If you're unfamiliar with Dwarf Fortress, be sure to read Dan Pearson's wonderful feature, Learning to love Dwarf Fortress, gaming's deepest simulation. It'll include new art, music, Steam features and. ![]() The infamously complex but brilliant "infinite possibilities" simulation game, which has been worked on for over 16 years, finally launches on Valve's platform as a lifetime "living" project by brothers Tarn and Zach Adams. But we've arrived at a point where it accomplishes the goal of making the world map more easily understood and thought it would be fun to share." "There's still quite a bit to do with river mouths and wetlands and oceans and mountains and trees and so on, of course. "The image is larger and square since we've moved from 8x12 ASCII glyphs to 16x16 tiles," Adams explained. However, some of the other symbols are likely more difficult to distinguish, or maybe it just looks entirely unreadable."Īnd here's the work-in-progress graphical map of the same world: "If you haven't played before, even from the ASCII image, you can probably tell what is water versus land, and that the top is the icy part. "This particular world is a medium sized 129x129 one (currently you can make a large world at 257x257, down to a pocket world at 17x17)," developer Tarn Adams said in a post on Dwarf Fortress' Steam page. Here's the classic map, displayed using ASCII symbols. Now we have our first look at its updated map. ![]() Work on the hotly-anticipated enhanced version of Dwarf Fortress continues.
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![]() So you won’t have to worry about your hands slipping off every time you want to cut your nails if you have this clipper with you. ![]() A rubber-coated hand allows for more gripping space. This clipper’s hands are made of a lovely rubber casing. You may have heard individuals complain about not getting the most out of their clippers, and some have even stated that most clippers lack a stronghold, but with this, you can be confident of a better grip. This 777 Extra Large Toenail Clipper is a top-of-the-line, award-winning toenail clipper for limited mobility measures 5.5′′ long, 4mm, and has a large, wide handle that fits all hand sizes practically. Three Seven (777) Extra Large Toenail Clipper All of these features and others make it an ideal clipper for anyone with weak hands. It also had long, extended handles crafted of high-quality steel that was razor-sharp. That’s not all the clipper also has another remarkable feature. 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This month: Uncle Jamm’s Army Re-Union and reminiscing on the good times. 3/15/2023 0 Comments The elder scrolls vi oblivionSkyrim has been a fixture in our lives for nearly a decade. Clicking the link in my previous sentence will lead you to a page that’s emptier than Windhelm’s Palace of the Kings after I’ve slain Ulfric Stormcloak and looted him for every single bowl he owned. Let’s take care of the draugr in the room first: The Elder Scrolls VI is still years away. 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Oblivion was able to capture that bit of magic that only video games can capture. It truly felt like I was playing a “next generation” game. I had never played a game with a scope as massive, a world so rich with a myriad of details, with an engaging story to hold it up. I distinctly remember being blown away by just how big the game felt. It took a special game to take my attention away from the Master Chief and his adventures Oblivion just happened to be that game. During the 360 years, my main game of choice was Halo. I didn’t come to the game when it launched, mainly because I didn’t own a 360 at the time, but I was introduced to the game a few years later. Personally, Oblivion was a defining moment in my journey as a video game fan. It really wasn’t until Fallout 3 released two years later that the ambitions of Oblivion would be matched. It was mind-blowingly ambitious on release and was an amazing example of Xbox 360 hardware capability. Oblivion was an incredible game and ended up being one of the defining early games of that generation. ![]() Morrowind, the previous entry in the series, arrived on the original Xbox on Jand was exclusive to the Xbox console, and was that first baby step in the growing partnership between Xbox and Bethesda. Oblivion was one of the best selling Xbox games of all time and became one of the games you had to own. The game felt specifically built with the 360 in mind, and Todd Howard even wrote about the 360/Oblivion days after the Xbox-Bethesda acquisition. Oblivion eventually landed on the PS3 a year after the 360 version and even sported improved graphics in addition to more content, but it always felt like an “Xbox game” (from a consoles players point of view at least) Oblivion released during the Xbox 360 launch window and was the second game in The Elder Scrolls series to arrive on an Xbox console. ![]() The game was a commercial success as well, selling 3 million copies by January 2007. Critics and fans alike raved about the games deep role-playing systems as well as its ease of play and overall ambition. Oblivion was one of the most critically celebrated games of all time when it released. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion released 15 years ago to the day on March 20th, 2006. ![]() Jabra Xpress comes with the highest level of data protection! It is SOC II Type 1 compliant and all data is collected and managed in a secure place. 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After 1917, a higher head tax and literacy requirement imposed for entry prompted more people to try to enter illegally. noticed that their efforts were totally ineffective without border enforcement between inspection stations. Agencies charged with inspecting people and goods entering and leaving the U.S. Milton died at his home in 1947 and according to his wishes, his ashes were scattered in the Arizona desert.Ĭustoms violations and intercepting communications to "the enemy" seemed to be of a greater concern than enforcing immigration regulations in the early years of the twentieth century. Milton became a Texas Ranger in 1879 and later joined the U.S. Texas Rangers were also sporadically assigned to patrol duties by the state, and their efforts were noted as "singularly effective."Īlways referred to as "the first Immigration Border Patrolman", Jeff Milton (left) poses outside the Birdcage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona. by the military were directed to the immigration inspection stations. Military troops along the southwest border performed intermittent border patrolling, but this was secondary to "the more serious work of military training." Aliens encountered illegally in the U.S. These patrolmen were Immigrant Inspectors, assigned to inspection stations, and could not watch the border at all times. Although these inspectors had broader arrest authority, they still largely pursued Chinese immigrants trying to avoid the Chinese exclusion laws. Most rode on horseback, but a few operated cars and even boats. ![]() In March 1915, Congress authorized a separate group of Mounted Guards, often referred to as Mounted Inspectors. Though they never totaled more than seventy-five, they patrolled as far west as California trying to restrict the flow of illegal Chinese immigration. The inspectors, usually called Mounted Guards, operated out of El Paso, Texas. Immigration Service patrolled the border in an effort to prevent illegal crossings as early as 1904, but their efforts were irregular and undertaken only when resources permitted. ![]() Although enormous changes have affected nearly every aspect of its operations from its earliest days, the basic values that helped shape the Patrol in the early years professionalism, honor, integrity, respect for human life, and a shared effort, have remained. Border Patrol has had a proud history of service to our nation. 3/15/2023 0 Comments Css transform![]() Other CSS modules may expand the definitions of these value types. Value types not defined in this specification are defined in CSS Values & Units. This specification follows the CSS property definition conventions from. Transforms affect the computation of the scrollable overflow region as described by. Transforms affect the client rectangles returned by the Element Interface Extensions getClientRects() and getBoundingClientRect(), which are specified in. Transforms affect the rendering of backgrounds on elements with a value of fixed for the background-attachment property, which is specified in. Some values of these properties result in the creation of a containing block, and/or the creation of a stacking context. This module defines a set of CSS properties that affect the visual rendering of elements to which those properties are applied these effects are applied after elements have been sized and positioned according to the visual formatting model from. ![]() Using transform, elements can be translated, rotated and scaled. This coordinate space can be modified with the transform property. Positions and sizes in this coordinate space can be thought of as being expressed in pixels, starting in the origin of point with positive values proceeding to the right and down. The CSS visual formatting model describes a coordinate system within each element is positioned.
3/15/2023 0 Comments Gamehouse diner dash hometown hero![]() In the Caveman Cafe expansion, for example, Grandma builds a time machine out of a microwave that accidentally transports her and Flo to the prehistoric era. Players could also purchase new restaurants for $4.99 each that continued the escapades of Flo and Granny while offering a new restaurant theme with new levels to play. The creepy Crypt Cafe expansion was launched in time for Hallowee’en Players could buy cool new outfits for their waiter and scenery pieces to create their own custom diners using real-world currency, for as low as $0.79 per item, then upload their creations to for others to enjoy. PlayFirst had already tested the waters for this in Diner Dash: Flo on the Go, the third game in the series, which introduced a feature called “Flo’s Closet.” The story of Flo on the Go was contrived around the fact that poor Flo kept losing her suitcase as she travelled, and players had to use the money they earned in-game to buy new outfits to dress Flo up.ĭiner Dash: Hometown Hero took “Flo’s Closet” a step further. Since players couldn’t both be Flo in multiplayer mode, it was decided that each person would get to create their own avatar to put in the game. As it turns out, the competitive mode seemed more fun and was slightly better received by audiences. Conventional wisdom told them that women ( Diner Dash‘s primary audience) hated competitive play, so a collaborative mode was also added with a single score that both players contribute to. They settled on a competitive mode where two waiters compete to serve the same customers and achieve the highest score. This also created competition, because the person who covered the tables would also get the tips. Dinkin then realized that teamwork was present among waiters in a restaurant already for example, if someone had to clean up a spilled drink, the other person would have to cover their tables. One early idea was putting the second player in the kitchen, so that one cooks and the other serves the food. The team brainstormed ways of adapting the Diner Dash click management model for two players. Two players compete for the high-score in competitive multiplayer mode “You can’t just shove new models into this property that everyone loves,” cautioned Dinkin. One of the keys to making multiplayer work in Hometown Hero was authenticity. Edelman called it a learning experience, but one that “didn’t discourage us from believing in multiplayer and social gameplay.” They built it, but the players didn’t come. Multiplayer isn’t common in casual games because, as fellow panellist PlayFirst CTO Brad Edelman put it, “it makes things more complicated.” PlayFirst’s first experience with online multiplayer came in a joint project with Hasbro called Connect Four Cities, which was like “playing checkers on the side of a building.” The designers assumed that players would enjoy playing against other real people rather than just the computer, so they added a feature for two human players to challenge each other. The key question was how to keep a game alive (and making money) once it falls out of a portal’s Top 10 list. Speaking at a panel at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, Kenny Shea Dinkin, VP and Creative Director at PlayFirst, said that the innovations behind Diner Dash: Hometown Hero were an attempt to address some alarming trends in the industry: namely, rising development costs and a more crowded market combined with the fact that only about 2% of customers download the full version of a game after finishing the demo. ![]() The result, Diner Dash: Hometown Hero, introduced micro-transactions, user-generated content and multiplayer modes to the series. Not content to rest on its laurels, PlayFirst looked closely at websites like Gaia Online, Maple Story, Pogo and Puzzle Pirates for inspiration for the next Diner Dash game. However, after 200 million downloads, two successful sequels, portable versions for the Nintendo DS, Sony PSP and mobile phones, and a SpongeBob Squarepants-themed spin-off, the big question for PlayFirst heading into 2007 was “what next?” With its challenging click management gameplay and spunky hero Flo, the Diner Dash series is the crown jewel in PlayFirst’s game catalogue. 3/15/2023 0 Comments Automatic sms sender iphone![]() ![]() With Scheduled you can integrate your calendar on its platform and get the most out of it. Two apps that stand out with their flexibility are Scheduled and SMS Scheduler. By and large, they all offer the features mentioned previously. ![]() There are a couple of useful applications for sending automated SMS messages on an iPhone. IPhones don’t come with a built-in message automation app. You can use virtually all of the above-mentioned features on those apps. ![]() I will get back to you later”.Īutomatic SMS sending also includes messaging apps like WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, and others. For example, you can type “busy” and there are automatic text apps that will transform it into “Sorry, I’m busy right now. Sometimes you can even set a short keyword in the app and it will transform it into a longer text. Those features will be quite handy when being on a vacation or just being busy with something important. Some platforms are flexible enough to give you blacklisting, auto-replying or SMS sorting. Some apps will let you create a schedule and a list of recipients, and they will send the messages accordingly. Considering the importance of the job that they will do, it is a good deal to have one.Īutomated text message senders can give you various options, depending on their price or type. Most of the automatic text apps cost from $2-$6 a month. However, they are not too expensive either. Moreover, some phones-mostly Android phones-have an automatic text message sender app built in them.Īutomatic texting services for smartphones typically don’t come free of charge. There are apps that will help you plan messages beforehand and send them according to a schedule. You can also use your smartphone to send automated text messages. Automatic Text SenderĪutomatic SMS sending doesn’t only apply to computerized platforms that companies use to reach out to a bigger audience. Once you’ve successfully added the API connection, the system will give you a username and password, which you’ll use in the HTTP template later. However, if you want to send transaction messages automatically, you can do that by integrating our SMS API. When you first enter your account, the system provides you special blank windows for you to fill in the sender ID, destination phone numbers and the text for messages. You can send automated text messages through our portal by just registering and depositing money on your balance. They know what their plans are beforehand and in case of an accident they can react faster. Besides that, it puts marketers a couple of steps further. This saves them a lot of time and helps them organize their work better. Simply put, automated SMS messages are scheduled texts that platforms send to one or many recipients at the same time.Īuto text messaging allows marketers to schedule SMS advertisements ahead of time. This wouldn’t be possible without implementing automatic text messages. This SMS marketing campaign alone in just one day increased their sales for that month over 10 times. This is what they sent out to thousands of hungry customers in just a split second. quick-service restaurants felt like they needed more promotional campaigns, they came up with this text message. restaurants and get the $6.00 burger and fries offer for only $2.99.” “I know you’re hungry! Show XXXXX promo code to any of Carl’s Jr. 3/15/2023 0 Comments Goodnotes weekly planner templateStart by writing down your top 3 goals for the week. How to Create the Perfect Weekly Plan for Youīefore you dig out your planner and get started on making your weekly schedule, let’s go over some important steps so that you can get the most out of the time you spend on your weekly planning: Scheduling your week can help you avoid overlap in time commitments, and it can also show you when you need to say “no” because you’re simply too busy. Have you ever overcommitted your time without realizing it? Like you said “yes” to volunteering at the school bake sale, and you also said “yes” to attending your husband’s work party on the same night. No more twiddling your thumbs when you accomplish one task and you’re trying to determine off-the-cuff what needs to be done next. A weekly plan eliminates that down time and instead gives you an action plan of things to get done and in what order to do them. I don’t know about you, but when I don’t have a plan of action or to-do list for the day, then I feel like I waste a lot of time thinking about what to do next. A Weekly Plan can make you more productive. ![]() Writing your to-do list down each week and scheduling your time out in advance will give you something to reference so you don’t forget anything important. If you’re busy doing ALL THE THINGS, then a weekly plan can help you keep track of everything so that things don’t fall through the cracks. Why You Should Spend Time Creating a Weekly Schedule A Weekly Plan helps you keep track of things. *This post contains affiliate links, which means if you click a link and make a purchase, I earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Your plan can include anything from your annual doctor’s appointment to your child’s dance recital to picking up the dry cleaning, and it’s a great way to schedule your week so that you can finish your most important tasks and be more productive. ![]() “an action plan to accomplish everything that you need to get done in a given week” Plus, you can grab a FREE Printable Weekly Planning Template at the end of this post to help you successfully schedule out your entire week! What is a Weekly Plan?Ī weekly plan is exactly what it sounds like… The best weekly planners (paper planners, digital planners, dry erase calendars, apps, etc).Things to include in your weekly schedule.Actionable steps to create a weekly plan that works for you. ![]() ![]()
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