![]() ^ a b Advanced Computer Entertainment, issue 27, Dec 1989.The sequel received mixed reviews, with The Games Machine rating it 6.7/10 points and calling its gameplay "brilliant" but "brought down by obtuse and ancient systems". Players cooperatively play utilizing different stations aboard the carrier deck. There is a multiplayer component using invitation systems through Steam or by invitation code. Included in the purchase is a virtual reality version of the game. It was published by the reconstituted Microprose and was released Augon Steam. It features a vast 33-island archipelago on the planet-moon Taurus.Ĭarrier Command 2 was announced in December 2020. It's a real-time action/strategy game, where the overarching objective is to conquer and control islands. Ĭarrier Command: Gaea Mission (2012) is a modern remake by Bohemia Interactive's Prague studio. Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising (2001) was inspired by Carrier Command and has many similarities. The editors wrote that it "packs more flight-sim, sea-sim and tank-sim action and strategy than a dozen of your so-called CD-ROM games could manage in a million or more megabytes." Legacy Ĭarrier Command was followed by Battle Command, where the player controls a tank. Carrier Command was named the 56th best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997. The editors called it "a splendid mixture of strategic planning and arcade action". In 1991, PC Format named Carrier Command one of the 50 best computer games ever. The ZX Spectrum version was awarded a " Crash Smash" with 97%, and was awarded 94% by Your Sinclair, and was placed at number 12 in the Your Sinclair official top 100. A 1992 survey in the magazine of wargames with modern settings gave the game two and a half stars out of five, describing it as a "futuristic arcade game", and two 1994 surveys gave it two stars. Ĭomputer Gaming World in 1988 praised the game's blend of strategic and tactical play, recommending it as an improvement over Starglider. The game was ranked the 15th best game of all time by Amiga Power. ACE ( Advanced Computer Entertainment) scored the PC version 965/1000, while Zzap!64 magazine awarded the Amiga release 92%. ![]() The Games Machine awarded the Atari ST and Amiga versions 98% and 97% respectively and ranked Carrier Command the #1 game of 1988.
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![]() That is not to say the acting is poor, but it certainly does vary in quality considerably, from the purposely cheesy, to the ham-fisted, and then back to the magnificent. ![]() The Bunker's strong point was the acting, whereas here it is more about getting the theme and atmosphere spot on, with the actual mystery and puzzles complementing the ambience. Seven years have gone by, with Tex having no recollection of them! How could that be? Who did it, and why?Īt its heart, Tesla Effect is a standard point-and-click adventure, with a film noir vibe, but the team at Big Finish Games has perfected its twist on the theme, with everything playing out from a first-person perspective, seeing events through the eyes of Tex, with various full-motion video cut-scenes used for key moments of story progression, along with live actors for the non-playable character conversations. It only takes a short time to realise some aspects of the room (that doubles as his office) are not how he remembers them to be, and upon further investigation and talking with familiar faces, who themselves are acting a tad different than before, it comes to light that it is now in fact 2050. That is how the previous entry, Tex Murphy: Overseer ended, and Tesla Effect picks up not long after, with Tex finally coming to, unsure of what happened and how he got back to his room at the Ritz Hotel. had struck it lucky, solving the biggest case faced so far, and getting the girl of his dreams…until him and his lady were kidnapped at gunpoint, and then he was knocked unconscious. Time to set the scene: the year was 2043 and Tex Murphy, P.I. ![]() The team behind that should have played through Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure beforehand to get a better understanding of how to balance things correctly. Whilst it clearly had a decent-sized budget and superb presentation - to the point of looking like an actual TV production - its story was weak and the whole affair was almost completely bereft of interaction. The Bunker was a recent attempt at resurrecting the FMV adventure, but totally missed the mark. After all that time, did the fedora-wearing gumshoe have the same allure? Cubed3 heads back to the hotly-tipped release to investigate…įMV-filled adventures can sometimes work very well indeed ( Wing Commander III, The 7th Guest, or, more recently, Her Story), but there is a reason why the concept is not used so often - sadly, they can also be more miss than hit. No longer was it a matter of "if," but more a case of "when" would he return, and come 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign, Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure was borne unto the world. The legendary Private Investigator was set to return. Several years later, with ownership of the team changing hands before eventually being disbanded, Big Finish Games was finally formed, rising from the ashes, and along with it came the reacquisition of the rights to its most popular creation. Then everything went to pot, with Microsoft snapping up the team but not allowing for new Tex Murphy quests to come to light. The last time Tex Murphy was on the scene was back in 1998 when the now defunct Access Software was still independent and had just dropped the eagerly anticipated first-person adventure, Overseer, following on from massive success with both 1994's Under a Killing Moon and 1996's The Pandora Directive. ![]() If you have any suggestions or ideas for this deck feel free to post them in the comments. If getting killed by large expensive creatures is annoying, then Commander is probably not the format for you. I want it to be powerful, because losing every game sucks, but I don't want to do annoying things to my opponents. This is the type of deck I strive to create. No annoying counterspells, no boring land destruction, just pure monster assault (although I may cheat them out a few turns early). It simply utilizes quality synergy to keep threats on the board as often as possible. I like this deck because it is powerful, yet it doesn't employ any ridiculous combos. Transforming a lowly Sac-tribe into an Inferno Titan with Proteus Staff. Constantly floating a large monster on top with Lurking Predators. Setting up a cascade into Great Whale or Palinchron, which allows me to pile on the threats the turn I cast Maelstrom Wanderer. There are a ton of fun things to do with this deck. It is full of fun synergy that keeps the game interesting, and each game is usually unique. A Tropical Island, Volcanic Island, Cascade Bluffs or a few fetches would be good additions. I'm always surprised how many cards I can draw with it if I'm stalling out.This part of the deck could use some updates. Tap sakura-tribe scout to put a land into play making a clue, crack clue for mina and den, in my turn play lands for 5 clues (thanks mina and den + fetchlands), tap cradle for 7, crack clues til I hit green sun's zenith, gsz for 6 and kill the table with pathbreaker ibex. Tireless tracker is a card you're missing that was MVP of that game after I got stalled - I had this sequence of: Totally unrelated note but I just had my first MTGO game with this deck (my build ofc) and had a hilariously sweet play where I defended my trygon predator with mystic confluence and in that line bounced my own dockside extortionist to replay it, making it net 12 mana in a turn give or take. So blatant thievery is the main huge bomb I think you would want - that card is my main answer to stuck board states with wanderer, taking people's stax pieces and such to ensure free swings. Lol i swear I control f'd for time warp and didn't see it. ![]() Fascinating stuff.Īvenger might find its way in here. If you haven't read darrenhabib's post on it, you should. This package in other forms has been really powerful for me in both Uro and Tatyova. Any other thoughts on good pay off spells that can be cast off MW? I'm kind of at a loss for things that aren't board wipes or extra turns, honestly. Spelljack seems like just the thing for my liking and I know have a Remand in my trade binder. So, I've got Time Warp and Devastation Tide as my primary combos with Mystic Sanctuary. Rage!Omnath and Titania are definitely better especially in combo with other things in the deck. Your advice on ramp sources has been taken under advisement. More fetches definitely feels right for this deck and the off-color blues are certainly a priority. So, for most of the cards that you mention adding, they aren't in there simply because I don't currently have them and I don't normally run proxies for aesthetic reasons! However, since I'm likely to be playing this deck mostly online for the foreseeable future, no need to worry about that just yet.įinale of Devastation seems better than Nylea's Intervention given that I'm not running Dark Depths/ Thespian's Stage or some other combination of lands like that. I've one-shotted entire boards by wandering into avenger, playing 5 lands and swinging with hasted plant army. With that sanctuary package I would really make sure you jam the offcolor blue fetches.Įdit: and last thing.I know avenger of zendikar is cliche but it's also stupid in this deck, like it was designed for it. I cut spelljack because it was too costly but you've got quite a lot of potential setup for it with sanctuary. ![]() I would consider spelljack and remand as mystic sanctuary loops as being able to wanderer → spelljack every turn is pretty good. If you're not actively avoiding winning with an infinite combo the opportunity cost of playing time warp is pretty low with the trade routes/sanctuary package. An issue with it is that your payoff spells are not amazing. Something I see you've got going on that I don't entirely know about, but that is cool, is the mystic sanctuary package. In a landfall themed Wanderer deck I would definitely jam fetches if you can, and these two creatures pack so much more punch than stuff like worldbreaker and multani, yavimaya's avatar. * omnath, locus of rage and titania, protector of argoth and the full fetch package are something I would look at. Dockside extortionist particularly with the creature bounce stuff is insane. Added 2 more new cities for the purpose of “Special Transport”. (Special thanks to “merlinita” for the work done). 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Out of all the add-ons for the game Euro Truck Simulator 2, Mario Map Map rightlyĬonsidered the biggest map on the present time. Patches, improved performance, detailed zoom and other attractions. ![]() An updated version of the card will please its changes with new ![]() Very popular among users of the game, it sure sign every driver trucker. Here is a updated version of the card under the name – Mario Map, the map is The first load can last for a very long time (do not consider that the game hung) ![]() The map includes: Eastern Express + Supplement, Europe with new cities, North and South America Thousands of cities and thousands of kilometers of roads! No one has yet done a larger map and do it hardly. This modification will allow you to try out the most grandee project – Mario map for Euro Truck Simulator 2. In addition, each region has its own weather conditions, day and night duration, temperature conditions, as well as specific buildings, vegetation, expensive infrastructure and much more. The Mario map mod for Euro Truck Simulator 2 includes countries and regions such as Finland, Norway, Sweden, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Asia, South and North America, and even a map of Ukraine and Russia from the Eastern Express. ![]() And the positive sign is for increasing the level. The negative sign is for reducing the level of the water. The diagram has a line that matches up with the bar on the set screw. You will see a −/+ sign at the top of the screw. The adjustment screw is located on the center-right side of the ice maker and is somewhat embedded into it. But to increase it, turn it anticlockwise. To reduce the water level, turn the screw clockwise. Next, turn the set screw either clockwise or anticlockwise with a Phillips or a flathead screwdriver. Step Two: Readjust the Adjustment Set Screw However, if it does not budge, use a flathead screwdriver to pry it off from the bottom. Get Instant Help - Ask An Experienced Verified Appliance Technician Step One: Take Off the Ice Maker Coverįirst, grab and pull the cover of the ice maker to pop it off. ![]()
![]() This involved collection of biospecimens from the participants, including serum, plasma, mononuclear cells and urine along with conducting questionnaires regarding their lifestyle and medical history. For example, it would be unethical to design an RCT deliberately exposing workers to a potentially harmful situation.To study how genetic factors and environmental factors affect disease risk, two large-scale prospective studies, the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Community-Based Cohort Study (TMM CommCohort Study) and the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study (TMM BirThree Cohort Study), are ongoing in Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures in Japan.įrom 2013, the commencement of the cohort studies, till 2017, ToMMo has successfully recruited more than 150,000 participants to undertake the baseline assessment. If cohort studies are second-best, then why use them? They may be the only way to explore certain questions. RCTs, in contrast, are experimental-meaning the researcher manipulates one of the variables (assigns treatments, for example) and determines how this influences the outcome. Cohort studies are observational-meaning the researcher observes what’s happening or naturally occurring, measures variables of interest and draws conclusions. In terms of levels of evidence for establishing relationships between exposure and outcome, cohort studies are considered second to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) because RCTs limit the possibility for biases by randomly assigning one group of participants to an intervention/treatment and another group to non-intervention/treatment or placebo. Weaknesses are that they can be expensive and time-consuming because they can involve large populations and long periods of time. ![]() Strengths of a cohort study include the fact that multiple outcomes can be observed. Researchers could use these results to develop a tool to identify readiness for RTW and guidelines surrounding successful RTW. If this were the case, this cohort study could likely tell us that workplace policies play an important role in RTW. It may come to light that the workers who felt their companies were doing well in terms of policies and practices were more likely to be back at work at six months, for example, than those who didn’t. They might be asked about their organization’s policies and practices, and if accommodated work had been offered and accepted. They may be asked if they have returned to work and, if so, if they were able to meet their job demands. At six and 12 months post-injury, the workers could be interviewed about their readiness to RTW. Researchers in such a study could determine what’s affecting the workers’ RTW. Returning to our example, a cohort study could follow a group of injured workers who were off work (and filed musculoskeletal-related claims) and observe when these workers returned to work.
![]() On a normal day, pilots are a formality, a helpful addition to the ship’s bridge when chaos strikes, they can be the last line of defense between a close call and an incalculable disaster. Pilots, who are required aboard all vessels transiting the canal, use their local expertise to verbally direct the navigation of a ship as its captain maneuvers it through the man-made passage. This information was likely top of mind for the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) pilots aboard the Mosaheb 2 as it approached the Ever Given on Tuesday morning. ![]() In a forecast for March 23, the EMA warned of “thrilling winds of sand and dust” and a “disruption of maritime navigation.” Wave heights on the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea, the EMA estimated, would reach 10 to 13 feet. Infamous seasonal gusts of hot, dry, and sand-filled air, known as the Khamaseen winds, were sweeping intensely across the country, causing dramatic spikes in temperature and poor visibility. ‘Thrilling Winds of Sand and Dust’ĭays earlier, the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) had started to issue warnings. By then, it was the most famous ship in the world. One hour and 53 minutes later, the Ever Given’s voyage was over. Let’s nerd out over them together.Īt 5:49 a.m., the Mosaheb 2, an Egyptian tugboat, sidled up to the skyscraper-sized ship, the official indication that the vessel’s journey was about to begin. ![]() For the next 5 hours and 37 minutes, the Ever Given drifted slowly in a patternless pause, killing time before the start of its half-day-plus voyage through the canal to the Mediterranean Sea. In the darkness, the 1,300-foot long, 200,000-metric ton megaship joined a group of vessels already idling in the anchorage-an enormous, yet unremarkable addition to a vast, aquatic waiting room at the foot of the Suez Canal’s southern terminus. Egyptian local time (EET), the Ever Given, a container ship belonging to the shipping company Evergreen Marine and sailing under the flag of Panama, arrived at Suez Port. ![]() For example, Chrome’s manager allows you to save your links in folders. SaaS bookmark managers like Mailist include more features than browser-based bookmark managers. These bookmark managers often use extensions that allow users to use the platform inside any browser. SaaS (Software as a Service) bookmark managers are the evolution of browser-based management. ![]() Firefox and Safari also have similar bookmarking capabilities. For example, Chrome’s bookmark manager allows you to manage bookmarks in folders. These types include:īrowser-based bookmarks use a browser’s internal bookmarking feature. Now that you have a brief understanding of how bookmarks are advantageous we will discuss the different types of bookmark managers. This process will become more important as you acquire more bookmarks or spend more time on the internet. Organizing your bookmarks is a simple way to turn a 5-minute search into a 2-second task. Allows you to save things quickly for later use.However, there are other unique benefits for organizing bookmarks. Benefits of Organizing Your BookmarksĪs you’re painfully aware, one of the primary benefits of organizing your bookmarks is providing some form of order to your list of links. If you’re struggling with stacks of bookmarks and don’t know what to do with them then this article is for you. However, since the internet is an endless stream of data people often find themselves in a bit of a bookmarking pickle. On the internet, a bookmark helps you save links you find valuable. A bookmark in the traditional sense helps you find your place in a book. Have you ever struggled to remember a site you’ve visited in the past? This is why bookmarks are so helpful. ![]() It offers more than 1,500 exercises, lessons, and games for you to develop your piano-playing skills, and also boasts a wide roster of popular songs that you can play and practice along with. ![]() It works by using your phone’s microphone to listen to your piano or keyboard, but also has a built-in keyboard if needed. It may have a more popular app for guitarists, but Yousician’s piano app is just as comprehensive and useful. The app is available only for Android, although a good iOS alternative is Notes! - Learn to Read Music. Not only does it teach you how to understand note pitch and duration, but it also includes lessons on learning the different musical staffs and on all 15 key signatures. Vivace lets you do just this, providing a wide variety of illustrated tutorials and customized lessons for recognizing notes. Yes, it’s not particularly fun, but learning how to read sheet music is all but essential if you want to become an accomplished pianist. You’ll get access to free songs without paying, but to get all of them, you’ll need a subscription. The subscription comes in three flavors: Three months ($30), six months ($42), or a year ($60). There’s a wide range of customizations you can make, including playing speed and altering for individual hands. But don’t think it’s skimped on the learner resources as a result. To this end, there’s a massive range of songs, including those from popular TV shows and artists, and you can store your favorites in your own personal playbook. OnlinePianist takes a slightly different approach from other apps, as while you can learn the piano with this app, the larger approach is on learning how to play certain songs and impress friends. Here are the best piano apps to help you learn the piano in 2023. Fortunately, there is a glut of excellent piano-learning apps out right now that can help you take your first, second, or third steps. That said, many would-be pianists find it daunting to take that initial step and start learning how to play. It’s a versatile instrument that can be used to make beautiful music by beginners and virtuosos alike, and it can accompany almost any instrument and perform in pretty much any genre. The piano remains one of the most loved and most played instruments in the world. ![]() git svn can track a standard Subversion repository, following the common “trunk/branches/tags” layout, with the –stdlayout option. It provides a bidirectional flow of changes between a Subversion and a Git repository. Git svn is a simple conduit for changesets between Subversion and Git. This will create a revision in SVN for each commit in git. Select TortoiseSVN → Diff with URL.Ĭommit each diff from a specified HEAD directly to the SVN repository, and then rebase or reset (depending on whether or not there is a diff between SVN and HEAD). If you want to see the differences between a file in your working copy, and a file in any Subversion repository, you can do that directly in explorer by selecting the file then holding down the Shift key whilst right clicking to obtain the context menu. Run git svn rebase -l to do a local rebase (with the changes that came in with the last fetch operation).Change svn-remote url back to the original url.Run git svn fetch – This needs to fetch at least one new revision from svn!.Svn status | grep '^?' | awk '' ' 'Īt the end of the move it should be the case that the source folder is empty. delete all unversioned / ignored files in working copy.edit svn:ignore at current dir (to ignore or unignore files).so, NB: doesn't seem to add dot files, subsumed in my svn-add-all.sh script (in ~/tools) Svn add -force * -auto-props -parents -depth infinity -q (why one would want to do that is unclear) remove directory from SVN version control (but not local contents).Or (but that shows all properties, not just svn:ignore): Svn propset -recursive svn:ignore -file /path/to/a/file/with/svn-ignore-rules. See my svn-rec-add-ignore.sh script (in ~/tools). ![]() recursively add new ignored patterns in SVN.This will also add the ignored files, because the command line expands * and therefore svn add believes that you want all files to be added. to add all local files (but not the ignored ones).It seems to correctly restore directories too (all files in said directory are restored to Then, (assuming the revision was 'r144' and the file 'foo') do a: recover deleted files from an SVN repositoryįind the revision on which the file was present with svn log -verbose.The directory in step #1 above is to just move it out of the way so you can copy back any untracked Of course this wipes any untracked files so better than deleting mv-ing the just checked-out directory to where it is supposed to be.doing a svn co of the problematic directory in some other location.However oftentimes even the above doesn't work and then (after following the above steps) I resorted to executing the following What has worked for me (assuming the above directory name) is: > local unversioned, incoming add upon update Yeah, it's a bit ugly and non-deterministic I am afraid.Ī response like the following upon svn status (following a svn update): Sprinkle the above instructions liberally with a few svn revert too. SVN tree and then move it in place (after rm-ing the previous directory that existed in its place), again Or also try instead of the above silly moving around of directories to svn co the problematic directory somewhere outside the svn update is now (mysteriously) clean.do an svn update and svn status (you should see a bunch of files marked with `D`).svn directory out of the way to some other location in the filesystem (outside of the SVN tree) Sometimes just doing an svn cleanup seems to work. Skipped 'ivoa-console-utils/sval' - An obstructing working copy was found I've encountered the following message upon svn update: message "obstructing working copy was found".show which commits changed a specific file.do a visual diff between a file and a revision of it.Svn update -r 666 file … or to just view it without changing the working copy: The following command (executed at the root of my entire repository) save the day: … which was my intention, I mistyped and executed the dreaded: how to bring back from the dead an entire directory that has been svn rmed and svn commited.Svn revert deletedDirectory-or-file source Svn diff -diff-cmd svndiffMELD -x -uw -r 4050:4054 database/vo-common-dml.sql by employing the Meld application and my svndiffMELD script (lives in ~/tools):.Svn diff -diff-cmd diff -x -uw -r 4050:4054 database/vo-common-dml.sql | colordiff The results can be visually improved by two ways: Svn diff -diff-cmd diff -x -uw -r 4050:4054 database/vo-common-dml.sql how to display differences between two different revisions of a file in SVN. |
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