So I'm walking up, and there's this NPC at the shop, I go to talk to a shopkeeper, who is also an NPC, and then there's NPC at the shop who is a real fucking person!
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Mission after mission, NPC after NPC, there is a sense throughout the game that Ubisoft wants to make sure you're laughing along with them regardless of why you're laughing.
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After NPC afflicted three grandchildren of famed Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian, the family mobilized national support to create a cadre of investigators who radically altered the scientific landscape of NPC research.
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The NPC will run for the rest of the week.
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These orcs aren't your typical video game NPC cannon fodder.
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" Baru said the split responsibilities between the NPC, NPAMC and the NPRC would ensure transparency, but that the NPC should also "publish annually a detailed report on all petroleum revenue payments made to government.
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The NPC is one of two major political congresses in 2017.
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As such, an NPC interpretation was "very timely and extremely necessary".
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One NPC laments that she cannot manage to change project teams.
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No one harbours fantasies about the independence of the present NPC.
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While Watch Dogs 2 is a mature-rated game, we apologize and will update this NPC model to make it more consistent with other NPC models in the game in a patch to be released this week.
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Every year during the NPC session, officials try even more strenuously than usual to prevent street unrest, lest it tarnish the image of political unity and national prosperity that they want the NPC to project (see article).
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I learned this the hard way when I ignored an NPC crying for help while chasing down another quest, only to learn, after sleeping for the night to gain power, said NPC had died in an alley.
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Recent debate about corporate tax reforms will likely continue at the NPC.
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Generally speaking though, it's you, computer-controlled NPC aliens, and your ship.
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"She's basically a NPC [non-player character]," concludes Beth Elderkin at io9.
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Mr Xi dispensed with several political norms during the recent NPC session.
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NPC President Jeff Ballou condemned the guard's physical handling in the release.
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However, the CPPCC has no legislative power, which rests with the NPC.
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The 325,000 bpd VPS-5 CDU and the NPC were shut on Sept.
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Still, optimism for the NPC to reveal big-bang measures should be contained.
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You meet an NPC, who you could kill without any consequences at all.
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Being an NPC delegate is even less fun than it used to be.
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Whatever the constitution says, the NPC has always been subordinate to the party.
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Your clit is like a non-player character (NPC) in a video game.
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Enormous effort has been put into constructing smarter, deeper, and better NPC behavior.
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The last thing we need is a level six npc distracting the players.
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After speaking with them frequently, relationships with my NPC neighbors begin to bloom.
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There's an easy to miss NPC at the edge of a ruined bridge.
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Reebok NPC UK Cotton + Corn unisex sneaker, $90When Reebok first launched the Cotton + Corn NPC UK sneaker, it featured leather accents on the heel tab, but after receiving kickback from Peta, the brand took the initiative to make the shoe vegan.
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Say you meet an NPC, who you could kill without any consequences at all.
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As such, an NPC interpretation was "very timely and extremely necessary", the report said.
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NPC and SPPC are required by Nevada statute to file GRCs every three years.
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Reebok's NPC UK Cotton + Corn collection is currently available atReebok's web storefor $90 USD each.
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No one broke my immersion by doing the Gangnam Style dance inside the quest NPC.
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China's National People's Congress (NPC) also made several other moves relevant to the financial sector.
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MS: Here in China, where we've been for a month now with the NPC etc.
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This was quickly followed by one of the random NPC events happening a second time.
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The foundation is tied to the National Press Club's non-profit affiliate, the NPC Journalism Institute.
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It's a move to help the country shore up national security, said NPC spokesperson Fu Ying.
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The annual National People's Congress (NPC) will also kick off today and last until March 113.723.
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But to many in the territory, intervention by the NPC would be a hugely unwelcome shock.
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"God Save the NPC," the company tweeted, along with a GIF of the Watch Dogs logo.
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Over the weekend, Twitter responded by suspending about 21,25 accounts associated with the NPC trolling campaign.
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Registration fees (including purchasing my NPC card) cost me around $350 the week of the show.
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If there were any doubts about Mr Wang's clout, seating arrangements during the NPC dispelled them.
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To get it, hunt down and kill the ghostly NPC Hearthsinger Forresten in the Stratholme dungeon.
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Less than three months ago, the NPC Standing Committee began soliciting comments on its first draft.
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During the NPC censors removed an online article published by Caixin, a business magazine in Beijing.
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Twenty-five years ago only two labs globally were studying NPC; today there are over 50.
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Another trader noted that the yuan is "usually very stable" during the NPC meetings every March.
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Over the weekend, Twitter responded by suspending about 1,500 accounts associated with the NPC trolling campaign.
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The planned trip was facilitated by the Kofi Annan Foundation and the National Peace Committee (NPC).
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The first week of the NPC seemed to indicate a broader focus on stimulus over reform.
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The suspension of NPC Russia will now be considered in accordance with the IPC Suspension Policy.
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In a yearly work report, Chen Jining, head of the MEP, told the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, a top Chinese decision making body, that overall air, water and soil pollutants had improved in 20153, according to a post on the NPC website late on Monday.
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In a sign of its likely adoption, the law committee of China's largely rubber stamp National People's Congress (NPC) recommended that the bill be voted on during a regular session of the NPC Standing Committee, which meets from Monday to Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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The CPPCC meeting opens on Saturday and the NPC begins its annual session in Beijing on Monday.
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THE National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber-stamp parliament, wrapped up its annual session on March 15th.
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The NPC meets yearly in March to pass major bills, approve the budget and endorse personnel nominations.
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Don Caldwell, Know Your Meme's managing editor, says he's perplexed by the rise of the NPC meme.
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But even within this context, the NPC meme isn't on the same level as Pepe the Frog.
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Mike Williams, USgamer Lieutenants can be recruited from nearly every enemy non-player character (NPC) in Odyssey.
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Market participants will look to China's NPC this weekend for the country's 2016 gross domestic product targets.
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You meet an NPC in a game, and you can kill them without any consequences at all.
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The NPC meets annually in March to pass major bills, approve the budget and endorse personnel nominations.
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Parliament's largely ceremonial advisory body, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, meets in parallel with the NPC.
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In recent weeks, users on 4chan and Reddit have made all kinds of memes featuring NPC Wojak.
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"The deer activity is primarily based on what I believe is standard NPC AI," Watanabe told Mashable.
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Constructive outcomes on these fronts could result in a one-notch upgrade for NVE, NPC and SPPC.
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The first time you kill an NPC, regardless of their standing in the community, is absolutely haunting.
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Analysts said Beijing had made efforts to stabilise the market - including cutting banks' reserve requirements this week - ahead of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) meeting, but sustainability of the rebound depends on whether policies to be unveiled by the NPC could surprise the market on the upside.
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The NPC will meet on March 21 to debate supporting Sanders in what now looks like a formality.
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A hard line from the NPC on the oath-taking case would give their campaign yet more impetus.
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David Wong, deputy at the National People's Congress (NPC), which is effectively China's parliament, also expected more demonstrations.
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The reporter in the blue seemingly not too impressed with this question at the #NPC #China #TwoSessions pic.twitter.
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An NPC might try to hide evidence or contact other NPCs through messages telling them what they're doing.
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You hear the radio chatter of combatants in a dogfight, not unlike the NPC barks of Skyrim bandits.
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He estimates that up to a thousand petitioners live on the street while the NPC is in session.
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FUNCTIONS: The NPC meets yearly in March to pass major bills, approve the budget and endorse personnel nominations.
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Focus on an NPC walking around camp, and L17372073 opens up the options to greet or antagonize them.
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The Horned God still looks full, until you realize that everyone standing around the bar is an NPC.
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They accept, however, that the Basic Law gives the NPC Standing Committee the ultimate power of re-interpretation.
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Give me two or three optional NPC quest givers that really flesh out a deeper, more complicated story.
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Here, we try to unpack the NPC meme, what it means and why it's causing trouble on Twitter.
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There is NPC Wojak — a crudely drawn, gray cartoon avatar with a pointy nose and a blank face.
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The full session of the NPC, the country's rubber-stamp parliament, was due to open on March 5.
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"Officials who are fielding the questions don't have to answer," NPC President Jeff Ballou said in a statement.
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However, he was elected as a delegate to the NPC in January, spurring speculation of a political resurrection.
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The combination of Twitter culling 43,500-plus NPC accounts and the evidence that the meme was spreading misinformation suggests that the NPC meme has crossed the threshold from "just another meme going through its life cycle" into an important discussion about how that life cycle can produce real-life effects.
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How much of mod development, especially one who acts as a sales NPC, is based on feedback from fans?
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He'd thought the game was just glitchy — until he spontaneously killed an NPC baby named after his infant son.
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It plays to BioWare's traditional strength of memorable NPC companions, going back to Minsc and Viconia [from Baldur's Gate].
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China's State Council Information Office and the NPC media centre did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment.
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The NPC (non-playable character) meme was popular among the far-right community on sites like Twitter and 4chan.
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Players notice instantly if the same tree or NPC is repeated or if two enemies use the same animation.
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You'd be surprised how attached you can grow over time to a NPC talking sheep spouting gibberish at you.
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The NPC will be meeting amid the backdrop of a slowing economy, with growth at near three-decade lows.
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The "reflationistas" and heavy spenders of Chinese politics seem to have come out the winners from China's recent NPC.
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You meet an NPC, who you can kill without any consequences at all on the course of the game.
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You meet a NPC, who you can kill without any consequences at all on the course of the game.
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An NPC — non-playable character — clearly signals that she needs help, inviting the human players to come introduce themselves.
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In video game jargon, a non-player character (NPC) is defined by only having a limited number of responses.
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Delegates typically lobby proposals at the annual NPC meeting and the government may or may not accept the proposals.
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Others successfully lobbied drug companies and investment firms to pay attention to the opportunities for developing an NPC therapy.
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You can click on that NPC all day, but unless the quest has been started, nothing's going to happen.
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An NPC often advances the game's plot by saying scripted lines, or assisting the playable characters in some way.
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Nevada Power Co. (NPC) --Long-Term IDR at 'BBB'; --Senior secured debt at 'A-'; --Short-Term IDR at F2'.
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However, the chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, said there was a "possibility" that he might ask the NPC for help.
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"I could not have been less threatening or more polite," Donnelly said according to the NPC release on the matter.
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Markets are also focusing on economic fundamentals as the National Peoples Congress (NPC), China's parliament, prepares to meet in March.
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It took just about three months from the time the NPC Standing Committee began soliciting comments on its first draft.
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"I could not have been less threatening or more polite," Donnelly said, according to the NPC release on the matter.
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Say you meet an NPC, who you could kill without any consequences at all on the course of the game.
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Remarks made during the NPC by Lu Hao, Heilongjiang's governor and its deputy party-chief, appeared to ignite the unrest.
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All those plans would heavily involve the NPC and the party's graft watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).
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Because we have this system in the game where every NPC in the game remembers what you do to them.
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"You can kill every NPC in the game and you can still complete the game by doing so," Heins says.
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In particular, ShockSlayer has received a lot of positive feedback about the quest involving a Suicune-obsessed NPC named Eusine.
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Clinton, according to the statement, would continue to support the NPC 's work toward peaceful and fair elections in Nigeria.
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NPC International, which has about $1 billion in debt, operates nearly 400 Wendy's restaurants and more than 1,200 Pizza Huts.
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A draft law on foreign investment has been submitted to the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, according to Xinhua.
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The proposed amendment will have to be ratified by China's rubber-stamp parliament -- the National People's Congress (NPC) -- in March.
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Each NPC not only has a unique look, but also a unique life; they have schedules and relationships with other characters.
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They are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual and do not constitute an endorsement by NPC.
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Another popular method of guaranteeing a non-playable character's (NPC) affections, employed throughout a range of titles, is using quest items.
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Segal says his organization is aware of the NPC meme, but he doesn't think it's breached into harmful territory just yet.
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Say you meet an NPC (a non-player character in a game), who you could kill without any consequences at all.
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An article quoting a member of the committee that advises the NPC, complaining about the constraints on free expression, was censored.
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The NPC earlier said it had sent invitations for the event to all 91 registered parties and the 73 presidential candidates.
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That's partially a matter of inconsistent tones: In one mission, an NPC described a cult member torturing children in gruesome detail.
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The robot hosts who live to serve the human guests are like complicated non-player characters (NPC) from today's video games.
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Every character—be it a unit type, random NPC, or a named character, is larger than life and bursting with personality.
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Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals.
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The location, the NPC, the opening mission, and in fact the whole campaign are setup to tug on longtime player's nostalgia.
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The NPC gathering includes the government work report, which can be likened to the US' annual State of the Union address.
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A real, complete movie about, basically, an NPC in a video game who becomes a real player, or something like that.
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At first, Vinny thought he'd just met another innocent NPC, perhaps an in-game wizard intended to help players understand the game.
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Mr Xi's status as China's most powerful leader since Deng Xiaoping has given this year's NPC meeting a feeling of the unreal.
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A quick search on YouTube for "NPC meme" returns a cascade of videos, most, if not all, uploaded within the last week.
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The DefendTheHouse gaming channel believes this NPC is probably unmarried and could even be homeless, adding that he also "drinks too much."
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China's ongoing National People's Congress (NPC), an annual meeting of some 3,000 delegates, is currently debating general rules for a civil code.
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At the annual gathering of the NPC in March, a new team of ministers and advisers was unveiled that stressed technocratic competence.
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Chris Maisano, an organized labor veteran from New York City, was also voted in for a two-year term on the NPC.
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The second session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) will kick off on Tuesday morning and end next week Friday (Mar.
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Among the most urgent on Beijing's to-do list at the NPC are 'supply-side' policies, or actions aimed at improving productivity.
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Background: Every March, Beijing holds the "Two Meetings" of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People's Congress (NPC).
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Over the past two decades NPC family organizations, led by the Ara Parseghian Foundation, have invested an estimated $45 million in research.
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Hansen bought U.S. firm Nutrition Physiology Company (NPC) to expand into probiotics that can be used as alternatives to antibiotics in meat.
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There is one scene where an NPC rips an ungodly amount of coke—line after line, seemingly endlessly until the player interjects.
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New members in US sororities during the 21953-22009 academic year numbered about 22010,277, according to the National Panhellenic Conference, or NPC.
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Chinese authorities announced the postponement of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's rubber-stamp parliament, an unprecedented move in recent times.
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Shannon Carey of NPC research says the availability of federal funds to support drug court programs has increased significantly in recent months.
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As The Economist went to press, senior members of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, were believed to be meeting in Beijing.
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In some cases, like the NPC meme, it can also lead to misinformation and fabricated facts spreading across popular conversational platforms like Twitter.
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VPS-5 and the 85,000 Catalytic Reforming Unit-5 (CRU-5) in the NPC were the last units to restart from the overhaul.
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The Bravo star showed off her ripped abs, toned arms and muscular legs at the NPC South Jersey Bodybuilding Championships in New Jersey.
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The idea is to focus on something objective, like the NPC creeps in every game of League, instead of other, more subjective quantities.
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Yet while the characters seem to know what they are, players are left to wonder what cut scene or NPC dialogue they missed.
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Overall, if the NPC dishes out more detail on reforms and its budget, it could prevent recent currency and equity ructions from reappearing.
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You meet an NPC, who you can kill without any consequences at all on the course of the game—do you do it?
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She ended up having a great day, and placed third in the 40-plus bikini division at the NPC South Jersey Bodybuilding Championships.
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The NPC, which concluded last week, appeared to confirm a partial shift in policy focus toward curbing leverage and away from supporting growth.
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Seed's ideology is made clear through NPC chatter and his own sermon: The end times are here and we need to be prepared.
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" First, he had to play through all of a game where "NPC characters were fairly nonplussed by the dog throwing faecal matter around.
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It essentially insinuates that liberals are NPC types who are unable to partake in regular conversations and rely on robotic rhetoric to function properly.
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Its rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), issued a ruling aimed at barring Mr Leung and Ms Yau from Legco (see article).
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Both optimists and pessimists have been scrutinising the current session of the NPC, which began on March 5th, for clues about Mr Xi's intentions.
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The game physics were also very rough, with any kind of collision resulting in NPC [non-player character] animations breaking and vehicles losing control.
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He said the PDP would visit the NPC office to "fulfil all necessary obligations toward the peace accord ahead of the 2019 general elections".
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The documents use an example of a corruption case surprisingly (and procedurally) turning into a murder case when a target NPC is found dead.
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The CPPCC and the National People's Congress (NPC), or parliament, were gathered in Beijing for their annual meetings to discuss economic and social concerns.
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At the same time, the commitment by authorities on the nature and pace of supply-side reforms at the NPC has remained broadly vague.
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See, in the game, the ability to interact with the environment is turned off for NPCs while the player is interacting with an NPC.
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The National People's Congress (NPC) meeting kicked off on Monday morning with Premier Li Keqiang announcing a 2018 growth target of around 6.5 percent.
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In 2013 the head of the National Population Commission (NPC), Festus Odimegwu, said that neither the 2006 census nor any previous one had been accurate.
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NPC delegates also called for more consistent guidelines, nationwide technological standards for batteries as well as cars, and a more finely-tuned system of incentives.
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This is not technically a trailer for Ryan Reynolds' new movie about a video game character that realizes they're just an NPC in a game.
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Many NPC delegates called for improved maternity benefits to encourage couples to have more babies as the country faces an aging population and shrinking workforce.
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But it's damn near impossible when you're a Dragonborn who cannot even with these petty ass NPC boys who are just not on your level.
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The NPC, meanwhile, is a meeting of China's parliament, in which 3,000 delegates review the government's annual work report and draft provisions of civil law.
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The SCCC can be reached via e-mail on the NPC LGBT Resources web page or via Navy 311 (see below for full contact details).
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK.Veer left off Cardiff's bustling St Mary's Street, lurch past the NPC car park and you'll find Womanby Street.
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It was accused of posting "illegal content", apparently by quoting an adviser to the NPC as saying "the right to speak freely must be protected".
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Like you'd see that an NPC did damage but you couldn't see who was on the receiving end unless you had that person's log file.
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Deeper interactivity through L2 allows you to interact with almost every NPC, even those that aren't involved in challenges or side missions or story missions.
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The program is particularly interested in developing partnerships with patient groups, and chose an NPC therapy development project as one of its first pilot projects.
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The player would have the ability to arrest any NPC in the world, and influence a branching storyline that swapped between both Shen and Fang.
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He's just at the outset of his second term, so once the NPC votes, he'll likely have a 10-year horizon stretching ahead of him.
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The NPC will also rubber stamp some key aspects of Xi's policy agenda, including ratifying a law to set up a new anti-corruption agency.
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NVE Outlook to Positive: The affirmations and Positive Outlooks for NVE, NPC and SPPC reflect solid credit metrics that are consistent with 'BBB' target medians.
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Some people just refuse to play the game so that they can trade enough with with giant NPC faction, therefore becoming Friend of the Jötun.
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When a PVP invader attacks a character allied with the Way of Blue, NPC sentinels also join the player's game to fend off the invader.
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If I was lucky, I might get a NPC that was a sort of ambiguous, video-game brown—not explicitly black but (probably) not white.
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Though Bradel has a fleshed out backstory and branching dialogue for the NPC, his name is "The Jar Salesman" because Bradel thought it was much funnier.
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As the province's legislative body, the NPC also recommended creating new aquaculture-based industries, seeing as the province boasts 40 percent of Sri Lanka's renowned coastline.
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Now that feature is expanding somewhat: in addition to other players tracking you down, you'll now have to worry about new NPC bounty hunters as well.
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" That was right around the time Kotaku published one of the earliest pieces on the NPC meme, which it describes as an attempt to "dehumanize SJWs.
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A court in Hong Kong began hearing a case filed by the local government apparently aimed at blocking them, but the NPC wants to move faster.
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Jeff won the Masters Nationals - NPC bodybuilding competition in 1992, the same year he placed 6th in the masters division of the Mr. Universe competition. R.I.P.
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The demo begins when the developer, Brett Johnson, encounters an NPC called Dorinda, who recruits him to help find out who stole some items from her.
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Second, in terms of developing characters themselves, let sex workers and their labor get the same respect as any other non-player character (NPC) at *work.
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The nearly 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress (NPC) gather for a brief annual session (it lasted 12 days this year, ending on March 213th).
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China's press, which tends to be even more circumspect than usual during NPC sessions, is especially concerned this year to find only good news to report.
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It's important to note that, if Arthur gun is equipped, L17201 defaults to aiming down sights, which sure can frighten a horse or an innocent NPC.
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Having Li – director of the party Central Committee's General Office and effectively Xi's chief of staff – head the NPC would smooth the work, political analysts said.
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Chen Daoyin, a political scientist at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, said Li's connection with Xi could also strengthen the power of the NPC.
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Investors will closely monitor policy cues from the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC), which starts on Saturday and will last around 12 days.
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Rare moment It was a rare moment of spontaneity at the highly choreographed two-week gathering of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's largely ceremonial parliament.
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An active legislative session is expected in Nevada in 2017 with regard to energy policy and Fitch anticipates NPC will file a GRC later this year.
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"The number of drug courts has increased dramatically over time," says Shannon Carey of NPC research, an independent private research company that has studied the phenomenon.
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It's all but official that President Xi – that proposal still has to be ratified during the NPC meeting – will be able to rule China for life.
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The first, which has been viewed 1.6 million times, features Shirrako punching out a suffragette NPC who yells in a plaza about wanting the right to vote.
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The NPC could not be reached for comment about its ultra-wealthy delegates, and a CPPCC press representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The 33-year-old actress voiced the tough and talented NPC racer in the game Slaughter Race that Ralph and Vanellope visit in the hit Disney film.
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Analysts and financial markets are widely expecting the government to announce a 2018 growth target of around 6.5 percent at the NPC, the same as last year.
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The irony, says Caldwell, is that when it first started circulating, NPC Wojak was also deployed as an anti-Trump meme that used to dunk on conservatives.
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But he stressed it would be "best practice" for the NPC to sell oil on behalf of all agencies and the new bill to clearly define responsibilities.
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This is a really powerful way for any character to make a first impression — how often do you get any sort of personality read on an NPC?
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In the work report to the NPC, the government reiterated that it would maintain the yuan's basic stability and keep it at a "reasonable" level this year.
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The NPC is generally considered a rubber stamp for the ruling Communist Party's policies and decisions, though debate on certain issues, such as pollution, can be lively.
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Only days before the NPC opened, the authorities closed a social-media account with 38m followers operated by Ren Zhiqiang, a former property developer and party member.
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Similar techniques could lead to huge leaps in the abilities of AI in all kinds of games: NPC companions, opposing sports teams, and cannon fodder mobs alike.
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NPC family organizations and patient advocates play a critical role by helping Vtesse communicate effectively with the patients and families and provide transparency to the drug program.
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Much of the new tech has been rolled out and upgraded ahead of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top political meeting, which kicked-off on Tuesday.
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The State Council Information Office and the media department of the Standing Committee of the NPC did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment on Monday.
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The State Council Information Office and the media department of the Standing Committee of the NPC did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment on Monday.
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The immediate lead-up to this year's NPC was eventful, with China proposing the scrapping of presidency term limits and the state seizure of Anbang Insurance Group.
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Here's what's the NPC is ushering in: Like previous years, Premier Li Keqiang announced annual economic targets in a state-of-the-nation style address on Monday.
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That process will include, amongst other things, appropriate dialogue with NPC Russia in order to afford them due process and to allow them to present their case.
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While Wang didn't make it into the new PBSC, his retirement seemed in question when his name was spotted on the list of this year's NPC delegates.
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Your quest log is empty—except for that one stupid-and-probably-bugged quest from that NPC who you decided probably got what was coming to him.
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The game provides no way to explicitly track down an NPC in the world, which often means you're forced to aimlessly wander, hoping to run into them.
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You can parallel the rat whispers to the many generic NPC lines about food, about fundamental needs going unfulfilled in the chaos that's spreading through the streets.
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The meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) has so far failed to deliver policies that exceed market expectations, analysts said, prodding some investors to reduce their holdings.
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Every year around 3,000 delegates from across the country meet in Beijing's Great Hall of the People for the National People's Congress (NPC) that lasts around 12 days.
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An email from a Ubi spokesperson reads: We're aware that one of the NPC models in Watch Dogs 2 is rendered in a way that is particularly explicit.
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The NPC is also widely expected to discuss the months-long protests in Hong Kong, and to announce the annual economic growth target along with China's defence budget.
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It's why, when it comes to reporting on memes — and Twitter taking action against over a thousand NPC accounts is indeed newsworthy — context has never been more important.
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"In the south of northern China, a young man looking to get married would need to spend around 700,000 yuan ($104,275)," Zhang wrote in a proposal to NPC.
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Part of the current bill includes plans to sell stakes of at least 40 percent of the newly created NPC and eventually list it on the stock exchange.
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It has remarkably believable NPC background chatter for instance, but at the same time, still plays host to its fair share of wink-wink nudge-nudge dialogue lines.
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The world itself is far more alive and full of detail, and this time around, there is something deeper behind each item, NPC, and animal in the game.
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Often, we are only granted that perspective in the form of an NPC or two in an entire game (I'm looking at you Shadow of the Tomb Raider).
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If you romance a party member in a Mass Effect or Dragon Age, that character contorts the plot around them and becomes the most important NPC by default.
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New California stands in stark contrast to Fallout 76, which is taking s the series in a very different—multiplayer-oriented, NPC-less—direction which some fans hate.
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In the latter, the Amulet of Mara functions the same as Story of Seasons' blue feather, as it's used to instigate a relationship between an NPC and the protagonist.
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Premier Li Keqiang, at the close of the annual National People's Congress (NPC), or parliament, on Tuesday also reiterated that regulators will take "resolute" measures to tackle financial risks.
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All citizens over the age of 18 are technically allowed to vote for delegates and be elected to the NPC, but most delegates are hand-picked by local officials.
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The intervention by the National People's Congress (NPC), as China's parliament is known, is the first of its kind since Britain handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997.
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The annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) is one of the most important economic and political events in China, setting out the government agenda for the year.
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MUCH has been made of Xi Jinping's consolidation of power, which began long before the National People's Congress (NPC) agreed in March to abolish term limits on the presidency.
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Television news showed delegates to the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's ersatz legislature, weeping for joy when Mr Xi's re-election as president was announced.
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BioWare is larger than any single game, and the studio's willingness to address the unfortunate handling of a minor NPC alongside more pressing technical issues is an important step.
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NPC Standing Committee member Liu Binjie, a former head of the General Administration of Press and Publication from 2007 to 2013, also supported Google Scholar's reintroduction to the mainland.
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As Chinese Communist Party Leaders gather for the National People's Congress (NPC) on Friday, they will likely reinforce a key theme highlighted in this week's developments and data: reforms.
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And then, when you finally make it back to the surface, Unexplored continues to offer resolution: An NPC walks you through a screenshot filled tour of your own adventure.
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Rather than evolving, as once seemed possible, into a forum where China's problems are discussed and different views are aired, the NPC is becoming less open and more controlled.
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At the meeting of the NPC, most delegates said the increasing use of technology to improve state security was a positive, and that the benefits far outweighed privacy concerns.
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In the NPC community, several family organizations banded together to form the Support for Accelerated Research (SOAR) partnership aimed at advancing a drug to clinical testing within five years.
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" In a written statement, NPC chairman Carole Jones said both men and women bear responsibility in the "fight against hazing, alcohol abuse and dangerous party cultures on college campuses.
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NPC Wojak is a variation of Wojak, an old cartoon (also known as "feels guy") that has become a kind of collective mascot for the far-right commenters online.
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The National People's Congress's Standing Committed voted to delay the full session of the (NPC), the country's rubber-stamp parliament, which had been scheduled to start on March 203.
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The NPC meeting this year takes place under the cloud of heightened trade tensions as U.S. President Trump announced he will impose heavy duties on steels and aluminium imports.
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I wondered if some NPC got lost on the way to town before it dawned on me: These boys were from the O'Driscoll gang, and this was an ambush.
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Hansen : * Says has received regulatory clearance and completed the previously announced acquisition of Nutrition Physiology Company (NPC) for cash consideration reflecting an enterprise value of $185 million * NPC is a provider of microbial solutions to the US livestock industry, especially within the beef cattle segment * Further information on the transaction will be communicated in connection with the second quarter report on April 7 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Copenhagen newsroom)
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All Chinese over the age of 18 are technically allowed to vote for delegates and stand for election to the NPC, but most delegates are handpicked by local-level officials.
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NPC International, Pizza Hut's largest U.S. franchisee, saw its debt slide further and further into junk territory in 2019 after credit downgrades from both S&P Global Ratings and Moody's.
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However, evidence is building that China's leaders are expected to telegraph their willingness at NPC to let reforms overtake policy stimulus as their priority, due to concerns about financial instability.
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All citizens over the age of 18 are technically allowed to vote for delegates and be elected to the NPC, but most delegates are hand-picked by local-level officials.
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Tibetan delegates to the NPC were spotted wearing badges with Mr Xi's picture on them, a form of leader-worship that fell out of fashion in China in the 1970s.
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The draft, which is part of a wider civil code, was presented to the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, which is expected to run until Friday, according to Xinhua.
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On Monday, China's Parliament (the National People's Congress or NPC) will vote an on amendment to the Chinese constitution so that Xi can serve for a third five-year term.
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The draft amendments were passed by 138 votes to 5, with 14 abstentions, Zhong Xuequan, spokesman for the National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, told a media briefing on Saturday.
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But Fitch said the implication for economic policy from Xi's consolidation of power - which has led to the removal of the presidential two-term limit at this year's NPC - remains uncertain.
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Watch Dogs Legion, the next game in the Watch Dogs series, which lets you take control of almost any NPC in the game, had originally been scheduled for March 6th, 2020.
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In 20173, his first year as prime minister, he told the National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber-stamp parliament, that reform required the courage of a "warrior cutting his own wrist".
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The NPC has ruled before on constitutional matters in Hong Kong, but never before has it done so while judicial proceedings are under way in the territory on the same issue.
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EPISTLE 3 brings that silliness out by making sure all your NPC interactions happen to NPCs that you have just shot, because flailing around shooting things is all you can do.
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The reality star, 23, dropped weight and gained major muscle to win the NPC Patriot's Challenge on July 6, and celebrated her success on Instagram after documenting her months of training.
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His unusually bellicose speech to the NPC, on March 20th, in which he warned the world that "not one inch of the motherland's territory can be carved off", was rapturously received.
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The biggest takeaway from the NPC traditionally tends to be the Party's annual gross domestic product (GDP) target, expected at 6.5 to 7 percent for 2016 from 7 percent last year.
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At the end of the NPC, the prime minister, Li Keqiang, repeated his commitment to "structural reform", and said the government would strive to find new jobs for those laid off.
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If players whip out the Heart—a mystical tool that whispers the secrets of the world—they might learn that a generic NPC shopkeeper has a secret family, that he murdered.
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"The ten years of stock market development since 2007 is a decade of tears for Chinese investors," Fan Yun, a Shanghai businesswoman said during an open session at NPC in Beijing.
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National mood Chinese netizens across the country hailed Liang's honesty, with many saying the moment represented a collective national eye roll over the scripted news coverage of the rubber-stamp NPC.
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The Standing Committee of the NPC proposed the delay on Monday, and will meet again on February 24 whether to postpone the "two sessions," the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
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"We will fully open up the manufacturing sector, with no mandatory technology transfers allowed, and we will protect intellectual property," Li told a press conference wrapping up the NPC in Beijing.
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It's one of the proposals the NPC is expected to rubber-stamp during the next two weeks, when nearly 3,000 delegates meet in Beijing for the annual session of China's parliament.
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We scramble for cover and the snowstorm picks up and we are relieved to see that these are "red" enemies, the lowest tier of NPC opponents that wander the frozen streets.
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The existing marine and lagoon-based fishery sector needs to be modernized so the population can benefit from under-tapped fishing grounds, said the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) in a 133 report.
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It's almost like a simulation of being an NPC; I'm just another robot responding to a set of circumstances that are beyond my control and my sense of place in the world.
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Players want to do a certain move in combat or they want to interact with an NPC in a way that the game doesn't immediately make clear, and I have a choice.
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Li was speaking at the conclusion of two major Chinese political events that were closely followed by global markets: the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People's Congress (NPC).
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It's a game where your presence alone may set off a chain of events that change how an NPC behaves, and how you both might approach a situation further down the line.
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A classic example of an NPC is Navi, a character in the 1998 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time who acts as a navigator for Link, the game's protagonist.
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There was nothing in the various speeches at the NPC and in President Xi's behavior up to now to suggest that there will be any dramatic reform and opening of the economy.
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The decision to accelerate the legislative process came after the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee convened a special two-day session this week to conduct a second review of the draft.
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These include the upcoming U.S. non-farm payrolls report on Friday, China's National People's Congress (NPC) that begins this weekend , as well as European Central Bank and Bank of Japan meetings next week.
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On the first day of China's annual National People's Congress (NPC) on Tuesday, a private survey showed that the country's services sector in February saw its slowest rate of growth in four months.
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The protests in Shuangyashan were particularly embarrassing for the party, occurring as they did during the 12-day annual session of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which ended on March 153th.
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WITH all the pomp, pageantry and protest-deterring security, which are traditional at such affairs, the annual session of China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), will open on March 5th.
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Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute at the University of London, said Li becoming China's top legislator would ensure "strong support for Xi" from the NPC in the next five years.
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You interact exclusively with objects, and sometimes those interactions with objects reflect on your relationships to the NPCs, but at no point are you ever clicking on an NPC to make them talk.
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In the second episode, Man in Black kills so many characters other players rely on to enjoy the game, the game masters toy with throwing NPC encounters at him to slow him down.
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But if you can beat it, you'll get some excellent prizes, including at least one bottle cap, which you can trade with an NPC to boost a stat for one of your pokémon.
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What was really fascinating is when the eventual combat breaks out, a glitch keeps cutting away to the battle at the NPC camp when the "allied turn" comes around in the turn order.
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The NPC in an earlier statement announcing Clinton's visit said it reached out to him and others to ensure peaceful elections and a non-violent transfer of power in the West African nation.
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You Wenze, a spokesperson for the Foreign Affairs Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. Senate this week.
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Reducing excess supply in certain sectors is a theme which was reinforced at the NPC, for example, but the CNY2852bn (USD2265bn) in resources pledged are small within the context of China's USD29935trn economy.
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China's state news agency Xinhua said parliament head Zhang Dejiang, who is one of China's most senior Communist Party officials, and other top NPC members heard a report on Friday about the issue.
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One major item on this year's NPC agenda is government agency reform -- and there have been strong hints from officials about combining ministries and agencies to strengthen the party's leadership and improve efficiency.
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Outside the United States, the Philippines had the largest amount of user data acquired by Cambridge Analytica, with 1.17 million accounts in the country affected, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) said last week.
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VPS-5, the NPC and HCU 2 were all added to the refinery during a five-year, $10 billion expansion that finished in 2012, more than doubling the capacity of the Port Arthur plant.
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The concern among some economists though is that despite likely pledges at the NPC to hasten economic reforms, the leadership will prioritize growth and economic stability in 2017 ahead of the expected political change.
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Although many had feared the NPC would eventually step in, few had expected it to show its hand without waiting for the case to make its way to Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal.
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During pro-democracy protests across China in 1989 some even dreamed that Mr Peng's successor, Wan Li, seen as a liberal, might convene an emergency session of the NPC to broker a peaceful resolution.
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At its worst moments, Deadfire feels like I'm stuck in a time loop, looking at the same cursors and hearing the same general NPC dialogue that I grew tired of a long time ago.
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The GDP growth target for 2017 was set at "about 6.5%", compared with the 6.5%-7.0% growth target for 2016 set at last year's NPC and an actual 2016 GDP growth outcome of 6.7%.
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The NPC Standing Committee will also consider measures to curb practices that may have contributed to the virus's transmission to humans, including a ban on the wildlife trade and the consumption of game meat.
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Behind the figures Speaking to reporters Sunday, Zhang Yesui, a spokesman for the NPC, said that even with the latest increase, China spends less of its gross domestic product than other major military powers.
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Occasionally you'll meet NPC alien races, which are the only things in the game that don't react to your presence with indifference or overt violence, but they don't even speak your language at first.
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Ahead of the meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC), which starts Monday, authorities have stepped up a crackdown on big-spending conglomerates, following a year of financial deleveraging that has targeted risky shadow finance.
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The sharper drop, however, may raise some concerns for China's leaders as they prepare for the start of the National People's Congress (NPC) next week where Beijing will unveil its economic targets for this year.
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The Times' explanation of the meme — "the Pro-Trump Internet's New Favorite Insult" — compounded by news that Twitter's Trust and Safety team had recently banned 1,500 accounts created using the NPC formula, only heightened interest.
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The meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) has so far failed to deliver policies that exceed market expectations, analysts said, prodding some investors to reduce their holdings as liquidity conditions will likely get tighter.
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According to the National People's Congress (NPC) report, published by state news agency Xinhua, China's central government has already spent 52.8 billion yuan ($7.98 billion) to improve air quality over the 13 to 2017 period.
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With the National People's Congress (NPC) meeting set to conclude this week, investors will watch for further clues on how the Chinese government plans to steer the world's second largest economy through an economic rebalancing.
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Several times, I found myself walking around the entire map talking to every NPC, because despite having a system for waypoints, the game doesn't mark who exactly I'm supposed to turn a given quest into.
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The PDP said it was investigating the circumstances behind the "unfortunate communication lapse" between party officials and the National Peace Committee (NPC), the non-governmental organisation that arranged the event, which resulted in Abubakar's absence.
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Xinhua also released videos of foreigners praising China's political system, calling NPC press conferences "a journalist's dream" and laying out the benefits of a Chinese-style democracy, using footage of Chinese basketball star Yao Ming.
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The PBOC governor talked down concerns over the decline in foreign-currency reserves in his comments at the NPC, saying that the drop was appropriate insofar as reserve accumulation during the previous decade was excessive.
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In the first hour of Far Cry New Dawn, an NPC told me a rumor that dogs were being bred on a nearby hillside, and that they were being raised for food by the Highwaymen.
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It's made me feel a deep and strange empathy for every NPC I've ever unceremoniously massacred while playing Red Dead Redemption, and made me hate every random jerk I play with online that much more.
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When players reloaded their save, they could once again safely enter the shop, but from that point on, Link would be known to every NPC as "THIEF," and their save file was renamed as such.
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Instead, the NPC Standing Committee, a smaller group of fewer than 200 people, will meet in the capital on February 24 to review a proposal to postpone the plenary session, according to Chinese state media.
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The meeting proposed that the NPC Standing Committee review a "draft explanation" of the article in Hong Kong's Basic Law governing the swearing-in of the territory's lawmakers and other officials on Monday, it said.
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The NPC meeting is part of the so-called annual "Two Sessions" season as it runs concurrently with a meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference — however, this advisory body has no legislative power.
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Having to maintain, invest in and, god willing, drive your car, you get to live through the most mindless season, dodging NPC drivers who are supposed to be drunk instead of merely acting like it.
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 123, flaunted her ripped abs, toned arms and muscular legs in a tiny two-piece bikini at the NPC South Jersey Bodybuilding Championships on Saturday in Medford, New Jersey.
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However, Zhang Chen, strategist at Shanghai Maoshuo Asset Management Co, expected the rebound to lose some steam, with its sustainability hinging largely upon whether policies announced during the National People's Congress (NPC) gathering could exceed expectations.
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Fu Ying, spokeswoman for the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) annual session, said during a press conference Saturday the increase is in line with China's economic development and defense needs, state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
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Though its mission design and NPC dialogue haven't aged all that well, you'll still get at least a few hours of entertainment running around its open world, collecting orbs, and quickly scaling buildings with superhuman leaps.
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In 2014 the NPC declared that Hong Kong would not get the full democracy that many thought they had been promised: only candidates approved by the Communist Party's backers in Hong Kong could become chief executive.
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"Many people now believe the IPO reform will not happen this year because not a word about it was mentioned during the government's development plans at the NPC meeting," said Wang Qing, analyst at Yuantai Securities.
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Sure, Deacon will walk over and tell an NPC who's beating one of the workers to "stop it," but you can't make an active choice to intervene, and the assigned quests for the camp keep coming.
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Blue-chips have outperformed small-caps on the back of economic recovery, as well as hopes that more fiscal stimulus will be unveiled at the meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) that starts on Sunday.
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As Xi tightens his grip over the country, the domestic media coverage of the NPC has become more deliberately stale -- with questions at press events carefully screened and often going to outlets trusted by the authorities.
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Get caught red beaked, and you'll be ushered out of the way and every NPC nearby will do their best to set things back to the status quo, giving you another opportunity to go at it.
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It took me hours before I decided to kill an NPC, a choice I put off as long as possible because in the early hours, as the game kept impressing upon me how important this was.
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These games want you to have the context and experience of death, but only when there is thematically relevant music and the wide-eyed stare of an NPC that gave you a cookie during the last mission.
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But industry figures said in proposals submitted during this year's National People's Congress (NPC) that the state still must tackle "protectionist" local governments that dish out extra subsidies and draw up preferential policies aimed at excluding rivals.
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Though the NPC oversees the territory's constitution, its rulings were always intended as a last resort in a place that was promised "a high degree of autonomy" on its reversion from British rule to China in 1997.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's annual National People's Congress (NPC) kicked off on Tuesday with Premier Li Keqiang's presentation of the government work report, in which he announced a lower economic growth target of 23.08-6.5 percent this year.
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China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), was reportedly preparing to intervene in a row in Hong Kong over whether two legislators who support greater autonomy for the territory should be allowed to take up their posts.
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The NPC, which will end on March 20, is expected to approve the restructuring of various government departments and the appointment of several key officials including a vice president, vice premiers and a new central bank governor.
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Authorities announced a growth target of 6.5 to 7 percent for this year at the annual National People's Congress (NPC) meeting, after the economy grew 6.9 percent in 2015 - the slowest pace in quarter of a century.
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It's a tradition that continues to this day and many petitioners believe that the annual meeting of China's parliament -- the National People's Congress (NPC) that begins Saturday -- is the best chance to attract attention to their grievances.
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Once a year, the 2126,280 or so delegates of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, meet in Beijing to rubber-stamp decisions that have already been made in secret by leaders of the ruling Communist Party.
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But two well-placed sources told the Post that Li would, instead, most likely head the National People's Congress (NPC) – theoretically the highest organ of state power in China – when current chairman Zhang Dejiang retires in March.
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Moments after telling my co-op partner how much I liked the new, free-flowing quest system, an NPC got stuck inside of a tree trunk, preventing us from talking to him and finding a new objective.
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"The NPC used to be a forum where a limited amount of dissent could be shown by giving less than 100% approval for something," said Duncan Innes-Ker, regional director for Asia at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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China boosts military spending Fight against corruption intensifies Two other changes will be endorsed by delegates during the NPC -- the creation of an all-powerful national anti-corruption agency and the passage of a national supervision law.
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You can use firearms indiscriminately, earning you the attention of a small army of NPC soldiers, or you can knock out an entire room full of guards from the shadows using a healthy supply of wrenches you've scavenged.
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The National People's Congress (NPC), made up of about 3,000 delegates, typically gathers for a session lasting at least 10 days in Beijing, beginning on March 5, to pass legislation and unveil key economic targets for the year.
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As far as I could tell while playing, these shuffled out in this way: you're bad if you neglect to save civilians or, worse, shoot a major non-threatening NPC; you're good if you don't do those things.
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Ahead of the meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) this year, authorities have stepped up a crackdown on big-spending conglomerates, after a year of financial deleveraging that has targeted risky shadow financing and curbing corporate debt.
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Last month, at the National People's Congress (NPC), an annual meeting of parliament, Chinese leaders targeted 6.5 to 7 percent growththis year and identified supply-side policies as a crucial lever to revive growth and arrest excess capacity.
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NPC Observer, a blog founded by Harvard Law student Changhao Wei, pointed out in a post that the draft is "significantly" shorter than one from the Ministry of Commerce in 2015 and has removed most of the details.
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Some inject major changes into the game's content or mechanics, like True Storms (which adds intense weather effects and environmental hazards) or War of the Commonwealth (which dramatically increases the amount of NPC activity in post-apocalyptic Massachusetts).
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"We are taking measures to satisfy people's need for drugs, especially to resolve issues of high-priced patented drugs and patients unable to afford medicines," Li said on the sidelines of the National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing.
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As they have since the first NPC convened in 1954, delegates stay heroically awake as turgid speakers drone on; they applaud enthusiastically on cue; and they approve, without exception, the laws, budgets and government reports put before them.
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Li was acting in his role as a member of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, during its meetings that started on Saturday, and speaking for China's copper industry, Huang Dongfeng, a spokesman at Jiangxi Copper (0358.
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In my nearly two decades of experience as a physician-scientist studying Niemann-Pick type C (NPC), a rare pediatric neurodegenerative disease, I have witnessed how parents of children with this devastating disorder can have a profound impact.
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Morishita: Basically, when you die, you get thrown into another player's game [as an enemy NPC], but you can also choose to throw your character into another person's game as well, as an enemy (similar to Dark Souls).
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Nearly 3,000 legislators from around the country will attend the two-week gathering of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing -- a highly prescriptive show of unity and enthusiasm that will see key legislative and personnel decisions approved.
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People have lots of problems with Mass Effect: Andromeda, but one scene in particular really upset people, in which the NPC Hainly Abrams discusses being trans, without prompting or having anything resembling a close relationship to the player.
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Specifically, the invisible fire is located on a road near Rhodes: One player, Haruna Miyazawa, discovered that if you hang around near the road, you'll watch NPC repeatedly die in a fiery blaze, despite there being literally nothing there.
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China announced last week during the NPC that it would transform the former Ministry of Environmental Protection into the Ecological Environment ministry with great powers that include taking on the environmental duties of the land, water and agriculture ministries.
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"The top agenda of (the) NPC this year is to design policies to prevent further decline (of growth rate)," said Xiang Songzuo, professor at Renmin University in Beijing, referring to the National People's Congress, which kicks off on Tuesday.
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The Moody's downgrade comes just days before the National People's Congress (NPC) is due to vote on China's 13th five year plan, a closely held development blueprint for the next five years, which policymakers began formally drafting in 503.
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There are six votes from the Bread and Roses caucus on DSA's national political committee (NPC), effectively its board of directors, not quite a third of the total of 19, giving the caucus a serious, if not dominant, presence.
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The strong presence on the NPC and the affiliation with Jacobin, the most influential publication on the American socialist left these days, gets people to talking about a sect with its own propaganda arm plotting to control the organization.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Shanghai representative to the National People's Congress (NPC) on Sunday lambasted China's market regulators for igniting a stock crisis that is "destroying the Chinese middle class", a rare rebuke for authorities during their biggest annual event.
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Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC), said China generates nearly 4 billion tonnes of waste a year from livestock and poultry as well as 200 million tonnes of household waste in large and medium-sized cities.
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But thanks largely to Concerned and Full Life Consequences, where he plays Gordon Frohman and John Freeman respectively, he became a shorthand for a certain kind of goofy, guileless male protagonist — like the NPC version of a character actor.
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China is due to hold its "two sessions" — a yearly gathering of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's rubber-stamp parliament, and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Process (CPPCC), the Communist Party's main advisory body — from March 3.
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"It is conducive to safeguarding the authority as well as the centralized and unified leadership of the Communist Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping at the core," NPC spokesman Zhang Yesui told reporters Sunday in response to CNN's question.
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In a letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, dated April 11, the NPC said it would look into how Facebook shares personal data of Filipino users with third parties, and demand concrete action to protect their data privacy rights.
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"Do you think it's th-," but he's cut off because you've walked too close to another NPC, who is extolling the virtues of the port's lead gang—who a vast majority of the missions will introduce you to anyway.
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Investors were also cautious ahead of next week's National People's Congress (NPC) gathering in Beijing, during which the Chinese government is expected to announce a further tightening of financial and regulatory policies for 2018 along with its key economic targets.
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Still, NPC delegates are expected to rubber stamp their approval of the ruling Communist Party's proposals, which include a commitment to lower costs for roaming and Internet services — an idea that drew quite a bit of applause from the crowd.
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The group is likely to be a voice in the Democratic 2020 primary, and on Tuesday night, the organization's National Political Committee, or NPC, released results from an internal poll of members on the question of whether to endorse Sanders.
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Japan's shares slid even as markets in Australia, South Korea and China gained on Monday as traders digested Friday's better-than-expected U.S. non-farm payroll and China's new economic targets announced at the National People's Congress (NPC) over the weekend.
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But Premier Li Keqiang's 53 work report at the opening of the National People's Congress (NPC) on Tuesday is expected to offer plenty of assurances that Beijing will do more to help struggling small businesses, boost demand and safeguard jobs.
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Private foundation funding filled a critical niche for researchers in identifying the genetic causes of NPC and supporting higher risk, higher impact projects that would not have been fundable via traditional founding routes, such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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But Premier Li Keqiang's 25 work report at the opening of the National People's Congress (NPC) on Tuesday is expected to offer plenty of assurances that Beijing will do more to help struggling small businesses, boost demand and safeguard jobs.
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And yes, there is the sheer, terrifying scale of Monster Hunter's signature complexity, too: statistics, items, equipment, cooking, weapon movesets, assignments, upgrades, expeditions, trade missions, horticulture, bounties, crafting, charms, ranks, elemental weakness, NPC partner affinity, map zones, and somehow more still.
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Common street sights like vending machines and store signage take on a different look more in line with the era, and there's nary a NPC with a cellphone to be seen wandering about—though you may see a few with pagers.
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For example, the free sample of the Chrono Trigger analysis looks to monster damage resistance and its frequency, narrative information, NPC sociology, and a damage-to-resources chart in order to provide context for a quest in the early game.
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In the PS4 version we tested, minor issues include NPC allies getting stuck in walls, conversations ending but leaving you stuck in conversation mode, enormous load times when leaving interiors, and inescapable-deathtrap autosaves that ruin several hours of progress.
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Late-game species could be encountered almost immediately after starting, trainers could challenge gyms in whatever order they pleased, and even the bothersome "evolve via trade" mechanic was rectified by introducing a brand-new NPC known as the Tradeback Guy.
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But in other ways, it's such a– Patrick: But it feels like a cultural exchange, [which] feels so profound, whereas the [the other interactions] mostly just feel like perfunctory NPC conversations you're having, with some some lore dumps around the galaxy.
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Inside Beijing's Great Hall of the People, nearly 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress (NPC) cast their ballots on a series of proposed amendments -- including removing the restriction that had limited the presidency to two consecutive five-year terms.
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Not only are they being forced to live under an oppressive police state led by a multidimensional empire known as the Combine, but for the past five years, an unfortunate bug has left every NPC in the game unable to blink.
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The revisions aim to make the economic system more market orientated, to maintain basic economic needs and to help develop the appraisal industry, said Gong Fanrong, the director of the finance committee legal team of the NPC at the briefing.
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A budget document made available to the media before the opening of China's 22016th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on Monday, reveals China will spend the equivalent of US$20173 billion across all branches of the People's Liberation Army.
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On top of these new additions, the new Guns for Hire system means that even when playing alone, you'll have a few NPC friends around for the ride (or to pick you up off the ground when you get caught out of cover).
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As the National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, prepares to approve that document, a new video aimed at audiences at home seeks to instil love for the plan's drafter-in-chief, President Xi Jinping, or Uncle Xi as state media often call him.
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"Thanks to Xi's backing, Li could turn this role into something much more than a rubber stamp if he is made the NPC chairman," Chen said, adding that Li, 67, could be elevated to No 3 in the party hierarchy after his ascension.
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By 2007, Rajko had managed to reverse-engineer the encryption protocol the MxO world server used, allowing him to see what messages were being sent between his computer and the MxO servers when, for example, his character jumped or talked to an NPC.
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In fact, I thought I'd completely ruined character creation when I lost that fight and watched my NPC buddies turn Viking into Fargo-on-the-Fjords, complete with a grisly coverup and pledges to never again discuss what happened within the challenge circle.
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You need to talk to NPCs in the game who are hired actors (and who tell you they are playing a role), and then later you can see people in the game world playing the other games that those NPC actors starred in.
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As in Dota 2250, heroes are ultimately what the game revolves around, not simply because they're far more powerful than the NPC "creeps" that randomly populate each lane, but also because they determine what color of spell you may play in those lanes.
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Beijing man photographs 3 years' worth of smog from his window While the improvement in air quality during the National People's Congress (NPC) is noticeable, "it is nothing" compared to the 80% to 90% decrease in pollutants during international conferences such as APEC, Guo said.
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This lineage is why one of the weekly quests in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, involving the player helping an NPC work through the grief of losing people close to her , has been a surprisingly pleasant balm to what is, on average, a more hamfisted approach.
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The interpretation, Beijing's most significant form of legal intervention since Hong Kong's sovereignty was transferred from the U.K. to China in 1997, would defend national unity and sovereignty, deputy secretary general of the NPC Standing Committee Li Fei said in a Monday press conference.
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On March 11th the National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber-stamp legislature, is due to vote on a proposed amendment to the constitution to abolish the two-term limit on a president's tenure, paving the way for Mr Xi to stay in office indefinitely.
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Furthermore Ubisoft has accepted that it must take some political stances, such as the inclusion of same-sex player-NPC relationships in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey — not controversial to me and many others, certainly, but hardly an apolitical inclusion in the present global political landscape.
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The services PMI numbers were "more influential on markets" than anything coming out of the first day of the NPC and "affirmed" Beijing's GDP growth target for 2019, Rodrigo Catril, head of foreign exchange strategy at National Australia Bank, said in a morning note.
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Chen also called in his NPC work report for more to be done in the fight against air, water, and soil pollution, saying that although efforts to manage the environment were moving forward, the job is becoming more complex and difficult as time goes on.
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"The NPC may not be a key pillar of power in the sense of the British House of Commons or the US Congress, but having it under a trusted subordinate means Xi is putting himself in a strong position to make [legislative] changes," he said.
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The Matrix Online was different to other MMOs, and in a big way: Most server-based games use static data structures when communicating with players' computers, sending the exact same data packets every time a player sits on a chair or talks to an NPC.
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More than 200 Hong Kong delegates to the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) met officials from the liaison office on Sunday, when they were also asked to support the Hong Kong government in riding out the storm.
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Led by National People's Congress (NPC) delegate Ma Huateng, the chairman of tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, with a net worth of 2603 billion yuan ($46 billion), the top 100 representatives had a total net worth of 3.91 trillion yuan, the Shanghai-based Hurun Report said.
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While Chinese President Xi Jinping has led a crackdown on corruption and made the fight against poverty a priority, representatives of the NPC and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), an advisory body to the government, include some of the communist-ruled country's wealthiest businessmen.
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The following stocks may be affected by newspaper reports and other factors on Thursday: The Danish food ingredients maker said late on Wednesday it has agreed to buy Nutrition Physiology Company (NPC) for $185 million and will cancel a planned share buy-back programme and interim dividends.
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Pan Gongsheng, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said ahead of the opening ceremony of the NPC that short-term factors would disturb the foreign exchange markets, but the yuan's value will be eventually determined by fundamental factors such as sound economic growth domestically.
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