12/11/2022 0 Comments Mushroom wars 2 switchIt certainly makes up for the forgettable story, which did little to set up the conflict in the campaign. The campaign was a little too repetitive for me to want to keep replaying the levels over and over again for stars, but I know some will, so know that’s an option!Īt least there’s variety in the tribes you play as, each with their own lush, beautiful loading screen artwork, a surprising high point in the game’s presentation. Despite this, fans of mobile games will welcome the fact that each level has four different difficulties with which to earn a star, so completionists have a lot of game here to work through. Throughout the campaign, a sense of repetition and familiarity will wash over the player, as most of the levels boil down to the same goal and strategy. They’re a welcome addition, and add just the right dash of additional strategy on top of the addicting base game. Shaking up this dynamic are the heroes, special troops that can be selected at the beginning of a match and possess special abilities, like the ability to take over a building without alerting the enemy teams, or the ability to make troops move faster. Being able to do this while under pressure from the enemy is easier said than done, however. If you can outproduce the enemy and overwhelm them with hundreds of shrooms, you’ll win nine out of ten times. Upgrading these buildings does take a little bit of time, so it becomes a risk and reward scenario when you realize that you’re about to be overwhelmed by the enemy fungi.Īnd don’t get it twisted: this is a numbers game through and through. This can be sped up by upgrading the building, of which there are a few varieties, including one that fires cannons at any enemy who dares enter the dotted circle around the building. As different waves of troops are moving around the battlefield, the buildings are replenishing them, albeit at a relatively slow rate. Troops can be deployed as a percentage of the available number, either 25, 50, 75, or 100 percent of them at a time, each number handily assigned to a face button. The strategy comes from moving troops to other buildings on the map, done by holding the R button and choosing a building on the map. Attached to every occupied base is a number that indicates the number of troops within the base. The other buildings are either occupied by enemy players, or grayed out, indicating that they are available for anyone to conquer immediately. Once the actual game match starts, players control a tribe of mushrooms and a few buildings on one side of the map. The modes are fairly similar, but offer enough variety to keep players coming back to each of them. Finally, Domination has the player capturing all the special buildings on the map. Next up is King of the Hill mode, where the goal is to hold a certain couple of bases for as long as possible. The primary mode is Conquest, in which the goal is to capture all of the enemy bases. For the matches themselves, there are three game modes, each a slight variation on the others. The game also offers both ranked and unranked online multiplayer, which ran surprisingly well given the fact that Nintendo isn’t known for there excellent netcode or online services. Thankfully, there is a pretty robust local multiplayer with up to four players, each controlling a different tribe of shrooms. Multiplayer is definitely where this game shines. Fret not, reader, for the mushrooms are here to ease your pain and allow you to put on your feathered commander’s hat in Mushroom Wars 2.ĭeveloped by Zillion Whales, a small team that primarily develops games for mobile devices, Mushroom Wars 2 aims to answer the age-old question: what if a bunch of mushrooms fought each other? Across a campaign that covers four tribes of shrooms and over a hundred levels, Zillion Whales delivers with strategy goodness, and surprisingly deep yet accessible combat. This is patently absurd, especially considering the Switch’s portability, coupled with the fact that strategy games remain one of the most popular genres on mobile devices. It took almost a year and a half for the Nintendo Switch to get a good strategy game.
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12/11/2022 0 Comments Warren buffetThe above visualization from Jan Varsava shows U.S. Accompanied by the looming threat of a recession, some sectors have been hit harder than others. Throughout the year, inflation rates have remained high and interest rates have likewise been climbing around the world. The S&P 500’s performance over the course of 2022 is a great example. Tracking indexes over the course of a year reveals a lot about market trends and sentiment. Visualizing S&P 500 Performance in 2022, by Sector Part 3: The Warren Buffett Empire in One Giant Chart.Part 1: The Remarkable Early Years of Warren Buffett.Want more Buffett?ĭon’t forget to check out the other parts of our Buffett infographic series: We hope this selection of the best Warren Buffett quotes helps you think about life and investing differently, and that the legendary investor continues to share his wisdom with the world. With $89.5 billion to his name, Warren Buffett is not only known for his self-made wealth and investing acumen, but also his wit and quotability. So, I have everything I need to have, and I don't need any more." In fact, it'd be worse if I had six or eight houses. I do it because I like this kind of life." "I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. “If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.” “The most important investment you can make is in yourself.” How did he build such a successful career, and how does one man generate so much wisdom? "In my view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal." “Failing conventionally is the route to go as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press” “If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.” “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” As a result, he’s developed some unique perspectives. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."Īt 89 years old, Buffett knows a thing or two about business and life. "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. "You can't make a good deal with a bad person." “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.”Ī Midwestern gentleman, Buffett follows a simple and friendly style of business conduct, with deals often bounded by one’s promise or a simple handshake. "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." "Price is what you pay value is what you get." Market – if so, he’ll lay down his chips. Is the asset he is buying worth way more than it is currently being priced at by the fickle Mr. “An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”īuffett’s decision-making is driven by an assessment of value. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” “Our favorite holding period is forever.” “It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.” You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd." "The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. Investors must not care what the crowd thinks, and they must be patient, focused, and decisive to maximize their potential. 2: Never forget rule No.1”įor Buffett, how someone responds to different situations is far more important than their actual skills or knowledge level. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ." "You don't need to be a rocket scientist. “I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” “Never invest in a business you cannot understand.” Coca-Cola) that are simple to run, with long-term competitive advantages. #WARREN BUFFET FREE#Get infographics every day by subscribing to our free mailing list.Īfter sifting through hundreds of quotes from the Oracle of Omaha, we’ve chosen the best 25 of them and sorted them into a few select categories: Keeping it Simpleīuffett is known for putting his money in “no-brainer” businesses (i.e. 12/11/2022 0 Comments Phenomena and noumenaThe Noumenal Object is Kant's "Ding an Sich", the "thing per se" or "thing as it is" that the classical philosophers held to be beyond the reach of human senses or material instruments it could be apprehended by Mind alone, and only by Mind (perhaps Psyche, or even more loftily, Pneuma).Īn example might help to illustrate the problem. Reflective Self-awareness: Each of us is the Primal Context of our own knowledge comparison and contrast of other Phenomena and Constructs amongst each other, without comparison and contrast to the Self, leaves ALL of our knowledge without an essential ground or context. We would today call such a conceptualization a "construct", a handy term that finds greater use today in the hard sciences, across the wide ditch that some nameless idiot dug out between it and Philosophy and the other Humanities. His use of the term seems to cover, in addition to the classical noumenon, the imperceptible thing which is apprehended by "philosophical intuition" alone, and not by mere crude senses, but also the conceptualization of the object arising from our abstractions of its phenomenal presentation and theoretical "features". Some of the criticisms of Kant's use of the term "noumenon" arise from his use of the term in a way (or two, or more personally, I lost count, to be honest) that differs significantly from its use by the classical philosophers. 6 (5) Phenomena, Instruments, and Constructs.Once in the river, the ice begins its phase change to its liquid state as it’s swept into the world’s oceans. The abstract images slowly reveal to the viewer the complex fissures and stress cracks in the 110,000-year-old ice, as seen only moments before it calves off into the seasonal glacial run-off stream below. The larger more photographic works are pictures of the calving facade of the Russell Glacier, a land-terminating glacier located in Qeqqata, Greenland. The images, which Guariglia has taken from NASA flights over Greenland, are digitally sprayed with an acrylic onto the surface of the panel, in a printing process which the artist has pioneered, gently pushing the image into abstraction, reminding us of the ambiguity that exists in the gap between that which we perceive, and that which exists. The smaller paintings in the gallery consist of portraits of Greenland’s deglaciated mountains which have been shaped by millions of years of glacial and interglacial periods but recently have become rapidly exposed due to human-caused ablation of the ice sheets through global warming. Guariglia’s work seemingly walks the line between painting and photography. For Guariglia, these become important points of exploration in his work, as he attempts to make these virtually unknowable, existential abstracts, visceral and felt. – humans), in the form of non-local phenomena like global warming, sea level rise, and a rapidly changing climate. – ice sheets), begin to make decisive contact with sentient beings (i.e. This new geological epoch, also called “the human age,” is distinctly marked as a time when non-sentient beings (i.e. In Phenomena ad Noumena (small picture studies), Guariglia posits that the gap between “phenomena,” that which we sense or perceive, and “noumena,” the object that exists without sense or perception, might be worth heightened scrutiny in the age of the Anthropocene. In doing so, his art has become a research practice to investigate the world, and an attempt to forge a deeper understanding of important ecological issues of our time. Over the last two decades, Guariglia has developed a unique transdisciplinary art practice which often involves collaboration with scientists, philosophers, and journalists in order to develop a more informed, holistic, ontological world view. The Telluride Gallery of Fine Art is pleased to announce it’s first exhibition with the New York based artist Justin Brice Guariglia, Phenomena ad Noumena (small picture studies), on view from May 26 through June 6. 12/11/2022 0 Comments Stapled jeans“Held down a job/Even snagged a raise,” Korvette sings, “Right there you’re due/For effusive praise.” On “It’s Your Knees,” he demonstrates how men neg women, picking at their insecurities to cut down their esteem.Īnd since it wouldn’t be a Pissed Jeans album without a healthy dose of sex and shame, there’s plenty of that, too. “The Bar Is Low” challenges the way society coddles men, rewarding them for the most modest demonstrations of decency, as if simply not being a violent monster entitles them to a medal. He balances out his social insights with asides about sugary snacks, laugh-tracked sitcoms, astrology, and the like, and those flashes of irreverence are more welcome than ever, since the core of the album couldn’t be more pointed. The record could almost pass for a concept album, if not for all of Korvette’s usual digressions. He’s touched on this territory often-most notably on “Male Gaze,” his rubbernecking apology from 2013’s terrific Honeys-but he’s never run with the muse as righteously as he does on Why Love Now, the band’s deepest dive yet into the inglorious male psyche. His songs offer insight into the forces that drive men: the privileges, compulsions, indignities, entitlements, and double standards. Yet more so than frontmen who profess to be infinitely more political, Matt Korvette understands what he can contribute to the conversation about gender relations. Between their territorial growls and bludgeoning guitars, Pennsylvania sludge-punks Pissed Jeans have made a brand out of unfiltered male aggression each of their four albums has played like an American Splendor comic reenacted by grizzly bears. 12/11/2022 0 Comments Sticky password loginThe app can remember all of your passwords and keep them in one place. This is what Sticky Password is all about. We’ll look at the most important ones among them. Sticky Password offers some cool features. It’s a great password locker that offers competitive pricing, top-notch security, and some interesting features. īut that’s not the only reason to check this app out. When you buy the Sticky Password app, a portion of the fee goes to protect endangered manatees. In French, “emlamantine” means manatee - that’s the company’s mascot. The Czech Republic-based company has been around for over 20 years and behind it is one of the most unique stories you’ll come across. Sticky Password is operated by Lamantine Software, a true veteran in the world of password managers. It does have its own way to shine, however. Like much of the competition, it records and safely stores all your login credentials. Sticky Password is one of the best among them. That’s where a good password app comes into play. Keeping track of all your login credentials is difficult.
12/11/2022 0 Comments Flightgear 787See VC docs to get the best out of the VC and FMC. TDS wonderful native FSX Boeing 787-8 model. Just the VC added and aircraft.cfg edited to allow correct VC views. High quality textures by G Catena Model is not modified in any way. There are custom Boeing sounds included for that extra realism. Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), More Realistic night VC textures. Switches for LCD Screens, EICAS, PFD, MFT. This VC model includes Working wipers (right mouse click on switch) with rain effect. The VC is the Alejandro Rojas Lucena/FSND fantastic revised Boeing 737-800 VC model. The layout fof the 787 cockpit is not a million miles away from the advanced 737-800. So now the 787-8 has the nearest VC I can find - the 737-800. #Flightgear 787 how toIncludes utility for ground services, Passenger buses, cargo, stairs, etc (find it under - Views - Instrument panel - Util) The wonderful new Boeing 787-8 from TDS will be enjoyed by many more people who do not know how to install a VC into a FSX native model. #Flightgear 787 series
12/11/2022 0 Comments Tilt to live appleThe game is non stop action and fun as you try to survive a continuous influx of red dots, and trying to use any weapon you can get to. Not only that, but the game has been calibrated so you don't have to tilt your device at as much of an angle as you would on the iPhone version. Despite the size of the bigger device the tilt controls are still silky smooth with such precision to weave in and out of the tinniest gaps. Tilt to live apple full#If you've never played the iPhone version, be sure to read our full review of that version, but more on point Tilt To Live HD is made only with the iPad in mind. This means there are now a whole bunch more dots on screen, and you get an added weapon, and of course a ton more action. The arrow and red dots are the same size as the iPhone version, but now there is the entire iPad to move across rather than just the iPhone size. If you've ever played the iPhone version, as soon as you begin the iPad version you literally will be left jaw dropping. The fact that it's a whole new game on the iPad is really ground breaking, and developer One Man Left deservers a huge pat on the back. A simple port with higher resolution graphics would be great for any iPad owner. Tilt To Live is one of the best iPhone games by being built for the device from the ground up. Tilt to live apple code#There are four modes included all redesigned from the iPhone version giving you classic mode, code red, gauntlet, and frostbite. For a $3.99 in-app purchase you unlock the whole game giving you three additional modes, and all of the nine weapons. The game is free giving you the classic mode, and the first four weapons which is the same as the original iPhone version. We gave you a sneak peek of Tilt To Live HD, and now it's time for the full review. Most iPad apps are sadly upscaled versions of their iPhone counterparts, but Tilt To Live is looking to be different. It's time to Tilt To Live on your iPad guiding your arrow to survive for as long as you can from the onslaught of red dots. 12/9/2022 0 Comments 2 inches actual sizeIf you can stop someone in the store to help explain the inconsistency, they'll start throwing around a few words like "nominal sizes" and "actual sizes" and "softwood lumber" and "hardwood lumber." Hopefully they will take the time to explain exactly what these words mean, which will go a long way towards making you feel more comfortable about buying wood.įor starters, you'll need to know that softwood (like pine, spruce, and fir) is measured and sold one way, and hardwood (like oak, maple, and cherry) is measured and sold in a totally different way. Measure the actual width and thickness of a pine board (like a 2x4) and then look at the sign above the rack. Now, most timber is milled and planed to give it. That means a 2x10 is actually 1 1/2 inch in thickness by 9 1/4 inches. The larger 2x boards (2x8, 2x10, etc.) lose 3/4 inch in width. That means a 2 x 4 board is actually 1-1/2 inches by 3-1/2 inches. On your next trip to Home Depot or Lowes, take along a tape measure and head over to the dimensional lumber aisles. In the past, when a timber was called a 2x4 or two-by-four, it actually measured 2 inches by 4 inches. 2x Board Sizes 2x4 and 2圆 boards lose 1/2 inch in thickness and 1/2 inch in width before leaving the mill. 2x Board SizesĢx4 and 2圆 boards lose 1/2 inch in thickness and 1/2 inch in width before leaving the mill. That means a 1x10 is actually 3/4 inch in thickness by 9 1/4 inches. The larger 1x boards (1x8, 1x10, etc.) lose 3/4 inch in width. That means a 1 x 4 board is actually 3/4 inches by 3 1/2 inches. 1x4 and 1圆 boards lose 1/4 inch in thickness and 1/2 inch in width before leaving the mill. 12/9/2022 0 Comments Kevin malcolm onsipThe Caller ID & phone number are simply replaced by the the discussion topic they’ve selected and the URL of the page they’re calling from. There is no learning curve for representatives who use the OnSIP app.Īn incoming sayso call from your website behaves similarly to a typical incoming call. #Kevin malcolm onsip how toTaking the time to research and implement a new tool, as well as training your staff on how to use it, is an investment that you should expect to yield some return. Improving your callers’ experience is a feel-good story and an easy goal to agree with, but callers have become used to the status quo and aren’t exactly knocking down your door asking you to change. Site visitors know immediately if someone is available to have a conversation and can do so without the hassle of dialing a number. The concept of sayso, put simply, applies the convenience of online text chat to personal, one-to-one voice or video calls. The reason phone calls feel personal isn’t just the inclusion of audio-it’s also because their attention is singularly focused on your conversation. It’s also painfully obvious when a representative is simultaneously conversing with five other people and their responses are auto-pasted templates. People may be inclined to call it “real-time,” but real-time communication doesn’t include staring at the words “Your representative is typing” before receiving a response. People have come to expect this miserable experience, which is why some of them opt for text chat, which usually puts them in touch with the right person automatically. They listen to a list of options and advance through one menu, then another, until they are put into a queue to speak with a representative. Then they listen to a recording telling them the number belongs to your business, which they already know. So how do your site visitors go from viewing your page to speaking with you? Right now, they probably see a string of numbers, which they need to transcribe into their phone. The Yellow Pages are a relic, and while business cards and mailers have their role, interested buyers will look your company up prior to starting the conversation. Today’s phone calls begin with an online search. The logical conclusion is the already-installed browser. #Kevin malcolm onsip installThe solution must be software-based, but asking your callers to install an application just to speak with you would be ridiculous. The concept of sayso, put simply, applies the convenience of online text chat to personal, one-to-one voice or video calls.įirst, how do we address the issue of legacy devices? Buying new equipment for an office is easy, but going to the homes of all your callers and swapping out their old phones with new hardware isn’t exactly an option. For customers who wish to see their phone system join the digital revolution in a more tangible way, read on for a brief explanation of sayso. More accurately, the future is clear, we’ve had our eyes on it for a while, and it’s finally realistic to begin publicly moving in that direction. If this feels like a buildup to some announcement that “the future is now,” you’re partially right. For example, a healthcare provider may wish to embrace new technology with open arms, but they can’t do so if it means abandoning the patients who try to call them on a decades-old landline. However, it makes sense when you consider the millions of legacy devices that need to be supported. Technical advancements are remarkable but not always apparent to the person calling in. It’s a difficult thing for us to admit because we’re proud of how we’ve been able to offer previously out-of-reach capabilities to smaller and new businesses. There have been constant quality-of-life improvements over the years, such as desktop & mobile applications untethering workers from their desks or real-time alerts for call center managers, but if someone woke from a 50-year coma, they’d probably recognize phone numbers and dialpads and figure out the core functionality. Progress has typically moved slower in the business telecom space. 12/9/2022 0 Comments Torchat direcotryThis is a fully featured XMPP server that Process One uses within their products so it's extremely capable. You can also deploy a web based chat client too. I run ejabberd and it was pretty trivial to setup on my own box and then I give people accounts to access it.Įjabberd is a XMPP server so any clients such as Pidgin or Empathy. I would suggest just setting up your own chat server. Installation on other platforms than Windows is a bit more complicated Specifies that Tor should treat a missing torrc file as though it were empty. (Default: /etc/tor/torrc-defaults.) -ignore-missing-torrc. The contents of this file are overridden by those in the regular configuration file, and by those on the command line. A bunch of pedos in some think tank sat around dreaming this up. Specify a file in which to find default values for Tor options. Platform usability in mind from the very first moment on, but the Pedo Pro-Life GOP Senate Staffer Who Dreamed Of Killing Kids Sentenced To 12 Years For Child Porn. Discuss with various people in chat rooms. RetroShare features: Chat Send text and images. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more, using OpenPGP to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. #Torchat direcotry macLinux and Mac too, in fact it was developed on Linux with cross RetroShare is a open source cross-platform, private and secure decentralized communication system. TorChat just runs from an USB drive on any Windows PC. AnonMail Anonymous premium email service like lavabit. (Hosted on 3 servers around globe) Welcome, We’ve been expecting you Links to basic encryption guides. #Torchat direcotry installWithout the need to install or configure anything. URSSMail Anonymous free email service, current substitute for TorMail. Giving you extremely strong anonymity while being very easy to use Here are a few deep web email links, Tor chat room links or messaging. TorChat is a peer to peer instant messenger with a completelyĭecentralized design, built on top of Tor's location hidden services, This howto has been tested & written for ubuntu gutsy 7.10 (it is also reported to work on ubuntu hardy & debian unstable). Note: Be hide and enjoy stuff like a boss. I did find this application that purports to run on Windows & Linux. |
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