![]() ![]() Time was, you watched CBS or NBC or ABC you read Time or Newsweek (or maybe US News and World Report). Opinion: That is most certainly a good thing.įact: To a great extent, media loyalty is disappearing, too. I'd really like some facts.įact and opinion intermingled: But the good news is that the Internet makes it possible for anyone to provide news, analysis, commentary, and opinion from anywhere in the world to anyone on the planet.įact: What you'll find, if you visit the BBC, Al Jazeera, France 24, TV Novosti's Russian Times, the CBC, NewsRoom Finland, Brazil News, or China Daily is that people there have about the same fears, goals, and desires as the people here. Opinion: Belief-based religion is fine belief-based news is not. Radio, cable television, and probably the majority of Internet-based "news" sources are more opinion-based than fact-based. The more outrageous and shocking the reports are, the higher the ratings are and the more money the station makes from the cash cow that used to be a money-losing public service.įact: The national media at least have fact checkers and employees who are trained journalists. ![]() "If it bleeds, it leads," is the long-time motto of local news. Opinion: That's bad, in my view, because local television doesn't do news. Radio provided a headline service, as it still does (except for PBS), and magazines provided long-form serious analysis (as a few still do if you can pick it out from the fluff).įact: Internet-based news sources now rank second to television as the main source of news. Because I feel strongly about journalism and honesty, it seems reasonable to point out which is which in this section even though most people will be able to differentiate between fact and opinion.įact: Long ago, Americans read newspapers and just about everybody watched one of the 3 network newscasts every evening: CBS, NBC, or ABC. This section is part news and part commentary. You might ask if this is good or bad and I would have to say, Yes, it is. Less than 40% of us depend only on off-line sources for news. More than 90% of us use multiple sources: Maybe some NPR while in the car, a newspaper at the office (or maybe you still have home delivery), perhaps some television (if you can call what the television spews "news"), and a variety of stops on the Internet. Ware Do U Get Yr Nwz?Ī report by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project says that most Americans get their news the way you're reading this: Via the Internet. And that's where this article will continue next week. It's the exported image, ready for use on a website. ![]() This image hasn't quite yet burst into flames, but it's smoldering. Related to the fire filter, Eye Candy 6 has a smoke filter. All new effects are applied to a copy of the original artwork on a new layer. After all, you might need the image later without the effect. Once you select an overall look, you can adjust the components to get exactly what you want.Īlien Skin is always careful not to modify your existing artwork. The flames in the second image aren't at hot and they're quite sooty. The flames in the top fire are hot at clean. With the exception of one image, you're seeing a screen capture of the work inside Photoshop.Įach of the filter types has a variety of presets that you can use to select the overall look. In other words, when the image is placed on a Web page or in a publication, the background of the page will be visible where you see a checkerboard here. In the illustrations below, the gray checkerboard area represents transparency. Text ManipulationsĮye Candy 6 offers two kinds of text manipulations, ones that work best when applied individually and those that can be stacked. ![]() But the real fun comes from manipulating photographic images. The earlier applications will all be updated over the next year or so the later applications already work on the newer hardware.Įye Candy 6 is a champion when it comes to text manipulation, which is what I'll show you first. All Alien Skin applications will run on a 64-bit computer, but some of the earlier applications will run properly only when they're running in a 32-bit implementation of Photoshop. When I say the application works natively in Windows 7 64-bit, I mean that you install the application, Photoshop sees it, and everything works as expected. Let me get the technical mumbo-jumbo out of the way first. I was even happier when I saw what it could do. To twist that marketing phrase just a bit: "With a name like Alien Skin, it's got to be great." I've been looking at Eye Candy 6 and I was happy to find out that it's one of the Alien Skin products that works natively in a 64-bit operating system. Remember "With a name like Smucker's, it's got to be good" as spoken by Mason Adams? If you do, you're older than you look, but then so am I. ![]()
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There was also always the constant pressure of being on time, obeying traffic laws, and driving as smoothly as possible. Some missions spiced things up with a change in weather conditions to make driving a little more interesting. For instance, there were school bus missions, while others consisted of transporting workers and tourists. It gave players impetus to drive a number of different buses under various circumstances. All of the gameplay took place in individual scenarios. This bus driving sim was Bus Driver and it was built upon the 18 Wheels of Steel engine.īus Driver was a mission-based driving game. The team created a bus simulator by reusing the engine and assets from their former mainline truck simulator series. The icing on the cake for this whole fantasy of an idea is that SCS actually already has already pulled off this concept before in the past. As stated before, there aren’t really that many other bus simulators out there, so it’s not as if there’s much in the way of competition. ![]() I believe this would be a good path for SCS to take. The beautiful and complex worlds of ATS/ETS 2 are a great foundation for a hypothetical new bus simulator. ![]() The core aspect of any driving/racing game is how realistic the handling and physics are, and ATS/ETS 2’s strength in this area would definitely serve as good blueprints for this hypothetical new bus simulator. ![]() All that’s needed is some tweaking and voila! Okay, maybe it’s not that easy, but it’s definitely a solid foundation. So, not only could SCS re-use the assets of the worlds that’s been built for ATS / ETS 2, but the physics system could also be reused. They’re both heavy vehicles and require a lot of steering power due to their length in addition to weight. A bus and a semi-truck aren’t really in the same class, but the driving mechanics are rather similar. On top of that, SCS clearly has quite a lot of experience with building vehicle simulators, specifically dealing with big machines. ![]() There are miles and miles of virtual landscapes, complex road networks, intricate cities and towns, and well-modeled landmarks. After he said this, the idea just made so much sense to me.īoth ATS and ETS feature pretty huge and very detailed maps. To add to that, he also made a good point: SCS could simply build upon the assets they’ve created for the two aforementioned simulators. Those that are currently active aren’t really up to snuff when compared to the caliber of simulators like American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator. During one of his gameplay videos of Fernbus Simulator, he mentioned how he thinks it would be cool if SCS were to create a modern bus simulator since there are so few of them floating around. I must admit that this thought didn’t come to me until I heard it mentioned by a well-known simulator YouTuber, who’s channel name is simply: “Squirrel”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Go to Hosts and Clusters, select your cluster, open the Manage tab, then open the Settings tab, and select Services > vSphere DRS.ģ. You can read how to create and configure VMware clusters in the eBook about VMware clustering.Ģ. Open VMware vSphere Client and connect to your vCenter Server. Using the example below, let’s explore how to set up VMware vApp.ġ. It is also possible to deploy a vApp in the environment where one ESXi host is managed by vCenter, but this option is not usually used in the production environment. 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The store, like most deck building games, has a row of purchasable items under the deck that you can buy if you are at the store but you also get one refresh action per visit which wipes all three cards into the discard pile and gives new cards to choose from. The designer took a lot of common mechanics and added them all into the game with various tweeks. The game feels like a winner while setting it up and comments were made multiple times about how good this game was going to be based on the various mechanics and components. The gameboard is huge, the minis don’t need to be assembled, the cards are quality with good artwork and backs and the player cards are stiff cardboard with indentations where the cubes go so you cannot accidentally knock them around if you knock the board. The back of the box shows off the giant board, miniatures for both the heroes and major monsters and just screamed “Buy Me!” so I did.įirst off everything in the box is of the highest quality, it all looks and feels great. I am a big western/horror fan (Deadlands/Doomtown being favorites of mine)and I just had to pick up the box to check it out and the comic artwork is really great. I noticed it immediately upon visiting my local game store (Game On in Warwick, RI – represent!) the box art just grabbed me with its artwork and title although I keep calling it The Few and the Cursed. You can check out their catalogue page, here.The Few and Cursed board game based on the hit comic book series is one great looking game. Read The Few and Cursed: Heart Shaped Ambition Don’t sleep on The Few and Cursed, it’s just too good to pass by. I wouldn’t suggest it as a point of entry to this amazing world, but its still a good read and I recommend it. Heart Shaped Ambition is an excellent, albeit B-tier, addition to the world. The Few and Cursed is an amazing series that is constantly growing in new and exciting ways, whether that be boardgames, table top RPGs, or spinoff stories. I was truly caught up in the story, and I felt like no character was safe from meeting a violent end. Featuring some of the most interesting and fully realized characters in the Few and Cursed series, Heart Shaped Ambition succeeded in making me empathize with some characters and feel disgusted by others, and occasionally both. Everyone has an agenda and nothing is as it seems. Heart Shaped Ambition is a story of betrayal, black magic and revenge. The Few and Cursed: Heart Shaped Ambition is a great pirate story. Heart Shaped Ambition was made with love and it shows. The end result would have been very different with quadruple the budge, but I don’t think that would have actually made the book better. Heart Shaped Ambition’s team was able to create visually appealing and distinctive artwork that I enjoyed on a Kickstarted budget. It’s obvious this is a Kickstarted project and not a heavily polished big budget production, but that’s a compliment not a criticism. Kickstarter backers were also treated to an excellent black and white version of the book as well. The art style leans heavily on the penciling which creates a distinctive style that is marred in some places by Clonerh’s heavy shading. That said though, I felt the coloring was the weakest part of the book, occasionally feeling unfinished. Instead of the dry sepia tones that come with a desert planet, we’re treated to the blues and greens of oceans and jungles. This change in setting allowed colorist Clonerh to use a different palette than what we’ve come to expect from the series. That’s not a bad thing – the world is rich, with almost infinite possibilities for choices of location and time period, and filled with dark mysteries. Heart Shaped Ambition’s world bears little resemblance to what we’ve come to expect from the Few and Cursed, taking place prior to the mysterious cataclysm that wiped out the world’s water. The latest entry into this world, written by Carlos Estefan with art by Pedro Mauro, The Few and Cursed: Heart-Shaped Ambition, tells Bartholomew’s story leading up to that initial moment. We first met Captain Bartholomew Eamus in Turks and Caicos in Scarlet Dream, written by Felipe Cagno and drawn by Jose Luis, the first story in the collection Chronicles of the Few and Cursed. What we’re left with is a world of gunslingers and saloons, blowing deserts where there were once oceans, curses, and monsters both human and otherwise. ![]() The world of The Few and Cursed is a fresh take on the post-apocalyptic setting: a world where almost all the world’s water vanished overnight in 1840. ![]() ![]() ![]() Architects, interior designers, and realtors may speak of vaulted ceilings or structures. Vaulted sees wide and varied use, as we’d expect for such a diverse term. Fortnite was initially released in 2017, but the slang vaulted in this sense appears to spread in early summer 2018. Vaulted weapons are still available, however, in the game’s Playground Mode, which is kind of like a private sandbox for a group of players. It’s as if they have been locked away in the vault where only people with high-level clearance can access them (i.e., the game designers). A weapon or item in this game is said to be vaulted when it is taken out of rotation. 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