Karin eats them to stay alive, and has become stronger over a matter of days. In at least one ending, you lock Karin in the basement, where the others’ dead bodies are, along with others from previous meals. The player character is disturbed by her plans to leave Gregor alive and eat him piece by piece, especially as Gregor is too nice and drugged up to call her out, only begging for a blanket as he succumbs to shock and blood loss. At first she’s just a catty bully, but soon enough she shoos Anatoly out of the cabin, knowing it will be his death, and maims Gregor to eat his limbs. Either way, it’s not a good way to go.Įven worse, Karin becomes more monstrous. Either they drown in the rainfloods, or the player character butchers them as soon as they decide to go. The meat is coming from anyone who leaves the cabin. You may also lose your appetite after the implications become clearer. Source: Deer Dream Studios.Ĭooking Companions will make you both laugh and wince. And she is still hungry… Spoilers ahead for Cooking Companions. No, she wants to show off her prowess with a knife. Karin, however, seems to figure it out and she’s not grossed out. Everyone suspects the truth, but no one wants to address the elephant in the room. ![]() Karin asks where the source of meat came from, but the player character insists it’s a secret. Vegetarian Anatoly throws up his breakfast, while Karin and Gregor ask for seconds. Mariah nominates herself when it seems the others will send Anatoly outside.Īfter Mariah leaves, meat appears in the cabin, in little cuts. Everyone discusses what to do, and who could possibly make it outside and brave the floods to either get help or fetch supplies. Fancy cabbage rolls one night, moldy bread with homemade jam the next. No one has the tools to make a temporary raft and risk the waters. No one can leave unless they are willing to risk drowning to make it to the nearest grocery store. The path leading to the cabin is covered in water that one cannot definitely wade through to reach the main roads. They soon call out how badly the player character stinks.Īll should be fine, except that heavy rains flood the area. In the kitchen, talking vegetables called the Chompettes gather to cheer on the player character. He or she can make a mean cabbage roll with tomato sauce, as well as a vegetable stew. The player character hosts them, cooking every night. It seems that they are on vacation in the mountains, preparing to rough it out. Trapped In the Rain Floods Source: Deer Dream Studios.įour friends gather in a cabin located in the Tatras Mountains, which the player character owns: sweet Mariah, prickly Karin, shy Anatoly, and friendly Gregor. The theory is legit, but I am keeping my original analysis up. ![]() Note: After I wrote this article, Game Theory came up with an alternative analysis of the game, where they believe Cooking Companions is set in the 1930s and that Baba Yaga is involved. With that said, the visual novel is grabbing my attention, with the promise of no jump scares, just a hint of how human nature can break down when facing dire circumstances. I’m watching a "let’s play" of Cooking Companions from my friend Melody Young because I sure as heck won’t play two horror games in one month. Cooking Companions does that not even bothering to pretend to be a cutesy harem visual romance novel. They manage to toe the line by making you laugh while pondering the more horrific implications. Others, however, lean into the ridiculous while building up a more gradual horror. Horror games have to walk the line between real scares and some ridiculous B-level scenarios (less jumpscares, thanks).
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![]() “As the former President’s filing indicates, the FBI agents and DOJ attorney were permitted to visit the storage room,” the DOJ’s legal brief says. 8 search.Īccording to the Justice Department, one of Trump’s unidentified lawyers “explicitly prohibited” officials from searching certain boxes during their visit in June. ![]() The Times also reported that Trump’s other counsel Evan Corcoran drafted the June statement that Bobb signed some two months before the Aug. Though that attorney’s name is redacted in the certification letter, the New York Times identified her as Christina Bobb, a former TV personality for the right-wing network One America News. One attachment to its blockbuster filing from Tuesday night appeared to show one of Trump’s attorneys falsely certifying that the former president returned all of the subpoenaed documents to the federal government. The Department of Justice’s investigation into the highly classified documents found in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home has been turning up the heat not only on the former president - but also on multiple members of his legal team. Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba insults New York Attorney General Letitia James on Newsmax. ![]() ![]() Again, the Vivobook out-performed the Mac in this area, only increasing latency by 33% compared to 66% on the Mac. The last thing I test speed-wise is ping, otherwise known as latency. This is especially helpful if you’re using Windscribe in countries like China, Pakistan, Cuba, or the United Arab Emirates that don’t allow VPNs. Is it just me or does Stealth sound like a James Bond movie? Stealth is what disguises your VPN traffic as regular web traffic so it can get through firewalls. If UDP is your fun uncle, TCP is your responsible older sister picking up the slack. Then, it breaks the data into smaller packets and makes sure it gets put back together in the right order. First, it creates a connection between the source and the destination and ensures that it’s active. Not only does it transport data, but it also makes sure that it gets to the right place. That’s why Windscribe pairs UDP with TCP, Transmission Control Protocol. While you’ll get there eventually, you will probably be missing some of your homework or lunch. Think of UDP like a fun uncle sending you off to school one morning. UDPĪ user datagram protocol is responsible for sending the data packets, but it’s not responsible for keeping them in order. That’s why we match it with encryption methods, to attain both the speed of SOCKS and the safety of encryption. Then, it gets the data to its destination, but keep in mind that with SOCKS alone, the data won’t be encrypted. SOCKS, which stands for Sockets, is what gets you in disguise through a spanking new IP address. What’s the first thing you do? Buy a disguise, of course. Basically, if you’re working in a coffee shop, IKEv2 is the protocol for you. This is especially helpful if you’re someone that likes to switch in between Wi-Fi and mobile hotspots through your phone. The Internet Key Exchange (version two) will re-establish your connection. Say you get disconnected from your VPN and you want to connect again. Next, Internet protocols determine how your data is transmitted across a network. ![]() The “hashes” created are both irreversible, meaning that if you only had the hash, you couldn’t figure out what the original data was, and unique, meaning that no two pieces of data will result in the same hash. SHA512 VPN Hashing AlgorithmĪ Secure Hash Algorithm encrypts your data and also matches a specific public key to an identity. Let’s see how Windscribe actually encrypts your data. Windscribe EncryptionĮncryption is what turns the words you see on your computer into inscrutable code, indecipherable to any third party. You’ll be able to access Netflix on Windscribe servers in the U.S and U.K but watching Netflix from any other country probably won’t work. This is great for bandwidth, an added bonus. Windscribe offers split tunneling, meaning you’ll be able to go on a public network and a private network simultaneously. That’s a good thing! What Kind of Tunneling does Windscribe Offer? Split Tunneling Immediately, all of your websites and applications will be “killed” so you won’t have any leaks onto the public server. Say you’re in a coffee shop using the Windscribe VPN, and for whatever reason, your VPN fails. Windscribe does have a kill switch, also called a network lock feature. I don’t love that they keep track of the number of bytes you’re transferring or when you’re using the VPN- it seems unnecessary, unlike your account information. They will not store your original IP address or the sites you’ve visited.Īs far as logging data goes, Windscribe logs a little more than the bare minimum. ![]() They’ll also keep track of the total amount of bytes you’ve transferred in the past 30 days, plus the timestamp of your last activity and the number of parallel connections to prevent account sharing. The only data that Windscribe keeps is your username, password, email address, and payment method. Will Windscribe Log My Data? Windscribe Data Logging Policy. Now that I’ve given you some necessary background, I want to tell you about the features of the VPN itself. Grubhub for their own sites generates a phone number for each restaurant that goes to a centralized, Grubhub owned call center. This one is just priceless (seriously, read this Buzzfeed piece). ![]() In recent weeks there has been some great work coming out around a Yelp - Grubhub phone scam. These underhanded tricks aren't unique to Doordash though. ![]() Many restauranteurs were complaining about their Google listings being "hijacked" by Doordash, sometimes even usurping their own preferred delivery. ![]() Tricking businesses onto your platform and creating additional headaches for small business owners in the pursuit of Softbankian growth is a bad as it gets. To add to the illegality of it all, there is a general halt on court eviction proceedings during the pandemic in the US and there are various assistance and support groups in place for tenants to work with their landlords in most markets, provided you do the proper due diligence and communication with all parties involved. Referencing this article (and accounting for the varied local and state laws), you (the landlord) at least need to show proof of:ġ.) You served notice to the tenant to appear in court correctlyĢ.) Proved your case that the tenant is either willfully not paying or openly committing illegal acts of crime or destroying the property and received a judgement in favor to evictģ.) Have the Sheriff or other equivalent official serve the eviction notice to the tenant with a clear lockout date on the noticeĤ.) Wait for the proper appellate timeframe for the tenant to counter or respond to the eviction notice before executing the lockout and removal of the tenant's property (and to an extreme extent anyone occupying the property space) by the Sheriff (or equivalent) and a contracted mover and locksmith.Īnything less than following that process to the T and you are basically hiring (or gig working as) a brute squad meant to illegally prey on and intimidate tenants to forcibly move out without knowing their full rights (read: "self-help evictions"). Otherwise it seems like a great way of intimidating tenants to leave or pay more. Wonder what kind of vetting is in place to confirm someone is even allowed to be evicted. I imagine the civil liabilities alone they're going to be hit with after their first hour of operation despite trying to hide behind the fig lead that their process servers are 'independent contractors and not employees.' *edit* Unless the courts get there first. It's going to be beautiful to see how fast the internet enables people to completely ruin this company and everything it attempts. Yeah that seems like the logical progression here There's a lot to quote from this article and I quoted a lot as it is, but holy shit what. The company did not respond to requests for comment or a source for this quote, but the mention of the Times has since disappeared from its website. The website also featured a quote, attributed to The New York Times: "Too many people stopped paying rent and mortgages thinking they would not be evicted." A search reveals this phrase hasn't appeared in the Times. "Literally thousands of process servers are needed in the coming months due courts being backed up in judgements that needs to be served to defendants." "We are being contracted by frustrated property owners and banks to secure foreclosed residential properties."Ĭivvl aims to marry the gig economy with the devastation of a pandemic, complete with signature gig startup language like "be your own boss," and "flexible hours," and "looking for self-motivated individuals with positive attitudes:" "FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19," its website says. ![]() "Unemployment is at a record high and many cannot or simply are not paying rent and mortgages," the ads state. In its Craigslist ads, posted across the country, Civvl explains the opportunity plainly: "There is plenty of work due to the dismal economy." "It's fucked up that there will be struggling working-class people who will be drawn to gigs like furniture-hauling or process-serving for a company like Civvl, evicting fellow working-class people from their homes so they themselves can make rent," she told Motherboard. Helena Duncan, a Chicago-based paralegal who also participates in housing activism, saw a Craigslist post from Civvl while searching for jobs. Seizing on a pandemic-driven nosedive in employment and huge uptick in number-of-people-who-can't-pay-their-rent, Civvl aims to make it easy for landlords to hire process servers and eviction agents as gig workers. Instead, it is the following call to action, from a company called Civvl: "Be hired as eviction crew."ĭuring a time of great economic and general hardship, Civvl aims to be, essentially, Uber, but for evicting people. The button below this statement is not for a GoFundMe, or a petition for calling for rent relief. "SINCE COVID-19 MANY AMERICANS FELL BEHIND IN ALL ASPECTS," reads the website copy. ![]() But as Napster’s troubles mounted, StreamCast looked for an alternative approach. The company had initially operated an interconnected group of OpenNap servers, an alternative file-sharing network that relied on the original Napster’s software. StreamCast was founded in Nashville as MusicCity Networks, and it garnered little notice until a federal court ordered the original Napster to stop users from downloading copyrighted songs. Still, it continued to generate a healthy amount of revenue, thanks to the number of advertisements it showed users and the payments it collected from companies whose software was bundled with Morpheus (by ’s count, the Morpheus software has been downloaded more than 173 million times, enough to generate a mountain of cash from bundling alone). ![]() It lost many of them in early 2002, when Morpheus was suddenly cut off from the FastTrack network it shared with Kazaa and Grokster. ![]() At the height of its popularity, CEO Michael Weiss claimed in an interview, it had 24 million unique users. StreamCast’s staying power was a tribute to the popularity of file sharing, which explains why advertisers - and some venture capital firms - continued to finance it despite the entertainment industry’s lawsuits. To understand the latest chapter in this long-running saga, it helps to know the financial stakes and some of the history. That may or may not be true, but there’s no doubt that StreamCast’s attempt to take revenge against the extended Kazaa family proved its undoing. StreamCast executives had long grumbled that Kazaa had sabotaged their business just as it was taking off in 2002, enabling Kazaa to dominate the second generation of file-sharing networks (i.e., the one that succeeded the original Napster). Two of the defendants in that case counter-sued, won and locked StreamCast in a financial death-grip. It proved to be a tactical blunder of the first order. Instead, StreamCast was felled by one of its own rocks: a lawsuit it filed in January 2006 against file-sharing rival Kazaa and a host of related companies. The file-sharing company filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition last week, sending it down the road to liquidation.īut the company’s demise wasn’t triggered by Hollywood studios or the major record labels, as much as they would have liked to have done so. battled the biggest companies in the entertainment industry for nearly six and a half years before finally dropping the slingshot and hitting the dirt. Like David going 15 rounds with Goliath, StreamCast Networks Inc. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. Tomorrow’s award means that Schaefer Systems is expected to supply mostly 65-gallon plastic containers within six weeks of the city’s purchase order.Įach container will have an attached tight-fitting lid, two wheels, RFID tags and handles for lifting and dumping the contents automatically into city garbage trucks. (That number was amended to 26% by the Department of Public Works after The Brew questioned inconsistencies between the percentage cited and the recorded number of citizen calls in the two neighborhoods.)Ī prototype trash container made by the supplier. The purchase of so-called “smart” garbage cans has been one of the top priorities of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to replace the myriad of cans, containers and plastic bags currently used by residents to dispose of their garbage.Ī pilot program of 11,000 municipally-owned carts distributed in the Mondawmin area and Belair-Edison last year has been credited by the mayor with reducing citizen calls for rat exterminations by 75%. North Carolina-based Schaefer Systems International has been selected as the supplier of the rollout containers that will be equipped with radio frequency (RFID) tags for tracking purposes, painted green, emblazoned with the city seal and lettered with text that will read, “Property of the City of Baltimore.” ![]() ![]() The Board of Estimates is set tomorrow to approve $8.94 million to buy about 210,000 garbage cans that will be distributed next year to every city household as part of an effort to keep streets cleaner and reduce the rat population. ![]() Test your new knowledge and then check the answers by clicking each character!Įach Chinese stroke also has a name, that you can learn in our articles that will teach you the names of 20 Chinese character strokes. The following characters are often written incorrectly. Test Your Chinese Stroke Order Rules Knowledge ![]() ![]() As frustrating as this was for me, I do understand why and also have to admit that I, a grown woman over 20 years older than my students was also a culprit of writing (albeit Chinese characters) however I wanted. In my past life as an English teacher, I taught lots of children to read and write English, and the first thing they want to do is break the rules and draw a ball and a stick to make the letter ‘d’. Kind of a nice catch 22 there isn’t it?Īs with all ‘alphabets’ there are rules to produce the shape of a letter or character. However, ACTUALLY learning the stroke order for Characters often helps the learner to remember the character, which is why Chinese character stroke order is taught in Chinese Schools from a young age. Remembering the stroke order for each and every Chinese character is, according to many of you, the most difficult thing about learning Chinese. Even when you know your radicals inside out, have made a nice story (or mnemonic) woman 女 (nǚ) under a roof 宀 (mián) = peace 安 (ān), putting pen to paper can still be a bit of a daunting prospect. I think it’s fair to say that just trying to recognise Chinese characters is hard enough. been confirmed to be legit difference between Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon. They believe that Sword is superior because it has a new type known as Spectral. Pokmon Legends: Arceus Pokmon Sword and Shield Pokemon Games Pokmon. filled with Pokemon like recent games Sword/Shield/Legends: Arceus. This is because of its more muscular fighting type. The Pokmon Database is your source for information and multimedia for the Pokmon. You can see more foliage and vibrancy in the new game. Many people consider the Pokmon sword to be better than the Pokmon shield. With this being said, there is also a big difference, graphically, here as well. With Scarlet & Violet, there’s probably a larger team, longer development period, and different focuses. Pokemon Legends Arceus explored game mechanics we’ve never seen introduced to a Pokemon game before and a lot of developer time was spent on that. Now that it has been revealed, fans have noticed similarities between Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Terastal and Sword and Shield's Dynamaxing. It’s good to note that it’s likely that different teams were working on these two games and the end goal for each title was different. Some fans say they’re surprised that the graphics between these two games have improved in such a short amount of time. Magnemite from Pokemon Sword & Shield compared to Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Lucario from Pokemon Sword & Shield compared to Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Graphics Compared to Pokemon Legends Arceus Some would say they like the art style of Sword & Shield more but it’s undeniable that the graphics have improved overall between generations. Pokemon Sword and Shield's recently revealed gen 8 Pokemon designs prompt many to wonder how these designs compare to previous generations. In Pokemon Sword, Bea is the Fighting-type Gym Leader for the Stow-on-Side Gym. The character models of the Pokemon have more depth and the soft lighting doesn’t make it look flat. Pokmon Sword and Pokmon Shield are 2019 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokmon Company and Nintendo for the. Pokemon Sword Gym Leaders Fighting-type Gym Leader: Bea. You can clearly see the improvement in these images. Reddit user u/Minnale101 made some fantastic comparisons from screenshots of the trailer and screenshots of Sword & Shield gameplay. Graphics not yet final, tweaks to rendering will be the last things added. Fans noticed immediately after the trailer was released that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet seem to have higher resolution textures and softer lighting. Difference Between Pokmon Sword and Shield From the house that brought us the popular Pokmon Sun and Moon video games, brings yet another great adventure. Pokmon Sword/Shield & Lets Go Shader Comparison. At the far extreme, the difference between a Pokmon with 0 IV in a stat. Choose your Pokemon: - Select Pokemon - Abomasnow, Abra, Absol, Accelgor, Aegislash, Aegislash (Blade), Aerodactyl. ![]() Loose, Complete (CIB), and New prices updated. ![]() This list includes all Pokemon which are currently available in Pokemon Sword and Shield, including via trading from Pokemon HOME as well as the Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra DLCs.The most noticeable improvement in the graphics for this upcoming game are the textures. New to Sword and Shield, when you reach the Battle Tower during the post-game. Compare current and historic Pokemon Sword and Shield Double Pack Target Edition prices (Nintendo Switch).
![]() You’ll be ready to go … without having used your imagination at all!Īnd when the time does come to use your imagination, you’ll know exactly what to do and how to do it. You will literally have your first Memory Palace up and running in about 2 minutes. You're going to develop the ability to look at information once and remember it for as long as you wish.Īnd using the Magnetic Memory Method, it really couldn’t get any easier. Or better said, they are memory competitors who memorize for the short term and instantly forget after they win (or lose) the prize.īut you're going to learn the tools of long term memorization. Plus, I teach you how to stop inventing mnemonic tools like most other trainings mistakenly teach. It's used by multiple memory world champions, but also by every day people who just want to learn faster and remember more.Īnd it's great that so many people learn so much from my teaching, because that means.Īctually, helping you tap into creativity you've let fade so that you don't need motivation is the whole point of the Magnetic Memory Method and this memory improvement Masterclass.Īll the motivation you're looking for will appear on autopilot when you start using the memory exercises and memory techniques I teach.īasically, I'm going to get you a bunch of "quick victories." These will create neurogenesis that leads to neuronal change - exactly the changes involved in habit formation.Įven if you don’t think you have a creative bone in your body, you can still create powerful, perfectly-functioning Memory Palaces just by filling in a few simple blanks on the Worksheets provided. ![]() I'll also show you the little-known "Memory Temple" technique. medicine, art, literature, information technology, engineering, you name it. How to use the secret art of "bibliomancy" to rapidly master any subject. ![]() (And no, I'm not talking about "speed reading" - this is far better than that.) How to 3x your learning speed by actively forgetting most of what you study.(This may sound obvious, but the vast majority of people don't actually do this when they read!) How to read books with your "eyes open".and how you can apply this to any learning project you're working on. You'll learn exactly how I used these techniques to ace my graduate school exams. In just a short period of time, you can fill-in-the-blanks of the Worksheets provided in this memory training course and have exactly the right amount of Memory Palaces for memorizing anything you could ever need to have in your mind.Īnd Memory Palaces are just one of the powerful memory tools you’ll start putting into action immediately.įact is, thousands of people just like you have successfully used the Magnetic Memory Method based on proven aspects of memory psychology.Īnd it's all made possible by how teach you to practically inhale massive amounts of knowledge. Simply put, Memory Palaces are like having an automated computer in your brain that saves any piece of information you want so that you can retrieve it later without having to think about it. If that sounds valuable to you, then you're in luck.īecause easy, elegant, effective and fun is exactly what you get when you use the Magnetic Memory Method to improve your ability to learn, memorize and recall the important information that can make a huge difference in the positive direction of your life. Special supplemental extras for improving every area in which the health of your memory and your brain touches your lifeĪnd just suppose you could sit down, create a simple strategy for memorizing vocabulary, mathematical formulas, names, facts, dates and even long speeches and have the material ready for use at any time.Īnd that you could achieve these skills in a way that is easy, elegant, effective and fun.including long talks from the top of your head Multiple, memory training exercises designed to create energy, enthusiasm and the ability to memorize massive amounts of information.You'll use what you’ve learned to become an A+ student, a professional in your field or world class expert In-depth training about how to go beyond memorizing and recalling information.The most advanced memory training ever created, diving deep into each technique as you quickly learn the easiest and quickest paths to success.You'll feel your memory improving as you go Step-by-step worksheets, visualization exercises, memory exercises and detailed guides even a 10-year old can follow. ![]() I'm talking about handing you focused memory training without the fluff that fills most memory improvement books, video programs and audio courses
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