![]() The Field of View when it zooms out to both sides makes things a lot harder.Same for things like double-time or the scroll speed so I don't have to go into those modifiers for every song I play. Like, if I selected unbeatable and and am cycling between songs, it would be nice to remember that. I also wish it remembered your song modifiers from song to song.Whether that's with a retry option on the score screen or if I get dropped back onto that song on the track select, either would work for me. When I finish a song I'd like to be able to dive back into it right away.There's a few bugs (right now the train section gets stuck) so I've mainly been just grinding songs and not worrying about the story. Music is great and the charts are challenging, but definitely accomplish-able with practice (and not just raw memorization.) If the full game plays like this, this will end up being the most satisfied with a Kickstarter I've ever been! I'm so stoked about this game and the Kickstarter Campaign as a whole. all I've really done is casually watch a few Tantacrul videos. ![]() I didn't like Friday Night Funkin' either.) (Then again, I'm the kind of person who prefers a really no-nonsense skill-focused rhythm game, so I might not be the target audience here. When everything is trying to stand out, nothing in particular stands out, which is bad if you're trying to gauge how you're doing on the fly. It's gorgeous to watch, but as a player, it's really hard to pick out key information. Visual effects, camera movements, L-R perspective shifts, score, combo, percentage, time offsets, heartbreak meter, "Up Next" popup, etc. * There was also just too much information/stimuli presented at once for me. It was hard to tell how the notes aligned with the timing grid, even with the square of 4 circles placed around Beat. To me, there was too much squishiness/fluidity for me to be able to develop the hand-eye coordination needed to lock into a groove. * The art style is amazing, but it felt imprecise for a rhythm game. ![]() The center stage takes up a lot of space, leaving not very much runway for incoming notes. * For faster/dense sections that include both L and R notes, I felt like there wasn't enough horizontal width to react quickly enough. I'd be happy with Miss/Good/Perfect (similar to what Taiko does with Bad/OK/Great). "Miss/Barely/Okay/Good/Great/Perfect+offset" is a lot of different states. * The note feedback is possibly a bit too granular. It felt funky to switch between trying to hit something and trying to dodge something. * The dodge "notes" felt a little janky/imprecise, because all they give you is a "nice" compared to the feedback for actual "notes". The interruptions were breaking the immersion/flow for me, so I skipped the tutorial and learned by jumping straight into a Normal song. * The tutorial has these constant interruptions every time you make a mistake. Especially if you're simply trying to switch difficulties. ![]() * Having to sit through the same cutscene every time you start up a new song was a little annoying. I would much rather be able to choose between a couple fixed/limited options rather than having EVERYTHING (WASD, IJKL) available at once. While great for flexibility, it made it hard to settle on a play style. * My gut reaction was that were too many button possibilities. Having auto-detect could help to simplify the UI. * Also, including controller button hints (triggers, "(x)") was a little distracting if you're not using a controller. I had to actively concentrate to navigate the menus, when it could have been intuitive/natural for players if the game tapped into the keymaps people already know. Same with splitting up WASD for song choices (WS/AD for song/difficulty just didn't gel). I would have preferred if the game stuck to menu keymaps that people already had muscle memory for (arrow keys, start/space/enter, etc.) for example, 'F' feels really awkward for menu confirmations. * The menu navigation keys felt really awkward and unintuitive. (and this is coming from a rhythm game aficionado!) I was immediately wowed by how stylish and gorgeous the art is! But, I had a really tough time playing this.
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![]() Though it uses the same HTML Rendering engine as that of Chrome, still it has covered all the features that are not in the list of other browsers’ characteristics. Vivaldi:Ī new challenger in the game, Vivaldi is out winning many hearts. It also has features like Torch music, Video Download, Torrent support, etc. There are many themes available for the browser and is an important feature for experiment-loving peeps. Based on the Chromium project it supports every extension of Google Chrome web store. ![]() With a unique design, Torch is one of the best browsers for Mac OS X. If you are the one who wants the Chrome extensions but doesn’t want to use Chrome, then you should go for this one. With many cloud-assimilated features like syncing, sharing and managing files, Maxthon has been a very powerful browser. Maxthon:Īpt for seamless browsing, Maxthon is a Multi- platform web browser for Mac users. ![]() The browser also handles the entire RSS feed which is a great feature. You can also change the font of any website if it is not up to your liking. Omni Web:īetter known as the Feature-rich browser, Omni Web comes with numerous features like Visual Tabs, adding websites to shortcuts, automatic rendering of web pages, etc. The company no longer develops this browser further, but you can still download the last updated version. It is much like Firefox, just with the more Apple-friendly edge. It has many new features in its latest update like Annoyance Blocking, Malware protection, and Pop-up Blocking. ![]() The Mac-only browser Camino is also a great one with a much better user interface for Mac users than Chrome or Firefox. Also, it can be said as a Privacy-inclined browser as it let you choose the information you want to share. You can also bookmark the pages and titles live. It has a broad variety of add-ons, which are useful to increase productivity. It lets you visit the sites even if you don’t remember their URLs by only typing a keyword of the same. Just like Opera, Firefox is also a veteran. Its ‘Mouse Gestures’ and ‘Speed dial’ and ‘Opera Turbo’ features make it different from the other browsers. But don’t let its age fool you.Īs it is said that wisdom comes with age, Opera also has become wise regarding features. It is by far the biggest competitor of Safari in the market. The best part of this browser is its minimalistic design and Speed. Yes, I agree that Chrome was launched for Macs a bit late, but that wait was worth. The top-notch browser for any platform is without any doubt Google Chrome. We’ve picked some of the Browsers for Mac from the lot that you can check on and ditch Safari for a while if you want. Some of them are for all the platforms while some are just tailor-made for the Macs. Like in the case of Safari, sometimes we’re not happy with the extension compatibility and want to switch to some other browser.įor that, there are hundreds of Web browsers those can be relied on. There are many Safari alternatives for the Mac users out there to browse the Internet.Īpple has this philosophy of making tools that are one-off, but they also want their customers to be loyal to their products.įor that, Apple products like iPhone or Mac are loaded with the default apps.įor instance, the web browser given is Safari, and the e-mail browser is Mail.īut, there are times when we don’t want to use these default apps. Then you must pay attention to what I’m going to say next. Are you a Mac user and stuck with using Safari as a default browser? That’s part of her reason for being in “Mob Wives.” She is also writing a book about Growing Up Gravano. “I think our parents tried to keep us out of it, but it’s the only world you know,” she says, “and in Staten Island, everybody looks up to gangsters and street guys like they’re celebrities in Hollywood.”īut Karen has learned there’s a downside to the underworld. “We are all similar women who come from a similar world and the same life situations,” says Karen, who, for a future episode, was hosting a kaffeeklatsch recently in her living room that overlooks New York harbor. Keeping it all in the family, the show’s creator and executive producer is Jennifer Graziano, Renee’s sister. Now they’re bonding at their Staten Island, N.Y., stomping ground for a new reality show, “Mob Wives.” A sort of “Growing Up Gotti” multiplied by four, this lively, eye-opening series premieres at 8 tonight on VH1. Not surprisingly, all four women have crossed paths through the years and, in certain cases, been lifelong pals. Most notable of all, Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, the notorious mob turncoat who cooperated with the government to help take down John Gotti and the Gambino crime family.She tells her twin girls that daddy’s away, working. Now her husband, a former broker, is behind bars for stock fraud. ![]() Carla Facciolo’s father went to prison when she was a girl.Drita D’avanzo is the wife of Lee D’avanzo, the alleged leader of a Bonanno and Colombo crime family team who has been incarcerated for bank robbery - twice - spanning most of their married life.Her ex-husband has also had a scrape with the law on a gambling charge. Renee Graziano’s dad is Anthony Graziano, who is a high-ranking member of the mob, Feds say, and is currently serving time for racketeering.
![]() An “In“ monitoring setting can be easily recognized even when the In/Out section is hidden by the blue color of the track’s Activator switch. With this setting, output from the clips is suppressed. This setting effectively turns the track into what is called an “Aux“ on some systems: the track is not used for recording but for bringing in a signal from elsewhere. To permanently monitor the track’s input, regardless of whether the track is armed or clips are playing, choose In.The default Auto-monitoring setting does the right thing for most straightforward recording applications: Monitoring is on when the track is armed (record-enabled) (see ‘Recording New Clips’), but monitoring is inhibited as long as the track is playing clips.The In/Out section offers, for every audio track and MIDI track, a Monitor radio button with the following three options: If the track’s output is set to “Master,“ you can hear the guitar signal, processed by whatever effects are used (and delayed by whatever latency the audio hardware interface incurs), over your speakers. Monitoring then means that the signal from your live guitar playing actually reaches the track’s output, via the track’s device chain. Suppose you have set up an audio track to receive its input signal from a guitar. “Monitoring,“ in the context of Live, means passing a track’s input signal on to the track’s output. In our “Ext.“ example, these would be the individual audio/MIDI inputs and outputs. If this signal type offers sub-selections or channels, they are available from the lower chooser, or the Input/Output Channel chooser. Within a chooser pair, the upper chooser selects the signal category (“Ext.,“ for instance, for external connections via an audio or MIDI interface), and is called the Input/Output Type chooser. Remember that instruments convert MIDI to audio (see ‘Devices and the Mixer’). All tracks have audio outputs, except for MIDI tracks without instruments. The lower chooser pair (“Audio/MIDI To“) selects the track’s output.The Monitor radio button selects the monitor mode: the conditions under which the track’s input is heard through the track.Return tracks receive their input from the respective sends (see ‘Return Tracks and the Master Track’). Audio tracks have an audio input, and MIDI tracks have a MIDI input. The upper chooser pair (“Audio/MIDI From“) selects the track’s input.The Mixer’s In/Out Section and Mixer Section Selectors.įor every track that can play clips, the In/Out section has the same layout: Toggle its visibility using the I/O Mixer Section selector, or via the View menu’s In/Out option. The In/Out section can be independently shown or hidden from the Session and Arrangement Views. ![]() The mixer’s In/Out section is Live’s “patchbay.“ Most routing happens in the mixer’s track In/Out section, which offers, for every track, choosers to select a signal source and destination. In the context of Live, “routing“ is the setup of the tracks’ signal sources and destinations (i.e., their inputs and outputs). There are advantages and disadvantages to these different makeups. Some camping mattresses for couples use all foam, some use all air, and some use a combination of both. Nylon is generally a stronger material than polyester, but laminates (which can make a pad more airtight) apply better to polyester than to nylon. Most camping mattresses for couples are around 75D in thickness, with a thicker shell providing additional durability. The exterior of inflatable camping mattresses for couples are typically constructed from either polyester or nylon at varying thicknesses, which is measured in denier (D). Things to Consider Before Buying a Couples Camping Mattress Best Air Mattress: ALPS Mountaineering Vertex Air Bed.Best Low Profile: Klymit Klymaloft Sleeping Pad Double.Best Height: Coleman SupportRest Plus PillowStop Double High Airbed.Best Closed-Cell Foam: HEST Dually Long.Best for Cold Nights: EXPED DeepSleep Mat Duo 7.5 LW+.Best Overall: Sea to Summit Comfort Deluxe Self-Inflating Sleeping Mat.To help you make the right choice for you and your significant other, we checked out seven popular models to find the best camping mattresses for couples available today: But getting your first double-wide sleeping pad is typically a significant investment-and one that can mean the difference between a cozy, restful night of sleep and dark looks on the car ride home. At a certain point, every outdoorsy couple looks at their matching twin sleeping pads and wonders why their tenting setup resembles a 1950s sitcom bedroom: time to upgrade to a couples camping mattress.
Other times, we are presented with more subtle cliffhangers, showing a seemingly happy ending for our characters and a clear wrap-up of their story, but with just enough hints to leave us with a lingering sense of dread around what further horror might be in store after the credits roll. These endings can be set up in several ways perhaps a final shock reveal will show our antagonist to still be alive and out for revenge, or perhaps they’ll show our protagonists to still be under threat or trapped, cutting to black before we have a chance to see things fully play out. Get it wrong though, and you risk leaving your audience with a frustrated feeling that they’ve watched an incomplete story that the writers were either just too lazy to finish or are hedging their bets on future sequels to resolve dangling plot threads. Who can forget the eerily ambiguous conclusion of John Carpenter’s The Thing for instance, or the shocking final scare at the end of The Blair Witch Project. Get it right and you leave your audience in suspense, inspiring many post-film discussions and debates as to what might happen to our protagonists. release, “Evil Dead Rise” is now in theaters.A great cliffhanger ending can be a tough nut to crack. “I think ‘Evil Dead Rise’ is a bloody slash in a new direction,” he concluded. But I’m enthusiastic about the opportunities for more.” Where we go next, in a lot of ways I think, you want to listen to fans and see what people get excited by. And there’s also the lake and the countryside as well. There’s also the people that will arrive at this building, post carnage. There’s the 10-minutes-later story with those that survive and where they go. There’s history in this film that’s shared on vinyl, and that’s a place that can be gone to. “I’ve got three to four different avenues that we can take. ![]() “”In terms of moving it forward, I think there’s great potential there,” Cronin said of the franchise’s future. And once you let the genie out of the bottle, I love the idea that can’t put it away.” Lily Sullivan in “Evil Dead Rise” “It might not have been an intentional choice on behalf of, but when they’re just driving in in Evil Dead, this force kind of rises up and is showing its head in the forest and it’s like, But no one’s even read from the book. “I’ve always liked that about Evil Dead from the get-go,” he said. “That’s the one thing I wanted to really double-down on in this film and the line is there, on the vinyl, when the priest says, ‘This evil can’t be contained, can’t be stopped, all you can do is run.'” “For me it is the beginning of something greater,” the writer/director continued. In the Evil Dead world, your psychological strengths and weaknesses have an impact in terms of how you’re possessed and how you behave.” And I remember taking influence from COVID: everybody gets it different, right? There’s no one size fits all. The idea of someone, who is slowly turning into a Deadite, driving a car kind of cracks me up. ![]() She then gets attacked, becomes possessed, and presumably gets her ass in gear to go on vacation anyway.Īsked if Jessica’s surprisingly mobile maneuvering of the California highway system portends some kind of scalable Deadite apocalypse, Cronin said, “Exactly that. ![]() Jessica exits her apartment building and, totally oblivious to the hell that’s been unearthed around her, stumbles upon some Deadite carnage near her car. After the film’s gruesome main event and outrageous woodchipper finale, we see Jessica again: this time pre-possession and on her way to meet those soon-to-be former friends for a lake weekend away. We first meet Deadite Jessica lakeside, delighting in the drone-involved dismemberment of her friends Teresa (Mirabai Pease) and Caleb (Richard Crouchley) before the title card hits. So it felt within the world and acceptable to do.” Lee Cronin (left) and Alyssa Sutherland (right) for “Evil Dead Rise” Like ‘Evil Dead II,’ it’s got this weird prologue and nothing quite connects. He continued: “But also as much as it felt different, Evil Dead is kind of weird. “The order of the movie is what happens in the city, then it’s the epilogue with the girl in the parking lot, and then it’s the opening, which I found quite fun and also just felt different for an Evil Dead movie.” “The first sequence we experience in the movie, if you actually reordered it, is the last thing in terms of the timeline,” Cronin explained. Why the Terrifyingly Immersive Sound of ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Demands to Be Heard in TheatersĮven with Alyssa Sutherland’s single mom Ellie skittering apartment walls like a cannibalistic cockroach in the main story - a brutally funny portrait of an urban Los Angeles family literally torn apart by Deadites - it’s Jessica who makes the movie’s whackiest journey. Recipes: Many short paragraphs, each marked with a flower- or star-like "bullet". Pharmaceutical: Many labeled drawings of isolated plant parts (roots, leaves, etc.) objects resembling apothecary jars, ranging in style from the mundane to the fantastical and a few text paragraphs. This section also has foldouts one of them spans six pages and contains a map or diagram, with nine "islands" or "rosettes" connected by "causeways" and containing castles, as well as what may possibly be a volcano. ![]() Some of these diagrams are on fold-out pages.īiological: A dense continuous text interspersed with figures, mostly showing small naked women, some wearing crowns, bathing in pools or tubs connected by an elaborate network of pipes, some of them strongly reminiscent of body organs.Ĭosmological: More circular diagrams, but of an obscure nature. The last two pages of this section (Aquarius and Capricornus, roughly January and February) were lost, while Aries and Taurus are split into four paired diagrams with 15 women and 15 stars each. Most of the females are at least partly naked, and each holds what appears to be a labeled star or is shown with the star attached by what could be a tether or cord of some kind to either arm. Each of these has 30 female figures arranged in two or more concentric bands. One series of 12 diagrams depicts conventional symbols for the zodiacal constellations (two fish for Pisces, a bull for Taurus, a hunter with crossbow for Sagittarius, etc.). None of the plants depicted is unambiguously identifiable.Īstronomical: Contains circular diagrams, some of them with suns, moons, and stars, suggestive of astronomy or astrology. Some parts of these drawings are larger and cleaner copies of sketches seen in the "pharmaceutical" section. Herbal: Each page displays one plant (sometimes two) and a few paragraphs of text-a format typical of European herbals of the time. Following are the sections and their conventional names: Except for the last section, which contains only text, almost every page contains at least one illustration. Illustrations: The illustrations of the manuscript shed little light on the precise nature of its text but imply that the book consists of six "sections", with different styles and subject matter. None of the many speculative solutions proposed over the last hundred years has yet been independently verified. The mystery surrounding it has excited the popular imagination, making the manuscript a subject of both fanciful theories and novels. As yet, it has defied all decipherment attempts, becoming a cause célèbre of historical cryptology. Possibly some form of encrypted ciphertext, the Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II. However, most of the plants do not match known species, and the manuscript's script and language remain unknown and unreadable. High-resolution scan of a Voynich manuscript. Much of the manuscript resembles herbal manuscripts of the time period, seeming to present illustrations and information about plants and their possible uses for medical purposes. High-resolution scan of a Voynich manuscript page with detailed illustrations of the Pokemon Bulbasaur. It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912. The Voynich manuscript, also known as "the world's most mysterious manuscript", is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy. Bonne chance!” Indeed, godspeed to the armchair researcher who cracks the spine on this enigmatic text, as it’s consumed many a worldly researcher with its mysteries.This ebook is the complete reproduction of the preserved Voynich Manuscript, formatted for high resolution color ebook reader displays. Raymond Clemens, who edited the book, notes that “generous margins have been provided next to teach photograph - perhaps even for you to work out on your own interpretation. Currently, the Spanish publisher Siloe is working on a more faithful (and more expensive) reproduction, so perhaps along with the Yale edition, there will be a swell of new speculation on the manuscript’s meaning. However, it’s the sheer persistence of the visuals that makes the Voynich Manuscript so mesmerizing, as well as its scrawled indecipherable text. It’s true that one page seen on its own might appear odd, whether an astrological diagram or naked women interacting with water features and bizarre botanicals. First it was “oddly anticlimactic: small, worn, and drab outside cramped and confusing inside, and with tiny handwriting and sprawling imagery.” She “could not stop turning the pages.” Historian Deborah Harkness in an introduction describes her own hour with the manuscript in 2012. ![]() The effects of sunscreen may linger longer than expected, too. The long-term use of these chemicals, and especially chemicals not adequately tested for safety, could be problematic.” Sunscreen Chemicals Build Up in Your Blood “We slather these ingredients on our skin, but many of these chemicals haven’t been adequately tested,” says Carla Burns, EWG senior director for cosmetic science. “Despite the known toxicity concerns, oxybenzone is still widely used as a non-mineral active ingredient in sunscreens. Even the European Commission, which reviews ingredient safety in Europe, published a final opinion finding oxybenzone unsafe for use at current levels. ![]() The National Toxicology Program released findings linking oxybenzone exposure to a higher risk of thyroid tumors in female rats. With warmer weather right around the corner, though, many people are looking for the best sunscreens to cut their risk of sun overexposure, sunburns and possibly skin cancer.Įnvironmental Working Group’s 16th annual Guide to Sunscreens is a mix of good and bad news when it comes to the state of sunscreens sold in American and beyond. For instance, oxybenzone - a suspected hormone-disrupting chemical that is readily absorbed into the body - is now present in 30 percent of the 1,850 products EWG investigated. While that may seem high, consider this: three years ago, about 60 percent of sunscreens contained this concerning chemical. It’s no secret that the sun (in moderate doses) provides all sorts of health benefits, including helping our bodies manufacture vital vitamin D. ![]() ![]() Top Picks for the Best Baby Sunscreens (and Overall Kid-Friendly Picks).The Best Sunscreens of 2022: Daily-Use/Moisturizers.The Best Sunscreens of 2022: For Recreation.Sunscreen Is Only One Tool in the Sun Safety Toolbox.Sunscreen Chemicals Build Up in Your Blood.This post is about safe & non-toxic sunscreen brands for the entire family. That’s exactly why botanically-infused skincare brands like Ann Marie Skincare, Blue Lizard & Babo Botanicals use it religiously. Zinc, in particular, is highly recommended for UV Protection, skin healing, as well as an acne treatment. Not only are they approved by the FDA as being a natural SPF, but they are also organic minerals found in the Earth. Yes, Zinc Oxide and Titanium Dioxide are the only two active ingredients in safe & non-toxic sunscreen formulas you should look for, according to EWG’s latest report. Most experts suggest SPF50 for kids and adults with a minimum of 40 minutes of water and sweat resistance. Even if you aren’t on your way to the beach or the pool, this ensures that your safe sunscreen will stay on no matter how much you sweat during your daily activities. There is no sunscreen that will protect you completely – so always follow proper sun safety measures.Īlso, you should definitely pay attention to the water resistance of each formula. SPF 15 sunscreens filter out about 93% of UVB rays, while SPF 30 sunscreens filter out about 97%, SPF 50 sunscreens about 98%, and SPF 100 about 99%. If you are on a quest to find the best natural sunscreens that ensure your safety, look for options with SPF30 or more. Which sunscreen number is the most recommended? Their formulas contain no harmful chemicals like Oxybenzone, Octinoxate Homosalate, Octisalate, Octocrylene, or Avobenzone. Badger Balm, Blue Lizard, All Good, California Baby, Annmarie SkinCare, Babo Botanicals, and Activist Skincare are only a few examples of brands that offer non-toxic sunscreen options with clean, safe, and organic ingredients. When it comes to the best all-natural sunscreens for face and body protection, the options are all in your favor. Today’s round-up includes fantastic options for adults and kids alike with certified organic ingredients and vegan formulas that are water and sweat-resistant. We made a list of the safest sunscreens 2023 has to offer that will definitely become an enjoyable addition to your daily skincare routine. So put on your trusted sunblock, grab your sandals, and let’s hit the beach! On the contrary, these safe sunscreens are sheer and lightweight with a barely-there texture and none of the harmful ingredients. In 2023, the best non-toxic sunscreen for face and body protection are not the necessary evil it once was. While slathering SPF is an all-year-round necessity, deep down, we are all guilty of forgetting to shield ourselves against UV and UVA rays from time to time. |
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