![]() oblonga 'Flavida' sends up 12-18 inch tall flower stalks crowned with a cluster of dangling pale-orange tubular flowers with recurved petals that entice hummingbirds, butterflies, and other pollinators in summer. The flowers of Chalky Finger Aloe are quite attractive and differ from the apetalous Senecio varieties of chalksticks. oblonga 'Flavida' is a drought tolerant South African succulent that is sure to add beauty and interest to the landscape for years.Ĭhalky Finger Aloe is a small, succulent shrub with thick leaves that resemble fingers covered with a chalk-like dust and has beautiful flower clusters with pale-orange blooms. To date, they’ve painted a house, built their dining room table, remodeled a bathroom, installed custom floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in Jamie’s dream office, and built the raised garden beds that are the inspiration for In the Weeds.Cotyledon orbiculata var. ![]() Jamie and her husband are fond of home improvement projects, even if they challenge their marital status. ![]() We expanded our flower beds, replaced a brick border with new stone, planted lots of new perennials just days before the first frost, and stayed married! Last fall, my husband and I finally finished a project we’d put off all summer (and the summer before that, if we’re being honest). I mean, how much fun would it be if the project didn’t take 10 days longer than expected with several unexpected twists and turns along the way and the threat of a hard frost or snow? You also need a person who feels confident in their mediocre gardening abilities and proclaims it better than they had imagined.Įvery project needs at least two people with the same end goal but wildly different ideas about how to actually accomplish it, just to keep it exciting. You also need one who wants to go to bed and will finish in the morning.Įvery marriage needs someone who worries the finished product might not look as good as they hoped and wants to bring in a second opinion. You also need the person who will drive to the store and just buy a new one already before someone gets impaled trying to use the broken handle.Įvery marriage needs one person to snap a chalk line to ensure everything is on the straight and narrow and another who thinks maybe you could just wing it and save a bit of time.Įvery marriage needs one strong person to dig up the sod, move the soil and carry the stone and another to get on their hands and knees and plant the flowers.Įvery marriage needs one person who will work late into the night by headlamp to get just one more stone laid. You also need one person who is an excellent eye-roller and reminds the other that no one else is going to notice or care if it’s perfectly perfect.Įvery marriage needs one person who tries for too long to re-attach the wheelbarrow handle that snaps off while it’s carrying a too-heavy load of stone. ![]() Or the year after.Įvery marriage needs one person who measures, remeasures, checks, double checks and triple checks that everything is perfectly level throughout an entire project. You also need one person who thinks your existing landscaping looks good enough so maybe you should put the project off until next year. Every marriage needs one person who has a vision of an expansive project with new stone, shrubs, perennials and annuals that will make the front yard really pop.
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![]() ![]() ![]() Luca Visentini was arrested in December as part of the investigation into suspected corruption among MEPs involving Qatar and Morocco. (Aside from Reborn for Clear Sky.which is Reborn.The general secretary of the international union ITUC has been dismissed from his post, the confederation said, over his links to a European Parliament graft scandal implicating Qatar. I do plan to play Story mods, I'm just unaware of any of them. I do think they have their appeal but admittingly most of it is say, getting to play as Monolith or Military for me. Give me a good story mod, not the same thing over and over with a different coat of paint. If you know how STALKER works and disregard the pointless variable changes and item bloat many of these mods add, you can get the best equipment after two days at most. Who would prefer make-belive over actually well thought out missions that are tailored by the creator instead of dozens of fetch quests and other similarly "factory made" side missions?Īnd finally, every single freeroam / ""HARDCORE"" mod is piss easy, every single one. The whole "you make your own goals / adventures" arguement is pretty absurd too. What's the point of roaming an empty Zone without a goal or doing the same things over and over when there are many great story mods with actual purpose? I can only tolerate those type of mods a couple of days. Misery, Anomaly, CoC (and its other countless variants) etc. Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:People tend to follow the herd, tried and true fact. Because every factions you chose plays exactly the same. It is kind of weird, it has mechanics of an MMORPG some sort withojt the Multiplayer aspect and the RPG aspect. What should i imagine ? I mean it's not some sort of D&D, it's just an FPS in an "open world" with stuff that keeps you busy. I think, it has nothing to do with imagination. If that's Something you don't want to do, go home. See it's the point on Forums to discuss subjects. I mostly liked your opinion until the point: Don't complain on forums. If you don't have the imagination to to do so, play the originals and don't complain on the forums Find Strelok or play as a random stalker and make your own story. ![]() And Anomaly does have a story mode of sorts. There is no such thing as THE stalker experience, but i think Anomaly is the THE free roam experience. Misery still sucks IMO (haven't played the newest version, though 2.0 sucked ass), but Anomaly is a great mod because you can mod and tweak it for the experience you want. It was an easy mod when you learned how to work around the stupidly accurate and sixth-sensed AI and the game economy which was absurd, a loaf of bread costing the same as a gun or some other stuff like thatĪnomaly smooths out most of the issues that Misery had and adds lots. Originally posted by Harald Haggaaja:I didn't like Misery because the difficulty was artificial. Is that what will happen? Is Anomaly now the ultimate Stalker game? They are the most hardcore mods for the most hardcore stalker players11!1!1!1 remember jts just MISERY WITH "QUALITY OF LIFE" /s It was once stalker now its sth else like escape from tarkov or whatever with massive survival stuff going on and crafting everywhere MMORPG They are not "easy". A misery based mod js NOW THE STALKER experience ? ♥♥♥♥♥♥ with me. And people that always liked misery ( me incl. Pre anomaly and pre dead air guys we all remember the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on Misery here. everywhere I read: yea go play anomaly, it's so good, its 64 bit blabla, it has 300 difficulty settings and QOL ( lmfao ).Īnd. We have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of CoC Iterations as well. They made me YET again play though CoP once more.īut. Just another gameplay option out there to spend more time playin my favorite FPS.īut what do we have now? At this point, let me tell THANKS for people like the gunslinger devs. Also, a "sandbox" experience wasn't bad either. I can remember 2016(?) Or 2015 when CoC came out i really liked the idea behind that. To this day, AMK AE and Misery with TAZ are my most favorite mods. ![]() We were treated to just a peek – but more has now been revealed.įortnite currently sits in downtime, with players left watching themselves clutching to a lone piece of driftwood, bobbing in the ocean. But instead of breaking up, the Island flipped right over onto its underside – crushing the Queen and her remaining forces – and exposing a fresh new Island surface for Chapter 3. Players then found themselves alone, some distance away, watching the Fortnite Island do its best Titanic impression. See also Activision Blizzard: Kotick wanted to buy Kotaku and PC Gamer to put the company in a good light?Įventually players met up with Jones and The Foundation, but as things destabilized, all were presumably sucked out into the water surrounding the Island. The areas here – and Fortnite’s island – were now tilting ominously. Here, we heard him speak at length – and it sounded a lot like Community’s Joel McHale. The pair worked to disable the Island’s “gyro controls” while, back on the surface, other members of The Seven, The Foundation’s mysterious group, swooped in to save the day.īack in gameplay, players dashed through new underground areas of the Island towards its core – previously glimpsed in Fortnite’s DC Comics and the Imposters game mode – guided by Seven member The Scientist, last seen at the end of Fortnite Chapter 1. ![]() For fans, this was something which had long been suspected. Jones and The Foundation teamed up, leaving Slone behind – though not before she finally got a glimpse at The Foundation’s face, revealing him at last to be portrayed by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Dwayne Johnson is finally unmasked as Fortnite’s heroic The Foundation. Its leader Slone, now hugely-disliked by players after leaving them to die in last season’s event, was shown finishing up some business with defector Agent Jones – until the seemingly heroic figure of The Foundation finally arrived to resume his unfinished business with Jones first. The event then shifted to a cut-scene as, far below the Island’s surface, the Imagined Order organization took to panic stations. Rewatch Epic’s full video recap of Chapter 2’s The End event. See also Hideo Kojima says that MGSV: Ground Zeroes was an experiment to release episodic games | EarthGamer ![]() The Blue Cube’s protection was whittled away, even as it tried to help – before the poor thing was blown to pieces. Dozens of new motherships wheeled in overhead through an enormous hole in the sky and zapped away players’ guns. The Queen’s forces arrived and utterly overpowered players, in a tense section of gameplay where it became clear players were completely outgunned. Maybe, with the Blue Cube on side, she could be defeated? It was here players would make their last stand against the Cube Queen, head of the alien race which has now plagued Fortnite’s reality for several seasons. The End event began at the small fort built over the past week by Pleasant Park and, as players arrived, they were greeted by the welcome sight of the friendly Blue Cube teleporting into the location too. ![]() Tonight’s The End event closed the book on its Chapter 2 map forever – and gave players a glimpse at what’s next. Fortnite has pulled off its latest live event – typically spectacular in scope, technically ambitious in scale, and hugely important to the game’s ongoing story. |