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Artist: Infern Album: Turn of the Tide Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://youtu.be/_X5S_oQX5yg / https://infern.bandcamp.com Country: France Quality: 192 Kbps Tracklist: 1. Undertow 2. Phineas Case 3. Tormented Paranoid 4. Burning Fields 5. Archetype of Brutal Aggressor 6. Gaining Ground 7. State Puppet Theater 8. March of the Grotesque 9. To the Extreme 10. Buried Alive Witness: -[*]- Here is yet another killer release for 2024! I have been …

With everything going on in Lebanon, it’s super hard for me to get excited about everyday things that I would typically get excited about. Life’s mini milestones. They all seem super trivial now as I continue (like millions around the world) to watch disaster unfold and not a single powerful country out there to step in and do what’s right. The world feels like it is completely morally bankrupt and …

Pike-Time - first day targeting pike on The Wye, sunrise to sunset. And I think it's going to be tough; I've seen a lot of otters over the summer and although the pike population does seem to be increasing overall on the river I wonder how many are still in the sections I'm fishing? I expect a few blanks - so I was delighted when my float bobbed and slid …

We’re exactly one month away from November 5, the last day we can cast a vote for the 2024 election. I hope you all have your plan to vote, and if you can spare any time at all, that you are taking some kind of action to make sure other voters cast their ballots, too! Good News We got really good economic news: Fresh employment data for September showed that …

Getting timely posts out there in the open is becoming a bit of a challenge, it seems. Nonetheless, it’s still early October, so here’s my overview of stuff I’ve hauled back from last month’s internet spelunking. I’m also lagging behind my RSS reads so this haul is not as big as it could have been, but hey, it’s not exactly a contest. Previous month: August 2024. Books I’ve read In …

I seem to have experienced a run of bad luck recently when it comes to household systems and technology, and just when I thought my troubles were over, up crops a new issue. Since June there’s been a problem with the central heating system - necessitating the replacement of a motorised valve, a toilet cistern that wouldn’t refill after flushing, and Matthew’s shower scaled up and non-operational. There has also …

In turn actions replace “which consist of a number of Coins and optionally a number of some or all of: Lemons, Oranges, Kiwis, Grapes, Cherries, Stars” with “which consist of a number of Coins and optionally a number of some or all of: Lemons, Oranges, Kiwis, Grapes, Cherries, Stars; or at declaration the turn action cannot be performed; and may be conditional” Change the cost of “Wager” from “1 coin …

Is game design hard? That depends. Is understanding other people and seeing the world through their eyes hard? Because that’s game design. You’re putting yourself in the shoes of the players, imagining what experience they would be having at each part of the game compared to what experience you want them to be having, and then sculpting and crafting a text that encourages them to do that. And on top …

. What do you expect of a book? A book on culture and critical theory would generally assume a certain readership, but an author-writes for what they can see – an imagined reader, not any really existing person who has actually bought the thing, if any. What do you expect a book to say? Assuming books can talk, what might this one say about an obsessive critical theory rethink of …

Pro wrestling, at its essence, is a kind of carnival theater improv based heavily on audience reactions. Every emotion must be over the top to reach the person sitting in the last row. Every aspect of the story should be told in the ring itself, through the choreographed violence. There's a reason why so many former theater kids become wrestlers these days; the line between burlesque, drag, musical theater, and …

Hello everyone! I am still diligently working on the historical fiction novel that I started writing back in February of this year and announced that I was writing in June. Writing the novel has been my main preoccupation for the past few months and I have been spending at least ten hours most days working on it, which is a major part of the reason why I haven’t made many …

Cyclamen hederifolium in one of the courtyards at the music school. An invaluable coda for the shade garden by virtue of flowering in early autumn rather than spring. Tolerant of deep shade and drought. Hailing from the southern Mediterranean it will naturalise when it likes the conditions as is the case here. Known as the Ivy-Leaved Cyclamen the leaves do indeed resemble Ivy albeit smaller and variegated. When C. hederifolium …

I am writing this on Friday afternoon. This time last week I was upstairs in a building behind the Royal Academy, in a gallery called General Assembly. I was looking at Ellie Cotton’s paintings, her show A Study of Saint Francis. The story goes: Ellie Cotton is a painter who went to see an exhibition at the National Gallery, one full of paintings of Saint Francis of Assisi, from the …

Hi Darling Ones, Last night I had a conversation with my friend, Em, about writing, writing habits, and routine. It was a great talk and we vowed in the new year to establish a routine and hold each other accountable. I’m excited, because I want to work on my writing and my penmanship. I’ve been woefully lax on the physical practice of writing. I’m easily frustrated with the tremor and …

The vast bulk of the publishing/marketing/fake literary agency/impersonation scams on which I’ve expended so many words are based in the Philippines (though they do their best to make themselves look local to their preferred American and Canadian victims by maintaining fake business addresses and phone numbers). Many operate in their home country as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies, innocuously claiming to be third-party vendors that provide business-related services (such as …