novel, depending on how much of this story of a recovering alcoholic and the damage he has inflicted and absorbed you care to believe. ![]() NEW YORK - The fair-skinned man with the hoodie and dark ski cap sits on a bench outside McNally Jackson Books in downtown Manhattan, where neither patrons nor employees seem aware that he's the author of a work so in demand at the store that it's often out of stock. ![]()
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![]() There is absolutely no reason to EVER put a valve on the dry emergency and a few reasons not to, most notably, that you might accidentally close it and not realize it till a disaster happens. But otherwise there is no reason to put one there. Some people put a valve on the durso purely so they can test if the emergency drain is capable of handling the water flow in the extreme situation where both the siphon and the durso are completely clogged. There is very little reason to have a valve on the durso and getting rid of the valve will save you a little money and little simplification. There is an important distinction because the durso basically will always have water running through it (though in a bean animal it is very small amount), and as such it should not be treated the same as an emergency drain. I think you are calling the durso the 'first emergency'? Thanks.Ī bean animal is made up of 1 full siphon, 1 durso, and 1 dry emergency. I think I may be favoring this plumbing layout.Īny comments, insight, or tales from experience are greatly appreciated. Will this cause more noise than Design #1, or is it negligible?ĭesign #3 is similar to #1, but with first emergency durso drain (the one that may move some water) is tied directly to the main line primary full siphon piping. ![]() ![]() However, my concern here is the two 45* elbows. I like how this design looks under the main tank, despite the gate valve no longer being concealed. The main primary full siphon piping on the other hand has the gate valve just below the overflow, and then after the 60* elbow, the piping runs through two 45* elbows before hitting the double 90*. My only concern is the cross of the one emergency pipe over the main pipe (under the main tank) is messy and may be a pain if I were to have to repair something in the future.ĭesign #2 has the two emergencies durso and dry emergency drains coming down and over to their respective sump entry points without crossing over any other piping. As for the emergencies durso and dry emergency, there should be little to no water flowing through the first emergency durso drain, and nothing flowing through the second dry emergency if they were moving water, they would make a lot of noise, which would be the "alarm" that something is wrong. My logic for the main primary full siphon piping is to have the water flow as smooth as possible down to the sump and reduce noise. The two emergency durso and dry emergency drains both come down to 90* elbows, and through another 90* elbow down into the tank. ![]() I'm in between (3) layouts for the drain plumbing and I was looking for some feedback, please.ĭesign #1 has the main primary full siphon drain coming down from the overflow, turning 60* and through a gate valve (Spears' tech support says that the valve stem CAN be configured downward in this manner), down to a double 90* elbow, and finally to two 90* long sweep elbows and down into filter socks. Stay cool and relaxed indoors while escaping the scorching temperatures outside.Hello, I'm in the process of sketching out (or over engineering? lol) a 40G sump layout for a 125G tank with a Bean Animal overflow system. From fixing leaks to installing new fixtures, our durable and leak-proof solutions will ensure your plumbing system runs smoothly.īeat the heat with our cutting-edge cooling options! 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Instead, you can make smaller changes before committing to the design and downloading it. You’d think this would open the design in the main VistaCreate app - which is essentially a Canva clone. Select an icon, choose where you’ll use your logo, and the platform produces a series of logos that match your criteria.Īs with some of the other best free logo makers, you can quickly tweak the color of the templated design, or opt to customize further. VistaCreate is an online logo maker that sees you input business information - name, industry, slogan. Read our full DesignEvo logo maker review Best free logo maker for website builders For high-resolution files and more creative options, there are two one-off purchases, depending on what you need. The tool caps free logo designs to a low-res 300px file that needs copyright attribution. For anyone looking for a quick way to create a bespoke logo, DesignEvo offers the best of both worlds. It’s all very Canva-lite in its approach - there are no image uploads, for example - but that’s no bad thing. ![]() Backgrounds can also be changed to match your company colors. You’re launched into the online design tool, where you can modify each element, while adding fresh icons, text, and shapes. Once you select a logo, though, you can then find similar designs or customize the existing one.įrom here, the process is the same as starting from scratch. Templates are basic, with an icon, a name, and a slogan. If you opt for a template, you’ll start by selecting the category that best fits your business. Read our full Hatchful logo maker review Best free logo maker for fast designsĭesignEvo’s free logo maker instantly lets you choose between using a template or designing your logo from scratch - so, it easily caters to professional designers and beginners alike. You can modify or switch out every element, but the level of control and customization is lacking here compared to other free logo makers.Īt the end of the design process, download the logo pack - it’ll include properly sized assets for all chosen uses, such as a favicon for your website, and banners for social media. Once you’ve found one that most closely mirrors your idea, you can edit the logo. Keep scrolling and the logos keep coming. In a split-second, Hatchful delivers a ton of potential options. You can choose websites, social media, even physical stores. This is great if you’re unsure about choosing the right image dimensions and resolutions (a pixelated graphic is all-round bad for business). After this, you’re asked where the logo will be used. You’ll start by defining your industry, a brand aesthetic, and entering the company name and strapline. Unlike Adobe, however, you’re given a lot more choice over styles and business space - and the interface is a lot more playful, too. It’s one of the best free logo designers for creating iconic designs in seconds in part because, like Adobe, it uses prompts to create templated logos. Hatchful is a free logo maker from Shopify - so it’s primarily built for those who just want to concentrate on running their ecommerce businesses. Read our full Adobe Express Logo Creator review Best free logo maker for beginners And, like Canva, a Creative Cloud Express subscription unlocks more stock assets, tools, and a branding toolkit. This works more or less identically to Canva, albeit with additional design tools. Hit ‘Customize more’ and you’re whisked into the Adobe Express design app to edit your logo further. You’re free to tweak the design’s color and text and download the ready-made logo. It’s all very user-friendly, chiefly because Adobe’s logo creator does the hard work. After a second or two, the tool serves up a selection of AI-created logo designs. Pick a simple icon from the stock library, and you’re done. You’re then asked to select a style that suits you - it’s a limited choice, but covers the basics. ![]() When you first launch the browser-based tool, you’re prompted to give a few details: your industry, your business name, your slogan. And one of the best free logo makers out there - you don’t even need any design skill to work it. Like Canva, the platform offers a range of design tools, from the Adobe Express online video editor to a photo editor. Adobe Express has received some much-needed love from the creative apps firm - perhaps worried that Canva was parking tanks on its lawn. ![]() ![]() These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'twilight.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 This change is likely another adaptation that allows reindeer to survive in the lengthy, dark winters of the Arctic, where twilights can last up to 24 hours. 2023 Christian Eriksen gives ten Hag guile and composure, but is now entering the twilight of his career and can’t be counted on to play two matches in a week - as Manchester United require. Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 2 Dec. This is distinguished from diurnal and nocturnal behavior, where an animal is active during the hours of daylight and of darkness, respectively. 2023 The twilight of Africa’s glaciers EthioChicken, set up in 2010 by three Americans in their mid-20s, is an exception - a private company that helps blunt the effects of climate change for smallholder farmers but still makes a profit. Dusk and dawn occur when the Sun’s center is at the exact point below the horizon twilight occurs between these points. In zoology, a crepuscular animal is one that is active primarily during the twilight period, being matutinal, vespertine/vespertinal, or both. 2023 The palace closes at 7 p.m., but is especially magical at twilight. 2023 In the middle of the day, the hint of sunlight creates a perpetual twilight, a wash of inky, icy blue watercolor that covers everything. dusk also found in translations in French-English dictionary. 2023 But while humans are stuck in the dark, reindeer have evolved to be able to see in the mid-winter twilight. the beginning or rise of anything advent: the dawn of civilization. ![]() Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley. 2024 As Raff approached the bin, carrying water and dry food, a cat named Tory materialized in the twilight. ![]() Recent Examples on the Web Footage newly released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows how a police cruiser fatally struck 26-year-old Luis Espinoza in Watts in the gathering twilight on Dec. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love the old hardware experience but (among other constraining reasons) at a certain point I am priced out of the high end. More retro gaming at a decent quality out there in the world is a good thing. I really hope they just keep churning these things out. Plus the mass production pricing is really nice (again, considering the fact that games are licensed as well, which is amazing). 1Up's gear tends to get laughed at be serious arcade collectors, but those folks are missing the fact that these are made for casual players, not hardcore folks who want to spend their entire weekend fixing flybacks and tracing game PCB errors, or likewise folks who can't fit a full sized commercial cabinet in their house. The licensing alone is a nightmare (every cabinet maker to date has been 100% piracy based, and that itself was a problem). I'm pleased 1Up are bringing these games back, and likewise I'm pleased to see a commercial cabinet manufacturer finally seeing this level of success. Variable for things like competitive fighting games is a killer, because then you're fighting randomness when you're trying to get moves out against a human player, where reaction time is crucial. Your brain can adapt to consistent input lag. Variable input lag is the real killer, but if it's, say, 2 frames worse that real hardware, that's generally OK as long as it's ALWAYS 2 frames. Input lag itself is fine, as long as it's consistent. "Peace out."Ĭlick to expand.Yeah that's what I was wondering. ![]() I generally apologise for the not-uncommon occurrence of my wording being less than ideal, and thanks you quite rightly pulled me up on my earlier exaggerations. But I won't stop representing that position, either - discomfort or otherwise. To be perfectly clear, I don't intend for the position of low-income retro computing people to ever cause shame or discourage any Big Collectors from proudly sharing their gear any way any time. In seeing us all as equal in that way, I'm not expecting shame from any quarter, because there is none to be had! Only different paths to the same thing: some easy / some hard, some expensive / some cheap, some early / some late, etc. I don't have much worth taking snazzy photo galleries of, but at the end of the day, I can game all-day every-day every-system pretty much whatever-I-want exactly as much as the biggest collector. I'm sure we can all apply those same sentiments just within our own collections, concerning this or that piece. I'm actually proud of the fact that, while others can quite rightly glory in their premium high-cost products, I (eventually) end up doing those hard yards a different, low-cost way and end up with the same outcome. I only posted above because I was quoted at, and the things I said were not meant as digs. I hope my ongoing advocacy for low-cost highly-accessible options for all can be seen as fairly representing a low-income demographic, as opposed to pointless grinching. Click to expand.As I've mentioned before here, socioeconomics makes internet discussions somewhat inequitable precisely because one person's casual easy purchase is another person's painstakingly saved-for rarity. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, even on launch night, I tried to find a random group three separate times. (Although you can do that, too, if you’re trying to help friends catch up.)īefore the game went live, the servers were pretty empty - which makes sense, as Outriders wasn’t widely available yet. That way, you can advance together rather than having to replay old sections. Outriders implements a smart system, where it will search for other players at the same point in the story. Before setting out on a mission, you can consult a computer terminal at your home base and either construct a party from your friends, or look for random partners online. The only trouble is that finding a multiplayer group isn’t all that easy at the moment. It’s fair to say that I was impressed with the core gameplay in Outriders, and I was eager to advance the story. (Image credit: Square Enix) Outriders multiplayer The game makes it very clear which items you should equip based on their power levels, although I wish there were an “optimize” button that would simply outfit a character with the best weapons and armor available in your inventory. Each piece of gear (guns, jackets, boots, etc.) has an item level, as well as a color to indicate rarity. Each level contains a number of item caches - some out in the open, some hidden behind walls or enemy outposts. ![]() As you level up, you can choose whether to improve these skills, or gain more passive benefits to health and attack damage.Įquipment is also pretty intuitive. ![]() The skills recharge at a steady clip, so you can use them often to gain an edge. For example: as a Devastator, my first three skills let me ground-pound nearby enemies, encase myself in bullet-deflecting armor and blast across the battlefield to interrupt enemy attacks. Leveling up lets you learn new class skills, as well as improve existing abilities. As you fight enemies and complete quests, you’ll earn experience, which lets you level up. The skills and equipment systems are also satisfying. Even the reload times toe the difficult line between “short enough to stay engaged” and “long enough to feel threatening.” Every shot has weight and impact every hit or miss feels fair. But it’s clear that Polish developer People Can Fly spent a lot of time making sure that every assault rifle, submachine gun, shotgun, sniper rifle and pistol in this game simply feels excellent to fire. Many games in the looter-shooter genre fall back on character optimization as the core gameplay loop, whether through leveling up or finding gear. The first thing I can say is that Outriders has unusually good moment-to-moment shooting. (No points for guessing that Gauss has electricity powers.) Along the way, I fought off a lot of enemy soldiers, learned my basic class abilities and started to upgrade my skills. I played through the first major arc of Outriders, which takes you from first landing on the planet Enoch, to a climactic boss fight with a fellow Altered called Gauss. ![]() (I’ve been building up a Devastator with a lot of health, partially because I like close-range combat, but mostly because you can die quite quickly in a lot of firefights otherwise.) The classes all feel pretty different to play, and since each class also offers three different specialization classes, everyone should find something to suit their tastes. ![]() ![]() ![]() As you begin to refine the structure of your diagram, work from the stencil that's right for you: There are two stencils that come with the Database Model Diagram template. Select a heading below to open instructions about adding the feature to your model. Relationships can be one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many. Relationships (the associations between tables). You can add and customize the three main components of a model:Ĭolumns (which describe facts about a table), and In the Tables and Views window, select the tables that you want to model, and then drag them onto the drawing page.Īfter you create a database model diagram, the work of refining the diagram begins. The imported tables are displayed in the Tables and Views window. Visio imports the file and displays its progress in the Output window. Type the path and file name for the model that you want to import, or select the Browse button to locate the model file, and then select Open. On the Database tab, in the Model group, select Import, and then select the model type. The Reverse Engineer Wizard opens automatically. This ability is limited to only VisioModeler 2.0 or later dictionary model (.imd) files and PLATINUM ERwin 2.6, 3.0, and 3.52. If you have an existing VisioModeler or PLATINUM ERwin model, you may be able to import it to create a Visio database model diagram. If you have not already associated the Visio database driver with a particular ODBC data source, click Setup. Select the database driver for your database management system (DBMS). On the first screen of the Reverse Engineer Wizard, do the following: If the wizard doesn't open: On the Database tab of the toolbar ribbon, in the Model group, select Reverse Engineer. The Reverse Engineer Wizard should open automatically. In the search results, double-click Database Model Diagram. In the Search box, enter database model and press Enter. This step ensures that the wizard maps the native data types correctly and that all the code that is extracted by the wizard is correctly displayed in the Code window. For more information about how to name a range of cells, see Define and use names in formulas.įor best results, set your default driver to the target database that you want to reverse engineer before you run the Reverse Engineer Wizard. These ranges are treated like tables in the Reverse Engineer Wizard. If you want to use more than one worksheet, just name the group of column cells in each worksheet. ![]() If you're going to reverse-engineer an Excel workbook, first open the workbook and name the group (or range) of cells that contains the column headings. Gonna miss that a whole lot.If you have a database that you want to model so that you can understand it better or use it as a starting place for a new model, use the Reverse Engineer Wizard to extract the schema, or structure, of the database and build a new model. The one thing that I am going to miss (and the product doesn't seem to have a way to do it) is to be able to start a new diagram with just one table and then tell it to add tables to the diagram than have relationships with that one table, like SQL Diagrams did. I really liked the simplicity of "SQL Diagrams" but I have to admit that ApexSQL Model is simple as simple to use and has a whole lot more power without the danger of accidentally changing the underlying database for "What If" diagrams. And, I have it working on old Windows 7 and it very nicely reversed engineered Adventureworks 2008. And it's super easy and nearly instantaneous to switch between "Tree" and "Hierarchical" to study relationships. So far, I like the "Tree" layout the best but they have 5 others depending on what you're used to and they have 4 different "Edge routing" selections (I like "Polyline" the best, so far). Still, for a free product that does so much, I'm not going to complain. I've only been playing with it against the Adventure works database for about an hour but I'm impressed with what it does and really like, for example, that it identifies AKs as well as making a line difference between "Identifying" and "Non-Identifying" relationships although I'd have preferred it if they had simply used different colored solid lines instead of dashed lines for "Non-Identifying" relationships. I also have to say I can't believe they offer this product for free. If they had used Black lines on the White background, things would have been great for me but the Blue lines that they use and the font colors are just a little pale on the White background and so, for this particular product, I have to admit the "Dark" background is easier to read. First of all, the "Light" and "Blue" display options DO have a nice White background. I went to the link posted and they didn't ask for a whole lot (just Name and email address) and so I took a shot at it. ![]() ![]() ![]() This decreases the intensity of the colours in the image. This involves some trial and error but you will see the changes happen fairly quickly.įor this particular image that I’m working with, I reduced the Saturation to -10. If you feel your image has too much red, drag the Cyan/Red slider to the left to reduce red and increase Cyan, and drag the Magenta/Green slider to the right to reduce magenta and increase green. The second set of Adjustments is a group of sliders that allow you to work with specific colours and saturation. The best thing to do here is simply going through each option and see how it affects your photograph. These profiles will adjust colours and saturation. There are eleven Profile presets to choose from. If you would like to adjust the colors a bit more to your liking, there are a couple of Adjustments options you can work with. Having tested this out with lots of old black-and-white photos, I’ve found this to work amazingly well. With this one click, Photoshop will assign colours to your image using AI. Once the filter is downloaded, you can enable it by clicking on the small circle button beside the filter name. Just click on the little cloud icon to the right of the word Colorize to download the filter. If you haven’t used the Colorize Filter before, you will need to download it. Choose The Colorize Neural Filterįrom the main Photoshop menu at the top of the screen, choose Filter > Neural Filters.Ī new panel opens on the right-hand side of the screen and you’ll see a list of all the Neural Filters available. If your image is already in RGB mode you will see a checkmark beside it, otherwise, click on RGB to select it. To ensure your image is RGB, on the main Photoshop menu choose Image > Mode > RGB. Your photo does not have to be completely black and white, you could also use one that has a sepia tint.Įven though your image is in black and white, it’s important that it is in RGB mode, otherwise, you can’t use the Colorize Neural filter. You can download it here if you want to use the same one. I chose a vintage picture from Wikimedia Commons of a scene from rural Ireland. In Photoshop, open a black-and-white photograph. ![]() If you don’t have a copy of the latest version already, you can download a free Photoshop trial here. Initial results are often very good, but if you don’t think it looks correct, you can choose your own colours. It uses artificial intelligence (known as Adobe Sensei) and machine learning to choose colours. The Colorize filter is one of Photoshop’s Neural Filters. I’ll explain how the settings in the filter work as we go. For you video shooters, it’s available for $149 bundled with Adobe Premier Elements 2020.In this short Photoshop tutorial, you’ll see how easy it is to colorize a black and white photo using the Colorize filter. Try for free for 30 days.Īdobe Photoshop Elements 2020 is a bargain at $99 (Win and Mac). Link to trial version of Photoshop Elements 2020. Link to our review of the FilmToaster used to scan the 4x5 negative of the Bronx Braves in one of the examples above. This is an excellent source of images for us photography enthusiasts and a valuable resource for teachers, content creators and bloggers. These sets are just a small sample of the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. They’re located under the headline Free to Use and Reuse Sets and are supported by our tax dollars. The Library of Congress curates an extensive collection of public domain images. No tweaking, but I do wish the sky were a bit more saturated. Image source same as previous (Library of Congress). Jennifer Lopez and Shakira rehearsing for the Super Bowl 2020 Halftime Show with their understudies at a secret location in France. In this writer’s mind, the most exciting feature of PSE2020 is the Colorize Photo effect which is found under the Enhance tab. And you can download a fully-functional 30-day trial version from Adobe. ![]() Of course, you can do everything manually too, if that suits you better.Īdobe Photoshop Elements 2020 is available for $99 (or $149 bundled with Adobe Premier Elements, its video-editing cousin). PSE2020 delivers high levels of automation powered by Adobe Sensei, the company’s remarkably sapient AI engine, and provides three access levels based on user skill level, so it’s easy to get great results right away. It’s the most powerful derivative of Photoshop ever made, and it’s chock-full of sensational features and special effects that can be fully applied by beginners, advanced amateurs and seasoned pros alike. ![]() Here are step-by-step directions plus several examples to get you started immediately.Īdobe just released Photoshop Elements 2020. Guaranteed, you will be amazed how quickly and easily you can colorize old black and white snapshots, add life to classic public domain images, convert color infrared images into amazing works of art and more – automatically – with Photoshop Elements 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() He grinned, and adjusted his large, red growing bulge. "Meat Log Mountain contains group communal showers, and bathroom stalls for all the men of the town to enjoy, and use freely." Demonos saw the tell-tale sign of a glory hole in the stall in the picture. As he flipped through the manual of the town and facilities that the recruiter had given him, his eyes stopped on a page. And he was equally happy to hear that Demonos had no qualms to living in a town full of only men, unlike some of the other applicants.ĭemonos grinned as he walked out of the recruitment office, a new life awaited him now in a new town. The recruiter at the office was only more than happy to have such a powerful demon interested in joining their logging company. For Meat Log Mountain accepts any male who wanted a chance to prove himself, and start a new life. Race did not matter, nor their background. Try to be a good player and take what you want. Free download from MEGA or other file hostings, unpack, easy install in a couple of minutes and play this interactive game. An ad for Meat Log Mountain, and their need for big, powerful males. Meat Log Mountain: screenshots Enter an world of meetings with your secret wishes. When he arrived in the city he strolled the back streets, until he saw an ad on a lamp post. After the teacher made his nightly habits public, Demonos left for the city to get away from the stares and whispers of everyone in his town. Demonos began to panic, his schoolboy crush coming true, but not in the way he had ever dreamed. He could never seem to bust his nuts.įate changed everything one night when he recognized the man on the other side of the wall: his religion teacher from High School. He carried that crush throughout High School, and as he grew from a teen into an adult in his 20's, he experienced his first taste of hot, thick man loving.Īfter his first experience in a public bathroom one night, Demonos became a regular fixture at the bathroom stall's glory holes, servicing those hot, uncut tools with his thick tongue. Demonos' crush in him grew daily, as did his interest in the other boys at school. That massive frame and dark skin, his huge thick forearms and that dense, jet black beard. A big bear of a man that was his religion teacher at his Catholic High School.ĭemonos was a very apt pupil in his class, paying a little extra attention to his teacher. Mostly those hot, burly guys in his school. As Demonos turned into a teenager, feelings arose in him that we're quite in conflict with his Catholic upbringing. She raised Demonos with a stern, but loving, hand. ![]() While many demons remain almost atheist, Demonos' grandmother was a strong Roman Catholic. A lot of that came from his strong mother and grandmother, who were also deeply religious. He was always friendly, eager to lend a hand and help out someone in need. ![]() Being of the Demon race he was always looked down upon as a kid, but at the same time feared for his brutish visage. He grew up a big, chunky demon living on a small farm not too far from a small village. Body Piercing, Horns, Muscular, Tall (obsolete), Unnatural Skin Toneĭemon, Hispanic, Homosexual, Not a Virginĭemonos hails originally from the island of Puerto Rico. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And then she turned around and told Ice Cube that I’m snatching her all hard. Quotes From The Players Club Abraham Lincoln Quotes Albert Einstein Quotes Bill Gates Quotes Bob Marley Quotes Bruce Lee Quotes Buddha Quotes Confucius Quotes John F. Diamond and Ronnie have a big fight in the locker rooms. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. The Players Club (1998) Chrystale Wilson as Ronnie. One time in particular, we were around the jacuzzi, and she (Lisa Raye) was like, yeah just grab me don’t worry about it, just snatch me. Discover and share Ronnie From Players Club Quotes. ![]() We can chase each other around this bi#*h all day, but when we clock out we cool. Everything that I did I was doing it to make it best for the character, and I think she was taking it personally. She comes in and puts her finger back in my face and by that time we were at odds. If you further look in the movie, and I’m in the dressing room before we had the big fight. As described by Chrystale, here is scene Diamond puts finger in “Ronnie’s” face.Ĭhrystale on the realness of Lisa Raye’s character putting her finger in her face: She wasn’t expecting it and that was a true reaction when she backed up me like, are you f*!king serious? She didn’t know what was coming at her. I walked up on her, I put my finger in her face and I was like ‘I run this motherf!*ka’. I’m gonna invade her space to the point where she is not gonna know what’s happening, and she is just going to have to react naturally. If it’s rehearsed it won’t come of right, so can we just go into the scene? ‘Cause I’m just really gonna invade her space. I said well, I don’t want to rehearse it with her. He said, I know how it’s written, but you tell me what needs to happen to make it really pop. Me and Ice Cube had a conversation, and he said I really need you to lead this scene. Details About Their Fight SceneĬW: But there was little stuff, like during the fight scene, she (Lisa Raye) didn’t know that when I came and put my finger in her face, she had no idea that that’s how it would go. I admired Ice Cube so much, that I didn’t get caught up with it. I was just focused on killing it for the fact that Ice Cube took a chance on me, went to bat for me. So I couldn’t even get caught up in whatever she was going thru. I’ll work myself to pure exhaustion before someone can say, well damn I’m disappointed. I was more concerned about doing a great job, and I’ve just the type of person that when people give me an opportunity, the last thing I want to do is let them down. ILOSM: Do you think Lisa Raye was intimidated by you back then?ĬW: You know, looking back I can probably say that, but being young I couldn’t really see that. A lot of things happened that didn’t need to happen. When we both got casted and got the part, things were a little different because of her being the star, it was just challenges. I just really would go to bat for her, and thought that we would be great friends. Y2k Aesthetic Outfits 2022 Y2K Aesthetics Letter Print Baby Tees 2000s Streetwear Patchwork O neck Short Sleeve Summer Womens Crop Tops Cute T shirts - White, M. ![]() And what’s funny is that before we both knew for sure that we got that part, she and I totally got along. I LOVE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC: What was it working with Lisa Raye?Ĭhrystale Wilson: We were both young, and we were both stallions out the gate. I Love Old School Music spoke exclusively to Chrystale Wilson, best known for her role of “Ronnie” on the classic film, “The Player’s Club” about her work on the film and the truth behind the fight scene with Lisa Raye’s character, “Diamond.” Little did we know, but that fight scene was very intense, and so was the tension between the two of them. Pay me!" Ha ha! That's why I get 30 percent.Chrystale Wilson and Lisa Raye as “Ronnie” and “Diamond” in “The Player’s Club” film Them white b*tches told that white man the must bootiful words you ever want to hear in our profession.īaby, them white b*tches looked that white man dead in the eye and told him, "F*** that. Wasn't no shame in our black women walking around BUCKED NAKED! So he went over to Europe and tried the same thang. He figure he go back to Europe and start the same type of business, taking away from our black women, trying to get them white bithches to dance the same identical way, huh? But to no avail. This white man went from village to village to seek out these bootiful black women, watching them perform, in the nude. Bucked Nakeds! You could see their public hairs. And he saw all these bootiful black women, walking around, dancing, working, living, in the nude. Long time ago, long long time ago, white man went to Africa. ![]() |
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