![]() However, it falls short when it comes to advanced safety tech.Īlthough the Trax has a five-star safety rating, that score was from 2013, when the criteria for top marks wasn’t as strong as it is today. It’s also one of the few cars on sale today with a household power socket in the centre console. The LTZ comes with 18-inch alloy wheels, a sunroof, push-button start and leatherette sports seats.Īpple CarPlay, Android Auto and digital radio are also included. The model tested here is the top of the range Trax LTZ, priced at $28,990 drive-away. It has previously been available at a long term drive-away offer of $22,990 drive-away. The recently updated Trax range now comes with 17-inch alloys instead of 16s and starts from $24,490 drive-away with three years free servicing. ![]() Since then, however, rivals have introduced newer, safer and more technically advanced models. The 1.4-litre turbo engine and four-wheel discs were spread across the range on all but the base model 1.8-litre manual. It got a new nose with sleeker headlights, available LED tail-lights, and new wheels. The Trax has had a series of updates each year, although its appearance hasn’t changed since a mid-life facelift in 2017. And it’s relatively fun and economical to drive. The appeal? It can fit in the same size parking space as a hatchback but has the tall driving position of an SUV. Other small crossovers such as the Mazda CX-3 have shown that a humble crossover doesn’t have to feel its price.įront-wheel-drive Trax crossovers use simple rear drum brakes, but four-wheel disc brakes are included with all-wheel drive.Introduced in 2013 – six years ago – the Holden Trax was one of the first compact city SUVs. Copious lean into corners from the simple torsion-beam rear axle prevents the Trax from feeling remotely fun on a curvy road. The Trax’s steering is fast and light, which works well around town but contributes to a nervous feel at higher speeds. Some fault lies with the Trax’s 6-speed automatic, which delivers slurred upshifts and and can be reluctant to slip down a cog or two. Even a relatively wide torque curve doesn’t help. It’s at suburban and highway speeds where this smallest Chevy feels especially out of breath. The turbo-4 is sluggish around town, but adequate for driving between stop lights. Front-wheel drive is standard and all-wheel drive costs about $1,500 more. Under its hood, the Trax features a 1.4-liter turbo-4 rated at 138 horsepower and 148 pound-feet of torque. The related Buick Encore is swankier inside and more powerful, but just as cramped. ![]() Its rear seat is a tight fit for adults and its interior is dressed in low-buck plastics. ![]() ![]() The Trax provides a good view out for drivers and more cargo utility than subcompact cars. Pint-size dimensions mean the Trax excels at urban driving, but its short wheelbase and budget suspension make it nervous on a curvy road or a wide-open highway. All-wheel-drive versions earn just 30 mpg on the highway according to the EPA. Despite its little engine and lithe curb weight, the Trax isn’t as miserly as you might expect. Front-wheel drive is standard and all-wheel drive is optional, but the Trax is not a dirt road champion. A 1.4-liter turbo-4 pairs to a 6-speed automatic. The 2019 Trax is offered in LS, LT, and Premier trim levels. The Trax makes a decent choice at or close to its $22,000 base price, but we’d shop the competition carefully before signing on the dotted line. The Trax comes up short in terms of refinement, styling, and safety. It scores for its low price, but that’s about it. Overall, we rate the 2019 Trax at 4.2 out of 10. The 2019 Chevrolet Trax is a city-sized crossover SUV that makes up for its low thrill demeanor with budget-friendly pricing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve been discussing the evils of Photoshop for decades, and airbrushing before that, because of their negative effect on body image, with the general, agreed-upon takeaway being that yes, it is bad to narrow already-thin models’ waists or misrepresent their skin tones. It’s hard to talk critically about this stuff - girls and young women, manipulated images, and the implicit assumption of what those images are doing to their self-esteem - without coming off as a little bit hokey, or at the very least tiresome. Facetune is the ultimate culmination of those two forces: A cheap, easy-to-use Photoshop alternative in the pocket of anyone with a smartphone, allowing them to smooth, slim, or skew any part of their face or body in an instant. ![]() They have had access to modern technology and social media for much of their lives, and they’ve also had the power to digitally manipulate those images themselves. Zoe is part of a generation that has never known a world that isn’t filled with digitally manipulated images. If an acquaintance from school or someone in their social circle used it too heavily though? That’d be weird, she explains. Zoe says that neither she nor her friends really use Facetune much, but they see evidence of it constantly, on the Instagram accounts of influencers and celebrities. Louis: “If little things it’s fine, but you can tell when someone’s done a lot to their pictures.” Says the 21-year-old college senior in St. But that’s the extent of her Facetune use. There are others that smooth her skin, whiten the insides of her eyes, and adjust the lighting. There’s a tool in Facetune, the popular selfie-editing app, that Zoe Schuver uses to make her earrings look shinier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, Yoosung is a precious cinnamon roll whose cheeks I would like to squish. ![]() Yoosung is “becoming a man.” I wrote this off as the product of the cultural differences between Korea and the U.S., but I can’t pretend it didn’t bother me. Unfortunately, this character development is often referred to (especially by Zen) in terms of toxic masculinity - i.e. This involves his struggle to differentiate MC from Rika in his mind. As MC bonds with Yoosung, he moves through the grieving process until he eventually transforms from a game-addicted slacker to a motivated future veterinarian. Yoosung’s route is best summed up in two words: character development. Personality-wise, Yoosung reminds me a lot of Hinata from Haikyuu!! From the very beginning, he harbors so much care for MC, Rika, and the rest of the members of RFA. That’s probably how I ended up on his route without trying, the very first time I ever played the game! It’s impossible not to smile over Yoosung’s sweet comments. He’s a little ray of sunshine and he honestly reminds me of a Golden Retriever. Yoosung is a college student addicted to playing a video game called LOLOL. ![]() I hope to add Another Story to this post (or a separate post) once I play them later! Also, I will be rating each of the routes in the order that I play them, not in order of preference! You’ll just have to read the whole blog post if you want to know which route was my favorite □ Yoosung I am not including Jaehee’s route or either of the Another Story routes. Along the way, you’ll discover more about the mysterious hacker that led you to Rika’s apartment and to RFA. Instead, you choose to take on party-planning responsibilities and do the job that Rika used to do. Because of the confidentiality of the organization, you can’t leave. After being led to the apartment, you wind up in a group chat with the other members of RFA, one of whom will later become your love interest. The premise circles around a mysterious stranger leading you to the apartment of Rika, the deceased founder of the fundraising organization RFA. If you already know what Mystic Messenger is, feel free to skip this section! But for those of you who might be new to the game, Mystic Messenger is an otome game downloaded as a smartphone app. I will try to write as best as I can, but bear with me! What Is Mystic Messenger? Wish me luck in this tempestuous ordeal!īut before we get too deep into my opinions on the game, I’m going to start us off with a warning: spoilers lay ahead! And, because I am writing each section of the post as I complete each route, they may seem a bit disconnected in style and tone. My goal is to get all of the good endings so I can judge them fairly against one another. So, to feel more productive while I play, I’ve set an ambitious goal for myself….I am going to play four of the Mystic Messenger routes and share my opinions on this blog. I’ll be real with y’all: Mystic Messenger is ADDICTIVE. Truth be told, I got sick of feeling out of the loop on sites like Tumblr and Etsy, where Mystic Messenger often showed up in my search results. When I originally wrote my post “ The Best Otome Games For The iPhone,” I included Mystic Messenger, but it was the only otome game I hadn’t actually played. And, as I recently added a new “Gaming” category to my blog, this is a doubly-appropriate post to continue the dialogue I started with my last otome post. If you read all of my blog posts, you know that I love the Japanese game style known as otome. ![]() ![]() ![]() For a while, I had been using two dashes each of Angostura and orange bitters, which works great. But as far as the drink itself, but both syrup and raw sugar can make an excellent Old Fashioneds, and there’s no denying the romance of the muddling ritual.ĭad’s Bitters Blend - For the Ultimate Old Fashionedĭad’s Bitters (aka Dad’s Dashes) is a blend of bitters that I created during my search for the perfect Old Fashioned recipe. The main reason I call for using a syrup in Old Fashioneds is it's less work and more consistent, which is particularly beneficial when working behind a bar. This way you won't leave any undissolved sugar behind (there always seems to be some, despite your best efforts), which could throw things off balance. It's better to prepare muddled sugar Old Fashioneds in the glass you’ll be drinking from, rather than stirring them in a separate mixing glass and straining. More muddling tips can be found on the Muddling Page. This is more akin to crushing spices with a mortar and pestle rather than gently muddling herbs. You can add a teaspoon of water or seltzer to help the sugar dissolve along. The key to muddling sugar in an Old Fashioned is to make sure it gets dissolved. Combine the sugar and bitters in a rocks glass and grind them up with the muddler until they form a paste. I just prefer Old Fashioneds (pun alert!) the old-fashioned way. Multiple generations made and loved Old Fashioneds that way, including my dad's and grandfather's (not to mention Don Draper's). One final note, I hold no grievances against the orange and cherry version. Since then, it has skyrocketed in popularity. It wasn't until the cocktail revival began about fifteen years ago that the traditional Old Fashioned recipe came back into favor. During this time, the Old Fashioned became repurposed into a sweeter, fruitier drink that contained a muddled orange slice and cherry that was sometimes topped off with soda. In the 20th century, cocktails went down an odd and meandering path through prohibition, World War II and the culture wars of the 60s and 70s. But not everyone was into these modern embellishments, and traditionalists began to order their whiskey cocktails "in the old fashion," which how we got the name we use today. These were known as "fancy" or "improved" cocktails. Jumping ahead to the end of the 19th century when the Gilded Age was in full swing and opulence was all the rage, it had become fashionable to spruce up the standard whiskey cocktail with a dash or two of imported ingredients like absinthe or curaçao. So, back then, a "cocktail" made with whiskey was simply called a "whiskey cocktail." Dutch gin and brandy were also commonly used. It states that a “cock-tail” is "a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters.” As you can see, that's essentially the recipe listed here - today we use ice instead of water. The first definition of a "cocktail" in print, that we know of anyway, appeared in a periodical published in 1806. The Old Fashioned has a pretty fair claim to being the original cocktail (though plenty of others have a stake in that as well, the mint julep for one). ![]() ![]() Additionally, enemies learn from the player's character's attacks using the same attack on different characters can sometimes lead to the player's character doing less damage. The game includes enemies that are easy to overcome game difficulty arises from presenting these enemies in large numbers that can wear down the player's character. Players can casually run and gun through the game, but the game rewards those who take a stealthy, more tactical approach. The gameplay is intended to be easy to learn the development team included "horrible" gamers to help ensure the game's accessibility. Experience points earned by killing enemies and finding artifacts can be used to increase Starkiller's powers and traits. 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Following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, the game became part of the non-canonical Star Wars Expanded Universe (also known as Star Wars Legends), and an alternative origin for the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Civil War was given in other forms of Star Wars media, such as Star Wars Rebels. However, after he is tasked with planting the seeds of what would become the Rebel Alliance, which Vader plans to take advantage of to overthrow the Emperor, Starkiller begins to question his own morality and to slowly redeem himself. The game introduces a new protagonist named "Starkiller", a powerful Force user trained as Darth Vader's secret apprentice, who is tasked with hunting down Jedi survivors of the Great Jedi Purge while trying to keep his existence a secret. The project bridges the first two Star Wars trilogies, acting as an origin story for both the united Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Civil War depicted in the original trilogy. 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It is found either atop the Divine Beast Vah Medoh or in the center of Hyrule Castle if it is not already defeated. Windblight Ganon is one of the four Blight Ganons, phantoms of Calamity Ganon that took control of the Divine Beasts. in the hands of a good player.Īnd the easiest? I heard that in the CD-i games, Ganon dies in ONE HIT. Windblight Ganon is a recurring Boss in The Legend of Zelda series. If anything, the hardest Ganon fight of all is in Super Smash Bros. Never played OoT, WW ot TP, so I can't say what I think on those fights. I guess the fact that the Silver Arrow is in Level 9 gives it away, but still, kind of a disappointing final battle. You can either attack the head - stunning the creature shortly - and then shoot a Light Arrow at the blue orb or just try to properly time the shot to hit the blue orb. Puppet Ganon will slither around the room like Moldorm from previous Zelda games. The hard part is finding out HOW to beat him, without looking it up. This form is likely the hardest out of the three. The battle is Ganondorfs second form, following a battle with Puppet Ganon. LoZ Ganon was probably the easiest, since he only takes one hit with the Silver Arrow. Ganondorf is the final boss of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. His Ultimate Fireball attack is a bizznatch though if it hits. OoS/A Ganon was easy, at least compared to Twinrova whom you have to fight first. That was one hard boss, but when you've had practice at it you don't even need the Medicine equipped to beat it. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD OsakaEB 9 years ago 1 Puppet Ganon is the last figure I need for my gallery, so I thought after taking his picture and beating him I would be able to turn back and hand the pictograph over.but the door is locked instead. Reach and Defeat Puppet Ganon & Grappling Hook & Hookshot & Can Defeat Ganondorf. More specifically, post a picture of your GCPad settings. He's actually the Nightmare King who takes the FORM of Ganon for part of the fight. Can Play Winds Requiem: Wind Waker & Winds Requiem Can Play Ballad of. LTTP Ganon was pretty easy too, when you have the best sword, however when I first fought him I had the Tempered Sword, not the Gold Sword (didn't know there was one), so the fight was a great challenge and I almost ran out of magic. The only way around this is if you choose to get Hookshot. All you do is use the grappling hook on a poe, then quickly hookshot it. After choosing to either fight PG or skip him, you have to do a morph hover up to Gannon. It only gets tough when he goes into Panic Mode and his rain of fireballs doubles in speed. I randomly found this a while ago and have been meaning to upload it for a while. 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It has to be an overall problem and after reading many of the complaints we believe this warrants an investigation and defintely a recall!!! all of the above issues happened in both city street and highway situations and while the vehicle was in motion.Īll problems of the 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee There is no reason this care should be behaving in this manner 12 years old, regularly maintained unless there is an outstanding issue with 2006 Jeeps. Bottom line is there has to be a long standing issue with drive/power train & electrical/computer brain!!! we have kept this car in great working order, regularly changing fluids and maintenancing. Has to pull over on side of interstate, shut off car and restart to get it to shift again. Husband takes car on short trip and while passing a car in the left lane on interstate 10 it once aging chugs down hard and he loses gears. Mechanic said that rear wheel sensor had gone bad and was throwing of computer brain of car, so we had him replace that. A few days went by and it started happening again. Found shifter was broken and replaced and reset. The rpms would race up and the car just wouldn't sift even when using shifter stick manually to the + or. The Jeep finally quit shifting out of first gear. Throughout the years we would notice a strong downshift when coming to stops and a "chug" when shifting out of low gears. This went on for a period of two years, with them even keeping the car over a period of time. After bringing back into dealership for diagnostic testing, they found nothing. Chrysler continues to shove under the rug issues with the shifter and doesn't seem to care about customers who need more than just lies and blank stares.Īfter purchasing this car pre-owned in 2008 we began having issues with the transmission shifting. This situation is not only dangerous but scary. ![]() It is now January, 21 and I am still driving and the shifter is still on back order, according to landers Jeep they know when they will be able to replace with corp saying that 357 shifters so far are on back order. He said they would have to replace place but back order. Service mgr said there had no complaints. The light on shifter began to go off and on and it getting out of shift became more frequent. As time wore on I began to have shifter problems. At time of recall I did not have any problems. There had been an earlier re call, took to dealer ship and they supposedly fixed whatever problem was. When I would put in park getting out it had moved back to drive and I had to quickly get back in and put back in park. The shifter began jumping out of gear about October, 2020. ![]() |
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