![]() ![]() Nearly every character he meets gives him another clue to piece together the story of the Mimiga’s oppression and the mystery of his own past.Ī highly polished, finely tuned platform/shooting/exploration game, Cave Story+ uses the appealing audio-visual aesthetics of classic 16-bit video games to draw players into a world deep with emotional storytelling, challenging twitch action and abundant surprises. Unaware of his origin, his purpose or even his own name, the traveler soon encounters a race of rabbit-like creatures called Mimiga on the brink of extinction. Cave Story Merchandise Nicalis Store powered by Hypergun Cave Story+ Egg Fish PVC Strap 4.99 Cave Story+ Polar Star USB Flash Drive 19.99 Cave Story+ Machine Gun USB Flash Drive 19.99 Cave Story+ Drink Coasters 19. It's a sweet, purposely naive way to craft a game.The Definitive Version of the GAME THAT CHANGED THE WORLDĪn unforgettable, life-changing adventure, Cave Story+ features a young hero who wakes up in a hidden wonderland of terrible danger and glorious reward. Whichever path you choose is the correct one, the story as it's meant to be told by you. More to the point, Cave Story doesn't judge you or punish "wrong" choices, as there's no such thing. The choices are small, like deciding whether or not to swap a weapon, and their ripple effects aren't always obvious. It doesn't have the "Press A to be Good Press B to be Evil" clumsiness of a BioShock clone. There isn't a lot of portentous pageantry, however. (I won't elaborate further for fear of spoilers.) ![]() One decision has the potential to cut the length of the game in half, and others can determine whether a major character survives the quest. There are game-changing choices scattered throughout Cave Story, a few of them with profound effects. My successes felt more genuine I defeated that evil, Mimiga-poisoning doctor not because I had to, but because I wanted to. ![]() It was so much fun not to be treated as The Last Great Hope for once. The frog of war.Īnd you know what? The lack of cheerleaders is hugely liberating. In fact, most of the other characters seem almost indifferent to your hero, the ballcap-wearing robot Quote. There's no invisible hand pushing you to just get on with it, no ticking time bomb to extinguish. Still, that freedom of movement is important, because it creates the sensation that you are in charge of Cave Story's journey. You can come and go as you please between about a dozen cavernous worlds, but you'll rarely find cause to backtrack and re-explore what you've already seen. A simple, wonderful, touching story (that takes place in caves, naturally) about a race of bunny-like people called Mimigas and the boy robot who tries to save them from a horrific end. That gives an accurate sense of the run-jump-shoot action while implying that Cave Story is a game of exploration. The game's structure, which sends you on a winding voyage through a floating island, has often been described as a "Metroidvania"-type romp. Following its initial discovery and subsequent survey exploration missions, the surface orifice of the Mystery Flesh Pit was enlarged and internal sections were slowly reinforced and developed by. Originally released by Amaya as PC freeware in 2004, this old-school platformer's fit and finish have been polished a bit for WiiWare by indie dev Nicalis, without ruining the chunky, retro vibe of the original. For unofficial merch, you could try to ask someone on DeviantArt a commission to make something like a Cave Story plush or other merch for you. In fact, nothing in this game is overstated, and that's the heart of its charm. That may sound obnoxiously adorable, but while Cave Story is indeed cute, it's not overly so. A simple, wonderful, touching story (that takes place in caves, naturally) about a race of bunny-like people called Mimigas and the boy robot who tries to save them from a horrific end. He decided to name his magnum opus Cave Story, because that's all this unassuming game is. Try this on for size: "Tunnel Assassin HD: The First Descent." It's like I'm printing money over here.īut solo developer Daisuke Amaya doesn't want my advice. At least stick a subtitle in there, and let everyone know that you're building an international franchise. What the hell kind of a name is Cave Story, anyway? Come on, sex it up a little, leverage the IP against your core demographics.
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![]() It’s not the hardest pinball table around, but it provides just enough challenge and uses its license well to hook you into playing more than you probably intended. But as it stands, Portal Pinball is a great pinball table that doesn’t adhere to reality but still keeps things simple enough to be light and enjoyable. It’s a little thin on content and will require the purchase of either Zen Pinball 2 or Pinball FX2 to play it, however, so it’s an investment that those coming only for the Portal aspect might need to rationalize. With tons of references and entertaining gameplay, Portal Portal is a great new table. It’s inexpensive and well-designed, but it’s only one table, and it would’ve been cool to see one or two more in a proper pack still, the table as it is manages to stay entertaining even after I’ve already done everything in it. While on one hand, Portal Pinball is focused and engaging, nailing that hard-but-not-too-hard difficulty balance on the other, it felt like I had already exhausted the content out of it in about an hour or two. There’s less going on with this table than many of Zen Studios’ previous tables, so it’s a fairly necessary move. It’s nothing overly complex, but it adds a touch of personality that was much appreciated to keep the experience feeling like the games it’s based upon. The entire table is narrated by the incorrigible Wheatly and sinister GLaDOS, the familiar (and chatty) artificial intelligence from Portal 2. Unlocking those doors became the most addictive part of Portal Pinball for me. It seems easy, but Ratman’s Den is tilted up to increase the gravity and the challenge. To open the door, you have to hit the ramps in a specific order, then blast the ball through it, downing one of two turrets. Most of these are probably a little too simple, requiring you to just hit a couple of specific ramps in a limited time, but my favorite was “Ratman’s Den,” a smaller table underneath the main field with four ramps and a locked middle door. There’s a test chamber that you hit once to open, then again to select one of several different exercises. Once you’ve summoned both robots, the ball you locked earlier is released back onto the table for some multi-ball action in a clever nod to the duo’s co-op roots. You can unlock Atlas and P-Body by hitting specific ramps a number of times, then locking in the current ball to make the corresponding character appear on a platform above the field. What’s great about Portal Pinball isn’t just the sheer number of Portal 2 references it crams in, but how it weaves those references into the action in a genuinely fun and interesting way. When the game demanded I hit a specific ramp or target, it was dead simple to identify and execute, and that’s a surprisingly tough feat to pull off in a pinball game. ![]() Where The Avengers tables were cluttered with endless ramps and unclear objectives, Portal Pinball is visually coherent and intuitive. Where the Star Wars tables were muddled with needlessly busy artwork and text, Portal Pinball is straightforward and attractive. That’s in stark contrast to many of developer Zen Studios’ other themed tables, like the gimmicky ones built for Star Wars and The Avengers. The background on the floor is some simple-yet-attractive artwork depicting Portal 2‘s co-op robot buddies, Atlas and P-Body, that leaves the playing field clear enough that you’ll never lose track of your ball. Despite being filled with such exhaustive references to Portal 2‘s lore, Portal Pinball manages to maintain a clean and cohesive design. ![]() Portal Pinball is not some lavish recreation of an existing pinball table, but it is still absolutely lavish. That’s where games like Pure Chess satisfy, and where games like Portal Pinball focus instead on simply being fun to play. But trying to mimic a tangible experience like billiards, chess or pinball in digital form is tricky: visceral actions like frantically smashing the flipper buttons or knocking your hip against the machine to loose a stray pinball from behind a bumper are arguably futile to attempt to replicate it feels doubly so when you consider the often fickle fanbase these games appeal to. There’s always going to be that crowd that obsesses over all the little details, right down to the text on the scoreboard and the flipper accent color, with all the attention of an auteur pornography director trying to line up his million-dollar money shot. They’re surprisingly difficult to maintain and people just don’t seem interested enough for them to be worth the effort, so I’m willing to take pinball in pretty much any form I can get it these days. ![]() You don’t see genuine pinball machines around that much anymore. ![]()
![]() Jules happens to live in the suburbs but is new to the neighbourhood, finding solace in her friend Kat whom she texts after trying to find a hook-up with a stranger for the night on her phone. ![]() After getting out, Rue then continues to do drugs before we cut out and follow Nate as he drives along, taunting a girl on a bike who happens to be another character we’re following this year called Jules. The summer before Junior year was spent in rehab but she had no intention of staying clean. Narrated by main character Rue Bennet, the show begins with a look at her past life and descent into depression, with an increasing reliance on drugs and alcohol as she reaches her teenage years. HBO’s latest teen-drama Euphoria is an unfiltered, sex and drug fueled look at the lives of several teenagers that both excels and falters in equal doses to deliver an uneven pilot that can’t quite decide who it wants to appeal to or what message it wants to share. With this in mind then, it’s always tricky to watch shows that depict drug addicts, having been through that myself. It was both the best and worst time of my life and after struggling to get clean, looking back I wouldn’t change any of it, given it’s made me who I am today. Anyone who wasn’t involved with the drugs didn’t understand and simply wasn’t worth my time. I felt invincible, like the world couldn’t touch me whilst my life slowly began to descend around me as I devoted my entire life around the next weekend and my next fix. We’d then head up to my friend’s flat, get high and dance the night away. Every weekend I’d hook up with a group of friends, we’d phone our drug dealer, wait for him to arrive on his bike and buy ecstacy and whatever else he had at the time. Access to IKEv2, WireGuard and OpenVPN Configuration Files And then do it again the next day, because the data? It's unlimited. That's right, no data limits! You get all the data all the time! So stream 4K content all day, every day, to your heart's desire. With a full Pro account, you have unlimited data bandwidth. Build A Plan does not give you access to Ephemeral Port Forwarding.Build A Plan will only let you generate IKEv2, OpenVPN, and WireG uard config files and credentials for the server locations you have purchased.Static IP purchases can only be accommodated under the Build A Plan umbrella if you have Unlimited Bandwidth and R.Monthly Pro, and Yearly Pro account types will have access to a total of 1000 custom rules for R. ![]() under the Build A Plan umbrella, you will get access to a total of 10 custom rules for R. In addition, when purchasing Unlimited Bandwidth and R. add-on to get unlimited bandwidth and access to our server-side ad and tracker blocker R. However, you can buy the Unlimited Bandwidth and R. Build A Plan does not come with unlimited bandwidth, as each purchased location will add 10 GB of bandwidth.Build a Plan is a sweet option that gets you access to more locations and unlimited data for as little as $3 per month, but there are some differences between Build a Plan and Pro accounts that you should be aware of: *Why the asterisk? Windscribe offers two types of paid accounts: the Pro subscription (monthly at $9 and yearly at $69) and the Build A Plan custom subscription. Fewer people on a Pro server = more bandwidth for everybody. We never throttle, but it's simple math - too many people on a free server = less bandwidth for everybody. A Pro server might have a 1 Gbps uplink but only five users connected in parallel - leaving 200 Mbps for each user if each user downloaded stuff simultaneously. If everybody were to download stuff at the same time, everybody would get 1 Gbps ÷ 100 = 10 Mbps speed. The Pro servers are always less "crowded" than the free servers, leaving ample resources for every Pro user.Ī quick example: a free server may have a 1 Gbps uplink and 100 people connected in parallel. While both our free and Pro servers are configured exactly the same way, Pro users connect to our Pro-only servers, and free users connect to our free servers. With a Windscribe Pro account*, you will have access to all server locations in 111 cities in 64 countries. Pro Servers, Speed and Access to All Server Locations While Windscribe has a pretty stellar free option, there are some big perks to going Pro - let me spell it out for you: 1. So what’s the difference? Why should I upgrade to Windscribe Pro? Our systems will only detect usage that is obviously attributed to abusing our service, so you should have no trouble connecting all your devices to Windscribe at the same time. Even for free users? YUP! Both free and paid users can use Windscribe on as many personal devices as they like. We don't limit the number of personal devices you can use Windscribe on. If you run into any issues with speed, check out these troubleshooting steps. ![]() We wouldn't even dream of it! Speeds, while connected to Windscribe, are impacted by a number of factors, but you can be absolutely sure we have not and never will throttle your speeds, no matter what type of account you are on. Windscribe will never throttle your account. ![]() Throttling - We Never Have and Never Will They can even make use of Windscribe's features and firewall options, because everybody deserves peace of mind - even users of VPN services that compete with us. Hell! Even non-customers/non-users can use our apps to import and connect with OpenVPN/WireGuard configs from other VPNs. We believe that all users should have the same service, no matter how much cash they contribute to our bottom line. Our apps (desktop, mobile, browser, smart TV) are exactly the same for free and Pro users - all of the same functionality, security, connection protocols and features. Now that that's out of the way, let's kick it off with what's the same for free and paid Windscribe accounts: 1. We do not sell any private data because: a) we do not have the data to sell (take a look at our privacy policy here) and b) we don't believe in that kind of business model. Rather, they use your data as currency to sell to advertisers. You may have heard the phrase "if something is free, you are the product." Free apps like Facebook and Instagram may not be asking you to pay. So what's the catch? What's the actual difference between free and paid Windscribe accounts?īefore we dig into it, let's address a potential concern: " Free VPNs sell your data, which is why it's free." Not to brag, but Windscribe has one of the best free VPN offerings out there - up to 10 GB bandwidth per month, with access to servers in 11 countries. ![]() If you’re looking for a unique and delicious cup of coffee, give upside down brewing a try! The Process of making an Upside Down Coffee The upside-down coffee brewing method has since been adopted by many other coffee companies and is now used by thousands of people around the world. Hey there! Did my research bring you any value? If so, and if you feel like treating me to a yummy cup of coffee, you can simply click the button below! It would really make my day and I'd be super grateful! □ Buy Me a Coffee For Just $2 The company claimed that this method of brewing coffee resulted in a richer and more flavorful cup of coffee. In 1954, Moka Express released a coffee maker that was designed to brew coffee using the upside-down method. ![]() The upside-down coffee brewing method fell out of popularity in the 18th century, but it experienced a resurgence in the mid-20th century, thanks to the Brazilian coffee company Moka Express. This method of brewing coffee may have also been popular in other parts of the Arab world, as there are records of it being used in Syria and Egypt. It is unclear exactly how or why this method came to be associated with Turkey, but it is possible that it was due to the fact that at the time, the Ottoman Empire was the main producer of coffee. In the book, de la Varenne describes a way of making coffee “the Turkish way”, which involves putting ground coffee beans in a pot of water, and then turning it upside down to brew. The first recorded mention of the upside down coffee brewing method was in 1671, in the book The French Cook by François Pierre de la Varenne. Is an upside down latte the same as a reverse latte? The Origination of Upside Down Coffee What is an upside down a coffee shot at Starbucks? Is an upside down macchiato just a latte? The Process of making an Upside Down Coffee.This brewing method produces a unique cup of coffee that is sure to please even the most discerning coffee drinkers. If you are looking for a strong and flavorful coffee, then upside down coffee is definitely worth trying. It is often diluted with milk or water or used as the base for an espresso drink. When served, upside down coffee is usually very strong and concentrated. However, you can use any coffee beans that you like. Upside down coffee is often made with a darker roast, as this provides more flavour to the final brew. The water should drip slowly through the grounds, and it will take about 3-5 minutes for the brew to be ready. Place the grounds in the filter and pour hot water over them. To make an upside down coffee at home, you will need a special brewing chamber that has a filter at the bottom. This method produces a very strong, concentrated coffee that is often used in espresso drinks. The water drip through the grounds and into a cup or mug below. This subreddit is not owned, affiliated with, or run by corporate, nor the brand.Upside down coffee is a brewing method where the coffee grounds are placed in the bottom of a special brewing chamber, and hot water is poured over them. Take heed not to share revealing information such as full names or store locations.Īll thoughts and views expressed are ours alone and do not necessarily represent the company's or any business partners' associated with the company. That being said, baristas see and hear a lot that's worth sharing, so just use discretion. Case in point, that dude who put the Starbucks song on YouTube (proof that funny can get you fired). If you post something inappropriate or revealing, you are risking your job. Don't share images of internal documents.Please feel free to join the Discord HERE!!!!!! Customers, be warned! Talk drinks, recipes, current events, share anecdotes and complaints and brags! Because the other subreddit is currently undergoing issues. This subreddit is for baristas, old and new alike, who want to post about life in the green apron. ![]() Step 6: Set a new password for the account: ALTER USER IDENTIFIED BY 'your_new_password' Step 4: Login to the root account: mysql -u root -p Step 2: Add the word skip-grant-tables under the word. You can create one in the /etc folder if you like. If you don’t have a my.cnf file (MacOS does not include one by default). If you’re not sure where it is, search your MySQL installation folder (e.g. If the above solution did not work, you may need to edit the mysql.cnf file to allow for changes to the root account. You should now be logged in to the root account in mysql. Step 8: Log in to mysql using the root account and the new password you set, which should work: mysql -u root -p Step 7: Exit the console by pressing CTRL + D or typing exit. Step 6: You can confirm that the new authentication method, or plugin, is used by selecting from the er table. Step 5: Flush the privileges, which tells the server to refresh the grant tables and apply your changes, with this command: FLUSH PRIVILEGES The mysql_native_password method is a traditional method of authentication and will allow you to login. Substitute the word your_new_password with a new secure password that you want to use for the root account. Step 4: Change the auth_plugin to mysql_native_password, and the password for the root account, in a single command: ALTER USER WITH mysql_native_password BY 'your_new_password' Step 3: Enter the password for this account. Step 2: Open mysql using the sudo command: sudo mysql Step 1: Open the command line on your system. If you get the “access denied” error, one way to solve it is by using sudo to log in to mysql and change the root password. Use the -p option, as mentioned above, and then you’ll be prompted to enter the password. ![]() Try one, and if it doesn’t work, try another one.Īlso a tip for logging in: don’t enter your password in the command line itself, because this will be stored in your command history. There are a few solutions to this, which I’ve detailed below. You might also see this if you log in to MySQL using an IDE such as MySQL Workbench. You’ll see this if you log into MySQL using the command line: mysql -u root -p You might also get the error with “using password no”: Access denied for user (using password: NO) You might get an error code in front of it: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user (using password: YES) When you try to connect to a MySQL database on your own computer (called “localhost”), you may get this error: Access denied for user (using password: YES) ![]() He even spent a short time in Los Angeles working with legendary producer Jack Harris on the 1958 horror picture, “The Blob.” Doughten partnered with Donald Thompson, who had been involved with writing short films for General Motors. This was already happening through 16mm educational films that kids saw during Sunday school, but Doughten wanted to make something much more dynamic.ĭoughten was both a Drake and Yale alumni, having studied drama at both universities. It actually goes back to the late 1960s with a man named Russ Doughten from Carlisle who saw an opportunity to produce evangelical Christian/faith-based films and distribute them through church organizations to be used as learning tools. as Rev.Scenes from “A Thief in the Night.” Courtesy of Mark IV/Heartland Productions.ĭes Moines’ forgotten history includes the making of feature-length Christian films in the 1970s. Connie is an agent of the Beast who pretends to cooperate with Dave. While the plot is a bit difficult to understand, Dave's purpose seems to be 1) to develop a fake mark so that a person can buy and sell without using the actual Beast's mark and 2) to destroy the master computer of the Beast by injecting into it a destructive code, which in fact is the song, "Onward Christian Soldiers." The story is presented with action scenes and interspersed long conversations. She runs, goes down into an underground room and meets Dave there. Leslie is with Patty at the guillotine (waiting her turn), when she escapes due to the eschatological earthquake. The 3rd and 4th films are spliced on to the ending of the second film, but begin a rather new story, that of Dave, Leslie, and Connie. But it ends dramatically with Patty witnessing her friend Wenda being executed, and arguing with Wenda's younger sister Sandy (who, along with Jerry and Diane, urges Patty to take the mark) who betrayed them - and being prepped for her own execution. The plot is somewhat hard to understand in the second film because the story of Patty is told in flashbacks within flashbacks. In the ensuing plot the questions are 1) will she be caught (as in her dream she was caught), and 2) will she take the mark to escape execution. Traumatized and distraught, Patty realizes that the Rapture has indeed occurred and she's been left behind. Horrified, Patty frantically searches for her family only to find them missing too. ![]() Her relief is short-lived when the radio announces that millions of people have disappeared. Patty then awakens, this time for real, and realizes that all she had experienced was only a dream. Patty escapes but is cornered by UNITE on a bridge, and falls from the bridge to her death(in the dream state). Patty desperately tries to avoid the law and the mark but is captured by UNITE. A government system called UNITE ( United Nations Imperium of Total Emergency) is set up and those who do not receive the mark identifying them with UNITE will be arrested. Gradually, Patty realizes that the Rapture, an event some interpret from the Bible, has happened and she and everyone else left behind are entering into the Great Tribulation, the last days of Earth, dominated by the Antichrist. One morning, she awakens to find that her family and millions of others have suddenly disappeared. She refuses to believe the warnings of her friends and family that she will go through the Great Tribulation if she does not accept Jesus. Patty Jo Myers is a young woman who considers herself a Christian because she occasionally reads her Bible and goes to church regularly, where the pastor is really an unbeliever. The chief conflict is whether or not Patty will take the Mark of the Beast or not, in the face of the threat of execution by the forces of the Beast. ![]() The first two films out of the four in the series, concern Patty and her two female friends. This film is the first in a sequence of four. ![]() This feels completely natural, and brings back memories of highlighting my textbooks in college. I like it because of its alternative work mode-just select a highlighter color, and then click-and-drag across your text to highlight as you go. Like Preview, you can highlight (place a translucent colored line across selected text) by first selecting a block of text then applying a highlight-though PDFpen offers five colors (one customizable) to Preview’s single highlight color.īut support for multiple colors isn’t the main reason I like PDFpen’s highlighter. As long as the image your adjusting has a solid background, you should be able to get very good results using this tool.įinally, one of the features I really like is PDFpen’s highlighter. I used this feature to remove the white background from my signature TIFF file, and it worked well. An adjustment window lets you click any one color to make that color transparent a slider then controls the tolerance of the transparency, so you can set the exact level of transparency you want. You can also set its transparency, at least for images with a solid background color. You can insert any graphic into a PDF, and then change the graphic’s size, crop, and location. Alas, it doesn’t, so the only way to see what a small graphic may be is to insert it into your document. Unfortunately, you can’t resize the library palette (other than vertically), so larger objects will be small and hard to read if the palette supported Quick Look-like previews, this wouldn’t be a problem. I don’t have a ton of things stored in the library, but it is a great place to keep the scanned version of my signature-I can now quickly “sign” any PDF I need to without hunting around for the source file on my hard drive. Objects can be dragged from the library into your PDF, and you can modify their properties as you would any other object. (Mouse over any of the editing marks and a tool tip will appear, defining each mark.) ![]() If you edit papers, these pre-made shapes can save you a ton of time. The Library palette also includes a Proofreading Marks tab that contains a set of over 100 standard editing marks-a slash for delete, sideways “S” for transpose, etc. Use the libraryĪ writer’s nightmare: pre-made editor’s marks!PDFpen includes a special Library palette, where you can store often-used shapes, scribbles, graphics, and text. I also experienced a PDFpen crash when trying to replace text in one extra-large (40MB) PDF this was the only PDF I had that problem with, and the company is working on the problem. Copying, though, always worked, which made it easy to extract images from PDFs. Sometimes, after moving an image, when I undid my moves, the image wouldn’t move back to exactly where it started. In some documents, attempting to move an image would only move part of it in others, I could move and resize at will. In my tests, the usability of the feature depended on the PDF being worked with. You can also, in theory, work with images in PDFs-moving, copying, resizing, and even deleting them. ![]() This issue has been reported to the company, and it will be fixed in a future minor update. Depending on the type of object you’re using, some features may not be customizable-I was unable to change the line type on a rounded corner box, for example.Īdditionally, I found that changing the color of an inserted note was problematic-occasionally changing the note’s color with the note open would also cause the text itself to change color. ![]() Draw a square, for example, and you can set the fill color and opacity, line color and opacity, and line thickness and type. Objects can be customized via the Inspector palette.
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