![]() ![]() It’s $30.00 on Steam right now and can run on almost any machine (I have it working on both a MacBook Pro and an old 2009 Windows PC). If you are someone who has liked games like Minecraft (especially mods like Tekkit), or tycoons, this might be for you. We have a server going where we build together, and it’s a great way to stay connected and entertained during the quarantine. I have managed to get my boyfriend hooked on Factorio too, fortunately. It really is up to the individual how much they choose to do. As technology progresses, hard tasks become trivial, but planning is getting more and more important. Instead of using a god-perspective, the player is personified creating a more tense gaming experience. Others, like perhaps my first play-through, can be found desperately connecting different factory units together in a haphazard, disorganized way. Factorio is really about continuously improving your factory, and each improvements makes it a bit easier for yourself. ![]() Expect to pay 30/21 Developer Wube Software Publisher Wube Software Reviewed on. Some like to go big, trying to produce insane amounts of goods at an alarming rate. Need to knowWhat is it Complex and absorbing factory management game. As someone with an energy engineering background, I love how many different forms of power generation are included, including obscure technologies like coal liquefaction! Each player can have their own stylistic touch when building their factories. You create factories which turn raw resources (ore, coal) into bigger and greater products. There is detail in its design, even down to matching how much concentration of uranium-235 and uranium-238 exists in the world (same as Earth). Factorio is a crafting game centered on automated production. The game has been under development for over eight years, and it is very obvious how much the developers and community care about this game. It is rather addicting, and perhaps a wonderful way to pass the time when practicing social distancing. By starting with just a pickaxe and shoes, you end up building crazy things like automated train systems and nuclear reactors… by like the 200 th hour of play. The player is constantly battling issues such as depleting resources, pollution control, stocks and flows of goods, and electrical current. This is an item counter and balancer, which feeds a constant item sample count into the factories. However, you have absolutely no resources or tools to do so, and therefore have to terraform the landscape around you into a factory, which produces all the components you need to both build your escape vehicle and defend yourself from the local species. Behold, the Sushi river 100 inline sushi base, on K2SE plus BZ ores mod. Its objective is simple, you have crash-landed on an alien planet, and you need to build a rocket to get back home. After a surprisingly long initial loading screen, it runs fairly smoothly on the Switch. For those who do not know, Factorio is a third person, top-down perspective, open world, sandbox survival game. Factorio isn’t a particularly pretty game on Switch, but it sure is a clever one. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Cut your trailer into fragments so that the changing frames synchronizes with the rhythm of the music and it will look and feel very natural. If the story in your trailer is developing rhythmically, it creates a sense of flow, eliciting more emotions from viewers and making them feel connected to the characters. ![]() Music binds all the building blocks of your story together it defines the mood of your trailer, creates the appropriate atmosphere, and can have a big impact on the audience.Īn effective trailer always involves rhythmic editing. Often, well-chosen music can be half, or even more than half, the victory. The classic way to tell a story is in three acts:Įxposition: introduce the main characters and the environment in which they existĭevelopment (growing action and intensity): introduce conflict and complicationsĬlimax: intensify the storyline and bring it to a resolution. Hook the viewer, but leave key questions unanswered and vital secrets unrevealed.Ī trailer is a story. But it’s a balancing act – you don’t want to reveal too much and spoil the fun. That’s why you need to choose really spectacular segments for your trailer. You have a very limited amount of time to convince the viewer that your movie is worth watching. Now, with streaming services and online cinemas gaining popularity, trailers got separated from theaters and reels and are uploaded to services like YouTube for everyone to watch and get hyped up. This made movie producers show trailers before the movies. Since those short previews followed the movies, they were called "trailers." As time passed by, people got less interested in watching the whole reel to the end. Producers' argument was simple: to let the person view the film and then get them excited about the next one (like TV-shows nowadays do with their "coming up" sections). At the beginning of the 20th century, movie producers started getting an idea of placing ads to their future movies at the movies' reels sent to theaters. The term "trailer" was determined by the history of movie production. The teaser trailer's meaning is basically "a shorter trailer." It shows fewer scenes from a movie and is usually done way earlier than a trailer (1.5 or 2 years before the movie release). Since trailers are designed for advertisement, they should attract viewers and keep them interested in watching the full movie. They showcase the main characters, plot base, and atmosphere. According to Dictionary by Merriam-Webster, the meaning of the word "trailer" is "a selected group of scenes that are shown to advertise a movie." Generally, trailers are from 1:30 to 2:30 minutes long. ![]() ![]() I am not even talking about the endless compatibility issues. It is just a huge can of worms and anyone is simply way better off to build a decent Windows PC just for gaming instead. The worst is the overheating, lack of overclocking ability (as of horrible temp management, drastically shortened life as of heat issues - worn out fan bearings, bloated LiIon batteries, need for re-heat-sink-paste of CPUs. MBP were never working well - apart from having to deal with Windows via bootcamp you deal with the underpowered GPUs (even the optional high end GPUs on BTO MBP were usually pretty meh for gaming compared with any low cost GPU on a gaming desktop PC). Macs are just not very good for gaming (I know, sounds like a cliche but yes, it is true). When I did I pretty much played native Windows via Bootcamp. ![]() I did a little bit of gaming in the past on Intel MacBook Pros (I usually opt for fully maxed out BTO MBP ever other generation). I just saw that Parallels released a v16.5 update in April that addresses compatibility of Windows 10 with M1 Macs using ARM emulation - definitely check that out and see how it works with the trial version before buying.ĭon't get your hopes up to play any Windows based games on your Mac. You should definitely try out their free trial if they still offer it first and see if you get along with the lower tier version or if it limits you in any way. They may change their features from version to version so you should definitely check their website (they did always have a really good feature chart of all versions on their website that makes deciding straight forward). I think the last time I checked their top tier version also offers larger RAM and CPU core utilization but for the software I run that made zero difference so again, the lower tier version sufficed in my case. The top tier license comes with extensive admin features which I never needed and has an extended customer support if I recall correctly again, I never needed that so I skimped (it is a significant saving not to opt for their top tier version, everything else was essentially the same for me). I do remember though that I did not opt for their top tier perpetual license. I just checked, I bought v9,10,12 and 14 (currently still on v14). It is not very clear from opening the app or looking at the invoices over the years. Otherwise Fusion was just as nice and feature-rich. Check out both and see which one you like best (both do come with trials).įor me unfortunately Parallels is the only game in town as how my specific Windows apps, hardware dongles and specialty drivers work - Fusion does not support the strange setup I need. ![]() ![]() In the past Parallels and Fusion were pretty much neck to neck in terms of performance and features. Rarely outdated Parallels versions outright "break" but with some Mac OS releases they can, so be prepared to either outright go for their subscription payment or upgrade if you really have to should something breaks. You can therefore think also of the "perpetual license" as a quasi subscription fee if you need to stay current and need the latest safety and functional features with Parallels. This does happen basically with every major MacOS update since years. This is ESPECIALLY useful as Windows screws up ever so often and it is just as easy as simply copying the VM file from a backup if that happens and Windows is back up and running again without any Windows related trouble shooting needed.Īlthough Parallels is available with a perpetual license ( I use one of those), it really is setup with regular major releases designed to coerce all users into upgrading and paying upgrade fees for each major release. The other advantage here is that My SuperDuper backups backup the Windows VM with all the other content on my Mac partitions so I do not have to run any Windows specific backup annoyances but just the regular normal Mac based backups. I do not even any longer have a bootcamp installed Windows installation but run all Windows apps through a VM in Parallels. You can configure Parallels to pretty much completely hide the entire Windows interface and only the respective apps you are launching show that they are Windows native apps as of their app UI. ![]() With Parallels I can run these apps with as little Windows interference as possible and almost pretend I am running them natively in Mac OS only. I do run a few apps for work that are unfortunately Windows only and also depend on hard ware dongles with specialty drivers - again Windows only. ![]() ![]() The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. 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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Traffic Advisory: East-bound Direction of Farrington Highway in Ewa to Temporarily Reopen.HART apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the detour.įor updates on construction work days and times, visit the project website at or contact our hotline at 566-2299. Drivers heading west-bound can still travel between East Kapolei and the Ewa/Waipahu region by using either Kapolei Parkway or Geiger Road on the south end of Kualakai Parkway, or the H-1 Freeway on the north end. That stretch of Farrington Highway continues to be closed in the west-bound direction. Construction along that stretch of highway for the Honolulu rail transit project is scheduled to run until Spring 2014. to safely relocate a major water line and conduct other work along the narrow two-lane road.įollowing the utility relocation work, the contractor is scheduled to re-close that section of Farrington Highway later this year for drill shaft and column construction as part of the planned rail guideway. today, motorists will be able to access Farrington Highway in Ewa in the east-bound direction, and will be detoured onto the Old Fort Weaver Road intersection near the Kahi Mohala Behavioral Center (see attached map).That section of Farrington Highway between East Kapolei and Waipahu was closed earlier this month to allow rail project contractor Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. The east-bound lane of Farrington Highway in Ewa between Kualakai Parkway (North-South Road) and Old Fort Weaver Road Loop will be temporarily reopened to the driving public starting this afternoon, the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) announced today.īeginning at 2 p.m. It does not store any personal data.Of Farrington Highway in Ewa to Temporarily Reopen ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The 5.3 billion rail project is planned as a 20-mile-long, elevated mass transit system to connect Honolulus densely populated historic and business districts. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The board of directors for the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation approved a proposed new recovery plan for the troubled city rail project on Friday that envisions a shorter rail. ![]() on June 30, 2023, with a grand opening celebration at the Hlawa rail station featuring dignitaries and entertainment slated for earlier. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. HONOLULU Mayor Rick Blangiardi announced Wednesday that the first phase of the City and County of Honolulu’s long-awaited rail transit system will officially begin interim passenger operations at 2 p.m. 1972: A 22-mile rapid transit line between Hawai‘i Kai and Pearl City was estimated to cost 700 million. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Blaisdell proposed a three-stage islandwide mass transit plan that included a 29-mile rail line from Hawai‘i Kai to Pearl City installed by 1978. ![]() ![]() If you have a Mac that is unable to boot, use Revive. On Apple silicon, this also reinstalls the latest version of macOS. This action restores the firmware and updates recoveryOS to the latest version and erases all user data. To prepare a Mac for a new user, use Restore. It is important to use the correct port on your MacBook Air with Apple silicon, or a Mac Mini, or a MacBook Pro.Īnd note that the port is different on your MacBook Pro with the T2 Chip. To return this Mac to service, select it in Configurator and choose Revive from the Advanced Actions menu. In these situations, a Mac with Apple silicon or a T2 chip can be revived which updates the firmware while preserving user data. Revive helps you recover a Mac while preserving user data.įor example, a MacBook Pro could run out of battery during a software update. On a Mac with the T2 chip, this action restores the firmware, after which macOS can be reinstalled using internet recovery. There are two ways to use Configurator with a Mac.įirst, Restore is a great way to return a Mac with Apple silicon to service by reinstalling the latest macOS version. We introduced the ability to restore and revive a Mac, beginning with models with the Apple T2 Security Chip.Īnd last year, we brought those features to each Mac with Apple silicon. Initially, Configurator supported iOS and tvOS devices.īut recently, it has learned some new tricks for managing Mac computers as well. In addition to apps and profiles, Configurator can also install books and software updates.īlueprints provide a great way to apply the same configuration to large numbers of devices with a single click.Ĭonfigurator also provides a rich set of automation tools, including a command line tool, an AppleScript library, and a suite of Automator actions. You can inspect any device to see details like the serial number and hardware addresses, installed apps, and profiles. It features a flexible device-centric design that enables you to configure one or dozens of devices quickly and easily. ![]() Today, I am going to walk you through some exciting updates to Apple Configurator.Ĭonfigurator makes it easy to deploy iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV devices in your school or business. ♪ Bass music playing ♪ ♪ Pradhap Natarajan: Hello, and welcome to "Manage Devices with Apple Configurator." I am Pradhap Natarajan, an engineer on the Device Management team here at Apple. ![]() ![]() ![]() must make up no more than 10% of your overall contribution to this subreddit. Advertising of your own company, blogs, websites, social media accounts, Youtube channel, etc. No Marketing or Research Posts - No marketing, research, or advertising posts. This keeps content quality high, and removes the incentive of profit for redditors who post and comment, keeping the community fair, honest, and ethical.Ħ. 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Fewer items, packed into a single bag for ease of transport to make travelling simpler with more focus on the experience than the logistics. ![]() Large collection of leather & metal cuffs, collars, hoods, gags Warden's area Sink with mirror Fridge Microwave water, coffee & tea Towels, cleaning supplies etc.R/Onebag is a minimalist travel community devoted to the idea of lugging around less crap. Intake/interrogation room Control center with:Ĭamera monitoring for each cell and areas Warden's desk Warden's necessaties to restrain/control prisoners Interrogation chair Mug shot/fingerprint area Lockers to store personal items Metal restraints gear wall Gallery with original gay art by zackĬell block Shower/examination area, with water hose Rimming chair 2 cells with prison toilets and sink Maximum security solitary cell (double door) Padded and soundproofed cell Wall & ground attachment points throughout Dungeon space* Entry area with gear lockers and gear wall Dungeon bed by with integrated St. Andrew's Cross Spanking bench Standing cage Small cage with head lock Puppy cage with double head lock Full metal isolation box Vintage operating table Bondage rack Bondage post Bondage chair Two electric hoists with suspension bars Leather sling Bondage gurney Lounge corner with leather sofa and pillows * Dungeon space configuration may change Gear Leather mail sack Leather body bag Strait jackets Violet wand kit Milking machine over 100 whips, canes and paddles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Using MSLTSCALE is a really good way of checking that your linetypes are going to look as you expect them to, without having to ‘Flick’ back and forth between Paperspace and Modelspace.ĭo you know how to which Linetype definitions you should use to meet the ISO Technical drawing standard? Read these posts on defining ISO linetype definitions to find out more.DWG TrueView is a free reader from Autodesk that allows you to look at drawings in their native. MSLTSCALE Overrides LTSCALE and CELTSCALE in Modelspace, but it doesn’t effect Paperspace, so it won’t change how your geometry looks inside your viewports. This allows you to have a preview of how the line type scale might look when seen through a scaled viewport. Setting MSLTSCALE To 1 (On) will cause the Line type scale of any geometry in model space to be scaled by the Annotation scale. Setting MSLTSCALE to 0 (Off) is the default setting and will behave as Autocad always has. Like Paper space line type scaling, Model Space Line Type Scaling only has two options. This is a reasonably new (Since 2007), but extremely useful variable. ![]() You might need to use the ‘ REGEN’ or ‘ REGENALL’ command to see the result of any changes in your viewports. ‘ LTSCALE’ and ‘ CELTSCALE’ Still effect the Line type scale of your geometry. If you use paper space layouts, turning paper space line type scaling on ensures that all your geometry will have the correct line type scale, no mater what the viewport scale is. ![]() Setting ‘ PSLTSCALE’ to 1 (On) means that the line type scale of your modelspace geometry will be scaled to match the viewport scale. Setting ‘ PSLTSCALE’ to 0 (Off) will mean that the linetype scale factor of your modelspace geometry will not be effected by the scale of your viewport. This variable controls the linetype scaling of geometry displayed in paper space viewports – Paper Space Line Type Scale. You can also change the line type scale of some geometry after you’ve drawn it by selecting the geometry and looking for ‘ LTSCALE’ in the properties palette.ĭon’t forget to set the ‘ CELTSCALE’ back to match ‘ LTSCALE’ when you’re finished. You can use this feature to vary the linetype scale of your lines as you draw them. By setting CELTSCALE to 0.5 the next line you draw will have a linetype scale factor which is half that of the lines drawn previously. Sets the Current Entity Line Type Scale i.e. If you use Paper space layouts, just leave this set at 1.0. ![]() If you only draw and plot from Model space, you can use LTSCALE to scale all your line types to suit your plot scale. Changing the linetype scale factor causes a ‘ REGEN’ so you can see the result of your changes straight away. Use LTSCALE to change the scale factor of all linetypes for all geometry in a drawing. This variable sets the Line Type Scale factor globally. Why have I suggested these settings? Let me run through each one in a little more detail. These values are saved in the drawing, so it’s worth getting them right in your template file. To change a variable’s value, simply type it in at the command line and enter a new value when prompted. It can seem a little confusing, so hang on tight while we take a run through them… Suggested values: There are now four AutoCAD variables that govern your line type scale. The worst thing about AutoCAD is that the programmers never throw anything away! The best thing about AutoCAD is that the programmers never throw anything away. ![]() ![]() After Hastings is outed as a Downer, he is at least left with a melee weapon – useful for escaping security guards – and winds up in an underground bunker stocked with materials that can be crafted into useful items. Hands-on time with We Happy Few reveals a survival game which is definitely more black comedy than horror. ![]() Perhaps the surprisingly thing about this Orwellian dystopia is that Compulsion Games is not based in Britain, but in an old gramophone factory in Montreal. People are obsessed with manners, like in the show Keeping Up Appearances – but then they bury everything beneath that.” It’s a really common theme, and I love it. “So from there, that concept reminded me of the movie Hot Fuzz, and I was thinking that it seems to be a common theme in British shows – there’s an episode of The Avengers, for example, called Murderville, which is set in a cute town, but there are dark secrets underneath. So what led Compulsion to turn this interest into a game? “The studio head wanted to do a dystopia, set in an alternate history, he wanted a society where everybody was forced to be happy, and he had the idea for the happy-masks,” says Clayton. “And there’s a lot of Monty Python-style humour, too”. ![]() “And Blow-Up for the aesthetics.” She adds that the game has a whole area which is effectively a tribute to Dad’s Army. “They include The Prisoner, Clockwork Orange, Brave New World, Doctor Who and Brazil,” she says. Art director Whitney Clayton reveals that the team is fascinated by British culture, and happily reels off a list of influences. It’s Joy-poppers v Downers in We Happy few. This is a Britain in which drugged out bliss isn’t a counter-culture activity, it’s a legal requirement. ![]() Unlike his colleagues, it emerges, Arthur hasn’t been taking his mandatory Joy pills. Suddenly he spots a story with personal relevance, but as he’s processing it a colleague sporting a Mary Quant dress and a white mask with a rictus grin, enters. Wage-slave Arthur Hastings is sat at his desk in an extravagantly British office in 1964, surrounded by Heath Robinson vacuum-tube machinery and period furniture, balefully performing his job of erasing uncomfortable stories from back-issues of a newspaper. The opening of the E3 demo, which momentarily silenced the usual energetic whooping, evoked the spirit of another wonderful introductory sequence, from Terry Gilliam’s seminal 1985 film Brazil. For some, this strange combination of 1984, A Clockwork Orange and Bioshock feels very much the game of the moment. ![]() But as a black comedy set in a dystopian Britain being destroyed by a vast group hallucination, it may now take on more profound and pressing connotations following last night’s result. This year, a tiny studio named Compulsion found itself thrust into the limelight after its project We Happy Few caused a considerable splash at Microsoft’s press conference. T here’s always one game at E3 that proves, counter to the general theme of the show, bigger isn’t always better. ![]() ![]() ![]() This camera can produce very nice, 16″x20″ prints. It gave me a photo kit that only weighed 4.5 lbs. I carried a 12MP light weight Panasonic G1 with 14-45mm and 45-200mm lenses, and mini Cullman tripod. We scheduled our trip during the first week of August to hit the normal peak wildflower season in the high country. We allotted 5-6 days for the trip to allow plenty of stops for good photo opps. Our final destination was the String Lake canoe launch site. We started at the Granite Creek trail head located on the Moose WIlson Road. The approximate route of my own 38 mile backpack trip is shown in the google map seen above. If you are planning a multi night trip, make reservations via the internet as described here.Grand Teton NP regulations and information for back country camping may be found here. Two-thirds of the permits are reserved for this in person process. If you wish to get a permit with a one night stay, you can apply at the Jenny Lake ranger station in person one day before you start your hike. Only the last two will get you into a position to photograph the backside of the Tetons in a meaningful way. If you have no intention of backpacking, I’ve created a list of possible day hikes in the Cascade Canyon area here. ![]() If you wish to spend a serious amount of time on photography I would recommend a trip at least 5 days in length. But if you wish to see the entire thing you must commit to a backpacking trip of 3-6 days in duration. Parts of it can be viewed and photographed on long and strenuous day hikes. Accessible only by foot or horseback, it spans the 30+ mile long spine of the Teton range and was pioneered by the legendary Wyoming climber Paul Petzold. The answer lies in the back country of Wyoming. So where can the western side of the range be seen from? In a few places on the western side of the valley near Driggs Idaho, you can see the tops of the highest Teton peaks sticking out, over the foothills. Unlike the eastern side, a large and prominent set of foothills almost entirely hides the west side of the range. Do the Tetons even have a west side? If you drive into Idaho over Teton pass, you might be surprised at the view. For my online map of the photo sites in Grand Teton National Park look here.Ī less obvious fact is that all of these great photos are taken on the east side of the range. The unobstructed vistas made possible by this fact are what make these images so outstanding visually. ranges scattered throughout Colorado and Montana, the east side of the Tetons have no foothills. What makes the Tetons unique? Unlike the many Rocky Mt. ![]() Snake River overlook, Schwabacher’s Landing and Oxbow Bend are but three of the many locations made famous by thousands of classic landscape images over the years. Being a long time Wyomingite I definitely would rank them as such. The Teton Range located in Grand Teton National Park, in the state of Wyoming, is in many people’s opinion the most photogenic mountain range in the continental US. ![]() |