1. Poker Night At The Inventory
2. Wiki Tycho

Poker NIght at the Inventory is a poker game series developed and published by Telltale Games. For more information check out the Poker Night at the Inventory wikipedia page. Poker Night at the Inventory (2010) Edit Poker Night at the Inventory features Tycho from the Penny Arcade webcomic, Max from the Sam & Max series, the Heavy from Team Fortress 2, and Strong Bad from the Homestar Runner.

Poker Night 2 is a pokervideo game developed by Telltale Games.^[1] It is the sequel to Poker Night at the Inventory and, like its predecessor, features crossover characters from different franchises. The game was released for Steam, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in April 2013, with an iOS version released the following month.^[2][3][4] Due to expiring licenses, the game was pulled from sale in September 2018.^[5]

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Gameplay[edit]

Like the original game, Poker Night 2 is a computer-based poker simulation between an unseen participant (the player) and four characters. Each player starts with the same amount of virtual money, and competes in standard poker rules to try to eliminate all the other players by exhausting their money. In addition to Texas hold 'em style of play, Poker Night 2 includes Omaha hold 'em as well.

The four additional characters in addition to the player are Sam from the Sam & Max franchise (voiced by David Nowlin), who is assisted by Max (voiced by David Boat), Brock Samson from The Venture Bros. (voiced by Patrick Warburton), Ash Williams from The Evil Dead franchise (voiced by Danny Webber), and Claptrap from the Borderlands series (voiced by David Eddings). GLaDOS (voiced by Ellen McLain) from the Portal series takes a supporting role as the dealer. During the hands, these characters provide humorous chatter between each other and towards the player. Reginald Van Winslow (voiced by Roger L. Jackson) from Tales of Monkey Island reprises his role as the host.^[1][6][7] Additional brief cameos include Steve the Bandit and Mad Moxxi from Borderlands, Doug and a Save-Lot Bandit from The Walking Dead, and a waiter from Gravity Bone.

The game features unlockable in-game card, chip and table designs, as well as 'Bounty Unlocks' for completing certain goals, which unlock Borderlands 2 content and, depending on the platform played, Team Fortress 2 items on Steam, Xbox Avatar items, or PlayStation 3 themes.^[6][8] Simultaneously using chips, cards, and tables sharing the same theme alters the design of the Inventory, opening up new conversation possibilities. Players can also buy the other characters drinks in order to more easily expose their tells.

Development[edit]

The first Poker Night game was developed by Telltale during a lull in their release schedule, and proved to be successful; Steve Allison, vice president of publishing at Telltale, believed it was the relationship between Telltale and the Valve that contributed to the success of the game, luring players with Team Fortress 2 items for performing well in the game.^[9] As completion of The Walking Dead neared, Telltale found themselves in another lull, and returned to the Poker Night concept as a way to fill the gap.^[9]

Character selection was more direct than the first game, with Telltale wanting to bring in characters from movies and television. Allison had a good relationship with MGM Studios who were eager to offer characters, and was able to secure the character of Ash from Evil Dead, which also was timed well against the release of the 2013 remake.^[9] Similarly, Allison stated that Cartoon Network readily agreed to the inclusion of Brock from Venture Bros., one of the Telltale team's first selections.^[9]Gearbox Software, the creators of Borderlands, appreciated the first game, and allowed the Claptrap character to be used.^[9] The final spot at the table was to be left open for a character from a Telltale game, eventually resulting in Sam. They had considered using either Marty or Doc Brown from the Back to the Future game but realized that they would not be appropriate in a game with mature spoken content. Similarly, characters from The Walking Dead series would not be a thematic fit for the poker title, as it would make people emotional about the game.^[9] To help make the play more personable, they needed to have a dealer for the table, and GLaDOS was considered an obvious fit.^[9]

Marketing[edit]

Telltale started a website called The Key Party in 2013 in order to promote the game, with a new keychain related to the game characters revealed every working day from March 25 until April 1, when the game was officially revealed.^[1]

Reception[edit]

Anthony Gallegos from IGN gave the game a 7.5 out of 10.^[10]

Poker Night At The Inventory

References[edit]

Wiki Tycho

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5. ^'Why is Poker Night 2 no longer available?'. Telltale Games. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
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Tycho (/ˈtaɪkoʊ/) is a prominent lunarimpact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601).^[1] It is estimated to be 108 million years old.^[2]

To the south of Tycho is the crater Street, to the east is Pictet, and to the north-northeast is Sasserides. The surface around Tycho is replete with craters of various sizes, many overlapping still older craters. Some of the smaller craters are secondary craters formed from larger chunks of ejecta from Tycho.It is one of the Moon's brightest craters,^[2] with a diameter of 85 km (53 mi) and a depth of 4,800 m (15,700 ft).^[3]

Age and description[edit]

Tycho is a relatively young crater, with an estimated age of 108 million years (Ma), based on analysis of samples of the crater ray recovered during the Apollo 17 mission.^[2] This age initially suggested that the impactor may have been a member of the Baptistina family of asteroids, but as the composition of the impactor is unknown this remained conjecture.^[4] However, this possibility was ruled out by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer in 2011, as it was discovered that the Baptistina family was produced much later than expected, having formed approximately 80 million years ago.^[5]

The crater is sharply defined, unlike older craters that have been degraded by subsequent impacts. The interior has a high albedo that is prominent when the Sun is overhead, and the crater is surrounded by a distinctive ray system forming long spokes that reach as long as 1,500 kilometers. Sections of these rays can be observed even when Tycho is illuminated only by earthlight. Due to its prominent rays, Tycho is mapped as part of the Copernican System.^[6]

The ramparts beyond the rim have a lower albedo than the interior for a distance of over a hundred kilometers, and are free of the ray markings that lie beyond. This darker rim may have been formed from minerals excavated during the impact.

Its inner wall is slumped and terraced, sloping down to a rough but nearly flat floor exhibiting small, knobby domes. The floor displays signs of past volcanism, most likely from rock melt caused by the impact. Detailed photographs of the floor show that it is covered in a criss-crossing array of cracks and small hills. The central peaks rise 1,600 meters (5,200 ft) above the floor, and a lesser peak stands just to the northeast of the primary massif.

Infrared observations of the lunar surface during an eclipse have demonstrated that Tycho cools at a slower rate than other parts of the surface, making the crater a 'hot spot'. This effect is caused by the difference in materials that cover the crater.

The rim of this crater was chosen as the target of the Surveyor 7 mission. The robotic spacecraft safely touched down north of the crater in January 1968. The craft performed chemical measurements of the surface, finding a composition different from the maria. From this, one of the main components of the highlands was theorized to be anorthosite, an aluminium-rich mineral. The crater was also imaged in great detail by Lunar Orbiter 5.

From the 1950s through the 1990s, NASA aerodynamicist Dean Chapman and others advanced the lunar origin theory of tektites. Chapman used complex orbital computer models and extensive wind tunnel tests to support the theory that the so-called Australasian tektites originated from the Rosse ejecta ray of Tycho. Until the Rosse ray is sampled, a lunar origin for these tektites cannot be ruled out.

This crater was drawn on lunar maps as early as 1645, when Antonius Maria Schyrleus de Rheita depicted the bright ray system.

Names[edit]

Tycho is named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.^[1] Like many of the craters on the Moon's near side, it was given its name by the Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized.^[7][8] Earlier lunar cartographers had given the feature different names. Pierre Gassendi named it Umbilicus Lunaris ('the navel of the Moon').^[9]Michael van Langren's 1645 map calls it 'Vladislai IV' after Władysław IV Vasa, King of Poland.^[10][11] And Johannes Hevelius named it 'Mons Sinai' after Mount Sinai.^[12]

Satellite craters[edit]

By convention, these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Tycho.

Fictional references[edit]

There is a chapter entitled 'Tycho' in Jules Verne's Around the Moon (Autour de la Lune, 1870) which describes the crater and its ray system.

Tycho was the location of the Tycho Magnetic Anomaly (TMA-1), and subsequent excavation of an alien monolith, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the seminal science-fiction film by Stanley Kubrick and book by Arthur C. Clarke.

It also serves as the location of 'Tycho City' in Star Trek: First Contact; a lunar metropolis by the 24th century.

In the film Can't Buy Me Love, Cindy notices Tycho while looking through a telescope on her final 'contractual' date with Ronny in the Airplane Graveyard.

In Robert A. Heinlein's book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Tycho is the location of the lunar habitat 'Tycho Under'.

In Jack Williamson's novel Terraforming Earth, the crater is utilized for 'Tycho Base', a self-sustaining, robot-controlled installation aimed at restoring life to the (dead) planet Earth after an asteroid sterilizes the biosphere.

In Heinlein's short story 'Blowups Happen', a character hypothesizes that Tycho may have been the location of a sentient race's main atomic power plant, in a past time when the Moon was still habitable—and that the plant exploded, causing the craters, the rays spreading from Tycho, and the death of all life on the Moon.

Clifford Simak set a novelette The Trouble with Tycho, at the lunar crater. He also postulated that the crater's rays were composed of volcanic glass (tektites) akin to a theory postulated by NASA researchers Dean Chapman and John O'Keefe in the 1970s.

Crater Tycho figures prominently in the Matthew Looney and Maria Looney series of children's books set on the Moon, authored by Jerome Beatty.

In Roger Macbride Allen's Hunted Earth series of novels, the Naked Purples own a former penal colony in or around Tycho crater known as 'Tycho Purple Penal' (see The Ring of Charon).

In The Expanse (novel series) and The Expanse (TV series) 'Tycho' is the name of a company known for its large-scale building projects all around the solar system. The company has their own space station named 'Tycho Station'.

Gallery[edit]

• March 2007 lunar eclipse. The advancing shadow of Earth brings out detail on the lunar surface. The huge ray system emanating from Tycho is shown as the dominant feature on the southern hemisphere.

• Central peak complex of crater Tycho, taken at sunrise by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011.

• Lunar Orbiter 4 image from 1967

• Lunar Orbiter 5 image of the northeastern crater floor, showing irregular surface of cracked impact melt. Illumination is from lower right.

• Tycho was not photographed up-close during the Apollo program, but Apollo 15 captured this distant oblique view.

See also[edit]

• 1677 Tycho Brahe, minor planet
• Tycho's Nova, bright supernova

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Tycho (lunar crater)'. Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program., accessed 19 February 2019
2. ^ ^abc'The Floor of Tycho Crater'. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA. 3 August 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
3. ^Wood, Charles A. (2006-08-01). 'Tycho: The Metropolitan Crater of the Moon - Sky & Telescope'. Skyandtelescope.com. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
4. ^'Breakup event in the main asteroid belt likely caused dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago'. Physorg. September 5, 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
5. ^Plotner, Tammy (2015-12-24). 'Did Asteroid Baptistina Kill the Dinosaurs? Think Other WISE'. Universe Today.
6. ^The geologic history of the Moon, 1987, Wilhelms, Don E.; with sections by McCauley, John F.; Trask, Newell J. USGS Professional Paper: 1348. Plate 11: Copernican System (online)
7. ^Whitaker 2003, pp. 61.
8. ^Riccioli map of the Moon (1651)
9. ^Whitaker 2003, pp. 33.
10. ^Whitaker 2003, pp. 198.
11. ^Langrenus map of the Moon (1645)
12. ^Hevelius map of the Moon (1647)

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External links[edit]

• Video by Seán Doran of sunset on Tycho, based on LRO data (see album for more)