Super Meat Boy is an independent video game designed by Edmund McMillen (pictured) and Tommy Refenes and developed by Team Meat. The successor to the 2008 Flash game Meat Boy, Super Meat Boy was released on the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade in October 2010 and on Microsoft Windows in November 2010. It was ported to OS X and Linux in 2011, to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2015, and to the Wii U in 2016. In the game the player controls Meat Boy, a red, cube-shaped character, as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the game's antagonist Dr. Fetus. The platform gameplay is characterized by fine control and split-second timing as the player runs and jumps through over 300 hazardous levels while avoiding obstacles. The game sold over 1,000,000 copies by January 2012, and was critically acclaimed. In 2010, it received awards for Most Challenging Game from IGN and for Best Downloadable Game from GameSpot and GameTrailers, as well as a nomination for the Grand Prize at the 2010 Independent Games Festival. Critics lauded the game's difficulty, precise control, retro artwork, and soundtrack.
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1263:
Scottish–Norwegian War: The armies of Norway and Scotland fought at the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Largs
1535:
French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed along the St. Lawrence River and reached the Iroquois fortified village Hochelaga on the island now known as Montreal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier
1941:
World War II: Nazi German forces began Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive to begin the three-month long Battle of Moscow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow
1996:
A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the static ports of the aircraft caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into the ocean near Lima, Peru, due to instrument failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603
2006:
A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Nickel_Mines_School_shooting
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pareve: 1. (Judaism) Of food: that has no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. 2. (figuratively, by extension) Neutral, bland, inoffensive. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pareve
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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarrelling? --Mahatma Gandhi https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi