For example, a character that might have stood up for you in the first loop could be wanting to kill you in the second one. “The feeling of going through a world in which the law of cause and effect doesn’t matter – that is the core idea of a roguelike adventure game, and it’s a brand-new territory that most adventure games until now haven’t stepped into yet.”

On the other hand, “roguelike adventures” are a subgenre that was pioneered by Petit Depotto’s Gnosia. What makes “roguelike adventures” significantly different from “open world” ones are, as Ishii states, the element of randomness and the way the world of the game branches out. While in “open world adventures” there are no changes in the story despite the order in which the player decides to experience it, in “roguelike adventures” the story randomly changes with each replay – kind of like in a “parallel world” scenario, Ishii explains.

As examples of “open-world type adventures,” Ishii brings up Vanillaware and Atlus’ 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and Spike Chunsoft’s Zero Escape series. He once more emphasizes that, in this case, “open world” doesn’t mean a 3D space that you can roam freely. To him, it signifies a non-linear narrative, not bound by time or laws of cause and effect. The player is able to experience the narrative freely (by “picking up fragments”) in any order they like, which ultimately leads them to completing the “big picture” and finding out the true story.

“My honest impression is that the evolutionary tree of adventure games has reached more of a dead end than I thought it would. However, there are some new genres that evolved from there.” Ishii pointed out two “new subgenres” of adventure game that particularly stood out to him. He defines them as “open-world type adventure” and “roguelike adventure” games.

If you’re aiming to write a truly interesting story, according to Kodaka, that means you’re up against giants like Keigo Higashino (known for his mystery novels). And in order to beat them as a developer, you’ll have to leverage the systems and means of expression that are unique to the video game medium and evoke emotion in players through the story.

“To be honest, I haven’t played that many adventure games. I play a variety of different genres of games, and I also read novels. That being said, I believe outstanding adventure games are the ones that use game mechanics in their favor. When it comes to story-driven adventure games, I honestly think novels are much higher quality reading material. After all, works written by famous authors are simply a more interesting read,” Kodaka says.

Some indie game developers will either go through the above and reach this conclusion, or some will come in with this opinion to begin with.  Then they'll approach visual novels as if they're fundamentally flawed and in need of iteration. This isn't to say that visual novels are flawless-- they're not, and this isn't to say that you can't add more-- you can, but this line of thinking deflects from the core of the problem.  They don't know how to make a visual novel enjoyable, so they reach into something they understand better, or simply like better and try to duct tape it to visual novel.

If the player can customize characters, statistics, equipment, abilities, routes, schedules, or other aspects of the game, the question isn't whether customization exists. The question is what the customization is trying to accomplish. If customization primarily changes the player's interaction with the game, that's something other than a visual novel. If customization primarily changes the story being experienced, that's more of a visual novel.

A visual novel is a type of narrative video game that provides a written narrative experience accompanied by visuals. Visual novels focus on reading and/or listening to a story above any other form of interaction. When a visual novel presents interactions or customizations, they will primarily influence or appear to influence the story.

Explaining this design choice, the director says, “I’m simply not very fond of dialogue scenes where characters go on and on about trivial matters. I prefer the pacing and atmosphere of films. Of course, I believe games that emphasize dialogue have their own merit, like allowing readers to project onto the protagonist and soak in the atmosphere, so this isn’t about which approach is better or worse. However, I believe that the maximum amount of time a person can concentrate on reading text is about 4 to 6 hours at most, and I’m concerned that if it goes on any longer, more people will start skimming or rapidly clicking though the text.”

A Visual Novel (VN) is a digital narrative focused game that requires interactions where the player must be able to impact the story world or the story’s progression. The story and interactions are most commonly presented through a text box and often employ additional forms of interac- tion including menu choices—which often contain sets of actions that the player character can perform—or dialogue options representing the player character’s speech or thoughts. Crucially, VNs have On-Click Progression, where the player clicks, taps or presses a button to see the next part of the story. The aesthetics of VNs are most often conveyed through static images of characters, background art, sound effects (SFX) feedback, and soundtracks.

With two hours’ notice, a city-employed bridge tender can be summoned to the bridge operator’s house, a small brick structure, on the increasingly rare occasions when the Carroll Street Bridge needs to be opened.

“One of the things we’ve learned is that the substructure of the bridge is in worse condition than anyone understood,” said Brian Carr, assistant regional counsel at the EPA, at the January meeting. “There were repairs that were going to be needed one way or the other, and driving the piles in and all, if the bridge had been in decent condition, would have provided future stability for the bridge.”

The Carroll Street Bridge will likely remain closed long past the currently-projected March 31 cutoff as federal and city agencies work to assess and address structural issues on the span.

Last summer, engineers started work installing “pipe piles,” which would help stabilize the bridge when the federal EPA and the city begin dredging in the area. After a few months of pile driving, though, engineers realized the work was damaging the structure, and the EPA decided to reassess their plans for supporting the structure and cleaning up the 10 feet of infamous “Black Mayonnaise” beneath the Carroll Street Bridge and the Union Street bridges, Tsiamis said at a September meeting of the CAG.

From November 2020 until April 2021, workers will stabilize the Carroll Street Bridge ahead of dredging around it by sinking so-called pipe piles at the edges of the bridge bases on either side.

It is not really a restoration; city agencies are subject only to comment, not regulation, by the landmarks panel. So the Department of Transportation is leaving the 1940's handrail and demolishing the brick engine house, although it says it will reconstruct it from the salvaged bricks. But the bridge will be repainted its original color - still undetermined - and it will be nice to see it glide closed on its 100th birthday.

An existing Carroll Street Bridge was closed in 1887 and its replacement became an issue. Local property owners preferred the retractile type which slides the bridge back diagonally on rails to rest on one shore but this meant buying more land, which the City of Brooklyn was loath to do.

The unusual 1889 retractile-type bridge - the oldest in the country - has been left open since 1986, but the department has been repairing it since last December and it should be working in time for its 100th anniversary on Sept. 19.

There is an original Belgian block approach, and the bridge is wooden-planked.

The bridge is drawn in and out by cables from the engine or operator’s house on the west side of the canal and opens a 36-footwide channel in the canal.

It continues to operate today essentially as it did when it first opened.

The Carroll Street Bridge is a retractile bridge crossing the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. The bridge, which was opened to traffic in 1889, supports a 17 foot wide roadway and two 4.5 foot sidewalks.

As recently as the 1990s, the Carroll Street Bridge was retracted almost twice daily in order to allow passage for waterborne traffic to and from the paint factories, oil depots, sand and gravel suppliers, and warehouses lining the canal, but with the decline of industry in the area these deliveries have since become far less frequent.

We begin our tour at the Carroll Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal. The cobblestone approach and wood planks attest to the fact that this is no ordinary bridge. In fact, it is the oldest of four retractile bridges in the United States (constructed in 1889), and it is the only wooden bridge in the city that carries cars.

Five bridges span the canal at the main thorough- fares. All four of the bridges mentioned in the above table have recently been replaced by basculr bridges of the newest type, and are electrically operated. At Carroll Street, there is a slide bridge. There is thus practically no obstruction offered to traffic by the canal.

The Carroll Street Bridge, constructed in 1889, spans the 36-foot-wide (11 m) channel of the Gowanus Canal and has a total length of 107 feet (33 m). The bridge uses a wooden deck to support one traffic lane and two sidewalks. The steel superstructure uses a king-post truss. In plan, the span has a trapezoidal shape, due to the angled joint between the movable span and the fixed abutment. The operating machin- ery is contained in an adjacent control house, from which wire ropes connect to the movable span. Wheels, riding on rails, are mounted underneath the movable span. The rails allow the bridge to roll away from the channel at an angle of approximately 45° from the center of the roadway.

However, this type was once common in Boston, with a dozen examples and a handful of rolling retractile bridges remaining in service in the United States, including the historically land- marked Carroll Street Bridge in Brooklyn, NY. T

Ten bridges in New York City had been awarded some degree of landmark status, including seven that under DOT's jurisdiction: the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queensboro, Washington, University Heights, Carroll Street and Macombs Dam Bridges. The three landmarked bridges not operated by DOT are the George Washington Bridge (Port Authority), the High Bridge (NYC Department of Parks & Recreation), and Hell Gate Bridge (Amtrak).

A notable civil engineer, Charles O.H. Fritzche, developed the mechanical system.

Many notable names were involved in the construction of the Carroll Street Bridge. Robert van Buren, a descendant of U.S. President Martin van Buren and Chief Engineer of the Bureau of Construction, oversaw the project.

It may be inferred through historic documents that the use of a retractable bridge at this span was possibly due to the fact that an earlier design for the bridge would have required acquiring a piece of private property that the Common Council was having trouble purchasing at the time. The Landmarks Preservation Commission noted that retractable bridges are “employed to provide channel clearance in locations where other bridge types are impractical.”

It was originally powered by steam, but was converted to electric in 1907-08.

Retractable, or retractile bridges, open to allow water vessels to pass through, and the Carroll Street Bridge uses a mechanism that takes the whole span of the bridge and rolls it diagonally on wheels along steel rails using pulleys and wire cables.

The unique style of the this bridge gained it landmark status in 1987, with the Landmarks Preservation Commission citing its “rare and unusual” qualities.

As a retractile draw, the bridge opens by physically sliding out of the navigation channel on a set of three steel rails, pulled by an electrically operated pulley system. The moving portion of the bridge is a 107-foot long trapezoidal deck, supported in the middle by an iron post-and-truss frame that gives the superstructure the appearance of a suspension bridge. The operating controls for the bridge are located in a polygonal brick house on the west side of the site. The house was built during the bridge’s overhaul project of bricks salvaged from the demolition of the old operating house. One of the more interesting features of the bridge, a sign threatening a five dollar fine for anyone driving over the bridge faster than a walker’s pace, was also added during the overhaul.

The bridge was built between 1888-1889 by the New Jersey Steel & Iron Company. It replaced a wooden swing bridge that had become so rotten over the years that city engineers were forced to close it in early 1887 to everything but pedestrian traffic, fearing it would collapse under anything heavier.

Construction of the new one was begun at the end of the year. It opened in September the following year, completed at a cost of $29,600.

The Department of Transportation closed the bridge in 1985 after an inspection revealed multiple holes in the road deck, seriously corroded steel, and a broken operating mechanism. After a $1.5 million overhaul by city workers, the bridge was able to reopen to traffic just in time for the 100th anniversary of its initial opening in 1989.

The Carroll Street Bridge is a retractile drawbridge that crosses the Gowanus Canal in the borough of Brooklyn. It is notable as the oldest surviving retractile bridge in the United States, with only three others still in existence: two non-operational draws in Boston, and one carrying Borden Avenue over Dutch Kills in the borough of Queens.

Instead, Section 1225(b)(2)(A) applies to those noncitizens who present themselves at a port of entry for admission, or who cross the physical border into the United States but are apprehended at the “threshold of initial entry.”

The New Leaf Journal On this website you may find: A site I discovered by pure accident when browsing google a while back. I sometimes read their anime reviews, not much else though. Like THEM, this is a collective of writers, except this is more of a magazine that talks about various topics. One of the writers has a "collection" on the website, dedicated to cataloguing and talking about hair colors in various anime, which I found neat lmao.

Further, as you learn to express yourself in a genuine, authentic manner, readers will respond, and you will find yourself with an audience that has tuned in to your uniqueness.

Everyone wants to read personal thoughts from real human beings, but no one writes them anymore. What we get instead is slop, and that’s hardly a good read. The moment I notice I’m reading autogenerated text, I care less. That’s why I keep writing. My personal blog is a weird mix of ramblings about reviewing code, the best programmers I know, and random thoughts. But you know what? People are reading it and from time to time I get an email from someone who found one of my articles helpful.

Instead of asking how to survive AI disrupting discovery, maybe the better question is: what was actually building your readership all along, and are you paying enough attention to that?

Blogging has always had two kinds of readers. There are the visitors, people who arrive for a specific piece of information, get what they came for, and leave. And there are the readers, people who find something that resonates, come back, and eventually become part of the community a blog builds over time. The discovery systems that are weakening — social referrals, and increasingly search — were always better at delivering visitors than readers.

People like us who blog just write about things that interested us. Internet fame might be nice, but we’ve learned it’s elusive. We learn to be content that someone, someday, will find our work useful.

To start with: the whole “why are people talking about X and not Y?” argument is pretty moot when you’re running a subscriber-funded website that is neither beholden to SEO nor advertisers. Like, if you want to talk about other games besides the major releases, you can just do that, y’know. Be the games media you want to see in the world.

But like, who wants to read a young adult rambling about a toy from the early 2000s and its low budget movies with PS2 quality graphics? Why would one care about the early beginnings of yet another hobby of mine when there’s a dozen I’ve written about already? How trendy can a blogpost about an old PSP game with terrible controls and lots of grinding really get? Tomodachi Life is the one somewhat trendy topic, but whatever.

And you know? Writing this, I think it has been holding me back. A part of me wants to write about the next big thing that will get a lot of clicks, and that has stopped me on my tracks from writing about what my brain would usually come up with.

The path forward will only be found if we are honest about where AI can, and should, be used. Until recently, AI content wasn’t good enough. Now, it is. The sooner we can admit that, the more time we have to focus on the parts of marketing where humans will have a longer, happier tenure.

Something I’ve long written about is the reality that many digital productivity tools paradoxically make us busier, rather than better at our jobs.

WordPress gives me a place that is clearly for managing content. Not building, not configuring, not upgrading a toolchain. Writing. That matters more to me now than whether the site is statically generated, server-rendered, or deployed from Git.

I am a generalist. I am interested in all aspects of coaching and performance. I often struggle because I want to be involved in everything. I want to problem solve.

I wrote, “Coaching is one of the last, great generalist professions,” in the mid ‘00s. Coaches understood the physical and the psychological, motivation and conditioning. They knew how to teach and instruct. Their knowledge was learned primarily through observation (assistant coaches watching a head coach) and experience (actually coaching). Some beliefs were more universal than others, some practices can be criticized, and some coaches were better or more knowledgeable than others, but coaches generally accrued significant implicit and explicit knowledge about conditioning, development, motivation, skill acquisition, teaching, and more. Coaches had extensive general knowledge across a wide range of domains, although few were experts in a single domain.

While ’98 was the top season of McGwire’s career, Sosa would go on to have a much better — dare I even say all-time great caliber? — year in 2001, with 10.1 WAR. But both players were extremely productive during the period in and around 1998.

I am advocating for writers to prevent themselves from becoming AI.

In what would be his final postgame press conference, he chided critical fans by comparing them to passengers who fled the Titanic, a literal sinking ship.

I try my best to stick to the grocery list but this was a really good deal for strawberries. I did that thing mixing 1 part white vinegar and 3 parts water, soak for 10 minutes and dry thoroughly to extend their freshness.

Setting up a side blog for thoughts is easy with WordPress. Register a custom post type and then use get_posts() to display in the sidebar.

spending the time to author a long-form piece of content, which requires a more thoughtful processing and conveying of information.

Taking the writing process seriously means not accepting one-size-fits-all ‘writing tips’. You need to find a source of writing insight that addresses your general writing situation and that resonates with your specific approach to writing.

Choose your blogging platform based on your needs, not on what all the cool kids are using.

Trying to shoehorn something you’re writing into the framework of a story can make it look like you’re trying to shoehorn it into the framework of a story.

What you should be aiming for is a core of enthusiastic, engaged readers. I’d rather have 100 engaged readers than 1,000 casual ones. People who keep coming back because what I’ve written is helpful, is interesting, and speaks to them.

"It does not save time or offer anything of value if every single line needs to be double-checked and re-translated and it reduces the optics of their job to that of 'text janitor.' Real translators have been kicked so hard by AI that you should not blame them for not picking up the sloppy seconds of a chatGPT translation patch. They deserve better."

This is the first part I reject. The moving things around is precisely what thinking and writing involves. It's where ideas are born and cultivated, shaped to become what we have in mind. The rearranging of words to capture an incipient thought is the struggle and joy of being a writer.

Shortly after I began producing Rebecca's Pocket I noticed two side effects I had not expected. First, I discovered my own interests. I thought I knew what I was interested in, but after linking stories for a few months I could see that I was much more interested in science, archaeology, and issues of injustice than I had realized. More importantly, I began to value more highly my own point of view. In composing my link text every day I carefully considered my own opinions and ideas, and I began to feel that my perspective was unique and important.

Authenticity is in short supply and seems to be the only way forward, for so much of what we see is manufactured, tailored, and designed to show something that doesn’t exist. Imperfection is the mark of the human, the spelling mistakes, the last minute word addition because you misspoke on a video, it’s all more real because of this. We can strive to glorify the Creator with creation, and that will always be more enjoyable than the sterile veil over what could be authentic.

We have been conditioned to identify with the things we have rather than become the person we ultimately see ourselves to be simply because it is easier to be a guy with a beard that likes coffee and Marvel movies than it is to become a man of fortitude and resiliance.

I don’t have anything against people monetizing their thoughts - though I’m rarely compelled by a paywall. Digital patronage and crowdfunding seems highly relevant to get out of the social media hell realm of today. It has pitfalls, the main one being requiring mass adoption which seems highly delusional.

Don’t get me wrong– I’d rather have more blogs than no blogs so if that’s your situation don’t mind me and my niche beef. But consider for a moment that I can’t tell you the last Medium post I’ve read because they’re all the same to me. I follow a lot of UX and design systems blogs… but I can’t tell you a single person who writes on Medium. Those posts and authors have all blended together into a monolithic groupthinkpiece where individual voices and personality are flattened by the über theme.

“Maybe someday the language models will be able to write books better than I can. But here’s the thing: Using those models in such a way absolutely misses the point, because it looks at art only as a product. Why did I write [my first manuscript]?… It was for the satisfaction of having written a novel, feeling the accomplishment, and learning how to do it. I tell you right now, if you’ve never finished a project on this level, it’s one of the most sweet, beautiful, and transcendent moments. I was holding that manuscript, thinking to myself, ‘I did it. I did it.’”

Of course blogging isn’t just writing. It’s a way of seeing the world with fresh eyes. Blogging is a mindset.

Writing blog posts, for example, is something that benefits from a steady rhythm. When I had that in previous years, it felt easier to show up and publish consistently. Once that cadence broke, getting back into it requires more effort than I expected, even though my desire to write has never left.

Like anything in life, you can only get better if you practice. Your first blog post will probably not be great, nor your second, maybe not even your third. But you should write them anyway. The more you write, the more you can improve your writing. You will need to read other blog posts and articles and incorporate different ways of writing to your own. You can only be a good writer, if you practice. So… practice on your own blog!

How to archive, index and search? I recently re-architected how search works on my site. It’s not finished yet but I hope to use search as a way to search not only my site but all kinds of other stuff: my bookmarks, my wiki, my notes, my tweets even. Search can be a way to go down rabbitholes.

How do you create pathways (and desire paths?) through your site? How do people start, journey, get lost and ultimately find their way through your site?

Put into a tumbler about two tablespoonfuls of broken ice, two tablespoonfuls of chocolate syrup, three tablespoonfuls of whipped cream, one gill of milk, and half a gill of soda-water from a syphon bottle, or Apollinaris water. Stir well before drinking. A tablespoonful of vanilla ice-cream is a desirable addition. It is a delicious drink, even if the soda or Apollinaris water and ice-cream be omitted. A plainer drink is made by combining the syrup, a gill and a half of milk, and the ice, shaking well.

Into a granite-ware saucepan put one ounce—three tablespoonfuls—of Walter Baker & Co.'s Soluble Chocolate, and gradually pour on it half a pint of boiling water, stirring all the time. Place on the fire, and stir until all the chocolate is dissolved. Now add one pint of granulated sugar, and stir until it begins to boil. Cook for three minutes longer, then strain and cool. When cool, add one tablespoonful of vanilla extract. Bottle, and keep in a cold place.

First was a couple months ago, when I visited my parents for the first time in a while. My sister still lives in my hometown and has a beautiful new baby boy, so came over to see me. I love kids, so spent a long time enjoying my time with both of them, but once play time was over, I went to grab my computer, and began to type out some listicle of some kind. I forget which it was. She asked what I was doing. I told her, and then she asked me ‘do you ever give yourself a rest from your computer?’This proved a powerful moment for me, because just as many words as I say on my Sports Passion Project, I say in real life. I’m a talkative human. I’ve got an answer for everything, and yet, all it took was this one yes/no question to leave me completely speechless. I had no answer to it.

First was a couple months ago, when I visited my parents for the first time in a while. My sister still lives in my hometown and has a beautiful new baby boy, so came over to see me. I love kids, so spent a long time enjoying my time with both of them, but once play time was over, I went to grab my computer, and began to type out some listicle of some kind. I forget which it was. She asked what I was doing. I told her, and then she asked me ‘do you ever give yourself a rest from your computer?’This proved a powerful moment for me, because just as many words as I say on my Sports Passion Project, I say in real life. I’m a talkative human. I’ve got an answer for everything, and yet, all it took was this one yes/no question to leave me completely speechless. I had no answer to it.

I’m not going to guarantee a post every Monday any longer. I’m not going to post most days on Notes and elsewhere any longer. SPP is going to continue on much more of an ad hoc basis moving forward. When I have something to say, I will say it, but on days and weeks where I have nothing to say, I will not say anything, and I will make no apology beyond this one.

But here's the crux of the matter: I've been blogging for roughly 10 days and many of my posts have been about blogging. I love it as a topic, and I find it quite interesting, but surely I need to break through this obstacle if I want to use this platform in the most rewarding way. One day, when I'm older and looking back at past posts, I won't be really interested in musings about Bear. I'll probably want to know what 2026-me thought of a film they watched, or a book they read, or a day trip somewhere where grass is lush and there's no buildings in sight.

I also want people to follow me for the way I write. I don’t always like writing concise intros, I like taking the scenic route. If you’re not into that sort of thing, I totally understand, but my blog might not be the best one for you to read.

Personally though, the only action I could take, and have, is run a blog on my domain which lets me truly own my thoughts and connections to people on the Web. Maybe you could do that too. In such little corners of the Internet, there are no algorithms shaping content based on hollow likes or reposts. And no public list of followers to race for. Just humans sharing stuff and interacting at will.

Content pruning is the right call for pages that have minimal traffic, minimal backlinks, and low business value.

The benefits of this loose writing for the writer are many, as a blog can serve equal parts as a means to learn what you think, a collaborative tool, a way to do something and tell people about it and a commonplace book. Meanwhile, as readers, we also get to tap into all that ‘instantaneity’ that often gets scrubbed from books. How often otherwise do we really get to hear someone thinking out loud as their thoughts emerge at our own reading pace? And yes, I think this extends to fiction blogs, poetry blogs and modern weblog alternatives such as digital gardens alike.

That’s the promise: you will live more curiously if you write. You will become a scientist, if not of the natural world than of whatever world you care about. More of that world will pop alive. You will see more when you look at it.

You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live. I’m thinking about a book I read called Field Notes on Science & Nature, a collection of essays by scientists about their notes. It’s hard to imagine a more tedious concept — a book of essays about notes? — but in execution it was wonderful. What it teaches you, over and over again, is that the difference between you and a zoologist or you and a botanist is that the botanist, when she looks at a flower, has a question in mind. She’s trying to generate questions. For her the flower is the locus of many mental threads, some nascent, some spanning her career. Her field notebook is not some convenient way to store lifeless data to be presented in lifeless papers so that other scientists can replicate some dull experiment; it’s the site of a collision between a mind and a world.

Don’t consume fads.

Instead of waiting for that aha moment to arrive, I suggest doing the opposite. Start writing even when you have no idea what to write about. More often than not, it really helps.

until now, my approach hasn’t been to create a game around a story, but rather, to develop worldbuilding and narrative within the game system.

However, in a world overflowing with games, getting a slice of that pie of gamers is a difficult task. So, I figure there are about six people in the world who love everything I make, and I’ll do my best to cater my games specifically to them.

What can you do to prolong its life? It's very simple. Don't go niche. Blog about whatever you feel like. Some posts get more attention than others. It's not important.

An estimated 1.77 billion internet users use ad blocking across desktop and mobile. 29.5% of internet users worldwide use ad-blocking tools. 32.5% of American internet users block ads. Indonesia has the highest national ad-blocker penetration rate (40.1%)

For example, let’s say I want to follow Not Just Bikes with the Mastodon handle social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes. Going there will pull up the webpage (and note the lovely lack of being forced to sign in!). Tack on .rss and you’re good to go.

For the record, my posts aren’t written or conceived with an LLM, although I know an increasing number of people who use one to write a first draft and then edit. I’m not a fan. The whole point of the web — its beauty — is that it’s unrelentingly human and diverse.

Exploring through colors: Each photo page has a list of the top eight colors in the photo. When you click on a color, you can explore all the other photos in which that color is one of the the main ones. In this way, all my photos are connected aesthetically. The navigation on a photo page is within the event.

Earlier this month, the Jehovah’s Witnesses filed a permit application seeking to remove the 15-foot-tall letters from the roof of the organization’s now-former headquarters. The request comes nearly a year after developers Kushner Companies, CIM Group and LIVWRK Holdings purchased the building at 25-30 Columbia Heights for $340 million.Removal of the letters will cost an estimated $70,500, according to documents filed with the city’s Department of Buildings.

Your eyes do not deceive you: Sony's nearly decades-old console has received a new update. Version 4.93 of the PS3 firmware is now available for anyone still kicking around on the company's decidedly retro home system, though you shouldn't expect a lot from the update.This update is the latest in an annual trend. Once a year for the last several years, Sony has updated the PS3 firmware and every time, the system's patch notes have trotted out the same line: "This system software update improves system performance."

Thick feathers for insulation from Arctic cold make Snowy Owls North America’s heaviest owl, typically weighing about 4 pounds—one pound heavier than a Great Horned Owl and twice the weight of a Great Gray Owl (North America’s tallest owl).

Subscribe to MSN Dial-up Internet Access and get Internet access and MSN Internet Software which includes: computer wide security software, advanced ...phishing filter technology, pop-up guard and multiple e-mail accounts.

North Carolina is one of six states that still have an alienation of affection law: Hawaii, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah are the others.

The oldest known Mallard was a male, and at least 27 years, 7 months old when he was shot in Arkansas in 2008. He had been banded in Louisiana in 1981.

Several email apps, like Outlook, Apple Mail, and Proton, won't constrain your emails beyond the limits set by SMTP. Others do, though. Gmail cuts a received email short once it hits 102kb in size (not counting attachments). That tends to work out to around 17,000 words of plain text, or as low as 7,000 words when there's a reasonable amount of formatting.

Wario’s Woods is also the lone NES game to be slapped with an ESRB rating.

The Karelian language has no official status in Russia because it is written in the Latin alphabet, as only those written in Cyrillic can be official languages of Russian republics

Yet, Madhouse and new director Tomoya Kitagawa have somehow achieved the impossible: season 2 is easily the equal of its predecessor in every single aspect. Frieren is now the new gateway drug to recommend to potential new anime fans, with the only downside that almost no other anime can hope to measure up.

A Russian agency is pushing new rules of conduct on Central Asian migrants that severely restrict usage of their native languages and warn them about praying in public and sacrificing animals for religious purposes. Central Asian migrants are told about the strict rules and code of behavior in a 70-minute course created by Russia's Federal Agency of Ethnic Affairs (FADN) in seminars in certain parts of the country. It includes for them to have mandatory knowledge of the Russian language and the country's migration laws, not to use their native language when they talk about Russians, and not to whistle at members of the opposite sex. The course also tells them "not to even whisper" in public using their mother tongue, Kommersant reported. Moreover, the common Central Asian practice of addressing people as "brother" or "sister" is said to be unacceptable when referring to Russians. Along with the language and behavioral restrictions, there are also religious limitations. The slaughtering of animals for religious worship in public will also be prohibited.

In the span of a month, Nilufar herself had been stopped three times by authorities for wearing a hijab in public. “Nowadays, as soon as you go outside, you can actually feel how the raids have intensified,” Nilufar said in a recent interview in Dushanbe, providing only her first name because of fear of retribution. With a population of 10 million, the vast majority of whom are Muslim, Tajikistan has many challenges that counter-extremism experts say make it an incubator for extremism: poverty, poor education, high unemployment and grievances against an autocratic government that severely restricts the practice of religion. In the face of these challenges, critics say, Tajikistan has continued to restrict how Islam can be taught and practised and increasingly implemented superficial policies regulating head scarves and beard lengths. The country came under global scrutiny after four Tajik men were charged as the assailants in the worst extremist attack in Russia in two decades, which killed 145 people and injured more than 500 at the Moscow concert hall.

On 24 August, Ukrainian Independence Day, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he had signed Law No. 3894-IX banning the Russian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (ROC) as well as Ukrainian religious organisations affiliated with the ROC. The Law comes into force on 23 September. In his speech the same day he signed the Law, Zelensky stated that Ukrainian Orthodoxy had made a step "towards liberation from Moscow devils".

As Threads "soars", Bluesky and Mastodon are adopting algorithmic feeds. (Tech Crunch) You will eat the bugs. You will live in the pod. You will read what we tell you. You will own nothing and we don't much care if you are happy.

The toughest part of the game is easily deciding which club you will use because the game gives you absolutely no clue on how long a club will take you, if you use its full potiental. Well, I calculated the distances... use this table to find which club you would use when in need. ---------------------------- | Club | Max. Distance | |----------------------------| | 1W | 260 yards | | 3W | 230 yards | | 4W | 220 yards | | 1I | 210 yards | | 3I | 190 yards | | 4I | 180 yards | | 5I | 170 yards | | 6I | 160 yards | | 7I | 150 yards | | 8I | 140 yards | | 9I | 125 yards | | PW | 100 yards | | SW | 75 yards | | PT | 30 yards

The star ratings that we dole out for Preview Guide aren't indicative of a show's overall quality, of course; we've only got one or two episodes to go on, after all. Instead, they indicate how good of a job a first episode does at convincing viewers to keep on watching in the coming weeks.

"After years of research, our engineers have created a revolution in social media technology: a Twitter clone on Instagram that offers the absolute worst of both worlds," said a VR headset-wearing Zuckerberg in an address to dozens of friends in the Metaverse. "At long last, you can read caustic hot takes written by talentless idiots, while still enjoying oppressive censorship and sepia-toned thirst traps from yoga pants models with obnoxious lip injections. You're welcome!"

How do you organize all of the things you read? My system is actually pretty simple, and it relies on organizing my regular reads, quick digesting and sorting one-off articles, and sometimes doing extensive note-taking with online apps.

Where such denial-of-service conditions occur, Cloudflare provides a bizarre “one more step” page inviting the visitor to complete a reCAPTCHA to access the site. Cloudflare claims that this is based on IP reputation, which constitutes a fallacious equivocation of IPs and users which has been found to be highly detrimental to Tor users in terms of the browseability of the web.

§ 1003.36 Record of proceeding. The Immigration Court shall create and control the Record of Proceeding.

Jokic joins Antetokounmpo, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players born overseas to take home the Finals award.

I got a result, but only by emailing bwtsupport at microsoft dot com. They resolved it. I also sent a letter to their legal dept, but I think emailing their support did the trick. This is not a published email I dug it up in a forum post. Worked. Hope you get help too.

For example, the older model had a 1 GHz dual-core processor, while the new version has a 1.8 GHz quad-core chip. Since the company is tight-lipped about exactly which processors are powering these devices, it’s hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison, but it sure sounds like the new model should be a bit more responsive.Both models have just 1GB of RAM, but the original InkPad Color had just 16GB of built-in storage, while the new model has twice as much. That said, it seems like the company might have omitted one feature when building the new model: there’s no longer a microSD card reader.

Check if your website access logs contains prod.uhrs.playmsn.com in refarrals, then your site has been manually banned, by some guy from india or south america, that system provides low-paid clickworker reviews metrics without feedbacks.Bing now looks like mafia.

Just added RSS links to many of my categories. They’ve always existed, I just figured it would be nice to include them in the category description.

(b) Motion to Advance — A request to advance a hearing date (move the hearing to an earlier date) should be made by written motion.  A motion to advance should completely articulate the reasons for the request.  The motion should be filed with a cover page labeled “MOTION TO ADVANCE” and comply with the deadlines and requirements for filing.  See Chapter 5.2 (Filing a Motion), Appendix E (Cover Pages).

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Let's say you want to tell your audience that your character is angry. You could just have them say “I'm angry.” But how often does a person in real life ever plainly announce their anger that way? Have you ever been able to tell someone was angry without them telling you? What if instead of having our character say “I'm angry,” you write them entering their house and slamming the door behind them so hard that picture frames fall off the wall and shatter on the floor. Air hisses out of their mouths as they huff and puff through gritted teeth. That's usually better writing. That's what “show, don't tell” means. But what if I told you that Kare Kano breaks this golden rule of writing, and does so with incredible results?

The game went on to be a minor hit in Japan, selling over 100,000 copies -- and was followed up by a Game Boy version which, thanks to Pokemon's popularity, sold over 300,000, launching the new franchise.