![]() His touring in 2007 in support of his album White Moth was entirely carbon-neutral. The album also went platinum in Australia.nnRudd is one of a growing number of environmentally concerned musicians dedicated to reducing the impact of his performances and tours. The same year brought the release of Food in the Belly, a studio album recorded in Vancouver, which saw guest artists including Beth Preston, Harry Manx, and the Vancouver Children's Choir. Another live album, Good Spirit, was recorded at three of his Australian gigs and released in 2005. It debuted in the Top 20 of the ARIA charts and attained platinum sales.nnAttracting more attention, he toured with Jack Johnson, as well as G. ![]() The independently released album was his first to be distributed by Universal, which gave him a larger audience. Solace contained his cover of Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" and the single "Let Me Be," which he plays a popular extended version of at his concerts. His next studio album, 2004's Solace, tried to capture his live sound by eschewing guest artists - Rudd played all the instruments himself with only a few overdubs. His first studio album, To Let, followed a year later.nn2003 saw another independently released document of his stage performances in Live at the Grid. The first document of his performances, Live in Canada, was recorded in 2001 and helped spread the word. His skills came together when he began busking and traveling.nnDuring his travels, Rudd developed an affinity for Canada, where he has dual citizenship. He was destined to be a musician, but could never focus on just one instrument instead finding ways to combine them by playing basslines on his guitar while simultaneously fingerpicking on the lower strings, for example. While growing up in Torquay and Bell's Beach in Victoria, he also learned guitar, clarinet, and saxophone. His albums, several of them live recordings, are most often for sale at these sold-out gigs.nnRudd first learned the circular breathing technique required to play the didgeridoo by practicing on a vacuum cleaner hose. He takes this setup with him on frequent tours (as well as his surfboards), relying on word of mouth rather than record labels to speak for him. Rudd is a multi-instrumentalist and most of the time, a one-man band who plays surrounded by instruments in a complicated array: Typically, he has three didgeridoos placed in front of him on a stand, a guitar on his lap, a stomp box by his habitually bare feet, and an assortment of drums, banjos, harmonicas, bells, and bass guitar near at hand, or near at foot, as the case may be. Australian musician and activist Xavier Rudd has, from the very beginning, combined his love of the environment, humanity, and surfing with a healthy obsession with roots music.
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![]() This allows easy use of the game artwork for projects of students. All the art assets (sprites, backgrounds, sound effects, etc.) can also be found on GitHub and are published under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. In addition to beautifully designed levels, the game's later stages also boast riddles that are complex enough to fascinate gamers and coders alike.ĬodeCombat itself can be found on GitHub under the free MIT license. Most importantly, the levels themselves become more complex due to more possible interaction with the objects in the game world: fences can be built, fire traps can be set, enemies can be lured into minefields, special weapons allow special attacks with a cooldown timer, etc. As the player progresses, the tasks involve more complex programming concepts. Diamonds collected in a level can be invested between levels for better armor, weapons, and programming commands (cleverly symbolized as spellbooks and magic devices) to master the increasingly tricky tasks in the higher levels.ĬodeCombat begins with a smooth learning curve well suited to players with no coding experience. The player is gradually introduced to new commands like loops, conditionals, and variables. In each level, the player is assigned a set of tasks-usually to collect gems, defeat monsters, and move to the exit of a level. Commands have to be typed correctly to control the avatar, and incorrect programs with logical faults (like commanding the avatar to run against a wall) will cause it to lose hit points and eventually die. self.moveDown(), self.moveRight(), self.attack(self.findNearestEnemy()), etc.). Inside the labyrinth is an avatar the player can control using a restricted set of commands (e.g. ![]() The screen is split between a code editor on the right and a labyrinth on the left half. The game builds on older learn-to-code systems such as Rurple and Karel. If you like RPG games with cartoon fantasy graphics, you'll enjoy it too. eBook: An introduction to programming with BashĬodeCombat has a focus on gamification that makes it suitable for a younger audience. ![]()
![]() Whatever happened subsequently, they have one of the jammiest origin stories in music, getting signed to Pete Wentz’s Decaydance label before ever playing a live show on the strength of two songs posted to his LiveJournal. The full ins and outs of what happened are really long and involve a lot of one person saying one thing and another saying another, with some ambiguity over whether some former members played on certain records or didn’t, and credit for the origin stories behind some songs a bit in-betweensy in terms of people, like the Ryan/Brendon/Eric tale above. They’ve had a fairly tumultuous history, with the frontman the sole remaining founding member. The erstwhile rest of Panic! are behind Brendon. There are other literary references on on A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage comes from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Survivor. What I write are not sins I write tragedies." Douglas has taken inspiration in the other direction – his novel Girlfriend In A Coma takes its name from a Smiths song. I am thinking of the people in my universe and distilling for each of these people the one flaw in their character that will be their downfall – the flaw that will be their undoing. In his novel Shampoo Planet, the lead character Tyler writes, "I am writing a list of tragic character flaws on my dollar bills with a felt pen. ![]() The actual title comes from a book by Douglas Coupland, best known for his books Generation X and Microserfs. A reasonable amount of people think this song is called Closing The God Damn Door. Yeah, that bit should be ' closing the god damn door'. Also worth noting: look at how pleasant his face is. Worth noting: Brendon opens a door here, significant in a video in which closing goddamn doors is repeatedly requested. And that just broke my heart.” Kind of seems like Eric is the dick in that story, tbh, and chucking words like 'whore' around is probably uncalled for. And I was slow at making a move because I was just so nervous. However, later Brendon wrote a bit about the song that seemed like part of it had come from his life: “I had this friend, Eric – we were really good friends and he knew I was really into this girl and she and I had been talking for a while. The seeds of this song supposedly come from a break-up that lyricist Ryan Ross went through, and him subsequently thinking how much worse it could have been if the relationship had gone further before all going wrong. 'Whore' obviously isn’t a nice way to refer to someone. The same happens with ' god damn' – they opted for silence over recording a 'gosh darn' version. There’s something odd about this lot that it takes a little while to properly put your finger on.īrendon’s mouth isn’t shown mouthing the word ' whore', pre-empting the inevitable censorship from music stations. ![]() The names gearRatio and currentGear are prime examples of this convention. ![]() If it consists of more than one word, capitalize the first letter of each subsequent word. If the name you choose consists of only one word, spell that word in all lowercase letters. Also keep in mind that the name you choose must not be a keyword or reserved word. In many cases it will also make your code self-documenting fields named cadence, speed, and gear, for example, are much more intuitive than abbreviated versions, such as s, c, and g. Doing so will make your code easier to read and understand. When choosing a name for your variables, use full words instead of cryptic abbreviations. Conventions (and common sense) apply to this rule as well. Subsequent characters may be letters, digits, dollar signs, or underscore characters. A similar convention exists for the underscore character while it's technically legal to begin your variable's name with "_", this practice is discouraged. You may find some situations where auto-generated names will contain the dollar sign, but your variable names should always avoid using it. Additionally, the dollar sign character, by convention, is never used at all. The convention, however, is to always begin your variable names with a letter, not "$" or "_". A variable's name can be any legal identifier - an unlimited-length sequence of Unicode letters and digits, beginning with a letter, the dollar sign "$", or the underscore character "_". The rules and conventions for naming your variables can be summarized as follows: Every programming language has its own set of rules and conventions for the kinds of names that you're allowed to use, and the Java programming language is no different. The Third Perk makes your Master immune to any damage a slong as you control at least one bridge. Thus you should engage fights on the bridge, make sure to spawn minions in time, with appropriate placement, so that they will have the buff when they engage an enemy minion. The Second Perk adds +25 damage to every friendly minion on the bridge. You can dodge Fireballs and even chain lightnings if you have a fast reaction speed. Once your Minion has reached a bridge, swap, and you shall have the other as well. ![]() But it can also be used to take both bridges with one unit. This can be used when minions are fighting on the bridge, to give you an advantage. The First Perk gives you a 0 Mana Spell that swaps every minion on the bridges, stunning the opponent ones. King Puff is expensive, a bit more challenging to play, but can be very strong in able hands. Similarly to the first perk, this should give you more options and more tempo. The Third Perk gives you a 4 Mana card for 0 Mana. If you have already placed your Cleaver, and the opponent has dropped one before, which reached your side of the bridge, drop the Shield Totem in front of your Cleaver, so their Cleaver hits the totem, while your Cleaver gets in the first attack. As soon as they start attacking, drop the Shield Totem and some minions of your own to deal with the threat without losing any HP.Īdvanced: You can also use the totem to block incoming attack in front fo your minion. If you don't have a good counter to your opponent's minions, let them through and attack your master. ![]() The Second Perk gives you a 0 Mana Shield Totem that can be palced to render your Master immune for a while. Bur be warned, the card you receive is random and can be somewhat of a blank at times. Furthermore this will give you access to a card that isn't basic. This will allow you to gain additional tempo, by getting an extra card in your opponent needs to deal with or it gives you an additional option to counter certain cards. The first Perk gives you a 2 Mana card for 0 Mana. Leads to an XP advantage, which in turn generates to a Tempo advantage.Īpep is affordable, a bit random, but has a safety net. using the Master to tank and deal damage also generates Tempo(You spend HP to destroy a Minion which is worth mana, without using Mana yourself).īridge Control - Is often a result of a Tempo lead and occurs when you control both bridges(and it's usually implied that they are in firm grasp, indicating that your opponent can't easily steal them away, as in, you have Mana to answer his potential minions trying to take the bridge from you). Tempo is thus generally generated by making value-trades(Your minion/spell cost less or survives the fight). If your opponent plays a Succubus and you play a Boomer, both minions will die but you paid 2 Mana for the trade and your opponent paid 5, so you gained a Tempo advantage of 3 Mana. ![]() Tempo - Gaining Tempo means to get a Mana advantage over your opponent(Combination of what is currently available to you and what you have on the board). Dragon Nest is relatively easy to beat(lost 1 game because Fireball was the last card in the deck). In fact I played against several replicas at the last day of playing(people apparently found a lot of success with he deck).ĭemon Warrior Spam(3 losses) & C2A(2 losses) are your worst matchups, essentially you can not win unless they severely misplay. Platinum to Diamond - 58-7 (89.2% Win Rate)ĭiamond to Top 20 - 67-8 (89.3% Win Rate)Ĭonincidentally, there is another person with only basics in the top 20, but he was top 20 with a different deck before and changed to mine after he lost a game against me. I post this at the beginning rather at the end so that you can see where this guide can lead you before you are bored halfway through. If you are sceptical I will give you a short breakdown of my own experience with this deck in the next paragraph(Note: There is also 3 videos of the first 25 games I played at the bottom of the guide). In this guide I will introduce you to a deck that I created with nothing but basic cards(You need to be level 12 to have obtained all of them though!) and I made it into the leaderboard(Top 20) in around 5 hours of total playtime. The objective is to get your opponents Master to 0 HP by dealing dealing enough damage with either your Minions or your spells. I am sure you already know the basics of Minion Masters. With developers though, they’re trying to make a living too, so you have to understand where they are coming from too. I understand that may not be the case for everyone. Well, that’s only going to happen if the developers have the money to make it a better app, so if that means they have to charge me a fee every year for using this app, then so be it. That’s crucial in today’s uncertain financial times because of the coronavirus pandemic.Īnother part of my thinking is I only want this app to get better. My reasoning for this is simple it supports the developers and overall development of the app. However, I’m glad that Tapbots is going this route with this app. While some may have personal gripes about this because it seems as though everything we own is turning itself into a subscription model. The developers of Tweetbot, Tapbots, have changed it up this year and have released the sixth version of Tweetbot that makes it a subscription model, whereas previously, when you purchased the app, you would not have to pay for it any more than that one purchase. After all, it does have your tweets in chronological order, whereas the official Twitter app has some tweets that are new and shows others that are older, but in the same timeline. ![]() Still, even with those majors features lost, I still use the app every single day because it is truly the best Twitter app for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. ![]() However, Twitter has modified its API during the last couple of years that took away great features like streaming (making it so you don’t have to refresh your timeline and it always finding the newest tweets on your timeline) and eliminating on-time notifications. ![]() Over the years, while the app has had updates to its interface and API, I have always been sure to stick around because even though it is a premium Twitter app, the experience that I have had with it cannot be beaten. An app that I have been using for several years to monitor Twitter and tweet from is Tweetbot, which has recently be released in its newest version, Tweetbot 6. ![]() Even on the cheapest plan, in addition to a top-notch anti-malware engine, you also get a firewall, anti-phishing protection, a password manager, 2 GB of cloud storage, and a 100% Virus Protection Promise, which means Norton will refund your money if it can’t remove a virus. Norton 360 has a lot more security features than most competing antiviruses. Risk-Free for 60 Days – Try Norton Now Norton 360 Full Review Plus, Norton comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee and regularly offers free trials - giving you plenty of time to test it and see if it’s the right antivirus for you. Most competitors offer some extra features along with their basic anti-malware scanner, but almost all of Norton 360’s security tools would be worth buying on their own. I’m impressed by how many well-built features each package includes. While I do have some complaints, I still think Norton 360 provides excellent value. That said, Norton’s VPN is still among the best antivirus-bundled VPNs on the market. And while Norton’s VPN offers excellent security features like a no-logs policy, 256-bit AES encryption, and a good network of servers worldwide, it isn’t as fast as competitor VPNs and doesn’t work with all streaming services. Its desktop app is a little clunky, and its mobile protections are split across several separate apps, which is a bit annoying. Norton is the best antivirus around, but it isn’t perfect. During my testing, Norton’s full scan and real-time protection were both able to detect every single malware file I tried to download, with minimal system slowdown and no false positives. Its anti-malware engine uses machine learning, advanced heuristics, and a malware directory to identify malware - from simple viruses and trojans to advanced malware like spyware, ransomware, and cryptojackers. Norton 360 is my favorite antivirus in 2023 - it’s got a powerful anti-malware engine, a wide range of internet security tools, an intuitive online dashboard, and good customer support, all for a better price than most competitors. ![]() Spin in it until the bridge nearby raises slightly and water begins to flow. Once the ball is out, you'll get a Minikit.Ĭlimb up the wall, then roll into the hamster wheel to the right. Spin in it to move the ball in the puzzle next to you, with your goal being to get the ball out of the puzzle. Select the top left option, then follow the blue dots until you hit a hamster wheel. ![]() Follow the path until you see a compass logo, then switch to Jack and use his ability. In Free Play mode, switch to a character who can blow things up and destroy the shiny rocks at the bottom of the second climbable wall. ![]() Once the door opens, roll across the bridge, then follow the path across another bridge until you come to another climbable wall. Go through into another room for a Minikit.Īt the top of the wall, take out some enemies and then roll left onto another switch. Roll into a tunnel on the right, then blow up the shiny rocks. In Free Play mode, switch to a character who can blow things up and follow the ledge to the right of the climbable wall. Roll back up the ramp and then up the wall. Roll inside, then destroy everything in the room to clear up a climbable wall. Once they've been dispatched, roll forward and onto a switch, opening up a door. Launch your way over to the right, then roll up the ramp and take out the enemies. As Will, swing back and forth to break the rope holding your cage, ending up on the left side of the gap. Pelegosto A Touch Of Destiny The Dutchman's Secret Isla Cruces The Kraken Press Enter at the following prompt to save the key in the default location (under your user directory as a folder named. If you don't have an SSH key pair, open a bash shell or the command line and type in: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 If you're on Windows and have already created keys using PuttyGen, you can reuse them. We recommend using key-based authentication (if you use a username/password, you'll be prompted to enter your credentials more than once by the extension). There are several authentication methods into a VM, including an SSH public/private key pair or a username and password. Choose Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS for this example, but you can choose recent versions of other Linux distros and look at VS Code's supported SSH servers. Now you can specify details of your VM, such as the name, the size, and the base image. Note: In this tutorial, we are using Azure, but your Linux VM can be hosted anywhere, as long as the Linux distribution meets these prerequisites. From there, you can select your Azure subscription and create a new resource group, if you don't already have one. In the Azure portal, search for "Virtual Machines", and choose Add. If you don't have an existing Linux virtual machine, you can create a new VM through the Azure portal. The Remote Status bar item can quickly show you in which context VS Code is running (local or remote) and clicking on the item will bring up the Remote - SSH commands. With the Remote - SSH extension installed, you will see a new Status bar item at the far left. ![]() The Remote - SSH extension is used to connect to SSH hosts. Have an Azure subscription (If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin).Install an OpenSSH compatible SSH client (PuTTY is not supported).To get started, you need to have done the following steps: Note: Your Linux VM can be hosted anywhere - on your local host, on premise, in Azure, or in any other cloud, as long as the chosen Linux distribution meets these prerequisites. You'll create a Node.js Express web app to show how you can edit and debug on a remote machine with VS Code just like you could if the source code was local. ![]() This tutorial walks you through creating and connecting to a virtual machine (VM) on Azure using the Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension.
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