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Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (born 27 January 1968), better known by his stage name Tricky, is a British music artist, record producer, [5] vocalist and rapper. [6] Born and raised in Bristol, in southwest England, he began his career as an early member of the band Massive Attack, alongside Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Andrew Vowles.
Maxinquaye is the debut album by English rapper and producer Tricky, released on 20 February 1995 by 4th & B'way Records, a subsidiary of Island Records.In the years leading up to the album, Tricky had grown frustrated with his limited role in the musical group Massive Attack and wanted to pursue an independent project.
The Moron Test exploits the human tendency to rely on heuristics when making decisions. "In psychology, heuristics are simple, efficient rules, hard-coded by evolutionary processes or learned, which have been proposed to explain how people make decisions, come to judgments, and solve problems, typically when facing complex problems or incomplete information.
Rolling Stone writer Mark Kemp remarked, "'It's Tricky' cribs the guitar part from the Knack's 'My Sharona,' a fatuous New Wave song, and turns it into vital street art." [8] Pitchfork ' s Tom Breihan claimed, "Run and DMC had also stepped their rap game up; "It's Tricky" is basically as good as the two of them ever got, spitting quick-tongue witticisms and yelling booming threats with equal ...
Some testers intentionally include a couple trick questions, for various reasons. For example, test taking had become a skill in itself, without studying the material in-depth. [5] An example that tests whether the question was read carefully: "When a plane crashes on the border between the United States and Canada, where are the survivors ...
Describing Vulnerable as Tricky's best album in years and a major improvement on Blowback (2001), Uncut said that the album "benefits hugely from two major developments: an appropriate vocal foil in the form of Italian vocalist Constanza Francaville, and a set of 13 avant-pop gems evocative of Pere Ubu and Talking Heads."
Tricky Towers is a physics-based tower building game puzzle video game that uses a form of the block-stacking problem as the central game mechanic. [2] It was released on digital distribution service Steam for Windows , OS X , and Linux , and for the PlayStation Plus service in August 2016, before being released on PlayStation 4 a month later.
The term was coined during early Doom speedrunning. When Andy "Aurican" Kempling released a modified version of the Doom source code that made it possible to record demos in slow motion and in several sessions, it was possible for the first players to start recording tool-assisted demos.