To be honest, I was siding with Sawyer way too soon! Hahaha.I mean sure I hated him after the incidents of book one. A lot more action and a lot more suspense. So the book released today and it was pretty good. I just hate that it took more than half of the book for them to be reunited.like please Leia Stone.I wanted to read more!! Mini spo Why have 22 people rated a book that isn't out yet?! But it was all a fucking misunderstanding.and I was ready for their relationship to progress. Why have 22 people rated a book that isn't out yet?! UPDATE- So the book released today and it was pretty good. Genre/tropes: Paranormal/wolves/vampires/trolls/magic/academy I wanted to love this story so much, but I didn’t. Maybe I had way too high hopes for this book. Why did she go “back to school”, when a WAR was brewing? Oh, and if the wolves in Wolf City were so powerful and respected why do they keep being surprise attacked? Will someone explain to me how this works? Does the bond only work when there is wifi? I seriously want to know. Boom.Īnother big trigger for me was how their bond could keep being repressed, BY OTHERS. Okay, I just found out what my issue with it was. Yes, yes, she was hurt a lot, but why keep ending scenes that way. □ But didn’t she just pass out so much? I got super annoyed by it. I just see him lash out and scream at Demi to forgive him.Īnd Demi? Why wasn’t she FURIOUS! Oh no, she was busy passing out all book, that’s right. I don’t see him “being in control” or “being strategic”, or even being “alpha”. I actually will go so far to find him whiny. I can’t get my head around Sawyer being such a good alpha when he runs head first into things and starts killing. Not to mention I just can’t with these characters. Maybe I get to little info? Maybe I am just not buying it? Maybe I just need things better explained□ Stone does not lack imagination and yet I can’t put my finger on the exact “issue” I have with how the story went, or how the world building is. Which were completely and utterly ignored. (I even pre-ordered, and this girl rarely does that!) And I wanted to know what happened so badly, because the first cliffhanger lay the grounds to some heavy drama and hurt. But it still had the power to draw me in. □□The coolest thing about this book was the bejewelled sneakers. I feel cheated□ Stone d I am over here feeling completely bummed out. □□ I have been so excited about this book. □□□□□□□ □□The coolest thing about this book was the bejewelled sneakers. I am over here feeling completely bummed out.
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Those who pursue him are rather like Ahab in Moby Dick - they know they must possess or kill the beast, because that’s what we do with things we don’t understand. Depending on the version you’re watching, he’s a metaphor for the American working class, the environment, the pure magic of the movies, or the unpredictability and terror of the natural world. It doesn’t make much sense for Kong, who is a character bound up in tragedy. (He even fought King Kong in one film, though that Kong was fairly different from the one who’s been in American films.) The big lizard started out as a metaphor for the nuclear devastation of Japan, then slowly but surely evolved into something like a superhero, returning every few years for another movie in which he fought another giant monster. This approach makes a certain amount of sense with Godzilla. It almost turns Skull Island into a perfunctory item to cross off a to-do list: “Meet Kong. Skull Island itself doesn’t really address the shared universe, but it’s been present in all the pre-release hype, which is part and parcel with a film culture that increasingly treats movie franchises as major purchases that filmgoers are buying on the installment plan. Kong), until the two presumably discover they have more in common than they realized and unite to defeat. Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla are set within a shared cinematic universe, which is to say that Warner Brothers snapped up the rights to the character of King Kong (most recently held by Universal, which made the 2005 Kong) to build a series of films that will lead to Kong fighting with Godzilla (in 2020’s imaginatively named Godzilla vs. 1) Giant monster movies in general, but more specifically King Kong He’s a sensitive chap. Here are three things it badly misunderstands. And that’s to say nothing of its many other cinematic forebears, many of which it just doesn’t get. The movie fitfully competes with the earlier film for sheer beauty, but lacks a clear objective. Godzilla, for better or worse, was animated by a strong, central idea. But none of them are as interesting as the big ape. Skull Island has attempted to ward off the most common criticism of that film - the characters are boring - in the most Hollywood fashion possible, which is to say it has more people in it than Godzilla does, for more of its running time. The film’s most obvious contemporary is 2014’s Godzilla, directed by Gareth Edwards as a movie where massive monsters kept edging humanity out of the frame. Now, we’ve grown jaded, the thinking goes, and it takes so much more to activate our sense of awe and wonder.Īnd yet I wish I liked Skull Island as much as I like individual moments in it. In 1933, King Kong was the only game in town. The approach used by Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts the film’s studio, Warner Brothers and its production company, Legendary Entertainment, aims to restore the primacy to the giant movie monsters of old. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark After the scan is complete, a Scan Summary box will appear with Threats Detected: click Continue.Please be patient while it scans your computer. Click Scan Your Computer to start the scan.On the right, under Select Scan Type, choose Complete Scan.Click the Home button to return to the main screen.Terminate memory threats before quarantining.Under Scanner Options make sure the following are checked (leave all others unchecked):. Then double-click on SASDEFINITIONS.EXE to install the definitions.) Double-click on the hyperlink for Download Installer and save SASDEFINITIONS.EXE to your desktop. ( If you encounter any problems while downloading the updates, manually download them from here. If not, update the definitions before scanning by selecting Check for Updates.
So yes, every menu would be redesigned, but every menu would still be there. “Every decision we made with regard to the UI always kept in mind that idea of trying to get you back to playing the game as quickly as possible, trying not to break your flow, to distract you from the real meat of the experience, which is bringing mighty pain to the next poor monster that lies in your path,” Berger said. The whole point is to play the game and not spend time in menu screens. We didn’t cut any menus, but we did make sure to only have as many screens as was needed for the console game. “The UI in general was a full-time task for a core group engineers, tech artists, and designers, who iterated over all those screens several times before they settled on the ones that worked best for the game. It’s safe to say that we redid every UI screen in the game-but we spent the most time on the inventory and the skills UI, which are the screens you interact with the most,” said Mathew Berger to The Examiner, senior level designer for the game. “Since a big part of Diablo III is the loot, you can imagine that you do need a robust inventory system, and that had to be adapted to console. Well, as Blizzard tells us, we have no reason to worry, the core experience will not be compromised. And now, with Diablo III, a game that was designed with the PC interface and keyboard/mouse combo in mind, is getting ported to the PlayStation 3, so there are obviously concerns about whether it will have suffered any changes. So, after perusing the existing reviews, it should be clear that youre either a fan of this genre, or not. I hope Blizzards support of the PS3 version will be as tenacious as the PC version. Porting a game designed for the PC to a console always raises concerns about whether the integrity of the original experience would be preserved. Diablo III PlayStation 3 Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Release Date: Also On: PC, Xbox 360 Summary. It is an extreme landscape of glaciers and volcanoes, of barrenness and eruptions, endless daylight in summer and mostly darkness in winter. Björk said Iceland itself, not other singers, shaped her voice. Beyoncé has a cultural sixth sense for finding the busted seams between regions and eras and styles, and the performance saw her stitching those breaks back together in a way that made them new again. In a way, all of it was a prelude to Saturday’s set, which felt like her most definitive statement yet, the kind of show that requires a deep and widely-known catalog, ideological ambition, and a thorough knowledge of history (musical and otherwise). Think about the “Formation” video, in which a Black child dances in front of a line of cops wearing riot gear, or her Super Bowl halftime show, where she paid homage to the Black Panthers, or her Lemonade longform visual, in which she reimagined images of American wealth and power with Black women at the forefront. Increasingly, Beyoncé has used her art-that is, everything: the albums themselves, but also her videos, her tours, Instagram, and so on-to examine power imbalances and to show how people blanch when those imbalances are brought up to the surface for examination. When he says he does whatever he wants, we believe him. He’s a beacon of light in barrios around the world, an example for kids with secret skirts or Smashing Pumpkins CDs of what being yourself can look and sound like. Standing on top of the world, with access to abundant fame, wealth, and critical success, he appears free of any pressure to conform, even to previous versions of himself. As Matthew Ismael Ruiz wrote in his review of 2020’s El Último Tour del Mundo:īad Bunny toes the line between rap braggadocio and vulnerable everyman with relative ease-even while crooning about alien sex. He has also proven to be something of a pop progressive, too, whether pushing against received notions of masculinity in his eye-catching dresses, or speaking out against misogyny, homophobia, and gender violence in his songs, videos, and performances. He soon became one of the most visible and versatile figures in Latin pop, fusing reggaetón, bachata, dembow, trap, alt-rock, and more in giddily shape-shifting fashion. Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, a native of the working-class Almirante Sur neighborhood of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, was a 22-year-old college student pulling shifts at the local supermarket when his first hit, “Diles,” blew up on SoundCloud in 2016.
On June 11, 2017, Scott posted an image of Scrap Baby's eyes. The website went dark for a long time, that is until certain things relating to Five Nights at Freddy's were posted in the website's code. The PC version was still up on Gamejolt as it originated there. The Android port was pulled out of stores and the IOS ports were never released. The game was expected to release on Android and IOS ports, but after hate and some controversy in the ports, Scott has stopped support on FNaF World ports and future updates to the game. On May 13, 2016, Update 2 was officially released. On Febuary 18, 2016, Update 2 is confirmed to be under development. On February 8, 2016, it was re-released on Gamejolt, with the first update for visual improvements. Due to the amount of hate, Scott removed it off Steam, and confirmed that he will update it to make it better for the community. Scott Cawthon confirmed the release date to be February 19, 2016, but later changed to January 21, 2016. On January 8, 2016, the second trailer was uploaded only on IndieDB. On Christmas eve, Scott later posted a "Merry Christmas!" photo of the characters before the Mangle teaser, featuring Bubba, Browboy, Mad Endo, and Porkpatch. On the same day, a picture of the enemy Ballboy its head is shown at the bottom. Scott Cawthon later went on a three week break without a warning, until releasing new pictures on IndieDB. It was later removed the same day, as it appeared to contain suicidal themes. A warped text can also be seen on the bottom of the image reading "See what you've all done?". If brightened, a picture of Mangle, who appears to be dangling by an unknown source, appears on. On November 3, 2015, both and were completely stripped of their color, leaving only the titles, warning notice and a dark image remaining. After it was released, Scott confirmed of the first trailer, and released it on October 30, 2015. It ended up being FNaF World: Halloween Edition, and appears to be a reskin of one of Scott's older games. Later, was edited, saying that a hacker had gotten the files to FNaF World, and that would release them sometime on October 28, 2015. Scott made a new website,, to show FNaF World-related teasers. The Phantoms, Shadows, Paperpals, Crying Child, Fredbear, and Spring Bonnie appeared during that time, while they weren't on the orginal picture. On September 22, 2015, all of the playable characters appeared on the image. It started off with Endo-01, then Endo-02, Fredbear, and so on (with the only exception being the floating Golden Freddy head in the background, who was removed because FNaF World featured no adventure variant of Withered Golden Freddy). The game was first noticed when on September 9, 2015, when a giant " Thank you!" picture featuring nearly all of the animatronics of the Five Nights at Freddy's series, was starting to turn into the characters of FNaF World. Lead your team deeper into this digital world to find the source of these glitches and monsters, and restore it to what it was designed to be- a safe haven.īut be careful, behind the curtain there may be something even more sinister pulling the strings. Take control of Freddy and the gang as they set out on a quest in the world beneath worlds, a world that reflects the actions and deeds of the "flipside", where things have started becoming distorted and broken. With 48 playable characters, multiple endings, multiple difficulties, and a great soundtrack from artist Leon Riskin, FNaF World hits the ground running and doesn't stop. Featuring the entire cast from the Five Nights at Freddy's series, this fantasy RPG will let players control their favorite animatronics in a an epic animated adventure! Sometimes hope springs eternal, but it shouldn't. "All I was doing was trying to fight for the woman I love." I wish u nothing but happiness and the best."Īnd then there's this from Chris. "I'm eternally thankful for you being in a part of my life. "Ĭhris just Instagrammed as if he didn't know what Karrueche said about him. Man the f*** up and change the bs in your life. Karrueche just unloaded on Chris, saying, "Don't be mad at me because our relationship is over due to your lack of loyalty."īut then she fired the big guns, referring to the disaster last week when Chris ran into her at a club, saying, "You know what's weak? You forcing yourself into my car. And I'm going to man the f*** up and take care of her." And in case he wasn't clear, he added, "If there is no relationship the u shouldn't be doing f***ing interviews with people." He Instagrammed, "Da f*** u keep doing interviews for. Chris Brown just tried to make nice with Karrueche - after he went ballistic on her - but she's having none of of, blasting him for essentially stalking her in an effort that's too little and way too late.Ĭhris started it by first attacking his former GF, accusing her of doing interviews about him and their relationship. So prices denominated in a bimetallic standard would vary less than with a monometallic standard of either gold or silver. That makes sense given that combined variance in the supply and demand for both silver and gold would generally be less than the variance of one metal alone. Indeed, Milton Friedman argued the evidence showed greater monetary stability under bimetallism than under the monometallic gold standard. There would be no inflationary effect if the exchange rate were set at extant prices and allowed to float. Bryan’s platform would have caused inflation only because it proposed to set the exchange rate between silver and gold at the earlier legal level, a level that diverged significantly from the existing market price ratio. Note, however, that bimetallism is not inherently inflationary. Free silver meant that loans taken out in dearer gold dollars could be paid back in cheaper silver dollars. “Free silver” effectively was an inflationary policy. William Jennings Bryan’s “free silver” position would have legally reestablished mint prices far below the ratio of market prices, at the old sixteen to one ratio. After the Civil War, however, the ratio of silver prices to gold prices consistently exceeded that standard, with the ratio reaching 32.8 in 1894. had a bimetallic monetary standard, coining both silver and gold at a fixed exchange rate.Ĭongress statutorily fixed the exchange rate between silver and gold in 1834 at sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold. Prior to this, except for the Civil War, the U.S. The “free silver” slogan referred to the price the mint would charge to convert bullion into coins: free coinage. mint’s legally-authorized practice of converting silver bullion into legal tender at no cost. So obsessed was the era with this policy debate that a line of scholarship in the latter half of the 20th century argues the well-known children’s book, The Wizard of Oz (originally titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), is an allegory of the era’s political conflict over bimetallism. William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic nomination due to his “Cross of Gold” speech at the convention advocating bimetallism. It featured as the foremost political issue in the presidential election of 1896. politics, along with the tariff, bimetallism was the major political obsession of the era. Mention “bimetallism” today-the coining of both gold and silver as legal tender-and the eyes glaze over immediately. Routine lifting operations which are a little more complex may, depending on the circumstances, need to be planned each time the lifting operation is carried out. However, from time to time it may be necessary to review the plan to make sure that nothing has changed and the plan remains valid. But for much more complex lifting operations (eg a tandem lift using multiple cranes), a written plan should be developed by a person with significant and specific competencies - adequate training, knowledge, skills and expertise - suitable for the level of the task.įor straightforward, common lifting operations, a single initial generic plan may be all that is required (eg fork-lift trucks in a factory), which could be part of the normal risk assessment for the activity. The planning of individual routine lifting operations may be the responsibility of those who carry them out (eg a slinger or crane operator). For complex and high-risk operations, the planning and organisation should be extensive and meticulous. These people should have sufficient theoretical and practical knowledge of the work and equipment in question, as well as the requirements of the law, to be able to do this properly. Each of these elements requires a person or people with sufficient competence to be involved at each step. It is therefore important to properly resource, plan and organise lifting operations so they are carried out in a safe manner. Lifting operations can often put people at great risk of injury, as well as incurring great costs when they go wrong. Planning and organising lifting operations
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