![]() ![]() However, if you have played and are wanting to read another take on the story.īut it appears there is much discussion on what the story is actually about. If you are now enticed to spend just a few quid on this delightful work of art, don't read anymore as it will spoil it for you. Think yourself immersed into a story that slowly grows on you as you move your way forward. But you don't quite understand what you're in until the music, the sounds and the visuals lift you out of normality. But you're not competing against anything, you are simply playing the role of a narrator of a story that you listen to while walking a set course across an island. While not strictly a game, it requires player interaction in order to complete it. The strength of the writing and the world alone is enough.A little gem of an experience can be found while trawling through the extensive list of games on Steam called "Dear Esther". Still, it's impressive Dear Esther doesn't need puzzles or mechanics to draw you in. You feel the urge to stop and stare, to wander off the path and explore, but there's always the awareness in the back of your mind that there's not really anything to find. You can't help but imagine a version of this game that lets you touch and feel, picking up pebbles on the beach to throw into the sea or leafing through old books in an abandoned bothy. There's very little interactivity a torch comes out automatically in the dark, but that's pretty much the limit. Dear Esther asks nothing of you but to occupy this world. If nothing else, Dear Esther presents one of the most absorbing and believable worlds in gaming. The perfect isolation of the island communicates a loneliness and sense of suspense that's far beyond what traditional games attempt. Music is often absent, leaving you to listen to the wind and crashing waves, but fades in and out with exquisite timing to emphasise moments of narrative significance. Oblique graffiti starts to appear on cliff faces and cave walls as time wears on, and it maintains a sense of mystery right through to its conclusion. You are led, without ever really feeling like you are being led, by subtle visual cues that stand out against the landscape and draw you towards them – a low-hanging moon, a slowly blinking communication tower, or the yawning mouth of a cave. You walk from lonely, rocky beaches up wind-stripped hillside slopes, through richly detailed underground caves and through the skeletons of long-decayed ships. You don't actually do anything except guide the invisible protagonist around the island, taking in the natural beauty of the coast and the startling luminescence of the underground caves. Later on, his commentary becomes stranger and more impassioned. In the first chapter, the narrator talks mostly in beautifully phrased snippets of information about the history of the island. The writing is unashamedly florid, flitting all the time in an unsettling way between past and present, and usually addressed to the eponymous Esther, whose identity becomes clear as time goes on. ![]() Dear Esther is the story of a shipwrecked castaway on a remote Hebridean island, delivered through spoken lines of sumptuous, disconnected prose as you walk around the detailed landscape. If you're at all interested in exploring what games can do outside of the traditional genre templates, Dear Esther offers an unforgettable two hours that will leave you feeling edified, contemplative, and possibly even emotionally moved. Those who aren't, though, will be pleased to know that the atmosphere of the world and the incredible graphical detail do more than enough to justify the game as a commercial release. ![]() ![]() I came to Dear Esther fresh I read the discussion around the original mod with interest, but never actually played it, and I'm guessing that many potential purchasers will be in the same boat. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The cave is swarming with Fallen enemies, including Nightmare Shanks, a stronger variant of the Shank unit which fights alongside the boss. Whispered Falls is a hidden cave that has an underground waterfall and is the hiding area of Wanted: Drained Captain. Whispered Falls (Wanted Drained Captain Location) Keeping to the right once you are past the earlier fallen forces will put you up against Wanted: Metal Captain, who fights alongside Nightmare Wretches along with other Fallen enemies. There are few enemies along the way to the boss fight area and this can easily be reached within seconds upon entering the tunnels. The Drain is a set of underground tunnels with a haunted essence about it as you will later encounter a shadowy figure floating around. The Drain (Wanted: Metal Captain Location) Within the Scavenger’s Den, you will find yourself facing Fallen enemies and as you push through the area, you will have to defeat enemies to take down barriers.Īfter progressing to the end of the cave, you will encounter the boss, Groxus, Blind Captain who only fights alongside normal Fallen enemies, no elites. Scavenger’s Den is a cave located within what appears to be sewers near the lake in the Outskirts, accessible through a tunnel at the bottom of a cliff. Scavenger’s Den (Groxus Blind Captain Location) Terminus East (Wanted Sunless Captain Location).Atrium (Skexis Outcast Captain Location).Widow’s Walk (Wanted Mazan Lost Captain Location).Visit this page to know more about the below mentioned 3 lost sectors. We’ve covered about Trostland lost sectors separately in-depth. Most of the lost sectors in the EDZ are controlled by the Fallen, making it suitable for farming kills for their faction for achievements or tasks.Īlso know about the locations & map of the below lost sectors: The European Dead Zone (EDZ) is home to the most lost sectors in Destiny 2, holding more than three times as many lost sector locations than any other location.ĮDZ is occupied and invaded by different factions and you can expect that there will be several enemies from each faction, some even fighting against each other. ![]() ![]() Once you are logged in, it will take you to the work panel where you can see the space reserved for the documents you will create and store. Now go to and type in google docs ,click on the first result and log on. ![]() If you have neither one then sign up for free account. To start using it, you need to have a google account or gmail one because gmail address is your google universal account. ![]() You can read more of my posts just scroll down to the footer of this page and select the posts you would like to read from “You might also like category” or on the right hand sidebar in the “Recent posts”.įirst google docs offers a free service just like all the other services provided by google labs. SafeShare.TV: the educative way to share Youtube videos.Here are some suggested posts for you to read : You can check other posts covering several tutorials of web2.0 applications and tools that you can use in your classroom, institution, or other workplaces. Just before I proceed with my tutorial on google docs, let me just remind you if this is your first visit here. However there are instructions to follow for this to work and this is what I will show you in this step by step tutorial. Several people can work on the same document online, editing, deleting and adding content to it. Another important feature that sets google docs apart from other word processing services is team or group work. You can also share items you have made by google docs through email with your students, and colleagues. The things you can do in word, excel, or PowerPoint can also be done by google docs very easily in an online version that can be stored and accessed from anywhere in the word with an internet connection. It is an online equivalent to Microsoft Office. ![]() Google docs is a free web-based word processor and spreadsheet editor. ![]() ![]() In August 2020, performances through Februwere removed from sale and ticketholders refunded. In July 2020, with no new opening date announced, tickets were made available for purchase on the Cirque du Soleil website for performances beginning November 5, 2020. On MaCirque du Soleil announced it would lay off 95% of its staff worldwide due to the impacts of the pandemic. On March 17, 2020, three days before the first scheduled performances, Cirque du Soleil announced that the opening of the show would be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 10, 2019, the name of the new production was announced as Drawn to Life, along with the show's synopsis and creative team. The show was revealed to be about "a young girl and her father, who was a Disney animator" though the name of the show was not announced. On August 26, 2019, tickets for the new production went on sale with preview performances to begin on Maand an official premiere date of April 17, 2020. On December 18, 2017, Disney announced that a Cirque du Soleil would produce a new show to replace La Nouba that would "draw its inspiration from Disney's heritage of animation", though no further information was given. ![]() At that time, no plans for a new show were announced. In March 2017 Cirque du Soleil and Disney announced that La Nouba would host its final performance on December 31, 2017. ![]() The show is performed in a custom-built, freestanding theater originally built for it's predecessor La Nouba, which closed in 2017 after performing for 19 years. A collaboration between Cirque du Soleil, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Walt Disney Imagineering, the show is inspired by Disney's animated film productions and the process of animation. It is a contemporary circus performance featuring acrobats, gymnasts, and other skilled performers. Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista, FloridaĬhief Creative Officer & Executive Producerĭrawn to Life is a Cirque du Soleil show at Disney Springs' West Side at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a cause that brings up images of patriotic movements, civil rights struggles, international incidents, and other events more momentous than an argument over the release timing for a video game sequel. It's a way for a community to effectively put its money where its mouth is and demand that its case be heard. A boycott is a statement of collective action-a way for a group to flex its economic power to force change. A petition is just a polite request for someone to change their mind, if they would, please. The somewhat impolitic logo for the boycott group.By casting their disagreement in the form of a boycott, the tens of thousands of gamers who joined the L4D2 boycott group immediately set themselves apart from the Internet petitioners who came before them. The group's first public message asked a simple question that would come to define its cause: "Where's all the content and the updates you promised for, Valve?" Mere hours after Valve announced the planned November release of Left 4 Dead 2 ( L4D2) at June's Electronic Entertainment Expo, a group calling for an L4D2 boycott popped up on Valve's Steam user community. Even well-organized and well-publicized efforts, like those seeking LAN support in StarCraft 2 or further support for the Earthbound games are met with official responses ranging from polite refusal to teasing hints and rarely with real change.īut this year, many gamers took a different tack to protest what they saw as a betrayal of a publisher's past promises. ![]() Sure, there are hundreds of online petitions demanding everything from a Full House game to a generalized end to game hacking, but the vast majority fail to garner much attention or support. In general, gamers aren't very effective at organizing to effect change in the game industry. Save Point is available exclusively as part of the Spring Getaway Games Bundle through May 13. The pieces collected in the book analyze how games were learning from their past and influencing the future, report on some of gaming's growing and myriad sub-communities, and examine how the business of selling and marketing games was evolving alongside the explosive growth of the Internet. The book looks back on video games as they were between 2003 to 2011, a sometimes-uncomfortable "awkward adolescence" period where the industry did its best to grow up with the young audience that had grown up with games as their entertainment of choice through the '70s, '80s, and '90s. This report and over a dozen more are collected in Save Point, a new collection from Ars Technica Senior Gaming Editor Kyle Orland. The most famous example might be the outcry around the conclusion of Mass Effect 3 in 2012, where the developers actually released a downloadable patch changing the conclusion of a franchise-sweeping narrative to placate vocal fans. 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( The Record) ByteDance delays IPO over “data-security concerns” About 40% of blocked domains were new and awaiting categorization, with business-related content, pornography, and information technology the most commonly blocked domains after that. The accidental blocks appear to be when authorities used a broad DNS filtering regular expression that did not account when a shorter domain might be part of a larger one. The researchers found that 311,000 domains were blocked overall, although 41,000 domains appear to have been blocked by accident. Overall, 534 million distinct domains were tested, with 411 million domains checked daily. ( TechCrunch) The scope of China’s Great Firewall internet censorshipĪcademics at US and Canadian universities created a tool called GFWatch, which accessed domains from inside and outside China’s internet and looked at how the country’s Great Firewall impacted connections at the DNS level. RiskIQ specializes in finding assets, devices and services that can be accessed outside of a company’s firewall, and its services will be rolled into Microsoft’s flagship security offerings.Microsoft said the acquisition will help its customers keep an eye out for supply chain attack risks. Bloomberg’s sources say the deal could be worth over $500 million. Microsoft confirmed it intends to acquire the San Francisco startup, which provides threat intelligence and cloud-based software as a service. The site currently lists more than $32 million in ransom payments for 2021. Security researchers and law enforcement officials can download the database for free. The site doesn’t contain any personal or victim-identifying information. It provides a running total of ransoms paid out in bitcoin, using self-reported incidents of ransomware attacks. Jack Cable, a security architect with the Krebs Stamos Group, noticed that nobody was collecting public data despite the bitcoin ledger being publicly viewable, so he launched a crowdsourced ransom payments tracking website called Ransomwhere. Ransomwhere site hopes to provide transparency ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Naruto went into the woods to steal items from corpses. He tried to ask the Third Hokage if he could not teach Naruto, though he was eventually disabused by the notion by Kakashi Hatake. When Naruto became his student, he found it awkward to deal with the person containing the very monster responsible for his parents' death. In the original anime, it was revealed that Iruka became a teacher because he wanted to pass on the Will of Fire to the next generation in this manner, inspired by the Third Hokage's wisdom. In the anime, it was noted that due to other people giving Iruka more attention than they do to Mizuki, Mizuki's kindness to Iruka revealed to be an act just to gain the Hokage's approval, all the while making Iruka miserable discreetly. Iruka thereafter became a prankster, trying to gain attention to stave off his loneliness. He would spend his time at the monument where his parents' names were engraved, and, in his darkest moments would be cheered up by the Third Hokage. Mizuki was a childhood friend of Iruka's after the Nine-Tails Attack, and usually made him feel better. With his family gone, Iruka had no one to give him attention. He was forcibly removed from the battlefield by an unknown shinobi while he called out for his parent to no avail. His father declared that it was the parents' duty to keep their child safe from harm. Initially, a young Iruka was present on the battlefield, and wanted to stay in order to protect his mother. Iruka's parents were killed in the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's Attack twelve years before the beginning of the series. As a result, he regards the children of the village as the backbone of Konoha - even being willing to sacrifice his own life to ensure their safety. ![]() He greatly admires both the Third Hokage who was there to help him during his troubled period as a child and believes strongly in the Will of Fire of the village. He also has a great sense of duty, honour and selflessness as seen when he protected Naruto from Mizuki's attack, suffering a shuriken wound in his back in order to protect him. Iruka's refusal to allow Naruto to graduate at first was not out of spite, but merely out of caring strictness and a desire for Naruto to work harder and reach his own potential. ![]() The two enjoy their favourite ramen dish at Ramen Ichiraku whenever Naruto returns from a mission, where Iruka gets an opportunity to see how Naruto is developing as a ninja. Due to Iruka's more nurturing, protective and compassionate nature, Naruto views him as a mentor and Iruka in turn, views Naruto as a younger brother. This allowed him to also see some of these signs and understand what they meant when displayed by Naruto. Naruto ignored all chūnin and jōnin who reprimanded him for painting all over the Hokage's faces and only showed fear when Iruka showed up.Īs a child growing up without his parents, Iruka turned to performing antics in the Academy in order to gain recognition from others who would otherwise pass him over or look at him with pity for being an orphan. Because of this, Iruka came to be one of the only adults Naruto respected in his youth as well as the only person who could control Naruto's behaviour to some degree. This is seen from his lack of hostility towards Naruto Uzumaki who was often the victim of misplaced anger at the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox who was sealed within Naruto. Despite the tragedy of losing his parents at a young age, Iruka remained a determined and strong-willed individual with a kind disposition. This however, does not mean that he is a pushover, as he can be stern when the situation calls for it most often seen when he shouts at his students in order to get them to obey him. This is most often seen through his teaching methods, often giving a watchful eye over his students as they progress. Iruka is described as being both big-hearted, and soft-hearted. He also wears black pants and black shinobi sandals. Iruka has black hair (brown in the anime) styled in a ponytail, as well as dark eyes and a scar that runs across the bridge of his nose.Īs Headmaster of the Academy, he dons a white shirt underneath a long blue high-collared, long-sleeved suit jacket, with a breast pocket and the Konohagakure symbol embroidered on the collar. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can also leave the skin on as skin will soften as it bakes. I typically use a good ol’ fashioned vegetable peeler. Remove peaches from oven and add topping by the spoonful.Add buttermilk and stir just until combined. Blend cubed butter with flour using a pastry blender until butter is pea-sized. While the peaches pre-bake, add flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, and salt to a bowl and whisk to mix dry ingredients.Then bake in a preheated oven for 10 minutes. Add peeled peaches to a bowl with brown sugar, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, pure vanilla extract, lemon juice, melted butter, tapioca starch.Vanilla ice cream – What’s southern peach cobbler without a scoop or ice cream to bring the flavors full-circle.Wet ingredients – Buttermilk, butter, vanilla, lemon juice.Dry ingredients – Flour, baking powder, sugar, brown sugar, salt, tapioca (or corn) starch.Spices – Cinnamon and nutmeg give this cobbler a good dose of warmth.but feel free to add other warm spices. ![]() ![]() if making during off-season, go for frozen peaches.
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