![]() ![]() The company also provide a version for Windows, and even one for the iPad, so I can design wherever I am. Stitch Fiddle: Custom Design to Cross-Stitch Pattern If you want to create a pattern based on your own imagination, you can use Stitch Fiddle. This worked well and did just what I needed. Eventually I found MacStitch by Ursa Software. Cross stitch software for the MacĬross stitch software for the Mac was harder to find. I happily used Easy Cross for my cross stitch designs for many years until moving from PCs to a Mac. Sadly the software I had chosen was slow to be updated, and eventually I started looking around for a replacement. I eventually settled on the most expensive program I could find, after all if it cost a lot it must be good eh? The next step was a bigger and better computer (why is the one we have never good enough?) and I looked around for a Windows program.īy this time we also had the internet and I downloaded and tried all the cross stitch pattern makers I could find. Features powerful drawing and editing tools that will aid your design process. I soon learned that the benefits of designing cross stitch (and later blackwork) on the computer were many. Simple to use- ideal for total beginners or experienced stitchers alike. I especially like the way you can do quarter- and half-stitches, and view. No more scruffy hand-drawn charts with parts of the paper almost worn away where I had erased mistakes. (Hobbyware), although I did see another XS Designer made by MasterStitch. It enabled me to print the charts that I sent to the magazine so they were neat and easy to read. Soon after that I discovered my first DOS cross stitch software. So what happened three weeks later? He would have had to chop off my hand to make me let go of the computer! ![]()
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![]() Both roads and areas are more versatile no longer require a flat terrain and other versions now they adapted to allowing land to build almost anywhere and in many different ways making the city look more realistic. Another important change is the incorporation of streets, highways are economic and are automatically created when creating a large area. However, they also have much higher requirements, and generate more traffic. Higher density has a greater tendency to develop more relevant buildings of its kind, using or providing home population. Now zones are subclassified in densities ranging from high to low. Other developments include the emergence of densities. ![]() In addition all cities are clustered in a region on the home screen of the game you can see the last selected region and you can choose from many other regions, each with different cities and areas to build. Previously, a city could set up deals with neighboring cities that were “simulated” by the computer itself Now you can create multiple cities and unite them by road or sea and define the agreements and cities for a specific use, for example: a city only to work and provide electricity and other tourist or to live and even a purely agricultural community. Īnother novelty is the use of regions and cities overarching element. This restriction was already in the previous version of SimCity. Nevertheless it can not rotate the camera at will: there are only four possible angles. Thanks to the use of new technologies that offer video cards a more realistic wildlife and best visual effects for waves, fog, vehicles, boats and disasters is obtained. SimCity 4 is the second game of this saga working under a 3D engine, the first being SimCity 64, who left for the discontinued Nintendo64DD (peripheral for Nintendo 64). Cities appear near the graphic level photography: this is because the game is not really 3D, but uses prerendered images put on rectangles that overlap. The main novelty of SimCity 4compared to its predecessor PC is its new look almost 3D. The goal of this game is to reach a city where all citizens are happy to see the progress of the city, if they are not they will move to other cities, however if it does well the city prosper and citizens will love it as well this game is one of those with more realistic features and you have to take care of taxes, earnings, security, education, transportation, health and the environment. SimCity 4 is a game focused on the development of a city, where is the mayor and a city is built slowly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Development was counted with the collaboration of Will Wright, creator of the first titles in the series, and alsoThe Sims and Spore. Subsequently it developed a version for Mac OS X, which was published in June 2003 inUS and later in the rest of the world. It was released for Microsoft Windows on Januin North America, on January 17 in several countries in Europe and January 31 in Spain. SimCity 4 is a city-building game, the fourth installment of the series SimCity, developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. ![]() ![]() Darn allergies, and normal allergy meds aren't helping.) My right eye is swollen up and I can't see out of it. Welcome to the Snap! (Shorter one today, my apologies.
![]() ![]() However, it is proven that these drugs are not helpful to patients with dementia, and can kill them. That is especially common in nursing homes, or when family members tell doctors that the patient is difficult. They are often prescribed to try to make older patients quiet. These drugs are so dangerous for older people that they have a black box warning on the label explaining that they can cause sudden death. Warning: Do Not Prescribe for Young Children or People over 65! ![]() Such serious risks may be considered acceptable for schizophrenia treatment or for severely depressed individuals, but should not be considered acceptable when the benefits are not proven or when safer treatments are available. When the FDA approves a drug with such serious side effects, they look at the balance of risks and benefits. Despite their huge sales, Seroquel, Abilify, Zyprexa, Risperdal, Geodon and similar drugs often causes rapid weight gain, breast development in boys and men, and may also have serious adverse effects such as diabetes, hyperglycemia, pancreatitis, and sudden death. Most prescriptions for the drug are “off label”– for dementia, anxiety, insomnia, PTSD, and even for ADHD and behavior problems in children and the elderly. Some of these drugs are also approved by the FDA to use with antidepressants if the antidepressants are not effective by themselves. Things become even more confusing when doctors prescribe medications “off label,” which means that the FDA has approved the drug as safe and effective for a specific use, but the doctor is prescribing it for another use which is not FDA approved.Ī group of popular and widely advertised drugs that were approved by the FDA to treat psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic depression) that includes hallucinations or delusions are often prescribed for people who won’t benefit from them. It seems that every day a new “wonder drug” is introduced, often costing 10 or 20 times as much as older medications. Find out why these widely used drugs are not the best choice. For patients who suffer from depression or anxiety, it’s hard to know which medication is best. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I first put my 3090 into this machine, none of my graphics packages could really utilize it except through the “universal” generic Windows driver. Presently Topaz VEAI has managed to increase GPU utilization and framerate considerably, And they claim they are still optimizing. However, implementing this can take a while. The 4090 has a few extended capabilities the 3090 didn’t and is much faster overall. Whether it will be faster in VEAI or not will depend on whether Topaz has been using an Nvidia driver SDK that already supports and optimizes both 30. I will then replace the 3090 with the new 4090 and after making certain I have the appropriate (Nvidia) drivers, etc in place, I will run the benchmarks again and I’ll be able to report on the native speed improvement. Before uninstalling the 3090, I will uninstall all of my OC software and run the benchmark tests. I have the Passmark performance test on this machine. It will probably be a day or two before I have a chance to install it in place of my RTX 3090. I unboxed my new Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 this morning. I am planning on building a prototype as soon as it gets cool enough to starting using my garage machine shop. They can get very expensive.Īs for cooling, I am developing what I think will be the ultimate cooling solution. Of course the next challenges will be finding reasonably-priced UPS units that can support the bigger PSUs. And, it will also have the enhanced GPU capabilities. ![]() It will run slower, but will have many more cores the 10th or the 11th did so it will be much faster for multi-threaded application processing. The i9 will avoid overheating my having a CPU chip with a lot more surface area. Unfortunately, the 12th Gen looks like it will be the charm. In a year or two, we may not even need a separate video card… I have Intel 10th & 11th gen motherboards with their corresponding i9-K CPUs in them, overclocked, too. However, some of the newer Intel CPU/GPU units will have some powerful video rendering capabilities. Even the biggest one that Gigabyte is currently listing will fit with room to spare. I know the 4090 I’m buying will be able to fit in it. My 3090 has been doing pretty well, now that they are actually writing code that will utilize its capabilities. I had to buy a monster-sized case just to support the 420mm radiator for cooling my CPU. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the fleet trapped around Stroggos, only 5% of ground forces surviving, and that number dwindling by the second, your orders have changed: free your comrades and destroy the Gravity Well. The Gravity Well, the Strogg's newest weapon in its arsenal against mankind, is operational. You've made it to the surface of Stroggos in one piece and are still able to contact the fleet. In the second official expansion pack for Quake II, you, and a few marines are the lucky ones. Taking out the Big Gun sounded simple enough, but the Strogg were waiting. 3 New Weapons - Ion Ripper, Phalanx Particle Cannon, and Trap.Once inside, you must scour industrial landscapes, crawl through waterways and air ducts, navigate treacherous canyons teeming with vicious mutants, stow away on an alien spacecraft, and destroy the enemy's secret moon base. baseado no visual clssico de 1997 Quake 2 REMASTERED apresenta texturas melhoradas com Gigapixel / Waifu2x alm de modo debug utilizando o motor KMquake2 do site Via traduzir google: baseado no visual clssico de 1997, o Quake 2 REMASTERED apresenta texturas aprimoradas com Gigapixel / Waifu2x plus modo de depurao usando o. It also has two official expansion packs: The Reckoning and Ground Zero. Quake II isnt a direct sequel to Quake, it merely uses its name due to id feeling the game’s fast-paced, tactile feel felt closer to a Quake game than a new franchise. It was developed by id Software and distributed by Activision. ![]() In the first official expansion pack for Quake II, you are part of an elite commando force that must infiltrate a Strogg site. Quake II or Quake 2 was released on December 9, 1997. Only then will the fate of humanity be known. Outnumbered and outgunned, fight your way through fortified military installations and shut down the enemy's war machine. Quake 2 Released 1997 Add addon RSS Addons (0 - 30 of 134) Reset Posted Updated Name Category Popular Today Popular All Time Licence Relevance No War Quake 2 Singleplayer Map This addon is to prevent monsters in the game from fighting with the player. To prevent the invasion, humanity launched a preemptive strike on the Strogg failed, but you survived. Mankind is at war with the Strogg, a hostile alien race planning an invasion of Earth. *Quake II now includes the main game and both expansion packs: The Reckoning and Ground Zero. Developed by id Software in 1997, Quake II is a critically acclaimed first-person shooter and sequel to Quake that deviates from the original by introducing an entirely new science fiction narrative and setting. ![]() ![]() Also, the beginning of Light Bringer meanders quite a bit as Brown attempts to position everyone for the forward push toward his true goal in the finale. If I had to make any critiques, I would say that the cast of characters has ballooned to the point that it's sometimes hard to keep track of everyone. Once he did though, whoa what a ride! I felt that the last half of the book was much stronger than the first half, but I finished the book eagerly awaiting the conclusion we'll find in book seven, Red God. It also seemed like needed a few chapters to get his pacing and voice back. This one started out a bit like Iron Gold as Brown worked to set the stage and get his characters into position. Light Bringer started out a bit disjointed. There were enemies on all sides and it wasn't clear how our hero was going to pull through. When we left Darrow and the Rising at the end of Dark Age, things were looking pretty bleak. Light Bringer is the sixth installment in the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. I got Light Bringer as a galley! No spoilers here, so you can read the review and still have lots to look forward to when it comes out in July. ![]() Hail Reaper!įavorite quote: “Go fuck yourself, Lysander.” Kidding… kind of. Light Bringer had me crying at 1:30 am and yet I would do anything to start Red God today. Victra, Diomedes, Cassius, Sevro, Darrow “That motherfucker’s gonna burn.” I hope that’s a promise! A new favorite fight scene with Darrow - Breath of Stone. Without getting into spoiler territory, here are some of my highlights: This book is, of course, brutal, but there are also so many really sweet tender moments with focuses on redemption, brotherhood, forgiveness, and breaking the cycles of violence we are born into.Īnd it goes with out saying: Light Bringer is just bloodydamn epic. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book and been so angry at a character that I want to throw the book across the room… well, ok the last time was probably when I read Dark Age… Light Bringer is just one of those book that demands verbal (more than a few curse words) and physical reactions (lots of pacing!). Whenever I think Pierce Brown cannot break my heart more, he does. ![]() I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I hope for improvement but if Lightbringer is long and wanky like Dark Age I can at least pretend that only the original trilogy existed. Pierce better redeem himself from the gore fest and torture porn wank festival that was Dark Age, and the fact that there are now TWO more books in this series and it’s taking forever for them to get published is PROOF that the man fucked things up plot wise so badly in Dark Age that he needs extra time to redeem his nonsense. Some thoughts after I read Dark Age and hated it despite loving the first four books of the series:ġ) We better get a solid resolution to that baby Jackal bullshit Pierce pulled out of his ass in Dark Age.Ģ) Mustang better rule over all these hoes by the end of the series.ģ) Hopefully the Rim will actually be important to the plot in this book.Ĥ) Volsung Fa needs to die a painful death.ĥ) How the hell is Cassius still alive? I need answers.Ġ9/04: Just heard that this book series is being dragged out for TWO MORE BOOKS, Lightbringer and Red God. *Netgalley graciously gave me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. But also, I don't want this story to end. I can't wait four more years for Red God. And like me, you will laugh, you will cheer, you will gasp, you will stress eat, and you will probably cry. But I will say, if you loved Iron Gold and Dark Age, you will love this one. So, for that reason, I don't want to share my feelings on characters too much because it might give stuff away. Now, if you love these books, you know how twisty and turny they can be. She didn't steal the scenes in this book (that honor belongs to someone else), but she did rise in my "favorite character" standings. But Lyria's story and her budding friendship with a particular character really caught me off guard. There were also a surprising amount of grammatical errors, but that's to be expected in an "uncorrected" copy, so I won't hold that against it.ĭarrow and Lysander have strong showings, as you'd expect, no matter how you feel about Lysander (I'm talking about a particular reddit board, iykyk haha!). This book follows four characters, the newest of which (though not technically a new perspective to the series, just the newest compared to the others) is probably the weakest in the book (in my opinion). ![]() In the interest of not spoiling anything for anyone else, I must be brief. Angry that I must wait *however long* for Red God. This book is everything I wanted it to be. Well, I did say I was ready to be hurt again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Common symptoms include abdominal pain that comes and goes, and is located around or below the navel constipation inability to pass gas swelling of the abdomen or vomiting. It could be caused by scar tissue, a twisting or narrowing of the intestine, or if they swallow an object. ![]() Intestinal obstructionĪn intestinal obstruction is a blockage that prevents food or liquid from passing through children's small intestine or colon. Appendicitis is a medical emergency, and these children should receive immediate medical attention. Appendicitis pain typically increases and eventually becomes severe. The pain worsens if children cough, walk or make other jarring movements. It causes sudden pain that begins around the navel and then moves to the lower right abdomen. AppendicitisĪppendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix. This can trigger abdominal cramps and discomfort. When children are stressed or anxious, their bodies release the hormone cortisol into the blood. Talk with their primary care provider if they don't want to eat, are losing weight, have bloody stools or are having repeated episodes of constipation. They may frequently complain of a stomachache, bloating or discomfort. ConstipationĬonstipated children have infrequent bowel movements or hard, dry stools. Seek medical attention if your child has a fever of 100.4 F or higher, bloody diarrhea, or has significant pain or discomfort. ![]() This is an infection marked by watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps and pain, and nausea or vomiting. Talk with their health care provider if the discomfort persists. Prepare smaller meals and try a bland diet. Most of the time, indigestion will go away on its own and is not considered serious. Common symptoms include pain or burning in the area between the breastbone and navel or bloating in the upper abdomen. This is a general term that describes discomfort in children's upper abdomen. Of the many potential causes of abdominal pain in children, the most common include: Indigestion Indigestion or gastroenteritis? Anxious about something? Did they swallow a toy? Appendicitis? It can be difficult to know what to do. They may use terms like tummy ache, bellyache or stomachache to describe it.Īs a parent, it can be hard to decide if your child's abdominal pain is normal or the sign of something more serious. Most children experience abdominal pain from time to time. ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes the dialogue gripes loom larger than the many Soviet-inspired monoliths that fill this unique place is how beautifully realised the game world is. ![]() But while some of my issues with the dialogue can likely be put down to English-as-a-second-language writing, the prospect of reading the PPSH-pace dialogue in moments of downtime, let alone during firefights, was too much.Īfter time, though, I learnt to drone out the basic banter and tune back in during more important story moments. Admittedly, I was advised to play the game in Russian with native subtitles. It’s at its worst during firefights when dude-bro and glove are waxing lyrical on some deep sci-fi themes, but the execution comes off as unintentionally bad. Every story beat is explained to you, then over-explained, then explained some more to the point where it almost becomes confusing because you’re constantly overloaded with a jumble of information. It’s a Deadpool-style deep dive into exposition, minus the charm of Ryan Reynolds and the wit of a strong script built on top of clearly defined characters. You’ve likely never played a game quite like this before.īut the problem is the storytelling-the player-experienced execution of those plot events-is terrible. The plot of Atomic Heart may be formulaic but the way it plays out combined with Mundfish’s willingness to steer heavily into the weird benefits its overall uniqueness. Well, that and the rollout of a robotic workforce designed to take care of the menial jobs and free up humanity to do, well, whatever it likes.īut as any sci-fi fan might expect, large populations of robot workers are a bad command away from turning on their fleshy overlords, and that’s exactly what kicks off the action of Atomic Heart. The game starts strong with a gorgeously presented prologue of a 1955 Soviet city in an alternative reality where Russia has become a post-World War II global juggernaut care of its creation of a “Polymer” super substance. You play as due-bro protagonist Major P-3 who riffs off his more straight-laced talking super-glove called Charles (no, really). ![]() After spending 14 hours blitzing through a main-path run of the campaign, there’s a lot to love about Atomic Heart but its shortcomings loom large. That very first Atomic Heart trailer dropped in 2017 and, honestly, by the time more of the game was showcased, the more I tempered my expectations. So it should come as no surprise that Atomic Heart has been on my radar for years, given how heavily the initial trailers leant into what looked like a Soviet-themed spiritual successor to BioShock. Such is my longing that I’ve recently replayed the first two Rapture-set games and am prepping for another run at sky-high BioShock Infinite. According to the press release, surviving in the hostile environment is not your only quest, as the players will have to discover what has exactly happened in the ruined zone - and the love of two scientist will be the core answer to that question.Oh, how I long for another BioShock game. Stockhausen, our protagonist will face not only dangerous and armed AI, but also an army of the living dead (also known as zombies). The first one is focused on a clown trap while the other one spotlights "Soviet Television at Facility 3826." Developer Mundfish has announced that the game is available for pre-order right now and releases two trailers to celebrate that event. The game tells the story based on the vision of a technological revolution powered by Communism that has already happened and ultimately destroyed the Soviet Union. All that set in the alternate version of the USSR. The said video not only looked too good to be true, but also remained us about the BioShock and Deus Ex series, and just like in those games, fighting is not the only "right" way to finish the game, and nothing stops you from avoiding combat staying in the shadows. The first trailer for Atomic Heart has sparked many discussions among players. ![]() ![]() If you're using Wi-Fi, make sure you're close to the router or consider connecting your device directly to the modem using an Ethernet cable for a more reliable connection. 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