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Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
How to edit character name in Persona 5 The Phantom X
(Image via Sega) Crafting a unique identity in Persona 5: The Phantom X is a thrilling part. While the game's story comes with the developer-set default name, you are not stuck with it, during all the adventures. Players can initially choose a name that gets displayed in their profile and online. Here is how you can change character name Persona 5 X, and make your digital persona to your liking. How to rename character in Persona 5 The Phantom X? To alter the chosen name within P5X is a straightforward process, but only if you know the process. Its access is conveniently within the in-game smartphone interface. To do so, just navigate to the profile section. Prominently displayed on the device, you can find it with ease. How to change name in Persona 5 The Phantom X Look for a subtle 3-dot menu icon that is positioned near your current name and your Avatar. Selecting this icon would reveal a crucial Change Name option. Confirm the new choice for instantly updating Persona 5 online identity across the social features of the game. Make smart choices when changing names in Persona 5 The Phantom X The default name offered in the game is Nagisa Kamisiro, the protagonist's canon name, which has been established by the developers. The first name change in the game is free. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Protecting Our Oceans Scmp Read Now Undo It offers you flexibility if your initial pick does not feel right. However, all subsequent alterations made to the name cost 200 Meta Crystals every time. As the crystals are used for gacha pulls, make sure to carefully use them before you spend them on the name swap. Note: The Meta Crystals Persona 5 X are the premium currency in-game. The chosen name would appear in all online interactions. So, make sure to pick something you will not regret later on. However, if you do not feel like changing, do not worry at all, as the name Nagisa Kamisiro remains lore-accurate, and many users play with the same name. The voiced dialogue will consistently use Wonder as your name. So, the name you choose—change or carry forward the one set by the developer, will just appear in the online transactions or text. Choosing a unique name helps you stand out in the friend list and global chat. Think about the longevity when making free name change Persona 5 and avoid any future costly changes. Your name is your digital calling card within the expanded world of Phantom Thieves. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
How to switch Personas mid-fight in Persona 5 The Phantom X
(Image via Sega) In Persona 5: The Phantom X, Wonder character possesses the Wild Card ability to switch Personas in the middle of the fight. It's a game-changing power that helps him wield multiple personas, not letting him be locked in just one at the time of combat. To master mid-battle persona shift between powerful entities, mid-battle is key to exploiting enemy weaknesses and controlling tough fight flow. While this mechanic unlocks quite early, here is how you can get this vital tactical advantage and make the best use of it. How to switch Personas shift in Persona 5 The Phantom X ? Before you can switch Personas, you need to unlock the Personas first. It can be done in three ways, including gacha pulls, fusion, and defeating them in combat. Once you have it, switching Wonder's Personas is essential and a seamless process. When his turn starts in combat, just locate the 'Persona' action button. Selecting it will reveal Wonder's current equipped Persona and skills. Right next to the name of the active Persona is a distinct blue circular icon. Click the blue icon, and it will open an immediate arsenal, all Personas Wonder has equipped with and is ready to battle with. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like She Was Everyone's Dream Girl In 90's, This Is Her Recently. Investructor Undo Select a new Persona you want to summon. The switch would happen instantly. The stats and elemental affinities of Wonder will update immediately, matching his new spiritual ally. The best part of switching Personas is that no resources are consumed. This means you can freely switch between turns without penalty. Such flexibility allows for quicker adjustment, whether you plan to change elemental affinities, counter attack patterns of an opponent, or access stronger skills. How to optimize Wonder's Persona loadout ? Before you jump in battle, make sure Wonder has a diverse Personas set equipped. As he could hold up to 3 by level 30, ensure to balance choices between defensive, offensive, and support abilities. Recruit or fuse new personas that cover varied elements for handling varied enemy types. BEST CHARACTERS, PERSONAS & LEVELLING TIPS! BEGINNERS GUIDE TO PERSONA 5 THE PHANTOM X IN 2025 - P5X Switching mid-fight isn't just about Wonder's offense; defensive shifts are important, too. In case the enemy is about to unleash the fire attack, swap to a fire-resistant Persona would mitigate damage. Just remain a step ahead, predicting enemy moves and making all adjustments accordingly. Timing is an important key when switching Personas. So, experiment with varied combinations and see what is working best. As this ability of Wonder is his strength, mastering switching can turn him into an unstoppable force within Persona 5: The Phantom X. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
How the Old Masters painted animals: dragonfly wings and butterfly dust
The National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum have been next-door neighbors in Washington, DC for nearly 90 years—but until now, they've never shared so much as a cup of coffee across the fence. That all changes this summer, as the two institutions collaborate to create a cross-pollinated art and natural science exhibition featuring selections from the art gallery's centuries-old paintings of birds, bugs, and exotic critters … along with actual examples of those creatures drawn from the Smithsonian's enormous collection of animal artifacts. The exhibit, called 'Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World,' focuses on a period beginning in the 1500s when artists in Northern Europe—inspired largely by strange specimens that had found their way to Antwerp, Belgium, aboard merchant sailing ships—were creating exquisitely detailed, and unprecedentedly accurate, images of creatures from the smallest insects to the largest mammals. One display case features the Smithsonian's own specimen of a Central American elephant beetle, the size of a baby's fist but armored and horned in a most terrifying (if harmless) manner. Next to it is mounted Flemish painter Jacob Hoefnagel's 1592 painting of the same species, meticulously rendered with brushes that at times consisted of a single hair bristle. Nearby is 17th-century Czech artist Wencenslaus Hollar's etching of a Tasmanian vasum ceramicum shell, impossibly spindly and surreally suspended in midair, joined by a spectacular real-life specimen from the Smithsonian's vast shell collection. And there is Hoefnagel's life-sized painting of a Southern Hawker dragonfly, highlighted with gold paint, seemingly ready to fly off its parchment page—accompanied by a real dragonfly, temporarily freed from its drawer in the Smithsonian's climate-controlled archives. (Recent studies have revealed that Hoefnagel, obsessed with accuracy, sometimes fastened actual dragonfly wings to his paintings.) These and the rest of the exhibition's works embrace a historic moment when artists—many wielding magnifying glasses—became obsessed with capturing nature in all its detail. Throughout three exhibition halls, the juxtaposition of art and artifacts reveals the astonishing amount of research and detail represented in each work. (A rare look inside the Smithsonian's secret storerooms) While it holds a prestigious spot on the National Mall, the National Gallery is not part of the Smithsonian—and the collaboration is novel for both institutions. 'We came up with the idea for this during the pandemic,' says Alexandra Libby, a curator of Northern Paintings for the museum. 'We started trading e-mails, hoping to get the Smithsonian people excited about it, explaining that these are not just pretty pictures of butterflies, but evidence that there was a real scientific level of engagement during this period. 'They were engaged from the start. They said, 'This is amazing!'' Moving from gallery to gallery, a visitor to this joint venture exhibition walks through a period when artists took the lead in creating the concept of natural history, says Brooks Rich, a curator of Old Master art at the National Gallery. 'The flourishing of interest in nature in its most minute detail that we see here really provided the foundation for the entire discipline,' he says. That breakthrough is crystalized in a display case positioned at the center of the exhibition's first room: Four diary-sized books, bound in leather, illustrated by the artist Hoefnagel. Entitled Aier, Aqua, Ignis and Terra (Air, Water, Fire, and Earth), the books contain, on fine parchment paper, 270 hand-painted images of creatures ranging from house flies to elephants with a level of detail that rivals anything a 4K TV screen will reproduce today. 'Prior to Hoefnagel, most people dismissed insects as vermin,' says Stacy Sell, the museum's curator of Northern Book Painting. 'But he undertook a sustained study of them, looking at every minute detail, and saw how beautiful they were. 'Finally, he said, 'You know, watercolor just isn't going to cut it.' So, he developed all kinds of innovative techniques to create a level of detail no one had attempted before. 'I mean, he actually painted with butterfly dust. That's pretty amazing.' (How to plan a walking tour of the best museums in D.C.) So delicate are the images in the four books, the museum almost never has them on display. In the course of the exhibition—May through November 2—the pages will be turned just three times. Perhaps the most glorious art work in the exhibition is the epic 'Noah's Family Assembling the Animals Before the Ark,' painted around 1660 by the Flemish artist Jan van Kessell the Elder. The Noahs—dressed in their Flemish finest—herd a zoofull of animals across a distinctively Northern European landscape toward a distant, barely-visible boat. Camels, turtles, monkeys, ostriches—even North American turkeys—ramble across the frame. But it's the sky that commands our attention: A riot of birds, two-by-two, winging their way to safety. 'It was such a joy to work with the Natural History Museum managers as they identified all the birds in this painting,' says Libby. 'They studied it to see what the artist got right, and why they might have gotten some things wrong.' For example, at the painting's extreme upper right, a pair of Paradisaea apoda—Greater Birds of Paradise, from New Guinea—streak into the image like plumed missiles. Besides their glorious color, their most distinctive feature is the fact that they have no legs. 'These birds were prized for their feathers, for women's hats,' says Libby. 'By the time those dead birds arrived in Europe, their legs were gone.' For a painter obsessed with getting everything just right, only one solution could satisfy both art and science: Rather than get the legs wrong, van Kessell simply left them out. (How do you find a 'lost' masterpiece?)
National Geographic
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- National Geographic
How the Old Masters painted animals: dragonfly wings and butterfly dust
A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history. Jan van Kessel the Elder. Noah's Family Assembling Animals Before the Ark, c. 1660 oil on panel. Photograph courtesy of The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland The National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum have been next-door neighbors in Washington, DC for nearly 90 years—but until now, they've never shared so much as a cup of coffee across the fence. That all changes this summer, as the two institutions collaborate to create a cross-pollinated art and natural science exhibition featuring selections from the art gallery's centuries-old paintings of birds, bugs, and exotic critters … along with actual examples of those creatures drawn from the Smithsonian's enormous collection of animal artifacts. The exhibit, called 'Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World,' focuses on a period beginning in the 1500s when artists in Northern Europe—inspired largely by strange specimens that had found their way to Antwerp, Belgium, aboard merchant sailing ships—were creating exquisitely detailed, and unprecedentedly accurate, images of creatures from the smallest insects to the largest mammals. One display case features the Smithsonian's own specimen of a Central American elephant beetle, the size of a baby's fist but armored and horned in a most terrifying (if harmless) manner. Next to it is mounted Flemish painter Jacob Hoefnagel's 1592 painting of the same species, meticulously rendered with brushes that at times consisted of a single hair bristle. An insect tableau created for the National Gallery of Art exhibition Little Beasts by the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History with specimens from the collection. Photograph by James Di Loreto, Smithsonian Institution Jan van Kessel the Elder. Insects and a Sprig of Rosemary, 1653 oil on copper. Photograph courtesy of National Gallery of Art, The Richard C. Von Hess Foundation, Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund, Barry D. Friedman, and Friends of Dutch Art Nearby is 17th-century Czech artist Wencenslaus Hollar's etching of a Tasmanian vasum ceramicum shell, impossibly spindly and surreally suspended in midair, joined by a spectacular real-life specimen from the Smithsonian's vast shell collection. And there is Hoefnagel's life-sized painting of a Southern Hawker dragonfly, highlighted with gold paint, seemingly ready to fly off its parchment page—accompanied by a real dragonfly, temporarily freed from its drawer in the Smithsonian's climate-controlled archives. (Recent studies have revealed that Hoefnagel, obsessed with accuracy, sometimes fastened actual dragonfly wings to his paintings.) From scuba diving to set-jetting These and the rest of the exhibition's works embrace a historic moment when artists—many wielding magnifying glasses—became obsessed with capturing nature in all its detail. Throughout three exhibition halls, the juxtaposition of art and artifacts reveals the astonishing amount of research and detail represented in each work. (A rare look inside the Smithsonian's secret storerooms) Jacob Hoefnagel. Part 1, Plate 1, from the series Archetypa studiaque (Archetypes and Studies), 1592 Photograph courtesy of National Museum of Natural History, Rosenwald Collection An Elephant Beetle (Megasoma e. elephas) from the Department of Entomology collections at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Photograph by James Di Loreto and Phillip R. Lee, Smithsonian Institution While it holds a prestigious spot on the National Mall, the National Gallery is not part of the Smithsonian—and the collaboration is novel for both institutions. 'We came up with the idea for this during the pandemic,' says Alexandra Libby, a curator of Northern Paintings for the museum. 'We started trading e-mails, hoping to get the Smithsonian people excited about it, explaining that these are not just pretty pictures of butterflies, but evidence that there was a real scientific level of engagement during this period. 'They were engaged from the start. They said, 'This is amazing!'' Moving from gallery to gallery, a visitor to this joint venture exhibition walks through a period when artists took the lead in creating the concept of natural history, says Brooks Rich, a curator of Old Master art at the National Gallery. 'The flourishing of interest in nature in its most minute detail that we see here really provided the foundation for the entire discipline,' he says. That breakthrough is crystalized in a display case positioned at the center of the exhibition's first room: Four diary-sized books, bound in leather, illustrated by the artist Hoefnagel. Entitled Aier, Aqua, Ignis and Terra (Air, Water, Fire, and Earth), the books contain, on fine parchment paper, 270 hand-painted images of creatures ranging from house flies to elephants with a level of detail that rivals anything a 4K TV screen will reproduce today. Collection of animal skeleton etchings on laid paper by Teodoro Filippo di Liagno Photograph by Rob Shelley, National Gallery of Art 'Prior to Hoefnagel, most people dismissed insects as vermin,' says Stacy Sell, the museum's curator of Northern Book Painting. 'But he undertook a sustained study of them, looking at every minute detail, and saw how beautiful they were. 'Finally, he said, 'You know, watercolor just isn't going to cut it.' So, he developed all kinds of innovative techniques to create a level of detail no one had attempted before. 'I mean, he actually painted with butterfly dust. That's pretty amazing.' (How to plan a walking tour of the best museums in D.C.) So delicate are the images in the four books, the museum almost never has them on display. In the course of the exhibition—May through November 2—the pages will be turned just three times. Perhaps the most glorious art work in the exhibition is the epic 'Noah's Family Assembling the Animals Before the Ark,' painted around 1660 by the Flemish artist Jan van Kessell the Elder. The Noahs—dressed in their Flemish finest—herd a zoofull of animals across a distinctively Northern European landscape toward a distant, barely-visible boat. Camels, turtles, monkeys, ostriches—even North American turkeys—ramble across the frame. But it's the sky that commands our attention: A riot of birds, two-by-two, winging their way to safety. 'It was such a joy to work with the Natural History Museum managers as they identified all the birds in this painting,' says Libby. 'They studied it to see what the artist got right, and why they might have gotten some things wrong.' For example, at the painting's extreme upper right, a pair of Paradisaea apoda—Greater Birds of Paradise, from New Guinea—streak into the image like plumed missiles. Besides their glorious color, their most distinctive feature is the fact that they have no legs. 'These birds were prized for their feathers, for women's hats,' says Libby. 'By the time those dead birds arrived in Europe, their legs were gone.' For a painter obsessed with getting everything just right, only one solution could satisfy both art and science: Rather than get the legs wrong, van Kessell simply left them out. (How do you find a 'lost' masterpiece?)
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Wonder to power omnichannel payments for Octopus Cards
Paytech company Wonder has become the omnichannel payment facilitator for Octopus Cards in Hong Kong. The move aims to enhance both offline and online payment capabilities for merchants using Wonder's payment infrastructure. The collaboration enables merchants to add Octopus to their payment options alongside more than thirty other methods through Wonder's know your customer (KYC) process. Settlements to merchants will be conducted directly via Wonder's platform, aiming to simplify financial operations for businesses across different sectors. Wonder founder and CEO Jason Ngan said: 'Becoming Octopus' first payment facilitator in Hong Kong marks a major milestone for Wonder and reflects our shared commitment to driving payment innovation and digital transformation across the city. 'Since our strategic partnership began in early 2025, we have seen strong adoption momentum, and we look forward to working closely with Octopus to further expand acceptance and bring smarter, faster, and more effortless payment experiences to businesses and consumers in Hong Kong.' Octopus CEO Tim Ying said: 'Our collaboration with Wonder will enhance our customers' payment experience across Octopus' extensive network of over 190,000 physical acceptance points and our growing online presence. Working closely with all ecosystem partners, our goal is to ensure every interaction between buyers and sellers is seamless, convenient, and secure.' Octopus Cards, which operates under the Stored Value Facilities Licence, has been providing payment solutions since its inception in 1997. The Octopus system is a contactless smartcard payment method in Hong Kong. Wonder, a fintech and payments platform catering to the Hong Kong and Asia Pacific markets, facilitates digital financial transactions for merchants as a digital omni-channel payments system. It enables them to complete digital KYC onboarding, account opening, payment processing, and transaction management from a single integrated platform. "Wonder to power omnichannel payments for Octopus Cards " was originally created and published by Electronic Payments International, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Sign in to access your portfolio
