Defeating the Reaper with Crimson Shroud and/or Infinite Corridor will spawn White Hand. White Hand guarantees to one-shot you!
If you manage to survive till the 30th minute in any of the four stages in Vampire Survivors, the Reaper will appear. More often than not, your character would be one-shot while the stage is considered as completed. To defeat the Reaper in all four stages, there are prerequisites (see bottom of this post). You don’t have to follow a specific build. You just need to follow the strategy and the tips below. An OK build may take longer to down Reaper. But you should be able to get the job done within one minute. This guide also works very well against RNG. You need a bit of luck to get the 2 items you need but there are ways to mitigate this.
PS. This guide assumes that you have the knowledge and experience in surviving till the 30th minute.
In this blog post, I would like to share with you my first impression of Diablo 4. And at the backdrop of this video, I have recorded a recent legion event at World Tier 2 difficulty. It took my character a long walk on foot to reach the very southern end of the map. But it was fun nonetheless.
In a nutshell, does Diablo 4 Early Access meet my expectation? I would say yes. Does it worth its price tag? I still think that Diablo 4 is a very expensive game. But it also has a lot more content compared to its previous iteration released 11 years ago. Compare to recent AAA game launches, I would say Diablo 4 is very stable. I have not encountered any bugs or problems logging into the game. 99.99% of the time, the game runs smoothly. Except for some rare stuttering perhaps due to other players joining the area online.
If my band members are to know that I have recorded a cover song and shared the video with you here, they would flip. Because I don’t usually do covers. But in the spirit of learning Spanish, it is indeed fun to learn a Spanish song. I am still not 100% sure on what the lyrics mean. And I am still not 100% sure how the singer of the band Despistaos manages to pronounce some of the words in such a different way. Since I have no idea how that works, I did my own interpretation instead. Hope that doesn’t turn out too bad.
The title of the song is “Caricias En Tu Espalda”, which means “Caressing Your Back”. The story evolves around what happened this morning. There was a girl, a window, a ray of sunlight, a bed, a pillow, and her bare chest. I think it is a beautiful song.
My interpretation of the lyrics goes something like this (Spanish version of the lyrics can be found in our Spanish class’s website):
This morning, a ray of sunshine has cast through your window, which is the window of my room. It has appeared and caught me taking your hand. This morning, it was really warm.
I left my forgotten shame at the bottom of a glass in the last bar. The lost glance, the rusty voice, awake in your bed and it gets me to sing …
“Give me the time you don’t need and I promise to spend it to caress your back. Give me the time you don’t need and I promise to spend it to caress your back.”
This morning, I remember I was better. A pillow, your bare chest in the face. You are gone and you have left me pretty worn out. This morning, the heat was killing me.
I left my forgotten shame at the bottom of a glass in the last bar. The lost glance, the rusty voice, awake in your bed and it gets me to sing …
“Give me the time you don’t need and I promise to spend it to caress your back. Give me the time you don’t need and I promise to spend it to caress your back.”
Dear readers, here is where I really need some help from you. For real. From now till end of the month, click onto the short link below and share it with as many people as you can possibly harass. The more people know about my post, the better the chance I am to meet Wayne Rooney in an all expenses paid trip to Manchester sponsored by Tiger Beer. I will get to drink Tiger Beer with him and play dart games. I hope he will help to hook me up with David Beckham, whom I really want to meet in real life. I want to meet Beckham’s wife too. On TV, Victoria looks really stunning. I am a big fan of Spice Girls. I wonder if Victoria could hook me up with the rest of the spicy girls and sing me “Wannabe”. If they do, I don’t mind if Rooney tucks along with me. To make my dream comes true, here is the short link that Tiger Beer keeps track of how many are clicking:
I am from Asia and in my tradition, when we meet someone overseas the first time, we bring something from our home country as a gift. Since I have put aside my budget to purchase clicks from Google AdSense (not that I don’t trust you guys, just in case the clicks fall short you know), I have no money to buy a gift for Rooney. Instead, since I draw, I have painted him a picture. One that I am going to ask Tiger Beer to frame for me so that it will look better on the UK tabloids, when I get to present him the painting in person.
Tiger Beer wants to know how I am similar to Tiger Football Champion Wayne Rooney. When I get older, I want to be a millionaire, just like Rooney. Since I have way more hair then he does, I reckon I will have some time before I reach his age today. I am an up and coming artist and celebrity (I think) and I enjoy watching football. And I am as smart as Paul the Octopus. I too knew that Spain would win the World Cup. When Spain won the UEFA Cup, I started learning Spanish. When Spain won the World Cup, I renewed my interest in learning Spanish. ¡Hola amigo, clic en el enlace por favor! Compártelo con tus amigos. ¡Muchas gracias!
The real reason why I am similar to Rooney lies inside the video I have spent much time preparing. I really want to credit my band members for the demo recording materials but I am quite sure that none of them wants to be associated with it. It is more like a one off crazy thing we did. The song excerpt is called “Unleash The Beast” and pardon my strong accent (I had sore throat the next day). Unfortunately Tiger Beer does not give me much time to prepare for this blog post and so, I grab what I have. Something like when the ball lands onto our heads, we just head it into the goal post instinctively, like Rooney does I suppose. And I can argue with Tiger Beer later on the short notice. I hope I won’t be red carded because of the strong language used in the video. If you are underage, please turn off the volume or watch it with your parents (and ask them to spread and click onto my short link).
My post will be judged on presentation and creativity (60%) and buzz generation (40%). That’s why I need your help to spread the words. For those of you who are anticipating my weekend travel blog post, I am afraid I will need to postpone it to next week because this post has sucked all my energy I have for a weekend. Sorry! I hope this blog post is entertaining enough to make up for it.
The first thing after I have clocked 848 km driving to PJ Malaysia and back for a band practice was to head directly to the Singapore Motorshow. Check out the montage below and guess which one is my favorite model?
I have created a video using the clips I have recorded during the stunt performance. The performance is really awesome and if you have some time to spare, do click onto the link below.
This is the video clip of DJ Inquisitive recorded at Zouk during the DMC World Championship Singapore Finals as promised. And yes, he is good. The reigning champ has defended his title and will head to UK to compete for the World Supremacy title.
After all the hard earned experience in the post production work for my band’s videos at the jamming studios not ideal for sound recording, I thought I was well equipped to do the job here. Took me a long time to figure out that applying effects on an upscale mono low bit-rate audio clip introduces a lot of high frequency noise. Also, quite a few video encoding tools out there don’t handle mono audio clips well.
On a more positive note in the name of sharing, to clean up the mono audio recording of this clip, I pass the original recording through a clean solid state amp simulator with a flat boosted EQ setting and a 4×12 cabinet to add clarity to the muffled sound. I then pass this to a compressor with a soft knee and a moderately boosted output gain to keep the sound hot but not too distorted. Feel free to share the technique you use to clean up the sound recorded from a camera here. Hope you’ll enjoy watching this video.
OK. This video is dedicated to our friends who have been so supportive for my home made Voodoo Mix of No Doubt’s “Hella Good” and eager to watch what it is like with drums and guitars. To set the expectation right, this recording is our band’s first session playing this cover song (and very rarely we do so as we prefer to play our original songs). If it was that good, I would be making a living at the club “Insomnia” instead of being a 9-to-5 arguable one of the fastest value-adding electronic postmen of the world.
We didn’t get a decent studio room this time so pardon the sound quality. I did the best I can from the sound engineering point of view. Hardly could I hear what I played or sang that day.
On a more positive note, Wieke did merge the essence of the “Hella Good” drum beats with that famous One Republic track and implemented into our original song “Kids From The Park”. It was pretty funky. Hope to share with y’all some time in the future.
This is for you, my loyal readers, my undying fans. Erm. I hope nothing will change after this broadcast.
The fact is, for the past number of days, my mind has been spinning as though I was mind-plucking the invisible flower petals murmuring “I show you”, “I show you not”. And.
I did show this video to some friends of mine. To see what the reaction is like. Thank you for your brutal honestly and your encouragement. My favorite constructive feedback is to pump some irons. That, I can gladly do. And it is very doable too! Results not guaranteed.
I did not wake up this morning and went, “Ah, I am going to make a video blog today”. Our new drummer Wieke has made a request to play No Doubt’s “Hella Good” as she wishes to – in her own words – implement some of the ideas or techniques into our band’s materials. So I spent some time last week to learn the song. Boy, I am really not good at playing cover songs at all. But I guess it is one for all, all for one.
Cynthia, our talented bassist, has decided to put aside part of her Sunday to figure out how Tony Kanal plays the bass line. And I said to myself, why not make a video out of this little insignificant day of ours? And we did jam on the National Day holiday after all – though it was just the two of us.
OK. This version you see is just a rough demo. The original intend is to record our interpretation of “Hella Good”, shoot it over to Wieke and Jason to do their parts. On a side note, recording the acoustic sound of the Indonesian Gendang was not easy. I think it turns out OK. We joke that this version should be named as the “Voodoo Mix”. The sound is so tribal!
Just how long this video remains public depends on how thick my skin is. And you will be surprised how thick my skin is not.
PS: It is almost like a little miracle that this video sees the day of light. This morning, my rather new computer died on me – like any of her predecessors who have a habit to throw a tantrum at me every so often – and there go all the working video files that are now in unknown status. Fortunately, I have uploaded this video to the Internet during the weekend because I know in the name of technology, things always screw up as we draw nearer to the milestones.
This recorded material was initially made for podcast. I got carried away, turned it into a video, and added an excerpt of an original song of mine -100% original materials from beginning to end. Recently upgraded my computer, I was inspired by how technology has advanced since I was a little boy. I did some research and attempted to match the number of transistors the computer processors that I have owned to the neuron counts of the animals in our planet. It was no easy task as few scientists find counting the neurons of, say, a cat has is useful, set aside publishing the data on the Internet.
When I told my friends around me that I was making a video blog, most thought that I would be videoing myself talking in front of the camera. Look, I am a more documentary kind of guy and I prefer to stay behind the camera. Not all of my blog entries comes with a picture of me. I merely apply the same mentality here.
Hope this video blog is not too horrible that you have to throw up halfway watching it. It is helluva tedious journey and boy, I need some time to recuperate. With this video as the end point, I wonder if this adds more texture to the mini-series blog entries that I have published. It was meant to be another way round.
