Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a 2011 role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix. XIII-2 is a direct sequel to the 2009 role- playing game Final Fantasy XIII and part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis subseries. Development of the game began in early 2010 and involved many of the key designers from the previous game. It includes modified features from the previous game, including fast-paced combat and a customizable "Paradigm" system. The development team wanted to improve on the gameplay of Final Fantasy XIII, while making the story's tone more mysterious and darker than the previous game. The new game's plot features heavy use of time travel, allowing players to jump between different time periods in the same location. The game was first released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and later ported to Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android. Final Fantasy XIII-2 received generally positive reviews from critics. The game was the fifth-best selling game of 2011 in Japan, and was followed by a sequel, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1763:

Britain, France, and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris to end the Seven Years' War, significantly reducing the size of the French colonial empire while at the same time marking the beginning of an extensive period of British dominance outside of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281763%29

1906:

The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought was launched, representing such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_%281906%29

1962:

The first solo exhibition by Roy Lichtenstein opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben Day dots, speech balloons, and comic imagery sourcing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Mickey

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

pulse: 1. (uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume. 2. (uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed. 3. (physiology) 4. A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them. 5. The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health. 6. (figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs. 7. (figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat. 8. (chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time. 9. (cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting. 10. (music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats. 11. (physics) 12. A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc. 13. Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”) 14. (also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse. 15. (transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves. 16. (transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time. 17. (transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it. 18. (transitive, electronics, physics) 19. To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something). 20. To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses. 21. (intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate. 22. (intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pulse

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.   --Charles Lamb https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Lamb