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PM Studios "Stay Safe" Sale - Featuring Switch/PS4, and Limited Run Games.

PM Studios online store is back and they made a new sale featuring new reprints, overall deals and restock on rare out-of-print titles from Limited Run Games.

 

https://twitter.com/PMStudiosUSA/status/1253401043414781959

 

Also all orders over $49.99 will get Cytus Alpha Limited Edition Original Soundtrack CD for free with the Coupon "FREEGIFT".

 

Kinda sick move they did now.

 

https://www.pm-studios.com/store

 

Edit: Price list.

 

Reprints/Pre-Orders: 
 
Horizon Chase Turbo (Switch) - $29.99
Ministry of Broadcast (Steelbook Edition) (Switch) - $39.99 
 
Deals:
 
Deemo (Switch) $39.99 - $19.99
Opus Collection (Switch) $39.99 - 19.99
Horizon Chase Turbo (First Print - PS4) $29.99 - $14.99
Hover (Switch) - $29.99 - $24.99
WILL: A Wonderful World Limited Edition (Plush, 120 page Artbook, etc) : $79.99 $69.99
WILL: A Wonderful World - Artbook: $29.99 - $24.99

Limited Run Games products:
Mercenaries Series Double Pack (PAX Exclusive): $69.99
Mercenaries Wings Limited Edition (PS4 - LRG) : $59.99
Mercenaries Wings Limited Edition (Switch - LRG): $59.99
Musynx First Print (Vita - LRG): $29.99
Deemo: The Last Recital (Vita - LRG): $29.99
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    Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 (Xbox One, PS4, and Steam) is free until May 10th

    Price is "on sale" for free until May 10th, so claim it while you can.

     

    PS4: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0700-CUSA04924_00-PACMANCE2BUNDLE0

     

    Xbox One: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/pac-man-championship-edition-2/bpv04qgbn8j8#activetab=pivot:overviewtab

     

    Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/441380/PACMAN_CHAMPIONSHIP_EDITION_2/

     

    This is apparently Bandai-Namco's way of helping keep people entertained while stuck at home amidst the COVID stuff.





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    Fortnite Darkfire Bundle (PS4/XB1/Switch) $14.99 & BOGO Fortnite Figures at Best Buy - DotD

    Fortnite Darkfire Bundle (PS4/XB1/Switch) $14.99  msrp $29.99

    Amazon has the PS4 version for the same price.

     

    BOGO Fortnite Figures

     

    Other Fornite deals:

    Buy any v-bucks card, get the SteelSeries - Arctis 1 Wireless Stereo Gaming Headset for PC for $59.99

     

     

    Here's what the Darkfire Bundle includes:

    https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/darkfire

    Spoiler
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    Cops Didn't Enforce Law On Anti-lockdown Protesters, COVID-19 Spread

    Remember the April 15th "Operation Gridlock?" in Lansing Michigan? In my piece on April 21st I said we needed to start tracking these protesters to show that they will spread the virus to other communities. Well, someone did.

    Cellphone data shows 300 of the people who had gathered in Lansing for "Operation Gridlock" scattered throughout the state after the protest. The color of the dot represents device activity: yellow is more activity, red is lighter Image from: Doctors at the Committee to Protect Medicare

    The people at the Committee to Protect Medicare released data which shows the protesters dispersing to smaller communities across Michigan in the following days. The map above shows that cellphones that were in Lansing on April 15 scattered across the state. (Link)

    read more



    • anti-lockdown protests
    • coronavirus. COVID-19
    • First Lt. Darren Green
    • Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
    • michigan protests
    • Michigan state House
    • Michigan State Police
    • Robert Gordon


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    Disney Plus drops epic 'Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga' trailer for May the Fourth

    "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" arrives on Disney Plus for Star Wars Day today (May 4), putting all nine films from the Skywalker saga in one place for fans and yes, there is a trailer.




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    grammar is relationships


    This is not a post about American versus British English. I hope you’ll indulge me. It's come out of some Twitter conversations this afternoon.

    It started when I read this sentence in James Pennebaker’s book The Secret Life of Pronouns:
    Function words require social skills to use properly.

    And I wondered how it had got(ten) past a copyeditor. So I did a Twitter poll to see if other people were happy with the sentence. The poll looked like this: 


    So, 25% of more than 300 people thought it sounded fine. 75% felt there was something weird about it. Given how I phrased the question, it's possible that the 75% had 100 different reasons for thinking it weird. But considering some of the tweet-replies I had, I know that at least some people had the same reaction that I did. 

    The problem with the sentence for me is that there is no reasonable subject for the verb to use. Compare it to this sentence with the same kinds of parts in the same order:  
     The law requires every driver to drive safely.

    In that case, the subject of the infinitive to drive is every driver—every driver is to drive safely. So, what you've got is:
    • Main verb: requires
    • Subject of main verb: the law
    • Object of main verb = infinitive clause: every driver to drive safely

    But that doesn't work for Pennebaker's sentence. Social skills to use properly is not a complete clause because (a) there's no object of the verb to use (to use what properly?), and (b) social skills is in a position where it could be the subject of to use (as in the driving example), but it's not.  The sentence could be "fixed" in a number of ways that involve making it clearer that function words are the things being used.
    1. Make the infinitive into a passive, so it's clear that function words is the object of use: Function words require social skills to be used properly.
    2. Move use closer to function words so that it's clear how they relate to each other: To use function words properly requires social skills. (Or Using function words properly requires social skills.)
    3. Move function words closer to useIt takes social skills to use function words properly.
    Number 1 is a little ambiguous (it sounds a bit like function words are bossing social skills around), so I'd prefer 2 or 3, where it's really clear that function words is the object of use

    But there are sentences with require that do work more like Pennebaker's sentence:
    Crops require water to grow.

    Here, it's not the water that's growing, it's the crops. So it doesn't work like the driving sentence—the object of require is not water to grow. In both sentences, I've put the object of require in blue, so you can see that the sentences have different structures. Another way that you can tell they're different structures is that you can replace to with in order to in one and not the other and can rephrase one with that and no to, but not the other.
    The law requires every passenger in order to drive safely.
    Crops require water in order to grow.
     The law requires that every driver drive safely. [or drives if you're not a subjunctive user]

    Crops require that water grow.

    So one of the reasons I wanted to write this post is to make this big point:
    Grammar isn't just where words go in a sentence, it's how they relate to each other.
    The fact that the crops sentence is the same shape as Pennebaker's sentence doesn't mean that Pennebaker's sentence is grammatical, because it still has the problem that there is no subject for to use. Notice that it can't be rephrased in either of the ways that the other two can:
    Function words require social skills in order to use properly
    Function words require that social skills use properly
    The last possibility is to interpret use as being in middle voice (as opposed to active or passive voice). This is when the verb acts kind of like a passive (where what would have been the active object becomes the subject), but doesn't get the passive be +past participle form. English has some verbs that work this way.
    I cut the bread easily. (active voice: subject is the cutter)
    The bread is cut easily. (passive voice: subject is what's cut)
    The bread cuts easily. (middle voice: subject is what's cut)
    Grammar Girl has a podcast and post on middle voice in English if you're interested. English has more of a 'middlish' voice than a 'middle', as we're really limited in how we can use it and it doesn't have a special verb form, as it does in some other languages. As Grammar Girl notes:
    [English] middle-voice sentences usually include some adverbial meaning, negation, or a modal verb, or a combination of the three. “The spearheads didn’t cast very well” has both negation (“didn’t”) and an adverb phrase (“very well”). “The screw screwed in more easily than I thought it would” has the adverb phrase “more easily than I thought it would.”
    While Pennebaker's sentence does have an adverb, properly, it's not one that I'm super-comfortable using with a middle construction (?The bread cuts properly), but maybe some people would like it better than I do. (Proper is used more as an adjective and adverb of intensity in some colloquial BrEs than in my AmE.)

    So, are the 25% who like the sentence reading it as having middle voice? I'm not totally convinced, because I think that the English middle doesn't do well with fancier sentence constructions as with require:
    ?That bread requires a good knife to cut easily.
    ?That bread requires a steady hand to cut easily.
    Putting an object between requires and to makes it confusing—is it the bread or the knife/hand that is cutting easily? If it's the knife or hand, then the sentence would usually require an it to stand for the bread: The bread requires a good knife to cut it easily. 

    So, anyhow, when I put the Pennebaker sentence up, some people wondered if it was like this dialect phenomenon, found in some parts of the US (particularly western Pennsylvania) and some parts of the UK (particularly Scotland):
    The car needs washed.
    It was natural for them to make that connection because both Pennebaker's sentence and the needs washed sentence would work in other dialects if the final verb were made passive. But note that what needs to be added to the sentences to create a passive is different in the two cases. In needs washed, the washed is in the past participle needed for a passive. But in Pennebaker's sentence the infinitive verb is not in any way in passive form.
    The car needs to be washed.
    The function words require social skills to be used properly.

    So, I asked the 25% who accepted the sentence to write back and tell me where they were from. And it turns out they're from anywhere.... New Jersey, California, New England, southeastern US, eastern and western Canada, up and down the UK, the Caribbean. That makes it look like it's not a dialect feature. 

    An interesting thing about the 25%, though, was that a few got in touch to say: "I clicked that the sentence was fine for me, but once I started thinking about it, I was less sure."

    After the dialect idea didn't pan out, I joked that the next step was to give personality tests to people who didn't like the sentence. And while it was a joke, I think there is probably something to the idea  that some people read for meaning and don't get the grammatical 'clang' that I got because getting the meaning is good enough. If they can get the meaning without a deep look at the grammar, the grammar is irrelevant. I'd wonder if people who get a 'clang' with this sentence are also more likely to also notice misplaced modifiers and dangling participles. A lot of us who notice these things notice them because we've been trained in looking at language analytically, or we're just very literal readers. Had I heard Pennebaker's sentence, I probably wouldn't have noticed that there was no workable subject for the verb use. I would have just understood it and gone merrily on my way. But in reading, CLANG.


    Anyhow, the main reason I wanted to blog this was to make that point that Grammar is how words relate to each other. That two sentences with the same shape can be working in very different ways. And on that note, I'll leave you with an experiment that Carol Chomsky did way back when. She gave children a doll with a blindfold over its eyes and asked them if this sentence was true—and if not, to make the sentence true.
    The doll is easy to see. 
    Notice how that sentence doesn't work like this sentence:
    The doll is eager to see.
    In the first, the doll is being seen. We can paraphrase it as The doll is easy for me to see. In the second, the doll is who will do the seeing. We can't paraphrase it as The doll is eager for me to see, because it means The doll is eager for the doll to see. The words easy and eager determine how we interpret the relations of the other words in the sentence. In linguistic terms, they license different relationships in the sentence. (In these sentences it's adjectives doing that relationship-determining, but in most sentences, it's the verbs. In our requires sentences above, we can see that require licenses a range of possible sentence structures—words do that too.)

    Understanding that a blindfolded doll is easy to see is something that most kids don't master till they're into their school years. When asked to make the doll easy to see, the younger kids take off the doll's blindfold. This shows us that kids take a while to fully take account of the grammar, not just the words, in sentences.

    Hope you didn't mind my little grammatical foray...
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    Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in power supply units that come with modern computing devices. Dubbed 'POWER-SUPPLaY,' the latest research builds on a series of




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    Twitter Thread: Positive Psychologist Explains Brains Tripping Out

    Alexis Hockley hooked it up with a quick and informative thread on what's potentially taking place in our brains right now, as result of the strange shift in external circumstances. Now more than ever is a time to spread that love and kindness. 







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    False Claim Targets Gates Using Epstein Connection

    There's no evidence that Bill Gates ever visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island in the Caribbean, contrary to a viral Facebook post claiming he went there numerous times. The "flight records" cited do not show that.

    The post False Claim Targets Gates Using Epstein Connection appeared first on FactCheck.org.



    • Debunking False Stories

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    04 – The Internet Musician – 8 Steps to Create a Music Website

    Show Notes for Episode 4: Subscribe to the Internet Musician Podcast with iTunes: As a musician, you need a good website.  You know that. But you really don’t need to spend years trying to understand the technology. You also don’t want to spend tons of time working on your site without knowing if you’re doing things […]



    • Podcast
    • create a music website
    • create a website
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    How to Make Your First Year in Network Marketing a Success - 5 Essential Tips

    Your first year in network marketing can be a real struggle.? There are many challenges.? This includes rejection, time wasters, and much more.




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    Before we get into this let me get one thing straight: you need to forget everything your up-line has told you. It does work for them and has worked for others but in general it is hard to get any results.




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    Learn How to Drive Targeted Web Site Traffic to Your Money Site With 2 Easy Tips

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    What is the Correct Social Marketing Theory? Learn 2 Tips to Capitalize on It!

    I am going to explain what, in my opinion, is the correct social marketing theory. Not just that, I am also going to explain 2 ways to make good use of it in your business.




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    When you are working out how to market your blog it is important to focus on what is most effective. Not only that, you need to go with what is also cost effective. I have some article marketing tips that will truly explode your blog traffic.




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    What is the best on-line marketing strategy? How can articles really help you? Well if you follow these simple tips you will find out why so many people are using it.




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    OK, I am going to reveal two article marketing domination tips that you can use to get a boat load of Global Domains International leads. Many people underestimate the power of this simple strategy. The key to succeeding with your article marketing is finding the tricks that work.




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    Do you want some powerful article tips? How about some tips for quick article writing? Well, I have some great techniques to get better results.




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    psovné

    výživné na psa, které se po rozchodu platí tomu z partnerů, u něhož původně společný mazlíček zůstal; vyplácí se zpravidla ve formě psích granulí, případně v penězích jako příspěvek na veterinární péči apod. Příklad: „Moje ex po mně chce psovné na toho našeho šampiona. To se fakt nedoplatím.”

    Příspěvek psovné pochází z Čeština 2.0




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    Don't sell service, sell STRATEGY: Annabelle King's tips for great pitching


    When pitching your work, most creative freelancers sell their skills or their services. However, the key to landing big clients is to show that you’re an indispensable part of their team by selling strategy

    Anabelle King realized this over years of working at agencies, and now she lands big clients with her boutique branding business I Like Storytelling. She shares her strats for creating a collaborative relationship with her clients in today’s episode! 

    Today’s links: 

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    Order a custom infographic from Easel.ly! Use this link (https://www.easel.ly/infographicdesign/) for a great price! 

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    Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or recommend us to a friend. It helps immensely.


    Download here!





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    Next nycdevops meetup: Kubernetes Informers (Wed, June 19)

    Robert Ross (a.k.a. Bobby Tables) will be the speaker at the next nycdevops meetup on Wed, une 19, 2019.

    Full details and RSVP info: https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/261842702/

    NOTE: Different day and location!

    • Title: Staying Informed with Kubernetes Informers
    • Speaker: Robert Ross (Bobby Tables) from FireHydrant
    • Date: Wed, June 19, 2019
    • Location: Compass, 90 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10011

    Kubernetes state is changing all the time. Pods are being created. Deployments are adding more replicas. Load balancers are being created from services. All of these things can happen without anyone noticing. But sometimes we need to notice, however, for when we need to react to such events. What if we need to push the change to an audit log? When if we want to inform a Slack room about a new deployment? In Kubernetes, this is possible with the informers that are baked into the API and Go client. In this talk we'll learn how informers work, and how to receive updates when resources change using a simple Go application.

    SPEAKER BIO:

    Bobby is the founder of FireHydrant.io, and also previously worked as a staff software engineer at Namely, and also built things at DigitalOcean. He likes bleeding edge tech and making software that helps teams build better better systems. From deploying Spinnaker, Istio, and Kubernetes, he has cursed at a lack of docs and code spelunked through the code and loves telling the war stories about them.

    Full details and RSVP info: https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/261842702/




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    November nycdevops meetup: DevSecOps and supply chain attack

    Irina Tishelman from Sonatype will present a talk "Automate or Die - DevSecOps in the Age of Software Supply Chain Attacks" at the November 14, 2019 nycdevops meetup.

    The meetup meets at the Stack Overflow office in NYC.

    https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/265281451/

    You don't want to miss this one!




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    DevOpsDays NYC 2020 Call For Participation!

    DevOpsdays NYC is happening March 3-4, 2020. The Call For Participation (CFP) is now open!

    If you have any ideas that you want to share with the local community please submit your talks using the link below:

    https://www.papercall.io/dodnyc2020




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    Get your DevOpsDays NYC tickets now!

    DevOpsDays is about 2 weeks away! Commencing on Tuesday, March 3 and lasting for 2 days, this is the best NYC-area DevOps conference you can attend. The speaker lineup is very impressive (if I say so myself :-) ).

    The best part about attending a local conference is that your boss only has to approve the ticket price (no hotel or flights, eh?).

    Looking forward to seeing you there!

    P.S. I'm speaking on the last day. It will be all new material that I haven't presented before. Please check it out!