So there you have it, there’s not a drug-detecting nail polish on the market just yet. It can detect common date rape drugs in more than 10o liquids including juice, mixed drinks, beer, wine, and spirits. The company claims it’s one of the most effective ways to detect drink spiking. Undercover Colors took 4 years to develop the new device. Two lines means your drink is safe to consume. Report it to security, management, or bar staff in the venue you’re in. One line means your drink is spiked, so steer well clear. Wait for between 30 seconds and a few minutes and you should see either one or two lines. All you need to do to check your drink is safe is place a drop of your drink on the sample section. That means you can attach it to your keyring and take it out in your purse when you hit the bars and clubs. The company says it works like a pregnancy test and it’s only the size of a coin. Not to be deterred, Undercover Colors released a drug detecting device that can detect drugs like diazepam and rohypnol. Is There An Alternative To Drug Detecting Nail Polish? However, ultimately the product became too hard to create in a way that was viable to take to market. The company received millions of dollars of investment. Just like the students’ formula, the nail polish would change colour on contact with any date rape drug. It said it was developing a drug-detecting nail polish that could detect drugs like rohypnol and ketamine. But in 2018, a nail tech company called Undercover Colors took on the challenge. We aren’t sure what happened to their idea. It the drink contained a date rape drug, the polish would change colour. If someone wearing the nail polish wanted to know whether their drink was spiked, they had to stir their drink with a finger. Each said they knew someone who’d had their drink spiked and was a victim of sexual assault. The Birth of Drug Detecting Nail Polish-Or Not?īack in 2014, four male college students from North Carolina State University decided to create a nail polish that detected drugs. So why doesn't that deter the perpetrators? How can you detect if someone has spiked your drink? You might have heard of drug detecting nail polish but is it actually a thing? It carries a hefty 10-year maximum prison sentence. In recent years, drink spiking has been on the increase in the UK.
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8/30/2023 0 Comments From dusk till dawn 2 trailerThe acting is good from all the cast and the special effects are pretty disgusting. A lot of the lines had be laughing very hard. First, the script is written brilliant, it is darkly humorous. In the second part of the movie they make it to the bar, unfortunately it is a bar run by vampires and soon enough the feasting begins. They need to get past the Mexican border to a bar named the "Titty Twister." Along the way they take hostage the Fuller family, Jacob (Harvey Keital), Kate (Juliette Lewis) and Scott (Ernest Liu). The first half of the story revolves around the Gecko brothers, Seth (George Clooney) and Richie (Quentin Tarantino). There is nothing wrong with the acting, the music really good and the special effects are gross (but great). If you're looking for a movie to sit back and enjoy for brainless entertainment, get this. Today, CATCHPLAY Media Holdings Group owns two distinct companies: CATCHPLAY Incorporated, and AsiaPlay Incorporated, with involvement from production, theatrical distribution, linear movie channel and both content aggregation and platform operation for digital entertainment services.From Dusk Till Dawn is simply a fun movie. In June 2016, the service launched in Indonesia, partnering with market leader Telkom Indonesia, and in Singapore, partnering with the market’s leading pay TV and telecommunication service provider, StarHub. In March 2016, the CATCHPLAY+ service made its pilot launch in Taiwan. Through our passion for movies and the belief in co-creation, internally and together with local leading operator’s partnership – we made it a mission to provide the ultimate content offering tailored for each market’s unique needs and deliver superior user experience that will be cherished by movie lovers universally. Instead of adopting major international players’ one ‘offer-fits-all’ strategy, we at CATCHPLAY with years of experience and passion for content, believes and embraces the importance of individual market’s unique needs and preference of content. In 2015, CATCHPLAY established AsiaPlay Incorporated with the ambition to become Asia’s largest movie content service provider. Today, CATCHPLAY Media Holdings Group owns two distinct companies – CATCHPLAY Incorporated, and AsiaPlay Incorporated – with involvement from production, distribution, linear movie channel operation and both content aggregation and platform operation for digital entertainment services. This was followed by expanded partnerships with Telkomsel, Indosat and First Media, and in Singapore, collaboration with the market’s leading telecommunication operator, StarHub. In June 2016, the service platform launched in Indonesia, collaborating with market leaders IndiHome, Telkom Indonesia. In March 2016, the CATCHPLAY+ service platform made its pilot launch in Taiwan in partnerships with major telecommunication operators and device manufacturers. In addition to content aggregation, in 2015, CATCHPLAY established AsiaPlay Incorporated with the ambition of becoming the leading premium content service provider for movie lovers in Asia. Today, we are the largest provider for premium movie content in Taiwan, aggregating content from Hollywood studios including Disney, Warner Bros., NBC Universal and Paramount in addition to having a wide selection of international independent films and leading local productions for distribution on major operators’ digital platforms. Today, CATCHPLAY continues to look into investment and co-production opportunities internationally and in Asia targeting particularly Chinese-speaking territories and South East Asia following our recent expansion footprints.ĬATCHPLAY started placing significant emphasis on the development of digital movie content years before the others did in Taiwan. In the same year, CATCHPLAY also provided financing and local production support to director Martin Scorsese’s passion project Silence, making it the first international production filmed entirely in Taiwan. CATCHPLAY and partners also control exclusive distribution rights to these films in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, with The Revenant generating outstanding box office results from these territories in 2016. In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. 8/30/2023 0 Comments Removable lattice under deckI know it was probably more noticeable to me than anyone else, but I had to do something about it. Suddenly, that side of the house seemed to stand out as the focal point for the longish approach to our house. We live on a corner near the start of our street. Removing the tree unexpectedly put a spotlight on our 3 air conditioners, the really scruffy shrubs, and weedy flower beds. You will see many other ways to use the Decorative 3D and DuraShell® lattice.ĭon’t forget to request a sample kit online or contact us with any questions or to receive a free quote for your current project.This once shady and hidden side yard needed an upgrade. We invite you to continue browsing our Facebook page and peruse our website. We offer U-channel to frame or guide the lattice sheet as well as an H-channel to connect the lattice sheets in your project. Yes, six sheet sizes are available as well.ĭon’t see the sheet size you need? We are capable of manufacturing custom sheet sizes for your convenience. Our standard sheet sizes are 12” x 6’ or 8’, 16” x 6’ or 8’, 4’ x 6’ and 4’ x 8’. That’s six opening sizes, not just “privacy or standard”. We offer opening sizes of 1” square, 1” diagonal, 1-7/8” diagonal, 2” square, 2-3/4” diagonal and 3” diagonal. manufactures the DuraShell® solid cellular core lattice. Lattice will enhance the look of your entire deck area. With lattice, you can choose either a square or diagonal opening to create any design you can imagine. Contrasting colors of lattice and railing can make the deck area pop as well as enhance the rest of the home. Remember, you can mix colors for your deck and lattice ideas. You can also add stone columns around the bottom deck post and bring the lattice sheet right up to each column to achieve a formal looking deck. It’s all about the look you want.īlending a framed lattice sheet with brick supports gives a clean crisp look to any deck bottom. There is not a set in stone way lattice must be added to your deck. Want to see more options? Check out for some under-the-deck inspiration! Either a framed lattice sheet look, a continuous lattice sheet look, post exposed or post hidden look.Įach of these installation processes will give you a different look for your lattice beneath the deck. You can choose several ways to install the lattice below your deck. Incorporate landscaping and now you have a beautiful focal point. Leaving a large opening allows you a space that can be turned into either storage or better yet an additional outdoor room. Incorporate the lattice sheets with the stairs and around the exposed areas to accomplish a unique look that ties the area together. Now not only will you have a nice look, but you have conquered the lack of storage issue for your outdoor items.Īn upper level deck does not need to appear bare at the lower section. You can add any size door to the area but remember to consider the location of the deck post. Let’s take a look at a few ideas for lattice below your deck:Ĭonsider including a lattice door that will give you access beneath your deck for a new storage area. There are also cosmetic reasons for using lattice under the deck. The lattice can also keep animals from moving in and causing havoc under this space. Let’s face it, this area can be hard to maintain. The lattice can also keep leaves from blowing and gathering under the deck area. The airflow will eliminate the chance of mold and moisture build up beneath the deck. Lattice is the number one choice for homeowners when it comes to how they enclose the underside of their deck.Īside from the fact that lattice is the most cost effective choice available, it also allows the much needed airflow in the area. 8/30/2023 0 Comments Honda inventory shortageCar shoppers on the younger end of Autolist’s survey audience were the most likely to agree that now was still a good time to get a new or used vehicle by a significant margin. GM has had to temporarily shut down most of its North American plants due to the semiconductor chip shortage. 31% of people said they were switching to a different brand - rather than looking for a larger or smaller vehicle, something in a different body style, or giving up on certain non-safety-related amenities.Ĭhevy Camaros sit on a lot at the General Motors Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant on September 2. That was the most common response when shoppers were asked what they’re changing during their shopping journey (with our aforementioned truck buyers being the obvious exception here). So what are consumers doing when they can’t find the vehicle they want? Switching brands. Just 8% of respondents said they were giving up safety features that they would normally look for in their next vehicle as a result of low inventory at the dealership. Autolist’s survey asked shoppers if and how they were compromising on their next vehicle when they couldn’t find the one they originally were looking for. 46% of them said they were looking at brands they wouldn’t normally consider as a result of inventory woes.)Ģ. (At the other end of the loyalty spectrum are shoppers looking for small sedans. Just 20% said they would do so, the second-lowest number behind only full-size sedan shoppers. Truck shoppers in our survey were also among the least likely to consider a different type of vehicle than they originally considered. Just 24% of truck shoppers in Autolist’s survey said they were looking at a different brand that they would normally consider as a result of the inventory shortages. Once an automaker hooks a truck buyer, it’s exceptionally hard to get them to switch to a different brand, let alone a different type of vehicle.ĭespite the chip shortage hammering truck production for the key fullsize truck players - General Motors, Ford, and Ram - and forcing plant closures, truck shoppers in Autolist’s survey remained the most loyal out of any vehicle segment in the industry. Truck buyers - particularly fullsize truck buyers - are the most loyal car shoppers in the industry. Speedway in Sparta, Kentucky, U.S., on July 16, 2021. New Ford F-Series pickup trucks are stored in a lot during a semiconductor shortage at Kentucky. 8/30/2023 0 Comments Runescape mining and smithing betaItems can be upgraded six times up to “decorated,” at which the item can no longer be equipped but can be traded in for a lump sum of experience. The new system appears to be promoting creating less items by putting more emphasis on re-smithing what you’ve already created. Right now smithing is a simple operation of clicking on an anvil with the ore in your inventory, selecting what you want to create, and pressing a button. Smithing on the other hand appears to be going for slower production but more returns per creation, so you won’t be pumping out hundreds of swords per hour but the experience you receive per sword will be better than the system that currently exists. While this does mean that it’ll be more possible to mine while not paying full attention, you’ll still want to check in every so often and click the ore to restore your stamina bar, which will slow down gathering as it depletes. In addition, it looks like all of the ore will be moved over to a community, non-competitive style with ore nodes that do not deplete. Under the new system, instead of offering a chance with each strike, Jagex is going for predictability by introducing a timed slider which grants an ore once it fills up, its speed decided by your level, quality of pickaxe, and quality of ore. For most ores in the game, the rock depletes after one strike and you have to wait for it to refresh before it can be struck again. In current RuneScape, mining is essentially handled by dice roll, with every strike giving the chance to collect an ore based on your mining level, the level of the rock, and your quality of pickaxe. Mining appears to be going for predictability and ease of access. One thing that’s obvious about this planned update is that both skills are see a slowdown in production, Requiring 85 mining (of the 99 skill cap) to mine Rune and 85-99 smithing to create its equipment made a lot more sense in 2001 when rune was the best armor in the game (which it still is for non-members) and rune was incredibly rare with two very slowly spawning nodes deep in the player-vs-player wilderness. Both skills were released in 2001 and have received sporadic updates throughout the years to boost their usefulness, but it can hardly be argued that either skill has been left behind as the game has progressed. Mining & Smithing are widely regarded as extremely antiquated skills in RuneScape, as Jagex essentially filled out the skill without much future proofing. Power Brick 15: Score x8 = 20,000,000 studs - The studs earned are multiplied by 8. You will find instructions on how to proceed.Power Brick 16: Super Ewok Catapult = 50,000 studs - Ewoks shoot thermal detonators (instead of their regular shots). If you have information or covers that would complete this entry, please feel free to contribute them by clicking the CONTRIBUTE link in the menu on the left. When more accurate information or covers are obtained, the entry will be updated adding the missing information. We couldn't find some of the information and covers for this game. Testing other emulators/plugins is up to you.Įnter the following passwords to obtain the desired effect:Įnter these passwords at the Codes Setup screen: We provide you with one working set-up so that you may get the game up and running, hassle-free. There are others that will work (better or worse) for your particular hardware. NOTE: This is not the only possible combination of plugins. ( Interpolation = 4 Disable Effects Processing = No Use the de-alias filter = No Enable Dubug options = No Module = 1 Synchronizing Mode = TimeStretch Mix Audio Expansion Mode = Stereo ) ( Allow 8-bit textures = Yes Alpha Hack = No Offset Hack = No Skipdraw Hack = No ) Stereo = Yes / Mono = Yes / Dolby Sorround = No / Dolby Digital = No / Dolby Pro logic II = YesĮE Cyclerate = 1 VU Cycle Stealing = 0 Enable INTC Spin detection = Yes Enable Wait Loop Detection = Yes Enable fast CDVD = Yes mVU Flag Hack = No MTVU (Multi-Threaded Micro VU1) = Yes Target multiple enemies with powerful dual blasters.ĥ0 Hz = Yes / 60 Hz = No / Progressive Scan = Yes / 16:9 Option = No Pursue enemies with a missile-equipped jetpack, a flamethrower, whipcord and more.īattle fearsome beasts and brutal enemies from Coruscant to Tatooine. For the galaxy's most wanted - there is no place to hide. Armed with an array of deadly weapons and skills, you'll face off against galactic scum from the darkest corners of the Star Wars universe. You are Jango Fett, the most fearless bounty hunter in the galaxy, hired to capture a deranged Dark Jedi. * Cinematic sequences created by Industrial Light + Magic, sound design by Skywalker Sound * Option screen supports secret codes to alter gameplay * Automatic targeting feature allows players to fire at multiple enemies * Track prey by scanning the environment, then use either the whipcord or lethal weapons to claim bounty * Play as Star Wars: Episode II's Jango Fett in an original story line Other items available during the game include three limited-use weapons, including a heavy gun, grenade launcher, and a blaster rifle, two power-ups in the form of temporary invulnerability and longer flight time, and various pickups to replenish health and ammunition. These feathers unlock such features as outtakes and concept art. In addition to claiming bounties and completing objectives, bonuses are available by finding hidden feather icons. Players can only save their progress after each level, although the stages offer a number of checkpoints to continue from. Players must keep an eye on fuel consumption, however, as the jetpack will quickly lose power the longer the thrusters are engaged.Īs Fett delves deeper into the worlds, context sensitive areas allow him to activate switches and doors, take control of stationary turrets, and use a cutting laser to reveal new areas. Analog control means the bounty hunter can sneak, walk, or run while on the ground, and he is always free to use his jetpack's thrusters to climb into the air. Jango Fett can roll, somersault, climb hand over hand across ledges, crouch, jump, and lock onto enemies using an auto targeting system. Once a bounty has been discovered, an icon will appear on the screen to help guide players toward their target. To determine which individuals have prices on their heads, players make use of Fett's ID scanner, which will display critical information on each selected character. To help in his pursuit, Jango Fett can use his trademark dual blasters, a flamethrower, thermal grenades, toxic darts, a sniper rifle, whipcord, and two types of jetpack-mounted missiles.Īs Jango Fett travels across the 3D locales, which include the familiar worlds of Tattooine and Coruscant, he will encounter many different creatures and species. Each level features primary and secondary objectives, the majority of which involve tracking down various thugs and capturing them dead or alive. Played from a third-person perspective, the game features a total of 18 levels spread across six chapters. Boba Fett's father wears similar armor as his bounty hunter son, which means he can fly short distances with the use of a jetpack. Taking place within the time period between Star Wars: Episode I and Episode II, Bounty Hunter chronicles the story of the ruthless Jango Fett as he journeys through the underbelly of the Star Wars universe to hunt down a rogue Dark Jedi. 8/30/2023 0 Comments Tales by light ocean manta rayThe snorkeling opportunities around the three Nusa islands are endless and there are a number of packages to choose from, each with their own combination of snorkeling spots. There are a number of operators who offer snorkeling trips from Nusa Lebongan, and our first step in swimming with manta rays began by selecting which operator to use. A localised area of upwelling at Manta Point off Nusa Penida creates the perfect manta ray cafetaria, and although the water is a little chilly, visitors who go swimming with manta rays here are not disappointed as the manta rays abound! Our experience of swimming with manta rays Manta rays congregate in these “soupy” areas, making them ideal places to view these unique fish. By swimming with their mouths open they sieve the water, catching and eating tiny zooplankton that swarm in nutrient-rich waters. Bevan swimming with manta rays at Nusa Penida. A majestic manta ray cruising through the blue. Although the largest of a cluster three islands, most visitors stay on the picturesque Nusa Lembongan and join a day snorkeling boat trip that combines the unforgettable manta rays and breathtaking coral gardens of Nusa Penida. There are few places as rewarding, and as easily accessible to go swimming with manta rays as the island of Nusa Penida, between Bali and Lombok in Indonesia. Manta rays inhabit tropical and subtropical coastal and oceanic waters. Join our family of avid adventure seekers and get access to ALL of our adventure guides. Bonus: We’ve created dozens of adventure guides just like this. 8/30/2023 0 Comments 25 cute paragraphs for herWhy do these things have to be so complicated?ĭaisy: It's not complicated, Mum! You mustn't forget, he's the one who suggested going for a drink, so he obviously likes you – and you obviously like him! What's complicated? Sophie: I shouldn't be asking you about this sort of thing! Oh, but I feel like a teenager. Maybe you should go for a coffee or lunch and see how you feel? If you don't like him, you don't have to see him again. why not? He has to decide if he wants to go out with the mother of a student, though. ĭaisy: I don't mind! And if you like him. I mean, I don't want you to feel uncomfortable. And you mustn't forget to change the water they don't smell great. You'd better buy a thermostat and a filter if you want a turtle. A turtle? They're small and quiet and they don't have hair. You've got to be careful with a cat – some are nice, but some are. She used to scratch the sofa – and our legs – and she stole food if you left it for a moment. You should brush them as often as possible, and get their hair cut.Īlfie: We used to have a cat. And you've got to look after their hair regularly. Think of your neighbours!Īmy: As an adult, Old English Sheepdogs are extremely large – like that one. and noisy! You'd better get something a bit quieter, Ollie. And a smaller dog? Should I get one of these?Īmy: They're Yorkshire terriers. You should always clean it up and put it in the bin. And you mustn't forget to take two or three small plastic bags when you go out.Īmy: Well, when your dog … you shouldn't leave it on the street. Well, you don't have to go twice, but you must go at least once. You should really have a garden.Īmy: And you have to take them out for a walk twice a day. Dalmatians are quite big, aren't they?Īmy: Yes, they are. Then the spots appear.Īlfie: Ah, I never knew that. Oh yeah! Look at these, mate! Puppies! What's that white one?Īlfie: But they've got black spots, haven't they?Īmy: Not when they're puppies, no. Daisy and Mum like the idea, but Mum says I mustn't get a spider, a scorpion or a snake.Īlfie: Let's see the dogs. Oliver: Well, I've got some money and I've decided I'd quite like a pet. I want to study veterinary science at university and my parents suggested I should get some experience of working with animals.Īmy: It's my first day. Oliver: Amy! Hi! What are you doing here?Īmy: It's my new Saturday job. 8/30/2023 0 Comments Screen shot on macThey allow you to explain the given information in the best way possible, making it effortless for the reader to understand. Screenshots are ideal for creating well-structured documentation and presentations with examples. One that allows you to crop and edit, document, save in multiple formats, and share with ease. Well, there’s a screenshot software Mac that completely matches your requirements.Ī third-party snipping tool for macOS is the solution for you. You cannot edit, grab high-resolution images, or annotate for professional use. To stop recording, either press the stop button or key in Command+Control+Esc.Īnd there you have it - now you know how to take screenshots on a Mac with just a couple keystrokes.The built-in screenshot tool for Mac is great and easy to use. If you want sound, just make sure you enable your machine's microphone in the "Options" drop-down menu. Select whether you want to record the whole screen or just part of it (those screen-looking icons on that menu) and then, when you're ready, hit record. You'll see a menu pop up that looks like this: Screen recording menu, courtesy of Apple Support (fun fact - you can't take a screen shot while you're screen recording!). What if a still image isn't enough to show what you want to show? What if you want to record yourself demoing a new product or writing instructions to a tutorial? To capture the screenshot, simply click on the camera icon, and voilà - you have a full screen screenshot. The cursor will turn into a camera icon and your whole screen will be highlighted in a light pinkish-red color. (You'll do this immediately after keying in the shortcut.) This changes the screen capture field to be the entire screen. Then, instead of dragging the cursor to capture just the part of the screen you want, press the space bar. If you want to capture the whole screen, you'll start off the same way – by pressing Command+Shift+4. How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac – the Whole Screen Then you'll be able to find it on your desktop, in your "Recents", or in your downloads. Once you've marked up your screenshot to your heart's desire, just save it (Command+s does the trick). Just click the icon in the upper right that looks like a pen tip and the editor menu will open: Click the pen tip icon.and the editor menu bar will pop up There you can mark it up, add text and arrows (like I've done above), and send it anywhere on your computer that you like. You can click on that mini image, and it will be opened in an editor. A minified form of the image will appear in the bottom right corner of your screen, like this: The screenshot image will go to the bottom right corner of your screen Step 4: Edit and save your screenshot When you've got all the area covered that you want to capture, release your click press and you'll hear a little capture sound (if your sound is on). Drag over and down (while still holding the click press) until you cover all the area you want captured Step 3: Release your cursor click To take the screenshot, simply click in the spot where you want your screenshot to start (don't release the click) and drag the cursor to where you want the screenshot to finish. Press Command+Shift+4, click where you want the screenshot to start, and hold down your click (don't release it) Step 2: Click and drag the cursor Note that you want to hold down each key until you're done keying in the shortcut, so press and hold the command key (and keep holding it down), then press the Shift key (while holding the command key, and keep holding the shift key as well), and then press the 4 key (while holding those other keys). If you just press Command + Shift + 4, your cursor will turn into a little crosshair-looking icon. If you want to capture the whole screen, you'll find instructions to do that afterwards. If you just want to capture a part of your screen (that you choose), simply follow the instructions below (Steps 1-4). The shortcut gives you the option to select a portion of the screen or to screenshot the whole screen. The easiest way to take a screenshot, in my opinion, is to use a simple keyboard shortcut: Command+Shift+4. How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac – Part of the Screen In this tutorial, we'll see how you can take a screenshot on your Mac with just a few keystrokes. It preserves whatever you're looking at exactly and sends it to your downloads so you can access it whenever you like. Taking a screenshot is like taking a photograph of something on your screen. In that case, you'll want to take a screenshot of either all or part of your screen. But what if it's something that's not downloadable or copyable? Sometimes it's useful to capture an image or some text on your computer screen. 8/30/2023 0 Comments UndyingStatus affects how people are treated, and the size of the area they are permitted to hunt in. Status is how a community of literal (and figurative) predators fill out a pecking order, from the high and mighty Princeps to the lowly Pariahs. These choices are vital in developing the big mechanical themes for the game: Blood, Debt, Humanity, and Status. The big areas players will decide will be things such as what places and practices are available for feeding, and in general how the social hierarchy works. The rulebook, like other PbtA games, has prompter questions to flesh out the setting, allowing the group to shape how things will play out and what will be the focus. Setting creation begins with settling on cultural period and location, which can be helpful in providing a framework of who is who in the city, and what lore about vampires the group agrees to play by. The mythology of vampire lore is wonderfully vast and inconsistent, meaning that players and GMs have an extraordinary amount of freedom in the kind of world and setting they want to create, and can pick and choose the themes they like without necessarily defaulting to grimmdark. That said…even if you are completely and 100% happy with WoD mechanics I still think that Undying has something to offer. However, as a personal preference, I have not had the best track record with the World of Darkness system mechanics, and I quite enjoy the more player facing and narrative driven style found in PbtA games. While I haven’t taken a look at the new 5th Edition yet, the early returns and story choices that I have heard about from other players might mean that I rectify that soon. As I have said before, and I will say again, I like the setting of the RPG that is likely the most famous, Vampire: The Masquerade. While Undying is hardly the first vampire-centric RPG, it certainly has space to occupy. I briefly mentioned the game, and my reasons for wanting to play it in our October Cannibal Halfling Radio podcast, but I believe that the game deserves a broader explanation. Which is what has brought me to Undying by Magpie Games. So when I find out that the company that is both behind my favorite Powered by the Apocalypse game ( Masks) and already knows how to do horror well ( Bluebeard’s Bride) already has such a game on the shelf…well, I couldn’t stay away. Toss in a large chunk of my formative years suffused with badass supernatural bloodsuckers brought to life in films such as Blade, Underworld, Interview with the Vampire, and Queen of the Damned (plus TV shows such as Buffy, Angel and Hellsing) and you get a player who, even now, gets giddy at the chance to play in a game with a vampire focus. I honestly think that they are an excellent concept in supernatural action and horror, largely due to much of their mythos having easy ties to profound themes such as seduction, addiction, lost innocence, alienation, and the loss of humanity. Genre-bending, devastating and profoundly humane, The Undying is an unmissably insightful meditation on cancer, the cancer industry and the sicknesses and glories of contemporary life.I have a confession to make: I’m a fan of vampires in fiction. She investigates the quackeries, casualties and ecological costs of cancer under capitalism, and dives into the long line of women writing about their own illnesses and deaths, among them Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker and Susan Sontag. In The Undying - at once her harrowing memoir of survival, and a 21st-century Illness as Metaphor - Boyer draws on sources from ancient Roman dream diarists to cancer vloggers to explore the experience of illness. For a single mother living payslip to payslip, the condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. 'Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read' Hari Kunzruīlending memoir with critique, an award-winning poet and essayist's devastating exploration of sickness and health, cancer and the cancer industry, in the modern worldĪ week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. 'An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique' Ben Lerner I have long thought of Boyer as a genius' Patricia Lockwood 'Profound and unforgettable' Sally Rooney WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020įINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020 |
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