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This mission takes a lot of time. First, move all of your units to defend Illidan; they will be needed. Also, start training some peasants for lumber harvesting and even more units to defend Illidan. The Orcs won’t attack your base in the beginning.
I recommend destroying the Orc bases before attempting to close the portals, since you will need all of your population to defend them. Attack the bases in counter-clockwise order. This way, your allies will help you all the way. Try to coordinate your attacks with theirs. Don’t rely too much on them though; they’re more temporary meatshields than backup. Make good use of the Naga Myrmidions’ Ensnare. It can be used on the spell-immune dragons.
Only the last portal should be a problem, and therefore I recommend closing it before closing the others. After a while, Succubi will descend from the gate and Charm your units, turning them to their side. You must do everything you can to avoid this. Start with using the Rune of Shielding which can be found in the barrels close to Illidan’s position. When shielded, two Charms are required to convert a unit. Nuke them with Lady Vashj and Kael as much as you can, too.
At first it will seem like you have an excess of gold, but don’t spend it too easily. You will probably have to save it after the last Orc base has fallen in order to maintain your army while closing the gates.
The units that I chose where Spellbreakers, Priests and Naga Myrmidions for the gates. The Spellbreakers’ spell immunity is very handy, and the Myrmidions’ Ensnare is required for the nether dragons. Remember that you can also interrupt channeling spells with Ensnare. Use it on demons casting Rain of Fire. For the Orc bases, add a couple of turtles for siege.
This code is the code for simple addition with a few minor changes. It can subtract any two numbers between 0 and 9 as long as the difference is between 0 and 9.
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| / !|-!\}-v{.
\{\/\/\ {/
/ -----\
,/-----/
}\-- --\
,/-----/
$\-----\
\/\/\/\/ |
Note that the start has been rearranged from the addition-script. This is because the second input must be subtracted by 48 and not the first, since subtraction, as opposed to addition, is not symmetrical.
Succubus: Hell Bent has a quite simple plot, and little character development. However, there is a nice atmosphere and the same tone is kept throughout the movie.
What really irritated me was the demon-hunting. It’s fine that Lilith is supernatural, and that the demon-hunter was a little weird, but what about a demon-hunter who doesn’t have a clue about how to kill or banish demons?
Garlic? I thought that was for vampires. A gun with silver bullets? That’s for lycanthropes. The regular crossbow? No comment. It surprises me that he didn’t recommend seducing the succubus. Also, the movie states that a succubus is a weaker form of the incubus.
Don’t watch this movie if you’ve ever played any fantasy game including demons; it will drive you mad.
With Jaina by your side in this mission, you should have no problems. I recommend leveling Jaina’s Brilliance Aura, Blizzard and Water Elemental in that order, since Brilliance helps Arthas’s healing a lot. It also lets your priests going. You should have almost no casaulties if you remember to heal as much as you can and micro-manage damaged footmen away from the battle while Holy Light is cooling down.
Make good use of your footmen’s Defend ability. Note that Defend only slows their move speed and not their attack speed. This means that you can start defending as soon as you have reached the enemy units without any real drawbacks. The A.I. is not clever enough to hit-and-run defending footmen.
Don’t miss the Mantle of Intelligence +3. It makes Jaina even more powerful.
Fabric of Time is a somewhat interesting documentary about finding the truth of Christianity in a piece of cloth which is said to have covered Jesus. When I started watching it, I was expecting a pro-atheistic religion bash, but the documentary disappointed me. It seemed serious and very unbiased. Still, my atheistic beliefs were not swayed by it, and it didn’t really come to any conclusion. However, it contained an interesting, yet brief, introduction to quantum physics, which has always interested me.
Serenity is the best movie I’ve seen for a long while. This excellent science fiction adventure is very close to The Matrix and Star Wars on my top list. The Serenity setting has had a lot of thought in it, and the mysteries introduced in the beginning unveil at a perfect tempo. Several times your heart skips a beat when you realise how things go together. Never a boring moment with Serenity.
As soon as I have time, I’m going to try to find the Firefly series at some store.
Looks like my previous attempt at an addition-only calculator in BounceFuck was very ineffective. This script does the same thing, but in about 1/3 of the space.
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| /,!|+!\{-v}.
\}\/\/\ }/
$,-----\
/-----/
\-- --\
/-----/
\-----\
\/\/\/ |
The difference is that here, 48 is subtracted only once. The other addition-calculator subtracted 48 from two memory cells and added it to one.
Seung chi sun tau (English title: Twins’ Mission) did contain a lot of good fighting scenes. Come to think of it, there wasn’t much else than fighting.
Since I watched the movie in Chinese (or Japanese; I don’t know) and without subtitles, I didn’t understand a thing about the storyline. There were seemingly important cards thrown around unrealistically skillfully, adding to the overall weirdness. I do not recommend it unless you have some homework to do during the movie.
The following BounceFuck code makes a very simple addition-only calculator. It can add numbers between 0 and 9 as long as the sum is less than 10. The two numbers are taken as arguments.
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| /+|+!,O!O!}+|
}/+{ \O/\/\/\/\
+}O$,!+-----\+++\
!\/ --/-----/+++/
O! /}}\-----\+++\
+\<-/+/-----/+++/
+/\ {\\-----\+++\
+++^\{ \/\/\/+++/
++\+O\!\! |\/\/
\/ Q /.+++/ |
The first part takes the two arguments and subtracts 48 (the ASCII number for 0) from both of them. This leaves us with their numerical values in the first and second cells. After this, two loops transfer first the second cell and then the first cell to the third cell. 48 is added again to the third cell, and the result is printed.
The Last King of Scotland is a reality-based drama-thriller which provokes a lot of feelings, for several opposed characters. Many parts of the movie are scary, and even more so when you realize that it probably is close to the truth. Both sides of power are revealed.
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