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Mashable’s Jennimai Nguyen gets her hands on Moment’s telephoto, anamorphic, and fisheye lenses — and puts them to the test while exploring New York City.

Reviews for The Suicide Squad are in, and they are much, much more positive than those for Suicide Squad (2016), which were brutal, to say the least. Critics praised The Suicide Squad for director James Gunn’s re-invention of the “Suicide Squad” concept, as well as its gory action and colorful characters. According to the reviews, these positive elements largely overshadow more awkward storytelling beats and keep the film fresh.

The Suicide Squad is a kind-of-reboot, kind-of-sequel. It keeps some characters from the original film, like Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), but also introduces new villains like Idris Elba’s Bloodsport and John Cena’s Peacemaker, who go on a mission to the country of Corto Maltese in order to destroy a sinister laboratory.

Here’s what critics have to say about The Suicide Squad.

A massive improvement

Mashable, Alison Foreman

Instead of a mixed-and-matched mess of half-bakes ideas, The Suicide Squad presents a unified vision from Gunn that, while not without its flaws, actually delivers the initial concept we were all so excited about in 2016. The premise of high-stakes adventure where the bad guys are forced to be good guys was never Suicide Squad‘s problem, and seeing it done even close to “right” is a thrilling experience.

The Independent, Clarisse Loughrey

Gunn’s distinct and self-assured vision, which he’s said was left untouched and unbothered by studio interference, puts The Suicide Squad alongside the very best of modern comic-book filmmaking.

The Hollywood Reporter, John DeFore

Gunn’s gleefully violent new picture mostly ignores David Ayer’s 2016 dud but isn’t a reboot. Not only does it find the nastily enjoyable vibe that eluded its predecessor, but it also tells a story worth following — while balancing its most appealing character with others whose disposability (they aren’t sent on suicide missions for nothin’) doesn’t prevent them from being good company onscreen.

IndieWire, Dave Ehrlich

While the tone of Gunn’s film isn’t far removed from that of its misbegotten predecessor, this one actually has the chutzpah (and the creative freedom) to make good on Harley Quinn’s whole “we’re bad guys — it’s what we do” routine.

A delightful new squad of characters (and actors)

SlashFilm, Hoai-Tran Bui

Gunn performs the magic trick we’ve seen him do time and time again: he makes us care for these terribly immoral, most likely doomed, characters. (Well, except for Weasel, he can go back to the dumpster from hell that he crawled out from.)…It’s clear that Gunn cares for each of these characters, bringing to The Suicide Squad some of the earnest empathy that he honed in his Guardians movies.

Variety, Owen Gleiberman

As Bloodsport, a mercenary with a complex set of guns that only he can use (and a teenage daughter who hates him), Idris Elba takes a while to come into focus, but he ascends in authority as the movie goes on, his charisma seeping in kill by kill, putdown by putdown. John Cena is perfectly cast as Peacemaker, a square-jawed douche who wears a modified Captain America suit topped by what looks like a toy metal helmet (which Bloodsport, at one point, accurately compares to a toilet).

USA Today, Brian Truitt

Those who adore Rocket Raccoon and Groot from Gunn’s Guardians will get a kick out of Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), a nap-happy young woman who can control rats, and Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian), who has a death wish as well as an inter-dimensional virus that spawns destructive polka dots. Sylvester Stallone also voices the man-eating, scene-stealing King Shark and it’s pretty much as awesome as it sounds.

More than earns its R-rating

Entertainment Weekly, Leah Greenblatt

In last year’s Birds of Prey, Quinn’s homicidal tendencies were a clearly marked but mostly cartoonish add-on. Here, Gunn seems to revel in the squishy viscera of it all, earning his hard-R rating again and again with a kind of casual brutality that treats collateral damage like a bonus, not a bug; why merely kill a man when you can rip him in half sideways, then watch his spinal cord waft in the breeze?

The Independent, Clarisse Loughrey

Where 2016’s Suicide Squad was all posturing, Gunn’s follow-up delivers the goods and never flinches while doing so. The death toll is high and surprisingly indiscriminate. Thanks partially to the presence of King Shark (played by Steve Agee, but voiced by Sylvester Stallone), there are enough torn limbs and blasted brains to ensure that no one ever forgets Gunn’s roots in B-movie style horror.

SlashFilm, Hoai-Tran Bui

The Suicide Squad is brutal in such a way that I started to feel my limits for gross-out violence being tested. To count the number of heads that are exploded or faces that are ripped off would involve sitting here all day, but the deaths in The Suicide Squad are admittedly so absurdly imaginative that you’re never in danger of getting bored.

The Suicide Squad is in theaters and streaming on HBO Max (with the ad-free plan) Aug. 5.

The Williams sisters’ undeniable dominance in women’s tennis is one of the 21st century’s greatest sports stories, and King Richard is the movie that will finally dramatize their rise to the top. King Richard stars Will Smith as Richard Williams, whose dedication to turning his children into tennis legends famously began before they were even born. The trailer references the 78-page plan he wrote to ensure his daughters’ success at the sport and shows his role in the beginning of both Venus and Serena’s astounding careers.

King Richard hits theaters Nov. 19 and will simultaneously debut for a one-month window on HBO Max.

As people, we love a shortcut.

Whether it’s online, or if it’s just another way to get home, we love an easy way to do things faster.

Instead of clicking around with a mouse, you can more effectively use your time on your computer by becoming a power user of keyboard shortcuts. These commands, especially when memorized, can speed up a variety of different tasks and help you work faster,

Not that they’re only useful for working, of course. Keyboard shortcuts help do things as simple as copying and pasting by skipping a few tedious steps in the process.

Mac users, this one’s for you. Here are 30 keyboard shortcuts that will save you time online, as well as increase the quality of life of your Mac experience.

1. Command X

Cut the selected material

2. Command C

Copy the selected material

3. Command V

Paste the selected material

4. Command F

Search a page or document for specific words, phrases, symbols, etc.

5. Command +

Zoom in page by 10 percent

6. Command –

Zoom out page by 10 percent

7. Command Z

Undo the previous action

8. Shift Command Z

Redo the undo

9. Command M

Minimize the current window

10. Option Command M

Minimize all windows

11. Shift Command 4

Open screenshot tool

12. Shift Command 3

Take instant screenshot

13. Shift Command 5

Take a screenshot or start a screen recording (macOS Mojave or later)

14. Shift Command N (in Finder)

Create a new folder

15. Command N (in internet browser)

Open a new window

16. Shift Command N (in internet browser)

Open a new incognito window

17. Command T

Open a new tab

18. Command W

Close current tab

19. Option Command Esc

Force quit an app

20. Command Delete

Move selected item to Trash

21. Shift Command Delete

Empty Trash

22. Command “Mission Control”

Immediately show desktop

23. Option Shift “Volume Up”

Increase volume in shorter portions

24. Option Shift “Volume Down”

Decrease volume in shorter portions

25. Fn “Left Arrow”

Scroll instantly to the top of a page

26. Fn “Right Arrow”

Scroll instantly to the bottom of a page

27. Option Command F5

Show accessibility options

28. Control Command D

Dictionary (shows the definition of a selected word)

29. Command O

Open menu to select a file to open

30. Shift Command ?

Open the “Help” menu

Check out Apple Support for even more Mac keyboard shortcuts.

So you’ve made your TikTok account. What now? Maybe you want to follow some of your friends that are already on the app?

The easiest way to see the content you want to see is by interacting with content you like and following creators who make that content. Maybe you have some people in mind already. That’s great! Now, how do you find them?

There are a couple ways to do this, and in this article we’ll cover everything from simply searching names and usernames, to syncing your contacts and Facebook friends.

Search from the Discover page.

1. Navigate to the Discover page by tapping the magnifying glass icon at the bottom of your screen.

2. Type the name or username of the creator you’re looking for in the search bar.

Let’s say you’re looking for Miley Cyrus. You can sort results by users, videos, sounds, and more.

3. Tap the account you’re looking for, and you’ll be taken to their profile. Done! Tap the Follow button to follow that creator.

Search from your profile page.

1. Instead of tapping “Discover” at the bottom of the screen, tap “Me”.

2. Tap the “Find friends” icon in the top left corner of the screen.

3. Type the name or username of the account you’re looking for in the search bar.

4. Tap the account you’re looking for and you’ll be taken to their profile. Tap the “Follow” button to follow that creator.

Find friends via contacts or Facebook

You can also use the “Find friends” button to find TikTok accounts from your contacts or Facebook friends.

To do so, you’ll have to go into your phone settings and allow TikTok access to your contacts. For Facebook, the app will prompt you to sign in to your Facebook account, displaying a warning that says “This allows the app and website to share information about you” like your Facebook name and profile picture.

Either method involves potentially widening your TikTok network and sharing your account with others. Additionally, you’ll be handing over some of your personal data to TikTok, so before you decide to follow the next steps, make sure this is something you comfortable in doing.

Find friends via contacts

1. Go to your profile page and tap the “Find friends” button in the upper left corner.

2. Under the search bar, tap “Find” next to “Contacts.”

3. You’ll be prompted to open your settings and allow TikTok access to your contacts. Tap “Open settings” and ensure TikTok has access to your contacts.

4. Navigate back to your TikTok app, and you’ll see a list of accounts TikTok was able to find from your contacts.

5. Tap “Follow” on all the accounts you want to connect with.

Find friends via Facebook

1. Go to your profile page and tap the “Find friends” button in the upper left corner.

2. Under the search bar, tap “Find” next to “Facebook friends.”

3. TikTok will prompt you to sign in to your Facebook profile, which will allow TikTok access to information about your Facebook account. Tap “Continue” to see more information and sign in.

4. You should see a page that says “TikTok will receive the following info: your name and profile picture and friends list.”

5. Read the warning at the bottom of the page. It will say: “By continuing, TikTok will receive ongoing access to the information you share and Facebook will recored when TikTok accesses it.”

6. If you want to continue, tap “Continue as [your name].”

7. You’ll see a message that says “Facebook wants to open “TikTok.” Tap “Open.”

8. Tap “Find” next to “Facebook friends” just as you did before.

9. You’ll be prompted to sync your Facebook friends list with your TikTok account to find your friends. Tap “Sync” to continue.

10. Tap “Follow” on all the accounts you want to connect with from your Facebook friends list.

If you want to remove your synced contacts or Facebook friends, go into your privacy settings on TikTok and tap where it says “Sync contacts and Facebook friends” (which, of course, you can also use to sync or re-sync friends and contacts). Then, just tap either “Remove contacts” or “Remove Facebook friends,” which will turn off syncing and remove the data you previously synced with your TikTok account.

Tap “Remove” again when prompted, and you’re done.

You can follow all kinds of accounts on TikTok. Follow celebs and influencers. Follow your friends. Follow your friends who may happen to be celebs and influencers. You can even follow brands, if you must.

The more accounts you follow, the more content you’ll curate in your TikTok space. So get out there and start following.

If you want to post a fun Story, but you don’t want your random Instagram followers seeing it, try posting a Close Friends Story.

The Instagram feature Close Friends allows to you to post stories to a select group of your followers. With Close Friends you can choose to post a Story to all of your followers or to just to that designated group. No one else can see who is on your Close Friends list, but individual users know they are on the list because Close Friends Stories have a green circle around them rather than the usual pink and orange circle.

You can also edit your Close Friends list at anytime.

Here is how to post a close friends story.

How to create a Close Friends Story on Instagram:

1. Open Instagram

2. Navigate to your profile

3. Tap the three black lines in the upper right corner

3. Select “Close Friends”

4. Select “Get Started”

5. Tap “Add” to add people to your close friends

Instagram will suggest people to add to your close friends, but you can also search for users using the search bar.

6. Once you have your Close Friends list, select “Create List” at the bottom of your screen

7. Select “Create Story”

8. Select the photo you want to post on your close friends story

9. Tap the green star icon in the bottom left corner to post your Close Friends Story

Now that you’ve set up your Close Friends list, select a photo or video as usual and instead of tapping on your profile picture in the bottom right corner, tap the green start icon to post only to your Close Friends.

To edit your close friends list navigate to your profile, tap the three black lines, and select “Close Friends.”

To be the greatest of all time is to wield power. And Simone Biles wielded hers wisely and with grace on Tuesday.

The gold medalist and record-breaker showed us all how the GOAT should act when she withdrew from the artistic gymnastics women’s team final to care for her mental health. Her teammates in turn gave the world a master class in how to support a struggling colleague, even when their ailment is invisible.

Biles cheered from the sidelines as Team USA continued on, winning silver. When she explained to her teammates that she was stepping aside, they freaked out, but she encouraged them to “kick some butt, just like we’ve done in training. And just lay it out on the floor,” she told Hoda Kotb of Today. Bars wizard Sunisa Lee responded with a rallying cry: “We can go out there and show the world what we came here to do.” Later, Lee, 18, said the competition was the most pressure she’d ever felt in her life.

While Lee and the others, including Jordan Chiles, who filled in for Biles on short notice, conquered the challenge ahead, Biles hollered, clapped, and delivered chalk to coat her teammates’ hands for a better grip. Being the GOAT means delivering the gold, but also pumping up your team, even if you can’t compete.

Even before the Olympics began, Biles carried the heavy burden of expectation. She stunned at the Rio Olympics in 2016, and in the years since the 24-year-old has become an internet icon, publicly speaking out about being a survivor of sexual assault and supporting Black Lives Matter. She chose to defy those who put her on an untouchable pedestal for the good of her team. If she had carried on, she told reporters she was worried she’d hurt herself, and Team USA’s chances of medaling. Taking charge of her own self care was a selfless act.

“I have to put my pride aside. I have to do it for the team.”

“It’s like fighting all those demons and coming out here. I have to put my pride aside. I have to do it for the team,” Biles said after the competition, according to Reuters.

She added, “It just sucks when you are fighting with your own head. You want to do it for yourself but you’re just too worried about what everybody else is going to say, think, the internet,” said Biles, who’s battled online trolls for years.

Biles said in a press conference she was inspired by Naomi Osaka, the champion tennis player who refused to talk to press at the French Open in May due to mental health concerns. Osaka would go on to light the Olympic torch last week and compete in the Games. Before that, though, Osaka made an important point in an essay in Time: Don’t shame people for taking a mental health break.

Biles’ teammates didn’t, even if some on social media still wrongly chastised her decision.

“You will forever be loved. We can’t thank you enough,” Chiles, 20, commented on an Instagram post from Biles exclaiming how proud and thankful she was of her team. Biles was an inspiration, Chiles said.

Other gymnasts and celebrities also showed their support for Biles later on Tuesday. Aly Raisman, who competed with Biles in Rio, told CNN that even though Biles makes it look easy, gymnastics is tough.

“Even the greatest athletes of all time, they’re not perfect, and they’re human too,” Raisman said.

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Kerri Strug, who famously competed on the vault during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics despite an ankle injury, sent Biles words of encouragement over Twitter, paired with a goat emoji.

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Sharing kind comments on social media with someone taking a mental health break is exactly the right thing to do, as is trying to reframe negative reactions you may have by considering that you don’t know someone’s whole story, mental health professionals told Mashable after Osaka shared more of her experiences.

At a press conference, Biles said there were many factors that led to her decision.

“It’s been really stressful this Olympic Games. I think just as a whole, not having an audience, there are a lot of different variables going into it. It’s been a long week. It’s been a long Olympic process. It’s been a long year,” she said. “I think we’re just a little bit too stressed out, but we should be out here having fun and sometimes that’s not the case.”

The Tokyo Olympics were postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but went forward this month as the world continued to combat a fast-spreading, deadly virus. The majority of Japanese citizens didn’t want the Olympics to take place, but the government and Olympic officials carried on. As the country declared a state of emergency due to a COVID surge in early July, spectators were banned from the Olympic Games.

On top of the COVID cloud surrounding the Games, Biles was the only assault survivor of Larry Nassar who came out publicly to compete in Tokyo. A judge sentenced the former USA Gymnastics national team doctor in 2018 to 175 years in prison on criminal sexual conduct and federal child pornography charges. More than 150 women, including Biles and other gymnasts, have opened up about his abuse. Biles did so in a tweet shortly before Nassar was sentenced, affixing the hashtag #MeToo.

Biles has said she was depressed after talking about her trauma. Once a self-described “happy, giggly, energetic” girl, she felt broken. She went to therapy, and championed mental health treatment.

She made a point to say that when she went to Tokyo, she wouldn’t be representing USA Gymnastics as an organization. Instead, she told the New York Times, she’d be representing the country and women of color.

“I’m going to go out there and represent the USA, represent World Champions Centre, and represent Black and brown girls over the world,” she told the newspaper. After withdrawing from the event, she told reporters she wanted to focus on her wellbeing and that “there’s more to life than just gymnastics.”

Biles made the decision to step aside for mental health reasons, not her coaches. She was using her power to do what was best for her team, for herself, and possibly for others who don’t yet feel strong enough to put their mental health first. Strength can be shown on the sidelines, as much as on the mat, the vault, or the bars. Osaka was her inspiration. Biles may be that for someone else, just as she’s inspired Black girls to participate in a historically white sport.

There are two more events that Biles is eligible to compete in — if she can — later this week. But whether she does or not, she’s already won.

And so has Team USA.

UPDATE: July 27, 2021, 4:37 p.m. PDT This post has been updated to include comments from Olympians Aly Raisman and Kerri Strug.

Whether you’re watching on the NBC app or on cable, there are only so many commercials that play during the Olympics. Most of them feature athletes whose stories of overcoming adversity and achieving greatness get somehow loosely associated with, like, an airline. A consequence of being invested in the Olympics means you see these commercials over and over and over again. And then one more time.

It’s mostly fine, though. I’ll watch American swimmer/nice guy/hottie Ryan Murphy talk about his migraines all day. ALL. DAY. But there is one commercial of the Tokyo Olympics that I cannot abide. And it ends not with a bang, but a knock brush.

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Quite simply, how dare they.

I’m talking about Slack, and the company’s ad, titled “Work in Progress.” It’s a cheery, 30-second spot about the future of work that contains the extremely lucid line “the future is forward movement from the now” and proclaims that the pandemic has been pretty much Great for Work.

By my calculations, it plays approximately 37,000 times per broadcast segment and it’s been sending me screaming from the room to do literally anything else but hear the offensive ad yet again.

Why? It both begins and ends with Slack’s signature sound, the “knock brush.” This is the sound that Slack’s 12 million daily active users hear by default when we receive a message within the work productivity app from our colleagues or bosses or HR reps or whoever else we’d rather not hear from while enjoying sports on our own time.

The Slack CEO has described the sound as one that delivers a “pavlovian response.” He’s right: Notification sounds have the ability to jog our brains to a specific moment or mindset. So hearing the Slack notification immediately triggers that jolt that something at work needs your attention. Just what everyone wants during Olympics-viewing leisure hours!

I’m not the only knowledge worker who’s been affronted by the Slack sound in the ad. Many of us saw the use of the knock brush as exactly what it is: An attack.

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Subjecting Olympics viewers to the knock brush is reason enough to loathe this ad. But the inclusion of the sound is an ironic part of what makes the actual meat of it so annoying.

The Slack ad describes the future of work as “a future that works for all of us.” I suppose that means a remote working culture where you stay in touch via Slack. Some workers value that the pandemic has made flexible work arrangements more commonplace. The flipside is that work has reached its tentacles even further into the home, and is always just a knock-brush away from asking: Could you be working right now?

I think working from home is great. But I also think that participating in Slack is chaotic. The need to be performatively present in Slack saps my energy, like a memory-hogging application running in the background of my brain at all times. In other words, just because you like remote work does not mean you stan Slack.

I am *this* close to having Slack’s ad fully memorized, which is almost as intrusive as the space in my brain that Slack actually occupies. The only thing that makes the repetition of Olympics ads bearable is the ability to gaze upon the peak of human potential (shilling for a brand is fine; get paid Ryan!!!).

Slack said “nah” and decided to go with a quirky monologue reminding viewers that they live to work, and that’s a future to get excited about. Slack, it’s 9 p.m. on a Tuesday. Can I just watch some competitive table tennis, please?

It’s very weird to review a remake. Most of what could be said about a remade game has already been said years ago, and the time that has passed since the original game’s release can have a massive impact on how the game is received in its second wind. For example: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is a high definition remaster of a 2011 Wii game about which much has been said, debated, and lamented, but in the 10 years since its release the Zelda franchise produced one of the most successful console video games of all time.

Though it is unfair to compare The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with its upgraded predecessor, there is enough connective tissue between both games to make the comparison automatic in a way that only enhances the weirdness of reviewing it at all. Should Skyward Sword HD‘s faulty stamina wheel, annoyingly breakable shields, and limited potion system be judged on their own merits? Or does the experience of playing Skyward Sword HD suffer as a whole because players know how much better things got in Breath of the Wild?

And then there’s the lurking question — does Skyward Sword HD even need the comparison to Breath of the Wild to be kind of a disappointment?

To start with the good news, Skyward Sword HD looks great. There’s a new clarity of image that makes the dreamy color scheme pop instead of fading into fogginess, and as a whole the game looks about as sharp as any contemporary with a similar cartoonish style is going to get. However, when it comes to updating a game as initially controversial as the original Skyward Sword, a visual upgrade alone was never going to cut it.

When Skyward Sword came out in 2011, Nintendo staked its baseline playability on the Wii’s motion controls. Those controls were unreliable, frustrating, and unavoidable, and any given player’s enjoyment of the title stemmed from whether or not they could find a way to look past using wobbly Wiimotes that required near-constant recentering. The Nintendo Switch’s Joy-Cons have more sophisticated hardware and are technologically superior to the Wiimotes… but they still suck to play Skyward Sword with.

Does Skyward Sword HD even need the comparison to Breath of the Wild to be kind of a disappointment?

Anyone who had high hopes that the hardware element of Skyward Sword HD on the Switch would fix any of the problems with the motion controls should abandon those hopes now, because the controls remain hopeless. Even though some of the combat moves are satisfyingly intuitive, what with the directional slashing and poking, much of the game requires a finesse that lies beyond the capabilities of the Joy-Cons. Whether it’s constantly holding your arm out and tapping Y to find out what the game interprets as the “center” of your screen or requiring you to sloooowly rotate a Joy-Con to find out exactly which angle will produce the pose for a Skyward Strike, the experience of using the motion controls is too finicky to be any fun.

Thankfully, Skyward Sword HD gives Switch and Switch Lite users the opportunity to play this adventure as it’s never been played before: on handheld like an actual video game. Handheld mode is more enjoyable by an order of magnitude and will likely be most new players’ method of choice, but it’s also not a perfect solution for a number of reasons.

While porting Skyward Sword to handheld is a net gain for the game’s playability, there’s a huge lack of coordination between playing in handheld mode and using the motion controls. For example, I played the first five hours with the motion controls before giving up on them, and from there did almost everything in handheld mode — almost being the operative word.

With the exception of a replayable basic combat tutorial, Skyward Sword HD doesn’t have a mechanic to re-teach players how to navigate when they switch methods of play. This resulted in me realizing I had no idea how to dive and roll on handheld, so in order to perform that move I had to remove my Joy-Cons, wiggle the left one around to roll, and reattach them to continue playing every time Link had to bowl his own body into a tree.

Handheld mode will likely be most new players’ method of choice, but it’s also not a perfect solution.

There are also experiences ranging from spinning underwater to entire boss fights that were clearly designed for motion controls and don’t work as well (or at all) in handheld. Crucial moves like tricking enemies with sword feints and whipping the arms off a giant mechanical homunculus while strafing require a range of wrist movement that’s difficult to replicate with thumbsticks. The overall result is a game that works about 60 percent fine as a motion control title and 85 percent fine as a handheld title, with bizarre and frustrating gaps between those experiences.

In those 60 or 85 percent of moments where the gameplay is going smoothly, Skyward Sword‘s clever puzzle design and wacky story absolutely shine. Sure, this is a Zelda game where flying around on terrifying Lisa Frank pelicans is a core gameplay mechanic and there are three entire boss fights where the point is to hack off a scaly potato kaiju’s ickle toes, but that humor and unpredictability is what makes the fun parts fun.

Skyward Sword‘s puzzles are just noodly enough to make players feel smart when they solve them, and some of their elements, including localized time travel, are so cool they really ought to reappear in a later Zelda title. The level designs are smart and repeatable, and half the joy of getting a new item comes from knowing you can use it to go back to a previous area and unlock something new. The characters are funny and charming, with the exception of one uncomfortably svelte villain whose menace trends way too close to horny. And the plot is…super weird, to be honest, but its thematic implications for the rest of the Zelda games is cool to think about.

The most frustrating thing about The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD remake is that it really does have its merits, just like the original version. It’s unfortunate that the remake didn’t go farther with its quality of life improvements and actually improve the experience of playing the game with motion controls or otherwise. And that is the weirdest thing about reviewing this particular remake. It’s almost impossible to see what’s actually changed.

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Simone Biles showed true strength at the Olympics on Tuesday by admitting that she needed to take a step back from competing for the good of her mental health.

On Tuesday, the 24-year-old Olympic gold medalist left the floor at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre during the artistic gymnastics women’s team final. After having some difficulties on the vault, she later withdrew from the women’s artistic team all-around gymnastics final in Tokyo. Biles spent the rest of the competition on the sidelines cheering on her teammates, who went on to win silver medals in the event.

USA Gymnastics released an initial statement announcing that Biles “withdrew due to a medical issue,” but the Olympic champion has since spoken to press and explained that she didn’t feel she was in the proper headspace to compete and thought it was best for her and her teammates if she sat the rest of the run out.

Biles also elaborated in a celebratory Instagram post shared on Tuesday afternoon.

“OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALISTS 🤍,” Biles wrote alongside a photo of her and her teammates — Jordan Chiles, Grace McCallum, and Sunisa Lee — posing with their silver medals.

“I’m SO proud of these girls right here. You girls are incredibly brave & talented! I’ll forever be inspired by your determination to not give up and to fight through adversity!” Biles continued. “They stepped up when I couldn’t. thanks for being there for me and having my back! forever love y’all.”

In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, Biles said, “At the end of the day, I have to do what was right for me. It just sucks that it happened at the Olympic Games.”

After withdrawing, sharing her truth, and celebrating her teammates, the gymnast received an outpouring of love, support, and respect from fellow athletes and fans around the world.

Team USA’s Sunisa Lee commented on Biles’ Instagram post to share these touching words: “love you so much. thank you for inspiring me every single day. you are not only an amazing gymnast but you are also an amazing person. 💕🤞🏼”

Lee also shared her own sentimental Instagram post and celebrated the team’s resilience. “Beyond proud of this team. in my heart, we are winners. we fought til the end and didn’t give up. tonight may not have gone how we wanted it to but we stepped up to the plate and give it our all. best team i could’ve asked for. #thefighting4,” she wrote alongside a photo of the team with silver medals in hand.

And USA team member Jordan Chiles also chimed in on Biles post to say, “You will forever be loved. We can’t thank you enough. You have such a huge inspiration on all of us. We wouldn’t have done it without you🥺💕 love you mo 🤞🏾❤️ “

In the past 24 hours, according to Facebook, Biles has been the most mentioned athlete in the United States on both Facebook and Instagram. And her Instagram post above received more than 400,000 in its first hour on the platform.

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She also posted on Twitter and shared a simple silver heart, which has received over 300,000 likes.

Biles’ next scheduled competition is on Thursday, but it remains unclear if she will perform.