![]() I was confused, though, as to whether we were supposed to think the aliens and the time travel actually existed in this story. “Well, here we are… trapped in the amber of this moment. This is driven even further home with the whole aliens-and-time-travel situation– Billy is at the mercy of a large force beyond his control, seemingly omniscient aliens who know things that he will never know and don’t care about the well-being of humans, or of anyone. The book outright says as much: “ One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.“ Billy, as well as all of the other men in his regiment and the people of Dresden, were simply cogs in a larger machine. War is treated as an inevitable event, and the unrelenting repetition of “so it goes” (which did get irritating after a bit) was there to reinforce the idea that we are all pretty much powerless to change anything. Predeterminism– the idea that all events are set in stone and you cannot change the future– fate, essentially, is a large theme of the book. There’s an Einstein quote that says, “People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” This book took that idea and made it crushingly depressing. The main character is the fictional Billy Pilgrim, a young American soldier, but Vonnegut pops in to break the fourth wall from time to time and say “I was there too”, and the novel opens with him talking about how he’s going to write a book about the war before the real narrative begins. It’s written as a kind of “story within a story.” He was assigned to live in a slaughterhouse–Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut had been captured during the Battle of the Bulge– Germany’s last-ditch attempt to regain their footing at the end of 1944– and was a POW in Dresden at the time of the Allied attack. The American and British governments claimed that the bombing was justified because Dresden was a communications hub. ![]() ![]() An estimate of 25,000 civilians were killed. The firebombing of the German city of Dresden by the Allies on February 13-15, 1945 is one of the most notorious events of the war Dresden had a large civilian population and no munitions factories, and by that point, Nazi Germany was already beginning to fall apart, so many questioned why it was necessary to completely destroy the city. Slaughterhouse-Five is based on Vonnegut’s own experience in WW2, specifically witnessing the bombing of Dresden. (Oh, so it’s one of *those* blurbs is it.) The History Behind the Book Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books.
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![]() ![]() You also have several recommended characters to choose from, each starting in a different spot on the world map. The game “ends” sometime in the mid-1400s or when you have nobody to inherit your lands. If you’re looking for a longer game, select 867. You can choose to begin in the year 867 or advance a little further to 1066. When you select New game, you’re met with several starting options. Now that you’ve played through the tutorial, it’s time to select your starting character in Crusader Kings III. Now, your tooltips will pop up more frequently. Locate Auto tooltip delay and move the slider left to. Pause the game, scroll down to Options and then choose Settings. Keep them off once you get a hand on everything, and then turn them on when you need explanations.Īs a quick bonus tip in this section, you can manipulate your tooltip settings to pop up more frequently. Tooltip pop-ups can get annoying, especially when navigating your court or looking at other characters. Clicking on the decisions shows you the outcome without selecting it. When those decisions pop up, you can quickly turn them on or off by holding 元 to bring up your cursor again. With them off, you’re left to your own devices. ![]() With tooltips on, the game will show you the possible outcomes of each situation. Having them on is helpful when random events pop up, leaving you with a decision to make. Pressing 元 turns your tooltips on and off, and you’ll see it pop up in place of navigation controls for a few seconds. You’ll see your navigation controls in the bottom-left corner of your screen. When you hover over a person, location, mechanic, or skill, an informative window pops up with everything you need to know. You can also keep tooltips on at all times. Believe us, things will make more sense through trial and error as you start playing. Be ready to spend a solid hour learning these new terms in the tutorial. Still, the definition itself is laden with several other highlighted words you might find confusing. Then, move that gauntlet over any word or on-screen mechanic you don’t understand.Ī small window pops up defining that particular mechanic. Press and hold 元 until the screen turns a hue of gray and a highlighted gauntlet appears as your cursor. The tooltip is the most helpful weapon you have in your arsenal. Take the time to read each tutorial step, re-read each step, and then understand how your actions affect your game. You’re about to be hit with a textbook of terms, Latin phrases, and mechanics that’ll overwhelm even the savviest of RPG fans. First off, it’s dense, long, and often boring. We know what you’re thinking - “Obviously, I’m going to play the tutorial.” However, you need to know a few things about the Crusader Kings III tutorial before jumping in.
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Suffice it to say, there are a lot fewer options than what we're used to these days, but that in no way means there aren't still a lot. That leaves 152 options total that make up the rest of your multicolor options, with 92 two-color options, 49 three-color options, 11 five-color options, and no four-color options whatsoever (unless your playgroup would like to rule zero the Nephilim, as has been fairly commonly done since the beginnings of EDH). All 426 legendary creatures in between form your commander options for the format, with three possible options for colorless, 59 for mono-white, 51 for mono-blue, 61 for mono-black, 53 for mono-red, and 49 for mono-green. This means the last commander printed into the format was Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer , with the first being Adun Oakenshield. Put simply, PreDH is meant to recapture the "good old days" of Commander by only allowing cards printed before, well, Commander! For those not intimately familiar, the first Commander precons were released in June of 2011, immediately following New Phyrexia. You can decide for yourself whether that's an admirable (or even possible) goal, but the latest attempt to recapture the nostalgia of at least the early days of EDH, if not our youth, is "PreDH". Since then, there's been many more attempts to capture the nostalgic feeling of just sitting around a table with friends, worrying more about companionship than competition. In the everlasting struggle to reclaim the good old days of kitchen table Magic, the first salvo was the invention of EDH itself. Welcome to Too-Specific Top 10, where if there isn’t a category to rank our pet card at the top of, we’ll just make one up! (Did you know that Vaevictis Asmadi is the only Elder Dragon with three different activated abilities?) 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Easy-WebPrint EX can be used when opening a JPEG image using a supported browser. ![]() The "Print & gray text clearly with black" function is added. Traditional Chinese, Thai, and Indonesian Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Turkish, Korean, The following 11 languages are now supported: (however, it is not a "must" to replace v1.2.0 with v1.2.1.). To improve the usability, the specifications for displaying the message (the message appeared when first-launched after installation) in Splash is changed New models have been added to the supported models. The following problem has been rectified:ĭepending on the printing procedure, error message "A virtual printer for Easy-WebPrint EX is not installed" is displayed. An item name in Printing Settings has been changed. The internal modules have been updated. For Internet Explorer 9 or later, the problem, where PDF file created by Easy-WebPrint EX cannot be displayed on My Image Garden, has been rectified. ![]() "Help" has been shifted to the online manual. Like I originally said, this game isn't guilty. A didactic story does nothing but put off the audience. done poorly, it degrades the quality of the form. if done well, putting activism in a game is smooth and organic. What your nose is too high in the air to realize is that there's a distinction. ![]() :Your virtue signal has been noted, your goodboy points are in the mail. You can do more, but I'd rather not spoil it. That being said, you can send port reports to either the tacketies or the Loyalists in the Reach, and you can do the same with the Revolutionaries or the Ministry in Albion. ![]() The anarchists want to Liberate Night, killing the stars and basically setting everyone free from the sillyness of the Judgements. TL DR, Stars in the FL universe are alive, they enforce laws like gravity, colour, etc upon the universe. Meanwhile, the anarchists are less focused on something like, socialism, ( although they are generally left leaning) and more on killing suns. Rather, there are two anti-establishment factions, the tacketies are more of an independence movement, fighting for a free Reach. I choose academic and then some iron as a secondary skill.Īt what point do you get to choose if you are for the Queen or the commies? Well, the anarchists aren't really traditional communists. I have just gone through creating my first captain, though I was the science officer I was also the second in command. There's definitely a lot of politics but none of it feels forced upon you Hi all. Originally posted by Nanako =^.^=:There's an imperialist monarchy and a communist revolution, you can pick your side. ![]() Plus, it’s good for stress relief.”ĭO try this at home (just maybe not on your nice hardwood floors). It cracks the squash right open without having to go out to the shed for your saw. If you own a heavy duty meat cleaver, you can try giving the squash a good whack, battle-axe style, to break it open … But (and here’s something we think you’ll get a kick out of) the easiest way to break through the thick exterior of your Hubbard is to chuck it on the ground - or as Rachel from Simply Seasonal puts it: “I actually go for more of a controlled drop – slamming it on the ground with a little help from gravity. Substitute it in any recipe calling for pumpkin, butternut squash or sweet potato. It’s great baked, roasted, steamed or pureed for breads, pies or pasta. The insides are smooth and dense with the nutty-sweet taste. Another variety - the baby blue Hubbard - is smaller and weighs in at around 6 pounds. The hubbard’s thick skin and long shelf life (up to 6 months!) made it a natural choice for storage and long sea journeys, and its large size (up to 40 pounds!) make it an economical and tasty choice for restaurant and family meals to this day. To raise a head of Hubbard Squash … ” Anatomy It’s even the subject of a children’s rhyme, “Raising Hubbard Squash in Vermont”: Gregory with the seeds, so she asked Elizabeth Hubbard to do so for her.īecause Hubbard was the first to promote the squash - claiming it was the best she ever tasted - Gregory named it after her. Yet another claims that a woman named Sarah Martin, sister of Captain Knott Martin, developed the squash with her sister Martha. The deep golden color of Hubbard squash flesh. One cup of cooked squash has about 100 calories. Another says Hubbard bred the squash herself from the seeds brought on Martin’s ship. Hubbard squash is high in dietary fiber and low in calories. The finer points of this tale are debated: One story says a woman named Elizabeth Hubbard (the Gregory’s wash woman or neighbor) was given the seeds by Captain Knott Martin and then shared them with Gregory. “Squash, in fact, paid so well that Gregory was able to donate a new library to the town of Marblehead and to establish the ‘Gregory Fund,- which provided every local family who gave birth to twins with a new carriage.” Originally a green-colored squash, Gregory savvily bred the hubbard’s skin to a unique blue color - and introduce them to the American market in 1854 (and wrote about them in his 1867 book, Squashes: How to Grow Them). The seeds made their way into the hands of James J. The most popular origin story goes like this: The squash came to Marbehead, Massachusetts, in the holds of a ship from the West Indies, by a man named Captain Knott Martin. ![]() Brothers and sisters include the banana squash, buttercup squash, candy roaster squash, kabocha and turban squash. It’s a member of Curcubita maxima - one of at least four types of cultivated squash species. Large and warty with a zombie-esque blue-gray hue, the blue Hubbard squash might just be the scariest fruit you encounter. You can roast the squash pieces at 350º F for about 45 minutes, or until the squash is soft, seasoning it as desired. ![]() The row of function keys at the top of the Logitech MX Keys Mini works seamlessly with Mac devices. In fact, if you turn the backlight off completely, you can squeeze up to five months of battery power from the Logitech MX Keys Mini, which is pretty impressive. When you take your hands away, the lights dim, saving you plenty of battery for when you need it the most. The low-profile design is a breeze to type on, weighing slightly more than Apple's alternative, feeling sturdier and more responsive.Īs your hands touch the keyboard, the backlight automatically senses you are there. 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"Motivated guy who’s willing to work, and that’s what I see in just about every recruit in this class, but he’s at the highest level of that work ethic.” "On his official visit, he ran to Schembechler Hall to get his workout in before breakfast," he laughed. The second running back in the class is Benjamin Hall, who also starts at point guard on his basketball team in Georgia. MICK McCABE: The hype for Dexter RB Cole Cabana is picking up speed "Great frame, very athletic, smart, intelligent."ĭexter running back Cole Cabana got a big reaction from Harbaugh, who called him an "explosive player" and a "track guy." One of the first recruits in the class, Cabana scored 79 touchdowns and had almost 6,000 all-purpose yards in high school. ![]() "He’s shown the ability to be a dominant player," Harbaugh said. Link comes from a military family, which Harbaugh likes in terms of attitude and work ethic. "Another really great student, wants to go into medicine." "Super hard-worker, been All-State twice," Harbaugh said. He liked that Herring was a Day 1 starter as a freshman and believes he is another player who comes from a good family. When he spoke of Herring, he immediately mentioned the ties to U-M wide receivers coach Ron Bellamy, who coached the offensive lineman at West Bloomfield. ![]() Harbaugh called Efobi "a real athlete who's an offensive lineman," but added he can play both sides of the ball. Harbaugh said former edge rusher David Ojabo put in a good word with the Efobi family (they're close friends) about Michigan. Harbaugh also raved about the trio of offensive linemen signed - Nathan Efobi, Amir Herring and Evan Link. Kendrick Bell, the younger brother of two-time captain Ronnie Bell, was recruited as an athlete, but with no true quarterback in the class, Harbaugh said he will start at quarterback and "roll from there." He said the goal is to find at least one starter at each position in a class and that he likes to recruit players with wide-ranging skill sets in order to "cover each and every position." The offense Harbaugh explained he breaks down the types of recruits into three groups: linemen body types, "big skill" such as running back or linebacker and "skill positions" like wide receivers and defensive backs. PORTAL POWER: How 14 days changed Michigan football's future and resolved one of its chief concernsīREAKING DOWN THE COMMITS: What to like about each player in Michigan football's 2023 recruiting class "I think our staff in getting to know each of the families and each of the kids, we've accomplished a great class." "I say that congratulations to all because it's a total effort by all, and it's about choosing future Michigan men who possess the qualities we aspire to have in the program and this class represents those qualities we're looking for. "The overview to me is really, 'Congrats, it's a great recruiting class,'" Harbaugh said. ![]() The Wolverines added at least one player at each position group, and Jim Harbaugh went on the "In the Trenches" podcast with Jon Jansen to share his views of the class. Michigan football signed nearly two dozen athletes in its class of 2023 on Day 1 of the early signing period on Wednesday. View Gallery: Michigan football 2022 photos: Best photos from each game |