![]() ![]() In Cross events, is better to crash with full speed in the walls at certain angle, rather than use handbrake and turn without hitting walls (cars don’t take damage anyway). Lack of realism: walls throw you back with the same speed.Horrible physics: Buggy cars have similar acceleration, but the speed makes the difference Speed cars have similar top speed, but the acceleration makes the difference (see the Excel file for details) with the slowest Speed cars is impossible to reach top speed on normal track.I created an Excel table: Beetle Crazy Cup.xls containing statistics such as vehicle list with car prices and car top speed in each gear. Do not ask me for link to download full game because I do not support piracy, go and buy it from stores or search yourself in torrent websites.īeetle Crazy Cup, also know on warez websites as Beetle Buggin’ (probably due to amount of software bugs included in game), or Käfer Total, is one of the worst racing games I ever played… but it can be fun if is played at home with a friend.īeetle Crazy Cup is the most recent game that can be played with 2 persons at same computer, know by me. ![]() Note that this is a FAN PAGE intended for people who already have the game.
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Elsewhere, Coast Guard cutter the Dutton discovers a derelict spacecraft in orbit around Earth. Plagued by horrific nightmares of the Xenomorphs, young Billie has been committed to a mental institution for many years, where the doctors attempt increasingly severe treatments to try and cure her of her vivid and distressing dreams. And what follows is no less then guerrilla warfare on the Aliens' planet - and Alien conquest on Earth! Plot When Wilks's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the Aliens' home planet to bring back a live Alien.īut the competition on Earth to develop the Aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an Alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. ![]() Wilks is a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() His girlfriend, Joy, isn't bringing any joy to his life. When he's not trying to trace back to the beginning of Thomas's illness-Was it when Dominick refused to be his roommate in college? Or when Ray threw Thomas down the stairs after catching him and Ma having a tea party?-he's trying to deal with other problems in the present. He and Thomas never knew who their real father was, and Ray was often abusive, taping Thomas's hands together or pretending he was Harry Potter and locking him in a cupboard under the stairs. He thinks back to growing up in the late 1950s/early 60s with his brother, his Ma (who is now dead of breast cancer), and Ray, his stepdad. This incident prompts a lot of self-reflection in Dominick. ![]() Patel, to find a way to release his brother. 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SKIP RIGHT OVER THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH IF YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS, OKAY? ![]() They changed their name to Vandalized by Glitter and make lovely, weird music together. Tom’s a little overwhelmed by Ramona’s nonstop enthusiasm, but he feels drawn to Ramona and Sam, so joins their band. Ramona instantly decides that he should be in their band. ![]() At their audition, they meet Tom, a senior from another area school. They intend to go to Artibus College of Music and Arts together after graduation. They stick together and spend a lot of time practicing with their band (which is just the two of them), April and the Rain. Sam and Ramona go to a prep school where they don’t really fit in (nor would they want to). Unlike MANY books with alternate narration, their voices are distinctive and it eventually becomes VERY important to be able to see the story from each of their points of view. The three main characters, Sam, Tom, and Ramona, take turns narrating. 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At the Well of Ascension, Rashek betrayed the Hero of Ages and took the power of the Well for himself. He kept a logbook during the journey, sections of which act as epigraphs for each chapter in Mistborn. The Hero of the Ages arrives and traveled through the mountains with the guidance of a packman named Rashek. ![]() Philosophers predicted the coming of a Hero of Ages who would use the power of the Well of Ascension to defeat the Deepness. Prior to the events of Mistborn, the planet Scadrial was threatened by a mysterious power known only as the Deepness. ![]() ![]() ![]() JAKE UNDERSTOOD (Jake #3): FULL-LENGTH COMPANION NOVEL: A different side to the story: Jake's side. She still loves me.which is why I have to stop her before it’s too late. ![]() I can see it her eyes: she doesn’t love the man she’s set to marry. This is my last chance, because she’s about to make the biggest mistake of her life. For years, I thought I’d never see her again. Skylar has been my best friend since childhood, but I secretly pine for her. ![]() Once he drops a bombshell, will their love survive it? MY SKYLAR (Jake #2): FRIENDS TO LOVERS: An emotional journey with a jaw-dropping twist you won't see coming. What Nina doesn’t realize, is that Jake is hiding a massive secret. They just weren’t expecting to fall hard for each other in the process. When he agrees to tutor her, they forge a bet and the stakes are high as Jake forces Nina to face her fears and demons. He makes it his mission to change his roommate Nina’s outlook on life. ![]() From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes the complete Jake Series in one box set! (Standalones with interconnected characters.) JAKE UNDONE (Jake #1): ROOMMATES TO LOVERS: Behind Jake Green’s rough exterior and devilish smile, lies a heart of gold. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, Ned picks up a tree sidekick, a wizard versed in the ludicrous art of pun magic, and a healthy respect for both princesses and dragons alike.Ĭan he make the world outside of the reservation safe for the princesses? Will he uncover the true threat to the maidens' well-being? Can he find his father before he must face off against the nefarious black dragon, Rackeesus, who dogs his trail every step of the way?įind out Ned's fate in this rousing tale that blends fantasy with mystery and heaping helpings of wit. ![]() With the help of three motivated princesses and one who’s rather a hindrance, he sets out to uncover his missing memories and reveal the truth of the Firebreaks’ dealings with the dragons of the Eight Kingdoms. When Ned wakes up from a coma, he finds key memories relating to his rescue missions and missing-in-action father erased by magic. At least that's what their brochure would have you believe. After dispatching the unruly lizards, this father/son team brings back the fair maidens to live on their magically protected princess reservation. The Firebreaks are a family of dragonslayers. The Firebreaks are a family of dragonslayers. Read 'Ned Firebreak' by Brian Clopper available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Furthermore, it will explore the strategies adopted by Gheorghiu-Dej to restrain the consequences of the speech and its employment by his opponents. 2 This chapter focuses primarily on the investigation of the accusations regarding strictly the ‘personality cult’. ![]() 1 Stelian Tănase and Vladimir Tismăneanu approach the events of 1956 in terms of individual and interest group conflicts within the party. Dennis Deletant analyses it as part of a larger investigation of the role played by the political police during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime, as one of the main charges lodged against him was of the use of terror and intimidation prior to 1956. This specific episode has been examined by various scholars. It attempts to identify the strategies adopted by the Romanian leadership to diminish its influence and to get rid of those who, using this opportunity, attacked the position of the general secretary of the Romanian Workers’ Party (RWP), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. This chapter deals with the impact of Khrushchev’s speech in Romania. The influence of those events was felt differently in the countries of the Soviet Bloc and local leaders adopted various tactics in their attempts to contain the challenge posed to the status quo by those proceedings. ![]() In 1956 Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech’, the Polish unrest and the Hungarian uprising created the greatest unrest in Eastern Europe since the establishment of communism. ![]() |