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It's been almost a year since Nintendo and Namco first announced Pokken Tournament, a hybrid fusion of Tekken and Pokemon franchises. Though it's only slated to appear in Japanese arcades (for now), we're hoping to see a home release someday. In the meantime, if you want to play as Pikachu and beat up Lucario's stupid face, there's still Smash Bros.

They also dropped promo clips for two new fighters, Charizard and Weavile:

I couldn’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve stood in front of the mirror and hated what I saw.

From the time I was a little girl until now in my 20's there has not been one day that I’ve looked at my body and said, “Wow, I’m really satisfied with what I see.” That being said, while I struggled being an overweight child, I don’t consider myself to be overweight now. Yes, maybe I could use to lose the few pounds that I’ve gained from the typical beer and pizza college diet, but that’s about it.

As the usage of social media has exploded, I’ve realized that the scenario described above isn’t applicable to only myself, but also to women around the world, of all ages, and of all sizes. But why? What makes a thigh gap more beautiful than touching thighs or vice-versa? Who decides that size 0 is the ideal? Or that curvy women are sexier? Or that blondes are this, red-heads are that and brunettes are the other? We live in an era where society has shaped and inculcated in us what we like, who we like and why we like it, but unfortunately it hasn’t stressed nearly enough that the first that we should like – no, love – is ourselves.

For young women, like myself, here are the shocking facts:

· 91% of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting 22% dieted “often” or “always.”

· 86% report onset of eating disorder by age 20; 43% report onset between ages of 16 and 20.

· 95% of those who have eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25.

· In a survey of 185 female students on a college campus, 58% felt pressure to be a certain weight, and of the 83% that dieted for weight loss, 44% were of normal weight.

And these are just a few among many.

The thing is, society may be the one instilling these standards, but it is us who force each other to live by them. I know that I am personally guilty of looking at a woman walking down the street and comparing myself to her, or thinking I would never want to look like that/I wish I looked like that. I know that us women judge each other more harshly than men do. I know that I’ve sat down with my friends before, looked at another woman’s social media profiles and commented on her weight fluctuation, or any other physical characteristic. If you’ve never been in that position, I applaud you. If you have (I’m looking at you gossip magazines), I encourage you to think twice. I’m choosing to come clean with myself about this unacceptable behavior because this is where I want to say enough.

As women living in an oppressed society (yes, oppression towards women is still a thing in the 21st century), we need to stand up for each other. Every day we are pressured to look and feel a certain way. Every day we are held to an unrealistic standard of beauty, and for many of us, every day that we cannot achieve it is another day that we have lost. But these are not the battles that matter. We need to empower each other to fight for what truly is important. We cannot let our exterior define us, and we cannot define others by the same. It is not a flat stomach or long hair that makes us beautiful; it is our minds, our good intentions and our love and acceptance for others.

After reading this, I encourage you to stand up to the social barrier of superficiality; to put what you see aside, and to focus on what’s inside of not only others, but also yourself. Stop the body shaming. I encourage you to look at yourself in the mirror, and comment on one physical and one spiritual thing that you like the most. I encourage you to compliment others, to bring out the good in them, to smile at them. But most importantly, I encourage you to remember every single day how lucky we are to be alive, to be literate, to have the capacity to access technology, to have access to education and to be able to challenge our minds – those kinds of things are what will enrich us and help us add value to the world. Whether you’re a size 2 or a size 22 does not matter. What matters the most is that we let our hearts and our minds shape who we are, and most importantly that we learn to love ourselves.

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Jetman And Companion In Jetpacks Above Dubai

XDubai, screenshot via YouTube

The future is unevenly distributed in favor of the United Arab Emirates. Recently, two men donned jetpacks and flew into the night air above Dubai. Yves “Jetman” Rossi previously flew over the Emirati desert in his custom-built wing with jets, but for this paired flight, he was joined by Vince Reffet, a skydiver who once base jumped off the Burj Khalifa. According to a statement accompanying a video release of the flight, the pair fly over the “Burj Khalifa, The Palm Jumeirah, and the Liwa desert.” Their flight together was teased at the end of Jetman’s last video.

Watch the newly released footage of the twin flight below:

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I remember the first time I went camping. It was a really interesting experience, as I was immersed into the wilderness with a tent, sleeping bag, and some foods that were easy to make over a fire. As I grew older, I learned that what I considered camping is actually not what most people do. Instead, there's "glamping," which is simply glamorous camping. Enter this van: the next frontier in muddling our sweet, holistic camping experiences, bringing the urban world into the outdoors.

In the van's defense, it is pretty great, especially since it reminds me of a transformer. The van was made for the modern person, allowing them access to high-end materials and comfort without having to settle for a measly tent that could fly away at any moment...aka real camping.

Google is by far the most used search engine and the most visited website in the world. Last year people used Google to search about pretty much everything for an astounding two trillion times (2,000,000,000,000). But do you know that you can use Google not only for searching content on the web?

In fact you can use Google for doing many things, including converting, calculating, comparing foods, getting important informations and even playing. How can you do that? You just have to type soome easy commands as a search and you are done. Follow the instructions of this post and have some fun with your favorite search engine! (h/t: lifebuzz)

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1. You can set Google as a timer

2. You can ask Google informations about festivities

3. Compare foods’ nutritional facts

4. Type “Google gravity”, click “I’m feeling lucky” and see what happens

5. You can use Google as a calculator

6. Even for calculating the right tip

7. You can even play… Try to search for “Atari Breakout” into Google images and enjoy…

8. A little easter egg: type “do a barrel roll” and actually watch Google doing a barrel roll

9. Every time you include the word “anagram” in a search, Google will do anagrams for you

10. If you type a minus before a word, Google will exclude it from the search

11. Feeling lazy? Just click the microphone and do a vocal search

12. Use Google to stay up to date about your favorite tv series…

13. …and movies

14. Google can give you informations about flights

15. You can use Google to convert pretty much everything…

16. …and quickly translate

17. Try to search for recursion and get stuck into recursion

18. Another funny easter egg: type “tilt” and watch what happens

19. Stay informed about sunset and sunrise

20. Google can tell you the weather all over the world

21. Type Zerg rush and play defending your search results from Google’s o’s

Sometimes we need to stop and think about what’s around us to be aware of what and who we are, and believe me, scrolling through this post will probably change your vision of the world.
These 25 jaw-dropping reminders of how insignificant we are make me scared and curious at the same time and literally blow my mind.

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1. This is where we all live, our Earth.

via: visibleearth.nasa.gov

2. This the solar system, our “neighborhood”.

via: foxnews.com

3. This is the scaled distance between Earth and Moon. Did you think the moon was farther?

4. What if I told you that you could fit every planet of our solar system between Earth and moon?

via: reddit.com

5. If you still don’t have a measure of how tiny we are, here is North America compared to Jupiter.

via: astronomycentral.co.uk

10. And here is what we look like from the moon.

NASA

11. And from Mars.

NASA

12. From Saturn.

NASA

13. And from Neptune, 4 billion miles away.

NASA

14. But let’s look again at what we look like compared to the sun. It blows my mind every time.

via: astronomycentral.co.uk

15. That little dot is the sun, seen from Mars.

NASA

16. Did you know that there are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth?

via: science.nationalgeographic.com

17. And between all these stars, many are much bigger than our sun. Take a look at what it looks compared to VY Canis Majoris.

via: wikipedia.org

18. And galaxies are incredibly bigger. Just so you understand: if the sun was a blood cell, the Milky Way would be as big as the United States!

via: reddit.com

19. The Milky Way is enormous. Here is where we are inside it.

via: teecraze.com

20. Thinking that all the stars we can see at night are just part of this yellow circle is mind blowing.

via: twitter.com

21. But don’t you ever think the Milky Way is the biggest galaxy in space. Here it is compared to Ic 1011!

via: twitter.com

22. This is a picture taken from the Hubble telescope. In just this space there are millions of galaxies, each and everyone of them containing million of stars, each with planets orbiting around them.

via: hubblesite.org

23. This is one of these galaxies, UDF 423. It’s 10 billion light years away. Do you know what this means? Its light takes 10 billion years to reach the Earth. Basically, by looking at this galaxy you are looking 10 billion years into the past!

via: wikisky.org

24. Keep in mind that every single inch of your vision of the night sky contains billions of galaxies, stars, planets.

via: thetoc.gr

25. But it’s not all roses out there. Here is a black hole compared to our orbit. A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that no particle or light ray entering that region can ever escape from it.