![]() ![]() Boris informs his nephew that, to save Alex, he must rid the family of Ixona's curse by using the waxworks to travel through four locations in different time periods: an Ancient Egyptian pyramid, a zombie-infested cemetery, Victorian-era London, and an abandoned mine. Boris, their uncle, has died and left them with his eponymous waxworks in his will, as well a crystal ball, through which his spirit communicates with his nephew. ![]() In the present day, the protagonist learns that his twin brother, Alex, is going to suffer the curse. In retaliation, Ixona placed a curse on the ancestor: whenever twins were born into his family line, one would grow up to be good while the other would become evil and serve Beelzebub. Long ago, the witch Ixona stole a chicken from the player character's ancestor, who chopped off her hand as punishment. Waxworks' graphic gore was noted as a defining trait of the game by critics. The main objective is to collect a special item from each of the evil twin ancestors before venturing into the Ixona period to undo the family curse. During combat, players can target their opponent's individual body parts, such as the head or arms. In each time period, the player moves through a series of tight corridors using a bitmap sprite-based point-and-click interface picking up items, solving puzzles, avoiding traps and engaging in combat with various opponents. The player can use Uncle Boris' crystal ball to get hints and healing: the reagents needed for the healing spell depend on the level. The player levels up in each time period by defeating enemies, solving puzzles and exploring new areas, which increases maximum health and psychic power, the latter of which can be used to contact Uncle Boris. Once a time period is completed, the player is reset to level one and loses all items and weapons, which do not transfer to other levels. The levels may be completed in any order, except for Ixona's period, which must be done last. Three of those time periods have a mixture of puzzle-solving and combat, while the Victorian England and Ixona ones are more puzzle-solving oriented. ![]() The game is divided into five different time periods: Ancient Egypt, Medieval Transylvania, Victorian England, an industrial mine period and Ixona's period. Waxworks is a first-person dungeon crawl role-playing video game. Alongside solving puzzles, the player must fight enemies ![]()
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More likely, you’ll figure out “looks good” and move on to the next email. If your paperless bill is just a pdf, you’ll either need an extraordinary vision or steady hands to pinch and zoom each charge. Speaking of small, as more people check email on mobile, those statements are harder to read. If you’re not careful to opt out of marketing messages, neither you nor your spam filter might be able to tell the difference. At first glance, you can’t tell if that’s a bill or promotion in the email. Some of the reasons are obvious, like broadband access and older consumers’ technical savvy.Įven the tech-savvy need to be wary of paperless billing. The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) analyzed paperless billing and found the concept not consumer-friendly. I guess paper is really expensive for them. My bank now charges a $2.00 fee if I want a statement each month. The harder sell is that I can’t download the financial data to services like Mint or Quicken unless I go paperless. A few places offered me statement credits or gift cards. AT&T recently told me I could get Plenty of points for my bill, but only if I do paperless billing. They’ll enter me in a drawing for free products or services. The Soft Sell and the Hard Sell To Make You Switch I recycle everything, and I hate junk mail. I also respect the environmental aspects of electronic statements. I know I have to file that stuff every month. They could get account numbers and use them in a targeted social engineering scam. ![]() A thief could steal information from your mailbox and cause problems. Less paper means less killing of trees.Īll these benefits have some truth to them. You could get a paper cut! Most of all, paperless is better for the environment. You hate the hassle of opening a paper envelope and reading a bill. Stacks of paper pile up and have to be dealt with. Oh no! 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![]() ![]() Battery health will drop fast from 100% to 90% and then taper off and drop a lot slower as time goes on - especially if at 100% charge all the time and on wall-power most of the day.ĪlDente helps this health loss by allowing us to keep the % low while on wall power. There are some users with 2000-3000 cycles and still 80%+ health. Cycles aren't necessarily harmful as they used to be - the 1000 cycle limit shows this. High state of charge is harmful to these batteries. This seems entirely plausible to me based on how usage is. So User B: Uses their laptop like a desktop, always on wall power, has 50 cycles and say 90% health. So User A: Uses their laptop in the field - rarely on wall power - has 300 cycles and say 98% health. This is where AlDente comes in (allows you to run off of wall power at a low % of charge). These laptops can run entirely off of wall power if in a desktop like state - meaning that their cycles won't continue counting but they will continue to age - and if they aren't kept at a low state of charge, they will lose health significantly faster being at a high state of charge all the time. Just my opinion and thoughts - these batteries are designed to last 1000 cycles at 80%+ capacity or something like 2-3 years. I've been setting it to 70%, which seems like a fair balance for my use case.)Īnyone else using Aldente on the M1s? What has your experience been so far?Ĭlick to expand.I don't think I'd base it on that alone. ![]() (Not sure what percentage is really best yet. Sailing mode is still something I'm trying to figure out, but aside from this it's been simple and has made it very easy to arbitrarily limit the charge at pretty much any level of my choosing. I've been using Aldente for a couple of weeks now, and it's been very nice so far. Modern battery technology is quite a complex science, so I have decided to do everything I can to take care of it, (especially since I set up a new office space where I'm leaving it mostly plugged in now). They tend to degrade more rapidly within the first year or so and then level off (according to the stats of Coconut Battery users at least), so it turns out my battery was fine after all. After realizing I was complaining about a ridiculously minor problem (Seriously, who complains about a battery with 93% health), I did some research on this and discovered that this is pretty much entirely average behavior for the M1s. Definitely not shabby, but these batteries are rated for 1000 cycles, so I rushed to judgment and initially assumed Apple MUST have sent me some kind of a defective battery (ah, Apple, screwing over their customers with lithium ion batteries that, you know, act like lithium ion batteries). I then checked the 2020 and I've been a little less lucky, as it's currently at 149 cycles and is at 92.4%. Absolutely incredible for the original battery on a machine that is nearly a decade old! ![]() To my amazement, the old 20 cycles and is at 87.3% battery health. I took both Macs and did two full charge-discharge calibration cycles and then checked Coconut Battery on each. The battery life is still insanely good, so it's had me wondering more about what happens under the hood. This recipe featured in the Good Food Christmas television special on Nine.I've been using my M1 Macbook Pro for about 9 months, and so far it's been an incredible replacement for my proudly "vintage" 2012. Serve immediately on warm plates and scatter with remaining cheese and extra black pepper. Add a slosh or two of the pasta cooking water as you toss, to lighten the sauce.ĥ. Tip the spaghetti and ham into the egg mixture and toss furiously until well-combined, letting the heat of the pasta 'cook' the eggs into a cheesy, almost creamy, sauce. Drain the spaghetti (saving half a cup of the pasta water) and add immediately to the ham, tossing well to coat.Ĥ. Heat the oil in a deep frypan and fry the ham briskly until crisped at the edges. Thickly slice the ham and shred into small, bite-sized pieces. Season with sea salt, then whisk in pepper and all but 1 tablespoon of the cheese.ģ. Whisk the whole eggs and egg yolks in a large bowl. Now get everything else ready, because when the pasta is cooked, it's go-go-go.Ģ. ![]() Cook the spaghetti in plenty of boiling, well-salted water until al dente (start testing at 8 minutes). 1 tsp freshly cracked black peppercorns, plus extra to serveġ. ![]() |