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Simcity classic4/30/2023 ![]() ![]() During one of my “explore my 5.25″ disks” sessions, I found a few of my old cities from the mid 90s, and I was able to pick up where I left off almost immediately. This game has been on every PC I’ve had since it was released and I go back to it, skipping over Simcity 2K and 3K. With my current i5 Wintel setup, running in DOSBox at full tilt, I can get a year or two to go by. ![]() I remember on my now ancient 386 33 MHz box, as a city grew, it could take upwards of ten minutes for a year of game time to click by. For awhile, my mother would actually bring out the SNES on her own and play Simcity. Simcity Classic has none of that, making it very accessible for people new to the genre. Later releases in the Simcity series added things like public transit, water supplies, trash disposal, neighboring cities, and more. (Tip: Oddly enough, you can forgo building any roads and use only train tracks to connect your entire city, reducing traffic to zero, thus aiding city growth.) Bored with this? You can inflict disasters on your city! Crash a plane! Flood it! Burn it! Shake it in an earthquake! You did remember to build a fire department or two, right? Unlike the Sims, or later Simcity releases, you won’t actually “see” your citizens, only where they live, and depending on traffic level, nondescript cars. Where is your crime? Where are people flocking to? Where are they leaving? Want to make a Megalopolis (500,000 people)? Get to work, it’s very difficult. Do you want a sprawling suburb, or a tightly packed city where it’s all apartment towers? Either way, you can make it happen! There are a multitude of charts and graphs with data plotted out over time, available for you to peruse. Will people live next door to a coal power plant (sort of). For a 25 (!!) year old game, the simulation is fairly complex, but simple enough for a child to grasp. Get too big, people will want a stadium or a seaport. Do you have enough cash and income coming in from taxes? Raise them. Do you want to make the city larger? Build more zones. So, zone, power, build some roads connecting the mess and boom, you have a village. Hopefully, other people agree with you, and move into these zoned areas. those never happen right?) In Simcity, you don’t actually “place people”, you give a guideline, via zones, where you think things should be. Besides zoning, you need electricity, so you can build a coal power plant (which causes pollution) or a nuclear plant (small risk of a meltdown. Each zone is a 3 x 3 block square that will only allow things of that type to build, so no factories are built next to houses on a residential zone and no house are built where factories reside. You’ll develop a love of zoning with residential, commercial, and industrial zones. You are given the task of ‘building a city’, but other than this lofty goal, you are free to do as you wish (within your budgetary constraints). Simcity is rather open ended, and as a result of this it’s rather difficult to describe in detail. ![]()
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Prehistoric kingdom names4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Impressively, Prehistoric Kingdom offers a landscaping feature that allows players to place numerous amounts of selected vegetation at once within a range of sizes and densities. Prehistoric Kingdom All Animals Theropods Acrocanthosaurus: Meat Allosaurus: Meat Archaeopteryx Baryonyx: Fish Carnotaurus: Meat Ceratosaurus: Meat. The soundtrack offers players a lively, cheerful backdrop, and the items currently in the game are well-designed. The sound design is impressive, ranging from chirps and squeaks for the littlest creatures to great bellowing roars for the game's larger species. Prehistoric Kingdom's character animation is astounding, comparable in quality to Jurassic World Evolution 2's impressive dinosaur graphics. Related: Every Jurassic Park Video Game, RankedĪlthough many features one would expect from a simulator game are absent in Prehistoric Kingdom, most of the game's current mechanics are well-polished. ![]() Follow Along Created by Shadow Raven Studios, LLC 2,013 backers pledged 88,950 to help bring this project to life. Release name : Prehistoric Kingdom v1.1.214 Size : 5.0 GB Title : Prehistoric Kingdom Genre : Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access. Like other simulator games, Prehistoric Kingdom's gameplay consists primarily of building and decorating one's zoo, as well as managing animal welfare, finances, and infrastructure. Prehistoric Kingdom is a zoo building simulator game focused on the creation and management of a theme park filled with extinct animals. Seems like she has gone off the radar recently. Had to request help from ETSY and received a refund. The game also allows players to decorate their zoo with pre-built and custom features, like dinosaur statues, viewing platforms, and dinosaur-themed eateries. Prehistoric Hohokam Rincon Red-on-Brown Native American Pottery Shard Artifact Arizona Gary Helpful Seller did not communicate. While crafting their zoo, players can terraform the environment and place foliage from various biomes. Prehistoric Kingdom is a new park simulator that allows players to build a prehistoric-themed zoo. Build a zoo full of dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures Prehistoric Kingdom is a sandbox game that allows you to create your very own Jurassic Park, as well as manage it and take care of the. Currently, the game features two modes: Challenge and Sandbox. I also liked the name Prehistoric Kingdom because it felt encompassing of. In Prehistoric Kingdom, the game's 20+ prehistoric animals can be unlocked by spending points at excavation sites around the world. Prehistoric Kingdom is a fake brand that I created similar to Jurassic Park. Like Jurassic World Evolution 2, players can't breed dinosaurs. Prehistoric Kingdom offers players the opportunity to design and build their own dinosaur park. ![]()
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![]() This calculator is a great choice for business professionals and college students, in both corporate and university settings. Permitted use on AP, PSAT/NMSQT and SA Examinations.See the capabilities of the most advanced financial calculator from Texas Instruments - the BA II Plus™ Professional calculator. In chain mode (literal left to right), 1+2x3 returns a result of 9.īest used for Accounting, Banking, Business Studies, Finance, General Math, Real Estate, Science and Statistics Applications. It includes basic information about the many features available on the 10II+ along with example problems. With this in mind, HP built the HP 9100 desktop scientific calculator. In algebraic mode (with hierarchy), 1+2x3 returns a result to 7. The HP 10bII+ (Plus) is Hewlett Packard’s revised entry-level financial calculator. This guide is intended to get you started with your new 10bII+ financial calcula-tor. Dedicated keys provide fast access to common financial and statistical functions. Makes it easy to solve financial and other calculations accurately and quickly. When pressed, the display flashes a message to indicate which mode is active. Features powerful finance, business and statistical functions. The HP 10bII+ Plus can be configured into either Algebraic Mode (default) or Chain Mode by the mode toggle ALG/CHAIN key. Financial functions like TVM loans, savings leasing amortization cash flow analysis: IRR, NPV, NFV depreciation: SL, SOYD, DB bonds interest conversion margin/cost of sales and even break-even analysis. Mathematical functions like Trigonometric/inverses, Hyperbolics/inverses, Square root. HP Calcs HP 10bII+ Calculator HP 10bll+ makes it easy to solve business, financial, statistical, and math calculations accurately and quickly, at a price that everyone can afford. ![]() Performs common math as well as various financial functions Worksheet mode includes tables for. These includes common statistical functions like statistical analysis Standard deviation Mean Prediction Correlation Probability. HP 10BII Financial Calculator The Emulator amp its Nuances. HP 10bII+ Plus feature at a glance: Over 170 built-in functions that are easy to access without the use of menus, and are well marked making functions intuitive. The HP 10bII+ Plus sport dedicated keys that can provide fast access to common financial and statistical functions while giving answers with up to 12 digits of accuracy on its clear and crisp display. The HP 10bII+ Plus now has the HP’s rotate-and-click keys provide confidence with each keystroke. HP Calculator License Activation HP10bII+.exe - HP 10bII+ Emulator (HP 10bII+). These changes really increase the functionality provided on this entry-level financial calculator. With the HP 10BII financial calculator, you can tackle complex math. ![]() It updates the functionality of the earlier HP 10bII since the introduction of the original HP 10B back in January of 1989. To subtract a percent, enter the figure, press -, enter the percentage and press. The HP 10bII+ (Plus) is Hewlett Packard’s revised entry-level financial calculator. HP10BII Financial Calculator Quick Reference Guide Adding or Subtracting a Percent To add a percent, enter the figure, press +, enter the percentage and press. With modern design and the power of Windows, the 10bii Financial Calculator makes it easy to quickly find the answers to your financial questions. ![]()
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Piecewise linear interpolation matlab4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() So that very last point (at x(end)) might be technically said to fall into the n|th bin when I have |n break points. This next line handles the very last point. This time, let me generate 1000 points at which to interpolate This is a common event, where I wish to more finely resampleĪ curve that is sampled only at some short list of points. Next, I may, and often do, have a list of points to interpolate. It is useful mainly to those with older MATLAB releases, because histc became available with version 5.3 and later of MATLAB. You can find several different binning methods in bindex on the file exchange. There are other ways to place points in bins in MATLAB, including a sort, or with hash tables. When I want to place multiple points into their respective bins, this sum fails. Linear interpolation? There are really two steps.įor any point u, given a set of (x,y) pairs with a monotonic vector x (by monotonic, I mean that x(k) =x) k = In MATLAB, given a list of points, sampled from some functional relationship in one dimension, how would we perform piecewise This is really the simplest interpolation of all. Why not go to the opposite extreme? Use a piecewise version of linear interpolation? I like to call it connect-the-dots, after the child's game of that name. You saw in my previous blog that high order polynomials can have some problems. Do the Interpolation and Plot the Result. ![]()
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Screenflick loopback4/29/2023 ![]() It does use standard encryption, but does not provide end-to-end encryption of its video chats. Opt for recording settings if you want to. Make discord audio and video calls, then click the start recording button. In this regard, how do I record Discord streams? Discord is software, so you have to select the desktop option. Click on the Create/Select Source option and name your desktop audio source.From the list, choose Audio Output Capture to select your desktop audio output for recording.Moreover, how do I record audio with a Discord stream? Choose AAC or FLAC, and the file gets saved directly on the iPhone, where you can edit it.Invite it to your server by entering craig:, join and start recording.Similarly, how do I record Discord conversations on my phone? Subsequently, can you record a call in Discord? Go to the ‘Controls’ section and select ‘Start Recording’. Tap the Record button, and then start recording. Then, press the home button and open the Control Center. To do this, open the Discord app and start a call. Yes, you can screen record Discord calls on your phone. Is there a call recording app for iPhone?.How can I record a phone call on my iPhone for free?.How can I record a call on my iPhone without an app?.How do I record screen Discord calls on Windows?.Does iPhone screen recording record sound?.How long can you stay in a Discord call?.How do you get purple status on Discord?.How do I record game audio and voice separately?.How do I record video separately on my Iphone?.Can you record Discord audio separately?.What is the best way to record audio on iPhone?.How do I record Discord calls on my Mac?.How do I record Discord calls with audacity?.In particular I think they kept my 60 frame per second source, much appreciated. They re-encoded it to a 2260 kbps vp8+vorbis file which still looks pretty good. I uploaded it to Streamable, a lightweight hosting / sharing service for video that plays nicely with Reddit and friends. Now you have an ordinary MP4 movie file you can share anywhere. Man I’d like a simple GUI program that lets me watch the movie and set a start time, an end time, and press a button to do this cut for me. Unfortunately you can’t just use “-copy” in ffmpeg because that doesn’t properly trim the audio for some reason you have to reencode.įfmpeg -i obs.flv -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 20 -ss 00:00:02 -to 00:00:19 out.mp4 Here’s the command I used to cut from 00:02 to 00:19 of my recording and re-encode it at decent quality. ffmpeg lets you pick to the nearest millisecond, but irritatingly VLC won’t show you milliseconds in playback, so precise cuts suck. I ended up using ffmpeg to do this with these instructions. I’m allergic to iMovie, and AFAIK there is still no good free simple “let me cut 15 seconds out of my video” GUI tool for Macs. The next challenge is editing the capture down to what you want to share. Now I have OBS recording movie files to my hard drive of whatever is on my screen. Note that starting with Yosemite it’s getting very hard to run custom kernel drivers in MacOS. SoundFlower then passes that through to your actual headphones or whatever, while also making the sound stream available to apps. You use the Sound control panel to tell the Mac to make SoundFlower 2ch the default audio device. ![]() Basically SoundFlower installs a kernel module that’s a new loopback audio device. Instead I installed SoundFlower, which also works well with OBS. Update: see this second post about sound. OBS recommends WavTap but I couldn’t make it work. (Screenflick records with a very fast, disk intensive codec and then re-encodes later, which is kind of nice.)Īudio is a problem. The “slow” preset definitely interfered with my game framerate. Note that OBS is doing h.264 encoding live while you go, so it’s taking CPU power. I tinkered with the Advanced Output settings to record at the bitrate of 10,000 (overkill) using the faster preset. OBS records video pretty much right out of the box. ![]() The UI is a bit more hackerware but for my purposes it’s perfect. So this time I did the capture with Open Broadcaster Software, which is a free. I used to use the commercial product Screenflick to do this but it’s pretty buggy. The Mac does not make it easy to capture full screen video and audio. I use this to get the exact game scene I want to capture. ![]() ![]() It’s terrific! Using it you can watch one of your games later in the observer client. The service replay.gg will record all your League of Legends games for you. Lots of steps here to capture the game itself, capture video and audio on the Mac to a file, convert it to something usable, then upload it. I felt like a huge nerd today and wanted to record a video highlight from a League of Legends. ![]()
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The last of us part 2 petition4/29/2023 ![]() ![]() So next we get to work for hire contracts. They are self-publishing and this is something that Naughty Dog isn’t, as it’s a subsidiary And obviously, these companies also publish the games they develop. The most famous one being CD Projekt Red. These are companies that are usually, small in size, but there are many large companies that are indie companies. Indie companies, Work for hire contracts and a Royalty Sharing Clause Contract and we’ll see where Naughty Dog fits into that There’s usually 3 ways, that a developer/publisher relationship works. Now we need to establish how Sony and Naughty Dog’s working relationship is. Now, we’ll leave Marketing Budget out as that’s something else entirely. So for the sake of argument, I’ll say the lowest estimate of $125 Million. Using this we can establish that the production budget of The Last of Us: Part 2, was most likely in the ballpark of, between $125 Million and $150 Million, including the delay. But we can estimate that it cost about $50 million to make. The Last of Us took four years to make and was delayed slightly for polish. The Budget for both Uncharted 3 and The Last of Us isn’t known, however, if we keep the trend going, because Uncharted 3 took the same development time as the second one, it also most likely cost $20 million. The first 2 Uncharted games both cost $20 Million and Uncharted 4 cost $100 Million. Using history, we can make an educated guess. However, we can assume it was more than that. Some sources like Screen Rant putting the production budget around $100 million. In reality, Gamstat playerbase figures aren’t sales as they themselves have put it and this is because of the fact that Gamstat doesn’t take into account, resales and different accounts sharing the same games, meaning that the numbers used here for sales are most likely, much higher than what the actual sales numbers areįirst, we need to establish the budget of The Last of Us: Part 2. Fourth, I’m assuming that all copies of the game were sold at $60, so this doesn’t include collector’s editions (which I don’t know the sales figures of), resales and discounts and fifth and finally, I’m assuming that all Gamstat figures are the sales and not adjusting for an increase in the playerbase. Second is how the Naughty Dog and Sony relationship works. ![]() Taking 30% of the cut from the games on the store while the rest goes to the developers. More specifically, that the PlayStation Store works the same way as any other digital store. We aren’t going into the debate of “it was 4 million sold” vs “it was 4 million shipped” Anyway, the game still hasn’t made a profit for Naughty Dog. As I was corrected that the game has sold 6.4 million sales as Gamstat is usually deflated in the early months. This is based off of the latest figures on Gamstat. So, the Last of Us 2 has sold 6.4 million copies. ![]()
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Rimworld prepare carefully for 1.04/29/2023 ![]() ![]() had to set all their stats to 0 in order to get any starting items. I started a game with TTM mod and pressed the Prepare Carefully button, the randomly generated colonists were already worth so much that the points were at -3000. The stars are the limit for Rimworld modding, and the future is looking bright indeed. RimWorld Mods Releases (Moderator: Evul) 1.0 EdB Prepare Carefully - v1.0.13 (). How this mod affects your save games is entirely up to you, but I have always and will continue to consider this a mandatory Rimworld mod. Rimworld is still receiving major updates, so it's exciting to imagine which of these features might make the jump to an official update. From victuals to vikings, manage your resources carefully to ensure you can. The addition of children, controllable mechanoids and gene splicing shenanigans, have spurred modders to create even more great content. Early Access allows us to develop our game while receiving tangible feedback. At the beginning of the game, available colonists spawn with randomly generated traits which basically dictate the way they act. Updated Januby William Ritchie: With the release of the Biotech DLC, the modding scene of Rimworld has continued their hard work of tinkering on this expansive colony sim. Mod «Pick Up And Haul» for Rimworld (v1.0 - 1. Some of these mods change up the gameplay completely, but the core brutality of RimWorld still remains. Customize your RimWorld colonists, choose your gear and prepare carefully for your crash landing +5. At the start of every new game in RimWorld, you’ve just crash-landed on a planet on the outer edge of the galaxy, forced to survive. Version 2.2.0 - 1 March 2020- Updated for - Add four new male hairstyles (Shinji, Kaworu, Toji, Kensuke) - Add multiversion support for RimWorld 1.0 and 1.1 Version 2.1. The 1.0 version is only included to help players migrate their saves. It consists of mostly bug-fixes and mod compatibility fixes. Save your setup as a preset so that you can start your game the same way later.About the latest versionVersion 1.0.13 is the latest release of the mod for RimWorld 1.0. Religions of Rimworld Released 2019 Realistic Sim Mod adds a religion system in the game. EdB Prepare Carefull圜ustomize your RimWorld colonists, choose your gear and prepare carefully for your crash landing. This mod adds randomly generated cities to the world. RELATED: Changes To Make Rimworld Go From Good To GreatĮxperienced players might have a mod-list for RimWorld that spirals into the several dozen, but for the purpose of this list, we've selected the best RimWorld mods, all available on the Workshop. Note: All future updates will be exclusively for RimWorld 1.1 onwards. v1.0 RimCities (Procedural city map generation) TBD Adventure RimCities is an attempt to create an interesting and unique end-game challenge for RimWorld players. There are mods that completely transform the gameplay, introduce new ways to experience your colonists' lives, and small mods that make valuable QOL changes. RimWorld is a huge and complex game, and things only start to get even more interesting when you delve into the hundreds of mods available on the Steam Workshop. ![]() |