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diamond in the rough
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NORTH AMERICAN
a person who is generally of good character but lacks manners, education, or style.
The term white savior, sometimes combined with savior complex to write white savior complex, refers to a white person who provides help to non-white people in a self-serving manner. The role is considered a modern-day version of what is expressed in the poem "The White Man's Burden" (1899) by Rudyard Kipling.[1] The term has been associated with Africa, and certain characters in film and television have been critiqued as white savior figures. Writer Teju Cole combined the term with "industrial complex" (derived from military–industrial complex and similarly applied elsewhere) to coin "White Savior Industrial Complex".
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Covenants are "factions" within Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered. To join a covenant the player must make oaths to specific NPCs. With each covenant there are rewards for following the guidelines set by your "leader" and there are penalties for breaking them. Covenants may also have an effect on the player's online interactions. There are nine covenants total.
Most covenants have a unique multiplayer item useable only by members of that covenant, and even the ones that do not will have items or spells that can affect other players in some way, and as such what covenant the player has joined will have an effect on the player's online experience. Generally speaking, each covenant will focus on either cooperation (summoning/being summoned) or competition (invading/being invaded), but even then how the player chooses to play the game is still their choice. As an example, a player in the Warriors of Sunlight covenant (which emphasizes co-op pve) could be in the covenant purely for the ability to cast the Sunlight Spear miracle, and use Cracked Red Eye Orbs (an invasion item available to all players regardless of covenant) so that they may invade other players and use the miracle on them!
"The setup for the various covenants affects multiplayer situations in many different ways, especially the parameters of versus play, expanding the scope well beyond Demon's Souls. The game is designed to introduce multiplayer events as an extension of each character's role-playing in these covenants." []
Note: for the achievements you don't need to join them, once you get the dialogue that let you choose whether you want to join, the achievement will pop up.
Violet Chachki is the stage name of Paul Jason Dardo, an American drag queen, burlesque/aerial performer, content creator, model, and recording artist best known for winning the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
tchotch·ke
/ˈCHäCHkə/
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nounINFORMAL
noun: tsatske
1.
NORTH AMERICAN
a small object that is decorative rather than strictly functional; a trinket.
"a pig mug and a dozen or so other porcine tchotchkes adorn his office"
2.
US
a pretty girl or woman.
"just look at my little tchotchke growing up"
Origin
1960s: Yiddish.
shik·sa
/ˈSHiksə/
nounOFTEN DEROGATORY
(used especially by Jewish people) a gentile girl or woman.
"he's got a big blonde on his arm - a shiksa no less"
leg·end·ar·y
/ˈlejənˌderē/
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adjective
1.
of, described in, or based on legends.
"a legendary British king of the 4th century"
Similar:
fabled
heroic
ancient
traditional
fairy-tale
storybook
romantic
mythical
mythological
Opposite:
factual
historical
2.
remarkable enough to be famous; very well known.
"her wisdom in matters of childbirth was legendary"
Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Old Norse: Brynhildr, Middle High German: Brünhilt, Modern German: Brünhild or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend. She may have her origins in the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia.
An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies".[1] They sometimes attract critical attention and cult followings. Some of these films, such as Night of the Living Dead (1968), set trends and became historically important.[2]
Grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. These theatres were popular throughout the 1960s and 1970s in New York City and other urban centers, mainly in North America, but began a long decline during the 1980s with the advent of home video.
As the drive-in movie theater began to decline in the 1960s and 1970s, theater owners began to look for ways to bring in patrons. One solution was to book exploitation films. Some producers from the 1950s to the 1980s made films directly for the drive-in market, and the commodity product needed for a weekly change led to another theory about the origin of the word: that the producers would "grind"-out films. Many of them were violent action films that some called "drive-in" films.