Non-playable characters may be bystanders, competitors, bosses, or may exist to aid the player's progress in the game.

" GamesRadar's article " Non-playable characters we wish were playable " featured Sephiroth as a character that they wished would have been playable in Final Fantasy VII so they " could relive skewering Aerith like an annoyingly dainty, needlessly chaste salmon over and over.

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For example, if two characters are wrestling the relevant attribute is Strength ; a character could reveal a weapon, changing it to Warfare ; they could try to overcome the other character's mind using a power, changing it to Psyche ; or they could concentrate their strength on defense, changing it to Endurance.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

This meant it could provide a separate programmable character for all of the 1024 ( 64x16 ) or 2000 ( 80x25 ) characters on the screen.

The flexowriter supported overstriking and therefore AA did as well-up to three characters could be overstruck as a single symbol.

Time-sharing computers connected to modems could recognize the break because the DEL characters received had " bad parity.

This rivalry inspired the spin-off computer game Beanotown Racing, in which various characters from both comics could be raced around points in Beanotown, including the Embassy.

Inside these one could find matchbooks and business cards apparently defaced by non-player characters, newspaper cuttings and ( in the case of Orient Express ) period passports to which players could attach their photographs, bringing a Live Action Role Playing feel to a tabletop game.

Searle could receive Chinese characters through a slot in the door, process them according to the program's instructions, and produce Chinese characters as output.

They also included him in their list of characters they wish they could kill, stating that almost everyone they talked to, even dog lovers, wanted to shoot him.

The film Easy Rider ( 1969 ) includes the assumption that the two main characters could have their long hairs forcibly shaved with a rusty razor when jailed, symbolizing the intolerance of some conservative groups toward members of the counterculture.

* Referential ideograms ( 指事字 ) -- characters that are developed with specific reference to particular entities or events in the " outside " world, whose meanings could not be simply and straightforwardly traced pictorially, phonetically, or inferentially through the internal meaning structure of the ideogram itself, e. g. the character for " clock ", which combines the pictogram for " gold " ( or " metal ") with the pictogram for " children ";

However, more characters were needed than could fit in a single 8-bit character encoding, so several mappings were developed, including at least ten suitable for various Latin-derived alphabets.

The irregularities in Gutenberg's type, particularly in simple characters such as the hyphen, suggested that the variations could not have come from either ink smear or from wear and damage on the pieces of metal on the types themselves.

Rawls asks us to imagine ourselves behind a veil of ignorance that denies us all knowledge of our personalities, social statuses, moral characters, wealth, talents and life plans, and then asks what theory of justice we would choose to govern our society when the veil is lifted, if we wanted to do the best that we could for ourselves.

Characters ( five-bit Baudot characters, of course ) could be stored three to a 15-bit word, but this representation is impossible to handle except by library routines.

Colic found that clients ' preferred direction for their lives, as identified during therapeutic conversations, could lessen the distressing content of dreams, while understandings about life — and even characters — from lucid dreams could be invoked in " real " life with marked therapeutic benefits.

Hence, an entire line of program code could express the same idea a small number of characters that other programming languages might easily take 5 to 10 times as many characters to express.

* ( 1940 ) in The Don Flows Home to the Sea by Mikhail Sholokhov, numerous characters contract typhus during the Russian Civil War.

One occasional exception is the television program Law & Order, which sometimes shows the main characters researching at a computer late into the night ( always using Westlaw, due to a contract between Westlaw and the show's producers ).

Using this device, the Fleischer brothers got a contract with Bray Studio in 1919 to produce their own series called Out of the Inkwell, which featured their first characters, the as yet unnamed Koko the Clown, and Fitz the Dog, who would evolve into Bimbo in 1930.

In 1946, Siegel and Shuster, nearing the end of their 10-year contract to produce Superman stories, sued National over rights to the characters.

In 2007, lead paint used by a contract toy manufacturer in China prompted Mattel to issue recalls for nearly a million toys, many of which featured Sesame Street and Nickelodeon characters, including Dora the Explorer.

When Walter Jones ( Zack ), Austin St. John ( Jason ), and Thuy Trang ( Trini ) left the show ( over contract disputes ), their characters stopped making new on-screen or face-to-camera shots before they were written off in the two-part " Power Transfer " episode in which their characters were chosen to attend the World Peace Conference.

However, Disney didn't renew the contract, wishing to use their characters to promote healthier foods.

The most recent soap to include credits for all contract actors in its opening titles was General Hospital after a February 2010 revamp of its opening credits, though during the final years of its " Faces of the Heart " sequence from April 2003 to September 2004, the names of the main characters were shown alongside video headshots of the cast members in the opening title sequence.

* Anna May Wong ( as Shosho ) signs her contract with the characters 黃柳霜, which is actually her real Chinese name Huáng Liǔshuāng.

Cast circa 1997First Row: Cole, Annie, TimSecond Row: Caitlin, Mark, Meg, EddieThird Row: Tiffany, Ricardo, Paula, Ben, Vanessa, Michael, SeanWhen the show first aired, it started with 21 contract characters, of which 7 had left the show during its first year and a half.

Warrior and the WWF engaged in a series of lawsuits and legal actions in 1996 and 1998, where both parties sought a declaration that they owned the characters, Warrior and Ultimate Warrior, under both contract and copyright law.

When Thuy Trang, Austin St. John ( Jason ), and Walter Jones ( Zack ) left the show ( over contract disputes ), their characters stopped making new on-screen or face-to-camera shots before they were written off in the two-part " Power Transfer " episode in which their characters were chosen to attend the World Peace Conference.

In 1990, Jim Henson was in negotiations to sell the company to The Walt Disney Company, but Henson died during the week that he was supposed to sign the contract, and his family decided to have the company keep the rights to the characters.

In 2002, MetLife signed a contract that allowed the company to continue to use the Peanuts cartoon characters in its advertising.

Some time later, Jason, Trini and Zack are chosen to act as ambassadors at a peace conference in Switzerland ( after the actors playing the characters left the show over contract disputes ), and are forced to leave the team.

In October 2009, Valiant sued Jim Shooter for breach of contract, after he accepted a writing contract with Dark Horse's relaunch of the Gold Key characters while still a full time employee of Valiant Entertainment.

Jenkins ' contract with Glidrose gave him a licence to re-use the material in the novel in the event of its rejection, with the proviso that he could not use any of Fleming's characters.

Of the nine new characters introduced in the 1980-1981 season, only Liz garnered a fan following, and was the only one to have her contract renewed.

As a contract artist, Hobbie worked with the Humorous Planning department at American Greetings under art director Rex Connors, who was responsible for launching " blue girl " as the most identifiable of the Hobbie characters.

The contract also allowed him to use popular Marvel characters like Captain America, Wolverine, Doctor Doom and Elektra in Rat-Man stories ; however, copyright problems have since prohibited such use of characters in the Rat-Man world.

Banks was hired as a contract player for the last four episodes of the season, leaving behind no memorable characters or celebrity impersonations.