 about it? I know it’s easy to rush around all the time thinking about what someone just said or looking ahead to what’s next on your ‘to do’ list but let’s be honest in the end does it really save any time? Probably not, especially if we make a mistake in the process and have to go back and put it right. Give single tasking a try and see how it makes a change to your day.
WAKING UP TIRED: Reaching for the snooze button more times than you should be? Struggling to get out of bed or waking up feeling tired are both signs that you’re not getting enough sleep. The solution is not always as simple as getting to bed earlier, you also need to take a look at the quality of sleep that you’re getting and what your evening routine feels like - are you falling asleep in front of the TV, not getting a long enough break from bright screens or eating way too late? I encourage you to establish a bit of a routine to help you wind down during the evening which should help you drift off much more easily and wake up feeling refreshed. Click here for my favourite ways to power down and sleep easier.
I know that the thought of slowing down can sometimes seem unrealistic and we can all come up with the tired old “yes but i have to...(insert your own excuse)” but rushing around doesn’t help anyone, especially you. I urge you find a couple of ways that you can take it down a notch or two, slow down and find more enjoyment in your days.Before getting wrapped up in the game's narrative, a sweeping story about the role of God in society, you have to understand that this world doesn't care about you at all.
Shin Megami Tensei V is a video game about the pleasures of running repeatedly into a brick wall.
The Shin Megami Tensei series is arguably the inventor of the style of game that Pokémon would popularize. You play as a high school student in Tokyo who is suddenly pulled into a world of monsters. Lucky for you, you have the ability to cast magic spells, and also to enlist demons to help fight with you. Unlucky for you, this is not the soft world of Pokémon. For the first ten hours of this game, you traverse a harsh desert with crumbling buildings in the distance, fighting and capturing demons who are designed to look grotesque more often than not.
Every single enemy encounter in Shin Megami Tensei V is a test. They're tests that you haven't studied for, and where you never went to class. Even more frustratingly, no matter how well you do in parts of the encounter, passing the test is a binary: you either master the lessons the game is trying to teach you, or you fail, and are booted back to the title screen.
Most people would run screaming from a game like this. Shin Megami Tensei V is a throwback in its design. It feels like a direct sequel to the similarly difficult Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, which Atlus remastered for the Switch earlier this year, not just in its narrative but also in its approach to gameplay and tutorializing. In these games you learn by doing, and if you don't learn your lesson, you die. Like the world you inhabit, one overrun by demons and angels in an eternal religious war, it's survival of the fittest.
Other than Nocturne, I struggle to think of games that have such frustrating delights while also giving almost nothing in terms of empathy towards the player. Even Dark Souls, the ur-example for "hard game" to the point of parody, has a convivial feel when it comes to failure. In Souls games, the lesson is often that failure is a part of growth. Regaining the experience you've lost from dying is not usually a big hassle, and sometimes your failures are very funny. Failure is a comedy beat, a minor set back, and the lesson you learn from that game is that you can recover from it.
In Shin Megami Tensei V, failure is often emotionally devastating. Like Nocturne, this game does not have auto-save, and checkpoints are few and far between, especially in the early hours of the game. I have lost a huge amount of progress in this game from random enemy encounters, the kind that are not usually difficult in other kinds of games. I had to, at one point, put my Switch down after losing a random encounter before I even had a chance to attack. I lost an entire night's worth of progress.
I'm not sure it's wise to frontload so much of the mechanical difficulty of this game, but it's certainly instructive. Before getting wrapped up in the game's narrative, a sweeping story about the role of God in society as per Shin Megami Tensei tradition, you have to understand that this world doesn't care about you at all. Nietzsche would approve of this world where gods may exist but are not the rulers of humanity's fate. This is a world where your ability to survive is determined by you and you alone. Although this can be depressing as hell when an Ippon-Datara hits every single one of your characters with a hammer until they die when you're within spitting distance of a checkpoint, nihilism can also be thrillingly freeing. I keep coming back to this game to prove something to it, and to myself. I know that with the right strategy, I can defeat every single one of those hammer wielding demons. This is a universe that runs on rules, and once I learn what they are and how to manipulate them, I can strategize my way through the pain.
Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure.
The arms are those of the Kingdom of England and of Normandy. The arms are identical to those used by Guernsey (except for the small leaf on top of the Guernsey arms).
The arms have never officially been granted to the islands. The arms are derived from the oldest known seals of the island, which were granted in 1290/1 by King Edward I. The seals showed the royal arms, i.e. the three lions. Ever since the islands have used the royal arms as their own, on seals, prints and coins.
The continued use of the royal arms was granted after a long discussion in 1907, but the arms were not officially granted to the islands.
Jersey is divided into 12 parishes, all use arms, mainly with the attribute of the parish saint.
Literature : Bretton, 1955.
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Several thousand fans get public’s first glimpse of Padres new brown uniforms at festive Petco Park event
From the outfield grass, the roars arose again and again.
On a stage in left-center field, beneath the giant video board showing their every move, Fernando Tatis Jr., Eric Hosmer and Manny Machado modeled the new Padres uniforms that are an ode to the past and a highly anticipated jump into the future.
“We’re all looking at it as we’re turning the page on the tough times,” Hosmer would say later. “… The brown can be the start of all that.”
Brown is officially back.
What the invited guests, mostly season ticket holders and sponsors, seemed to enthusiastically endorse with their repeated applause (and in some cases tears) was first a video showing a half-dozen Padres players wearing the new white home jersey with brown pinstripes and brown “PADRES” across the chest.
“I love it,” one man near the stage said aloud. “I love it.”
Then Tatis appeared on stage in the all-tan alternate road jersey with the brown pinstripes. Across the chest was “SAN DIEGO” in brown. During his prancing, Tatis stopped and did his sugar cane chop celebration the team adopted in 2019.
Hosmer took the stage next in what will be the primary road jersey, solid sand pants and a dark brown top with a gold “SAN DIEGO” across the chest.
Finally, Machado stepped onto the stage wearing the home jersey.
On all left sleeve of all three jerseys is the Swinging Friar.
“I literally started crying,” said Brady Phelps, a fan who is a popular presence on social media and has long advocated for brown jerseys.
Phelps was among several people who claimed to have not heard a single negative word.
“They’re great,” Jordan Stark said. “They’re clean.”
That’s high praise coming form one of the co-founders of the Bring Back The Brown grassroots organization that began in 2010.
“It’s surreal,” said Tony Martinez, BBTB’s other co-founder.
This is what so many of the couple thousand people who came to Petco Park had clamored for, some for what felt it. This was the victory they will settle for until more real ones come.
They seemed to be largely pleased with the result of more than two years of research and testing by the Padres.
The brown and gold is a return to what many consider the traditional Padres uniform, the combination the team wore in various forms over its first 16 seasons of existence, from 1969 through its first World Series appearance in 1984.
However, the new brown is a dark shade only created in 2018, after the Padres had been searching in vain for months for a brown they considered rich enough.
The home uniform also features