While the word " bog " denoted nearly all Slavic gods, the word Deva in its cognate Div was used only for the creator god-Rod, the Slavic equivalent of Brahma.

While many game developers, such as Blizzard ( creator of World of Warcraft ), prohibit the practice, it is common that goods and services within virtual economies will be sold on online auction sites and traded for real currencies.

While he reluctantly accepted his demotion, Lowe and series creator Aaron Sorkin soon found themselves at odds over the network's meddling with the show, most notably the network demanding changes in the Sam Seaborn character.

Wiersema places emphasis on structure: “ Interestingly, the creator never creates a position of privilege for himself ; his story is as fictive, and as truthful-feeling, as the “ bigger, impossible story ” of the Connelly siblings, and becomes another strand in the complex and utterly winning tale Lent is spinning .” While Sandborn offers a thematic overview: “ The book works both as a straightforward story of family pain, addiction, love and redemption, and as a highly intelligent meditation on the process of writing itself .”

While some narrate that she emerged from the churning of the cosmic ocean, others describe her as the daughter of the creator god Daksha, and as the wife of the sage Kashyapa.

While writing the episode, series creator J. Michael Straczynski noted the similarities:

While the male lead usually has some sort of hold over his girlfriend ( as " husband ," " fiancé ," provider, contract holder, client, creator, master, or even owner ) the parody of the ideal girlfriend either succeeds in inverting the power balance of relationship or simply reverses roles.

While the Enterprise is docked at Starbase 173 for routine maintenance, cyberneticist Commander Bruce Maddox pays Lieutenant Commander Data a visit, wishing to better understand how Data's creator, Dr. Noonien Soong, was able to overcome certain problems in designing and constructing Data's positronic brain.

While board game expansions are typically designed by the original creator, video game developers sometimes contract out development of the expansion pack to a third-party company, ( see Hellfire for Diablo ), it may choose to develop the expansion itself or it may do both ( Ensemble Studios developed the real-time strategy game Age of Empires III and the first expansion called the WarChiefs itself, but contracted Big Huge Games for the second expansion pack, the Asian Dynasties ).

* While not explicitly mentioned in the episode, the series creator explains that Explorer ships both map unknown regions of space and leave behind jumpgates that they construct.

While the strip was a major success, it was not owned by its creator but by its distributing syndicate, the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News, a common practice with syndicated comics at the time.

While IBM is the creator and primary vendor of RPG, the language is available from other mainframe and microcomputer manufacturers, including Unisys.

While Cameo appearances are a common occurrence in webcomics ; the frequency of cameos for both the character Gav van Darin and Nukees creator Darren ' Gav ' Bleuel ( whose real-life appearance is as striking as that of any comic character ) have become a phenomenon unto themselves, especially among Keenspot webcomics.

While it was started by Loving creator Agnes Nixon, The City was different from other soaps of its day, as the city wasn't the main setting of the series: the loft and its surroundings took precedence, and the city was secondary.

While there are numerous beings that are referred to as " gods " or have claimed divinity, the mysterious entity known as the One-Above-All has been considered to be the creator god of the Marvel Multiverse.

While the object thus affected will, like any Horcrux, preserve the immortality of the creator, it does not become a " Dark object ".

While Pylean society has no concept of music some Pyleans appear to use ritual dance to express deep emotion, as when the character of Numfar ( played by series creator Joss Whedon ) is told by his mother to do " the dance of joy ", " the dance of shame " and " the dance of honor.

While the essay argues that Christianity and evolutionary biology are compatible, a position described as evolutionary creationism or theistic evolution, the phrase is also used by those who consider that " in biology " includes anthropology, and those who consider a creator to be unnecessary, such as Richard Dawkins who published The Selfish Gene just three years later.

* John Mauchly, computer pioneer and creator of the ENIAC: While Professor of Physics at Ursinus from 1933 to 1941, developed and tested digital electronic calculating devices at Ursinus's science labs in Pfahler Hall, a building which still stands on campus ( see Gallery, below )

While the program's attention to issues of drug addiction won its creator an award, the portrayal of Arab-Muslim cultures within the program has brought a critical response from different Arab-Muslim sources, according to a 2005 doctoral dissertation written about the program by Elizabeth Barbosa.

The judge in the case disagreed, saying "... in response to the comic book authors ’ request for a preliminary injunction, Judge Martin found that “ While there are substantial differences between the comic books and the television series, a trier of fact could find that it is misleading to represent Chris Carter as the creator of ‘ Harsh Realm ’ without giving adequate recognition to the role and Paquette played in its creation .”

While the resulting movies are heavily influenced by the game's creator, the actions of the players are unscripted.

While working as an administrator of a Siberian labor camp, he commissioned the imprisoned scientists at the camp to build a suit of armor using the lab of Anton Vanko, the creator of the original Crimson Dynamo armor.

While creator Merian C. Cooper envisioned Kong as being " 40 to 50 feet tall ", animator Willis O ' Brien and his crew built the models and sets scaling Kong to be only 18 feet tall on Skull Island, and rescaled to be 24 feet tall in New York.

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

While Bullet-Proof Software retained the rights to the original Super NES game, Nintendo licensed the Mario characters and allowed the developer to use the Yoshi's Cookie branding.

While the game may be played with the standard digital NES control pad, optimum gameplay is achieved with the Vaus Controller.

While the majority of Technōs Japan's console games were still licensed to other companies such as Tradewest ( Double Dragon ), Acclaim ( Double Dragon II and III ), CSG Imagesoft ( Super Dodge Ball ) and even Nintendo ( Super Spike V ' Ball and Nintendo World Cup ), American Technōs also managed to published a few console games: namely River City Ransom and Crash ' n the Boys: Street Challenge for the NES, Super Double Dragon ( co-published with Tradewest ) and Combatribes for the Super NES and Geom Cube for the PlayStation.

While the gameplay remains identical, the Famicom cartridge contains a custom-made Multi-Memory Controller that Konami produced called the VRC2 ( as opposed to the UNROM chip used by the NES version ), which allowed for additional graphical effects not featured in its American counterpart.

While some praised the game's use of the Nintendo GameCube's internal clock and calendar and its inclusion of hidden NES games, others criticized its audio and visuals.

" While with Software Creations, Follin had previously arranged the Starsky & Hutch television series ' theme as the title music to the 1991 NES release Treasure Master.

While a normal controller has a range of 3 feet, the NES Satellite expanded the usable range to 15 feet.

While Nintendo still holds various related trademarks, NES hardware clones are no longer necessarily illegal on the basis of patent infringement.

While the old-style Famiclones continue to be found, the newly legitimized market has seen several clones that openly advertise support for original Famicom or NES games ( or sometimes both ), a feature not usually publicized by previous clones, which were often marketed as cheap gifts rather than Famicom-compatible systems.

While most Famiclones will run most original licensed Nintendo software and work with most original carts ( being even more versatile than an original NES because of the lack of regional lockout chips and sometimes having a dual 60-pin and 72-pin cartridge compatibility ), the degree of hardware compatibility with original NES accessories and miscellaneous hardware equipment may vary, and even software level compatibility isn't always perfect.

While the graphics are more accurately reproduced compared to the previous console ports for 16-bit platforms such as the Super NES, some of the backgrounds don't scroll like they do in the arcade version, the score system when performing combos is not accurately reproduced, and the order of opponents in the 1-player mode is a bit different as well.

While numerous manufacturers managed to override this chip by zapping it with a voltage spike, Tengen engineers feared this could potentially damage NES consoles and expose them to unnecessary liability.

While Super Castlevania IV features the same plot and premise of the first Castlevania on the NES, it also has eleven new stages ( five taking place outside of Dracula's castle ), expanded play control, 16-bit graphics featuring SNES Mode 7, and a soundtrack featuring brand new pieces and remixes based on previous Castlevania music.

While most companies that developed NES games obtained an official license from Nintendo to produce game cartridges, Color Dreams was unusual in that it developed NES games without an official license.

While Itchy and Scratchy appeared in a hilarious cameo on the Super NES cartridge Bart's Nightmare, here they duke it out in an interminable, multistage whackfest.

* While the Game Boy version kept the same title as the NES version's in the US, the game was released in Japan on March 26, 1993 under the name and later in North America.

While the Master System version is similar in graphics to the NES version, the gameplay is closer to the remaining versions.

While Ryu cannot stick to or climb walls like in the NES games, he can hang onto railings and move underneath them like in Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom, and use both his sword attack and the Fire Wheel art while hanging onto railings.

While the gameplay is ostensibly unchanged, the lack of support for analog control in the NES version renders it a digital-control-only game that requires almost completely different tactics.