Xenosaga

2022年3月18日金曜日

ゼレンスキー大統領 日本の国会で「リメンバー・パールハーバー！」か？（爆ｗｗｗｗｗ

https://tokumei10.blogspot.com/2022/03/blog-post_52.html

 

Historic Portland jewelry business will shutter after 90 YEARS thanks to woke policies which turned city's downtown into crime-ridden, riot-ravaged hellhole

• Despite major efforts, the business couldn't survive 'downtown's vandalism, homelessness crisis, and sense of nighttime lawlessness,' David Margulis said
• Margulis had decried the area's growing pains, blaming city officials for 'doing the talk, but not walking the walk,' and exacerbating the issue with woke policies
• In a last resort to save his decaying business three months ago, Margulis conducted a 'survival sale,' marking 20-40percent off the store's inventory
• The measure was not enough to balance out the 72percent drop in foot traffic downtown and the homeless encampments and riots driving away more clients 
• Robberies have spiked 47percent and Portland is on track to surpass last year's record-breaking homicide rate, with murders up 10 percent
• The record violence comes despite the police department introducing a new Focused Intervention Team that hit the streets in January
• Employees and visitors have yet to make their return downtown, with 1.3million customers on December 2021 compared to 2.1 on December 2019 
• More than 1million people worked downtown pre-pandemic. Today, just over 350,000 are employed at the stores in the areas

By Andrea Blanco and Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com

Published: 15:23 EDT, 10 March 2022 | Updated: 10:38 EDT, 11 March 2022

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10599365/Historic-Portland-jewelry-business-shutter-90-YEARS.html

 

Margulis is a surname that, like its variants shown below, is derived from the Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation of the Hebrew word מרגלית‎ (Israeli Hebrew /maʁɡaˈlit/), meaning 'pearl,' and may refer to:

• Berl Broder (born Margulis), Broder singer
• Dan Margulis, author
• Evgeny Margulis, musician
• Grigory Margulis (born 1946), mathematician
• Margulis lemma
• Natalie Margulis, Photographer and rare book collector
• Lynn Margulis, biologist
• Margulis, a villain from the game series Xenosaga

How Portland Became Known as the City of Roses

https://1859oregonmagazine.com/think-oregon/art-culture/portland-history-city-of-roses/

port

a town or city with a harbor where ships load or unload, especially one where customs officers are stationed.

 

List of Xenosaga characters

After Xenosaga I, all the character models were redesigned for Xenosaga II.^[1][2] they were all radically altered. MOMO's and Jr.'s designs became "...taller, slimmer and less child-like"^[1] with the end result making MOMO appear slightly older. Shion loses her glasses and alters her wardrobe while KOS-MOS gets blue highlights in her hair.^[2] When the first two episodoes of Xenosaga were remade in Xenosaga I+II for the Nintendo DS they were altered to two-dimensional computer graphics with sprites^[3] and visual novel-style dialogue sequences.

Playable characters

Shion Uzuki

Main article: Shion Uzuki

KOS-MOS

Main article: KOS-MOS

Ziggy

Voiced by (English): Richard Epcar (Episodes II & III)^[4][5]
Voiced by (Japanese): Masashi Ebara^[6][7][8]

The stage of Xenosaga: Pied Piper takes place T.C. 4667, 100 years prior to the events of Xenosaga Episode I. Before he became Ziggurat 8, Jan Sauer was a Captain in the 1875th Special Operations detachment of the Federation Police Bureau. He and his squad were deployed to the planet Abraxas (later renamed Michtam) to investigate murders in the U.M.N.. These terrorist acts were caused by a cloaked individual under the hacker alias "Voyager".

Sauer became further intertwined with the destiny of the Zohar when he met the widow Sharon Rozas and her son Joaquin. Jan Sauer and Sharon developed a relationship which led to marriage.

With the help of his squad and Sharon's medical knowledge, Sauer's investigation draws closer to the funding source of Voyager's murders. This turns out to be Dimitri Yuriev, who quickly utilizes his connections within the government to have Sauer and his team removed from the investigation. This does not stop Sauer, even after he and some of his subordinates are arrested.

Only after the death of one of his subordinates, Mikhail Ortmann, does Sauer discover that another member of his team, Erich Weber, is Voyager. Erich explains in part his connection with U-DO, before his Voyager alias takes over and lures Sauer to witness his wife and son's deaths. At this point, Voyager becomes the Black Testament, and Sauer could do nothing to prevent his family's death. The Black Testament presented an ultimatum to Sauer: either to be killed and have his soul consumed by Voyager or to join him (as another Testament) and live forever. Sauer refused both fates and he chose to commit suicide.

The witnesses of events that led to his death were Melisse Ortus and Lactis. Two years after his suicide he was activated as the cyborg Ziggurat 8, and about 100 years later the events of Xenosaga Episode I unfold.

Dialogue by Wilhelm suggests that Jan Sauer had a "shining will," and implicates that at some point Jan was considered to become a Testament. Given that Xenosaga Pied Piper has not been released to the US, most of Jan Sauer's background and his relation to the Zohar remains a mystery in Episode I and Episode II. The developers did not disclose his background so that it could be revealed in Episode III, where Voyager makes his first appearance.

In Episode I Ziggurat 8 is commissioned by the S.O.C.E. to infiltrate a U-TIC organization base and rescue M.O.M.O. During their escape their spacecraft would have been destroyed by the U.M.N. column walls if not rescued by the Elsa, and so he meets with Shion and the rest of the Xenosaga cast.

When first called Ziggy by M.O.M.O., Ziggurat 8 seemed uncomfortable. He suddenly had a flashback of his lost son, Joaquin. He remembered that during his life as Jan Sauer he purchased a synthetic dog for his son, as on a police officer's salary could not afford a real dog. The company which manufactured the dog was Nexus (and the dog's model name was "Nexus 6"), which prompted his son to give the nickname Nex, a truncation of the company's name. His manufactured name was similarly truncated by M.O.M.O. This may have been the action that sparked Ziggurat 8's response to take on a fatherly role toward M.O.M.O.

Ziggy seems self-conscious of his present body, and shows discomfort when young women see him undergoing maintenance. However he shows trust in M.O.M.O., as he states because of the "purity of her heart." In Cathedral Ship, when Cherenkov diffuses into the Zohar emulator and begins his transformation into a Gnosis, Ziggy remarks how it is "the same, just like that day." This is a reference to the events which happened in his past (or Xenosaga Pied Piper) where Voyager transforms into the Black Testament, through the same method.

Ziggurat 8 seems to understand some of the events regarding the Zohar, however his general disposition is reserved, and the game does not reveal too much of what he could know of his previous life. In the KOS-MOS Encephalon, Ziggurat 8's past was not shown despite the fact it is stated KOS-MOS sensed everyone's memories, and Nephilim urged everyone to accept the entirety of their memory. chaos explains why his and Allen's memories are not in the encephalon—yet there is no mention of Ziggurat 8's memories not being there. It is unknown why his memories/fears were not explored in the Encephalon. It could be due to the game's development of Ziggy not being as major a character as Shion and Jr. (In Xenosaga I & II for the Nintendo DS, Ziggy reveals more of his past to the rest of the characters.)

His only assignment is to protect and support M.O.M.O., yet he accompanies the rest of the party as a support character. During the destruction of Proto Merkabah Ziggy helps rescue KOS-MOS after Shion's grip of her has slipped.

In Episode II Ziggy continues to protect M.O.M.O. beyond the scope of his assigned mission. He strongly encourages Juli Mizrahi to be maternal to M.O.M.O. and he may also have feelings towards M.O.M.O. similar to that of his lost son. This is suggested by the way he is affected both during and after M.O.M.O.'s analysis. When she collapses, a vivid memory is triggered of Voyager standing over a large pool of blood.

Ziggy relates to Albedo's immortality in Episode II when he says, "Death is rest for the soul. Who was it that said that? If the body did not die, and the fears borne in the mind just continued to pile up, the world would be nothing more than an eternal prison." When Juli Mizrahi performs maintenance on Ziggy, he reveals the reason why he committed suicide was because of the death of his son. They form a connection because of the loss of their children and the resulting painful memories. Despite Juli Mizrahi's sympathy for Ziggy, the cold reality of his state of life is shown when Ziggy is made the lead (on screen) character and he talks with other employees of the U.M.N. Control Center. A majority treat him as old property.

Within Labyrinthos, Ziggy was briefly focused in on when the information within Canaan was accessed. He became suddenly reserved and placed his hands behind his back. This could implicate he knows this Canaan might be in some way tied to the mysterious program "Canaan" mentioned by his Realian subordinate Lactis in the past (Xenosaga Pied Piper). Given this, Ziggy should recognize Dimitri Yuriev and his intent as well. As to why Ziggurat 8 does not disclose to the party the familiar connections of these events is not yet known. He does however, inquire Jr. to explain what U-DO is before they dive into M.O.M.O.'s subconscious. (In Xenosaga I & II for the Nintendo DS, Ziggy reveals his past to the rest of the characters.)

He sacrifices his cybernetic arm by breaking through a wall for the party's escape from the Ω System. When he is being repaired, Juli Mizrahi asks him to consider lifespan extension. Eventually he accepts, primarily for M.O.M.O.'s sake but it is also likely that the reappearance of his family's murderer has prompted him to carry on his life. At the end of Episode II he is to be stationed at the Kukai Foundation and remain on call as a bodyguard for M.O.M.O. 

まあとりあえずこの辺りからはじめませう。（爆ｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ