Activists shut down the nestle plant illegally draining water in California. Hopefully they can keep it shut down. Holding out hope for direct action here.
'In the 14 months since, Portland and the state have been wrestling with the minutia of city regulations and an unexpected Oregon Supreme Court decision that might have derailed the whole thing.
On Thursday, Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill that undoes that October court ruling. House Bill 2485 exempts "gigabit" Internet service like Google's from a thorny property tax that dates to the 1970s and was originally intended for microwave towers.'
'It all started Sunday as Archie Brown Jr. drove his van through the northwest side of Milwaukee on an errand to Home Depot.
Brown hit Damani and leaped from the vehicle to attend to the toddler. Damani's 15-year-old brother, who had been celebrating a birthday in a nearby house, ran to his brother after witnessing the accident.
At that point, police said, the boys' uncle, Ricky Chiles, took the law into his own hands, emerging from a home into the street with a gun. He fired at the 40-year-old Brown, striking him and hitting Chiles' teenage nephew, who witnesses said was attempting to help when he was shot.
Brown died at the scene, alongside Damani. The teenager, Rasheed Chiles, died at a hospital.
"This sad example is what we get when we have folks who decide it's their responsibility to use their guns to redress their grievances," Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said Thursday at a news conference. ... On Thursday, Ricky Chiles III shot himself as police and federal marshals closed in on him at a motel in the Chicago suburb of Lyons, where he was staying with his girlfriend.'
Uncle Suspected In Twin Killings Commits Suicide After Toddler Is Run Over Huffington Post MILWAUKEE (AP) — Damani Terry just wanted to join a group of girls dancing in a park across the street. The 2-year-old stepped into the road — right into the path of an oncoming van. The van hit the toddler, and the driver jumped out to check on the badly ...
UK indie developer Bossa Studios plans to release its first Apple Watch game alongside the release of the device later this month.
Spy_Watch places you as head of a spy agency with a mission to train a spy, send the spy on operations and rebuild your agency's former glory.
Gameplay centers around real-time notifications between you and your agent in the field that are sent and delivered via Apple Watch's interface, according to the press release. Complete a mission to earn money, which can then be used to improve your spy's abilities.
"We are now all used to communicating via short text based messages and we felt this would be a really interesting and accessible way to tell an interactive story," Bossa co-founder Imre Jele wrote in a prepared statement. "Thanks to the Apple Watch we are now able to bring the thrill of espionage to your wrist, just like one of James Bond's infamous gadgets."
Bossa's previous games include Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread.
Perhaps trying to keep up with her co-star David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson has added a new book to her plate, which already includes an X-Filescontinuation and a third season of The Fall. Anderson published her first book, a novel about a very rational woman—who was definitely totally not Dana Scully, she swears—investigating a supernatural mystery, last year. This time around, she’s co-writing a “revolutionary self-help guide” for women with journalist Jennifer Nadel.
The self-help book, titled WE, will focus on the varied needs and desires of women. Anderson explains that the project will be aimed at women of all ages, from all around the world, and include transgender women and anyone who identifies as a woman. Anderson saysWE is not intended as a political treatise, but she often speaks openly about feminism, women’s rights, and the way the film and television industry treats women ...
Lots of dev jobs, but despite the hed lots of onsite jobs as well, and no way to search those by location(!)
You already know women are super underrepresented in tech companies. Stay-at-home moms in particular aren’t hired often, if at all, and that’s a problem. In order to deal with this issue, two women have started a job site that gives women the chance to work remotely in the field, or in any field really!
Katharine Zaleski and Milena Berry launched PowerToFly, a website that gives women the flexibility to work from anywhere and connects them to jobs that suit their schedules and needs. There are full and part-time positions available, and the idea is that women can find something that fits their lives so they won’t be spread too thin from doing too much, but still be able to work and have a family.
The site launched in August and has had tens of thousands of registrations and almost 700 employers, from Buzzfeed (who hired 20 women from the site) to Hearst (16 hires). PowerToFly just launched an app for social networking and news updates.
So what kind of jobs are available? Companies are looking for anything from translators to developers to account executives. The range is huge, not just in tech, but there are definitely a lot of tech jobs needing some talent.
This highlights an important conversation about the workplace: Women still feel pressured to have families and to stay at home once kids are in the picture, which makes having a career difficult. Even if they don’t, companies often aren’t flexible enough to allow working parents to care for their families. PowerToFly tries to resolve these issues.
Are you ready for some 8-bit video games? GameStop’s new pilot program is aimed at getting the classics into their stores, and you will be supplying them.
GameStop, a place where you can buy and sell your game stuff, will be testing out a new program in NYC and Birmingham, Ala. That’s around 250 stores where customers can trade-in classic games and hardware for most retro platforms.
The consoles, games, and accessories they’re looking to buy from you include NES, Super NES, SEGA Genesis, SEGA Dreamcast, Playstation, and N64. They’re going to have a Refurbishment Operations Center to inspect, test, and fix up things that come in. The warranty for these items will be the same as their more current consoles.
If you want to buy any of the retro merchandise, you have to order it from their website and then you can pick it up at the location of your choice. That way, you don’t hear that your console is in another store.
The program starts on April 25.
GameStop has been looking back at older systems for a while now. In March, they began accepting Play Station 2 consoles again for in-store credit. They also take iPhones, tablets, headphones, and all this other stuff. They have a history of redefining their interesting trade-in system so you might want to do some research first to see if it’s worth it.
Would you want to trade in your childhood N64 for some in-store credits? Or would you want to buy, say, Mario Kart if you saw it was up for sale? What do you think?
'To see a frozen head in a box might have raised a number of red flags. In the U.S. that’s not a big deal, but there, they may not be accustomed.'
merbs writes: After losing a long battle with brain cancer, 2-year-old Matheryn Naovaratpong became the first minor ever to be cryogenically frozen. This article is the story of how a Thai girl was frozen in Bangkok and shipped to Arizona to have her brain preserved in liquid nitrogen, while medical science works on a cure. "Typically we’d move the head from the trunk of the body. We didn't know what their reaction would be from the family, the mortuary, from border officials; this has to go through a number of shipping venues, customs, the TSA and so on. To see a frozen head in a box might have raised a number of red flags. In the U.S. that’s not a big deal, but there, they may not be accustomed."
An anonymous reader writes Starting today Seattle pedestrians can no longer pat their pockets and claim to have no cash when offered a copy of the ironically-named Real Change weekly newspaper by a homeless street vendor. Google has spent two years working with the Real Change organization to develop a barcode-scanning app which lets passers-by purchase a digital edition with their mobile phones. Google's Meghan Casserly believes the Real Change app — available on Android and iOs — represents the first of its kind in North America.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
This is probably the first broad intersection between the tumblr left and tumblr liberals since Ferguson was big in November and what’s funny is that like, we were on relatively the same page then? Like thel iberals got the radical standpoint and saw how useful direct action was then and because we were working from ‘the whole system is corrupt’ liberals got when we started being like ‘oh, also hillary isn’t saying or doing shit right now. remember this”
so what the fuck has changed since then
“Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn… Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority. And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them—or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.” - Anna Karenina
I can’t access the P-V translation that is way more devastating than this one, where they compare putting on whatever prevailing liberal opinion with putting on the latest trendy hat (or maybe the quote is a bit further ahead, I can’t find an accessible copy of the text atm, mobile etc.), but the passage puts in great terms the way liberalism, whether it’s 21st century America or late-tsarist Russia, is the same.
the way in which liberals apprehend the world around them is as a passive bystander subject to a stream sensory stimuli and letting that stream carry them through life, what Mao refers to as the first stage of comprehension in which the world of things as they appear is the way things are. During Ferguson, a stream of precepts (what was going on as presented in tumblr/twitter versus what was shown in the press before the police arrested WaPo/HuffPo reporters and turned them against Ferguson) created the affect of righteous anger. This anger, combined with the knowledge gained through direct experience (the solidarity b/t Palestine and Ferguson, for ex) led to a qualitative leap in people’s understanding of Ferguson that was, for a moment, accidentally very radical, creating an atmosphere in which the popularization of statements like, “when hillary comes around asking for her vote remember her silence now” could happen because for liberals, Ferguson was the newest, trendy thing.
basically it was a fluke for liberals not actually invested in Ferguson or dismantling anti-blackness or what have you but carried along for the ride because it’s simply what people were doing.
“Stepan Arkadyich subscribed to and read a liberal newspaper, not an extreme one, but one with the tendency to which the majority held. And though neither science, nor art, nor politics itself interested him, he firmly held the same views on all these subjects as the majority and his newspaper did, and changed them only when the majority did, or rather, he did not change them, but they themselves changed perceptibly in him.
Stepan Arkadyich chose neither his tendency nor his views, but these tendencies and views came to him themselves, just as he did not choose the shape of a hat or a frock coat, but bought those that were in fashion. And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat. If there was a reason why he preferred his liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many in his circle) it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but because it more closely suited his manner of life. The liberal party said that everything was bad in Russia, and indeed Stepan Arkadyich had many debts and decidedly too little money. The liberal party said that marriage was an obsolete institution and was in need of reform, and indeed family life gave Stepan Arkadyich little pleasure and forced him to lie and pretend, which was so contrary to his nature. The liberal party said, or rather, implied, that religion was just a bridle for the barbarous part of the population, and indeed Stepan Arkadyich could not even stand through a short prayer service without aching feet and could not grasp the point of all these fearsome and high-flown words about the other world, when life in this one could be so merry. At the same time, Stepan Arkadyich, who liked a merry joke, sometimes took pleasure in startling some simple soul by saying that if you want to pride yourself on your lineage, why stop at Rurik and renounce your first progenitor–the ape? And so liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked his cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.
Tolstoy, trans by Pevear and Volokohnsky, 6-7 altho basically the first six chapters have a bunch of burns on Oblonsky.
A number of Star Wars: The Force Awakens posters or pieces of promotional artwork appear to have leaked on social media this morning, ahead of Star Wars Celebration.
ngl, I really wish Blizz would just sell (or even rent!) dedicated servers of WoW Classic for lan/small group play. I would run 5-mans all fucking day long if I didn't have to buy into the whole fucking "experience"
The WoW devs are setting up a couple of weekend events dedicated to letting players attack old-school dungeons. It looks like they’re tinkering with character scaling in order to make older dungeons for babby players relevant to the old guard:
“When you Timewalk these dungeons, you’ll find that your character’s power and gear has been scaled down to a fraction of what they normally are. For the first time in years, some dungeons you outgrew long ago will once more put your skills to the test.”
More specifically, your powers get adjusted to the level of the dungeon but you get to keep all your skills and talents. It’ll be available for characters level 71 and above for Burning Crusade content, 81 and above for Wrath of the Lich King.
But what goes down must come up (actually it mustn’t, that’s not how physics works – this is just me titting about with a popular saying just so I can use it as a segue in this article. It would probably have passed without comment if I hadn’t put this big long comment in myself). In addition to scaling you down so you can get a meaningful challenge as you play, the loot you’ll garner is scaled up to be appropriate for your actual level.
According to Blizzard: “We will also be testing additional rewards, such as a level 100 quest that rewards one Seal of Tempered Fate per weekend, so keep an eye on the in-game calendar.”
The dungeons will be trialed in the public test realm over the next few weeks – here’s the list:
'When Sailor Moon’s licensors start taking the property seriously and are willing to take notice of the facts regarding their characters’ popularity outside of Japan and Italy, they might make some progress.
When the licensors stop competing with their own licensees, the Sailor Moon market will improve.
When the licensors stop trying to re-capture the events of 1992 and start building a franchise for 2015, they will have better results.
But it’s not going to happen. Sailor Moon will forever be left out of the world of video games. I’m sorry.'
It seems a Bandai Namco representative by the name of Tak Miyazoe made some remarks last weekend at a press event suggesting there is sudden interest in a new Sailor Moon video game.
It reminds me of the time a friend of mine and I went to a big theater to watch Aliens for the second time. We sat in the back, high above the majority of the crowd and waited until the first medlab scene when Burke gets too close to the facehugger stasis tube. The entire theater jumped at once. It was priceless.
We knew what was going to happen. Watching the audience experience the film was more interesting than the film itself.
Watching new people try to license Sailor Moon for adaptation into a video game is equally entertaining. I know exactly what is going to happen. I wrote the book on it.
My first clue was Miyazoe’s subtle but all-too-familiar blaming American fans for Sailor Moon’s alleged failures in the U.S. “We’d want to know that fans would support the game,” says Miyazoe. Indeed.
I’ve been personally involved in every attempt to make an English-language Sailor Moon video game since 1997. I tried to license the characters in 2000, right before the television ratings tripled (an event I predicted). Timing was wrong.
I was hired by DIC and launched a Gameboy title project in 2002. The clock ran out on the license.
I was approached by Toei in 2010 to make an iPhone game (bet you didn’t know about that one, did you?). Why, I even commissioned mock-ups and wrote a 15-page business plan. You should have seen the evil magic library level! Vetoed.
I’ve spoken with Viz Media about the rights since Crystal first aired. Sailor Moon’s been on the air since mid-2014. Is there a game yet? No. But there are still two “Coming Soon” pages on the official web site!
I interviewed both the developer of the 3VR title in 1997 and the head of the company that licensed the Italian title in 2011. And if there is one thing I’ve learned, it is this:
There will never be another English-language Sailor Moon video game.
Leaving aside for the moment the now proven fact that Sailor Moon’s merchandising efforts outside of Japan are and will remain a train wreck, those responsible for the rights to these characters simply don’t care about markets outside of Japan.
I have well-placed sources inside and outside the Sailor Moon licensing structure who confirm the Japanese licensors consider the U.S. a secondary market at best and further seem to prefer to avoid significant contact with their American licensees.
It’s not that they don’t want a game. They just don’t care.
Now this may be because they don’t believe Sailor Moon can be a success in the United States. I have proof they are mistaken. As I point out in my book, The Incredible Untold Story of Sailor Moon, these characters helped build the #1 cable channel in America. Sailor Moon came within one phone call of ruling the universe right alongside Pokemon. In fact, those of you who are Pokemon fans have Sailor Moon to thank. Were it not for her, your favorite pocket monster would still be in a filing cabinet somewhere in Machida.
It may also be the true owner of the property is either unable or unwilling to manage it properly.
With the exception of DIC Entertainment and some would argue Irwin Toy, the Sailor Moon rights were mishandled in the late 1990s, and they are being mishandled now. Those who own this property are far more interested in earning pocket change building an enormous catalog of costume jewelry and character statues instead of putting their multi-billion dollar franchise together with the multi-billion dollar U.S. video game industry.
Video games are marketing vehicles, just like films. Oh, that’s right; Sailor Moon could have been a movie too. In fact, Sailor Moon, Pixar, and Disney had the same address right up the freeway here in sunny SoCal about the time I was trying to get the second English-language video game made. Why, Geena Davis was even rumored to be interested in the Queen Beryl role.
But it wasn’t to be, and it won’t be. No movies. No games.
Just before the first English-language licenses expired, my company conducted a survey called the Gemini Project. Our purpose was to gauge interest in an English-language Sailor Moon video game. The survey generated more than 2900 responses, 97% of which stated they would buy a Sailor Moon game sight unseen.
I even printed out the survey responses. The result was a stack of paper nearly a foot tall. 1300 pages. I carried that stack of paper to a meeting at Cloverway (along with an 11 minute animated presentation) and dropped it on the table. It made a rather solid “thud” sound. I announced our idea to the Cloverway representatives by saying “that, ladies and gentlemen, is the sound of your market. Their message is ‘we want a game.’”
Hey, it wasn’t a total failure. I got on Toei’s Christmas card list.
Twelve years later, we ran another survey called the Magellan Project. Same purpose. This one was expanded to include preferred game type and platform. It was a follow-on to the crowdfunding campaign for our book. I wrote a second book about the two surveys called Return to Tranquility. I think you’ll be astonished at what we learned.
Those two surveys are the largest and second-largest surveys of their type ever conducted for this property. I had nearly 3000 copies of the first game sold before we even had a title.
But it isn’t going to happen.
There are numerous people who believe a Sailor Moon game won’t sell. They’re wrong, and I can prove it.
There are numerous people who believe Sailor Moon won’t work as a video game. They’re also wrong, and I can prove it.
There are numerous people who think Sailor Moon is doing just fine with the Crystal series and their 600-page costume jewelry catalog. It isn’t.
Who knows; maybe Tak Miyazoe is listening? If so, I have a message for him: Give me a call! Crowdfunding a Sailor Moon video game would raise seven figures in a week. With a budget like that, we could produce a game that would make Sailor Moon fans weep with joy.
That’s right. You can have your game, Bandai Namco, and it won’t cost you a cent. I might even pitch it to Blizzard. They’re right up the freeway too.
But it ain’t happening.
When Sailor Moon’s licensors start taking the property seriously and are willing to take notice of the facts regarding their characters’ popularity outside of Japan and Italy, they might make some progress.
When the licensors stop competing with their own licensees, the Sailor Moon market will improve.
When the licensors stop trying to re-capture the events of 1992 and start building a franchise for 2015, they will have better results.
But it’s not going to happen. Sailor Moon will forever be left out of the world of video games. I’m sorry.
But hey, in the meantime maybe we can have a few more entertaining moments in the medlab.
'McDonald’s came in at number 110 out of 111, beating out only Chuck E. Cheese.'
Papa Murphy's is notable as it's the only place in the top 10 that takes EBT and only serves food that requires home preparation/finishing
For the third year in a row, Americans ranked the iconic California burger chain In-N-Out as their favorite “limited-service” restaurant chain, according to the influential industry publication Nation’s Restaurant News, in its annual Consumer Picks survey. It also scored the top spot in the hamburger chain category.
(“Limited-service” includes basically anywhere where you pay at a counter—quick service and fast casual restaurants, buffets, cafeterias, and chain steak houses such as Sizzler.)
The family-owned brand has a cult following of foodies and celebrities, from the roving chef Anthony Bourdain to the teen pop idol Miley Cyrus. But to many East Coasters’ chagrin, it hasn’t traveled further from its original California location than Texas.
The Consumer Picks 2015 survey ranks 172 restaurant brands based on food quality, cleanliness, and atmosphere, among other attributes. The survey results are based on 42,196 responses to an online survey that asked respondents to rate restaurants they had been to in the last six months. Results should be taken with a grain of salt: While restaurant brands that received less than 100 ratings were not included, 27 received only between 100 and 149 ratings. Eighty-five were rated by more than 200 respondents.
In the Limited Service category, In-N-Out got the highest score with a 71.9%, which included high marks on reputation (86.5%), food quality (84.6%), “likely to recommend” (81.3%), service (79.5%), “likely to return” (77.8%), and “craveability” (74.9%). At the low end, the chain got a 55.7% for atmosphere and a 31.3% for its menu variety—its offerings are limited to burgers, fries, and shakes, though it’s famous for its “secret menu” of variations on those items.
The top ten in the limited service category includes some unexpected choices—many with rather niche markets or specific offerings. Ben & Jerry’s is at number 3 and Chick-fil-A at number 5. Chipotle came in at 27, while the beleaguered burger giant McDonald’s came in at number 110 out of 111, beating out only Chuck E. Cheese. (Quartz has reached out to McDonald’s and Chuck E. Cheese for comment and will update this post with any response.)
Full rankings are available here (registration required). (In the chart below, as in the full survey results, those are marked with a double asterisk received only between 100 and 149 votes.)
Today, Wikileaks published a database of all of the data leaked from Sony Pictures in last year's hack, comprising 173,132 emails and 30,287 separate documents. The documents contain private legal opinions as well as sensitive conversations between executives, many of which were the subject of reports in the wake of the hack. "This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation," Assange said in a statement. "It is newsworthy and at the centre of a geo-political conflict. It belongs in the public domain. WikiLeaks will ensure it stays there."
The data in question had already been obtained by a number of journalists, but it was not widely available to the public and technical issues made it unwieldy for casual searches. The data was initially released through torrent files, but the release was intermittent and the torrents have long since dropped off the web. The emails also arrived as server-side Outlook files, requiring significant unpacking before they could be browsed. Wikileaks' new database does away with many of those problems, with easy search of both documents and emails.
Some more material prepared for The Hobbit, from the early stages of production. I present the forms exactly as I first wrote them, with some suggested emendations based on later developments.
Lu akraditu!
“I don’t believe it!” lu: “not”, a general negating particle akraditu: root √krd “believe, trust”; akradi “I believe”; -tu 3ms. suffix
Obviously that should really mean “I don’t believe him.” Originally — at the time I wrote this line — I didn’t have a masculine/neuter contrast, but at a later date I added the neuter suffix -hu, which would be more correct -hu: akradihu. I don’t know if this line ever actually was used in the film.
Smaug mamarda
“Smaug is dead.” mamarda: root √mrd “die”; past participle mamard, used as a stem to which perfect endings (in this case -a, the 3sm.) are added.
Anthân lu sharagên
“Omens do not lie” anthân: “sign, omen” a feminine noun that I intended to be both singular and plural. However, going by similar patterns I used later, it should have been anathân as a plural. The root is √nthn “point out.” sharagên: root √shrg “to lie, to say a falsehood”, perfect stem with 3pf. ending -ên.
Karâk Urdekul
“Ravens of Erebor” kark, pl. karâk: “raven: urdekul: genitive/adjectival form formed by adding -ul to the name Urdek “Lonely Mountain” = urd “mountain” + êk, shortened form of ayik “alone, single, lonely.” I should have written Urdêk, Urdêkul.
Mafarrakh d’afrukh
“A burden to carry” mafarrakh: habitual past participle of √frkh “carry,” here used as a noun: “thing habitually carried” > burden. du: “to, for (the purpose of)”; here elided to d’ before a word beginning with a vowel. afrukh: gerund “carrying” from √frkh
Lu mafrad d’abkâr
“Not fit for a fight” mafrad: “prepared, ready” from the root √frd “prepare, make ready.” This is a different participial form, indicating some present state, so literally “being (now) prepared.” abkâr: “fight, strife, battle” from √bkr “fight”; the word abkâr “a fight,” delimited in space and time, can be distinguished from the more abstract gerund abkur “fighting.”
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided [official site] can be completed without killing anyone – even the bosses. This as confirmed by the game’s Executive Game Director, Jean-François Dugas, in a tweet responding to the question. If you’re a fan or familiar with Deus Ex, or particularly Human Revolution, then you’ll understand why this is significant news. If not I’ll explain below.
Deus Ex Human Revolution is one of my favourite games and it was universally praised upon release. It was also universally criticised for its boss fights, which abandoned the feeling of freedom that defined the rest of the game in favour of forcing you into a closed space with a single enemy you had to kill in order to progress. This meant they were a slog against bullet sponges, but worse, it meant that it undermined the character you were attempting to roleplay.
The boss fights seemed a baffling decision from a studio that otherwise knew what made Deus Ex special, and the reason why became clear shortly after release: the boss fights had been outsourced to a different company. The studio ran out of time to do them internally and so had to scrap their initial plans in favour of something simpler.
There’s reasons to be positive about the boss fights next time around. In our interview with Dugas at the time, he said that “I think the biggest weakness there wasn’t the concept of having boss fights, it’s just that our boss fights are not Deus Ex boss fights and that’s why people are complaining about them.” I’m inclined to agree and Human Revolution already has its example of a grand, Deus Ex boss fight in its DLC, The Missing Link. Set aboard a cargo ship, its centerpiece is a boss who you can approach half a dozen ways, including defeating non-lethally and whose special weapon you can steal before you fight them.
Better still, that Missing Link boss fight wasn’t designed as an afterthought in response to the criticism: it was the originally planned design for Human Revolution’s very first boss fight, against heavy soldier Barrett. This was mentioned in the excellent developer commentary on the game’s recent Director’s Cut release [Steam page], which makes the fights more interesting (although still unavoidably lethal). The impression is that Square Enix Montreal knew how to make a good boss fight all along, and Dugas’ tweet suggests that this time they’re committing the resources to doing so.
is there some law that announcements of new fantasy RPGs are required to distinguish themselves as little as possible by leaning entirely on contextless concepts from the setting
Awaken as a mighty Vasall in a world torn by dreadful forces and treacherous intrigues!
New tabletop roleplaying game launched on Kickstarter on April 14th 2015.
With The Games Collective young RPG design team I am part of, I'm turning to Kickstarter to seek funding for our new game, Awaken. Fans of dark fantasy games, creativity and story driven experiences, will feel at home in Awaken, a pen and paper RPG heavily influenced by Slavic and Mediterranean folklore.
The Kickstarter campaign will feature the core game at $55, and will be shipped worldwide.
The logistics and publishing of the Awaken is supported by Studio 2 Publishing, the sales, warehousing, and publishing partner of many game companies, including Pinnacle Entertainment, Exile Game Studio, Crafty Games, Engine Publishing, Hunters Books, Paradigm Concepts, and many more.
About the game:
Step into a land ravaged by war against a nightmarish adversary, governed by the loose Alliance of the Great Cities. The decimated remains of mankind struggle to rebuild their citiesled by the fabled Vasalli, leaders and paragons of societywhile the noble lords indulge in intrigues and power plays.
But with the colossal guardians dying out, the re-emergence of the dreadful Vargans, and the incursions of the mysterious nations from the North, the citizens of the Alliance are slowly coming to understand that their struggles are just beginning.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. I celebrated if one of the bands I like got a single in the top 10; I took it very personally if they failed to. Because enough of my peers had also not loved whichever band of posturing men-with-guitars it was, society was in ruins. Is that, perhaps, how some Skyrim fans feel at news their beloved RPG has been toppled by GTA V as the game with most concurrent users ever on Steam, if you exclude Valve’s own games? And are GTA fans celebrating that their prized cars’n’murder game has claimed another scalp?
GTA V mustered over 301,000 folk playing the game at once, reports GamesIndustry, beating Skyrim’s 280,000 and change back when Bethesda’s dragon-botherer first launched. However, these are but tears in the rain against some of Valve’s own offerings – Dota 2 had over 800,000 players in the same period that GTA was doing its thing, while olden hatfest Team Fortress 2 also exceeded 300k during that time. Which is pretty crazy: even GTA V, a name as big as it gets in ‘traditional’ games, can’t beat what Valve are up to with their now fairly old free to play fare.
Still, Rockstar’s PC version of GTA V gets to say its the most-played third party game on Steam ever, depending on how you narrow down that phrase ‘most-played.’ Delays, two different console versions and a troubled launch haven’t done anything to dim its appeal to players of PC games, and that means more even houses made of gold for Rockstar’s bosses.
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I’m an illustrator and Art Director working in London. I’ve dabble in using 3D printers at work, but only to run out simple models.
This is my first serious attempt at making a custom 3D model kit. It took several months and a lot of learning!
I created the 3D model using AutoDesk 123D – which is a fantastic program to start learning how to create a 3D model. With its simple tools I was able to make everything you see.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
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