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In the vast stream of content marketing, color helps you stand out when used properly in your visual content.
Color is a cue that grabs your audience's attention. The use of colors helps you make them see what you want them to see and invoke the emotions you want them to feel, and ultimately to persuade them to give your product or service a try. Color also plays an important part if your content is appealing or not.
Color can influence and affect the message you want to send.If you have a great material content that has overwhelming information, but you have poor color choices, expect that your CTA ( call to action) will be ignored.
The psychology of color as it relates to persuasion is one of the most interesting and most controversial - aspects of marketing.
The reason for this belief of practice is that, most of today's business conversations about colors and persuasion are made up of hunches, anecdotal evidence and advertisers blowing smoke about : colors that affect the decision-making process, most particularly, a buyer's decision to buy product or contract a service.
A great understanding how colors works isn't just for artists putting together colors and mix and matching until they get visual satisfaction.. anybody using content marketing in their brand visibility needs to have a deeper understanding about the basics of color theory.
Since the first day of school we have been taught about the primary colors that exist. They are, Red,Blue and Yellow. We refer to these colors as stand alone.Without them all other colors cannot exist. Their combined assets create the secondary colors.
Secondary colors are made up of purple, green and orange. They come to life after each primary colors are mixed with one another or simply put, the secondary colors are what you find between 2 primary colors.
RED and BLUE = PURPLE
Tertiary colors are the exponential colors made up usually of two-names. Have you had the chance to hold the 64 box of CRAYOLA ? Notice there are colors with red-purple, red-orange and all other colors you will find with two-names on it. They are created by adding more of one primary color to another, the resulting color is something closer to the primary color red, yellow and blue.
This group refers to any primary, secondary or tertiary color that is not adulterated with white, black or any third color. We often refer to them as pure (saturated) colors. These are colors that are intense, bright, cheery and untainted
You create a tint, whenever you add the color white to a pure color.Tins are often referred or most commonly known as pastel colors.They are usually lighter and more pale than any pure color and lacks vividity. Tints range from slightly whiter to almost-white in appearance.
A pure color when combined with black color creates a shade. Often times the effect on pure colors is to darken and dull the their brightness o, producing the color sets from slightly darker to almost black in appearance.
When you think of color tones, it literally means to subdue the color to a lesser intensity. Tones are achieved by adding varying amounts of grey (black and white)to a pure color.
What we just did is give a you rundown course about the color wheel. Now you know all about the differences between primary, secondary and tertiary colors. And now you have an understanding of when to say tinted, shaded or toned.
Understanding the color wheel to adapt or implement in your visual content strategy is like learning about Fashion Math, where you have to learn what color of garment works well with another color.
Color techniques becomes equally important when you start to design your visual content for your marketing and advertising objectives. Contrast is elemental when you want your visual content to stand out. You will need a visual designer who knows the importance of contrasts to avoid disagreements in the future.
Contrast is basically what sets apart one element from another. It offers easy identification of text and object from the background of any given visual. You have high contrast is when you can easily separate or identify colors from one another and its low contrast when you can't distinguish one from the other.
If you are used to believing that contrast is the difference in color, it's time you stop. Two colors can be different at the same time but they may provide no contrast, however their tone is the same.
Pure colors have inherent differences in terms of darkness and lightness. A simple example to put it is that -
Yellow has a brighter appearance, while blue has a darker appearance. Red and orange being two distinct colors have little contrast with each other. Takeaway - if you have two different colors that have the same level of gray, or to put it simply, tone, they will not have much contrast against each other. Remember, contrast is not having two different colors, rather, its the visibility of one against the other when placed side by side.
This may come as surprise but it is generally accepted in the world of design that the higher the contrast the better the outcome of any visual design. With reference to content marketing, implementing high contrast is very very important as visibility is always the aim.
When using colors to identify your brand or to make your content stand out, it is very important to know how to implement high-contrast, for the simple reason that it is the best way to make your content become easily visible to your audience. Again, similar to Fashion Styling, when you want to be clear and simply noticeable all you need to do is to put together to opposite colors together - say, white on black or black on white - same goes for content.
Use high contrast when you are pointing out an important detail about your product brand or service or simply when you need to have your campaigns easily noticed.
Low contrast techniques works best for non-essential content - go back to Fashion Math, where you can accessorize with a few shades lighter to accentuate your outfit - it provides a similar point to using low contrast when doing your visual content.
In another blog we talked about Infographic creation and we have discussed in detail how choosing the right colors will affect the overall success and readability of the infographic content. Similar to this blog, we are simply identifying how you can fully use the color wheel to use advantage when creating your visual content.
In a study conducted by the University of Toronto found out that most Adobe Kuler users prefer to use 2-3 basic color combination to heightened their creations.
You have to offer content that is visible, easy to understand and easy to retain. As discussed above, each color represent certain emotions and persuades in different lengths. Using the color wheel will greatly help you to ease out the challenges of putting the appropriate colors for your visual content.
If you want your content to stand out, then another key component of color is using complementary color combinations.
Complementary colors refer to those colors you find on the color wheel to be the direct opposite of another color. They are the colors you find that visually does not exist or influence the other.
Refer to the color wheel to locate the opposite colors of the following primary colors :
You will find that Red is goes toe-to-toe with Green, while Yellow is located opposite of Purple and ultimately, color Blue is complementing orange.
Why is complementary color combination vital to your visual content creation, simple - Opposites attract - an olden rule that also applies to color usage or combination. Have you seen how beautiful a red apple stands out from a bunch of green apples ?
Again Red is the opposite of Green. The eyes get tired when its overwhelmed with single color, so what you should do to avoid visual overwhelm is to place the exact opposite to to counter the appearance of the visual monopoly.
The use of complementary combination is the easiest and fastest way to make something stand out from the crowd. A simple reminder though, never balance the quantity of each color, the combination should always be 25-75 or vice versa. The point of complementary combination is to make one color to stand out - and not to have them together.
If you cannot resist the idea of using three colors, use the rule on Split complementary color schemes - for this to happen you will have to choose one color to act as base and then use 2 colors adjacent to each other's opposite.
We refer to colors sitting next to each other in the color wheel as Analogous color. these are sister colors. They are colors that can appear together without undermining one color. Use analogous colors in depicting transitions as the can offer to be easy on the eyes. If you want them to stand out, you can add a complementary color to it.
Color Example -
Red - Red Orange - Yellow Orange
Yellow - Yellow Green - Green
Monochromatic as the word itself suggest mono- meaning one - refers to colors with single color together with its tint, shade and tone. They are softer and more subtle that your average sister or analogous colors. Monochromatic colors are colors with a single hue.
You can enhance a monochromatic color with a single complementary color.
Blue - Light Blue - Lighter Blue
Another indispensable and creative color creativity is using shapes to get the perfect matches for your chosen content. If you've run out of options on which color to use for your content - try visualising or putting the following shapes on on the color wheel and you will get another set of colors that looks great and defined when put together in one visual.
The triangle creates a TRIAD - as the word implies, you will get three colors that are evenly spaced in the color wheel - just draw a triangle and you will get three colors to use.
The TETRADIC or rectangle will give you four colors that is composed of two complementary pairs.
The square is akin to a rectangle palette, however the sets of complementary pairs are colors equidistant from the circle.
Using these combinations can be tricky. If you get it right you will get a good visual content, otherwise, you risk creating a noisy, disproportioned visual. Safely use one color as a dominant and the rest, use in supporting or highlighting role.
Read more in Part 2 of this series.
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Payman Taei, interesting read and absolutely insightful post. The shared resources are also helpful. I am a designer and an early UX developer. After reading this, I am rethinking on my earlier understandings on design and color usages. Collected few points where I need to think, implement and iterate to see how those work for our client's sites. Thanks for sharing this post, really enjoyed.
Gostei das suas explicações. Elas são muito importantes para usarmos em nossas criações.
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I enjoyed their explanations . They are very important for us to use in our creations .
Thank you.
Francisco Gustavo.
Great information!
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Hi all
I'm a 25 year old female. 7 years ago I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and given 800mg of seroquel daily, along with haloperidol which, by the way, was absolutely the worst drug I have ever had to take. I refused to take the haloperidol after a while. About 3 years ago, my situation was reviewed and I was down to 300mg daily. 2 years ago I switched to seroquel xr as I couldn't stand the drowsiness anymore. For the past year I have been gradually weaning myself off the stuff and about 2 months ago, at 25mg, I finally stopped taking it.
I went through horrible withdrawal symptoms including insomnia, sweating, shaking etc but was determined not to give in and get off the stuff for good. After 2 months I would have thought the symptoms would have subsided, but they're still lingering heavily and I don't know how much more I can take of it.
The worst of my withdrawals right now is intense 'internal' itching across my hands, legs and feet. It's like something is crawling through my veins and no matter how much I scratch, it doesn't go away. Sometimes I am literally jumping around with it.
The other thing that is happening is that I am incredibly angry for a large amount of the time. I often feel like I'm on the verge of a violent outburst and end up in floods of tears, desperately in search of some release. I feel the need for 'thrills', if that makes sense, and end up doing things like driving too fast, being incredibly blunt with people who I feel are behaving unfairly, making drastic changes in my life (I quit my job, stopped talking to a close friend) to make up for the past seven years of being a zombie.
Also, I am generally living off of 4 hours sleep per night. I have no problems falling asleep but wake up almost every hour. After 4 hours I can't sleep any longer but I am not tired throughout the day and feel rested. When I was taking seroquel, I could easily sleep 16 hours. I felt exhausted every morning.
Anyway, part of this is to vent and part of it is because I'd like to know if other people have experienced these withdrawals and if anybody has any idea how long they are likely to last.
I also wonder if the changes in my personality are not a symptom of withdrawal but a result of no longer being 'deadened' by the seroquel. Since coming off it I have felt more alive than ever, but the latest addition of periodic overwhelming rage is less fun.
Thanks for reading.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
On the Scene in San Diego
Author Max Allan Collins is currently in San Diego, California, attending this year's Comic-Con International. If you aren't able to join him there, don't worry: he promises to file daily dispatches to his blog. "[E]xpect the first missive to appear Thursday morning, July 21," Collins writes, "and every day thereafter through July 25." Look for those postings here.
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A 25-year-old man was fined £100 last Friday at Craigavon Magistrates Court for unlawful possession of cannabis.
Lupa Lukas, whose address was given to the court as Fair Winds, Lurgan, was also ordered to pay a £15 offender's levy.
The court heard that on March 27 this year he was found with a small amount of cannabis in his left trouser pocket.
Mr Gabriel Ingram, representing the defendant, said that his client had drink taken on this night.
Deputy District Judge Neil Rafferty said Lukas had a previous caution for a similar offence and warned him that if he came back to court again he would send him to jail.


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What is a Bear Raid
A bear raid is the illegal practice of ganging up to push a stock's price lower through concerted short selling and spreading adverse rumors about the targeted company. A bear raid is sometimes resorted to by unscrupulous short sellers who want to make a quick buck from their short positions. A bear-raid target is generally a company that is going through a challenging period, since its vulnerable position makes it easy fodder for short sellers. While short selling per se is perfectly legal, coordinated short selling is viewed as market manipulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), while spreading false rumors is tantamount to fraudulent activity.
BREAKING DOWN Bear Raid
The objective of a bear raid is usually to make windfall profits in a brief time period through short sales. If the bear raid works and the target stock plunges, short sellers can buy the shares cheaply on the open market. These shares would be used to replace the ones that were borrowed earlier and sold at a much higher price, with the short sellers pocketing the difference as their profit.
In a typical bear raid, short sellers may collude beforehand to establish massive short positions in the target stock. Since the huge short interest in the stock increases the risk of a short squeeze that can inflict substantial losses on the "shorts," these short sellers cannot afford to wait patiently for months until their short strategy works out. So they embark on the next step in the bear raid, which is akin to a smear campaign, with whispers and rumors about the company spread by unknown sources. These rumors can be anything that portrays the target company in a negative light – allegations about accounting fraud, an SEC investigation, an earnings miss, financial difficulties and so on. The rumors may cause nervous investors to exit the stock in droves, driving it down further and giving the short sellers profits on a platter.
The repeal of the uptick rule in July 2007 is regarded by some experts as having made it easier for short sellers to embark on bear raids. In fact, the collapse or near-collapse of a number of leading financial institutions in 2008 is attributed in some circles to bear raids. A combination of sheer chaos, lack of honor, missing morals and greed on Wall Street makes this theory plausible.


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"His name is Juan. He was raised in a not so well-off family. His father is a farmer in the province and his mother worked as a house servant. They are struggling in their daily meal. He feels that they are helpless. They know that he can't finish his studies but he is persistent. His father is opposing him to go to school because they lack of financial means but he is not giving up. He is fighting for his future, and for his family too. He went to the city to rear up himself with full of convictions. He knows that he can survive the trials they are facing. He knows that still there is an ample light in the middle of the tunnel and he will use it to lighten up the way till he reach the end. He is an optimist. A life activist. He will painstakingly do everything to survive the battle. He knows he will survive. That was 20 years ago.
His name is Juan. He was raised in a not so well-off family but he never lose hope. He strove hard to attained the life he wanted to achieve. Now he is going back home to his country. Taking all the labor of his hardships. He went abroad for work. It's been awhile since he left and he never seen his family for few years. They may not recognize him anymore because he has changed. He knew it was hard, but he made it. He was emotionally battered but he won over all those different predicaments in life, alone. He was tortured, emotionally, so he knows now how to deal with them. He is like a soldier who withstand all the battle. He can say that he is so strong like a warrior. An invincible. He defied trials. He is a battle survivor. "
Being an expat worker, like Juan, who were struggling in life, giving up is not an option. We have to motivate ourselves and try to uplift our spirits to liberate ourselves from the bondage of poverty. Take a big leap forward. I know, it's hard sometimes, but once we stumble and fail, try one step backward and push yourself up forcefully. Then the rest depends on the Almighty. Most of us gave up easily when problem strikes us hard but being an individual who has faith with Him, everything is possible. Everything can be obtain with His Grace and Glory. Just trust Him and everything will be as smooth-sailing as we wanted it to be.
Disclaimer: The photo used are not owned by the author. These photos are conspicuously scattered all over the web, I assume I could use them for my blog. If I offended you please lemme know


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Despite the nation's gross domestic product in the first quarter of the year moving higher than first thought growth, remains at its lowest level since the first quarter of 2015, according to a Commerce Department report released Friday. Yet a separate survey shows this has yet to damper consumers' feelings
This broadest measure of the nation's economic performance, expanded at an 0.8% annual rate in the first three months of the year, less than a consensus estimate by Wall Street analysts, but better than the 0.5% GDP estimate of a month ago.
This latest performance compares to a fourth quarter 2015 pace of 1.4% and a 2015 high of 3.9% in the second quarter.
The Wall Street Journal reported the reason for the latest uptick is that corporate after-tax profits rebounded, while there was "a larger gain for residential investment and smaller drags on overall growth from private inventories and foreign trade."
Despite the increase in profits they are down 3.6% from a year earlier, which is being attributed to a pull-back in business investment. This also follows a report from the day before showing business investment did not improve in April.
Even with the upward revision, growth in the first quarter remains disappointingly below the economy's long-run potential or average rate, according to Paul Ferley, Assistant Chief Economist, RBC Economics.
"The quarter did indicate some areas of impressive strength with residential investment growth of 17.2%, which represented an upward revision from the previously-estimated 14.9%. Consumer spending continued to rise, albeit at a relatively modest, and unrevised, pace of 1.9%. The decline in exports was lessened to 2% from a 2.6% previous decline," he said. "Imports are now estimated to have declined 0.2% as compared to the previously-estimated 0.2% increase."
Ferley said the build in inventories still slowed in the first quarter though not to the same extent as previously estimated, with the subtraction from overall GDP growth being lessened. The inventory component has now subtracted from growth for three consecutive quarters. A main source of weakness was business investment dropping 6.2%, which represented a slight downward revision from the previously estimated 5.8% drop.
"Some initial data for the second quarter, such as the strong April retail sales report, provide optimism that the slowing trend is not continuing into the current quarter," he said. "Optimism about a strengthening in consumer spending was additionally provided in today's report with the first quarter savings rate being revised up sharply to 5.7% from the previously estimated 5.2%. Our forecast projects an annualized second quarter GDP increase of 2.9%."
However, Stifel Fixed Income Chief Economist Lindsey Piegza warned the minimal increase in the GDP does little to reinforce optimism of better times ahead.
"Keep in mind, even at 0.8% in the first quarter, coupled with an expected rise of near 2% growth in second quarter, the average pace of expansion across the first six months of the year falls well short of the moderate 2% trend established since the end of the Great Recession," she said. "In other words, at 0.5% or 0.8%, the premise remains the same: weak growth, a fragile consumer and negative business investment January to March."
She believes with this latest report "hawks" at the U.S. Federal Reserve, already shrugging off the weakness at the start of the year, will no doubt highlight any additional upward revision as support to their view of fundamental strength in the U.S. economy and further evidence an interest rate hike less than four weeks from now is appropriate.
"Remember, the Fed is not looking for strong or robust or solid, just less weakness coupled with a potential side of 'moderate' conditions to come over the near to medium term," Piegza said. "At this point, more important than splitting hairs over weak or a slightly less weak first quarter GDP report, the upcoming April consumption and May employment reports ahead of the June Federal Open Market Committee meeting will offer clear telltale signs of whether or not the weakness January to March was temporary or if earlier weakness will persist, carrying over in the second-quarter and beyond."
Consumers Sentiment Best In Nearly A Year
Meantime, a separate report, also released Friday, shows consumers remain upbeat, but a little less so than compared to a preliminary survey earlier in the month, but much better than April, according to the final May results of the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers.
Its Index of Consumer Sentiment posted gains of 6.4% from April and 4.4% from a year earlier, its biggest monthly increase since 2013 and its highest level since last June.
Also survey measures of consumer feelings about current economic conditions increased 3% month-over-month and 9% from May 2015, while a gauge of consumer expectations jumped 9.4% this month from April, but posted a much smaller gain of 0.8% from the same time last year.
"Despite the meager GDP growth as well as a higher inflation rate, consumers became more optimistic about their financial prospects and anticipated a somewhat lower inflation rate in the years ahead," said Surveys of Consumers Chief Economist Richard Curtin. "Positive views toward vehicle and home sales also posted gains in May largely due to low interest rates."
He said the biggest uncertainty consumers see on the horizon is not whether the Fed will hike interest rates in the next few months, but rather the outlook for future government economic policies under a new president.
"This has increased their emphasis on maintaining precautionary savings, although the savings rate is not expected to increase much beyond its current level," Curtin said. "Although small stock gains are anticipated, household wealth is more likely to benefit from rising home prices, with gains now more frequent than in a decade."
Overall, he said the number indicate that inflation-adjusted consumer expenditures can be expected to rise by 2.5% in 2016 and 2.7% in 2017.


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Lets talk about music.
My music preference is pretty varied, but is made up mostly of what JB Hifi used to classify as "Emo" (alas, they don't use that classification at their stores anymore, so I will call it Alternative Rock) - it's not exclusively "Alternative Rock", it does include Disney soundtrack, super bouncy pop songs, and even some Hip-Hop and Rap has made its way in.
Recently I've been pretty much exclusively listening to just one band - a band that I understand maybe 10% of the lyrics
They're from South Korea, and they're super talented!
Here's a little break-down of my favourite songs!
The first experience --- (don't ask me when and where, I don't remember! After that first "Fantastic Baby" I was hooked!)
The hard fall --- (this song cemented the love)
The most played
The current favourite --- (only listened to this song for the first time a couple of days ago!)
Other suggestions
Loser - We Like 2 Party - Lets Not Fall In Love
If you get the chance, check out their music videos. Their fashion is amazing!


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Karachi—Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Karachi Division President Najmi Alam, General Secretary Nadeem Bhutto, Secretary Information Lateef Mughal and Deputy Secretary Information Manzoor Abbas while condemning the federal government for sacking 6 employees of PIA said the Nawaz Government has now fully manifested the spirit of their ancestor, Dictator Ziaul Haq.
The Nawaz government has once again revived the dictatorship in Pakistan.
The Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had promised that no action would be taken against any employee but they did not keep their promises and made a devastating manifest of their dictatorial mindset by sacking daily wagers first and now 6 employees of Engineering department.
They said the PIA administration has on direction of federal government initiated avenging action against the innocent employees and there are premonitions that the Nawaz government would also sack all 220 employees whom they have issued show cause notices.
They warned the Nawaz government of the severe repercussion against this sacking of the employees as the employees would now not trust any and would be compelled to resuming the protest once again.
They said that the Pakistan People's Party strongly condemns the sacking of PIA employees.
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Halo Reach: Backwards Compatibility analysis
No Master Chief to be found in our second analysis video of the XboxOne's expanding list of X360 titles now playable on the machine. And now you won't have to REACH far to enjoy more halo action. Bungie's swan song from both Microsoft fold and the franchise as a whole was a real gem of a game, taking the saga into the popular at the time prequel set before Reach falls you get the chance to live the legend first hand.
After such a long collection of games on the 360 the team had become far more versed with its architecture and the engine was far more impressive here with better use of post effects, cinematography, animation even if the grey/brown colour corrected palette can deliver some washed out textures and looks at points. It can still deliver some great views and frantic action in play.
The 360 release was a pretty good performer in the most part, handing in a very solid 30 tick rate across the cinematic's, exploration along with a pretty good streaming system. The same engine signs are clear even from the more recent Halo 5 release but here with much less hardware to work with we are presented with a near native 1280 X 720 resolution ( only upscale is the horizontal from 1152 ) but near as damn it. Great use of HDR bloom, saturation and many dynamic lights mixed with the series trademark alpha effects really delivers here. And this is the limit at times as in conjunction with mass AI work and increasing hordes can but the strain on both the Xenon CPU and Xeno's GPU, this means with its double buffered render if the frame allocation misses more than A little it can drop to a sustained 20fps update. It does run and adaptive V-sync to allow the top section tear if slightly over budget and in action is hard to spot and helps keep the framerate from tanking too low or too long at times. But it does happen in heavier GPU cinematics or action and along with some longer hangs from I/O saving or loading once you get into the meat of the game it sticks at or close to its target most of the time with its average rate of 29.5 delivering 97% of its target over a 5 minute spread of all key areas. With just over 340 torn frames adding from my like for like tests across platforms, the biggest issue for the drops does appear to stem more from its heavy CPU use in both AI scripting, physics than any real GPU load although this is not always the case.
And here with the new X1 emulator in action we see that not even the master chief himself can solve some of the issues here. The first thing of the bat is the emulated game now present frame pacing issues not present when run on the 360 machine, as my frame time graph shows even though it can hit 30 frames over a 1000ms run the order and delivery is not flat with its Yo Yo delivery making it feel as if it is dropping frames at times when it is in fact flipping between a 16/50ms delivery. This means that it hits this higher frame time more often than the 360, and due to the delay in delivering frames it is allow to flip its buffer to attempt to mask its dip. But it also suffers from actual dips also, take a look at my Mass Effect video to explain more on this full V-Sync solution that is in effect en masse across all backwards titles, (subtle huh). Meaning now even the smallest tear that only effected the top section of the screen now results in a full held frame for another 16ms at best.
And following this logical flow to its conclusion means that in general where the 360 dipped or tore the X1 version dips also just to a higher degree. Now due to the original games heavy CPU resource causing frame spikes with the X1 having to handle even more overhead from its VM in addition to the game it has an even harder time to hit its target when these are the majority of the games reasons for missing its budget. Throw in the V-Sync and its pacing issues delivers a game that feels and performs much worse than its original target hardware. And even though it is not as bad a performer on either machine as my last game in Mass Effect, it does fall a decent level behind the 360 release as shown by the on screen metrics. My gut feeling is the emulator may need to allow some adaptive tearing to try and alleviate these issues as a good portion of games use this method or no vsync at all. But also as each title will need levels of changes to each VM on a per basis level, with Reach it needs to solve the pacing issues which are far more prevalent and interfere with the games controls more than the sum of its dips.