But after growing so accustomed to the last incarnation of OS X, when I installed 10.0.3 on an external disk connected to my clamshell iBook SE 466 MHz (FireWire), I couldn’t help feeling ‘the vintage vibe’. Yes I know, Mac OS X in this blog should be out of place and off topic. Probably the letter was picked at random - I can’t help but pointing out the irony of not “condoning hooliganism or endorsing the commission of pranks” yet granting the reader a £300 prize… (Apparently a worthy prize, by the way: This great prize is worth over £300 and comes courtesy of Direct Connection.) For this issue it’s a Pace 56K Voice modem and a year’s Internet access account with leading service provider Direct Connection. Just thought we’d make that clear.īut where is their sense of humour?! Heh, probably in choosing this letter as the “featured letter”, thus granting the guy a prize. Their answer, in fact, is: We’d just like to say that all the opinions expressed on this page are those of the writers, not necessarily those of MacFormat or Future Publishing Ltd, and we cannot possibly condone hooliganism or endorse the commission of pranks. The letter is interrupted, probably edited by the MacFormat editorial staff. Just a glance over the shoulder before leaving the store and you’ll see salespeople wondering what’s going on! This is repeated on the other Mac, too.Īll that’s left to do is select all the text and, after a quick tour of the store, come back and press Command-J (“Speak Selection”) and walk away. I can then position it right down by the Trash can, sticking off the edge of the Desktop. Next I make the window quite small and invoke the “WindowShade” feature to roll the window up into a tiny title bar. In just a matter of seconds I have over 250 copies of the phrases. Apple Macs - designed by geniuses, marketed by morons! I then select all, copy it, paste it five times and select all again, copy, paste five times and go back and repeat it again and again. I type something like: Apple Macs are the world's best computers ask for them by name. Then I find the SimpleText application and open it. So this is what I’ve taken to doing…įirst, I take time to go through all the Control Panels to set things up correctly on each Mac, including turning the speaker volume up to full. I am always dismayed when I go to our local PC World computer superstore by the lack of things Apple, and the fact that the only two Macs on display are always tucked away in a corner and ignored. It’s titled What in the (PC) world…?, and the reader indeed shows an ingenious, albeit complicated, form of promoting Macs: ![]() The “featured letter” of MacFormat’s Issue 63 is rather funny.
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![]() Though quick to join up with the player for some easy money, she is still interested in finding out if she has been suffering from bad luck or something more sinister. She is smart, tough, and steady with a gun, but has not been savvy enough to survive the ruthless caravan wars that have flared up in Nevada since the NCR's expansion. ![]() Worn down by years of hard luck and a recent rash of terrible misfortunes, Cass is a despondent merchant who is about to get out of the caravan business. For example, she is not aware that golf is a sport, rather than a person, referring to Camp Golf as a monument to a man of that name and recounting soldier remarks that it used to be a minefield, with mine locations marked by numbers. Her knowledge of the world is considerable, but not without holes. As a result, Cass hates drugs of any kind. The other gifts are a penchant for violence and mayhem, enjoying hurting people who deserve it and a congenital heart condition that makes her likely to suffer a heart attack if she takes illicit drugs. Cass originally thought the necklace was her mother's, but eventually learned that it was given to her by her father. She has two things as his legacy: A rose pendant and her name, Rose of Sharon. Cass doesn't consider him the usual kind of family deserter, as she didn't really know him: She was too young to understand why Dad left when he did, and by the time her mother died due to an unspecified illness, sometime between 22, she was an unruly teenager incapable of listening. He never returned, leaving a young Cass to her mother to raise. One day, her father decided to travel once more, to travel the East. Cassidy met her on his travels after parting ways with the Chosen One, convincing her to settle down after a lifetime of travelling the wasteland. 2 Interactions with the player characterīorn in 2244, Cass is the daughter of John Cassidy and a woman from one of the tribes east of the Colorado, before the emergence of the Legion. ![]() * See the related collection page for other cards and recipes not included in this collection. Stockpile games are marked by white luminous. Let’s do this now, with the reshape2 package. The first step is to start R inside your Packrat project, and install the package however you normally do usually that means either the install.packages () function or the Install Packages button in your favorite R IDE. Φ Please note that if cards are not currently available in one of the markets then the current collection cost will only reflect those that are, and thus may not be accurate. This one is fairly simple and can be gotten for BOTH players as long as one has the DLC required to do it. Adding a package in a Packrat project is easy. Tootsie Soul + Designer Shoes + Kitten Heelsīest in Show Trophy + The Podium + Blue Ribbonįrozen Castle + Fairy Tale Snow + Snow Castle Shadow Ninja + Ninja Hiroshi + Moonlit LeapĮlectric Train + Jiya the Tiger + Siberian Tiger Red Carpet + Oscar The Chihuahua + The Girly Girl The pack rat contains single-player and two-player hot seat modes along with a block based level editor. The goal of The Pack Rat is to complete levels while collecting coins and wedges of cheese and avoiding environmental obstacles such as water and light bulbs. Queen Bee + Hardworking Hive + Bumblebee WingsĬhocolate Chip Cookie + Lollipopolis + Red Velvet The Pack Rat is a DOS platformer developed by Steve Blanding and released in 1992. That it is a one-card gameplan for completely taking over and winning. Pack Rat is a pretty messed up Magic card. as people figure out how to use it in the more powerful format. It eventually starts creeping into Modern more and more. playstation, nintendo game consols and gears, guitars, amplifiers, drums. A card gets good in Standard in a way that is outside the ordinary. PackRat is a fun, beautiful, and engaging collectible card game for all ages With over 15,000 unique cards found in more than 900 different collections. Manually added (click on the image to see price history).īaby Humpback Whale + Ominous Volcano + Mysterious Island Packrats Pawn Shop does loans and buy diamond rings, necklaces, earings. « With the release of this special milestone set, PackRat now has 900 collections and almost 15,000 cards in the game! Featuring re-imagined art from 15 of the first collections published in PackRat, this set bridges almost 15 years of game history! Good luck! » Although many self-confessed pack rats lead normal lives, acquiring and failing to throw out a large number of items that seem to have little or no value to others. Many people describe themselves as a 'pack rat,' that is, someone who enjoys collecting items and doesnt like to throw things away. * See the related collection page for other cards and recipes not included in this collection.« Superbly done, 900th Rat! This collection was no easy task, but you persevered, were patient, and managed to collect all 15 cards! Congratulations on Feating PackRat's latest milestone collection-here's to the next 900! » Being a Pack Rat May Be the Sign of Hoarding. Φ Please note that if cards are not currently available in one of the markets then the current collection cost will only reflect those that are, and thus may not be accurate. It is a very addicting game since Spencer and Carly became obsessed with it. The highest score on the game had been reached by Sasha Striker, which was later topped by Spencer. that becomes Spencers new obsession in the episode, iStage an Intervention. Australian Open + Sun Visor + Tennis Balls Tracker - Use the popular Packrat Market Tracker to track the market availability of the cards of the popular Facebook collectable card game, Packrat. Pak-Rat is an arcade game developed by Pixel Opus Arcade Inc. see what you're saying I don't think it's the best they could have done, but honestly, it's not the end of the world or "game-breaking" so I can live with it. This is how my system looks, I tend to run slightly higher saturation which tneds to be amplified in SOTR: That's the fog stuff and makes everything washed out a short distance from the camera. The other thing I don't care for is the amount of volumetric effects used. That's all done with color values for lights in the 3D modeling. The entire place had a washed out look that finally changed back to normal when you removed the curse. Hard to say for sure.Īn example of how lighting affects game coloring.AC Origins used bland lighting in Memphis (I think) to show how that city was cursed. Anyway, I noticed different regions looked a bit washed out in places and others were overly saturated, again most likely do to color of lighting. Lights in 3D modeling (games) have color values and it seems some lights really add too much warmth to where Laura's face is orange, but moving her a bit or rotating her will cause that to change to normal flesh colored. I just captured a screen on my PC (see link below) as I was fast traveling from place to place and noticed the lighting is realliy inconsistent. You could trying lowering your system Gamma and raising the Saturation in NCP and see what happens. I do see what you mean about looking washed out though in shadows in places. :-( I looked at your seems to be renderiing ok in shadows with relef (not flat) and bump mapping taking place. The game is decent, don't get me wrong, but it could look a LOT better. I still have some pretty washed out butt-ugly visuals. It just edits the graphics settings to what Nvidia believes is the best for your system and current game. ![]() From what I've read about GFE, it only sets different options for games, it doesn't do any behind-the-scenes magical tweaking. Originally posted by EbonHawk:Didn't help me, not setting the same parameters as you, anyway. I am using 399.24, latest driver, if that matters. Whatever the case, this actually fixed that problem. I noticed Expierence added a new AA mode into the game settings that I don't think was there before called "SMAAT2x" that its using now. One thing missing in shadows areas was "Bump Mapping" a really big deal. I normally totally ignore Experience rather do things myself, but it genuinely fixed this problem, the game now looks amazing. I haven't bothered installing GFExp in years cuz I always take time at the graphic settings to adjust everything, especially for graphical demanding games like this. GFExp doesn't provide the user a brand new set of graphic parameters, except maybe DSR but that's just a reworked version of SSAA. Originally posted by Nefrai:Doesn't Experience simply adjust the ingame options to what it feels matches your PC's abilities? If I run the game on Max settings, would I get anything out of Experience making change? Now if Experience can actually make changes to the game beyond the settings we are given, that would get me pretty interested. Makes me wonder if this problem is specific to Nvidia cards? I would be curious if others having this problem had good results using Experience as I did? The game now looks like it should, with areas in shadows having depth and details, the game is well worth playin now. It worked GREAT! I never use Experience but this time it was key to fixing this on my machine. I just fixed that problem on my system by using Nvidia Expierence to Optimize this game BUT first I made sure to click on the "Wrench" ICON next to the "Optimize" button to first set highest quality for Optimizing games. Like block walls looked smooth, flat and washed out.shadow areas looked 2D. ![]() The biggest part of this problem was zero relief in those textures as you can see in the "Before" image. Aside from adjusting Monitor Brightness one tic higher the only thing I did is described below. Others posted similar screens with the same Flat, Muddy looking modeling issue. I posted descriptions and sample images yesterday about muddy, flat looking textures in shadow areas. ![]() Git Bash is included in the Git for Windows package. This displays the Git version as an output. To check your Git version type git -version and press enter in your terminal. Once you click on the version your download starts shortly and you can install Git for Windows. To download Git for Windows, visit the Downloads page on the Git documentation site and select the most recent version. GitHub hosts Git repositories in a central location, whereas Git is a tool that manages multiple versions of source code on GitHub. If not, you have to download Git for Mac or Windows. If your terminal returns a Git version as an output, that confirms you have Git installed on your system. To see if Git is installed on your system, open your terminal and type git -version. ![]() You have to install Git for Mac using the above instructions. No, Git for Mac does not come pre-installed. You can install Git on Gentoo using emerge: sudo emerge -ask -verbose dev-vcs/gitįAQs on Installing Git Is Git pre-installed on Mac? To install Git on Arch Linux using pacman, run the following command: sudo pacman -Sy git Once successful, view the Git version that is running to confirm the installation: git -version To install Git using Yum on Fedora, enter the following command: sudo yum install git-core The process to install Git from source is similar to the CentOS installation above. Similar to CentOS, installing Git on Fedora can be done using two options: When completed, check the Git version to ensure the installation was successful. Once your Makefile is in place, compile your Git files using: sudo make install Use the following command to do it: tar -zxf Ĭhange your directory to the unpacked folder: cd gitdownloadversion-*Ĭreate a Makefile in this directory to help compile the downloaded Git files: make configure Decompress it and the extract files using the -zxf option. This command downloads v2.29.1.tar.gz as. Replace the example URL with the one you copied in the previous step. Use wget to download your selected Git version on CentOS. For example, if you selected the version v2.29.1, your download link is. Right click and copy the link for the file with the tar.gz extension. Find a stable Git version (select the one without an -rc suffix): Now, go to Git’s release page and select the version that you prefer to install. Sudo yum install gettext-devel openssl-devel perl-CPAN perl-devel zlib-devel In order to install Git from source install its dependencies first using the following commands: sudo yum group install “Development tools” Option 2: Installing Git on CentOS from Source To install Git on CentOS using Yum, run the following command: sudo yum install git Installing Git on CentOS Option 1: Installing Git on CentOS using Yum If you see an error, consider running the following command before you install Git for Ubuntu: sudo apt update To install Git run the following command: sudo apt install git If your terminal confirms that there’s no pre-installed version of Git, move on to the next section that is appropriate for your Linux system’s distribution. If you need to install Git, your terminal shows the following error: -bash: git: command not found If the output shows a Git version (see example below), you already have Git installed on your Linux machine. Some Linux distributions have Git preinstalled: git -version Check if Git is already installed on Linuxīefore you begin, check whether Git is already installed on your computer by issuing the example command in your terminal. This section shows you how you can install Git on Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, and Arch Linux. ![]() The steps for installing Git on Linux depend on which Linux distribution you are using. You should have a working Git installation on your Windows machine. When you are done selecting your configuration options, click Install at the end.Ĭlick on Finish. Select your terminal emulator, default behavior of git pull, and some extra configuring options.įor the simplest installation, keep MinTTY for the terminal emulator, use the default behavior (fast-forward or merge), and enable file system caching in configuring extra options. ![]() Just like your greedy King in Colonization, Earth will keeping raising taxes and building up a expeditionary force to quell any uprisings so you’ll need to build your own army of futuristic soldiers and mechs to fight back when the time comes for independence! (makes me think of The Expanse tv show) Earth also sends you all these expansion based missions to keep you busy, which some might appear daunting but I didn’t have any trouble completing them way before their deadlines. City managing is very very similar to Col except instead of dragging around little workers representing communities, you can instead allocate the communities themselves using slider bars (eg put 100 people on food harvesting and put 50 people in this factory etc) which feels strange at first but is actually pretty cool once you get used to it as it leads to more player customization and strategy, plus some parts can be automated to save time. Instead of the usual Civ unknown village huts or Col lost cities offering random treasure to your scouts in FreeMars you get asteroid and crashed satellite debris appearing all over the map for you to pick up resources from, they’ll keep coming too so it’s good to have lots of scouts all over the map hunting for treasure lol. Other than some useless swamps there’s no oceans so you’ll be using big space freighters instead of sailing ships that go into orbit and fly between Mars and Earth to trade goods. Mars appears to be partially terraformed in the game as there’s grassy plains and plantations of forests and giant mushrooms bread to survive there that you can harvest. Very impressive and it’s fully playable as I was able to complete the game however sadly it’s a bit unfinished as a number of missing features made it hard for me to enjoy the late game, but the early game was super fun! You get to choose between all these different sized Mars maps (or randomly generate your own) and can have up to 16 nations in the game all with their own interesting advantages. Anyone here played the FreeMars fan game project? As a big fan of FreeCiv and FreeCol I’m shocked that I didn’t know about this game too! I grew up playing Sid Meier’s Colonization and the Mars scenario in Civilization 2 so someone combining these 2 things together into a standalone game is just a brilliant idea! Also has some slight Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri influences there as well I think but it mostly feels like Sid Meier’s Colonization but on Mars! Someone sent it to me in response to my ongoing search for SMAC, Colonization and Mars Scenario Mods (among many other cool mods) for all the Civilization games and thought I was seeing things lol! I downloaded it and tried it out and have been addictively playing it all day every day since (thankfully I’m holidays lol). ![]() Should the game you wish to unlock DLC for not already come with the DLCs installed, as is the case with a good majority of games, you must find, download and install those to the game yourself. NOTE: This program does not automatically download nor install actual DLC files for you as the title of the program states, this program is only a DLC Unlocker installer. If any of the DLC unlockers cause problems with any of the games you installed them on, simply go back to step 5 and select what games you wish you revert changes to, and instead click the Uninstall button this time.Click the OK button to close the program.If the default version.dll doesn't work, then see here to find one that does. Choose whether or not to install with Koaloader, and if so then also pick the proxy DLL to use.Obviously none of the DLC unlockers are tested for every single game! CAREFULLY select which games' DLCs you wish to unlock.May take a good amount of time on the first run, depends on how many games you chose and how many DLCs they have. Wait for the program to gather and cache the chosen games' information & DLCs.Wait for the program to download and install SteamCMD (if you chose a Steam game).The program automatically gathers all installed games from Steam, Epic and Ubisoft directories. Choose which programs and/or games the program should scan for DLC.Read above under Installation if it doesn't launch. Note that the program currently only supports Windows 8+ 64-bit machines, as. If the program doesn't seem to launch, try downloading and installing. Extract the executable from the ZIP file to anywhere on your computer you want.Click here to download the latest release from GitHub.For when the launcher updates whilst you have CreamAPI, SmokeAPI or ScreamAPI installed to it. Automatic reparation of the Paradox Launcher (and manually via the right-click context menu "Repair" option).Automatic uninstallation of DLLs and configurations for Koaloader, CreamAPI, SmokeAPI, ScreamAPI, Uplay R1 Unlocker and Uplay R2 Unlocker.Automatic DLL installation and configuration generation for Koaloader, SmokeAPI, ScreamAPI, Uplay R1 Unlocker and Uplay R2 Unlocker.Automatic gathering and caching of information for all selected Steam and Epic games and ALL of their DLCs.For gathering appinfo such as name, buildid, listofdlc, depots, etc. Automatic download and installation of SteamCMD as necessary whenever a Steam game is chosen.open SteamDB, ScreamDB, Steam Store, Epic Games Store, Steam Community, Ubisoft Store, and official game website links (where applicable) in the default browser.open root game directories and important DLL directories in Explorer.refresh parsed Steam and/or Epic Games appinfo.open parsed Steam and/or Epic Games appinfo in Notepad(++).automatically repair the Paradox Launcher. ![]() Games and DLCs the user selects however, through the use of right-click context menus the user can also: The primary function of the program is to automatically generate and install DLC unlockers for whichever Utilizing the gathered information for the maintenance of DLC unlockers. Parses SteamCMD, Steam Store and Epic Games Store for user-selected games' DLCs, then provides a very simple graphical interface NOTE: This is simply a preview image this is not a list of supported games nor configurations! The program utilizes the latest versions of Koaloader, SmokeAPI, ScreamAPI, Uplay R1 Unlocker and Uplay R2 Unlocker, all by the wonderful acidicoala, and all downloaded from the posts above and embedded into the program itself no further downloads necessary on your part!Īutomatically finds all installed Steam, Epic and Ubisoft games with their respective DLC-related DLL locations on the user's computer, CreamInstaller: Automatic DLC Unlocker Installer & Configuration Generator ![]() Therefore it's good to check the tool after each major update. I've had my setup going since the app came out with zero changes.~~ E3: Possibly! I just installed the latest major update and some of the settings had changed. ![]() Will Win10 revert the changes over time?.Nope! It doesn't even require installation, it's under a megabyte and it's developed by a reputable German software corp. My computer gives me a notification when it can't automatically download updates, I give it the go-ahead to download, and update on shutdown when I choose to. ![]() Yes! Combined with setting your connection as metered, the update process will become similar to Win7. Can I still update my PC if I disable forced updates?.The tool has dozens of different inputs, you get to choose exactly what stays and what goes. It even has one-button presets if you don't want to read. That's fine, everything has a simple on-off button with a detailed description of what each change does and a disclaimer on any potential side effects. I'm not good with computers, will I brick my machine?.I've disabled Cortana, web search, all ads, involuntary program installation, forced updates, all telemetry data and so much more with that in minutes.Į: Thanks for my first gold! I try to promote this any time I can, it's a lifesaver. Get OOSU10, it's a free tool that lets you manage all the junk in Win10 and educates you about it too. ![]() In this example, you enable an opacity slider and textbox on the color picker. You should consider the circle spectrum as more of the "casual" color choosing experience. A user has more control when they select a specific color using a square because more of the color gamut is shown. When you must choose between the square and circle color spectrum, a primary consideration is accuracy. This example shows how to use the ColorSpectrumShape property to configure the color picker to use a circular spectrum instead of the default square. When the user does need precise control, like in a graphic design app, you can show both sliders and text entry fields for each aspect of the color. You can hide the text entry fields and change the color spectrum to a circle. It provides a variety of options that let you configure the control to fit your needs.įor example, when the user doesn't need precise control, like picking a highlighter color in a note taking app, you can use a simplified UI. Not all fields are necessary to let a user pick a color, so the color picker is flexible. Private void cancelColor_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) Assign the selected color to a variable to use outside the popup. Private void confirmColor_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) When the user confirms their color choice, you save the selected color to use later in your app. In this example, you host a color picker in a Flyout with Confirm and Cancel buttons. You can also save the selected color value to use later. For example, when you host a color picker in a flyout, we recommend that you apply the selected color only after the user confirms the selection or closes the flyout. In some cases, you don't want to apply the color change immediately. See the Customize the color picker section for more info. When the color change can be seen and happens in real-time on the affected object, you don't need to show the color preview bar. This example uses a simplified color picker with just the circle and the slider, which is a common "casual" color picking experience. Any change to the color picker results in a live change to the bound property. In this example, you bind the Color property of a SolidColorBrush that's used as the Fill for a Rectangle directly to the color picker's selected color. When the color selection should take effect immediately, you can either use databinding to bind to the Color property, or handle the ColorChanged event to access the selected color in your code. See the following examples for detailed code. You can use either the ColorChanged event or the Color property to access the selected color and use it in your app. īy default, the color picker shows a preview of the chosen color on the rectangular bar beside the color spectrum. This example shows how to create a default color picker in XAML. Get the app from the Microsoft Store or get the source code on GitHub The WinUI 3 Gallery app includes interactive examples of most WinUI 3 controls, features, and functionality. Open the WinUI 3 Gallery app and see the ColorPicker in action. ![]()
![]() ![]() Simply click on the image below to hear their take on promposals. example: I yoinked the necklace out of her hands. hope this helps Yoink could be the noun or verb version of the onomatopoeia for taking away something, or pulling something away rapidly. Stay tuned for next week where we go over the correct scientific use of the term “ogre fished.” Be sure to check out LSO’s new podcast: The Drip Academy. Definition of Yoink I don't know what is Yoink but I know that oink is the sound that a pig makes. If you see signs of a potential yoinkage, STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING… and get some help. An exclamation that, when uttered in conjunction with taking an object, immediately transfers ownership from the original owner to the person using the word regardless of previous property rights. Many innocent civilians suffer from yoinkage each and every moment of every single day. Now you’re down a good $40 you could’ve used on some chicken teriyaki from Sarku Japan. You say sure, why not? I mean you’ve been absolutely annihilating this man. All of a sudden the man wants to bet on the next game. I mean you’re just destroying his livelihood with your eyes closed. First couple games you just absolutely smash the lad without a single issue. You show up to the brotato chip’s crib to play a couple lighthearted games of billiards. Chef Curry yeets up some tre balls and you lose by five. You’ve been up the whole game and now you’re looking at a twelve point lead with only two minutes to go. Out of nowhere your homie taps your right shoulder and shimmies to the left. To answer that, well first need to examine yoink and yeet in relative. You’re living, you’re breathing, you’re doing you. This quest will be dubbed “The Driptionary.” This week, the first week of this epic journey, we will be covering a brief overview of the word “yoink.” Throughout the weeks we will take it step by step, covering a word at a time. I plan, nay, I vow to solve this issue-this divide of words between my boys and the rest of the universe. The boys and I spend an immense amount of time communicating in a language that it seems nobody else understands. This “driptionary” is for those who want to “talk the drip” while they “walk the drip.” You can buy drip or it can come naturally. Tune in for a weekly entry in the “Driptionary,” where you’ll find today’s hottest lingo from one of Londonderry’s most “drippiest” students.ĭrip: The fashion a person has or the way they carry themselves. |
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