I went into Finding Paradise expecting to get a tear jerker and I got exactly that, but nothing really surprised me. The "horror" story and seemingly comedic focus was entirely done to create false expectations. Far from it, you did a great job :) I look forward to what comes next from you. And again Kan, if you are reading this, please don't take the critiques the wrong way, I did enjoy the game and don't want you to feel like you let anybody down. Please let me know if anyone else here has any thoughts they would also like to share, I look forward to having a friendly critique thread for this game. *Huff huff* alright, that's everything off of my chest. Confirming some theories about Neil was kinda cool but there's frankly a lot of other bigger points which still haven't been addressed (Like Neil potentially being stuck in a simulation himself, and what true "reality" is). We got a small amount of context behind where the simulation technology comes from, and a deep dive into Neil's character. Others have already raised this issue in other threads, but I concur that this game doesn't really advance the broader plot as much as many of us would have liked. There isn't much of that in this game, and I didn't realize how nice that stuff was until it was gone. They helped break up the monotony of collecting orbs. However, I did honestly like some of the small little minigames in the prior games. Obviously this is a minor issue (story is PARAMOUNT in these games, gameplay has never been particularly memorable). More importantly, by having split focus between horror and sob-story themes, I feel like the 2 don't mesh well and lead to an neither having a particularly profound impact on the player over the course of the game The sob-story in the middle is definitely impactful, but honestly a little predictable and a little less impactful than the prior games in the series inherently because they kill off the kid first (whom we only spend a couple minutes with and thus don't have the same level of attachment to) then reverse it and kill the mom instead which feels like an asspull. The game tries to have it both ways with the horror undertones as well as a sob-story in the middle. There were surprises, sure, but I never flinched once at anything or even felt anything in scenes where obviously the goal was to make the player uncomfortable.Ģ. With that said, there was nothing throughout this entire game which scared me even remotely. I personally don't think low-bit graphics meshes super well with horror games in general, because horror games rely on immersion inherently and 8/16 bit games simply cannot pull that off. I respect Kan trying to go for a more horror-themed game with this one, however, I have a couple of problems with the execution.ġ. To the Moon and Finding Paradise are what they are because they told very emotionally heavy and tear-jerking stories. *********** Half baked horror vs sob story themes. I feel like these are easy fixes, luckily, but it was a little disappointing that they found their way into the official release despite the long delays. Little things like being able to collect orbs which you couldn't actually use, or the # of orbs referenced on a barrier not matching the number on the tooltip at the bottom of the screen. My playthrough was mostly bug-free, but there were a couple of small oversights which felt a little out of place for a To the Moon game, especially given the size of the delay here. With that said, let's get to some of my personal pet peeves with this game in particular. You guys make some of the most heartfelt stories I've ever experienced and you are exemplars on how videogames as a medium can be used to tell stories in a more impactful way than perhaps any other entertainment medium. To clarify, this is NOT a hate thread, and I have nothing but respect for Kan Gao and the dev team that has created so many amazing stories for us over the years. I wanted to make a thread for people with critiques for Imposter Factory because I personally had a few and also have a strong feeling that this will be the most controversial game in the To the Moon series to date, so many others may have their own thoughts they might wanna share. Hello all, totally the real Barack Obama here (not really.)
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The main Live portion of the game received mixed reviews, with critics panning its weak soundtrack, lack of multiplayer and the live action videos. Guitar Hero Live was released to mostly positive reception, with critics praising the new controller design for providing trickier and more realistic gameplay in comparison to previous Guitar Hero games, as well as the wider variety of content available via the GHTV mode. The game was shipped with forty-two songs on disc and 200 songs within the GHTV library new content has been added to GHTV on a weekly basis, provided through premium shows that earn players unique rewards. The mode also allows players to pick up and play currently-streamed songs at any time or use money and in-game credits to play any song within the library, forgoing traditional downloadable content. In the other main mode, GHTV, songs are presented with the note track overlaid atop their music video or from live concert footage. The game featured two main modes GH Live, the games career mode, featured the note pattern displayed atop full motion video taken from the perspective of a lead guitarist during a concert, with the crowd and other band members dynamically reacting to the player's performance. These innovations included a new guitar controller featuring a 6 button, 3- fret layout in contrast to the 5 button controller of previous games. Activision wanted to bring back Guitar Hero for the next generation of video game consoles but wanted the new game to be innovative. The game serves as a reboot of the Guitar Hero franchise, being the first new entry in the series since Warriors of Rock in 2010. As with previous games in the series, the goal is to use a special guitar controller to match fret patterns displayed on a scrolling note pattern on screen in time with the music. The game was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One in November 2015. It is the seventh main installment in the Guitar Hero series. Guitar Hero Live is a 2015 music rhythm video game developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision. For Deep Blue Sea, Harlin employed animatronics wizard Walt Conti and his company Edge Innovations (which previously worked on Anaconda), to create the most lifelike on-screen shark puppets at that point in time. This was evident in his earliest forays into horror with A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. These experiments provide the predatory animals with heightened intelligence, inadvertently causing the sharks to attack the underwater facilities and hunt the researchers that created them.ĭirector Renny Harlin had become well known for bringing stylish action sequences into his films, but he also was noted for pushing the boundaries of effects work. The overall plot of the series centers around scientific studies conducted by marine biologists. Retrieved 3 December 2012.The Deep Blue Sea film series consists of American science fiction natural- horror films, centered around genetically enhanced- sharks. ^ a b 2012 Evening Standard Limited (10 April 2012)."BFI London Film Festival 2011: Award winners announced". Archived from the original on 14 January 2012. ^ "Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea – Review".^ "THE DEEP BLUE SEA: IN CINEMAS NOW"."Terence Davies resurfaces to begin filming The Deep Blue Sea". The film has found a largely appreciative audience and critical success in the United States with Weisz's performance named as 'film performance of 2012' by David Edelstein of New York magazine.ģ9th Evening Standard British Film Awards The film was also chosen as one of the Top Ten films of the year by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. In January 2012, Weisz was nominated as Best Actress in the 70th Golden Globe Awards. įor her performance, Weisz won the Best Actress Award at the 2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards and also won the Best Actress Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association in the same year. It also has a score of 82 on Metacritic based on 30 reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 80%, based on 141 reviews and an average rating of 7.11/10. The film was released to strongly positive reviews from critics. The background music is taken from Samuel Barber's violin concerto written 1939. Simon Russell Beale as Sir William Collyerįilming locations are in Buckinghamshire and London including the 3 Mills Studios in Bow.The film takes its title from her dilemma of being caught between the devil and the deep blue sea – two equally undesirable situations. Yet to return to a life without passion would be unbearable for her. Hester's new lover has awakened her sexuality, but the reckless, thrill-seeking Freddie can never give her the love and stability that her husband gave her. We soon discover the constraints of Hester's comfortable marriage, which is affectionate but without sexual passion.Īs Hester's affair is discovered she leaves her life of comparative luxury and moves into a dingy London flat with Freddie. Her suicide attempt fails and as she recovers, the story of her affair and her married life is played out in a mosaic of short and sporadic flashbacks. Most of the film takes place during one day in Hester's flat, a day on which she has decided to commit suicide. For Freddie, the tumultuous wartime mix of fear and excitement that was once in his life seems to be no longer present. Freddie throws Hester's life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated. In 1950, Hester Collyer, the younger wife of High Court judge Sir William Collyer, has embarked on a passionate affair with Freddie Page, a handsome young former RAF pilot troubled by his memories of the Second World War. It was released in the United States in 2012 by distributor Music Box Films. This film version was funded by the UK Film Council and Film4, produced by Sean O'Connor and Kate Ogborn.įilming began in late 2010 and it was released in the United Kingdom in 2011, the year of Rattigan's centenary. It is an adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play The Deep Blue Sea about the wife of a judge who engages in an affair with a former RAF pilot. The Deep Blue Sea is a 2011 British romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies and starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, and Simon Russell Beale. It has since moved to Elkhart, Ind., and employs the bulk of Omega's roughly 100 workers. Omega National Products was founded in 1948 and its wood division was once on Breckinridge across the street from where Baker works. Each day we had music to calm the beast." "All different shapes, forms and personalities. Baker's crew worked with a boom box blaring and she, fittingly, preferred The Bee Gees even before they provided all of the key songs for "Saturday Night Fever." View Gallery: Gallery | Yolanda Baker is the last disco ball maker in Americaīefore cheaply made imported mirror balls flooded the market – Baker scoffs at the foam and plastic knock-offs – Omega's peak production years saw them delivering more than 160,000 disco balls annually. She switched to mirrors in 1970 as demand for disco balls was growing and within a few years, as disco became a cultural phenomenon, she was leading a team of nearly 30 women, each of whom was making 25 balls daily. YoYo wasn't injured but I'm sure that shortly after she was sitting there patiently doing disco balls."īaker joined Omega, then called National Products, in 1968 as part of its wood division. "One time an unmarked police car went through the end of our building at a very high speed and punched all the way through the building up to the windshield. "I have to tell you a story about Yo Yo," said Woodward, 83. "I don't know what we'd do without her."īruce Woodward, who owned Omega from 1985 to 2005, said that Baker was an indispensable and exceptionally reliable part of the company's family. "Yolanda Baker, the disco ball maker," said Toni Lehring, mirror sales and service manager at Omega. She's one of 13 workers in the mirror division and can always find something to do, but disco balls have become her calling card. ►READ MORE: Local music is a click away at Louisville Mixīaker has been busy since a July story on NBC News sparked interest in her work, but her weekly output is a fraction of what she averaged during the glory days of mirror balls. "I can't imagine how many people drive by here and never know what goes on," said the soft-spoken Baker, known as YoYo to her coworkers. Long story short: If you've seen a legitimate disco ball, hand-crafted with mirrors, anywhere in the world, the odds are astronomically high that it began life at Omega. Locally, Omega's disco balls have graced Jim Porter's Goodtime Emporium, Champ's Rollerdrome, and Coyote's Music and Dance Hall, for whom Baker also covered a saddle in mirrors.Īnd, of course, that's an Omega ball in "Saturday Night Fever," the iconic John Travolta film that debuted 40 years ago today. Baker has filled orders from Madonna, Kid Rock, Pearl Jam, and infamous New York disco Studio 54. She cranks them out daily at Omega's small shop on Breckinridge Street near Baxter Avenue, with sizes typically ranging from two to 36 inches. She has been making them for 47 years and now, at an extremely spry 70, is thought to be the last disco ball maker in America. She's had some practice at staying focused.īaker has made tens of thousands of mirror balls for Louisville's Omega National Products, the nation's leading provider of the same for nearly 50 years. She doesn't seem to notice the prying eyes. Baker is taking no prisoners on this morning and the mirror ball, more popularly known as a disco ball, is blooming quickly as a handful of bystanders watch. There is no second-guessing or stopping to fix mistakes. MEMU has often found issues with the PC’s antivirus software.However, it causes issues if the PC you are using is of low specs. MEMU’s limitations are far lower than BlueStacks.You can now play the game by clicking on the icon.After downloading the game, its icon will appear on your desktop.Use the search bar at the top, and then you can easily download Subway Surfers from that bar.Log into the Google Play Store using your Google account.After you have downloaded the emulator, open Google Play Store.Download MEMU on your PC from the official site.Furthermore, the best part about MEMU is that it allows you to open multiple tabs in which you can carry out separate activities. MEMU also allows you to download games at a high speed. You can share files between Windows and Android devices using this emulator. Just like BlueStacks, MEMU is another emulator that allows you to play high graphics games. There were many bugs and glitches that could lag or crash the game. Some of the early versions of BlueStacks had a lot of security issues.In some cases, people have reported that BluesStacks crashed multiple times, ruining the gaming experience.BlueStacks can be detected as a virus by some anti-virus software programs.BlueStacks demands a high resolution PC and if you don’t have that, you will face lag in the games that you play.Click on the Subway Surfers icon and start playing.The Subway Surfers will now appear on your desktop.Log into your Google account and the download process will be completed. Google play store will demand your account.Click on Subway Surfers and press “Install Now” to download the game on your PC.Search for Subway Surfers in the search bar on the top.Download BlueStacks on Windows from the official site.You can also enable a high frame rate for best gaming experience. You can play with a mouse and a keyboard. There are many customizable options within this emulator. The emulator allows you to play high graphics games on your Windows and Mac devices. Using this emulator, you can easily play Subway Surfers on your PC using this emulator. It has over 130 million users, and it is one of most reliable emulators for playing mobile games. BlueStacksīlueStacks is one of the best emulators. Make sure that you have a Google account. Given below are steps for running Subway Surfers on your PC using an emulator. For example, people also use special emulators to run Linux on Windows. Mostly, these emulators are used for running video games or completely different software on an operating system. Emulators are special software programs that allow you to run a program from a completely different device on your computer. However before we dive into that, we must understand what emulators are. 3Play Subway Surfers on PC/Mac Using EmulatorsĪnother way to run a mobile game on your PC is through the usage of emulators.
Text Analysis Step 2: We perform a set of standard Natural Language Processing operations over content – such as Sentence Splitting, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Named Entity Recognition.Īlgorithms split sentences and identify concepts such as people, things, places, events, numbers, etc. Text is extracted from non-textual sources such as PDF files, videos, documents, voice recordings, etc. It turns the content into a better manageable data source.Ī typical process of semantic enrichment includes: Text Identification Step 1: We remove the boilerplate from the unstructured textual content. These concepts, found in a document or another piece of content, are unambiguously defined and related to each other within and outside the content. Semantic annotation enriches content with machine-processable information by linking background information to extracted concepts.
Whitepages released an iOS app that August, followed by the Whitepages Caller ID app for Android devices in February 2009 and for Blackberry that May. It also introduced an api, which gave third-party developers access to Whitepages' data. That same year, it acquired VoIP developer Snapvine in order to add features where users could be called through the website without giving out their phone number. In 2008, Whitepages said it would start working on options for users to control their information on the site. By 2008 the company had $66 million in annual revenues. By the end of that year, the Whitepages database had grown to 180 million records and the company was listed as one of Deloitte's 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America three times. That same year, MSN adopted Whitepages' directory data for its "Look it up" feature. In 2005, Technology Crossover Ventures and Providence Equity Partners invested $45 million in the company. In 2003, Algard stepped down as CEO to focus on, which he had also founded and Max Bardon took his place as CEO temporarily. By 2005, $15 million in annual revenues was coming from these contracts. The company brokered deals with Yellowpages and Superpages, whereby Whitepages earned revenue for sending them referral traffic. The site grew and attracted more advertisers. In 1998, Algard left his job to focus on the website he incorporated Whitepages in 2000. Eventually WhitePages was producing more ad-revenue than Algard was earning at Goldman Sachs. He expanded the database of contact information using data licensed from American Business Information (now a part of Infogroup). He continued operating the website as a hobby while working as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs. Algard bought the domain for $900, which he says was all of his savings at the time. He thought of an online email directory as an easier way to find people. Algard was searching for a friend's contact information and the phone company gave him the wrong number. The idea for Whitepages was conceived by Alex Algard, while studying at Stanford in 1996. From 2010 to 2016, the company shifted away from advertising revenue and began focusing more on selling business services and subscription products. From 2008 to 2013, Whitepages released several mobile apps, a re-design in 2009, the ability for consumers to control their contact information, and other features. Investors were later bought-out by Algard in 2013. It was incorporated in 2000 and received $45 million in funding in 2005. Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then- Stanford student Alex Algard. It has the largest database available of contact information on US residents. Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. Contact data, background data, and mobile apps The main temp folder on a Mac OS X or macOS installation can be found by entering the echo $TMPDIRĬommand in your Terminal app. Third-party applications may create temporary folders during installation or execution, and the operating system itself uses temporary files and folders as needed during operation. Temporary folders can be found in a number of locations on your Mac. Where Are the Temporary Folders on a Mac? As noted, proceed with caution in this endeavor. In some cases, you may be instructed to delete specific temporary files when troubleshooting an issue on your machine. The OS should handle that as part of its housekeeping duties. Under normal circumstances, you should not have to manually remove any temporary folders or files. When the program terminates, it should delete the temp file from the system. A temp file holds the previous states of your application for use while the app is running. They are created by the operating system and applications to hold data while a process or installation is taking place, and then removed when the process completes.Īn example of a temp file can be seen with applications that allow a user to navigate back through various levels with an undo function. Temp files - As their name suggests, temp files have a short and temporary existence on your computer. They are used for storing information that is frequently accessed instead of constantly recreating that data. They are persistent files that remain resident on your storage device after you have restarted your system.Īn example of a cache file is your browser cache which saves time by reloading webpages from the cache rather than downloading a previously viewed page yet again from the remote server. While they both hold temporary data, cache and temp files do have some distinguishing characteristics.Ĭache files - These files are accessed and updated frequently and often remain on the system after the process that created them has closed. They are storage locations that can hold cache files or temporary files. Temporary folders are created by your operating system or applications and can serve a number of purposes. What is the Purpose of Temporary Folders? While some superusers may prefer the old days of an all-powerful root user, Apple has opted to lock down its power to better protect your operating system. Processes such as Apple software updates and Apple installers that are signed by Apple are the only entities that can modify these files and folders. With SIP enabled, simply having root authority no longer provides sufficient power to modify these critical parts of your OS. SIP protects these specific components of your operating system: Prior to the rollout of SIP, users with root permissions could access and modify system files, exposing their computer to issues caused by accidental or malicious misuse of this power. This is the reason that these storage locations are not accessible for the average user or process.Īpple has taken the security of its operating system to a new level with the introduction of System Integrity Protection (SIP) starting with OS X El Capitan in September of 2015. Unauthorized users or processes cannot modify these folders or their contents.Ī computer’s system folders present a logical target for a virus or malware to exploit. They are protected by enforcing restricted access to the folders and their associated files. System folders on a Mac are special folders where the files that comprise the heart of your operating system are located. Restrict your activity to browsing the temp folders to avoid any issues unless you are very sure of what you are doing. Deleting files or otherwise playing around in the temp folders can lead to unpleasant, unintended consequences to your operating system. Before we proceed we offer this word of caution. In this article, we are going to enlighten you regarding the subject of temporary folders on your macOS or Mac OS X machine. You may support the project by expressing your excitement in the form of a donation via PayPal although we value code contributions considerably more.Īfter a few months of beta testing, valuable feedback from our community of play-testers, and relentless bug squashing, our ScummVM Android port is back on the Google Play Store with a fresh stable release! All the latest features of ScummVM 2.7.0 as well as Android-specific improvements are included in ScummVM 2.7.0.5!Ī quick summary of the new features for this release: Our forum and Discord Server, are open for comments and suggestions. Among the systems on which you can play those games are Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, PS Vita, Switch, Dreamcast, AmigaOS, Atari/FreeMiNT, RISC OS, Haiku, PSP, PS3, Maemo, GCW Zero and many more. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often. You can find a full list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. Next to ground-breaking titles like the Monkey Island series, Broken Sword, Myst, Blade Runner and countless other games you will find some really obscure adventures and truly hidden gems to explore. It supports many classics published by legendary studios like LucasArts, Sierra On-Line, Revolution Software, Cyan, Inc. ScummVM supports a huge library of adventures with over 325 games in total. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator. ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games, provided you already have their data files. |
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