Goals are arranged nicely, as you progress through several areas (beginning in the Land of Invention) by completing certain challenges before gaining access to other areas like the Polar Zone and Arabian Nights. The simpler rides, like the Ferris Wheel and free-fall machines, are all pre-fabricated, but have unique appearances designed to reflect various theme sections of the park. The theme park isn't without some interest, though, as the tracks of the various coasters can be bought pre-fabricated or designed in nearly any ridiculous, loopy, vomit-inducing way imaginable (and there are copious amounts of vomit, which adds a bit of realism only true sim players will appreciate). You should make sure a janitor is patrolling and have him stop in." You must constantly consult with the president, the human resources department, the accountant, and anyone else with half an interest in park management - but the name of the game is SimCoaster, not SimBusiness 101.ĭespite the many challenges that test your park-managing abilities and spice things up, such as "Hot Dog over-stock problem," "Customer Satisfaction Drive," or the "Employee Satisfaction Drive," most are tasks that competely fail to trigger any excitement. During gameplay, you're constantly bombarded with advice like "Build a training room and educate your staff!" or "The bathrooms are getting messy. The problem is not merely cosmetic and messages delivered by this weird little helper sum up the general feeling of the game - dull. Whether it's an emergency, such as employee revolts or rides breaking down, or a park shortcoming, like lack of food vendors or high prices, this munchkin is always there. The irritant most immediately noticeable is the weird "helper," a spherical blue being with a bland but cheerful mid-western woman's voice, who materializes in the lower right-hand corner of the screen every 30 seconds. Although filled with a mix of goal-inspired tasks, challenges, coasters, carnival rides, and people management, the game never achieves that feeling of true realism sought by simulation fans. SimCoaster offers the amusement park enthusiast a chance to manage a theme park from the ground up and while the concept is admirable, execution is not problem-free.
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And I only quoted the most offensive (to me) part that I read there were plenty other offensive parts and plenty that I didn't read.Īm I unreasonable? Am I unusual? Thanks for reading my rant. But this certainly strikes me as an abuse of power by Chase. Probably I will simply click the boxes to accept the new terms, because I want to continue to use Chase credit cards and I want to review activity at the web site. (Yes, there is a thread about how to restore email confirmation codes, but my attempts to follow the instructions have, so far, failed.)Īs I said, the Digital Services Agreement is 124 pages, and I have not attempted to tackle it. It's a bit galling to me that Chase says (with my bolding) that it will provide communications by "electronic messaging ( such as e-mail, or SMS text or push notification to your mobile device)" after it removed my ability to get confirmation codes by email. In addition, whether you are already enrolled or are a new online user, we mayĪutomatically send any Communications by Electronic Delivery for any future Accounts.That is eligible for Electronic Delivery. Your delivery preferences to Electronic Delivery for each category of Communications If you are a new online user as of or after the date of this E-Sign Consent, we will pre-set.Of this E-Sign Consent, we will pre-set your delivery preference to Electronic Delivery for New category of Communications becomes eligible for Electronic Delivery after the date Your existing paper delivery election to paperless upon notice to you. Preference for your existing Accounts, you agree that we may, at our election, convert If your Account(s) are already enrolled online and you have already indicated a delivery When you consent to this E-Sign Consent, you agree: Also the paint schemes should also have some diversity, which would include the paint brush toolĪnd things like clothing for later stages. Creature Creation needs some more diversity in terms of biology and anatomy, And the ability to alter the stats of parts to maintain a look without making something that's going to be garbage because it can't dance very well. Should have the ability to plot a course through coordinates and whatnot to reach certain destinations, having to manually pilot your ship around the galaxy can be rather tedious and fickle. Getting lost during Space Stage is incredibly frustrating. Civ should be more like the SIms or something, SimCity maybe? ( I never played SImCity so I'm unsure how it actually plays) Civ stage is kinda boring, should be folded into Space stage for managing colonies and rebellions, that would be neat. Lack of species diversity, everything is a walking egg-laying species, only diverse by their diet or disposition. throwing legs on a cell for it to walk on land is such a jarring transition. The lack of Aquatic stage makes me a sad panda. I haven't really messed with any mods yet but there's some I'm interested in, such as Dark Injection which includes a BUNCH of new parts of creations ported from DarkSpore/ I really like the game, especially after such a hassle to get it installed properly without defects from patches and other issues. Also a cell should not be able to speak or make expressions. For example, a creature that isn't even close to sapience uses human like expressions, hand gestures, and dances. Anthropomorphism Abounds! For a game where you can mindlessly om nom nom on an opponent when it's dead, there is a whole lot of cartoonish actions. The spit weapons could be used to deter attackers, not lure prey in.ģ. When a creature is attacking another creature, It should be more realistic, like landing precision bites to vital parts, relying on your pack members to help you in attacking and killing a bigger species, relying on venom and wait for the creature to die, land an aerial attack if you're a flying creature, or drag unsuspecting prey into the water if you're a water creature or amphibious. In the original spore trailer from 07, the willosaur was brutally beating a smaller species into submission, something which sadly cannot be shown in a kid friendly game. So if we look at spore in a real life light, then helping another species do something, instead of singing, dancing, and shaking thy ass, is the only real way to befriend a species.Ģ. You don't see a flock of ostriches go around singing, dancing, and charming other savannah denezins, now do we? If one species is going to "befriend" another species, it would usually be through helping said species, like helping a herd of herbivores eat from plants and warning them of an incoming predator. I'm going to list a couple of things that could be improved in spore that would make it more appropriate for mature players and more realistic.ġ. The core concept of the game was alright, but it was badly maimed by EA's persistance to keep it age appropriate, as well as keeping certain parts locked away, like the water stage, gore, the extended cell editor, the grox parts, city stage, other forms of navigating the environment, and lots more. I'm sure we all know what spore is, right? Well, for any noobies out there, spore is a god type game where you create a cell and evolve it into a spacefaring civilization. EVOLVE Your Creature through Five Stages: It's survival of the funnest as your choices reverberate through generations and ultimately decide the fate of your civilization.Ok.CREATE Your Universe from Microscopic to Macrocosmic: From tide pool amoebas to thriving civilizations to intergalactic starships, everything is in your hands.Spore gives you a variety of powerful yet easy-to-use creation tools so you can create every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even starships. What you do with your universe is up to you. You can play how you choose: Start in Cell and nurture one species from humble tidepool organism to intergalactic traveler, or jump straight in and build tribes or civilizations on new planets. Each stage has its own unique style, challenges, and goals. About This Game From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve in a universe of your own creations.Play through Spore's five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. 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Foreground Services (FGS) Task Manager.So whether you’re writing or drawing on your tablet, you’ll experience fewer accidental stray marks that come from simply resting your hand on the screen. Android tablets will register your palm and stylus pen as separate touches. Through a setting called Control from locked device, Android 13 removes the requirement to unlock your phone to access smart home controls. In the accessibility settings, a new toggle is available that makes the area you're magnifying automatically follow the text as you type. Choose which apps to install to the guest profile when you make a new guest user in Android 13. With this option, you can trigger dark mode automatically at bedtime. You're alerted about the device when Android identifies that something is wanting to pair with it. Fast Pair lets you quickly pair a device with your phone so you don't have to manually walk through the settings app to do it. Users can set a different language for each app, rather than one global default setting. This feature forces the app maker to ask permission to send notifications, similar to the prompt you get on many browsers. Android reporter Mishaal Rahman has a video showing how it works. Just long-press the notification and decide where on the screen it should go. Drag a notification to one side of the screen to quickly open that app in split-screen mode. The OS also improves on Android 12's privacy features, including the option to allow app access to specific photos rather than all of them, an auto-clear feature that deletes content from the clipboard after a set time, and a 7-day look at the privacy dashboard instead of only 24 hours. Android 13 builds on Material You, Android 12's UI revamp, which allowed a range of customizations like matching your wallpaper colors to your app themes. Choices include a variety of alarms (fire, siren, smoke), household sounds (doorbells, door knocking, water running) as well as animal sounds and people sounds like a baby crying. Apple’s new iOS includes sound recognition alerts where your iPhone will notify you whenever it detects one of the sounds you select for monitoring. Smartphones are getting smarter every day and soon will be able to alert you to ambient sounds like doorbells, smoke alarms and the like. Link the two, and you can feel your phone ringing or a text message coming in right on your wrist. You can also set up tactile alerts from your smartphone via a smartwatch or exercise tracker. Place a vibrating pad under your mattress or pillow to be shaken awake when a designated alert sounds. Tactile alerts are great for alarm clocks, baby alarms as well as emergency situations where you might otherwise sleep through an auditory or visual alert. Check the Notifications settings before purchasing if this is a critical feature for you. Visual alerts are available on some Android phones, but not on others. For iPhone, look in the Audio/Visual Hearing category under Accessibility to turn on LED flash for alerts. Visual alerts also work on some smartphones for calls and text messages. Depending on the size of your home, multiple receivers may be needed so the flash is visible from every room. When a tone is detected, a separate visual signal is activated. Others are separate units you place next to the speaker of the audible alert. Some auditory alert systems have a visual alert option built in so both are activated simultaneously. This method works well for doorbells, telephone ringers, and baby monitors, as well as already loud alerts like fire alarms and other emergency notifications. Make the Alert VisualĪ better option may be using visual alerts where the alert sound at normal volume triggers a secondary alert of a flashing or strobe light. According to the NIDCD, two minutes of exposure to sounds at 110 dBs or more can cause permanent hearing loss. Depending on the volume, loud sound alerts can damage residual hearing, particularly for people close to the alert speaker. While loud tone alerts can be effective for people with hearing loss, they can also be dangerous. Extra loud ringtones are also available for most smartphones. Several brands of landline telephones including Panasonic and AT&T offer this type of product. These amplified alerts can be very loud - up to 100 decibels or more when activated. The most common products with adjustable volume alerts are telephones, doorbells, and alarm clocks. If you can’t hear an alert, one option is to make it louder. Luckily, many options exist and new ones are being developed all the time. Additional alerting methods are required. For most people, an auditory alert is all that is needed for them to take action or seek safety based on the sound, but for people with hearing loss, this is often not possible. Maybe the baby is crying or the phone is ringing, but you cannot tell. The fire alarm goes off or the doorbell rings, but you cannot hear it. This might work a lot better if the Soldier had the disciplinary action. maybe that can be put to use chasing down enemeis?Ī final option would be to uber the engineer. The Spy has several vocal responses, all of which are listed below. Maybe ubering the Scout is the best idea here? he's got mobility so. Voice responses are contextually triggered lines that play after the player has achieved something, for instance killing a certain amount of enemies with a primary or melee weapon, or the player has triggered something, like being set on fire. Then once this is over, then use the backpack. Both of them will need line of sight to shoot their foes, so they can't just hide behind the Pyro as a shield. This means that the uber and the battlaion's backup charge doesn't need to be coordinated to be ready at the same time since he can charge during the uber.Ī third option is to uber the Pyro and just hope the overheal on the Scout and the Soldier can keep them alive during the uber. Since the soldier is ubered, the onlyĪnother option is to uber the solider and then use the battlaion's backup once the ubber wears off. And they can dish out random critical hits. The entire RED push is immune to critcal hits. One tactic is to uber the soldier and use the battlaion's backup at the same time. Or maybe in the upward case, a Pyro pushed their Medic off a cliff. Say a BLU push fizzles out when they use their kritz too early and RED wants to shove them back. There are 7 other people on the team, but we have no idea how well they will coordinate with us. It doesn't need to be upward, just imagine there is a better place for the Sentry Gun. I'm not convinced that's a better spot than the second one or even just outside the old spawn in front of the B point, but it's still better than the first spot. But it's certainly better than the first one I'm not actually sure this is a good spot since highlander players don't use it. This is a great spot (well, maybe it needs a bit more to the left). Say like this is a ok (I wouldn't even call this good) spot. So what is the best way to do a push with 5 people working together with these loudouts? I'm not actually saying these are optimal loadouts.Ī Scout with the Scattergun, Crit-A-Cola, and Boston Basher.Ī Soldier with the Black Box, Battlion's Backup, and either the equalizer or market gardeern.Ī Pyro with the flamethower, Shotgun, and the Powerjack.Ī stock Engineer who has a level 3 Sentry in a Good spot, but there is a great spot he wished he could plop it in. Pro subscriptions are $7/month or $50/year. Extensive content library with 1000+ loops and samplesĭownload djay for free here.Beat-matched sequencing of drums and samples.Looper: remix music with up to 48 loops per track.Sequencer: create instant beats on top of music.AI waveforms: see vocals, drums, and harmonic waveforms per track side by side.AI crossfades: seamlessly blend and swap drums, bass lines, or vocals of two tracks.Loop routing: Loop the beat while the melody of the same song continues playing, and vice versa.FX routing: apply audio effects to individual components of music (Vocal Echo, Harmonic Filter, Drum Reverb, and more) Welcome to djay Pro Algoriddim’s award-winning DJ software has been rebuilt from the ground up for Windows.Automix AI intelligently identifies rhythmic patterns including the best intro and outro sections of songs to keep the music flowing. I think (not 100 sure) that the free version of Djay Pro AI is essentially Djay Pro 2 in terms of features and functionality. Lean back and listen to an automatic DJ mix with stunning transitions. You can still DJ with music from TIDAL - just not with the. When you license Djay Pro AI for 6.99/month or 49.99/year, it comes with all the features of Djay Pro 2 plus all the new features like the integrated Neural Mix. Isolate vocals, drums, bass lines, and instrumentals in real-time The use of TIDAL music with the Serato Stems feature is no longer supported.“Separate vocals/instrumentals of any track in real-time, loop & apply effects on individual components, add beats – and so much more.” These AI processes require powerful hardware to operate in real-time. We know Apple has updated all of their apps to be compatible with Apple Silicon, meaning apps like Safari or Logic Pro X will be ready on day one, but third-parties are working hard to get their apps up to speed.Īlgoriddim update their djay Pro AI Mac app with Neural Mix to be fully optimized for M1 chips. However, all of this new unlocked power will go to waste unless it is utilised by developers. If benchmarks of the new Apple M1 chip are to be believed, the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13″ and Mac mini released next week are all computers to get very excited about. (It is also available on Windows and Android, but those versions are not included in this update, and are not part of this review. One subscription covers you for all three device types. Image credit: Algoriddim The latest update to the djay Mac app with Neural Mix brings new features as well as support for new Apple Silicon-powered Macs. As a Mac, iPhone or iPad user, you’ll download and install djay Pro AI v4 from your App Store. Themes, epics, stories and tasks form a hierarchy. If you are curious about themes, epics, user stories, tasks, and what they all mean, this guide offers definitions for each and pointers for using them together in support of your goals.īefore diving into each term, let's look at how these terms relate to each other. Like many scrum guidelines, this approach to structuring work is effective no matter which agile method you practice. The benefit is stability - steady progress towards your goals and a reliable structure that withstands incremental change. Together they make up a framework for planning agile development - from the strategic level right down to the smallest technical details. In scrum, these work items are referred to as themes, epics, user stories, and tasks. Scrum provides practical guidelines for structuring your sprints, backlogs, teams, meetings, and even different bodies or items of work. For some agile teams, the more structure the better - there is less chance of uncertainty. This is part of what makes scrum so popular. Some agile methods, like scrum, get incredibly specific with these practices. Streamline dev work using Aha! Develop - free for 30 days. Rather, the iterative nature of agile means that teams are always in the practice of incorporating change. When presented with new information during development, you are not meant to scramble, backtrack, or overhaul work in progress. That said, agile methodologies do define processes and principles to follow - giving teams a solid foundation on which to pivot. Pretty much the epitome of being adaptable. This means adjusting plans whenever necessary to provide the best product experience. Agile development teams work in short increments to deliver value fast while incorporating customer and cross-functional feedback. In the world of agile development, the answer is yes. Is it possible to be highly-organized yet flexible? That might sound like an oxymoron - especially when thinking about your approach to product development. |
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