Both brands have been adding more electronics in recent years to make blending more hand-offs like pre-programmed blending modes, digital controls, electronic container recognition, and more. Vitamix is known for its simple controls and popular variable speed controls. Ninja recently introduced their own variable speed control dial on new models and consumers like Ninja’s preset blending programs called Auto IQ. Ninja’s locking lid (on models with the total crushing blade) can be cumbersome sometimes but it is a safety feature.īoth brands are easy to clean although some models don’t have dishwasher safe containers so read the instructions for the blender model your choose. Personally, we would just rinse with warm water and soap rather than a dishwasher. How much space do you have in your kitchen ?.How large of portions will you typically make ?.What types of tasks and recipes do you want a blender for ?(food prep, smoothies, milling flour, making nut butters).Side Note – Some questions to ask yourself when choosing a blender are : On newer models, each brand now offers a preset “Cleaning” mode that you use with warm soapy water. Now that you have a general idea of the main Ninja and Vitamix differences, let’s get into a comparison of the popular models. Vitamix vs Ninja Model Comparison Vitamix 750 vs Ninja 1500 Megaįirst up in the comparison is the Vitamix 750 vs Ninja Mega 1500. I n a skate park under the arches near London Bridge, a couple of game developers called John Ribbins and Simon Bennett are messing around in a half-pipe. (I do not join in – sadly the immense skills that I have built up over 20 years of playing skating games do not in any way translate into real life.) In 2014, their studio Roll7 released a fondly remembered and notoriously tricky skateboarding game called OlliOlli – an experience that prompted them, both lapsed skaters who were obsessive about it in their teens, to get back out on the streets in real life. They had about 10 people working with them back then now they’re directors of a studio of 80. I’d spent a few days playing Roll7’s latest game, OlliOlli World – an exuberant and characterful tribute to skateboarding, with wild levels full of rails and walls to grind and weird characters such as sentient trees and buff seagulls pottering around in the background. The art, a mix between the kind of mural you might find in a London skate park and the strange but cutesy cartoonish vibe of something like Adventure Time, contrasts with an extremely chill soundtrack that soothes your nerves as you try to pull off awesome chains of tricks.Ĭharacterful tribute to skateboarding … OlliOlli World’s avatar creator. It’s a hugely appealing game – and where Roll7’s previous OlliOlli skating games from 2014-15 were technical, demanding and just a touch sterile, this one couldn’t be more out there. The levels in OlliOlli were once based on the fairly dismal view from John and Simon’s office in Deptford this game is set in a colourful skateboarding paradise called Radlandia. It seems to me that something has changed, certainly within the studio but perhaps also with skateboarding culture and what (and whom) it represents. There’s always been queer people in skateboarding but you’d never have seen that representation even seven years ago … Making this game, I was thinking of a lot of the people I skate with now that it would be cool to make a game they feel represented by.” “My experience of getting back into skating in my 30s has been with way different groups of people,” says John. ‘Let’s try to have fun while we’re making it’ … Roll7’s Simon Bennett (left) and John Ribbins at Hop King skate park in London. When you think of skateboarding and video games, you may think of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the delightfully gratifying PlayStation classics that blew up around the turn of the millennium – around the time that John and Simon were skating in their late teens and 20s. If Tony Hawk’s represented the skate culture at that time (very male, very competitive), OlliOlli World represents it now: more diverse, more colourful and altogether more welcoming.
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