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stack overflow's april fool's keyboard with three keys: control, c, and v
a screenshot of singou breaka
wolverine from one of capcom's 2d fighters paused in an awkward animation frame
"sub-urban." The book Budrys reviewed was Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness (1977), and the fact that it fit so neatly with Budrys's urban fantasy description suggests that he may have adapted his description to Leiber's novel. It is clear that "urban fantasy" was a label that Budrys expected his readers to be familiar with, however. "When we speak so glibly now of 'urban fantasy', we pay passing homage to the man who invented it ... in a 1941 story called 'Smoke Ghost' by Fritz Leiber," Budrys asserts, and "Smoke Ghost" certainly could be read as an urban fantasy even by today's understanding.
a number of pelicans in flight
a great egret crouches in a tree
a snowy egret perches on the edge of a drainage pipe
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Time and again, Bowser kidnaps Peach. Why do Mario and Peach still race go-karts and play tennis with him? SM: If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon. They might be businessman in one [cartoon] or a pirate in another. Depending on the story that was being told, they would change roles. So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take on different roles in different games. It's more like they're one big family, or maybe a troupe of actors.
at low tide a heron is scrunched up so it looks like a rock, next to two other rocks
a seagull standing on a container while another lands next to it, ships' masts in the background
a stripey brown cat with black feet in front of a stripey brown fence with black trim
eldar war walker version 1
photo of a book: "Apollo was rewriting the Iliad with giant robots." He half laughed. "Giant robots?" "You know the old science fiction stories where the pilot rides inside a giant human-shaped robot. Apollo's Iliad was set in the future, a space war where Troy is on the Moon, with Hector and Achilles facing off in giant robot suits and smashing asteroids. It was badly written, too. If you saw a chapter, Caesar, you would laugh." MASON frowned, uncertain, as if believing me only because the claim was too stupid to be a lie. "Why would Apollo waste their time on such a thing?" A touch of lightness let my tears pause. "It was the only way Apollo could imagine a future war where one soldier still matters."
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Here's a subtler question: have you really lost progress just because you need to restart and try again? In an adventure game, progress is understanding the world and solving puzzles. Solving a puzzle again is just a bit of extra typing! I'm pushing a point here, but the classical parser games really did have a different rhythm than we're used to nowadays. Even on the old eight-bit machines, a experienced player could replay a section of a game nearly as fast as they could type. It wasn't fun, no. But if you already expected to need to restart a few times, then exploring with unwinnable mistakes hanging over your head just wasn't a serious penalty. This balance shifted with the later graphical adventures. In the third-person (Sierra/LucasArts) games, walking and other animations made replaying a much more tedious chore. In the Myst-likes, the loading times of those graphically rich scenes slowed you down nearly as much. It's no surprise that the "unstuckable" game model had its renaissance in the graphical era.
Also, and this is a really tiny detail, when Alucar sits down in a chair, he usually crosses his legs and arms and looks a little haughty. But when he's in the chapel, he puts his hands on his lap and sits politely. I was very impressed when I noticed. Q: So he has a different attitude when he's in the chapel. (laughs) Ladybug: I know this because I'm a creator too, but drawing two separate animations is really annoying. But they spared no effort and drew
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