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What is the internet backbone? Join the Network World communities on Facebook and LinkedIn to comment on topics that are top of mind. Related: Internet Networking. Successfully pulling off a noir story is hard. Backbone easily does this well. The game starts out with a bang, which hyped me up for the subsequent chapters.
But it peters out after a while and ends up rushing to an unsatisfying conclusion. Backbone begins with our protagonist, a raccoon private investigator named Howard Lotor, reading a book in his bathtub. Within a few minutes of questioning the locals, he learns that the husband likes to spend his time in a questionable establishment known as The Bite.
Howard makes his way into the place, only to find himself unraveling a thread of depravity and corruption that leads directly to the people who hold the power in the future, animal-occupied Vancouver. The dialogue is pitch-perfect. The central mystery pushing the narrative forward dissolves, and the story pivots into something reminiscent of a classic Cronenberg movie.
The ending simply left me unsatisfied. Which is a shame, because I wanted to know more. I wanted to dive deep into these characters and learn about the history of the city and the apes ruling it.
Instead, the narrative is content to resemble the last couple of episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion , a series well known for having major production problems at the very end. Perhaps this is exactly what the developer was going for, but it seems like a missed opportunity to me.
Expectations simply need to be held in check, as some of the disappointment is still lingering with me even now. The high caliber of the dialogue and how memorable many of the characters are truly do make Backbone stand out. Plus, the visuals make the game a necessary play for anyone who loves detailed pixel art. What Backbone accomplished on that front is mesmerizing.
In total, the human body has 33 vertebrae which are placed in the following way: 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 4 coccygeal vertebrae the number is sometimes increased by an additional vertebra in one region, or it may be diminished in another.
This mental math exercise may not render the same answer to everyone, as certain people don't include the sacrum and the coccyx. The argument is that once we reach adulthood, the two last sections fuse and become separate from the rest of the spinal column, however, for our investigation we will look at all the vertebrae as a whole.
There are seven cervical vertebrae designated C1 through C7, but only the first two get a special mention. The name references the Greek Titan that Zeus punished to stand on the edge of the world and hold up the sky on this shoulders. Therefore, the C1 vertebrae, much like the eponymous hero, supports the weight of the human head. An interesting fact is that the C2 is only found in evolved animals such as reptiles, birds, and mammals births and amphibians do not have this feature.
The C3 vertebra lies snugly underneath the skin and the other spinal bones and provides a passageway to nerve endings that irrigate the face, teeth, and ears. The following three vertebrae, C4, C5, and C6 have speech functions as they pass sound through the larynx and vocal cords which allow sound production. The C7 vertebra is distinctively long and is responsible for the articulation of our superior limbs. The thoracic vertebrae are unique among the bones of the spine in that they are the only vertebrae that support ribs and have overlapping spinous processes.
Another vital function of the thoracic vertebrae is rotating the upper body. Discomfort in any of the superior vertebrae, from T1 to T9 approximately, may cause breathing and heart problems.
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