![]() While the industry faced macro headwinds, the 2023 Cloud 100 winners displayed the innovation and resilience of the cloud economy and the combination of growth and efficiency that prove the power of the cloud business model. “This year’s Cloud 100 list is one of the most dynamic in history. Arctic Wolf protects our AWS environment so that we can effectively operate-and scale-our business in the cloud safely.” “We rely on Arctic Wolf to analyze the data that AWS provides. “Arctic Wolf surfaces the alerts that matter to us,” said Bob Sullivan, VP, Technology Shared Services & CISO, Agero, enterprise white-label provider of digital driver assistance services and technology. Congratulations to each of the 2023 Cloud 100 honorees and the 20 Rising Stars who are showing early potential to one day join their ranks.” Their resilience puts them in elite company. “This year’s companies had to react rapidly to AI’s sweeping impact while contending with a market pullback. “The companies of the Cloud 100 list represent the best and brightest private companies in this crucial tech sector,” said Kenrick Cai, the Forbes editor of the Cloud 100. ![]() Additionally, in 2022 alone, Arctic Wolf was named to the Fast Company Most Innovative Companies, and Fortune and Great Place to Work ®’s Best Medium Workplace lists. ![]() Just this year, Arctic Wolf was named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 for the second year in a row. As a result, Arctic Wolf aims to deliver stronger protection from cyber attacks and serves as a force multiplier for its customers’ internal security teams by eliminating alert fatigue and allowing organizations to focus on more strategic cybersecurity priorities.īeing named to the Forbes Cloud 100 further underscores Arctic Wolf’s reputation as a leading innovator in not only the field of cybersecurity, but the technology sector as a whole. With the Arctic Wolf Security Operations Cloud, which ingests and analyzes more than three trillion security events a week, Arctic Wolf is helping organizations tackle digital threats through an operations-first approach which makes it fast and easy to enable 24×7 security operations for a fraction of the cost of establishing and staffing internal security operations 1.īy leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence within its open XDR architecture, Arctic Wolf’s proprietary technology delivers game-changing noise reduction, allowing trillions of security alerts to be filtered down to 1-2 alerts per day, unlike other solutions that generate hundreds of alerts, burdening resource-constrained security teams. With the number of cyberattacks continuing to rise, global companies are struggling to keep up with the evolving threat landscape due to a lack of qualified cybersecurity talent, ongoing economic uncertainty, and a lack of unifying security platform that can help their internal teams manage the barrage of alerts produced by their disparate security tools. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Arctic Wolf, a leader in security operations, has been named to the Forbes 2023 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. Cybersecurity leader climbs to coveted spot amidst continued global expansion and delivery of security operations worldwideĮDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug.
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![]() Enough disk space to meet the needs of your project CD-ROM which is capable of extracting digital audio (IDE-ATAPI or SCSI drive) The following should be considered before downloading CDex, though, as it has been tested to meet at least these requirements: * For the most part I will focus on using the popular lossy format (MP3) using LAME since it offers good compatibility requirements, speedy encoding and small size.ĬDex is very light weight and easy to run on any Windows system. ![]() Decisions regarding encoding and compression involves a trade-off balancing 3 factors:Ģ. The lossy encoder will see this and discard the bits representing soft notes immediately following loud ones. It's a known fact that the human ear has difficulty detecting a soft note played immediately after a loud one. ![]() MP3s on the other hand can be compared to JPEGs, which offer various degrees of lossy compression. Files compressed with a lossless codec can be compared to the RAW file format, which also employs lossless compression. Perhaps you're familiar with digital photography. LOSSY ENCODERS VERSUS LOSSLESS COMPRESSERS: amount of disk space you have available. As always the choice of encoder you use will depend on these factors: Monkey's Audio, Musepack's sub-band codec, proprietary Advanced Audio Coding, etc. However, you can compress them using other lossy/lossless audio encoders/compressors i.e. We'll rip your favorite songs from your favorite CDs, and encode those digital songs as high-quality MP3s, using LAME, the world's best MP3 encoder in this example. However, I chose CDex because it's a free open source program that's easy to use and you can rip and encode audio within the same program. Yes, there are dozens of them and some believe Exact Audio Copy is the world's best CD audio ripper. This guide will walk you through the steps of configuring CDex (CD Ripper/Encoder). If you've ever downloaded MP3s from one of the other file-sharing services or legal music services like ITunes, and found that those songs sounded like crap, it's because the people who encoded those MP3s didn't know the ripping & encoding mojo you'll learn here. ![]() Knott's Berry Farm celebrating the boysenberry, where it all started.More Super Nintendo World lands are coming to Universal locations in Orlando and Singapore.ĭespite the ongoing pandemic, the Nintendo-themed land in Japan, which opened in March of last year, received raved reviews. Universal partnered with video game developer Nintendo and opened the first Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka last year amid the coronavirus pandemic. Once built at Universal Studios Hollywood, it will be the second Super Nintendo World in the world and first in the U.S. “Themed shopping and dining will enhance the entire experience.” “The immersive land will be a visual spectacle of vibrant colors and architectural ingenuity located within a newly expanded area of the theme park, featuring a groundbreaking ride and interactive areas, to be enjoyed by the whole family,” Universal Studios Hollywood officials said in a media statement. ![]() Work on the new land began in 2019, and on recent visits, there was ongoing construction on what many believed is a Mario Kart dark ride. Universal Studios Hollywood March 10, 2022Ī Universal Studios Hollywood spokeswoman told Spectrum News the innovative and immersive land is being built on the lower lot next to Transformers: The Ride 3D. #SuperNintendoWorld is opening in 2023 at Universal Studios Hollywood! Level up with exclusive merch at the Feature Presentation store, opening soon. ![]() He has won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.citation needed In April 2014, Time magazine included Redford in their annual Time 100 as one of the 'Most Influential People in the World', declaring him the 'Godfather of Indie Film'. "This is the kind of film I'd love to have seen as a kid," he added. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion dHonneur. One of the reasons that I did Captain America: The Winter Soldier was I wanted to experience this new form of filmmaking that’s. But Redford defended his decision to join the "Captain America" franchise, saying: "I think these films are really powerful. Robert Redford in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Redford, co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, America's biggest independant movie showcase held in the snowy Utah mountains every January, won a best director Oscar for 1980's "Ordinary People." His movies tend to be critical successes rather than commercial blockbusters. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow. The new film - a sequel to 2011's "Captain America: The First Avenger" - will again star Chris Evans in the title role, along with Samuel L. ![]() I also think it's a good bunch of people who really know what they're doing," he added at an LA Times Indie Focus series screening. "And I like the idea of stepping into new territory. More seriously, Redford - who made his name in movies like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) and "The Sting" (1973) - added: "I'm doing this film because it's different. Don Parritt in The Iceman Cometh (1960) Don Parritt in Play of the Week (1960-1961) Harold Beldon in The Twilight Zone (1962) Captain Hank Wilson in Situation Hopeless.But Not Serious (1965. 'Sundance is a mixture of old and now, lush and spare, sophisticated and primitivelike art itself,' says Robert Redford, who over the last 20 years has gradually developed the. Captain America now battles a mysterious new foe called the Winter Soldier. "I told you, there's no money in those films," Redford joked when asked about the new role at an independent film event in Los Angeles this week. Robert Redford portrayed Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame. Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Robert Redford keep this second outing fun, but the weak link is out front. The 76-year-old Redford will play a senior leader in the secret government agency of S.H.I.E.L.D in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," scheduled for release next year, according to the LA Times. Robert Redford will appear in the next "Captain America" blockbuster - and the Hollywood legend and independent movie guru insists he is not selling out. Robert Redford to appear in new 'Captain America' film LOS ANGELES - Agence France-Presseħ6-year-old actor Robert Redford. ![]() The load voltage was monitored going over 1.5 V which is dangerous for the longevity of the chip and will piledrive regular cooling methods into the ground. Even more ridiculous is allowing users to select a profile good for 5.0 GHz with 1.475 V on the VCore without any form of warning when selecting the profile. Despite this, MSI felt the need to drive 1.25 V on the VCore to achieve this across all cores. The takeaway from the overclocking experience is that the preset overclocks are quite tragic given that the default boost of the Core i7-8700K processor is 4.7 GHz. By comparison with manual overclocking we managed to achieve 4.8 GHz with just 1.2 V in the BIOS with a load voltage of 1.226 V using MSI's Dragon Centre monitoring software. Performance in POV-Ray when using the Game Boost profiles started to decline around profile 6 which is a 4.8 GHz overclock with 1.38 V on the VCore. There seems to be a common trend so far with the Z390 boards we have tested so far to throttle quite hard when using the more ambitious predefined overclocking profiles. Our test bed is not in a case, which should push overclocks higher with fresher (cooler) air. The CPU voltage is increased gradually until the stability tests are passed, and the process repeated until the motherboard reduces the multiplier automatically (due to safety protocol) or the CPU temperature reaches a stupidly high level (90✬+). These stability tests aim to catch any immediate causes for memory or CPU errors.įor manual overclocks, based on the information gathered from the previous testing, starts off at a nominal voltage and CPU multiplier, and the multiplier is increased until the stability tests are failed. We select the automatic overclock options and test for stability with POV-Ray and OCCT to simulate high-end workloads. Our standard overclocking methodology is as follows. Our test bench Core i7-8700K isn't the greatest of silicon, but the MSI MEG Z390 ACE did manage to hit 5.1 GHz without fanfare. Overclocking on the MSI MEG Z390 ACE was painless and settings entered into the BIOS applied first time on this sample with the latest firmware version available. Even with one of the best aftermarket AIO CPU coolers on the market, it would be just too much heat to cope with.Ĭhanging the CPU VCore and frequency beyond default values automatically disables Intel's power saving features. Available is a total of seven different predefined overclocking profiles ranging from 1 to 11 the 11 setting applies a very high 5.0 to 5.4 GHz overclock with 1.475 V on the VCore. MSI's Game Boost automatic overclocking utility is featured in both hardware (a button with a twisty knob) and within the BIOS with a virtual representation of the OC dial. MSI has given the MEG Z390 ACE a very generous limit of 1.9 V on the VCore for overclockers. ![]() The MSI Click BIOS 5 firmware is very consistent throughout which is becoming the norm for MSI motherboards both on the AMD and the Intel options over the last year. This kind of setup, in reality, is eminently more than acceptable and it is very capable to push a processor to its thermal limits on ambient cooling solutions. The MSI Z390 ACE in this regard has a 12-phase VCore power delivery which is split into a 6-phase design with the use of six doublers. This is apparent as the Z390 chipset is seemingly forcing the envelope with power delivery designs, especially when compared with the last couple of generations including Z270 and Z370. This puts demand and pressures upon both the motherboard vendors and integrated memory controllers on the processors themselves. This has also stretched to memory frequencies, as vendors have been releasing high-performance kits with fast speeds escalating with each generation upgrade. Intel has taken clear strides with clock speed capabilities of its latest processors. Overclocking Experience with the MSI MEG Z390 ACE & Intel Core i7-8700K Not just bad morally, but bad qualitatively. It’s one we see in the latest Wizarding World films as well. Combined with who this game helps and who it harms, well, it's definitely not worth it unless your goal is to cause harm. Even despite the controversy around Rowling herself, the game feels like it was put together to tap the eager nostalgia of fans without any attention to making it actually worth playing.įor that reason alone, I can't in good conscience recommend spending your money on it. It says it’s Hogwarts, but it doesn’t feel like Hogwarts. And speaking of which, the characters often flat-out state their motivations, but they don’t feel believable or even particularly coherent. It feels muddy, a minefield of unanswered questions and unexplained motivations. The story, besides being rooted in anti-Semitism (a global “cabal” is trying to end slavery but that's bad because the slaves like being slaves), doesn’t even feel compelling. There’s a hole where this game’s heart should be. So when I got a code for Hogwarts Legacy, I braced myself. I was afraid I’d have to tell 12-year-old me that she couldn’t play it, and explain why. I was afraid to see the lavish visuals of the films recreated on modern gaming hardware, realized in 4K and full HDR. I avoided them like the plague because I was afraid I would be conflicted, that I’d see a game that captured the magic of the books and my heart would leap out of my chest. I didn’t want to see the gameplay, I didn’t want to be awed by trailers. I avoided press about Hogwarts Legacy when it was first announced. After Prisoner of Azkaban, I was in deep. In Hermione, I saw my relentless and often annoyingly assertive sense of right and wrong, and how it often got her, and me, in trouble. In Ron, I knew what it was to go to school in hand-me-downs, to worry about money in a way that no child ever should, and I also knew what it was like to be made fun of for being a redhead. I shared his frustration with the adult world and that tight knot of anger he couldn’t really understand boiling away in his chest. In Harry, I saw my own rough childhood reflected. Watching these characters I knew contend with adult-level-peril, I felt seen. ![]() It was the first one that felt dangerous to me. It was the third book, The Prisoner of Azkaban, that wrapped its world around me and drew me in. I didn’t open the cover and get transported to a world of magic and mystery. It wasn’t a Neverending Story situation for me. At the time, it was just another chapter book on the shelves beside the likes of Bunnicula and Goosebumps. The gangly boy on the cover illustration. When one of those voices comes from the author who taught you about accepting yourself, a person you thought truly saw you and kids like you, it hurts in a way I honestly hope she never understands. For a lot of us, we fight those voices every day. We hear relatives, friends, and parents say awful things about us and to us. Every homophobic or transphobic thing queer kids hear growing up becomes a voice that follows them for a long time. Rowling’s pen wrote magic into my world, but now every word she puts out just hurts my heart. When I was a kid, every word that flowed from J. ![]() She’s even gone as far as to suggest that we’re inherently dangerous, a threat to real (ouch) women everywhere. Since 2019 though, the once-beloved children’s author has-well, she’s had some opinions. She created a place where weird lonely kids would be told they were special, where kids who had survived abuse were more than just fundamentally broken. ![]() Within the pages of her books, she made the ordinary seem extraordinary. ![]() Nothing with a Wizarding World stamp on it can be viewed outside the context of it being a product of Dame J. This is important because she’s always been inseparable from her work and from work that she’s inspired (and licensed), for better and now mostly for worse. In case you need a refresher, those books, the Wizarding World setting, and the Harry Potter film franchise are all the intellectual property and brainchildren of author J. Hogwarts Legacy is a third-person action-RPG set in the same universe as the classic Harry Potter series of children's books. Pull up a chair, pour yourself some tea, wrap yourself in a blanket, scream into a pillow (or the abyss), because this one’s gonna take a lot out of both of us. We’re here to talk about Hogwarts Legacy, and to do that we need to discuss the whole mess. I don’t even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I get this thing started. ![]() Myoshi Umeki in 1957 was the first actor of Asian origin to win, and it would be an extraordinary 63 years until Youn Yuh-jung would become the second. Jennifer Hudson, Mo’Nique, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Lupita Nyong’o and Regina King have also won. This category was historically the first to award a person of colour when Hattie McDaniel won for ‘Gone With The Wind’ in 1939 and only 7 others have succeeded her with a whopping half a century, until Whoopi Goldberg’s victory for ‘Ghost’. Since 2010 only two under 18’s: Saoirse Ronan (13) and Hallee Steinfeld (14) have made the cut. ‘Juveniles’ as they have often been termed have fared well in this category with child stars like Patty Duke (16), Tatum O’Neal (10) and Anna Paquin (11) prevailing, whilst Mary Badham (10), Jodie Foster (14), Quinn Cummings and Abigail Breslin both just 10 when nominated for Supporting Actress. Some were lesser known at the time of receiving their Academy Award such as Kim Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Brenda Fricker, Mo’Nique and Alicia Vikander and of course, others went on to bigger and greater success like Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange and Angelina Jolie. Helen Hays, Ingrid Bergman, Maureen Stapleton, Judi Dench, Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett just to name a few. Some of the most legendary figures have been honoured in that category. First handed out at the 9th ceremony in 1937, Best Performance by An Actress in A Supporting Role has been awarded to some 84 different women with only two recipients having won twice: Shelley Winters and the aforementioned Diane Wiest. This category is a microcosm of what awards are all about pure subjectivity but housing a wonderful mix of the beloved the ingenue, the overdue career recognition and the simply spellbinding. Maggie Smith playing an Academy Award nominee in ‘California Suite’ preparing for the ceremony, but loses, is nothing short of sublime and of course I love the irony that Maggie ended up with the Oscar for it! Meryl Streep’s complex and heartbreaking career turning tour de force in ‘Kramer V Kramer’, Linda Hunt’s gender bending brilliance in ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’, Geena Davis’ quirky but moving turn in ‘The Accidental Tourist and Dianne Wiest’s hysterically funny bravura in Woody Allen’s ‘Bullets Over Broadway’. Some of my all-time favourite screen performances have been in the Supporting Actress category. I have been going to the movies across 6 decades and following the Oscars conscientiously since 1978. Download: Oscar Predictions 2023: Best Supporting Actress ![]() The plushie is sitting upright with its legs. ![]() The face consists of a pair of black eyes and a small pink nose. Its hind paws have different colored pawprints that usually pink or lighter than the body. The plushie has a small body, large ears with darker insides, and small fore paws. The Bunny Plushie is a small plushie that is based on the Bunny. Your Love Rabbit may feature an arm, leg, or ear slightly different from what is depicted in the product shots. The Bunny Plushie is a non-member den item. Note Regarding Love Rabbit's Design: Love Rabbit, like many of the plushes in our Plushie Dreadfuls line, features a "torn apart and stitched back together" motif - that means every rabbit is hand-sewn a little differently. 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Giannis Antetokounmpo rebounded his intentionally missed shot with a second left to secure a triple-double in Sundays win, but the league later rescinded the 10th board, sources told ESPN. Stepping onto the court with an effective FG% of 55.9%, he has additionally amassed 2,130 turnovers and tallied 2,166 personal fouls. Antetokounmpo has compiled a 70.8% percentage from the charity stripe by knocking down 3,996 out of 5,645 shots. ![]() He has compiled a 58.3% shooting percentage of by knocking down 5,401 of his 9,259 shot attempts. With 1,721 long distance attempts during his pro basketball career, he has a shooting percentage of 28.7% by knocking down 494 of those tries. Includes full stats, per opponent, for regular and postseason. ![]() Sitting with a field goal percentage of 53.7%, Antetokounmpo has buried 5,895 shots of his 10,980 tries. The 2022-23 NBA season stats per game for Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks on ESPN. He averages 5.2 assists, grabs 10.6 rebounds and tallies 25.1 per 36 minutes. Antetokounmpo has accounted for 16,280 pts so far in his NBA career, has a rate of 22.6 points per game and started 654 games. Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a 5 year / 228,200,420 contract with the Milwaukee Bucks, including 228,200,420 guaranteed, and an annual average salary of. We expect to see a lot more from the Greek Freak before he retires and we are super excited to see where this legendary career goes.Giannis Antetokounmpo has accumulated 23,378 mins and has taken part in 719 contests so far in his career. As the season is going on, Giannis Antetokounmpo is having yet another career-defining season, leading the MVP race along with Nikola Jokic and Kevin Durant. It’s crazy how good his numbers already look, he’s only 27 with a hall of fame resume. Giannis Antetokounmpo: NBA Career in Numbers Games Played Winning back to back MVP Awards in 20, along with winning the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award in 2020, one could say Giannis is a two-way slasher, with elite defensive and offensive skills.įrom the streets of Greece to winning multiple major awards and the NBA Championship itself, Giannis Antetokounmpo has become an all-time great in the city of Milwaukee as he would deliver them the NBA Championship for the first time in 50 years.ĭefying the recent fashion of forming or joining superteams in order to win championships, Giannis did it all at his home team and in style as he would also win the NBA Finals MVP putting up one of the greatest performances in the history of NBA Finals. He would go from an above-average player to one of the best players in the World. Giannis didn’t have the most impressive beginning in the NBA but things started to change as soon as he won the Most Improved Player award in 2016. Latest on Milwaukee Bucks power forward Giannis Antetokounmpo including news, stats. Giannis Antetokounmpo was drafted in the 14th position by the Milwaukee Bucks in 2013. Nba Team Stats Vs PositionLatest on Los Angeles Lakers small forward. The Greek Freak has got a stacked resume but he wasn’t always considered to be amongst the elite players. Not many Greeks make it into the NBA, let alone being amongst the greats and Giannis has done just that. Giannis Antetokounmpo: NBA Career Overview Already in a small list of players to have won the NBA MVP multiple times, Giannis looks forward to winning his 3rd this season. The first Greek player to win 2 NBA Most Valuable Player award seems to be on his way to get the third one. Giannis Antetokounmpo season, career and playoff stats including advanced metrics. Even though Giannis is not a center but he surely is a big man in today’s basketball. He’s a total package when it comes to vintage basketball. 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Now, granted because this is a rhythm game the audio needs to be at a certain point, however the game showed on multiple occasions that it was not afraid to jump to certain points in a song, so I really don't see why this couldn't have been done in these instances. ![]() I've played plenty of other games where the "cutscene" gets played the first time, and any subsequent times isn't present at all. This meant that there was around about a minute of downtime between a death and being able to get back into it. There was one section in particular in the Zanzo levels where a combat section was preceded by a rail ride, and then unskippable in-game dialogue. As these combat sections involved me dying a lot, not being able to just "jump back in" became tiring very quickly. And in general the checkpointing was good, you never ended up particuarly far back in terms of travel time, however there were several instances where a somewhat difficult combat section would be preceded by either a (skippable) cutscene, or an unskippable section of dialogue. The boss fight checkpointing was pretty good, can't complain too much about that. I obviously "got" the mechanics, else I wouldn't have been doing so well on the attacking front so I really don't know what was going on here. Now, this may be due to travel time on my keyboard etc, but it was so consistently off that it felt really strange. My final qualm regarding the ryhthm was that I was seeminly able to get "perfects" with realtive ease when dealing with attacks, but when it came to Parrys I could rarely get anything other than a "good". (This must have been a boss because it wouldn't let a failure revert to normal battle) This is no exaggeration, it took me over a minute to get it done. So I wasn't able to kill him and he wasn't able to kill me. There was one instance where one of the timing of the first hit on one of the enemies was giving me so much trouble that I was almost "soft locked" in the showdown, as I had the upgrade that yeilded a health powerup on succesfful parry. It often felt like a half-note or similar which felt "awkward". The time between presentaiton and action never ever felt appropriate for the audio that was playing. It took me an incredibly long time to be able to accurately predict when to do my first parry, even with the help of the guide circle. Whilst the parry hits did mostly adhere to the beat (Though I'd say the samurai was dubious), the timing between the presentation of the pattern and then the replay felt totally whacked. I think it was the case that after one parry you could maybe activate another more quickly, or that a single parry would give you enough invinicibility to tank the shots that happened between beats, but whatever was going on the inconsistency here felt weird and flow-breaking.Ī similarly frustrating moment came with the "Parry showdowns" (Not sure what they're actually called) against the larger enemies. Also, in isolation (i.e when not deflecting an attack) it was not possible to activate the parry with the frequency required to deflect the shots. It was clear that the intent here was to notice the "charges" and parry acordingly, but with the audio-clutter of the fight going on, getting that timing felt almost impossible, specifically because the attacks didn't adhere to the beat the same way most of the other attacks did. His "drones" would occasionally fire a four or five hit combo that definitely did not adhere to the timing of the music. A key offender of this was in the final stage of the Kale fight. Often times, multi-hit attacks from enemies will perhaps begin on the beat, but certainly do not adhere to it. Right from the off, the game tells you that everything happens on the beat. Now lets get onto the not-so-good, which is mostly centered around the mechanics. The subsequent next level was particularly rousing and an increidbly good song choice. The former is a song I know very well, and when it started to play everything just clicked together perfectly. The final few levels featuring Invaders Must Die and Whirring were some of the best moments I've ever experienced in a single player action game. For reference, I was playing on Very Hard |
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