![]() The final straw came, he claims, when he told her he wanted to buy a car for her to use - but would only do so if he could film it and post it to YouTube because it would make “great content”.įinally, he claims he held back originally out of respect for her, but felt compelled to post the “real” reason because of all the trolling and false rumours that had sprung up since their very public breakup. Martin went on to claim that Garcia also gave him “ultimatums over who his friends could be,” saying that she tried to effectively ban him from seeing people she didn’t approve of. Just ask Douglas Martin and Yanet Garcia, aka 'the pro-gamer that dumped the hottest weather girl. He insisted that he “support her,” by paying for whatever she wanted, instead. YouTube star Douglas 'FaZe Censor' Martin. Martin said he “didn’t feel comfortable” with that, even though he appreciated that people were tuning in to see her and that she was driving her fans to his channel. A professional video game player has dumped the woman known as the 'World's Sexiest Weather Girl' so that he can spend more time playing Call of Duty. He plays Call Of Duty along side all his other FaZe bros, and they apparently make money Hey mom you hear that Those video games did have a purpose Anyways back to good ol’ Doug. After the news broke Sunday of the late-night, single-car rollover wreck in Aurora, Colorado, support was pouring in from players and fans on. When YouTuber Martin 'FaZe Censor' Douglas announced dumping his girlfriend Yanet Garcia, also known as the 'World's Sexiest Weather Girl', in July to focus on Call Of Duty championship, it was shocking to say the least. One passenger, Marcelous Johnson, was also killed. He then goes on to claim that she asked for a percentage of the money. Founded by former Call of Duty professional player Matthew Nadeshot Haag and co-owned by hip-hop artist Drake, the facility is spread across 15,000 square feet that host gamers and content creators and is a haven for every gamer and game streamer out there. The 23-year-old man’s name is Doug FaZe Censor Martin and he is what you would call a professional gamer. Updated on Sep 02, 2018, 13:32 IST - 7.8 K Shares. ![]() He claims their problems started when he explained how much money his video blogs, showing the early stages of their relationship, were making. I'm torn on whether I find this story absurd or relateable.Yanet Garcia, who presented Mexico’s Televisa Monterrey news was dubbed the world’s “hottest weather girl” by Playboy magazine. It seems the split was relatively amicable - they both still have each other’s channels set as featured on their own pages. On YouTube, however, he has 2.5 million subscribers to her 480,000. Struggling professional Call of Duty player Douglas 'FaZe Censor' Martin has revealed he dumped girlfriend Yanet Garcia to spend more time with video games. Garcia has 6.5 million followers on Instagram while Martin has 1.5 million. ![]() The former couple are huge social media stars. Martin has struggled this year, missing out on the first stage of the Call Of Duty World League before signing up with a different team that had secured a place in Stage 2 to ensure he got there.įor her part, Garcia responded to the very public dumping with a tweet saying she was “heartbroken” before thanking fans for support and then sharing a new picture showing off her famous rear. Octo11:30AM Weather girl Yanet Garcia and gamer Douglas Martin RETIRED Call of Duty pro gamer Douglas Martin, who goes by the moniker Censor, has revealed in an emotional YouTube video the real reason he broke up with Yanet Garcia, dubbed the world’s hottest weathergirl. This included allowing two commentators to kick her famous butt “for good luck” before celebrating Mexico’s win over Germany in her trademark style. Struggling professional Call of Duty player Douglas 'FaZe Censor' Martin has revealed he dumped girlfriend Yanet Garcia to spend more time with video games. Garcia grew her global legion of fans during the World Cup as she supported her native Mexico. He went on to say that he needed to focus on playing Call Of Duty and would be playing the next iteration in the franchise “Black OPs IV” full-time while she was “doing that job over there”. STRUGGLING professional Call Of Duty player Douglas “FaZe Censor” Martin dumped his weather presenter girlfriend Yanet Garcia to spend more time with video games.Īnnouncing the decision on YouTube, the 23-year-old revealed that he and Garcia, 26, had split up, saying: “I don’t have time for a girlfriend.” Why a pro-gamer dumped the weather presenter girlfriend to play for Call of Duty
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Lightning Reflexes is a fine option and only gave up on a safe way to ensure disable special skills of one target. ![]() Such build isn't just pick all Electroshock skills, many variations are interesting, for example: A quite good option if your squad is oriented to hacking enemies. Before that it's a tool for hacking enemies, a good tactical tool, and you can build him for using an Assault Rifle not a Shotgun then you get a solid soldier with some tactical tools. I don't have the very positive or optimistic point of view of Spah7 but he brings good points.Īn Assault build simple to use is the Electroshock build, once you'll get Chain Lightning you'll get an amazing tactical tool. Delete remaining two Mutons one by one while untouchable. Third muton fires flanking shot, but assault is Untouchable. Close Encounters triggers, stun second mutton. Turn one, bust glass roof and blue move to muton 1 (also flanking muton 2 but not within shotgun range) destroy it with a 100% crit. 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At the far end, Poots is in conference with the “way finders.” The 17,000-square-foot adjoining hall (it’s called “The McCourt”) is usually exposed to the skies when its outer layer is nested into the fixed building, but at the moment, it’s covered by The Shed’s most distinguishing feature: a telescoping shell made of steel and a clear, lightweight polymer that moves out (and back) on gigantic rail tracks, turning it from an outside plaza to a large-scale performance space for 1,250 seated or 2,700 standing. We go in a side door, put on hard hats, and walk up to the second level-a vast, 12,500-square-foot, column-free gallery-moving gingerly to avoid electrical cables and other obstacles. She’s a vivid, effervescent beauty in a colorful sleeveless Missoni shift and sneakers without laces. “Alex is inside with the graphics team, talking about signage and ‘way finding,’ ” Spellman says, laughing. It’s Kathryn Spellman, a sociologist and visting professor for Islamic Studies at Columbia University and the wife of Alex Poots, The Shed’s founding artistic director and CEO. But then, hooray, halfway down the block I see a blonde woman waving both arms, and I breathe a sigh of relief. There are no signs, though-this is Hudson Yards, where one of the biggest urban-renewal projects in New York City is in full swing, and the landmark I’d been given, a pizza parlor, refuses to reveal itself. Scheduled to open this spring but still under construction, The Shed is New York’s keenly anticipated new year-round, all-purpose cultural emporium for music, dance, theater, and visual arts. And in live theater, alas, there is no fast forward.On a sweltering afternoon in mid-July, I’m on West Thirtieth Street in Manhattan, looking for the entrance to The Shed. In the end, “Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise” plays like the director’s cut of a badly dubbed Hong Kong kung fu movie, where the story is unintelligible and there are long lulls between the scenes with genuine action and visual appeal. You’ll also be disappointed by the choreography, which comes in two flavors: martial arts (conceived by Zhang Jun), which is occasionally engaging even though none of the punches or kicks ever actually land and there are no aerial effects to send any of the fighters truly flying and movement (by Akram Khan), which ranges from lackluster to virtually nonexistent in multiple disco-set scenes where the ensemble seems to be enacting the truly random dance moves of a crowd of strangers. And if you were expecting the performers to be swinging from a chandelier in a Pink-like nod to Sia’s biggest chart-topper, you’ll be sadly disappointed. ![]() None of the tunes actually advance the plot or deepen our understanding of the stick-figure characters. There’s also a score by Sia - or at least a mish-mash of the pop star’s anthemlike ballads, many of which are piped in over loudspeakers rather than sung by the cast, which is probably just as well since their vocal talent, sadly, seldom matches their athleticism in the kung fu/dance routines. The mythology here is about as thin as the fabric panels that keep dropping from the ceiling to hide wired-up performers.Īlso Read: 'We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time' Theater Review: Memoir as Therapy There’s talk of a prophesy involving two twins, whom we first see as dolls with glowing plastic globe heads (one pink and one blue) and later as 18-year-old separated-at-birth twins (Jasmine Chiu and Ji Tuo) destined to either battle each other to the death or unite to restore balance to the universe. The problem starts with the wisp of a story (by “Kung Fu Panda” writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger), about two battling kung fu factions in that renowned center of the martial arts, Flushing, Queens. Rylander) and “The Matrix”-meets-Studio 54 costumes (by Montana Levi Blanco) and aerial effects that are cool enough but seem like a regional-theater version of Cirque du Soleil.ĭirector Chen Shi-Zheng has conceived this nearly two-hour production as a spectacle, but the show moves turgidly between set-pieces without ever gathering any visual or narrative momentum. There are seizure-inducing lighting effects (by Tobias G. There’s a $650,000 stage (designed by Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams) whose center recedes to become a shallow pool of water for no good reason whatsoever. A lot of expense and effort have gone into “Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise,” the plus-size kung fu musical that opened Thursday at the very plus-size 120-foot-tall McCourt venue at The Shed in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards. |
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