![]() ![]() Even with its technical flaws this is still one of the best shooters for the system and a great all-around game.This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. I like Life Force but it simply cannot compare to this near masterpiece. It truly is a shame that Gradius II remained a Famicom exclusive. Some may say its cheating, I say who cares? In Closing As annoying as this can be it actually works in your favor: initiating slowdown will allow you to dodge bullets or colliding with bosses in tight areas. It doesn’t happen all of the time but on certain levels like the Red Crystal Cage or the Old Stone Age you can expect it to drag on. Once you stop everything goes back to normal. The thing is you are the direct cause! With four options and a weapon like the ripple filling the screen things slow to a crawl. This is some of the worst slowdown I have ever experienced the game moves in literal slow motion at times. The one area this version of Gradius II suffers is in slowdown. The soundtrack is excellent although some of the music tracks have been switched around. The bosses dwarf the mother ship of the original and are fantastic in design. The miniature suns of stage one are just the beginning as you’ll wade through a sea of Moai heads, navigate a crystal maze and even fly through the intestines of the Bacterion leader. The level of detail packed into its environments is stunning and there is simply more activity all around. Konami have done a great job of squeezing the arcade’s visuals into the NES. While there is a thirty lives code it isn’t as useful since you are sent to a checkpoint on death. The game is extremely generous with power-ups so even if you die it isn’t rough getting back up to speed. In addition you can use the slowdown to your advantage to make the boss battles a lot easier. The NES limitations mean the game can’t throw a bazillion bullets at you making it far more manageable. This version of Gradius II is far easier than its brutal arcade counterpart. Sadly one boss was also lost in translation, the Death MKII. There’s an added boss battle at the end of stage 2, and the boss rush adds the final boss from Life Force as a nice little bonus. Like Super C some of the levels have been shuffled around and new content added. It wouldn’t be Gradius without a level featuring the Easter Island statues and they have a nasty surprise in store at the halfway point. The numerous burning suns spawn fire dragons that chase around while solar flares randomly erupt. It is immediately obvious that Gradius II is in a completely different league from its predecessor from its initial level. The first game was a bit limited in terms of level variety but you’ll have no complaints here. As a little extra once you have gained the max selecting the option again will turn them into a rotating shield for about ten seconds which offers double the protection on top of the already strong force field. This does cause problems which I’ll get into in a little bit but is still worth getting as soon as possible. If you thought having two options was great you’ll flip when you collect four! The increased firepower four options provides is completely insane as you can cover almost half of the screen. The ripple has been brought over from Salamander and in my opinion is the better choice. I’m sure those weirdos exist but they are shunned from society for a reason. I’ve yet to meet anyone who has ever bothered with the double shot. The missiles especially have been upgraded: photon torpedoes are powerful but only travel below you while the spread bomb creates a nice little explosion for splash damage. The only weapons that change are your missiles, double shot, and type of laser although to be fair those are all pretty major. That being said upon closer inspection the differences between each group aren’t as pronounced as you would expect. ![]() You aren’t locked into your choice either upon continuing you can switch out if need be. ![]() Going forward this would become a staple of the series and it grants the freedom for everyone to tackle the game differently. Much like Parodius (another Konami series, they were really incestuous with their franchises) you are presented with a choice of four weapon configurations. The innovative weapon system that made the original so great returns and is expanded on significantly. Regardless we missed out on a truly great game as Gradius II is one of the system’s finest. More than likely this was due to its use of the VRC4 chip was more powerful than anything available in the US. But in reality the true sequel to Gradius would unfortunately stay in Japan. Both shared similar ships and near identical power-up systems and enemies. I’m sure there are millions like myself who just assumed that Konami’s Life Force was the sequel to Gradius. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Fukuyama is in, and is worthy of, a grand tradition. However, that will not necessarily be good for humanity's soul. We have won the struggle for the heart of humanity. His conclusion is at once exhilarating and sobering. His subject was, and in this far more sweeping book is, the place of America, and the American idea, in the stream of history. Fukuyama has given it a deep and highly original meaning'.' - Charles Krauthammer "With one now-famous essay, Frank Fukuyama did what had hitherto seemed almost impossible: he made Washington think. Until now the triumph of the West was merely a fact. The End Of History and the Last Man "Bold, lucid, scandalously brilliant. (New York) jacket design © REM Studio, Inc. THE FREE PRESS A Division ofMacmillan, NEW YORK © 1992 Macmillan, Inc. He is currently a resident consultant at the RAND Corporation in Wash ington, DC. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The great question then becomes: can liberty and equality, both political and eco nomic - the state of affairs at the presumed "end of history" - produce a stable society in which man may be said to be, at last, com pletely satisfied? Or will the spiritual condition of this "last man" in history, deprived of outlets for his striving for mastery, inevitably lead him to plunge himself and the world back into the chaos and bloodshed of history? (Continued on back flap)įukuyama's contemporary consideration of this ultimate question is both a fascinating education in the philosophy of history and a thoughtprovoking inquiry into the deepest issues of human society and destiny.įRANCIS FUKUYAMA is a former deputy director of the U.S. These forces drive even culturally disparate societies toward establishing capitalist liberal democracies as the end state of the historical process. ![]() He calls one "the logic of modern science" and the other "the struggle for recognition'.' The first drives men to fulfill an ever-expanding horizon of desires through a rational economic process the second, "the struggle for recognition',' is, in Fukuyama's (and Hegel's) view, nothing less than the very "motor of history'.' It is Fukuyama's brilliantly argued theme that, over time, the economic logic of modern science together with the "struggle for recogni tion" lead to the eventual collapse of tyrannies, as we have witnessed on both the left and right. As the tumultuous twentieth century shudders toward its close - with the collapse of commu nism leading to a transformation of world politics - Francis Fukuyama asks us to return with him to a question that has been asked by the great philosophers of centuries past: is there a direction to the history of mankind? And if it is directional, to what end is it moving? And where are we now in relation to that "end of history"? In this exciting and profound inquiry, which goes far beyond the issues raised in his worldfamous essay "The End of History?" in the summer 1989 National Interest, Fukuyama presents evidence to suggest that there are two powerful forces at work in human history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The age-old question when it comes to bike components is alloy or carbon. Ergo bars seem to fall somewhere in the middle and feature a flat spot part of the way down the drop.īar shape is highly personal, and you want to look for bars which create the least amount of bend in your wrist when you grab the drops - how you like to position your hoods will also come into play. Compact bars are a bit straighter and put the hoods flatly in inline with the tops the bend into the drops is tighter, meaning it’s also higher. Traditional bars are what you expect to see on old school road bikes with a long gentle curve which creates a deep drop and a low position. ![]() The shape of the drops varies from brand to brand, but they are roughly divided into three categories. ![]() All in moderation though, as saving 10 aero watts won't benefit you if you lose 20 due to discomfort. Most people are better suited to a shorter drop because it doesn't require quite as much flexibility, but a lower front end should theoretically result in a smaller frontal area, which in turn requires fewer watts for faster speeds. Bigger riders will need a more extended reach while shorter riders will be more comfortable with a smaller figure.ĭrop refers to the distance from your tops to your drops. Reach is the distance from the horizontal part of the handlebar to the furthest edge of the drops and determines how far away the levers will be placed. When it doubt, consult a bike fitter for advice. Of course, everything in moderation, if your shoulders measure 40mm, a 48mm bar or a 32mm bar will probably leave you uncomfortable, but a couple of centimetres either way likely won’t leave you in pain. On the other hand, wider bars will offer more stability and may even open up your chest a bit to help you breathe. Narrow bars will help you tuck your elbows in for a more aero position, but they will also quicken the handling characteristics of your bike. However, this is just a starting point, and from there, you’ll need to take into account what you’re looking to achieve with this new set of bars. Traditionally, handlebar width has been determined based on the width of your shoulders, and the general rule of thumb in finding the correct size bars is to measure the distance between your AC joints (the bone that sticks out of the top of your shoulder.) How to choose the best road handlebars for you What width handlebar do I need? ![]() If this is you and you simply want the best value for money, then you can't go far wrong at this price. If you later decide you are happy with the position and want to upgrade to something with a little more performance in mind, you can proceed with confidence that the position is right for you.Īdditionally, for many people, a handlebar upgrade comes out of necessity after an accident. With sizes 40, 42 and 44cm available at such a low price, if you choose to switch back to your former position, you haven't wasted a tonne of cash on some carbon bars that you now need to try and sell on eBay. That's where these handlebars come into their own. If you're considering trialling narrower or wider handlebars for the first time, you probably aren't completely confident you'll like your new position, let alone the different handling characteristics. One of the most common reasons people choose to change their handlebars is for a different width. These alloy handlebars might not be aero in design, made from carbon fibre or come with newfangled cable integration, and at 340 grams they're far from light, but hear us out. ![]() ![]() ![]() If Sunny abandons Basil after learning the truth, but does not pick up the steak knife in the kitchen, he will wake up on Moving Day. The ringing of a phone can be heard over the credits. While he will noticeably hesitate, he will eventually stab himself in the chest and slowly bleed to death on the ground. The ringing of a phone can be heard over the credits.Īt any point after completing Black Space, Sunny can choose to kill himself by opening the menu and selecting the Stab option. If he does so, after he visits White Space for the last time, Sunny will never wake up he will have stabbed himself in the chest in his sleep and bled to death. ![]() If Sunny abandons Basil after learning the truth, he can pick up another steak knife in his kitchen. Additionally, if the player is on the Hikikomori Route, they will be locked to these endings. If Sunny chooses to run back home instead of helping Basil, he will get these endings. In this cutscene, Sunny and Basil, alone in their hospital room, smile at each other as their Somethings fade away. If Omori happens to water Basil's flowers on Two Days Left after leaving the Last Resort and before entering Humphrey, an additional cutscene will play after the Good Ending. He prepares to go out on another adventure with his friends, while in reality, Sunny commits suicide by jumping off of the hospital balcony. If Sunny gives up against Omori, Omori will absorb him and hijack his body, before returning to White Space. Sunny then absorbs Omori and wakes up in reality, where he seeks his friends and confesses the truth behind Mari's death. If Sunny chooses to keep going after being struck down by Omori, he will gain the resolve to play his Duet with Mari for the last time. Every main ending is affected directly by the game's final choice after Sunny's defeat in the Omori battle. ![]() ![]() ![]() So consequently, I don't drink.Īlso, in this formative stage of life for me, during the protest for Vietnam, there was this divide: if you're a hippie, you smoke pot, and you're against the war. I passed through the fun stage and just got sick. The first time I did it, I mixed grape Tang-which was this powdered drink mix the astronauts get-with vodka. At college, I did try to get drunk really fast just to see what it was like. The first time I ever tasted carbonation, I was like, that's horrible. I'm never going to do it.” So I've never had a cup of coffee in my whole life. I thought, “Oh, my dad's addicted to coffee. So I grew up watching him drink, like, 12 cups of coffee a day. Back in the olden days, he would have to do a lot of house calls in the middle of the night. Well, I'm unusual in a couple of ways about drugs. What was your first ever drug experience? So it's a lot easier and a lot less expensive to give somebody LSD than to shoot them up in space. Then you get some of these astronauts talking about how when they saw the Earth from space, they changed their views. I was coming to these ideas right around the same time that the moon landing took place. Not just the idea of it, but the felt experience of it. The antidote to genocide, to environmental destruction, was the sense of connection. So the core idea was, psychedelics are this unitive, mystical state-you realize we're all connected, and we have more in common than different. and Russia blow up the world? How could we do these things? How can we trash the environment? How can we be so cruel to animals? How do we prejudice against different religions, countries, genders, or races? You do it through this process of dehumanizing. ![]() 10 years before I knew about MDMA, the idea was, how do people go through murdering people? How did we get the Holocaust? How could the U.S. With other studies showing similarly promising results for the potential of psilocybin to treat depression, its approval should not be far behind. After a second successful trial, which is happening right now and will wrap in October 2022, Doblin believes FDA approval of MDMA is likely to happen by the end of 2023. Two months after treatment, 67 percent of participants in the MDMA group no longer qualified for a diagnosis of PTSD, compared with 32 percent in the placebo group.”) It is the first Phase 3 clinical trial to include psychedelic-assisted therapy. ![]() those who received MDMA during therapy experienced a significantly greater reduction in the severity of their symptoms compared with those who received therapy and an inactive placebo. (According to The New York Times, “Of the 90 people who took part in the study. It’s Doblin’s lab that produced the study, whose results were published earlier this spring, on the promising effects of MDMA-assisted therapy in treating patients with severe PTSD. But consider that, in the 1980’s, Doblin dedicated his life to making the health benefits and healing powers of psychedelics available for mass use-a grand vision that would’ve seemed extremely unlikely four decades ago and now seems inevitable, thanks largely to the work of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit organization Doblin founded in 1986. That’s the year that psychedelic researcher Rick Doblin speculates (and hopes) that psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapies will have penetrated mainstream culture enough to create a “spiritualized humanity” that's psychologically well-equipped enough to solve seemingly intractable crises like environmental destruction and economic inequity.ĭoes that seem a bit idealistic? 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