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You can find all of my Tokyo Game Show 2024 coverage hereMetal Gear Solid. Like a Dragon. Monster Hunter. Dragon Age. My choice of demos at Tokyo Game Show was very predictable. Very me. So I thought I'd mix things up towards the end of Day Two and try something a little different. And that's how I ended up playing Level 5's Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road.To be fair, there were …

There are several species of parakeet present in European cities alongside the Rose-ringed, or Ring-necked, Parakeet, Psittacula krameri, also known as the Kramer Parrot. The others are Blue-crowned Parakeet, Thectocercus acuticaudatus, the Alexandrine Parakeet, P. eupatria, and the Monk Parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus. If we’re talking parrots in general, there’s also the Common Parakeet, perhaps better known as the Budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus. Rose-ringed Parakeet The Rose-ringed Parakeet is well known in …

By Camilla Gree, Evlyn Moreau10d10 ToadsOSE"Low Levels" Upon which is agreed, An old stone wall separates the family farm from a field they say is cursed. Deep within the wheat, two forgotten idols once balanced the spirits of the crops. One has been destroyed and bal- ance is gone, The Noon Lady rises and the crop spirits grow cruel. The Polotnikovs have disappeared into the field and their farm is …

Hey folks, Proud Prison Journalism Project contributor here! Check out my newest collaboration with Kashawn Taylor and Caesar Hernandez: “What Prison Has Taught Us About Politics” at prisonjournalismproject.com Also–if you’ve found your way to this page as a supporter of Kashawn or Caesar, please pass on to them my love and appreciation for their contributions … Continue reading "What does prison teach prisoners about politics? Kashawn Taylor, Caesar Hernandez and …

Christopher Martin has two aims for his book, Spinoza’s Argument for Substance Monism: Why There Is Only One Thing.The first is to explore and defend Spinoza’s arguments for the claim that there “must and can only be one independent existing thing” (1), while the second is to “provide readers curious about Spinoza, or Modern philosophy more generally, with an illustration of what one living philosopher who focuses on the era …

The Friction project collects strategies for removing and adding friction so organisations function better. Here are some choice cuts. Why friction is good and bad We soon learned that the goal of becoming a “frictionless organization” is misguided. Yes, the people who run most organizations create too much debilitating friction. But many also ignore the opposite side of the coin, making the wrong things too easy for employees and customers. …

Sent from my iPad ZELDIN AGAIN I sometimes feel real sympathy (possibly unwanted) for actors who, trained and motivated to channel and express extreme and painful emotions, do their absolute and skilful best but find themselves having to do it in a mediocre play. Even if it is preceded by long rehearsal analysis of their character, and garlanded with learned programme notes about Sophocles and essays about how we don’t …

Genre: Heavy/PowerCountry: U.S.A.Year: 20241. Hail To The Warriors2. Feel The Fire3. Love Beyond The Grave4. High Noon5. Before This Time6. Higher7. Mean Streets8. Open Road9. Mortal Eyes10. Lost Dreams11. Lean Into It12. No More17th album by Riot V, 6 years after their last one. Their riffs sound fresh and classic at the same time, the playing is sharp and energetic, and it is remarkable how much current vocalist Todd Micheal …

Hot--well, somewhat cold--pursuit of the Ushers' missing masks is underway, which means the characters are headed into a little dungeon for some exploration and violence. Oh yeah, Beebo the monkey talks now.CharactersAria, a paladin struggling with her true natureHeck, an affable revenant looking for answersPanthalassa, a necromancer with a missing armDaytona, a dhampir gunslinger fresh from HellGarazi, up and coming witch with a bird familiarWillard Corn and King Beebo, a …

There are two main reasons people use mohair for tailoring today. One is for eveningwear, when they want something with a little more sharpness and lustre; the other, less common, is as an alternative to high-twist wools in the summer. And... > Read more

One of the hallmarks of American motor racing is the flying start or some refer to it as a rolling start. If you’ve ever heard old broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500, you’ve heard chief announcer Sid Collins refer to the start of the 500 as “the world’s fastest flying start”. Flying starts are the norm […]

So there I am, having an issue where my UI state isn’t updating correctly. What do I do? What every developer does: turn to console.log() and troubleshoot by logging values. I have a named color (e.g. blue) and a corresponding HSL color string for that named color (e.g. 100 50% 0%). I log those in the click handler function where I expect the color to change. onClick={() => { // …

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Last night I did something crazy... I bought tweet.new. Yep, I know we're not supposed to call it "tweeting", it's now "posting", but let's be honest, we all do it. What is .new? .new is a domain extension exclusively for performing new actions online: any act that leads to creation can have a quick and memorable .new shortcut associated with it. Help your customers take action faster. Less time clicking …