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Make Delicious Paleo Meals From Scratch in Half the TimeSlow cook, steam, sauté and pressure cook all with one pot. Jennifer Robin...s, creator of Predominantly Paleo and bestselling author, will show you how to drastically cut cooking time for your Paleo dishes in your Instant Pot®. Recipes include Decked-Out Omelet, Legit Bread Under Pressure, Honey Sriracha Chicken Wings, Pressure-Cooked Sirloin Steak and Hidden Spinach Bundt Cakes.Whether you’re new to the Instant Pot® or a seasoned pro, Paleo Cooking with Your Instant Pot® will show you everything this cooker is capable of and help you prepare healthy, delicious meals in no time. read more
Going Paleo doesn't have to mean giving up your favorite comfort foods. In Paleo Eats, Kelly Bejelly focuses on Paleo cooking from... the heart with recipes that make beloved traditional dishes Paleo-friendly. If you miss chocolate chip cookies hot from the oven, fried chicken on family picnics, the sweet-and-sour meatballs from your favorite Chinese restaurant, or your grandmother's peach cobbler, this book is for you.Paleo Eats is jam-packed with over 100 tempting sweet and savory recipes, from condiments to desserts, all inspired by classic comfort foods. Delicious dishes like Coconut Cinnamon Cereal, Southern Fried Chicken, Lamb Gyro Burgers, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, and Devil's Food Cake prove that eating Paleo is as fun and delicious as it is healthy. You'll find something for everyone, even picky eaters, with recipes that are easy to make and even easier to love.Paleo Eats is all about REAL COMFORT FOOD MADE PALEO, for MEALS that are AS TASTY as they are HEALTHY. INSIDE you'll FIND:Over 100 grain-free, gluten-free, and dairy-free recipes that re-create your favorite comfort foods, including Chicken Pot Pie, Skillet Cornbread, Green Bean Casserole, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Apple Pie, and many, many moreTips for transitioning to a Paleo lifestyle, including advice for keeping your food budget low and which tools are essential for kitchen successA detailed Paleo baking tutorial with an overview of Paleo flours and guidelines on how to use them for the best resultsTroubleshooting tips and how to fix a recipe gone wrongIcons marking dishes that are perfect for holidays and special occasions, from Valentine's Day to game day to birthdays, and dishes that comply with the Autoimmune Protocol. read more
Primal Paleo Diet Cookbook: Over 100 Quick and Easy Paleo RecipesWhether you’re just starting out on the Paleo diet or have been e...ating Paleo for years, the Primal Paleo Cookbook: Quick and Easy Paleo Recipes is going to help you make delicious, healthy meals without spending a lot of time in the kitchen.This book was designed for people who want to be able to get their meals on the table fast, without the need for a lot of special ingredients or difficult cooking techniques. These recipes feature fresh, whole foods that are cooked the Paleo way—without refined sugars, processed foods, or unhealthy oils. They’re perfect for those days you come home tired from work and need to get dinner on the table without a lot of fuss, using ingredients you already have on hand. Or when you want to put everything into a slow cooker and then set it and forget it.In addition to more than 100 Paleo recipes, also included in the book is a brief overview of the Paleo diet—what it is, the health benefits of eating the Paleo way, how to stock your Paleo kitchen, and a 7-day Paleo meal plan.Read on for quick, easy, and most of all delicious Paleo recipes! read more
Description: Now, whether you are a curious healthcare professional or just a connoisseur of diet information, two New York Times best-selling authors provide you with the definitive resource for low carbohydrate living. Doctors Volek and Phinney share over 50 years of clinical experience using low carbohydrate diets, and together they have published more than 200 research papers and chapters on the topic. Particularly in the last decade, much has been learned about the risks associated with insulin resistance (including but not limited to metabolic syndrome, hypertension, and type-2 diabetes), and how this condition is far better controlled by carbohydrate restriction than with drugs.
Episode after episode, Bobby Berk, (the modern-minded interior designer on Netflix's Queer Eye revival) overhauls each frumpy living space to reveal a chic, perfectly organized and functional area in its place. We're taking hints from him and filling our homes with these understated but super-useful organizational helpers. Bobby says it best: "Design doesn't have to be daunting."
On most diet plans, bacon gets the axe because of all the fat it contains. But since it is OK on the Paleo diet, they tend to use it whenever they can. In this case they’ve decided to wrap up chicken breast in bacon before barbecuing it. Now, you may be thinking this is pretty unhealthy, but just look at their serving suggestion of topping a salad with these bacon wrapped barbecue chicken slices. It’s not a matter of an all you can eat bacon buffet, but instead is something you can enjoy in moderation, along with a hearty serving of vegetables.
Now, paleo cookbooks are somewhat tricky. The challenge is that there are many individual variations on the paleo diet. For example, some people argue that specific types of dairy (such as grass-fed and organic butter) can be included, while most people disagree. As a result, it’s still important to pay attention to the specifics of any recipe or cookbook, even if it claims to be paleo.
I had never heard of the Paleo diet before I read this book but as a Mexican Cookbook it is really good. There are the recipes you would expect to see - empanadas, enchiladas, fajitas and such plus many recipes I have never seen before. There are lots of yummy looking recipes that I will be trying out. I am especially looking forward to trying the Salted Chocolate Ganache Tarts!
Dyed clothes came into fashion in early Iron Age Legendary Viking town unearthed Organic tools found in Stone Age camp Stone Age cartoons We buy healthier food than in previous generations How agriculture came to Scandinavia Unique find at Viking burial place Immigration in the Viking era Vikings grew barley in Greenland Low carb diets rocked in the Stone Age Denmark’s past viewed from above
Most commercial goods will be off limits while you’re on the Paleo diet because they are filled with processed ingredients, grains, chemicals, and other foods that just aren’t able to make the cut while eating the Paleo way. These spiced scones do a good job of replacing the pumpkin spiced scones you find at your local Starbucks when the season is right. The trick is they don’t use any ingredients that aren’t on the Paleo list of approved foods, so you’re totally in the clear. Isn’t it great that Paleo minded chefs are hard at work to bring you guilt-free recipes like these?
Delicious smoothies--100% free of gluten, dairy, and refined sugar!Think Paleo and smoothies don't mix? Think again! Now, you can ...enjoy the quick burst of energy and nutrition that comes from the easy-to-make pre-/post-workout drink--without any of the gluten, dairy, or refined sugar! This cookbook shows you how to blend 150 Paleo smoothies right in your own home, so that you never have to worry about what else is in your drink. Whether you're interested in cleansing your body or just need an extra boost of energy after an intense workout, each section offers a delicious blend of all-natural fruits and vegetables that will keep you full throughout the day. Featuring step-by-step instructions and nutritional data, the recipes make a wide variety of tasty Paleo smoothies, including:Pineapple sunshine smoothieAcai boost smoothieVanilla coconut cream smoothieKale power smoothiePumpkin protein smoothieSweet apple pie smoothieYou don't have to give up the vitamin-packed smoothies you love just because you're on the Paleo diet--with Paleo Smoothies, you can have healthy, flavorful smoothies at every meal! read more
Kirsty, with animal protein I’m a pretty picky. I buy at butchers where I trust in the quality. In my opinion there is a huge difference in taste and quality when it comes to animal protein. Grains and veggies I’m more lenient but never with animal protein. The cheapest way to get high quality meat is share a whole animal with friends or neighbors. The bacon we eat is from a pig I share with another 2 families. Once a year I get 1/3 and freeze it all. The bacon is incomparable to any grocery store bacon. I’d rather it less often.
This recipe is inspired by Indochina cuisine and features chilli chicken that gets marinated in a special blend of spices. The red chillies are going to give this a pretty good spiciness to this dish, so if you don’t like spicy foods you may want to pass on this one, or make adjustments to the peppers, using ones that aren’t as potent. It’s served on a bed of cauliflower rice to keep it Paleo friendly. You’ll find that cauliflower is a versatile way to make rice and couscous replacements, and it satisfies your vegetable requirement.
The one thing to note is that the complexity of the recipes is somewhat divisive. Some people feel that the recipes are simple and easy to follow, while others find them overly complicated. As is often the case, reality is somewhere in the middle. By paleo standards, the recipes aren’t too bad, especially given you need a good balance of macros to maximize performance. Nevertheless, if you are new to paleo, the recipes may seem a little confusing at first, although you would get used to them.
The benefits of a grain-free diet has been proven through the personal experience of hundreds of people worldwide who have experie...nced significant relief from a wide variety of auto-immune diseases. The rise of the paleo movement has introduced grain free eating to the masses, and is embraced by many as a healthy way of eating for anyone. read more
Thanks for the great recipes!! I’m new to your site, but love everything about it! That being said, I was recently diagnosed with Endometriosis. Rather than take pills or have surgery, my midwife has agreed to let me try the Endo Diet, which is very similar to the Paleo Diet, except I can’t have red meats or eggs. Is there a healthy substitute I can use in place of the egg for the mayonnaise?
Lately, I've been seeing more and more people talking about the Paleo diet and the best paleo cookbooks - and for a good reason. Although a lot of diets can often get complicated and hard to understand, the Paleo diet is pretty simple: only eat what a caveman would eat. What's better than being able to eat as much as you want and not have to track anything? Nothing! That's what I thought.
The recipes themselves cover many different types of dishes, including breakfast, drinks, snacks, desserts and, of course, main meals. With around 100 recipes in total, there is not a large number of recipes in any given category but that scarcely matters. Instead, the book acts as a great source of paleo recipes, regardless of your preferences for food.
This recipe actually inspired my big project, Bravo For Vive, a line of Paleo foods for concessions. I thought these wraps would be awesome for tailgating and stadium food, and I wanted to be able to help those who want to eat healthy but have no option to in these situations! This season we will be at LSU, and we could be coming to a stadium near you soon! You can see my cute promo video about our concession line on Youtube.
Slow food, in the form of slow cooking and old-fashioned home cooking, has become really hot. Rich stews, roasts, soups, and stock...s are now simmering in many kitchens. A stew cooked slowly over low heat for several hours works wonders even with the simplest and least expensive cuts of meat. The food takes care of itself while you’re doing other things, and a few hours later it has evolved into an amazing taste experience.Slow food is perfect for the low carb high fat (LCHF) and paleo diets, which emphasize proteins and vegetables over sugar and flour. Low Carb High Fat and Paleo Slow Cooking offers sixty amazing recipes for recognizable favorites with new twists from a variety of cuisines. Dish up that Sunday roast with blueberry cream sauce, salted pork with cauliflower puree, and saffron-scented seafood stew interspersed with recipes inspired by author Birgitta Höglund’s many trips to various Mediterranean kitchens. From these regions, she presents nutritious dishes with gentle but intense flavors like lemon stuffed chicken, Turkish lamb stew, Greek stifado, meat sauce with sundried tomatoes, and pulled pork with flavor from the Cypriot cuisine.Many people simply prefer to eat simple, natural food without preservatives, and Low Carb High Fat and Paleo Slow Cooking is here to provide delicious, slow-cooked meals that are healthy for the whole family.Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. read more
You wouldn’t be able to eat traditional tabbouleh while following the Paleo diet because it’s made from bulgur, but you can have as much of this cauliflower tabbouleh as you want. Cauliflower is a very versatile food and is used in Paleo recipes to replace everything from rice, to pizza crusts. Here it works perfectly when mixed with other ingredients and spices that are usually found in tabbouleh. It has cilantro, lemon juice, lime juice, and tomatoes. The tomatoes will give it plenty of flavor as well as lycopene, vitamins, and minerals making this a healthy item to serve up alongside any meat dish.
This flatbread pizza is billed as being grain free and nut free, which is interesting because many Paleo pizza crusts will contain almond flour to replace ordinary flour. This recipe uses sunflower seed flour, a very unique choice for a white flour substitute, and it combines that with tapioca flour to live up to the nut-free promise. You are free to add your own toppings, or go with what they’ve used, including fresh tomatoes, spinach leaves, and season things up with oregano, basil, and garlic powder. It’s nice to have a guilt-free delicious flatbread crust recipe to have on-hand anytime you get a pizza craving.
This Paleo cookbook really is ultimate; the title doesn't lie! Altogether, ten experienced Paleo chefs and bloggers came together to create this amazing, extensive resource for anyone in need of some quality Paleo recipes. There's even an entire chapter dedicated to making the Paleo diet easy with almost eighty fast and simple recipes. There are plenty of great Paleo cookbooks, but this is probably the only one that truly deserves to be called "ultimate." In total, ten popular Paleo bloggers contributed to the creation of this cookbook.
A true labor of love, "Mediterranean Paleo Cooking" is a collaborative effort from nutritionist Caitlin Weeks and her Algerian chef husband, Nabil Boumrar. Together, they explore the flavors of Boumrar's native North Africa, offering an array of gluten-free, Paleo-friendly recipes such as cinnamon-braised beef, almond meatball soup and spicy chicken tagine. Staples like falafel, moussaka, hummus and pita bread are also included, along with multicourse menu plans — providing home cooks with the necessary tools for a Mediterranean-themed dinner party.
With this crock pot recipe you can create a cashew chicken dish that will rival anything that you can buy from your local Chinese restaurant. The great thing is that because it is using the slow cooker it is going to be a really easy as far as preparation goes. You won’t have to babysit this, all that’s needed is to place the ingredients into the pot and let it cook itself for 3 to 4 hours. The great thing is they’ve used things like arrowroot starch instead of a breading made from wheat. It’s simple and subtle changes like this that can turn a Paleo no-no into a Paleo yum-yum.

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Apple is currently testing a redesigned Photos web app on the iCloud website. The application is nearly identical to the one on macOS Sierra and includes similar sidebar for frequently used items as well as the same layout of images. This section of iCloud is available only for those who use the iCloud Photo Library. You can turn it on in the Settings menu of your device.
Apple is planning to equip the next-generation iPhone with a 3D camera. According to the latest report from people familiar with the matter, the company has teamed with LG Innotek to develop a new sensor. By the way, this is the same company that supplies Apple with dual cameras for the iPhone 7 Plus.
Apple has given up the idea of producing its own 5K Thunderbolt display. During the MacBook Pro media event in October, the company announced its partnership with LG and revealed the new LG Ultrafine 5K Display compatible with the laptops. Below you can take a look at the first short review of the 27-inch IPS external display for photographers, designers and other professional MacBook users.
The video was posted to YouTube by a well-known blogger Marques Brownlee. As it turns out, the display has a sleek design, nice build quality, and can power up the MacBook Pro when it is connected.
What do you think about LG Ultrafine 5K Display? Leave your comments down below.
Apple has never created a true transformer similar to the Surface Book. That is why ConceptsiPhone has created a new concept of a device with a large screen, metal frame and large full-size keyboard. Below you can take a look at the video showing this device.
The transformer called the Apple Book is supposed to work on macOS rather than iOS. It has a very strange design and frankly speaking I don’t think Apple will even make something similar to this transformer.
Here’s how the creators describe their concept:
New incredible 3D concept video that shows the 'Apple Book', new iDevice / Mac that combining iPad with MacBook!
What do you think about the transformer? Do you like it?
According to the latest report shared by a reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the next-generation iPhone will feature a glass back panel to support wireless charging. The expert believes that all 2017 iPhones will get glass back panels and that Pegatron will supply Apple with wireless chargers for these new handsets. Another reason for Apple to completely change the look of the iPhone 8 is Jonathan Ive’s desire to create a phone that looks like a sheet of glass.
Phil Schiller has once again confirmed that using 32GB of RAM would affect the battery life of new MacBook Pro units. According to Apple executive, using more memory would require a different design of the logic board and physically smaller battery. Apart from that, since the 32GB DDR module requires much more power than the current LPDDR memory, there’s no way to install it without reducing the battery life and performance of the laptop.
According to the latest report from Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is planning to bring the optical image stabilization system to both lenses of the dual camera on the iPhone 8 Plus or whatever the device is called. Currently, only the wide-angle lens of the iPhone 7 Plus has optical stabilization. As noted by the analyst, the company will redesign the camera to integrate a new OIS system.
First lucky customers who purchased new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar have begun receiving their laptops. Early purchasers also include the reporters of several reliable tech news websites including TechCrunch, CNET, and Engadget. These and other customers have just posted their first reviews of the brand new MacBook pro with an OLED touch-sensitive screen that replaced function keys.
Below you can take a look at some of the most noteworthy reviews.
According to the latest forecast shared by Barclays Research analysts, next year Apple will release two iPhone models with slightly curved 5-inch and 5.8-inch displays without bezels. The analysts cite Asian sources, most likely, Apple suppliers, who believe the company will fit larger bezel-less screens into the sizes of current iPhone 7 and iPhone Plus.
Apple has released the second beta of macOS Sierra 10.12.2 to developers for testing. According to the company, the update contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements of security, stability, and performance. The build number of the latest update is 16C41b.
If you like the new Touch Bar MacBook Pro, you might also like the Magic Keyboard with the OLED panel instead of function keys. Below you can take a look at the beautiful concept visualizing the idea of adding this feature to the standalone keyboard for iMac, Mac Pro, or Mac mini.
Apple has released a new iPhone 7 commercial highlighting stereo speakers and water resistance of the new smartphone. You can take a look at the short clip either below or on Apple’s official YouTube channel.
According to the latest report from Computerworld, the 15-inch MacBook Pro is equipped with one of the fastest SSDs on the market.
According to the latest report from usually-reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, next year, Apple may make the MacBook Pro cheaper and add the 32GB memory option to satisfy power users who need this extra amount of RAM.
Half of the Thunderbolt 3 USB-C ports on the new 13-inch MacBook Pro don’t work at full performance. Those ports that are located on the right side of the laptop don’t support the full PCI Express bandwidth.


Go-2-Tender two-day workshop
Date: 6 Sep 2018 - 20 Sep 2018
Time: 9am - 5pm
Venue: Malone House
We’re working in partnership with InterTradeIreland to deliver a Go To Tender programme which has been developed to give SMEs the confidence, knowledge and practical skills to tender successfully for public sector contracts in their own jurisdiction and on a cross-border basis.
This two-day workshop, which takes place on Thursday 6 and Thursday 20 September, and half-day mentoring is aimed at SMEs who are new to tendering or who want to improve their basic tendering skills.
For more information and to register, please visit the IntertradeIreland website.


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The votes are in and a lyric has been chosen for a commemorative stone at Springer Market Square to mark The Tragically Hip’s August 20 concert in Kingston.
“Everybody was in it from miles around” was the overwhelming choice of online voters.
The line is from the song “Blow at High Dough.”
“August 20, The Tragically Hip Day in Kingston, is a night Kingstonians and Canadians will always remember,” said Mayor Bryan Paterson. “Thank you to all those who voted on the lyric to be displayed on the commemorative stone, a physical showcase of our pride and love for our iconic hometown boys.”
More than 11,000 votes were cast.
Of those, almost 8,000 were in favour of the chosen lyric.
The stone, when complete, will read: “Everybody was in it from miles around, The Tragically Hip, A National Celebration, August 20, 2016.”

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- The film “No” includes a clip of a black rider on a galloping horse.
- Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer, tried to capture horses and other animals in motion.
- His photographs offer a glimpse into the success of black riders in the 19th and 20th centuries.
One of the first visuals in Jordan Peele’s No includes a clip of a black rider on a horse galloping in an exciting loop.
“Did you know that the first collection of photos to make a motion picture was a two-second clip of a black man on a horse?” Emerald Haywood, played by Keke Palmer, asks at the beginning of the film.
The clip was made from a series of photographs taken by Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1800s.
Like the characters in No, who attempt to capture photos and videos of an elusive alien presence, Muybridge set out to capture an almost impossible shot using 19th-century technology: galloping horses.
Muybridge’s photographs not only helped to better understand animal movement, but also offer a glimpse into the success of Black people during the Jim Crow era, historians say.
“The world of sports and entertainment was one of the few in which African-Americans could excel,” said John Ott, a professor of art history at James Madison University. “The photographs show the opportunities and means by which middle-class livelihoods could be achieved.”
The story behind Muybridge’s photographic work
Beginning in 1873, former California governor and industrialist Leland Stanford first commissioned Muybridge to photograph one of his horses. The project was successful, capturing the horse at full speed.
The project started by Muybridge and Stanford was interrupted in October 1874 when Muybridge discovered that his wife was having an affair with their friend. He followed the friend and just shot him. Muybridge was arrested that night.
When he was tried for murder in February, Muybridge claimed he was insane due to a severe head injury sustained in a wheelchair accident that had killed more than one person before. He was eventually acquitted on the grounds of murder. Until 1877, Muybridge continued his work with Stanford.
Muybridge captured more horses running at Stanford Farm in 1878. The Horse in Motion series included photographs of a horse, Sallie Gardner, with a rider that some historians believe he might have been a black rider.
The clip used in “No” comes from a later project Muybridge worked on with the University of Pennsylvania around 1883. He and Stanford had fallen out over credit issues. The university commissioned Muybridge to extend his earlier work to examine other forms of movement, from the movement of kangaroos and lions to people performing somersaults and lifting weights.
Muybridge published his final collection, titled “Animal Locomotion,” in 1887. The collection included photographs of an unnamed black rider riding a horse named Sallie G. The only other person of color featured in the collection was Ben Baileymixed martial arts boxer.
Historians say the inclusion of black athletes was twofold
As an outsider from England, Muybridge was not deeply involved in political and social struggles in the US, according to art historian and curator Philip Prodger. But he said the inclusion of black athletes in Muybridge’s collection offered a glimpse into their place in the social milieu at the time.
Sports presented one of the few opportunities for black Americans to achieve a middle-class life, according to historians. The majority of the black population at that time were laborers and held other service jobs.
“Boxing and horse racing were two areas where they could make a name for themselves and mingle with white Americans,” Ott said.
Black riders in particular enjoyed great success. In 1875, the inaugural year of the Kentucky Derby, 13 of the 15 jockeys competing were black. Fifteen of the first 28 derbies were won by black riders.
But the opportunities came at a cost. The success of black jockeys exposed them to long-standing racist ideas that African Americans were animalistic and “lesser,” according to Ott. He added that horse racing was also a physical sport: riders had to keep their weight down and many turned to alcohol to curb their hunger.
As jockeys, originally not considered a high-level job, became more respected as a profession, and as horse racing became more lucrative, Black Americans were increasingly excluded, Protzer said.
In 1905, the Washington Post published an article titled “Negro Riders on the Wane: White Jockeys’ Superior Intelligence Subsedes”, where the author argued that the decline in black jockeys was due to the fact that the sport was no longer considered “disgraceful”.
“It cuts both ways, but it’s ultimately a story of African-Americans taking advantage of opportunities available to them and recognizing the importance of imagery — using it to present themselves as whole,” Ott said.


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No matter how titillating or violent, there’s a constant, immense delicacy to Jenny Hval’s work, in both poetry and sound. Classic Objects, the Oslo-born artist’s first release with 4AD, is one of the gentlest releases in her discography so far. There’s a sharp musical contrast to her work with Lost Girls on 2021’s wild, sprawling Menneskekollektivet, or even the pointed trance of 2019’s The Practice of Love. Here, her classic brand of ambient pop feels at once more relaxed and more organic.
Across the record’s lyrics, Hval pursues a poetic, Tender Buttons-like fixation on the inertia of its titular objects. On ‘American Coffee’, a brick can rend or build; ‘Classic Objects’ contrasts organic, human hair with the marmoreal and the metallic; ‘Cemetery of Splendour’, sung to a long-dead subject, is measured more in the sight of unmoving natural artifacts than in the emotion of eulogy – Hval’s eyes trace a path from trees to sticks to rocks to bamboo leaf and then bamboo leaf again. “I find spiders everywhere,” she sings on ‘Year of Sky’, “They show me cracks in the corners, the expanding universe.” Placed in contrast to the liveliness of Hval’s conduction, the neutral potential of inanimacy itself is stark, and full of unknown promise.
Directly shaped by the pandemic’s confines, this album feels like a breather in Hval’s career as she looks back on her life with wistfulness, amusement, and thoughtful regard. On opener ‘Year of Love’, she ponders the paradox of her art’s infinite interpretations: “A year later I’m on stage when a man proposes to a woman right in front of me, in the middle of a song I thought I knew what was about.” Deep in thought and re-evaluation, Classic Objects is delicate but wilfully strong – an appropriate milestone in Hval’s legacy.


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While it was fully expected the National Football League would get all of its existing television partners to fork over more than $80 billion to continue their relationships through 2033, a far bigger surprise to me was ESPN spending $2.4 billion to wrest the National Hockey League broadcasting rights away from NBC Sports. The pact starts this coming fall and ends six years later.
Of concern to hockey fans was the news 75 games a year will be broadcast exclusively on a trio of streaming services the Disney Corporation owns, Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu. If the Rangers are playing the Islanders and that game is designated a streaming service game then MSG, the cable home for the New York Rangers, New York Islanders, and the New Jersey Devils, will not be able to telecast it.
In contrast, Amazon, which will have exclusive broadcast rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football package beginning in 2023 has to allow a local broadcast station to simulcast the game if the Jets or Giants are playing.
It’s not coincidental Disney+ is reviving its “Might Ducks” franchise with a weekly series subtitled “Game Changers” which will again star Emilio Estevez as somewhat burned-out Minneapolis pee-wee hockey coach, Gordon Bombay.
Hockey, which has always lagged behind baseball, football, and basketball, in terms of overall popularity and the attention of the entertainment industry, is getting a boost from one of its best ambassadors, Denis Leary, with his latest television series, “The Moodys” which begins its second season next Thursday, April 1 on FOX. If the show sounds familiar, it’s because it had a short run in December 2019.
Leary, who started out as a standup comic showed his acting chops in FX’s “Rescue Me,” in which he portrayed a fire fighter. In “The Moodys” he utilizes the acerbic wit from his comedy club days playing Sean Moody, Sr., the patriarch of a family whose three adult children are back living with him much to his chagrin.
Denis Leary told reporters during a FOX Zoom conference he has it in his contract each episode of “The Moodys” must contain at least one hockey scene. He may have been kidding but the series which is being filmed in Montreal (although we are supposed to think it’s Chicago) will prominently feature the ice sport. Leary has also raised a lot of money for charities playing in celebrity hockey contests held at NHL rinks including Madison Square Garden.
Queens native Elizabeth Perkins plays Sean’s wife, Ann. Perkins is best known for starring in major ‘80s and early ‘90s films as “About Last Night,” Big” and “The Doctor.” Perkins has generally landed dramatic roles but she can deftly handle comedy as well as she proves here. It’s no wonder she has enjoyed a durable career.
“The Moodys” deserves to be appointment viewing.
Speaking of actors from Queens, Woodhaven’s Adrien Brody has agreed to portray Pat Riley in HBO’s upcoming series about the Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s. It will be based on the book “Showtime,” written by well-known sports author Jeff Pearlman. My guess is HBO will not utilize the “Showtime” term for obvious reasons.
New Mets owner Steve Cohen named former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to serve on the team’s board of directors. As you can probably guess, it did not take long for the Shea Bridge jokes to start flying on social media.
Newsday’s intrepid sports media columnist, Neil Best, reported last week Al Trautwig, who had been the signature air personality for the MSG Network for the last 30 years, did not have his contract renewed. His airtime had been greatly reduced after he took a leave of absence in September 2019 for what was believed to have been related to pressing health issues. The leave was supposed to be a short-term one.
Trautwig told Best he feels great but at age 65 the odds are against him getting another TV gig since the medium has always skewed to youth. The shame of it is Trautwig is a superb broadcaster. Yes, he was a company man when he was at MSG but he never came across as a shill who insulted your intelligence. If the Knicks had just gotten blown out at the Garden, Trautwig would highlight a Knicks player who had a good game.
Former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho may be following in the footsteps of another ex-NFL linebacker, Michael Strahan. Acho co-hosts FoxSports1’s “Speak For Yourself,” and last he week he hosted “The Bachelor: After The Final Rose” on ABC as he took the place of Chris Harrison who stepped aside after getting embroiled in a controversy involving a contestant.
FOX has committed to animation more than any other broadcast network and last week it announced a partnership between its animated division, Bento Box Entertainment, and Australia’s Princess Pictures. The joint venture will open an animation studio in Melbourne. It will be interesting to see whether this entity becomes a 21st century version of Hanna-Barbera Productions and become a supplier of animated series to other television networks.
It’s not surprising FOX has renewed its flagship animated series, “The Simpsons,” for seasons 33 and 34.
It’s no secret Hollywood practices ageism. There are very few films aimed towards anyone with an AARP card and that also means there aren’t many roles for older actors. Judy San Roman is a young veteran actress who understands there is a market for adult filmgoers who want to see intelligent movies which feature the actors they have gotten to know over the years.
San Roman started a company called Reelhouse Productions which makes movies aimed at this underserved older audience. Its latest film, “Fair Market Value,” is a sharp comedy about a trio of Long Island real estate agents (played by Luisana Lopilato, Tina Benko, and Wendy Makkena) who are trying to sell a Sag Harbor mansion. Familiar names in the cast include Broadway fixture Craig Bierko and TV veterans Julia Duffy and Debra Jo Rupp. The film was shot along the north shore of Nassau and Suffolk counties.
Luisana Lopilato is an Argentinian-born actor. Her husband is Michael Buble who composed and croons a couple of songs in the soundtrack.
“Fair Market Value” was completed just before the pandemic struck and under normal times it would have been playing at movie houses as the Kew Gardens Cinema. Currently it can be viewed on the urbanflixtv.com streaming service which launched two years ago by former actor and now Los Angeles businessman, Herb Kimble.

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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
A Musical by Rupert Holmes
Directed by Patti Cumby
Original Broadway production produced by
the New York Shakespeare Fewstival, Joseph Papp, Producer
Based on an unfinished work by Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is an exciting interactive piece of theatre that lets the audience pick up where Dickens left off by voting to choose whodunit. Our production will feature a full orchestra live on stage. Pre-show mixers will allow patrons to mingle with the players and celebrate the Curtis Theatre's 40th anniversary
The Tony Award winning musical where you settle the score!
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. In small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood has been mysteriously murdered. But by whom? His leering romantic rival, John Jasper? The infamous purveyor of opium and vice, Princess Puffer? The mysterious Landless twins, newly arrived from Ceylon? Or someone else even more dastardly and villainous? Dickens passed away before he was able to reveal the culprit. Rupert Holmes’ award-winning musical solves this predicament by asking the audience to choose which character is the killer by putting it to a vote. Staged in metatheatrical manner by the Curtis Theatre, a traveling Victorian theatre troupe full of just as many colorful characters as the roles they play, this charming and inventive musical is sure to intrigue and entertain any musical or mystery lover.
Celebrate Curtis Theatre’s past, present, and future at a spectacular event in honor of our 40th Anniversary. This will be the biggest event in Curtis Theatre’s history—and an opportunity to create a secure foundation for our future. We cannot do this without you. Proceeds from the 40th Celebration will support the Curtis Theatre’s world-class productions, innovative programs, new work, emerging artists, and the next 40 years—and beyond—of extraordinary theatre.
Since it’s opening in 1980, the Curtis Theatre has been host to not only childhood memories and first dates, but also some of the biggest acts to come through the area. Thanks to all your support, the historic theatre continues to be a local monument of entertainment.
To show our appreciation to the community for its timeless enthusiasm as we reach this milestone, we’re throwing a gala event featuring:


The Polish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest was organised by broadcaster TVP and was held in Warsaw and was hosted by Artur Orzech. A record number of submissions (260) were received for the 2018 competition. Out of the hopefuls, the jury selected ten acts that appeared in the final.
The winner of Krajowe Eliminacje 2018, the Polish national selection for Eurovision was chosen through a combination of both public and jury votes. The jury included performers as well as music industry experts:
After a close race, in which Happy Prince won the jury vote, Light Me Up performed by Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer emerged as the winner following the public vote.
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest
In Lisbon, Poland will participate in the second half of the Second Semi-Final on Thursday 10th May.


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Lord British institutes a new world order, and the call goes out for another hero (preferably one that doesn’t massacre entire towns for gold pieces).
I HAVE WAITED A GOOD MONTH, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssss
Just got done watching it Spoony. Great job, and don’t let any of the trolls tell you other-wise. Be it Wrestle Wrestle, ICFBM, Vlogs, Movies, Games, Shadow Puppetry, we love your stuff, and will also appriciate how hard you work for us!
Great job Spoony! You still inspire me to become an Internet Reviewer!
Jeez, suck up enough to Spoony, Anon?
Need Ultima VIII reveiw now..
Rubber is such a kiss-ass
Yes well, he’s rubber and you’re glue. So…
Excellent review, though I don’t envy you having to write about Ultima 4; it lost all of the insanity of the previous games, and like you said, there isn’t much of a plot to speak of. Still, it’s probably one of the best early DOS RPGs, and definitely the best RPG ported to the NES.
I think everyone who watches Spoony or any of the large players in TGWTG wants to be a reviewer. And who can blame them? These guys are filled with the brim with awesome.
Odd, I thought Spoony would be filled with a delicous chocolate center.
Hell yeah more Ultima! Loved these since playing the first on the BBC Computer!
No negativity of any kind is allowed on this site, apparently.
Seems like alot of shit will be going down in Ultima 5.
Nice foreshadowing there, Spoony. :D
Love these retrospect episodes, keep them coming.
great review, nice and straightforward (not that your other stuff is bad that is good too)
You’d have to ask Scarlett that one.
I know it’s akin to heresy to say it, but I never cared for the Ultima series. I *hate* micromanagement and the utterly cracktastic nature of the early games, coupled with the buggy-as-fuck programming of the later ones, completely ruin any shot of nostalgic longing.
Plus, if I’m given the option to be evil, you can be damn sure I’m taking it. Tell me I can’t be an avatar? Yeah, well fuck YOU too.
A new car!
Insulting other fans isn’t negativity, it’s rude. Knock it off.
I almost fell over laughing when I saw Cena.
I take offense to the fact that in order to be ‘honorable’, you have to let your cowardly, shameful enemy run away with his tail between his legs, instead of sitting there and duking it out LIKE MEN! You’re not being dishonorable by killing them as they flee like a little girl, you’re insuring they die an honorable death, IN BATTLE.
Any Klingon will tell you that. And frankly, I’m surprised they haven’t shown up yet. After all the time traveling, princess kidnapping, and Tie Fighter dogfighting, you’d think a Klingon Bird of Prey would have shown up by now. Must have left all those “Phaz-zors” behind when they went home.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if you did ask her, Iam not sure if she would tell you!
What does it matter what one fan says to another? It’s not offending the almighty Spoony, is it?
Yes, any new content is good content as even if you disagree with it it makes for good discussion. This Ultima retrospective is making me feel so damn nostalgic…
“Humility in this game means sucking at everything.”
So true, so true. At least in IX you got a neat staff though.
Video stops after 1 minute for me? Broken for anyone else?
The whole ‘rude’ thing comes to mind again.
I’ll join you in the heresy, and take it a step further. I’ve never played any of them, and while they seem *interesting,* the “you must always have massive amounts of food” from the early ones would have pissed me off completely, and I doubt I’d have continued playing the series very long if I’d ever played them in the first place.
Isn’t interjecting in a conversation you’re not involved in also considered “rude”?
I know the feeling. Apparently the whole ‘virtues’ thing was started in part to address the complaints of parents since the whole anti-DnD thing was at its height around when Exodus came out. Thus while still a great game, it was apparently trying to send a positive message. Not nearly as bad as your average ‘educational’ game though.
Is it odd that these videos and the Ultima series in general makes me appreciate World of Warcraft more? I don’t really know why, maybe I could guess. I’m sure this series had some influence on WoW’s make-up, at least.
He was uploading a new copy to Blip.tv. Try reloading it. It should be back up for viewing now.
All hail Britannia!
Totally. I’m really senseing that alot of Blizzard “4th Wall” and “Not To Be Taken Seriously” humor comes alot from Ultima.
I disagree with Rubber’s comment. I’ll leave it at that.
While I get where you’re coming from, when its on a public discussion board, granted a comment section, anyone who’s able to post is involved.
Omg WoWz is srz bizns! I have 4 accounts and 50 level 80s all in full pvp epics cause I’m L33t. There is no humor in WoWz and it totally should be taken seriously at all times. It was the first MMO after all and Arena pvp is a real e-sport.
I disagree, because the same can be said of hearing an argument going on while in the same room, and butting in. It’s really no different.
I did a spit take at the cock dungeon. What the shit…
It’s pissing me off because I have to moderate this nonsense. So cool it already.
Sure it is, as in a conversation you can face each other, stand together and make it clear what’s needed to be done to jump in. To go a step further, the very first post of this thread was a general statement. I would argue that the simile here is more like someone yelling a statement at a group of people and getting various responses back. There’s no formal ‘bring someone in’ that can be done here.
I will add that while I don’t consider me chiming in rude, me talking about the rules when I’m in position to have a say in them or anything would be, though a better word would be presumptuous. I have not done so. My statement thus has just been that directing negative comments towards fans of a site is rude and that while it isn’t being directed necessarily at Spoony it is still being rude.
Is it me, or is the audio quality kinda weird in this video? Other than that it was a really well done review like always.
Everquest probably influenced WoW a lot more than ultima. Being that blizzard completely ripped off just about everything from it, right down to the interface.
Hahaha, awesome. I love the “It was the first MMO, after all” that got me laughing, hard. ^_^
Speaking of MMORPG’s, anyone else think there should be an ESIV: Oblivion multiplayer edition?
The next Ultima is called “Warriors of Virtue”? There are ninja kangaroos in that one, I assume?
Yay Ultima 4 review! Must say, the foreshadowing for Ultima 5 defiantly has me curious for the next bit to this series. Good informative review. Keep up the awesome work!
I noticed that too. It sounded really tinny, like the volume was set too high.
Could you explain why there are so many different versions of the game? I saw at least three distinct versions in this one, one of which looked the most modern by leaps and bounds.
Not a complaint, but whats with the audio? Lowest quality than I’ve seen Spoony use in ages.
You’re probably starting to notice a theme here where everything you do in a previous Ultima game only ends up making things worse for the inhabitants of Sosaria/Britannia.
Really, the moral of the story Lord British is trying to teach us is that you shouldn’t bother.
Well you got the really early one on DOS, an updated version and the NES version I believe is the best looking one of those.
Audio of your commentary seems a little off, Spoony.
Good Review on a good game. Nice Touch with the Motorhead song at the end.
I love the Big Lebowski reference.
I always liked Ultima 4. It was nice to have a game where you actually had to consider positive virtues as being strengths (as opposed to simply killing everyone who looked at you funny and stealing everything that wasn’t nailed down and chained to a mithril anchor).
On another note, the large letters spelling out where you were (always in the middle of the store) always tripped me out. HERB SHOP. MAGIC SHOP.
What? If you found an adult novelties store in Brittania would you just walk in and see the word DONGS in the middle of it?
Now that would frighten even the mightiest adventurer…
What was with the low bit-rate?
Is the video just not loading for anyone else?
wow these games… i.. i.. i remember these games much better then… they are…
you’re playing music from the Sierra On-Line soundtrack! …
wait ! a second song from this CD? can I hope for a third? …
It would be nice to see you play some point-n-click Sierra OnLine.
huh…the sound quality sounds like some of the earlier FF8 videos. This isn’t a complaint..but it’s somewhat homey… like wearing an old worn-in tennis show… on your… well ear. I hate to say this about an internet retro review but it felt like a throwback, specifically to your youtube days, especially a video done under 10 minutes too
Only thing I can really say is, what was up with the commentary audio? Not that it’s any kind of major complaint, but it just isn’t up to your usual standards.
Other than the sound, it’s fine. Maybe it’s just me and I’m getting old and hearing things. In a way I actually kind of dig it, it’s nostalgic of your earlier vids.
OMG WHAT THE FUCK SPOONY DO A F@#! FINAL FANTASY REVIEW!!!!!!!!!! :(
Just kidding, i just got done reading the comments on the ICFBM shark video and wow what nerd rage so much negativity. People need to go out side and breath. The Ultima Series rocks i cant wait tell 7 and 8 awesome stuff.
That’s nostalgia for you. These are still awesome games, but you always remember them as better than they were.
Weird, I could have sworn I posted before… anyway, the nice thing about Ultima IV is that it’s now freely available online, and there’s an engine rebuild made to run on modern systems. Look for something called xu4.
This is the first RPG I have seen that is dedicated to become a “boy scout”
I thought he was filled with guts.
Dude, that is not a cock dungeon, that is totally an axe.
Stop staring at me like that! I didn’t come up with that idea, you did!
i belive that the audio is blip fault, its auto downsamples the audio now :(
A land called Brittania and not a single Code Geass reference?
I think we’ve got a half-demon and a schoolgirl out looking for the shards of that gem, but I don’t think they’re ever going to find all of them.
Time and place, pal. Time and place.
Am I hearing Kings Quest 5 music at the start?
Phew, thought you were talking about George Bush for a minute at the end there
First you’d have to presume that Spoony has even seen Code Geass.
Okay, Blip’s new changes have made me unable to watch the video even more so than I normally can.
Somebody put this on youtube, it’s the only way I’ve been able to watch half the videos for over a month. Blip has failed.
Yeah, that was my first thought after posting this, lol. “Spoony isn’t an anime fan. Crap.”
WORD BLITZ!! Damn I just woke up, grabbed some coffee and started smoking a cig then BAM, super fast talking. I like the longer more chill reviews. Slow it down Spoony.
You should have made some Avatar The Last Airbender jokes
COCK DUNGEON! XD
But then spoony won’t get payed.
If you pause there’s actually an option to switch from streaming the episode to preloading it. I recommend switching…it’s so much higher quality. That the low-quality is a preset is so annoying.
My initial reaction: “8 virtues? Well, at least Destrucity isn’t involved….” ;)
It may be [arguably] the best looking, but it is the least functional. You can’t converse with NPCs, they just have canned statements, and playing the battle system with a gamepad instead of a keyboard is an excercise in tedium, and etc. etc.
Oh, and the music sucks, and no matter what, you start in some sort of parallel universe version of Lord British’s castle before you’re teleported off to your home town, and his actual castle interior looks nothing like that one. I think battles are random in it too. And you can only have, I believe, four party members instead of eight. Etc. etc.
What’s up with the sound? It’s horribly low quality for some reason.
why doesnt Lord British just do this himself…And where the hell is part 3 to of ICBM of Shark OHHH wait NVM …LUV ya BRO KEEP up the Snark!!
If anyone has the soundtrack available for Ultima IV for the NES, please let me know!
That had the best music in any game I’ve ever played.
ehh rlly ?
Sir, have you ever even heard of spelling or grammar?
well if you like it that much i can brake it down to ya ..bling …bling blah ..blah ..blah ding dong walla walla bing bang there ya go 8)~
Your revolution is over Mr. Antwiler! The bum’s lost! You heard me Antwiler?? THE BUM HAS LOST!
Never having played Ultima IV, I still don’t know why you call it “one of the best games of all time”. It looks very similar to the previous entries in the series, so I can’t judge it by the video alone. You mention three of its merits: (1) a truly open-ended exploration experience, (2) being able to act like a hero, not a brute with a sword, and having (3) clear definite goals in every town. Then you harp on some of its shortcomings: (1) Inconsistencies in Lord British’s morals over the course of the series, (2) the implausibility of searching for a runestone in a superheated forge, (3) the fact that the character Katrina is nearly useless in the game, (4) the cumbersome spell system and, finally, (5) the ordeal of having to track down moongates with constantly changing locations.
So, why is this one of your favorite games again Spoony? I can’t tell from what you’ve shown and what you’ve said.
Hes rehashing an old review..that he hasnt posted yet ..till now …hes back at moms house
go to bed jacob!!
um…no it isn’t. how could it be an old video that references a series he just started? plus, that’s the same room he’s been reviewing in for a while now, he just switches the posters around once and a while.
“THE BUM’S ALWAYS LOSE” nice. you mentioned things being less zany in the word of ultima this time around. i had been wondering at exactly what point in the series the various owners of the properties started to take notice of lord british’s…uh…shall we say “liberal borrowing” of other people’s concepts and the games would no longer feature tie fighters, hobbits, and obscure fantasy novel and gaming characters, and apparently, that point was number 4. in a way i miss the lunacy of the first 3, but it’s probably for the best that bilbo baggins can no longer possibly hijack a starship and go bebopping around the galaxy with an poor man’s ewok, elric with a blaster rifle, and luke’s landspeeder. certainly less exciting, but for the best none the less i think haha
I’m curious about something. concerning the footage, it seems that all the videos feature some very similar shots, and i was wondering if A) spoony is just showing us random clips from several of the ultima games all at once, not really concerned with matching the footage to what he’s talking about or B) there are different versions of the same game for different platforms that are both drastically different from eachother while somehow remaining similar from game to game on a single platform (if that made any sense) or i guess also C) something i haven’t thought of at all? does anyone know? i was wondering
also, wanna take bets on how long it takes people to start a massive war about this video not meeting their bizarre tunnel visioned expectations for the content on the site? place your wagers before time runs out people, we’re 70 comments in and people have been remarkably well behaved, it’s bound to happen any second.
i’m taking action on “why isn’t this a final fantasy review?” as well as good odds on “this video was so short, it’s not up to your usual standard because of it came beyond midnight, i JUST KNOW IT” and while the odds are long, we have a dark horse bet on someone demanding the next episode of wrestle wrestle. like i said, it’s a sucker bet, but big winnings could go to the daring! place your bets, gather round, place yer bets kiddies. nobody loses when it’s a great show!
Yes he totally missed that! in fact, i’m surprised if anything he didn’t go for mocking the “dances with smurfs” avatar now that you mention it. but then again, giant cock dungeons tend to mess with one’s concentration i guess haha
UNLESS lord british himself is REALLY the villain, then it all makes sense. you see it’s his cunning plan to bring in blood crazed townsfolk raping madmen from other dimensions to wreak unprecidented havoc on all of the land so that the desperate people turn to him as their savior. and it’s working too. just look at how much british has prospered since the first game? they renamed the damn continent (maybe even the whole WORLD as far as the game is concerned) to Britannia.
it all makes sense if you think about it, plus this totally explains the “kidnap a princess for the dungeon of every castle in my land! THIS…I COMMAND!!!” thing, i think hahah
You made a mistake in the credits; It says “Ultima V: Warriors of Virtue” while it’s clearly Warriors of Destiny ;)
anyway /nitpicking filter OFF. Great video!
The early Ultima games (1 through 5, I believe) run on more or less the same basic engine, so there are bound to be some similarities. Additionally, there are several versions of most of the Ultima games. The story is usually intact, and only the gameplay and graphics change mildly in ports. The versions I spotted in this review are the original DOS version, the DOS version with an upgraded fan-made graphics pack, and the NES version with streamlined gameplay. In addition, there is a program that you can run Ultima 4 via that lets you play the game using some of amenities of the later games — most notably the ability to mix as many spells at once as you have the ingredients.
I’m not Spoony, obviously, but allow me to attempt to shed some light on the subject. The exploration is something that really can’t be emphasized enough; the entire world is open to you from the very beginning of the game, and the enemies you encounter are based upon your level, so you’re never overwhelmed assuming you’re well prepared. The virtues system in the game is really in-depth and does push you to try to make good decisions, though it can be easily exploited. The general quest of the game allows you to run around and soak up the flavor of world your adventures are taking place in. It’s also an incredible amount of fun running from town to town just seeing who you can recruit. And just because the game’s goal is to be Britannian Jesus doesn’t mean you have to be all the time. That cow look at you funny? Stab it the face for minimal exp and money.
And to counter Spoony’s list of shortcomings, (1) Ultima 4 is really where the developers sat down and said, “Hey, we really need to make sense of this world’s timeline and start, you know, being serious.” Think of the first three as delirious fever dreams, whereas the fourth is the first “real” game in the series. (2) The rune in the forge is the rune of sacrifice. No pain, no gain, as it were. (3) Katrina isn’t required to be in your party ’til the very end of the game — you have to recruit everyone to show your leadership skills. Additionally, there are 7 other recruit-able characters in the game, though your character replaces one of them based on your class. Really I think Spoony was warning against you playing AS Katrina – not being able to use powerful weapons or armor and being unable to cast spells really hurts the main character. (4) I. Uh. I don’t think the NES version was that bad about it…? Yeah, this is a completely valid complaint. (5) The moongates aren’t as hard as Spoony made them out to be. Each town has a phase of the moon associated with it. When the first moon is it’s phase, the moongate near that town opens. When the second moon is it’s phase, entering a moongate will take you there.
I think a lot of the “one of the best games of all time” comes from it’s ease of play. You can just jump in and go. You don’t have to follow a specific route. You don’t have to pay attention to a storyline. You don’t have to worry about monsters being too powerful to handle. You can just pick a controller, make your character, jump through a random moongate and just start playing. It’s really refreshing now that most games have introduction sections that can last hours.
Spell reagents are a rarity in RPGs… but the Ultima ones… Why the crap does casting like a fireball use flowers and garlic?
Yes, you are the only one that sees that because it isn’t the old house…are you mad? He started this series very recently – you could see him render one of the episodes on his comp in the background during one of his V Logs, and it’s clearly his new place – but according to you he decided to do this one over a year ago, then went back to the start of the series only recently in order to show them in order. Bwha?????? Bizarre.
For the record, the sound was fine for me.
So sick of seeing the ad for that shitfest of a film. I’ll take 7/11 shilling any day.
Oh god, I never did beat this game. I’d rent it and get frustrated or distracted every damn time. The spell components thing drove me nuts. Guess I was too young and too impatient to deal with it.
Still, I always did love messing with the beginning of the game more than the actual game itself.
The rune of sacrifice wouldn’t appear unless you made some sort of sacrifice.
First off, what happened to the new version of the intro of living illusion. It gave people the idea that the spoony was a total badass and knew that people were in for a ride once they saw the video.
Second, what’s wrong with the sound in the video? It sounds like a lot of the older videos that spoony made. No offence
Great review either way.
Thanks for the great post LancerECNM! I now understand the game’s appeal more clearly. I found your reply to the alleged shortcomings of the game to be especially interesting.
Dang, that King’s Quest V music at the start brought some memories flooding back. That was the second real game I ever played.
Glad to see the good theme song return.
This video wasn’t as funny as the last three, my hopes are high for Ultima V next time though!
Oh man, no Avatar: the Last Airbender jokes? XD Good episode though.
The Eight Virtues are a work of thematic genius, almost as good as Magic: The Gathering’s color pie. I was enthralled by them as a kid, and I didn’t even play the Ultima games in that much detail. I’d gladly talk about it at length to anyone who asks.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you have to have a full party in order to complete the game? I guess you held off on that until it was time for the final dungeon, huh?
These are very informative reviews. I only played Ultima VIII and I didn’t know anything about the previous games, so I’m curious. I thought VIII was a pretty good game (not a classic one), especially for the spells, but I will talk about it on the proper review.
The Ultima series has an amazingly rich soundtrack. Why don’t you use it instead of borrowing pieces from other games?
hey thanks. i was wondering, as the various vers. looked extreeeeeemely different. at first i just kind of figured he was just showing the whole ulitma series as random backgrounds that didn’t neccessarily sync up with what he was talking about. but then he mentioned katrina the sheperd and showed her in a screenshot that looked vastly different from the others, so i figured that at least was def. ultima 4, but the others still…oh hell you get it, it was confusing haha. anyway thanks for letting me know. though it is pretty amazing how massive the difference is between the DOS and NES versions. this is one time i would def. have to concede to the console vers. as the better one (at least prettier) than the PC, which is pretty hard to do.
Surprised you didn’t make any Last Air Bender joke.
Um I don’t think that’s from the Ultima game, I think it might have been from Kings Quest VII.
So what was the first one then? I gots to know, otherwise it will haunt me forever :D
“The bums lost, the bums will always lose”
“well that’s just like… your opinion man”
So far, the dungeons haven’t really been mentioned in these Ultima retrospectives. The pre-VI dungeons tended to be long, monstrous affairs. Even “first level” dungeons were incredibly arduous. It was a relief when the started softening up in Ultima VI.
MOTÖRHEAD RULES !! AND SPOONY TOO !!!
Omg that part about the bums never leaving despite receiving ridiculous amounts of money reminds me of Fallout 3. I collected Purified Waters (and later Aqua Pura, which is given out for FREE ANYWAY) and gave every single one of them (I seriously never drank one) to the dieing guy outside Megaton as well as as the one outside Rivet City. I swear I gave them lakes worth of purified water and still they kept begging me for more.
I love the Big Lebowski reference. That movie rocks!
Without them Triple H would be a quarter of the star he is today.
What are you talking about? Spoony doesn’t hate anime, he just dislikes a lot of the stylistic choices that are common in anime, (Which Code Geass falls under, he doesn’t like androgyny), he dug Ghost In The Shell and Appleseed, he’s seen Hellsing, and I think he would like Cowboy Bebop or Outlaw Star since he likes Firefly (Which stole a lot from those two shows).
I didn’t mean that he hates anime, just that he doesn’t watch a lot of it.
The review was great but i noticed a few weird things about it. I’m not sure if im hallucinating or something but i noticed that whenever he was talking about scenes from the 4th installment of the games he was using footage from the 3rd game. Also he has a serious typo at the end with “To be continued with Ultime V: The Warriors of Virtue when throughout the entire review he showed the game cover and it said Warriors of Destiny? I don’t know if thats just being picky but I just thought I should point that out.
Anyway good review Spoony! Keep on pushing those reviews out. I cant wait for the next ones.
Well. It was either a dungeon shaped like a wang,or they recycle that zelda stage that looks like a swastika. Thankfully they didn’t go with the latter on that choice. And i was thinking there was gonna be a Last Airbender joke in this,but can’t have it all.
Wow, way to be a douche.
Actually, it’s not a swastika. It is the japanese kanji Ban, whish means “full” or “complete”.
Also, when it stands on its tip (like the swastika) it is the symbol for “rising sun” in china, the nazis just stole the symbol and put it on their flag.
Ahhh. My mistake. But i’m sure i’m not the only one who assumed it.
You can close the box if you hover the mouse slightly above the video info box (above the X to close the ad)
Manji, not Ban.
Okay, upon first loading the site I am greeted with “I’m adorable but alone!”, so I was already laughing so hard before finally watching this review. That was one of my favorite moments in the Warrior Comic review…the hilarity never stops…ouch..my pancreas!
Damn! Now we have to find someone to kill the politician who corrupted the moral code!
I’ll pay $50 for the opportunity to beat them to death with something heavy. I will also pay $25 to shoot them.
In addition: YEAH! MOTORHEAD!
Great review, Spoons. I only have to complain on one thing: There’s actually 4.5 zillion degrees in a forge!
ALL RIGHT! THE OLD SONG IS BACK! Thank you spoony! THANK YOU!!!
Troll alert. Just saying.
Holy shit. Did you know that lord british went to SPACE?! right before NCsoft fired him. as soon as he got back, they fired him.
Not really, since you said it “looked” like a swastika (and it did).
Obvious troll detected.
Loving these Ultima reviews. I never had the chance to play the games as a kid, so getting the run down from you is always nice! ;)
Looking forward to 5 and some more FFX carnage!
i banish you to… the COCK DUNGEON!
THE BUMS LOST! THE BUMS ALWAYS LOSE!
I am sorry, I can’t take a name like Britannia and that whole Ethnic cleansing thing seriously thanks to Code Geass.
Psst @spoonyone this was part 5, not part 4
i didnt even watch this and im laughing so hard haha why is there a penis shaped room?!?!
Ultima IV had no plot? “Quest of the Avatar” is quite a plot you know.
Britannia? Wow, this series ripped off Code Geass. I’m glad it’s dead.
If I could laugh you off the internet I would.
Religion killed irony, and Mountain Dew pissed on its grave.
Great choice of music on this one Spoony!
Thank you much, can’t wait for the next one!
Spoony, I must say that I am impressed with your selection of music at the end of this review. Lemmy is a god. Let us all bow our heads in observance to the great moled-one.
It was Zeliard.
Sweet Lebowski reference, Noah.
The Dude abides.
I like the Conquest of the Longbow music that just popped up randomly… :)
I blame YouTube and Vince Offer, IMHO.
How so? This was Ultima 4. Should be part 4. Ultima 0 review was part 0. The Breaking News for 3 was for a contest, not a review.
I also only played Ultima VIII back in the day, and the spell system was complex but fun. I loved playing that game, just trying to get the next powers or doing those weird rituals was great (invoking pyros comes to mind.. aphelion, mesostel, perivolcan… :D)
nice ending XD
I apparently missed a lot not getting a computer for many years, bummer, this one looks pretty fun
well if you want to play them, the ultima collection is available and the games will work on your computer. or you can get a emulator for it on the nes.
have you ever played the Ultima games on any other system like gameboy?
Is that a herpes sore on the middle of that dungeon cock?
Sorry, I don’t find creatively bankrupt game designers funny. Surely this clown didn’t think he could ripoff a masterpiece like Code Geass and get away with it? And look at those graphics. Code Geass aired in 2006, so this was clearly made after that, and yet it still looks so bad? Must be a Wii game.
Okay… Quest For The Avatar was made in 1985. Two decades before Code Geass even began. It looks bad because it was made for a PC in the eighties, which wasn’t high tech back then. Note that last bit. A PC game. Not a Wii game.
You’re getting as troll’d as one can get, lucky_charm.
Code Geass aired after this game. That would be like saying Geas (IIRC, a spell in D&D that commands people to do something) is a rip off of Lelouch’s Geass, It’s older than you think.
cant wait for ultima 5, spoony you make the games come alive :)
I’m really starting to hate these 45 second commercials before the video!
small price to pay to keep this site rollin’
Get Firefox ad blocker….
I kind of feel dumb for this, but why does it seem like there are graphics from three different games when he’s talking specifically about Ultima 4?
Different versions. Namely the original Apple ][, the PC port (less colorful), and the NES port (Dragon Warrior style menus and sprites)
Ah, man, I remember this game on the NES, a bottle of Dr. Pepper and no friends meant a good time. I love you, hands…wait, that didn’t sound right.
Also, Motorhead’s Heroes at the end? Awesome.
1:51 Cute. That should be his next movie. “John Cena is…THE AVATAR!”
… Eight virtues, eh?
Perhaps… Ultimate vitrues?
Creating some sort of… truce? Perhaps? … Yeah, I went there…
“You could go to /college/ with the money I gave your silly ass.”
… Oh right, in some countries you actually have to pay for college.
free on gog.com now!
I am downloading it as i type but this game is free and legal now at GOG
The video isn’t playing for me. What quicktime component do I need to download to get the video to work?
i have the same problem too. the quicktime thing is preventing me from watching this vieo, and a lot of other ones too!
well, at least i know its not me alone.
you could install every component or uninstall quicktime all togher
1:43 – Ha ha! A penis!
+1 for the King’s Quest V soundtrack! I actually thought my phone was ringing, because I have the intro theme as my ringtone right now. ;~)
I’m playing this one again right now, in fact. I’m going from Iv all the way to IX (I know, I know). Just attained Avatarhood, now gathering my party and heading for the dungeons. I recall this game being a lot harder in my youth, taking nearly 8 months to complete, but oh what a feeling you got once you beat it.
I am SO addicted to all things Spoony now! He is pretty brand new to me, trying to watch all of his new and old videos at once. Overwhelmed with awesomeness!
awww….why cant I play it? Quickplay? I all ready have that! The hell?
“…Now he’s preaching like he’s some kind of moral authority, huh? Convenient.”
I always felt like Spoony let in a bit of his personal life here…
Thanks to the sale at GOG.com, I’m playing this game for the first time.
Walked into the town of Trinsic and found all these Paladins wandering around.
And, of course, as a future Avatar, I had to ask them all, “What’s a Paladin?”
I want to play this game, but I don’t know how to cheat the system to make my character a male paladin, or whichever class is the tank (if this game even has such a thing)
I thought that sounded like Lemmy.
Just read this article – what would Ultima IV look like if made today, thought you’d be interested:
What’s the other game you have footage for that you keep cutting to?
Same game. Different system.
thanks to you spooney i am now playing this game well playing is a realitve turn im just starting
I do not get it: there are tow types of overhead view in the game? One with animated FF-esque sprites and one it static stickmen? What the heck?
The Stick figures are the original PC version. The FF-esque sprites are from the NES version. Ultima stopped being released on NES after this one, so no need to worry after that.
Ah, i see. Thanks.
Actually, Ultima 5 was also released on the NES… but the interface is so clunky it’s basically unplayable on that system
“Wtf? Cock dungeon?!” lol..
I don’t know if it works the same on the PC version… But on the NES version, the moongates are fairly simple. Left moon says where the “in” side is, right moon says where the “out” side is, and the phases are the same for each of them.
Example, a new moon on the left means you can enter the gate near moonglow, and a new moon on the right means you’ll exit near moonglow, and if it’s a new moon on both, you enter it and then search immediately to find the rune of honesty.. I think… Or was it the stone? It’s been a long time.
(Edit: Now that I think about it, it may have been a full moon for moonglow… I know it’s either full or new.)
After watching this video, I was intrigued by the notion of having an RPG where you’re all about pursuing the virtues instead of beating a big bad, so I decided to give it a whirl. I downloaded Ultima IV for free from GoG.com and played about 10 hours of it before I decided I couldn’t go any longer. I loved the storyline and the pursuit of the virtues, but I felt that there was too much focus on combat.
In order to get anywhere, I’d run into dozens of enemies (even a Balron at one point!) with me pushing four companions one at a time in a *very* slow game of checkers. And I can’t run to skip the tedious combat because that would lower my Valor. In dungeons I would go through swaths of gremlins who would steal all my food and make my companions and I starve to death. Ultimately, it was taking away from the fun of pursuing the Eight Virtues. After my third failed trek through the dungeon of Despise, I just decided to give up on it.
If they ever make a remake, I want there to be less hack and slash and more actual pursuing of the Eight Virtues (probably through Planescape:Torment-style dialogue choices).
Here’s the thing, dude… if they ever make a remake they can just fix the combat so it’s not so tedious… but if they remove it completely than they remove valor as well.
One of the greatest 80s rpg. Personally this was what got me into crpg as a kid (and later jrpg).
Original NES console had a Ultima Quest of the Avatar released in ’85.
It is completely different from the PC.
Back then my parents didn’t own a PC, so I played what I had.
But I think you should take a look at it.

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Neolith: Embracing The Power of Biohomes
The world is constantly shifting to incorporate more sustainable ways of living. In our everyday spaces, we need to think about the impact we have on the environment and how we can live lighter. The concept of a biohome is therefore gaining ground. These are livable spaces that incorporate sustainable and eco-friendly features, such as green building materials, energy-efficient systems, and perhaps even integrated ecosystems that promote biodiversity.
Biohomes incorporate various principles to minimize their impact on the environment.
Here are some key features:
Biohomes are constructed using biodegradable materials such as wood, clay, cork, natural stone, and sintered stone. Sintered stone, in particular, is highlighted as it is made with biodegradable raw materials and can be recycled.
Biohomes prioritize maximum energy efficiency in their design to reduce overall energy consumption. This includes the use of solar panels and thermal insulation materials.
Use of Local Resources:
To minimize the carbon footprint, biohomes use local resources for construction to avoid long-distance transportation of materials. This can include both building materials and local energy sources.
Recycling and Waste Management:
Biohomes incorporate recycling and waste management systems. This includes composting systems to convert food remains and leaves into garden fertilizer.
Integration with Surrounding Space:
Biohomes aim to integrate into the natural environment. This involves using colours and materials that create visual continuity and avoid sharp contrasts with the surrounding landscape.
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Brands and the industry as a whole should be more conscious of the choices made when it comes to designing sustainable living spaces. Neolith is one such company that emphasizes its commitment to environmental responsibility, using fully natural raw materials, recycling products, and helping to design a production process with minimal negative impacts on carbon emissions.
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I’ve had them fried, but I never knew you could grill green tomatoes until recently.
My garden is full of heirloom tomato varieties and I’ve been waiting so patiently for them to ripen. Then I read about grilled green tomatoes in a cookbook called Simply Organic, so I decided to sacrifice a few of my greenest orbs to this cause.
I was surprised at how good these are! If you’ve got a garden full of green tomatoes like I do, I highly suggest you try them. These are also great to make at the end of the season, when you’ve still got green tomatoes on the vine and frost is threatening.
I was inspired by Simply Organic, but didn’t really use an official recipe for these. I started by slicing 2 large green tomatoes, which I put in a large bowl with a couple of glugs of olive oil. Then, I added some minced fresh garlic from my garden, as well as some torn leaves of basil. I heated up my grill, tossed everything in my grill basket, and cooked the tomatoes until they were nice and crisp, with browned edges (the basil crisped up, too, and was delicious). When sprinkled with a bit of sea salt and fresh pepper, and drizzled with a little more olive oil, this is a different, but wonderful way to enjoy homegrown tomatoes.
–Winnie Abramson writes the organic gardening and food blog Healthy Green Kitchen.
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Finger Lakes Region
On select dates throughout the holiday season, each of the 45+ wineries located along the Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake Wine Trails in central New York’s Finger Lakes region, will offer holiday wines and festive foods for sampling. Guests are encouraged to don their ugly Christmas sweaters as they explore the wineries, which will also be decked out in seasonal trimmings. Visitors to the Cayuga and Seneca Lake Wine Trails will receive a holiday-themed recipe book and collect ornaments to decorate their own handmade grapevine wreaths.
The Finger Lakes Wine Country features a variety of accommodations ranging from hotels to bed and breakfasts to budget-friendly properties to luxury resorts, including the Radisson Hotel Corning, located in the heart of Corning’s downtown Gaffer District, and the Hilton Garden Inn Elmira/Corning. Call for rates. For more information, visit fingerlakeswinecountry.com.
Every year on New Year’s Day, the Japanese-owned Kitano Hotel New York serves Otoso (a spiced, medicinal sake traditionally drunk during New Year celebrations to ensure health for the coming year) to all guests and visitors in the lobby.
Located on the famed Park Avenue in the historic Murray Hill district, the Kitano hotel blends traditional Asian hospitality with contemporary convenience, offering guests spacious accommodations with posh amenities, a signature restaurant serving Kaiseki cuisine and live entertainment on a nightly basis at JAZZ at KITANO. Rates start at $169 in December. For more information, call (212) 885-7000 or visit kitano.com.
Now through New Year’s Eve, travelers can attend Woodford Reserve Distillery’s annual holiday feast in Lexington, Kentucky (a.k.a. the Birthplace of Bourbon). The lunch or dinner experience, led by James Beard nominated chef-in-residence Ouita Michel and chef de cuisine Nat Henton, begins with a Woodford Reserve Flavor Wheel tasting, sampling 200 different flavors, followed by a smorgasbord of Southern comfort foods. For more information, call (859) 879-1812 or visit woodfordreserve.com.
For accommodations, suggest the Hyatt Regency Lexington on West High Street. While the hotel is a 30-minute drive away from the distillery, it is ideally situated in the downtown area near The Square, a block of 16 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings that features shops, galleries, restaurants, bars, plus a theater and museum for children. Amenities include an indoor heated pool, an outdoor sun deck and the BlueFire Bar & Grill. Rates start at $129 in December. For more information, call (859) 253-1234 or visit lexington.regency.hyatt.com.
Stop by Le Salon at Windsor Court New Orleans now through Dec. 31 for the annual 3-course Holiday Tea service featuring a selection of rare season teas; holiday cocktails, such as the Windsor Poinsettia, Cranberry Mint Spiked Tea and the Cajun Milk Punch; plus light treats, including holiday-themed scones and sweet desserts. The hotel’s 19.5-ft. Christmas tree and gingerbread replica of the Windsor Castle in the lobby are sure to be the center of every guest’s tea time conversation. Rates start at $188 per night in December. For more information, call (504) 523-6000 or visit windsorcourthotel.com.
During the weeklong Parranda Night themed buffet at The Wyndham Grand Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa, in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, guests can get a taste of coquito, a traditional Puerto Rican spiced treat that is made of rum, coconut milk, sweet condensed milk, egg yolks, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
The beachfront resort is ideal for a winter getaway as it features more than 1-mile of golden beach and 500 acres of onsite amenities, including the Rio Mar Casino, two golf courses, miles of trails, and five eclectic restaurants and lounges. Rates start at $149 pp dbl per night for guests who book a minimum 4-night stay through April 15, 2017 using the promo code PKGCR250. These rates include a $250 food and beverage credit. For more information, visit wyndhamriomar.com.

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Twitter CEO: Monetization working
Remember when Twitter first caught on in the professional community and many responded by turning up their noses and saying, "Yeah, but it doesn't make any money" ?
Well, sirs, here is some news for you from the social media platform's CEO: monetization efforts are working and new ad formats are coming.
"That thing is working better than we could have ever hoped," Dick Costolo said on Monday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Twitter last year unveiled Promoted Tweets and then Promoted Trends.
What do you think about ads on Twitter?
Andréa Maria Cecil is managing editor at the Central Penn Business Journal. She is a 33-year-old native New Orleanian who is interested in how gadgets and technology can make business more efficient.


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