But, letting out a chuckle doesn't have to be a mood ruiner.
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The slick-looking cyberpunk shooter Ruiner finally has a release date: September 26th.
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Ahead, you'll find a list of essentials every clothes-ruiner should have on standby.
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Which isn't to say that Ruiner is a straightforward rip-off, or anything like that.
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Ruiner will be available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One when it launches next month.
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"We aren't making a cyberpunk game," says Magdalena Tomkowicz, story designer on the upcoming Ruiner.
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But both Ruiner and Cuphead are prime examples of the positive aspects of a really hard game.
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Especially when you travel, contaminated water can make you extremely sick, which is an instant vacation-ruiner.
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Even now, the team has heard feedback about certain elements, after showing Ruiner off at events like PAX.
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Ruiner, which is out on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, takes a somewhat different approach, though it's similarly hardcore.
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Ford's big hallway speech couldn't have come at a worse time for career-ruiner Ford, since Debbie overhears it.
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They came up with the initial concept for Ruiner in May 2014, and that December they formed the studio, Reikon, in Poland.
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Though its influences are clear, in the beginning the team at Reikon was reticent about using the word "cyberpunk" to describe Ruiner.
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For his part, Moore—who once called himself a "professional life-ruiner"—was sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
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But for all of their differences in style and tone, success in both Cuphead and Ruiner result in the same kind of feeling.
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Each area of Ruiner — which includes everything from vast factories to grimy underground lairs — is divided into a number of smaller, enemy-filled sections.
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A tiny indie team is making the dystopia beautiful "We aren't making a cyberpunk game," says Magdalena Tomkowicz, story designer on the upcoming Ruiner.
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At the beginning of 2015 they started working on Ruiner full-time and the game is expected to launch on PC later this year.
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The Rocket Voltic's rocket propulsion will be utilized to launch across massive gaps and the Ruiner 2000 will free-fall in vehicular base jumps.
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But the real mood-ruiner is bloody urine and a trip to urgent care on day two of a weekend getaway—or, honestly, whenever.
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We only think the retrograde is a straight-up life-ruiner because of the negative connotations that we as a culture have placed on it.
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Top-down shooters aren't exactly known for their narratives — it's a genre typically focused on arcade-style fast action — but storytelling is a big part of Ruiner.
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A few millimeters of rain doesn't have to be a day-ruiner, but the risk of random massive storms in August made me write those dates off completely.
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Devolver fit two proper trailers for forthcoming games, Ruiner (which we've played) and Serious Sam's Bogus Detour, into it 15-minute spot, neither of which were previously unannounced.
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Following the recently released Ruiner, The Hong Kong Massacre is a game that looks to marry the brutal violence of Hotline Miami with a distinctly cyberpunk look and feel.
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While Ruiner will be a challenging game, the developers realize that some people will be frustrated by the gameplay, yet still intrigued by the beautiful dystopia you can explore.
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For a group used to working within a bigger studio, where the resources are there to support your wild ideas, the indie mentality of Ruiner has been a challenge.
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This isn't a party ruiner, per se, but just good advice to improve your life: don't make plans to do ANYTHING, with ANYONE, ever, at a house party. 29.
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But how Ruiner feels is distinct, its cyberpunk-slanted sounds and sights quite unlike Dennaton's celebrated production, its blunt objects impacting with a more furious force, its palette grislier and grimier.
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However, one fight that has flown under the radar features one of Brazil's most treasured prospects in Warlley "Slingshot" Alves, who is taking on UFC plan-ruiner Bryan "Bam Bam" Barberena.
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The first political campaign group committed to the 2020 presidential run of former WWE star and current Jumanji ruiner Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on Sunday, the Hill reports.
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My takeaway for today is that Ruiner is a damn fine action game, demanding of quick-reflex precision and pounding of sensory intensity, which newcomers to it would do well to take at its own face value.
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Yes, we've games today that can be appreciated as bearing visual and mechanical comparisons to the film—previewing Devolver's forthcoming Ruiner (which we've covered, too), PC Games N writer Jordan Forward calls it "the Akira game I've always wanted".
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He deduced that Jared Kushner—alleged cuck, Observer ruiner, and son-in-law to the president—was listening to a particularly crap Wire album right around the time he was caught posing in body armor in Iraq like an absolute clod.
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Above: Ruiner trailer How it plays is neat, too—a little unintuitive to begin with, but after a couple of enemy waves, everything clicks (at least, it did for me, especially after switching from WASD keys and a twitchy mouse to an Xbox controller).
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How to say that Ruiner isn't "the new" Hotline Miami, when it does play a bit like it, and it features a man in a (Watch Dogs 2's Wrench-recalling) mask pounding enemies with melee weapons and stealing their firearms for his own use, and it's published by Devolver Digital?
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We are awash in books by conservatives attempting to elucidate both Trump and Trumpism, including The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook For a Lasting GOP Majority by radio host and new kid on the MSNBC block Hugh Hewitt; Understanding Trump by former House Speaker and America ruiner Newt Gingrich; and The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It by Fox News libertarian Eric Bolling.
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Considering the offerings from Weber's season, which included Virginia Beach's (alleged!) marriage ruiner and "White Lives Matter" pinup Victoria Fuller; crying drunk girl Kelsey Weier, who learned the hard way that a shaken bottle of Champagne will spray you in the face with pornographic effect; and über-Christian Madison Prewett, who dared to make the Fantasy Suites a sexless slumber party for all; it seemed producers were going to have to think outside of the box a bit—and they did, choosing Crawley, a Bachelor season 265 vet and the oldest Bachelorette in the show's history.
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Ruiner is an American hardcore punk band from Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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On October 5, 2004, Ruiner played their first show and released their first three-song demo. On May 5, 2005, they released a 7” EP “What Could Possibly Go Right…” through Firestarter and Gravemistake Records. At the end of the summer in 2005, Ruiner signed with 1917 Records. Lyrically, Ruiner touched on personal sentiments such as disillusion with the world, desolation, lost love, self-loathing and disappointment.
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Ruiner is a cyberpunk top-down shooter video game developed by Reikon Games and published by Devolver Digital.
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He is the enemy of conjugal love, and is the Jupiter of the Greeks, an iron-hearted tyrant, the ruiner of ancient Greece.
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The discs include remixes of "Mr. Self Destruct", "Piggy", "Hurt", "Eraser", "The Downward Spiral", "Heresy", "Reptile", and "Ruiner", as well as two original compositions by Aphex Twin.
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Malatesta II (or III) Malatesta, best known as Guastafamiglia (Italian: "the Ruiner of the Family", c. 1299 - 18 August 1364) was an Italian condottiero and lord of Rimini.
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The Ruiner is the third and final studio album by American noise-rock/post- metal band Made Out of Babies. It was released through The End Records on June 24, 2008.
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Ruiner Pinball garnered mostly negative reception from critics since its release but it has been recently referred by publications like PC Magazine as one of the best titles for the system.
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Arnold Ruiner (8 February 1937 - 28 October 2011) was an Austrian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Vienna, his profession was a taxi driver.
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New York Times music critic Jon Caramanica listed Reaper as his #1 album of 2017.Jon Caramanica, "The Best Albums of 2017," New York Times, December 6, 2017. On February 16, 2018, it was confirmed that Mulherin had signed to Fueled By Ramen as he released a new music video for his song "Ruiner", the title track for his upcoming album of the same name, which was released on April 13, 2018.Sam Taylor, "Nothing, Nowhere Has Released His New Album 'Ruiner'," Upset, April 13, 2018.
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The band headed to the studio in July with producer J. Robbins, and recorded the tracks for what would become Hell Is Empty. On October 9, 2010, Ruiner played their final show and announced their break up.
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Ruiner played over 200 shows in their first year and half in existence and in their second year, the band headed to Europe for 31 shows in ten different countries. The band toured all over the world including Europe six times, Australia twice, as well as tours through Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, and many tours through Canada and Mexico. Bridge Nine Records released their debut album, Prepare To Be Let Down, in 2007. In 2009, Ruiner took a break from touring and returned to Baltimore to work on writing their new album.
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He stated that the process was a difficult task "because there was no scanner that large" at the time. Ruiner Pinball was also showcased in a near-complete playable state at both E3 1995 and at Spring ECTS '95. In an interview with Adisak Pochanayon, lead programmer of NBA Jam: Tournament Edition as well for being one of the programmers of White Men Can't Jump on the Jaguar, stated that Ruiner Pinball was written in C++ by Scott. The game was also showcased during the Fun 'n' Games Day event hosted by Atari.
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Ruiner was developed by Polish indie game studio Reikon Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for Linux, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One on 26 September 2017. A Nintendo Switch version was released on June 18, 2020.
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Ruiner, released on August 16, 2005 through Nitro Records, is the second full- length album from the Massachusetts-based melodic hardcore band A Wilhelm Scream, since changing their name from Smackin' Isaiah in 2002. It received mostly very favourable reviews.
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The track listing for the Nitro Records releases are identical, whilst the Australian tour edition contains a Ruiner session b-side entitled "Bodies and Suitcases". This song is by fault listed as "Bodies as Suitcases" on the album's track listing.
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Yes, Alesis Quadraverb and > a Mackie 8-buss. "Ruiner" remix? That had a sine-wave portamento sound that > was actually "Init Voice" on the original DX-7 put through Arp Solus filter > for gating fx. ... I loved that "Init Voice" patch.
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The Electric Playground gave Ruiner Pinball a four out of ten, calling it "the Latoya Jackson of video pinball games". They elaborated that the gameplay is "boring and tedious" and that the blurry and overly busy visuals cause the ball to be frequently lost against the backgrounds. VideoGames scored Ruiner Pinball a five out of ten, comparing it with other pinball video games from the 16-bit era such as Dragon's Revenge and Crüe Ball. The reviewer criticized the graphics and plot of the two tables, while also remarking that the game does not simulate the feel of playing pinball accurately.
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Whilst working on this album, there are known to have been two working titles in use. The first being the title of the album, which was Walden 3 and the other being for the song "The Kids Can Eat a Bag of Dicks" which was originally titled "Ruiner".
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The 2010 edition was held on 23–25 July, preceded by a welcome movie screening on Thursday 22 July. Various movies were screened throughout the festival. Performing bands included Carpathian, Comadre, and Ruiner on Friday, Ampere and Amenra on Saturday, and Cruel Hand and Municipal Waste on Sunday.
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Ruiner is a shooter game played from an overhead perspective. The game takes place in 2091 and is set in a cyberpunk metropolis known as Rengkok. The player takes control of a silent, masked protagonist who attempts to rescue their kidnapped brother from a failing conglomerate, known as Heaven, that controls Rengkok.
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Ruiner Pinball is a pinball video game developed by High Voltage Software and published by Atari Corporation exclusively for Atari Jaguar in November 6, 1995. It was marketed as the first game to feature support for the Jaguar's ProController, though the only difference that the controller provides is that its shoulder buttons can be used as an alternative way of nudging the table.Ruiner Pinball game manual (Atari Jaguar, US) In Ruiner Pinball, players can choose between any of the two available playfields, which both have their own thematic and self-contained story. The game originated as a project pitched by High Voltage Software to Atari Corporation, who wanted to create a pinball title for the Jaguar, as members within the company were fans of the genre.
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Assembly, Ruiner Pinball is one of the few titles written in a different programming language. Scott Corley, main programmer and one of the designers of Ruiner Pinball at High Voltage Software, recounted about the game's development process in a thread at the 3DO Zone forums. The company pitched the idea of a pinball project for the Jaguar to Atari Corporation by showcasing a working demo that was written in a few days by Scott, who got free rein to create it from High Voltage Software CEO Kerry J. Ganofsky, since many of the members within the company were fans of pinball and liked the idea of developing one, with Scott citing both Night Mission Pinball and Raster Blaster as his childhood favorites. After Atari Corp.
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Ultimate Future Games also gave the game a low score, with the reviewer criticizing almost every aspect of the game. He remarked that "Ruiner is not even not very good pinball". However, when reviewing the game for French magazine Consoles +, Elvira gave it a positive outlook with praise to the graphics, presentation, music and playability.
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Mike Elizondo was chosen to produce the album which marks his first time working with the band. It was also announced that a deluxe edition would be released. It featured the two bonus tracks "The Ruiner" and "Deathbound" and a different cover. On September 6, Mastodon released a third song from The Hunter, "Spectrelight", featuring Scott Kelly of Neurosis.
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The Downward Spiral (Interscope Records/nothing/TVT, March 8, 1994) booklet; "Ruiner" lyrics.The Downward Spiral (Interscope Records/nothing/TVT, March 8, 1994) booklet; "Big Man with a Gun" lyrics.The Fragile (Interscope Records/nothing, September 21, 1999) booklet; "La Mer" lyrics (when translated from French language).The Fragile (Interscope Records/nothing, September 21, 1999) booklet; "We're in This Together" lyrics.
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He refused to take down pictures on request. Moore called himself "a professional life ruiner" and compared himself to Charles Manson. The website was up for 16 months, during which Moore stated several times he was protected by the same laws that protect Facebook. Moore also paid a hacker to break into email accounts of victims and steal private photos to post.
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In 2011, the band released their debut EP Ruiner through Brutal Panda Records. This was followed by Clean EP in 2013, which received attention from music websites such as Pitchfork, Exclaim!, and Sputnikmusic. A split single with the band Rabbits, which mainly consists of The Cure covers, were also released in 2014., On October 28, 2016 they released their new album “Gold“ via eOne Music.
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In 2014 she moved to Warsaw. In 2014 she debuted with an album Untune, which ranked 12 in the yearly toplist of The Quietus. Her music was used on a Dior fashion show. Her second album, an OST to the game Ruiner, was nominated in the Electronic Album Of The Year category of Fryderyki 2017 and Digital Dragons 2018 award for the best game soundtrack.
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In early May, the band went on a brief west coast tour with Living with Lions. In late May and early June, the band toured the UK with Ruiner and Defeater. It released on September 8, 2009 through Bridge Nine Records. In March and April 2010, the band went on a US tour alongside Four Year Strong, Every Time I Die and Trapped Under Ice.
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Still signed to State of Mind Records in the US, and expanding their distribution potential by signing to Smallman Records in Canada, Broadway Calls released their self- titled album Broadway Calls and produced by Willie Samuels of Green Day's production team at Pittsburg's Nu-Tone studios. Broadway Calls was released on July 10, 2007. The band then went on another full US tour and played shows with bands such as Crime In Stereo, I Am The Avalanche, The Smoking Popes, The Draft, Avail, This Is Hell, Set It Straight, Ruiner, Dead Hearts, Counting the Days, Future Primitive, and Final Fight. Within a year of their debut album's release, the band had been signed by Adeline Records, whose owners include Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day. The band's self-titled debut album was then re-released on March 18, 2008. At the start of 2008, the band went on tour, playing with Ruiner.
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A Wilhelm Scream made a conscious effort to abandon certain elements of their album Ruiner when writing Career Suicide. The band dropped many of the emo and post hardcore elements entirely. They also decided to forgo writing any slow or mid-tempo songs for the album, instead focusing on speed. Guitarist/vocalist Trevor Reilly mentioned that the goal of the band was to create a relentless album that would not have any "breaks" like their previous two albums had.
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Episode 1 - Homestar Ruiner received moderately positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Wii version 76.76% and 76/100 and the PC version 73.33% and 73/100. IGN gave the game an 8.1 out of 10, with the authentic presentation, voice work, music and the opening song impressing them the most. They also believed the game to be a must download for fans, but felt that the experience was short-lived and doesn't break any new ground for the genre.
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Drawing equally from noise rock bands like The Jesus Lizard and post-metal bands like Isis, the band developed a following after the release of their debut album, Trophy. Their first two albums were released by Neurot Recordings, the label of post-metal and post- rock bands like Isis, Neurosis, and Red Sparowes. Made Out of Babies were signed to The End Records for the release of their 2008 album The Ruiner. On March 13, 2012, lead singer Julie Christmas posted on her Facebook page that the band was no longer together.
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The video has since been made part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. "Piggy" uses "nothing can stop me now", a line that recurs in "Ruiner" and "Big Man with a Gun". The frantic drumming on the song's outro is Reznor's only attempt at performing drums on the record, and one of the few "live" drum performances on the album. He had stated that the recording was from him testing the microphone setup in studio, but he liked the sound too much not to include it.
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Ruiner has been released four times, three times on CD and once on coloured 12" vinyl. Two of the CD releases, the original and Japanese edition, as well as the 12" vinyl, were released through Nitro Records in the same year. The Australian tour edition was released through Shock Records a year later during A Wilhelm Scream's first Australia tour, supporting Less Than Jake, hence the name. Despite the tour starting on October 31, 2006 and the album being sold whilst on the tour, the official release date was November 11.
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Former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Richard Patrick has claimed in various interviews that "Piggy" was Reznor's nickname for him and that the song was written in response to Patrick leaving the band. This is the first NIN song to use the line "nothing can stop me now", which concludes the track. The phrase appears often in Reznor's later writing, making appearances in the songs "Ruiner", "Big Man with a Gun", "La Mer", "We're in This Together", and "Sunspots".The Downward Spiral (Interscope Records/nothing/TVT, March 8, 1994) booklet; "Piggy" lyrics.
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The 2018 edition was held on 26–29 July and headlined by Listener, Swain, and Morrow on Friday, Hexis, Ruiner, and Majority Rule on Saturday, and Suffocate for Fuck Sake, Monarch, and Loma Prieta on Sunday. All side stages continued from 2017 except the Underdogs' Tent. The Infoshop Tent held talks on topics such as direct action and gender during the day and acoustic performances at night; Greg Bennick co-led a mental health workshop oriented on depression and suicide support there on Sunday following a main stage speech on Saturday.
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Ruiner takes place in 2091 in Rengkok and its surrounding facilities, owned by Heaven, a conglomerate led by a man referred to in-game as the Boss. Initially the player character, a silent protagonist dubbed "Puppy" by another character, is being led by a rogue hacker named Wizard to assassinate the Boss. Before he reaches the Boss's office, the signal from Wizard to the protagonist is overridden by another hacker known only as Her. Her explains to Puppy that Wizard was contracted by another group and that his brother has been kidnapped, and urges him to track Wizard down.
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Attacks can be combined to execute attacks such as performing combos on enemies in mid-air, attack slides, and juggling foes in the air with projectile weapon attacks. Another aspect of combat are "Ruiner" attacks, powerful abilities that can indirectly affect surrounding enemies and can be mixed with other attacks to perform finishing strikes. The role-playing elements of the game come in the form of advanced character customization. At the beginning of the game, the player is given the choice between five different classes; berserker, champion, defender, commando, and bio engineer, with each having an advantage over another.
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Ruiner Pinball is an arcade-style pinball game, featuring two types of pinball tables and each one has their own main objective, gameplay mechanics, plot and thematic. The game has three levels of difficulty and the player can set the number of balls for play, turn on or off the picture-in-picture display window, apply texture to the ball and enter the number of players at the options menu. High-scores and other settings made by the player are automatically kept via the cartridge's internal EEPROM. The player can also reset the internal memory of the cartridge to erase saved high-scores and personal settings.
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Episode 2 - Strong Badia the Free received positive reviews. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PC version 80.46% and 81/100 and the Wii version 79.36% and 82/100. IGN, which gave the game 8.2/10, echoed their assessment from their Homestar Ruiner review, noting the game to be slightly longer and more complete than its predecessor, yet still geared very much towards fans. GameSpot, who disliked the first episode, gave Strong Badia the Free a 7.0/10, believing the game was a marked improvement with a more linear and original plot, and funnier jokes they felt did not need to prop up the weak gameplay noted in its predecessor.
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He would go on to compare Robinson's introduction to the band as similar to Travis Barker's arrival in Blink 182; Robinson's bass playing was so advanced that Reilly himself, drummer Nick Angelini, and guitarist Chris Levesque felt inspired to be more proficient at their instruments and write more complex rhythms and riffs. This allowed A Wilhelm Scream to maintain their signature technical style while playing faster and shorter songs. Robinson also inspired Reilly to further his lead guitar playing and play more solos on Career Suicide, something that the guitarist first experimented with on Ruiner. The bassist himself also added several solos of his own on songs such as "The Horse", "Jaws 3, People 0", and "Check Request Denied".
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Julie Christmas spent the majority of the 2000s as the lead vocalist for the noise rock band Made Out of Babies and the short-lived post-metal supergroup Battle of Mice, the latter of which featured members of The Book of Knots, Fugees, Neurosis and Red Sparowes. She sang on three studio albums with Made Out of Babies — Trophy (2005), Coward (2006) and The Ruiner (2008) — before the band went inactive for a few years and announced that it had officially broken up in 2012. Battle of Mice released one studio album — A Day of Nights (2006) — and a few EPs with Christmas before disbanding in 2009. Julie Christmas provided vocals to the song "Generation of Ghosts" by Mouth of the Architect on their 2008 release Quietly.
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A Wilhelm Scream sought to expand their sound on the album while being tighter and more focused than they were on their debut album Mute Print. As a result the average track length is significantly longer and the songs themselves are considerably more progressive, with many time signature and key changes throughout. Ruiner is considered by fans to be the darkest album by A Wilhelm Scream of both musically and lyrically. Guitarist/vocalist Trevor Reilly states that this was because of significant infighting in the band at the time, conflict which ultimately led to the departure of bassist Jon Teves. Many of the album's songs cover interpersonal and introspective themes such as breakups, evaluating ones’ self worth, and mental illness.
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On April 10, 2008, a new episodic game called Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (abbreviated as SBCG4AP) was announced for the Wii's WiiWare service and Microsoft Windows, developed by Telltale Games in partnership with Videlectrix.Announcing Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People for WiiWare The first episode, Homestar Ruiner, premiered on August 11, 2008 worldwide for Windows on Telltale Game's website and in North America on Nintendo's WiiWare service on August 11, 2008. It was also released in Europe and Australia the following Friday (August 15, 2008). The second episode, Strong Badia the Free, was released on September 15 on the WiiWare service in North America and on the Telltale Games' website, and in the PAL region on October 3.
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Ruiner is a two-screen wide table that features a four sets of flippers, taking place during the Cold War in 1962 as a nuclear war is about to begin. The main objective of the player is to bring down the DEFCON level from level 5 to 1 and launch the attack on an enemy country while defending his own. Tower is a three-screen tall table, featuring three sets of flippers and takes place in a fantasy setting, when an adventurer enters into a sinister castle tower to defeat an evil sorceress that resides within its walls, with the main objective of the player being able to make the sorceress cast three magic spells in order to destroy the castle tower, bring her down and then escape from the tower before it is too late.
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There are fifteen variations of weapon classes such as pistols, heavy lasers, dual and two-handed combat weapons, armor for different body parts, and "charms" that allow players to use powerful Ruiner abilities. Many items can also be bought and customized by color and effectiveness—using collectable runes—in-between levels back at the Æsir's base of Asgard. As players progress through the game, they can level up by slaying foes (Goblins, Trolls, Dark Elves, and Undead) and achieving high combos, allowing access to more efficient items and skills; these items and skills can be used in the game's skill tree mechanic, where points earned with every level up are applied to improve stats and unlock new abilities unique to each different character class. In the early stages of the game, the player can choose between two alignments; Cybernetic and Human.
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Devolver also announced that they would hold their first-ever press conference on June 11 at 10:00pm, streamed as part of Twitch's "Pre-Pre Show" on their E3-focused channel. However, the company stated that no new games would be unveiled, and that it would feature an appearance by Suda51. The "conference" was actually a 15-minute, pre-recorded sketch satirizing the video game industry and cliches associated with E3 press conferences (including an overenthusiastic audience that the presenter silences by shooting a gun into the air, and the unveiling of "Screen Pay" technology allowing users to pay for games by literally throwing money at their monitor), leading Polygon to compare it to watching a "magical infomercial" on Adult Swim. Although no new games were unveiled, new trailers for Ruiner and Serious Sam's Bogus Detour were featured in the presentation.
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Two Year Zero songs made their debut on this leg ("Survivalism" and "The Beginning of the End"), as well as a few old, never before played live songs: "Last" from Broken, "We're in This Together" from The Fragile and a deconstructed version of "The Fragile" from Still. At a show in Madrid, Spain, ten tracks from The Downward Spiral were performed, the first seven of which were performed in their exact order on the album; three of these ("Heresy", "Ruiner", "The Becoming") returned to the setlist for the first time since the Self-Destruct tour. During a concert in Lisbon, Portugal, a USB flash drive was found in a men's bathroom stall containing an intentionally leaked high-quality MP3 of the track "My Violent Heart", a song from the then- unreleased album, Year Zero. A second USB drive was found after a concert in Barcelona, containing the track "Me, I'm Not".
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Plans for a video game adaptation of White Men Can't Jump were announced in August 1993, after an licensing agreement between 20th Century Fox and Trimark Interactive, which was a newly formed subsidiary by Trimark as one of their first releases across all platforms. Scott Corley, main programmer and one of the designers of Ruiner Pinball at High Voltage Software, recounted about the development process of the title for the Atari Jaguar in a thread at the 3DO Zone forums. He stated that High Voltage Software locally hired members from the acrobatic Jesse White Tumbling Team crew, who performed all of the moves seen in-game for the characters, which were filmed at a gym without the aid of blue screen, while the frames were then cut out and digitized by using Deluxe Paint. He also stated that the work also served as a learning exercise for their future projects involving motion capture, in addition of being a positive experience for the company.
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It was originally planned for a Q1 1995 release but was later pushed back to an August/Q3 1995 release date instead. In an online conversation with an anonymous High Voltage Software programmer for the Jaguar by website Cyberroach, he stated that they developed several additional features not found in the original PC version for the conversion, but these were scrapped as Atari wanted to keep the port faithful. Scott Corley, main programmer and one of the designers of Ruiner Pinball at High Voltage Software claimed in a thread at the 3DO Zone forums that the porting process of the title to the Jaguar CD, which was done by programmer Brian McGroarty, was one of the "smoothest projects" the company has worked on, as there were no major issues during development, despite a setback with audio compression formats. It is also the largest game released for the add-on in terms of memory size (at 630 MB).
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