Thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts, including " Sweet Caroline". He has also acted in films, making his screen debut in the 1980 musical drama film The Jazz Singer.ĭiamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, and he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 2011, he was an honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, and he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. ĭiamond was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Jewish family. All four of his grandparents were immigrants, from Poland on his father's side and Russia on his mother's. His parents were Rose ( née Rapoport 1918–2019) and Akeeba "Kieve" Diamond (1917–1985), a dry-goods merchant. He grew up in several homes in Brooklyn, having also spent four years in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where his father was stationed in the army. In Brooklyn, he attended Erasmus Hall High School and was a member of the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club, along with classmate Barbra Streisand : 155 Diamond recalled they were not close friends at the time: "We were two poor kids in Brooklyn. Lethal League is a competitive multiplayer game where you hit a baseball back and forth. You might have seen it as a flash game that was making the rounds last year. The developers have taken the concept from the prototype fleshed them out into a fully fledged game with new mechanics, multiple characters, and multiple modes including four player free-for-alls. It also has a fun artsyle and a fantastic soundtrack, both of which are reminiscent of Jet Set Radio. There's also a single player challenge mode akin to Super Smash Bros' classic mode, complete with unique final boss. Unlike most indie multiplayer focused games, Lethal League has online multiplayer powered by GGPO, meaning unlike most indie games you don't need real life friends to enjoy it ( ), and because it uses GGPO the netcode is actually competent. Okay, so obviously just saying you hit a ball back and forth is oversimplifying things, so let's delve a bit deeper into the gameplay. Every time you hit the ball its speed goes up, giving you less time to react. Each hit also increases the hitlag when hitting the ball, indicated by the colored bars filling up near the bottom of the screen, so the timing for returning the ball isn't the same every single hit. Most shots speed the ball up by a set amount, but power shots (done by hiting downwards while in the air) double the speed of the ball, making speed growth exponential. The ball bounces around the stage after being hit, and if you get hit by the ball you get knocked out. Each hit of the ball also "tags" it with that player's color, making them safe from the ball. The player who last tagged the ball can continue to hit the ball though, so if you just focus on avoiding getting hit the other player will likely continue to up the ball's speed while you panic. Lethal League has five characters, and each of them have a few differentiating factors. First off each character hits the ball at different angles for their upward and power swings. Like Divekick, a lot of Lethal League is just about learning the different angles to each character. Each character also has a unique movement ability and a special move.
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