![]() Day by day, more and more beautiful girls ended up surrounding the protagonist, much to his dismay. In fact, it had already been arranged that the princess from the neighboring kingdom, Sophia, and Charlone, the beautiful daughter of a noble family, would be part of this harem. Moreover, the first romance of his life was to come about as a result of his kingly duty to "build a harem, father heirs, and stimulate the growth of the kingdom." Not taking no for an answer, the people forced the position of king onto the protagonist. While they were still baffled by their new surroundings, a woman, who identified herself as the Prime Minister of the town, told him that he was the "last king" of the kingdom. When they opened their eyes, they were looking at a major port city. However, a wrench would get thrown into his plans when suddenly a bright light enveloped them both and they were transported to another world. But he just wanted to spend his time enjoying his hobbies and ran away from relationships by any means necessary. She was worried that if this continued then he would become a failure of a human being. One holiday, the protagonist, whose creed in life was "enjoy yourself", but who also had traumatic experiences with both romance and women, was once again being chided by his childhood friend, Hikari, for not trying to get a girlfriend. Harem ja Nai yo Kingdom - Charlone & Marrou Hen Harem ja Nai yo Kingdom - Hikari & Sophia & Kiki Hen ![]() Xinyuanwu Hanhuazu & Ta&Ta❀Xinjianjin Hanhuazu ![]()
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![]() ![]() If you feel stuck on how to do this, it happens to be one of my specialties. I’ve spent most of my life learning new and ancient tools for releasing big emotions. Emotions only lessen their grip when we process and release them. There is incredible freedom on the other side of pain. The thing is, we have so much practice keeping it all in, no one has taught us how to emotionally release. We are slowly learning to accept the deep well of emotion that lives inside us all. ![]() ![]() Yet, our Western version of the normal range of human emotion is excruciatingly narrow and hasn’t changed much over the decades, carrying with it many paternalistic and oppressive ideologies. Many of us are deemed ‘broken’ or ‘ill’ if we can’t at least pretend to be normal. Watching or reading funny things a film, a book or the TV really can boost your feelings.Those of us who do express our deepest emotions or can’t lock them up any longer are pathologized and told there’s something wrong with us. Another great solution on the opposite end of the scale is laughter, laughing until you ache is a great formula to release stress and tension, it really helps to change our perspective on things that really do worry or frighten us, so, whenever possible laugh as much as you can. They will help you work through your feeling and you will feel comfortable doing so. However if your problem is really deeply set, and well rooted into you, seeking professional advise is very wise and can resolve the problem much quicker and happier for you and your surroundings. Talking about your emotions can also help if you have a great friend who you trust and can confide. When you are overpowered by these emotions and they spring up on you, especially if the feeling has become habitual, try to find yourself a little spot just for you, take a deep breath and then scream or shout as loud as you can, this really helps to release all that you have bottled up, jealousy hatred whatever it maybe, if this is impossible then do a similar process but with a pillow, shout into a deep pillow, which will muffle the sound and then hit it time and time again as hard as you can, this is a great way to release that pent-up tension, you may think you are far to reserved to act in this way, but I would suggest you give it a try, this is something between you and your emotions, no one else and you will be amazed on the release it gives you !Īnother wonderful method is a good cry, just think of something that will trigger this emotion for you, or maybe listen to a certain piece of music that holds memories for you, or maybe its a film that brings those tears up to the surface, just have a wallow in nostalgia. You cannot allow your frustration or fear or anger whatever the emotion you are feeling be taken out on your family and friends or within your work place, there are many ways to discharge pent-up emotion. This is why it is essential that we find a way to release our emotions that suit us, we are all different and some methods suit others better than the next person. You may feel that you need to hide your emotions and be strong for the rest of your family or maybe you simply have always lived within a family unit that do not show emotion to one another or anyone for that matter, this will only create long-term severe negativity, that grows and becomes the root of maybe a terrible illness. This method of hiding your emotions will also add to your original stress, tension and conflict – just as tensing up against physical pain succeeds in causing greater pain. When we keep all our emotions deep down and pent-up, it is important to emphasise that the cure for the outside world is not to put on a brave face and fight back the tears, this will only make things worse and can have great physical effects along the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She temporarily stepped down but was later reinstated after an outside investigation by Solertia Consulting Group reportedly found no “systemic sexual or psychological harassment” at the studio. Months later, however, an expose by alleged a toxic work environment at the studio, driven by creative director Simon Darveau and enabled by Lamarche. That game, Season, made a big splash with its dazzling trailer when it was revealed at the 2020 Game Awards. It launched in early access a year later, with the indie studio pivoting to its next project a couple of years later. “it’s been several months and efforts of just fucking trying to see what we could do, who we could talk to, how can we leverage more funds.”Įstablished in 2015, Scavengers announced the goofy, post-apocalyptic free-to-play battle royale game The Darwin Project at Microsoft’s 2017 Xbox Showcase. “It’s not a decision I took lightly,” Lamarche told Kotaku over the phone. The remaining employees will begin work on a new “gameplay-driven” project while the studio claims it will provide financial and psychological support, as well as extended health coverage benefits, to those laid off. “Unfortunately, this means parting ways with all but approximately sixteen members of the Scavengers Studio team.” “Given the current global economic context and Season’s financial results, we have been left with no choice but to make the difficult decision of downsizing the studio to a smaller, sustainable group of game developers,” she wrote in an email the studio shared with Kotaku. It revealed that Season, a game about a woman documenting the world from her bike before a cataclysmic event, had only managed to sell 60,000 copies in its first five months, apparently leaving the small, Montreal-based operation out of options. On June 20, Scavengers Studio CEO Amélie Lamarche sent an email to staff she’d never planned on writing when she co-founded it nearly eight years ago. But that didn’t stop the studio behind it from recently laying off over half of its developers. Season: A Letter To The Future checked both boxes, arriving on PlayStation 5 and PC earlier this year to some rave reviews that praised the open-world narrative game for its beautiful art and piercing meditation on the past and how we process it. The video game industry is littered with cancelled projects and bad games, so it’s amazing when something manages to 1.) get released and 2.) be really, really good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: From there, one of you can host, and the game will play just like it usually would, but with your friends being able to tag along and contribute to the fun.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. Make sure that Harmony is booted up first, followed by the core game and then the Multiplayer mod. Once you have them both, restart the game with the two mods selected. The latter is used to ensure the game is stable and runs well with mods installed. These are the multiplayer mod and the Harmony mod. You need to grab two mods from the steam workshop. It is pretty simple to set up a multiplayer game. RELATED: Everything You Need To Know Before Starting Northgard Work together to battle the challenges of Rimworld as a team. One of you could be focused on food, while another works on construction. Everyone has access to the same resources and can control everything themselves. You can bring in a few extra helping hands to ease the workload with a multiplayer mod. A great way to simplify the learning curve is to play with friends. While you are focused on one task, you might miss something equally important taking place elsewhere. ![]() There is a lot to do in Rimworld, especially as a beginner trying to get to grips with the various survival mechanics the game has. Keeping messy and clean workbenches separate ensures that they are used to the best of their ability. Keep an eye on the penalties/bonuses that a room gives, and use that as a guide to separate your workbenches. So do your best to keep your researchers comfortable, making them more efficient. This is very useful for the Research Bench, as being inside a sterile room will increase a colonists' research speed. If you keep specific workbenches in their very own room, you can ensure that it is not affected by other aspects. ![]() This will bring down the status of the entire room, making it not the most hospitable for other workbenches nearby. This is especially true with food-based workbenches, such as the Butcher Table, which can create quite a dirty mess. It can be tempting to lob all of the multiple workbenches into the same room, but this will not end well. This is the case with the various workshops available in the game as well. They need clean working environments to make sure that they stay healthy, feel safe, and be more productive. Hygiene is incredibly important for the health of your colonists. Let's make your first crash landing onto the harsh Rimworld Planet less of a bumpy ride. To help those just getting started, a few more tips have been added to this Rimworld Beginner Guide. With so much to get to grips with in this challenging survival game, it is essential to have a Rimworld Starting Guide handy for those initial first steps. Even with just the base game alone, there are a lot of fun activities and challenges to focus on. It has received many multiple updates throughout the years, alongside two fantastic DLCs, in the form of Rimworld: Royalty and Rimworld: Ideology. Updated December 21, 2021, By Luke Ackroyd: Rimworld has so much amazing content to enjoy. The game can have a steep learning curve, so here are some helpful tips to help you get started. Rimworld is all about storytelling, and once you've got the basics down, you can begin telling countless tales upon the RimWorld. There is a lot to keep you occupied in this game, from keeping track of needs and desires to ensuring the entire colony is safe from frequent attacks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please start releasing Chrome extensions independantly from TestComplete and more regularily. This extension provides you an inobtrusive way to annotate your code with external notes, that are stored separately from your document and are shown in pop-ups on hover. I am going to try other older versions and see if I can get it to work.Īs a sidenote, don't you think it's a bit impractical to have to have a different extension for every Chrome version? Google pushes out a new Chrome every 2 days, yet you have a hard time releasing one update per year. ![]() At which point object spy works again, but again I cannot navigate to any page, and after trying to I have to again reinstall the extension. The extension IS installed, and according to chrome IS enabled (the chrome task manager lists it as running in one of its 3 processes), but TestComplete does not recognize it, and will not until I manually remove and reinstall the extension. I am also excluding it out as a feature because It has both a firefox and chrome extension using which you can just click on download and the video will. It is still listed as installed and enabled, but whenever I try the object spy a balooon pops up in Chrome saying "TestComplete Chrome extension is not installed or is disabled". But then the Browser.ToUrl method does not work, and after I try it the Chrome extension just stops working. Originally everything seems to get detected properly, the extension is installed and all. This extension launches a blank notepad in the sidebar alongside the webpage, so you can take notes. ![]() Mote is integrated into Google Docs, Drive, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Classroom and Gmail - for easy recording and playback. That is no longer necessary with the Sidenotes extension. 94 is being a big PITA under TestComplete 9.10. With Mote, easily add voice comments and audio content to documents, assignments, emails and forms. The main issue I have now is that Chrome. part file does not, in the case of Chrome and IE). The server initiates the download, not the client.īut anyways this is a non issue now, I check if the downloaded file exists (or if the. ![]() When I do click the link, the ASP page generates the file then PUSHes the file to the client. The file does not exist until I click the link. No I cannot, as the download is a dynamically generated file. Here is the example from our How To section: Download a file from the Internet From your page, you can get the link to the file and use the MSXML2.XMLHTTP object to download the file without using browsers. So your secondary “device” becomes your browser.I don't quite understand this. It will act as your TOTP (Time Base One Time Password) application (e.g., Google Authenticator). Rather than doing random training, we decided to do a mini-project that would make our lives a little easier. Some developers (including myself) had to log in to multiple environments more than once an hour, and having to wait for a popup to appear to allow you to log in on your mobile device took more than a few minutes of our day. Coincidentally we also had to start our pre-work for the PWA & Managed Runtime BETA training, in which we had to brush up on our React.JS knowledge. Now, looking back, this was not the original reason we created the extension. Some people may not want to add a company-related application to their device, or in some cases, are banned from bringing any mobile device inside of the office! And again, this is a great decision to secure the Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C environments that handle sensitive data.īut as it goes, security and usability hardly go hand in hand. You would have to add a secondary device to your account to log into all environments securely. The second decision, however, did blow up some dust in the Salesforce B2C Commerce Community. And it didn’t affect us as we had already switched entirely to Account Manager (or at least 95%). “We will disable local accounts in 2021, and by 2022 everyone has to use Multi-Factor Authentication”.īy any means an excellent decision for ease of use since we would no longer need separate accounts for each environment. In 2020, Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C announced: Notas al margen:Sidenotes tambin est disponible en Chrome Web Store y es una de las. Come into life, AutoMaton! This browser extension (currently only Chromium) automatically logs you into your account, even with Multi-Factor Authentication enabled. Semalt Provides An Overview Of Scraper A Google Chrome Extension. Some time ago, I received some grievances that logging into the Account Manager of Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C every 15 minutes with Multi-Factor Authentication enabled was not a great experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although they don’t hibernate, raccoons do hole up in dens during the bitterest days of winter and are able to sleep for long stretches of time – up to a month – without heading out into the elements. Now, as the days grow colder and darker, raccoons – like many wild animals – are busy eating as much as they can find and building up an extra layer of fat. “But they will take readily to water if pursued and are very capable of drowning pursuers like dogs…by grabbing and holding the pursuer’s head under water.” “They are only average in their ability,” said Erler. Raccoons will climb and swim in streams while searching for food, but these skills also come in handy when they’re trying to evade danger. Their modified ankle joints can turn out 180 degrees, allowing the animals to scamper down trees frontwards or backwards. “Raccoon” is from an Algonquin word “aroughcoune,” meaning “one who scratches with his hands.” The raccoon’s scientific name, Procyon lotor, breaks down to “dog-like” (although raccoons are scientifically more closely related to bears) and “washer.”īeyond helping raccoons examine food and unlatch chicken coops and trashcans, their sensitive feet, with five long digits and sharp claws, also come in handy for climbing trees. ![]() The perceived washing habit plays into both the raccoon’s scientific and common names. They have highly developed nerves in their front paws, which become more sensitive when immersed in water. Although raccoons are known for “washing” their food, they’re really using their front paws to search for, examine, and dissect food before eating. Birds, eggs, small mammals, crayfish, fruit, carrion, and – yes – human garbage, gardens, and poultry are all on the menu. They live just about anywhere they can find water, from forested areas and wetlands to agricultural landscapes and urban neighborhoods, where these nocturnal animals often get into trouble for raiding the chicken coop – or the trashcans left at the curb. This intelligence makes raccoons adept problem-solvers, and enables them to adapt to different habitats and food sources. That inherent – and sometimes dangerous – curiosity is a sign of intelligence, said Dave Erler, senior naturalist at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center in Holderness, New Hampshire. Clever trappers have been known to catch a raccoon with a scrap of shiny aluminum foil as bait. Among the things raccoons are curious about, apparently, is items that sparkle in the sun. When I was a little girl, a raccoon at a wildlife sanctuary reached long fingers from its enclosure and snagged the beaded hair tie right off the end of my braid. If curiosity killed the cat, it’s put more than one raccoon into a bind, too. But that soft and cuddly exterior belies a fierce and highly intelligent disposition. With their black masks under perfect white eyebrows, their petite black noses, fuzzy ears, and fetchingly striped bushy tails, raccoons are certainly charming to look at. Almost every time I checked the game camera last summer – whether it was stationed near the compost, pointed into the field, or hidden at the edge of the woods – I found photos of one of our region’s most outwardly endearing creatures: the raccoon. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is not to say that crunches can’t cause low back pain, because they absolutely can if you’re making our next mistake.In reality, we can allow plenty of time to recuperate while avoiding extreme numbers of crunches. These studies are using animals or cadavers. I simply don’t agree with all of the studies that claim this. The first abdominal crunch mistake is the belief that doing crunches is bad for your back.These are also great for burning belly fat. With that said, you want to make sure that you’re doing alternative exercises such as side twists, woodchopper, and anti-rotation exercises. In some cases, their job is to prevent you from moving at all, preventing extension, rotation, and side bending. However, if you’re only doing crunches, even if you’re doing them from alternative positions, you’re not training your abs fully. I like crunches – they’re part of an important ab training program. 10) YOU’RE ONLY DOING CRUNCHESĪnd that brings me to mistake number 10 and that is, instead of taking advantage of other popular abs exercises – you’re only doing crunches. The development that you’ll see here will be much quicker because you’re doing it the right way. Return to the starting position and do it all again.ĭo this and I promise you, you’re going to get way more out of this exercise. Try to put your mind right where that muscle is and think about it as if you’re the muscle itself going through that contraction. 2) HOOKING YOUR FEET UNDER SOMETHINGĬontinuing with the point above: I’ll admit that people who say that crunches aren’t good are usually complaining about low back pain after doing them.Īnd I guarantee that more often than not, these same people are hooking their feet the wrong way during this basic exercise, which increases the risk of low back pain.įrom the starting position on the floor, if you put your feet flat and under something to stabilize your body and pull up, all you’re doing is over activating your hip flexors.Īnd this can actually create low back pain because of their attachment on the lumbar spine.Įvery single time I lift off the ground, I’m not yanking on my neck, I’m focusing on getting my elbow closer to my hip, but initiating through and only through the oblique muscles on my side. The bottom line here is that it’s too early to jump on the “crunches suck” bandwagon, especially when we know that there are benefits to be had. When we are activating lumbar flexion during an exercise routine, we actually take a break during the movement and we decompress from time to time, which saves the health of our spines. It’s one of the most common daily movements in our repertoire, and we can do it safely without increasing our risk of injury. Lumbar flexion is one of the main functions of the abdominal muscles. Throw in the fact that the accumulation of load is typically not represented in a way that we do it when we do crunches. ![]() ![]() These cadavers are dried out and they aren’t responding the same way that a living, breathing human being would respond. What’s more, when humans are used, it’s usually cadavers that are the test subjects. When this type of research is being done, it’s usually performed on animals, not humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() System Shock is coming to PC, PS4, PS5, and the Xbox family of consoles. Just yesterday on December 14, publisher Prime Matter announced that theyd. Facing them is an army of hostile and mutated creatures – created and controlled by SHODAN herself – which players will need to either fight or avoid to survive. The System Shock remake demo is out right now on Steam, as the development studio acquires a new publishing partner. Players will need to use a combination of stealth, cunning and futuristic weaponry to make their way through Citadel Station’s all-new areas, traps, puzzles and secrets to reach SHODAN. They made modest sails and even remastered. The developers – Nightdive Studios – worked closely with many of the members of the original System Shock team, including the voice of SHODAN - Terri Brosius - ensuring the remake stays true to its origins while winning over newcomers to the title too. System Shock and its sequel System Shock 2 werent exactly big sellers. ![]() System Shock is also coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S|X, though again, no date for those versions yet, either. The trailer (seen above) does look great and while there’s no release date set yet, it’s coming to PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Game Store, and there’s a demo on the respective storefronts so you can try before you buy. System Shock is a full remake of the original 1994 title, so it’ll have that cult-gameplay along with upgraded visuals, controls, and the publisher tells us, “an overhauled interface and all-new sounds and music”. It began its run with a version of System Shock 2 that was released on GOG, but has worked on a number of games since, including Turok, DOOM 64, Blood: Fresh Supply, and the recent Quake. On February 5, 2023, a significantly updated demo was released and can still be downloaded from GOG.com. Security-2-Bot (System Shock Remake) Serv-Bot (System Shock Remake) Weapons. You can also look forward to a remastered version of System Shock 2 from the same studio.The teams behind System Shock have got together with SHODAN to reveal a new gameplay trailer for the game, while also reminding us that a PC demo is available now. A newer demo using Unreal Engine 4 was released in 2020. ![]() The full game is set to be released some time this year. 07 February 2023 By Bogdan Robert Mate Publisher Prime Matter and developer Nightdive Studios have announced that a new demo for System Shock's long-awaited remake will be available to download during Steam Next Fest. There’s not a lot to do in the demo, but it’s something that will surely satisfy some part of your primitive, human psyche. You can find the free System Shock Remastered Alpha Demo on Steam and GOG. /rebates/2fgame2fsystemshockdemo&252fgame252fsystemshockdemo26tc3dbing-&idgog&nameGOG&ra4. A demo for System Shock Remastered is available right now, and you dont. To avoid criminal charges you take a deal from a dodgy executive, hack SHODAN (the corporation’s space station AI) and get a military-grade neural implant for your trouble.Īs part of the implant surgery, you are put into a six-month coma to heal - and wake up to find the space station overrun with cyborgs, hostile robots and mutants - all serving SHODAN’s severely misanthropic will. 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As a founding member of Brooklyn's garage-rock mainstay, Habibi, Rahill garnered a reputation for alchemizing an eclectic range of influences, distilling them into captivating and heavy pop songs that gestured towards the modes and melodies of the Iranian American household in which she was raised-a heritage she nurtured during several trips to Iran. Rahill is a multidisciplinary artist and musician hailing from Michigan and now based in New York's Hudson Valley. Music video: "Toubouk Ine Chihoussay," by Etran de L'Aïr. Playing for over 25 years, Etran de L'Aïr first emerged as favorites of Agadez's local wedding circuit their music is rooted in celebration, invoking the exuberance of a vibrant intergenerational party.Ĭalled out for their "heady, spontaneous grooves," Etran de L'Aïr was listed in the number 1 slot for "Best Music of 2020" by The New Yorker. ![]() Composed of brothers and cousins, Etran de L'Aïr are the sons of Tuareg nomadic families that settled in Agadez, where guitar bands are an integral part of the social fabric, playing at weddings, baptisms, and political rallies, as well as the occasional concert. Beloved for their dynamic repertoire of hypnotic solos and sun-glazed melodies, the band embraces a pan-African style that is emblematic of their hometown, citing a myriad of cultural influences, from Northern Malian blues and Hausa bar bands to Congolese soukous. ![]() Music Video: "Dream Another," by Makaya McCraven.Įtran de L'Aïr (or "stars of the Aïr region") welcomes you to Agadez, Niger-capital city of Saharan rock. It cements his renown as a "cultural synthesizer" and an artist with a unique gift for collapsing space, destroying borders, and blending past, present, and future into poly-textural arrangements of post-genre jazz. According to the New York Times, "McCraven has quietly become one of the best arguments for jazz's vitality."įollowing upon his widely acclaimed 2018 album Universal Beings, McCraven's newest release, In These Times, is the triumphant finale of a project seven years in the making. McCraven believes that the word "jazz" is "insufficient, at best, to describe the phenomenon we're dealing with." Profiled in Vice, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and NPR, among other publications, his music is at the very vanguard of this indescribable phenomenon. ![]() His music draws from a wide range of influences, including hip-hop, electronica, and folk music. Known for his unique approach to jazz, which blends live improvisation with sampling, he's been described as a "beat scientist" and "one of the most important figures in the jazz world" by critics. Makaya McCraven is a prolific drummer, composer, and producer. ![]() |