![]() ![]() My favorite one ended up being Manhola Dargis in the New York Times. I read every review of Splice that has ever been written. “Lying here terrified that if I turn off the lights I will be killed/groped by an errant tailsticle,” I tweeted that night, after an emergency IMDb session revealed that the innocence-shattering movie I had just witnessed was called “Splice.” A few hours later, upon waking, I reported: “Had a series of vivid nightmares last night woke up twice in a full sweat. Until it got to the end, in which, (um, spoiler alert?) “DREN” HAS HORRIFYING AND WING-SPREADING MUTANT-ON-TOP SEX WITH ADRIEN BRODY, WHO ALL ALONG HAS BASICALLY BEEN HER DAD!!!!!!!! AND THEN MORPHS INTO A MALE MUTANT AND RAPES THE SCIENTIST LADY IN THE WOODS!!!!!!!! AND BOTH SCENES LAST FOREVER AND IF YOU THOUGHT THAT THE SEX SCENE IN WATCHMEN WAS KIND OF DRAWN OUT AND UNCOMFORTABLE THIS IS LIKE THAT TIMES FIFTEEN MILLION (although, to be fair, without the cloying use of “Hallelujah,” which I appreciate) BUT STILL!!!! WTF, MOVIE? WTF? Just your typical “I’ve created a monster!” fare, no big deal, nothing I couldn’t handle, and the movie was … kind of good? Anyway, one of the characteristics of the mutant being was how rapidly she/it aged, and you could tell that this was going to present some problems down the road for the scientists as the being got bigger and more aggressive and stronger-willed and all that. ![]() I had missed the beginning, but basically it seemed like Adrien Brody and another lady scientist had created some sort of mutant life form in their lab that was part human but also part other things (for example, the life form, named “Dren”, had really wide-set eyes and a long rat-like tail and rabbit-type legs and spoke only in dolphin-like clicking noises) and were now secretly really attached to it, putting it in a dress and treating it like their child. The unrecognizable movie was kind of weird, but compelling/confusing enough that I never felt like changing the channel. There was NOTHING on, so when one channel flashed Adrien Brody’s face I stopped there, trusting that anything with him had a potentially good chance of not being that bad. Splice (Katie Baker): A few months ago I was spending a kickin’ Friday night all alone in a hotel room, idly flipping channels on one of those hotel TVs that has no “guide” and no HD. Inspired by the recent lawsuit against the makers of Drive - filed by a woman, who, not unreasonably expected the movie to feature more driving and fewer exploding heads - this week’s installment of YouTube Hall of Fame collects the movie scenes that were so bad we’d like to take someone to court. ![]()
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In the European Union, the labels of drinks containing more than 1.2% ABV must state the actual alcoholic strength (i.e., show the word "alcohol" or the abbreviation "alc." followed by the symbol "% vol."). As a locution, fruesta drinks are etymologically derived from "fruit" and "fiesta", being a portmanteau of the two words. ![]() The Woman's Christian Temperance Union publishes several recipes for fruestas, which are nonalcoholic fruit drinks for large functions, such as proms and weddings. These drinks are designed specifically for those who are sober, and are particularly favored over cocktails by teetotalers, underage persons, drivers, pregnant women, and others who choose drinks that are alcohol-free. They can be a blend of fresh fruit juices, syrups, cream, herbs and spices, or can use non-alcoholic spirits. Non-alcoholic cocktails often resemble alcoholic cocktails without any liquor. Īlcohol is a psychoactive drug and some critics say that the label "non-alcoholic" is misleading, due to the presence of small amounts of alcohol in most drinks labelled as such, and a threat to recovering alcoholics. In the European Union, the labels of drinks containing only more than 1.2% ABV must state the actual alcoholic strength (i.e., show the word "alcohol" or the abbreviation "alc." followed by the symbol "% vol."). However, most drinks advertised as "non-alcoholic" or "alcohol free" sold by countries with zero tolerance with state-run liquor monopoly, actually contain alcohol. The term "non-alcoholic" (e.g., alcohol-free beer) is often used to describe a drink that contains 0.0% ABV. The definition of "alcohol-free" may vary from country to country. In countries where alcohol is illegal, similar non-alcoholic drinks are permitted. Ethical issues Īlcohol is legal in most countries of the world where a drinking culture exists. Most drinks labeled "non-alcoholic" contain 0.5% ABV, as it is more profitable than distilling it to 0.05% ABV often found in products sold by companies specializing in non-alcoholic drinks. However, alcoholic drinks cannot be further purified to 0.00% alcohol by volume by distillation. Distilled beer may be used to produce low-alcohol beer and whisky. Distilled wine produces low alcohol wine and brandy (from brandywine, derived from Dutch brandewijn, "burning wine"). Įthanol distillation is used to separate alcoholic drinks into what are advertised as non-alcoholic drinks and spirits. Some fresh orange juices are above the UK 'alcohol free' limit of 0.05% ABV, as are some yogurts and rye bread. Sparkling apple cider, soft drinks, and juice naturally contain trace amounts or no alcohol. Scientific definition Low-alcoholic drink These may take the form of a non-alcoholic mixed drink or non-alcoholic beer, and are widely available where alcoholic drinks are sold. For drinks in general which do not contain alcohol, see List of drinks § Non-alcoholic.Īn alcohol-free or non-alcoholic drink, also known as a temperance drink, is a version of an alcoholic drink made without alcohol, or with the alcohol removed or reduced to almost zero. This article is about versions of alcoholic drinks which have low or zero alcohol. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trouble is brewing in the forest, its guardians restless. During a short break she visits her forest with her friends. Story: The nymph Ellie has been studying in the human lands. Follow Us to get the most Kawaii Content. Animaze redefines avatar embodiment with enhanced face tracking, expressive animation, and improved graphics. Episode 1, but it's a pretty much self contained story. Simple Recommendations on the latest and cutest Anime RPGs, JRPGs, and anything else adorable. Livestream, video chat, and record videos as incredible 2D and 3D avatars Use one of the over 50 avatars provided or import your own 2D, 3D, VRM or Ready Player Me model. Aim for the slow months, in-between release cycles and holidays. Will you write the lasting love story you deserve, or will your love and life. Steam users are likely to wishlist your game even if they dont buy it outright. Choose your romantic path from the start to piece together that which was forgotten. Gameplay elements can be skipped if you just want to enjoy and advance the story. In this visual novel, youll play as the Heroine whose life depends on hiding your recent loss of memory while you navigate complex relationships with five men. ![]() ![]() Gameplay ranges from exploring your surroundings to evading enemies and to different kinds of humorous action oriented and fast paced minigames and adventure segments. Adventure awaits, but beware of the thirsty lesbians residing in the forest!Ī YA fantasy comedy visual novel with gameplay elements. A nymph, her telepathic direwolf guardian and her schoolfriends visit her home forest. ![]() ![]() While he does seem like the kind of guy who would kill you in your sleep and mount your head in his living room for company, he’s also nice enough to tell you about a glorious treasure that’s buried somewhere in the sprawling desert. Upon arrival, you’re greeted by a rather creepy dude called Shade who’s very lonely and really wants to be your BFF. Once you hit 15, an area called Oasis will pop up on your map and you can quick travel to it from any Quick Travel station in the game world. Bummer!įor those who’re planning to start the DLC with a new character, you have to be Level 15 to access it. I’ll probably get better weapons once I tackle the raid bosses but that still means I have to trudge along with my older weapons till I do. I was even expecting some of the weapons to keep up with the whole Pirate theme but all I found were same-ish looking pistols, machine guns, assault rifles, etc as the base game. I’ve played through most of Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty using weapons I got from The Warrior and Terramorphous and nothing has come close so far. Now in a loot driven game like Borderlands 2, finding good loot is of the utmost importance and the new DLC kind of let me down in that aspect. In such a case, everything is scaled to your level including enemies and loot but not allowing players to gain XP (so they can unlock new abilities) just makes the whole experience feel kind of empty. ![]() That’s a big no no, especially for players who’ve already hit Level 50 through True Vault Hunter Mode. The one thing that does stick out like a sore thumb however is the fact that this DLC does not increase your level cap. In short, it’s more of the same which can be both a good and a bad thing. It brings the usual DLC staples to the table like more weapons, new enemies, new areas to explore and new raid bosses. With Borderlands 2, developer Gearbox has kind of managed to find the sweet spot with their Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty DLC that’s out nearly a month after Borderlands 2. ![]() Of course, if it comes out too close to a game’s release date, we the consumers feel cheated because that feels like on-disc content cut out to make a quick buck (gamers are a tough bunch to please you see). I’m not a huge fan of Downloadable Content in general because in most cases, I’m thoroughly saturated with a game by the time its DLC comes out. ![]() ![]() ![]() How do you maintain a dealer base with that? They have a tough road ahead to pull this off.” Krebs stated, “The brand is kind of damaged right now because sales are dreadful. Her belief is that the new Nissan-Plus strategy will be a difficult road to success as the brand is in dismal shape and has an extremely small footprint. Automotive News spoke with Michelle Krebs who follows the automotive industry. From a brand standpoint, Infiniti becomes an upscale Nissan, somewhat of an oxymoron. ![]() After all, there were concerns that Nissan might jettison the brand entirely.Īutomotive observers are not as excited about the new strategy. In their place would come a Nissan platform, possibly pulled from the Altima or Maxima sedans, that accommodates the company’s e-Power hybrid setup.” Or, as Nissan’s COO, Ashwani Gupta told Automotive News, “We will bring back Infiniti as Nissan-Plus.” Dealers appear to be pleased with the new turnaround strategy. This means, “… Infiniti’s trademark rear-wheel drive coupe and sedans – epitomized by the Q50, Q60 and Q70 – may eventually die off. THIS LIST IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR CONTACTING YOUR LENDER TO CONFIRM.Infiniti’s new management is convinced that the way forward is to share powertrains and platforms with Nissan. This list is based on community submissions and is subject to change at any time. * Note some lenders do not allow third-party buyouts during the final month(s) of the lease. Mercedes-Benz Financial Services - JamesW 7/14/22.Subaru Motors Finance (Chase) - manku 6/18/21.Porsche Financial Services - Rulnick 6/24/21.Mazda Capital Services (Chase Bank) - michael 6/15/21.Jaguar Land Rover Financial (Chase Bank) - ethanrs 6/15/21.Chrysler Capital - Eastcoastguy 6/15/21 (not within 60 days of lease end).Lenders that DO NOT Charge a Different Payoff to Third Parties* * Note some lenders do not charge participating dealers a higher payoff, so it may be worth exploring selling your leased car to a participating dealer or through Equityhackr. Lenders that DO Charge a Different Payoff to Third Parties* * Except for participating dealers or through Equityhackr. Credit Union Leasing of America - RVguy 6/15/21.Volvo Car Financial Services - 9/18/21.Lincoln Automotive Financial Services - 7/13/21.Honda Financial Services - 7/8/21 (effective 7/14/21). ![]() Lenders that DO NOT Allow Third Parties to Purchase Vehicle PERIOD* Feel free to edit this Wiki directly and include any other insight you may have on the lender. In such a situation, a consumer would have to take on the onerous task of first buying out the lease before selling the vehicle, which may have tax implications.īelow is a list of lenders, organized by those who do and do not charge a different payoff amount for third-party buyers. However, some lenders are making it difficult for consumers to access this “lease equity” by charging a higher lease buyout price to third-party buyers than to consumers, or altogether prohibiting third-party buyouts. Instead of simply returning the vehicle at lease end, you may be able to sell the vehicle to a third party (such as Carvana, Shift, Vroom, and CarMax) for a profit. As used car prices soar, many lessees are finding that their vehicles are worth considerably more than their current payoff amount. ![]() ![]() ![]() The name was later abbreviated to Sudoku (数独), taking only the first kanji of compound words to form a shorter version. ![]() The puzzle was introduced in Japan by Maki Kaji ( 鍜治 真起, Kaji Maki ), president of the Nikoli puzzle company, in the paper Monthly Nikolist in April 1984 as Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru ( 数字は独身に限る), which can be translated as "the digits must be single", or as "the digits are limited to one occurrence" (In Japanese, dokushin means an "unmarried person"). Whether or not Garns was familiar with any of the French newspapers listed above is unclear. He died in 1989 before getting a chance to see his creation as a worldwide phenomenon. Garns' name was always present on the list of contributors in issues of Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games that included Number Place and was always absent from issues that did not. The modern Sudoku was most likely designed anonymously by Howard Garns, a 74-year-old retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor from Connersville, Indiana, and first published in 1979 by Dell Magazines as Number Place (the earliest known examples of modern Sudoku). These weekly puzzles were a feature of French newspapers such as L'Écho de Paris for about a decade, but disappeared about the time of World War I. Although they were unmarked, each 3×3 subsquare did indeed comprise the numbers 1–9, and the additional constraint on the broken diagonals led to only one solution. It simplified the 9×9 magic square puzzle so that each row, column, and broken diagonals contained only the numbers 1–9, but did not mark the subsquares. ![]() On July 6, 1895, Le Siècle 's rival, La France, refined the puzzle so that it was almost a modern Sudoku and named it carré magique diabolique ('diabolical magic square'). It was not a Sudoku because it contained double-digit numbers and required arithmetic rather than logic to solve, but it shared key characteristics: each row, column, and subsquare added up to the same number. Le Siècle, a Paris daily, published a partially completed 9×9 magic square with 3×3 subsquares on November 19, 1892. Number puzzles appeared in newspapers in the late 19th century, when French puzzle setters began experimenting with removing numbers from magic squares. History From La France newspaper, July 6, 1895: The puzzle instructions read, "Use the numbers 1 to 9 nine times each to complete the grid in such a way that the horizontal, vertical, and two main diagonal lines all add up to the same total." Predecessors newspaper, and then The Times (London), in 2004, thanks to the efforts of Wayne Gould, who devised a computer program to rapidly produce unique puzzles. However, the modern Sudoku only began to gain widespread popularity in 1986 when it was published by the Japanese puzzle company Nikoli under the name Sudoku, meaning "single number". The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid, which for a well-posed puzzle has a single solution.įrench newspapers featured variations of the Sudoku puzzles in the 19th century, and the puzzle has appeared since 1979 in puzzle books under the name Number Place. In classic Sudoku, the objective is to fill a 9 × 9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3 × 3 subgrids that compose the grid (also called "boxes", "blocks", or "regions") contain all of the digits from 1 to 9. ![]() Sudoku ( / s uː ˈ d oʊ k uː, - ˈ d ɒ k-, s ə-/ Japanese: 数独, romanized: sūdoku, lit.'digit-single' originally called Number Place) is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reddit, for its part, is looking to bolster its revenue ahead of a rumored initial public offering. Reddit users are protesting a decision taking effect next month that will introduce fees for apps to access Reddit data, much in the way Twitter has erected a paywall for third-party access to its own platform. Reddit didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The iPhone subreddit, for example, is now exclusively devoted to pictures of Apple CEO Tim Cook. Some Reddit forums have taken other steps, including marking themselves NSFW (not safe for work), deciding to go dark on certain days of the week, or by changing their stated scope of interests. Reddit's fight with its most powerful users enters new phase as blackout continues ![]() signage is displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. It’s a calculated tactic to sustain a days-long protest targeting Reddit’s corporate management in the face of a widening crackdown by the company against many of its own users and volunteer moderators. While the sudden spread of Oliver-mania on Reddit may sound like the kind of freewheeling silliness that sometimes overcomes large groups of extremely online people, it also serves a deeper purpose. And an AI-generated image of Oliver as a “Game of Thrones” character (“John Oliver Snow”). There are images of his face superimposed on the Mediterranean fruit commonly used to garnish martinis (“John Olive”). There have been numerous pictures of Oliver posing in sharply tailored suits, and screenshots of humorous moments from his show. Several of Reddit’s largest self-moderated communities, including r/pics and r/aww, have turned spaces that were once devoted to images of everyday life, or cute and cuddly animals, into what may now be the internet’s biggest repository for pictures of the comedian.įor the past several days, visitors to those groups have been greeted by page after page of Oliver photos - some real, some edited satirically, and all intended to grab the “Last Week Tonight” host’s attention. After staging a widespread blackout to protest Reddit’s plans for a controversial new pricing policy, some users are now trying a different tactic: flooding the social network with John Oliver pictures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe when Trump said that we'd get tired of winning, he actually meant you would get tired of us winning. What it does is undermine the credibility of the accuser, which casts doubt on her accusations. This also wasn't meant to prove that the abuse didn't happen. quote:Īnd didn't sexually abuse her or those other women Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, testified under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday in. How he acts towards women is the issue with his drinking, and so far no one can prove that he abuses women or has done anything inappropriate to women, drunk or sober. (It had rendered her sufficiently claustrophobic, she noted, to make her install a second front door to her home.) Yet her instinct, at every step of the way, was to be transparent, eager, almost. Kav already said he drinks and sometimes drinks to excess (gets drunk). It's not meant to prove Kav is not a drunk. This 100% proves Kavanaugh is not a drunk If she lied about the timing of the doors, she would be lying about the foundation of her story. The door thing was the entire foundation of that discussion, according to Ford. ![]() She and her husband did do some renovations, including a front porch in 2007, but, seemingly immune to her ‘PTSD,’ no second escape was installed. ![]() The doors situation is very strange and she used it as proof that she talked about the Kavenaugh abuse in 2012 during therapy. The report also indicates that Ford owns a second property, one that does not feature the same two-door setup to help her cope with her fear of being attacked by Kavanaugh. Doors may have been added at a different date than stated. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can peep the full list of tour dates right here. The unreleased demo ‘Slugger’ arrives as Flume is about to kick off his massive eight-date Australian headline tour this weekend. Tkay Maidza and Flume are in the zone on new collab Silent Assassin The single, designed to channel Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes, comes with an armor-plated music video directed by Milo Lee. Remarkably, it stayed in the ARIA Charts consistently for three years after it dropped. ![]() Harley Streten has produced an LP thats scarily close to perfect. Hope you like it x”.įlume’s multi-platinum debut LP has been streamed over one billion times since its release and scooped up four ARIA Awards and three AIR Awards. Deluxe Edition of the 2013 debut album from Australian musician Harley Streten AKA Flume. Arrived Anxious, Left Bored Ten tracks, that never found a home, but i felt they deserved a place in the world. “I figured now that it’s 10 years since my first album was released it would be a good time to share. “Made this one in Paris, always loved this demo but it never quite made it onto an album<” the artist said in a press statement. Flume Sophie Harley Streten, better known to the world as Flume, has never shied away from doing things his own way, and his third studio album Palaces out Friday (May 20) via Future. ago Wow, I'd really like to see this, a quick Google has failed me. I bet if you looked around you'd find it. 20 The album has 15 songs and is 49 minutes long. ![]() Listen: Flume – ‘Slugger 1.4 ’įans will recognise the same signature woozy production and glitchy synth work on the song that turned Harley Streten AKA Flume into a global phenomenon. ago There's a documentary on YouTube where his art director talks about how flume liked the image and how they transformed it into the album art. Flumes self-titled debut album was released on 9 November 2012. ![]() |
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