![]() It will keep you on your toes, as you will never know what to expect. Gave you plenty of examples as to why that is without being nasty about it.Skul: The Hero Slayer is an action-platformer that boasts rogue-like features such as everchanging and challenging maps. Just that genres alone aren't always the best way to compare games. Oh and no one is saying you can't make comparisons ever. You can at least try putting effort into your viewpoint and not act so condescending about it. But last I checked, Skul wasn't a sequel to Dead Cells. Obviously sequels are going to be similar. Funny how you have to only focus on the sequels of games to justify your conclusion. So, nobody shouldn't compare anything, by that formula. Same goes with Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal, or GTA 4 and 5, or Fallout 3 and 4, and so on.Īs I have said, Steam has thousands of games. ![]() See, they are entirely and totally different game and Should never ever be compared to each other. And you must talk to NPC to get the side-missions, etc. Such as, Far Cry 5 doesn't have the Tower Climbing like the 4. Many game mechanics are also different between the two. In Far Cry 4, you have to fight a Regime, but in Far Cry 5, you have to fight a Cult leader. Originally posted by □Cloud Boy□:Yes, you shouldn't compare Far Cry 4 and Far Cry 5, they are totally different game. Several of those factors differ between Skul and Dead Cells, and that's why everyone is saying they aren't the same. Everything else that arguably makes a game unique and good from another (combat, story, setting, gameplay mechanics, etc.) All you need is to have high difficulty, dungeon crawling/increasingly harder stages, and very little to no progress saved between runs to fit the genre. It's more based on concept than game mechanics. This is especially true with Roguelikes because what defines the genre is more vague than others. A game is defined by a lot more than just it's genre, and that's why relying on only one or two genres to determine how good a game is to another is often not a good idea The genres are often too vague and doesn't clarify something that might be a deal breaker for someone. ![]() Yet they are very different from each other. Technically old school Mario, Mega Man, and Zelda fall into the genres of 2D side scrolling, and platform. All the genres matching doesn't mean you or anyone else will like it though. It does not mean they shouldn't be compared. Steam has thousands of games, every game is different to each other. Obviously the gameplay will be different, that's why they are 2 separate game, not one. All the genre are matching between the two. Originally posted by □Cloud Boy□:Everyone is saying they are different game, they both are 2D side scrolling platformer rogue-lite. Woe be unto us for surely we are faced with the hardest of choices. To have 2 good games to play at the same time, the choice of which to play first and which to beat first. Such a terrible fate indeed that we bear. Neither one is better, so you will just have to Enjoy both of them as they are both great games in my opinion, Or, to give you a far more simple answer. It's just that the games Feel too unique to reasonably compare. That doesn't mean there isn't overlap, or that you can't do one strategy in the other. Do I want to put the effort of holding onto this skull so I can upgrade it later or do I pick up this more immediately useful but less scalable one? Do I sacrifice this item for this one so I can get more of a certain stat? Which 'build' am I going to try and lean towards? Preparing for the bosses before hand with a strategy in mind, etc. Whereas Skul is, in my option, more about thinking ahead for the meta game. DC is fast paced as hell and is, if you wanna simplify it a fair bit, essentially Dark souls as a 2d roguelite, requiring pattern recognition, seat of your pants reaction times, and other such stuff. Genre and basic first glances are important sure but it's the smaller yet if anything more important details that are what makes games like this what they are. Don't try comparing two games they might share a genre but they are very different once you sit down and play them both.
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![]() ![]() While a sad day for the purists hopefully fresh capital will assist the team to move up the grid in the coming years. During the year the iconic Williams family sold all their shares in the team to a private investment firm. What a year for Williams and for George Russell in particular. A big question for 2021 is will it be Kimi’s last year in F1 or will he follow in the steps of Valentino Rossi and continue at the highest level of motorsport despite being a quadragenarian? ![]() After losing 6 nil to the Ice Man in 2019 Giovinazzi had a solid showing in 2020 even beating Kimi in their qualifying matchup. Certainly the drivers cannot be held responsible for the team’s performance but it was still somewhat surprising to hear both the Italian and Finn had retained their seats for 2021.Ī positive for Alfa must have been the progress Antonio made in 2020. In 2019 Raikkonen and Giovinazzi scored a total of 57 Championship points but this year that total plummeted to just eight. Alpha RomeoĪlfa Romeo was another Ferrari powered team who had a very disappointing year in 2020 compared to 2019. Daniil has had a number of chances under the Red Bull umbrella but unfortunately it looks like his F1 career may be at an end. MERCEDESĭaniil Kvyat is quick – he bettered Albon 4:2 in their head to head half way through 2019 before Alex was promoted to the RBR seat. At the end of a hard fought 2020 season (especially in the midfield) we analyse the results, look at the casualties and also look ahead to 2021.įor a full description of the six H2H factors check out our H2H Explanatory Notes. Other than Lewis Hamilton’s Championship feat what other drivers impressed in 2020? There were a number of stand out performances but as always the only way to really gauge the relative performance of each driver is to compare them to their teammate – the only other driver who has exactly the same opportunity to perform.įor a number of years after each race we have updated six head to head factors to monitor who is outperforming their teammate. Well what a year 2020 has been – including Formula 1! With the opening round in Melbourne cancelled at the last minute and the whole season in doubt, the powers that be still managed to put on a show…and what a show it was!! We witnessed 17 (mostly) memorable races and crowned a record equaling seven time World Champion. ![]() It did it automatically because I set that “property” when I created the label template, but it would be nice to be able to set it in code. I wanted to set the ShrinkToFit property of the Textbox to TRUE, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it. I had to include a third argument for PaperTray, which is utterly ludicrous if you look at the LabelWriter 450. Out of desperation, I chose the Print2 method. Now you can create, save, and print labels from your smartphone or tablet with DYMO Connect. It reminds me of Quickbooks in that there are few, if any, properties and everything is a method.įinally I tried the Print method, but was rewarded with “Object doesn’t support this property or method.” One of my favorite errors. My label has one object on it called “Text”, so the SetField method was pretty straight forward. The most efficient solution for your professional labeling, filing, and mailing needs, the LabelWriter® 450 label printer saves you time and money at the office. As far as I can tell, when I call the Open method to the DymoAddin object, the DymoLabels object automatically becomes whatever was open. Name them something understandable like Open and OpenPriorVersion. If you have two Open methods, don’t freaking name them Open and Open2. Am I done bashing the DYMO programmers yet? Not even close. The 450 Turbo is small enough, at roughly 5.3 by 4.9 by 7.3 inches (HWD), so it can fit easily on your desk. Click Next when the Getting Started dialog appears and click Browse to choose the CSV file you exported from Booqable. Steps: Go to File, Import data and print, and click New. There’s also an Open2 method, but I don’t know the difference. Stamp labels are 20.95 for a roll of 200, not including postage. Once you’ve added this data to the label layout, you’re ready to print your barcode labels using the Dymo LabelWriter 450. I discovered that GetDymoPrinters returns my one printer, so I pass that to SelectPrinter and that seems to have worked. ![]() I guess if you have more than one Dymo printer, GetDymoPrinters returns some delimited string. I set the printer I want to use using SelectPrinter and GetDymoPrinters. I would have thought that I could get the current label from the DymoAddin object, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. I needed to create both the DymoAddin object and the DymoLabels object. From what I can tell, DymoLabels is only one label, from which I can only conclude…wait for it…they gave it an awful name. This object has two properties: DymoAddin (what an awful name) and DymoLabels. I start with a DymoHighLevelSDK object – what an awful name. DYMO Label Software, version 8, which allows you to create and print addresses using your PC, shipping material and files to print, name tags, bar codes and more to print.Let’s step through this and try to see what’s happening.Quickly create labels for single use by the "Quick Print" widget Sold By: : Q8SUPPLY - Kuwaits Online Store for POS Software & Hardware SKU: Dymo 450 Category: Barcode & Label Printer Tags: Dymo Kuwait, Dymo labelwriter.Easy printing of labels from your contacts from the built-in Address Book.Printing directly into Microsoft ® Word, Excel, Outlook and other programs.addresses and ZIP +4 ® codes with the supplied software Address Fixer The Label writer prints up to 51 labels per minute, from MS Word, Excel, Outlook and other programs. Thanks to the Label writer 450, the usual label sheets and associated difficulties with paper jams and inky fingers are a thing of the past. INPUT/AUTOCONFIG: Disable ‘pause on controller disconnect’ by default – was enabled by default on 1.13.0.“Send Debug Info” stuff is removed as much as possible without breakage due to translation files. HOTKEYS: Further reorder internal hotkey items for consistency and removed SEND_DEBUG_INFO, OVERLAY_NEXT and OSK from visible hotkey bind list. ![]() ZX Spectrum resolution of 256×192 was previously unsupported. GFX/VIDEO FILTERS: (picoscale_256x_320x240) Added snn function to upscale Fuse (ZX Spectrum) core borderless output to 320×240.FFMPEG CORE: Fix runtime error in FFmpeg core when build with FFmpeg n5.1.2 and OpenGL ES.So let’s make sure the wanted ratio is applied when toggling FF (Fastforward). Fast-forward was broken after toggling vrr_runloop off, since it will force frame limit to 1.0 (even on every frame) and never restores it. FASTFORWARD: Restore framelimit on fastforward toggle.DRM/ODROID GO2: Implement get_video_size for DRM GL context driver.DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Bugfix – XMB+Ozone cleared thumbnail in Quick Menu when navigating away from Run.DATABASE/EXPLORE/VIEW: Bugfix – RGUI did not clear thumbnail on non-playlist items such as Save and Delete menu_explore_get_entry_playlist_index() returns -1 on invalid entries, but the variable where it was stored was unsigned.D3D12: Fixed validation error on start up due to buffers not being setup correctly for one frame.Guess we need a different way of fixing the validation issue. D3D12: Fixed some shaders not appearing with the d3d12 driver – this reintroduces a validation error though but it seems to work as in not crash and is the old RA behaviour. ![]() D3D12: Made D3D12 viewport and scissors to behave more like Vulkan drivers (or be more correct).D3D12: Added support for DRED (device remove extended data) (development aid – define DEVICE_DEBUG to use).D3D12: Added support for break on errors (development aid – define DEVICE_DEBUG to use).D3D12: Fix when using shaders with TATE mode arcades etc.D3D11: Fix when using shaders with TATE mode arcades etc.CONFIG/MIDI: Prevent MIDI startup error with old configurations.CLI: Reformatted –features to require less rows and to be more consistent. ![]()
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Additionally, the tool also allows you to extract the audio from the videos that you're watching online and download it to your PC. Though it offers some great video-playing capabilities, the application also lets you download 4K and HD videos from YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo and other similar websites and can even work with AirPlay. Last on our list, 5KPlayer is actually more of a media center than a regular video player. As far as downsides go, Plex doesn't support that many video extensions. Additionally, this application is the best when it comes to watching videos from streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc. Basically, using Plex, you will be able to stream a movie stored on your PC to all the other devices over your network, so that you can easily jump from gadget to gadget, continuing from where you left off. PlexĪnother cross-platform tool, Plex will allow you to watch your favorite videos on any of your devices. Kodi is capable of handling all the most popular video extensions and it will also allow you to watch Live TV or streams from services like Netflix or YouTube. What I like about this application is that it can act as a catalog, keeping track of the folders you instruct it to and automatically adding any new files to your library. Kodiįormerly known as Xbox Media Center (XBMC), Kodi is a powerful tool that can help you deal with all your media files, not just your videos. However, there are times when the video can fall a bit out of sync, but that happened only once in my tests. Just like VLC, MPlayerX can open a large number of formats, so compatibility won't be an issue. As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the cleanest applications that you can find, so if you're not a tech-savvy person you may want to try this one first. MPlayerXĪnother player with a long history on the market, MPlayerX is a reliable solution for your video watching needs. To tell the truth, this also means that you need to dig around a bit to find the more advanced settings, but that's a minor inconvenience. Unlike many other similar applications, VideoLAN isn't burden by a clutter of buttons and options, which makes it perfect for a regular user. ![]() This free application can work with almost any video format that you throw at it, is capable of playing streams and has one of the easiest-to-use interfaces that you will ever see. VLC Media Player is the most popular player on almost every platform out there and, without question, one of the best. This is why, I've compiled a list containing five best video players that you can currently use on your Mac. Since converting your videos just because the player you have doesn't support the needed format is a waste of time and effort, the best solution is to install an alternative. There are many times when the default video player that Apple provides, QuickTime Player, simply isn't good enough because it's not capable of working with a wide array of formats. ![]() Apparently, the lesson so many game designers took from GTA3 was not that it had a fun, varied world where you were constantly learning you could do new things (God, I could write an article just about the exhilaration of finding a car jump ramp for the first time in GTA3), but simply that it was “big”, and you could walk around at your leisure. And now you were forced to putter around for hours between missions and maybe the best you could hope for was some kind of collectible scavenger hunt. And thus did we play through a number of games that would have been simple, progress from level to level affairs a few years earlier, but now had to have “hub cities” that were about as densely populated as Lost Springs, Wyoming (look it up!). But, on the other end of the spectrum, we had any number of titles that wanted to make a claim at “gigantic, open worlds” without putting in the effort to actually design said worlds. Spider-Man went from having “ levels” to gaining the sprawling cities he always needed, and we likely would have never seen something like Fable without it being pitched as a “medieval GTA”. Some of these copies were net goods, though. This was the epoch when “sandbox gameplay” became a bullet point on every game cover from Final Fantasy to Hitman. And, to be clear, “influential” in this case absolutely means “there were 10,000 games all trying to get a piece of that sweet, sweet GTA3 pie”. Grand Theft Auto 3 was possibly the most popular and influential videogame of the era. The blitheringly obvious greatest influence on Final Fight: Streetwise? Grand Theft Auto 3. ![]() Fight weirdos in strange costumes across a generally grungy city? Tale as old as time! And, while Final Fight: Streetwise maintained the concept of “beat ‘em all up”, it went a little off the rails when it decided to start aping the wrong crowd. And, given Final Fight was always a handful of baseball bats away from just being The Warriors, this could have worked out well. As many people know, this was Final Fight’s attempt to enter the 21st Century with a Playstation 2 game that upgraded/marginally rebooted the original arcade classic. Where is your videogame uncanny valley threshold? Probably nothing you haven’t seen before, but, ya know, it bothered me, which brings us to today’s topic… The image is basically the point of this essay, but if you are squeamish around such a thing, please be aware of its presence beyond the “read more” link du jour. Today’s article contains one (arguably) graphic GIF of Playstation 2 quality. It now runs at 4K and 60FPS, respectively, and uses the Unreal Engine, offering at times some nice effects. The new upgrade is mainly to do with the graphics and performance after all, this is now on the PS5 and should blow us away. So, what exactly have Teyon done with this re-release/upgraded version of Monster Truck Championship? Well, not a great deal, unfortunately. From the onset, don’t expect a complex and exciting management system here, this really is quite barebones when compared to the likes of Forza, etc. You will need to spend some of that hard-earned cash to increase the four attributes of your vehicle’s performance, as well as employ new team members.Īs you set out your career, you can employ mechanics, managers, and agents to add bonuses to your winnings, the truck’s performance and repairs, as well as entrance fees, which increase the higher up the championships you go. ![]() The single-player career mode offers three different tiers of difficulty, and each one includes a number of championships across the United States, and the goal is to win races and earn lots of money to be able to enter the finale. You will also be gifted with new vehicles and other cosmetics for your driver avatar. Do well, and you will receive a number of points that you can use towards buying upgrades, including body-frame, paints, wheels, etc. ![]() With a mixture of each discipline thrown into the ring, they manage to be challenging, testing your driving skills, or should that be lack thereof, to reach that top podium spot. ![]() In Advanced Settings, set the Maximum SMB protocol to SMB3, I also increased the minimum SMB protocol to SMB2. Login to the Synology NAS and click on Control Panel:Įnsure that the SMB service is enabled then click Advanced Settings: To find and check this, perform the following steps: Unfortunately, the file transfer speeds are so bad you’re considering buying a turtle and glueing a USB drive to its back to speed up file copying.Īfter hours of searching the net for an answer, in the end, I found the cause of my woes in a couple of little settings tucked away on the Synology – effectively my Synology NAS wasn’t even trying to use newer/faster versions of the SMB protocol. Binary sensors General sensorsĮntity reporting the security status of the NAS.So you’ve got a shiny new Synology NAS and you’ve started storing files on it, videos, music and so forth. By default the total size and maximum disk temperature sensors are disabled. Volume sensorsĮntities reporting status, total size (TB), used size (TB), % of volume used, average disk temperature and maximum disk temperature for each volume inside the NAS. The SMART status sensor is disabled by default. Disk sensorsĮntities reporting the internal temperature, status (as shown in Synology DSM) and SMART status for each drive inside the NAS. The uptime sensor is disabled by default. General sensorsĮntities reporting the internal temperature and the uptime of the NAS. ![]() Both upload and download sensors are available. Network sensorsĮntities reporting the current network transfer rates of the NAS. These sensors include the total installed amount, the currently free amount and the % of memory used. Memory Utilisation sensorsĮntities reporting the current and combined memory and swap utilization of the NAS. By default the 1min load sensor is disabled. Available as current, 1min, 5min and 15min load sensors. These report the total CPU load for the entire NAS. There are also combined CPU load sensors. ![]() By default, only the User sensor is enabled. There are sensors the report the current CPU load, separated by User, System and others. As noted above, you do not need access to the DSM and Home Assistant will still be able to read statistics from your NAS.Įntities reporting the current and combined CPU utilization of the NAS. If you denied access to all locations and applications it is normal to receive a message indicating you do not have access to DSM when trying to login with this separate user. DSM will walk you through the process of setting up the one-time password for this user which you’ll then be able to use in Home Assistant’s frontend configuration screen. Make sure to log out of your “normal” user’s account and then login with the separate user you created specifically for Home Assistant. If you have the “Enforce 2-step verification for the following users” option checked under Control Panel > User > Advanced > 2-Step Verification, you’ll need to configure the 2-step verification/one-time password (OTP) for the user you just created before the credentials for this user will work with Home Assistant. If you utilize 2-Step Verification or Two Factor Authentication (2FA) with your Synology NAS If you want to add cameras from Surveillance Station, the user needs application permission for Surveillance Station. It is still able to read the utilization and storage information using the API. By doing this, the user will not be able to login to the web interface or view any of the files on the Synology NAS. When creating the user, it is possible to deny access to all locations and applications. This is related to the fact that utilization information is stored in the core module. Separate User Configurationĭue to the nature of the Synology DSM API, it is required to grant the user admin rights. In this case, it is recommended to use NIC bonding instead or to deactivate SSDP. If you have two or more NICs with different IP addresses from the same subnet and SSDP is activated, this leads to problems with this integration, as the NAS is detected several times with different IPs and the integration always adopts the new “detected” IP address in its configuration and then reloads it. ![]() The campaign uses a low-fi, mixed media approach to stay true to the home-spun user-generated design fans have been using to make the bear come to life, while also giving him a cutting, observational wit, allowing him to comment on anything from probiotics to the existential realities of the postmodern human condition. With this campaign, we’re focusing on Sleepytime Bear’s discovery of the modern world, while making it fun for people to rediscover internet culture through his eyes.” “By bringing him into this digital world, he can finally react, comment and engage with the fans that feel comforted and connected to his story, as well as discover new ones. “The Sleepytime Bear has already been the subject of countless memes and fanart,” said Pete Johnson, EVP, Executive Creative Director, Deutsch NY. Sleepytime Tea Bear - actual footage of me at 8:30 pm Like us on Facebook Pin Tweet PROTIP: Press the and keys to navigate the gallery, g to view the gallery, or r to view a random image. While at, a launch video features the Sleepytime Bear singing “The Wake Up Song” and content featuring Sleepytime Bear's opinion on what he’s missed over the decades, from the 1970s to today. Through content across platforms including TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Sleepytime Bear will catch up on what he’s missed including popular trends like restocking and reaction videos, exercising at home, reality TV shows, astrology, fantasy sports leagues and TikTok dances. When the Sleepytime Bear Awakes.TikTok Awaits “It’s a clever campaign that not only allows the beloved Sleepytime bear to interact with fans, but also showcases the variety of existing and new Celestial Seasonings tea products that help make people’s lives a little bit better.” The tea infuser is removable, so you can also use it to brew your child’s favorite herbal tea. The Sleepy Time Tea Bear comes with a special bedtime tea infuser and a tea cup, so your child can enjoy a relaxing cup of tea before bed. This huggable friend is sure to become a cherished part of your child’s bedtime routine. “As more and more young consumers turn to tea, this digital-forward campaign is the perfect way to introduce the growing number of younger consumers to the many benefits of our teas,” said Melinda Goldstein, chief marketing officer at Hain Celestial. TheSleepyTimeTeaBear is an adorable little teddy bear that makes the perfect bedtime companion for your child. ![]() Now, while maintaining his warm demeanor, he is discovering new channels to connect to real-time events, and engage with fans in ways he could have never imagined. To bring to life a more social mascot, Celestial Seasonings partnered with creative agency Deutsch NY to create a digital-first campaign that shows the Sleepytime Bear what he missed during his decades-long hibernation.Ĭreated in 1972, the beloved Sleepytime Bear has always served as a warm and welcoming symbol of peace, calm, nostalgia and self-care, with his stories beautifully built into the Sleepytime Tea’s packaging. ![]() Today, after five decades of hibernation, Celestial Seasonings announced the awakening of its iconic Sleepytime Bear to a brand new digital world. |
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