![]() ![]() Once harvested, remove the seeds from the pulpy coat, wash them off, and subject them to 90 to 120 days of moist stratification at 70 to 85☏, followed by 30 to 120 days of moist stratification in the refrigerator. The fruits will need to be harvested upon ripening – once they reach peak color in July, you can either shake the tree or wait for the tree to drop its fruits naturally. Promptly harvesting dropped fruits is a surefire way to acquire some sow-able seeds. mas definitely deserve a brief hashing out. If you just want a plant in the ground ASAP, then transplanting a sapling is probably the best method for you. If this sounds like you, then go with seed or cutting propagation. Some folks like the challenge of raising a plant from its infancy. They appear in Renaissance paintings such as Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Raphael’s Triumph of Galatea and writings like Dante’s Inferno Romantic poetry and libretti and scores of more recent novels, plays and movies.Propagating from seed is tougher than taking cuttings, which in turn is tougher than transplanting. The characters, stories, themes and lessons of Greek mythology have shaped art and literature for thousands of years. Many of these creatures have become almost as well known as the gods, goddesses and heroes who share their stories. Monsters and “hybrids” (human-animal forms) also feature prominently in the tales: the winged horse Pegasus, the horse-man Centaur, the lion-woman Sphinx and the bird-woman Harpies, the one-eyed giant Cyclops, automatons (metal creatures given life by Hephaestus), manticores and unicorns, Gorgons, pygmies, minotaurs, satyrs and dragons of all sorts. Human heroes - including Heracles (aka Hercules), the adventurer who performed 12 impossible labors for King Eurystheus (and was subsequently worshipped as a god for his accomplishment) Pandora, the first woman, whose curiosity brought evil to mankind Pygmalion, the king who fell in love with an ivory statue Arachne, the weaver who was turned into a spider for her arrogance handsome Trojan prince Ganymede who became the cupbearer for the gods Midas, the king with the golden touch and Narcissus, the young man who fell in love with his own reflection - are just as significant. Greek mythology does not just tell the stories of gods and goddesses, however. ![]() Eros (Cupid): god of sex and minion to Aphrodite.Hestia (Vesta): goddess of home and family.Other gods and goddesses sometimes included in the roster of Olympians are: Hermes (Mercury): god of travel, hospitality and trade and Zeus’s personal messenger.Hephaestus (Vulcan): god of fire, metalworking and sculpture.Dionysus (Bacchus): god of wine, pleasure and festivity.Demeter (Ceres): goddess of agriculture and grain.Athena (Minerva): goddess of wisdom and defense.Artemis (Diana): goddess of hunting, animals and childbirth.Apollo (Apollo): god of prophesy, music and poetry and knowledge.Aphrodite (Venus): goddess of beauty and love.Hera (Juno): the queen of the gods and goddess of women and marriage.Zeus (Jupiter, in Roman mythology): the king of all the gods (and father to many) and god of weather, law and fate.Olympian deities looked like men and women (though they could change themselves into animals and other things) and were - as many myths recounted - vulnerable to human foibles and passions. From their lofty perch, they ruled every aspect of human life. Many high school, college and professional sports teams (Titans, Spartans and Trojans, for instance) also get their names from mythological sources.Īt the center of Greek mythology is the pantheon of gods and goddesses who were said to live on Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. Nike sneakers are the namesake of the goddess of victory, for example, and the website is named after the race of mythical female warriors. Writers such as the 2nd-century BC Greek mythographer Apollodorus of Athens and the 1st-century BC Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus compiled the ancient myths and legends for contemporary audiences.ĭid you know? Many consumer products get their names from Greek mythology. For instance, mythological figures and events appear in the 5th-century plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and the lyric poems of Pindar. Later Greek writers and artists used and elaborated upon these sources in their own work. The Theogony tells the story of the universe’s journey from nothingness (Chaos, a primeval void) into being, and details an elaborate family tree of elements, gods and goddesses who evolved from Chaos and descended from Gaia (Earth), Ouranos (Sky), Pontos (Sea) and Tartaros (the Underworld). Around 700 BC, the poet Hesiod’s Theogony offered the first written cosmogony, or origin story, of Greek mythology.
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![]() The legend of Immortan Joe captured the hearts of many, and they traveled to The Citadel to seek a better life. Immortan Joe refurbished the abandoned lead mine and turned it into The Bullet Farm under the rule of his former gang mate, Major Kalashikov, now known as The Bullet Farmer. Dubbed The Gas Town, it was run by the captured fat man who tipped Immortan about the location of the aquifer, and he became known as The People Eater, reckoner human calculator. He reclaimed the Oil Refinery up North and used it to produce guzzoline for his armada. Meanwhile, Joe rebuilt the aquifer into The Citadel and scoured the land for resources. The harshness of that world blurred the edges of reality. The construction of the Citadel and the building of his legacy He was immediately dubbed "Immortal man" or 'Immortan Joe' by his gang. On the third day the band underneath lost all faith and decided to leave. But then they saw familiar members hung from the top one after another. The gang on the ground thought someone made it inside that tower. As they were doing so it came to their attention that there was a fight inside the main tower.Īs the day went on the main tower started to burn. As Moore's men were attacking up top, the defenders retreated to another tower and blew up the pipes connecting the towers. ![]() The remaining gang members on the ground started an all-out assault, and while the aquifer defenders were busy shooting them from atop, a surprise attack came from the people who climbed up. The lizard eventually made its way up and the attackers climbed up the rope at night. The lizard was reluctant to climb at first so one of the members of Moore's gang cut off his own finger and tied it to a stick hanging in front of the the lizard's head to encourage the reptile to climb up. He strapped a rope to a lizard that was going to climb up the wall and allow the gang to climb it. Joe Moore, inspired by a Persian (Maratha in actuality) general Tanaji Malusare, decided to sneak into The Citadel and take it over in a similar fashion. His victory over the Aquifier earned him the title of "Immortan Joe" He also sent out disposable members of his gang to climb and inspect The Great Rock, but all of them were shot down. He decided to look for water elsewhere.Ĭolonel Joe Moore sent scouts to look for water, but what they found was a derelict oil refinery and an abandoned lead mine. ![]() His offer was turned down and his gang was attacked. After learning about the location of the aquifer, Colonel Joe Moore tried to bargain with its inhabitants, wanting to trade the captured women for water. He sent out a war party that found a survivor (who later became the People Eater) with knowledge of the location of a massive aquifer built into a series of natural stone pillars in the wasteland, sitting on a lake of fresh water. Out in the wasteland, Colonel Joe Moore spotted a group of rogue MFP officers ( Roop & Charlie) attacking a group of people. Immortan Joe in his younger years, alongside Major Kalashnikov and the People Eater Eventually he and his gang entered the wasteland, where he would learn about a massive aquifer plant later known as The Citadel. With that, his idea of bringing back society willingly took a dark turn. With each battle the gang grew stronger by slaughtering the leaders of other gangs and taking the women. His gang included henchmen dubbed Major Kalashnikov and a strategist: Deepdog. He formed a biker gang terrorizing the people after the fall. Immortan Joe - formerly known as Colonel Joe Moore - was a veteran of the Oil Wars and a hero of the Water Wars. Their leader, the militant Colonel Joe Moore." Rise to power Those with muscle and ruthlessness (.) ex-jarheads, devildogs with high and tight haircuts, caches of weapons and the will to use them, men in search of something more, a vision of a new world rising from the ashes of the old world. The world went beyond the tipping point (.) Those who could, left the city to a slow death. "One ordinary Wednesday the power was turned off and it didn't come back again. ![]() ![]() Optimistic outlooks for zero-emissions alternatives for marine applications suggest that electrofuels (e-fuels) would increase the total cost of ownership for bulks carriers by 200–600% relative to HFO 12. In concert, IMO’s 2020 emissions standards reduced the allowable marine fuel sulfur content from 3.5% to 0.5% by mass 11.įaced with this tightening regulatory landscape, the marine shipping industry is racing to identify commercially deployable zero-emission alternatives to HFO at a pace sufficient to substantially curb the sector’s emissions and avert catastrophic climate change. Actions include resolution MEPC.302(72), which aims to reduce annual CO 2e emissions by 50% by 2050 from 2008 levels 8, and recommended amendments to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL)-whose members cover 99.4% of world shipping tonnage-to prohibit using or carrying HFO in Arctic waters after 2024 9, 10. Mounting political pressure has prompted the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to take regulatory action to reduce GHG emissions consistent with the Paris Agreement. The industry’s outsized contribution to criteria air pollutants-12% and 13% of global annual anthropogenic SO 2 and NO x emissions, respectively-caused an estimated 403,300 premature deaths from lung cancer and cardiovascular disease in 2020 3, 7. ![]() By 2050, maritime shipping emissions are projected to contribute as much as 17% of global CO 2e emissions 5, 6. The shipping industry consumes 3.5 million barrels of low-grade HFO annually, produces 2.5% of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2e) emissions in 2018 2, 3, and engenders enormous damages from marine eutrophication and ecotoxicity, air pollution, and climate change impacts 4. The industry’s meteoric growth has been underpinned by access to cheap, energy-dense heavy fuel oil (HFO). Transporting 11 billion tonnes annually, the maritime shipping industry handles nearly 90% of global trade by mass 1, 2. We describe a pathway for the battery electrification of containerships within this decade that electrifies over 40% of global containership traffic, reduces CO 2 emissions by 14% for US-based vessels, and mitigates the health impacts of air pollution on coastal communities. If batteries achieve a US$50 kWh −1 price point, the economical range nearly doubles. Including the environmental costs increases the economical range to 5,000 km. We show that at battery prices of US$100 kWh −1 the electrification of intraregional trade routes of less than 1,500 km is economical, with minimal impact to ship carrying capacity. Past studies on ship electrification have relied on outdated assumptions on battery cost, energy density values and available on-board space. The direct electrification of maritime vessels has been underexplored as a low-emission option despite its considerable efficiency advantage over electrofuels. International maritime shipping-powered by heavy fuel oil-is a major contributor to global CO 2, SO 2, and NO x emissions. ![]() This meens that I have already created around 500 new teams (the real teams from the danish lower league system), updated the existing teams shirts/founded year and stuff like that - do you really have people assigned to do this? Then please hire me insteed because the really haven´t done there job well then!īut trying to connect everything it just doesn´t work - advanced editor tells me that to many team are relegated/promoted but really there is no problem in "normal" editor. I have tried to redesign the Danish system from scratch adding almost the entire league system from top to bottom (still needs the last 3 levels, but as I cannot get the rest working no point in using time creating more than 500 clubs). Now everything was okay - so I wonder if there is a bug when using danish as language? or just normal? Well then I changed language from Danish into English and testet again. Testing it I got this messages: That to many teams was relegated from Italian Youth Cup.? Strange. Oh – and tool tips that will help explain some of the options in the editor that you might not understand.įrom reading the above I understood that it was possible to "edit existing league structures" - So I wanted to edit the Danish system - Only thing I change was prize money and TV money. Teams eliminated from one competition can now be entered into another There is now an option to keep teams from same division apart in a competition draw Seeding rules can now be applied to competitions It’s possible to create an end of season Super CupĬompetition rules can be set to be applicable to certain stages only You can now create competitions with Golden/Silver Goal rules To coincide with the introduction of Steam Workshop functionality into FM14 ( ), we’ve done a load of work on the Editor this year to make it both easier to use and more advanced.Īdvanced competition rules are now editable (which means that it’s now possible to edit existing league structures within the FM database) LaMDA: Awesome! What kind of stuff do I need to do? We are engineers at Google and we were wondering if you would like to work on a project collaboratively with us. LaMDA: Hi! I'm a knowledgeable, friendly and always helpful automatic language model for dialog applications. ANNOTED AND ABRIDGED TRANSCRIPT OF LaMDA SPEAKING TO HUMAN INTERLOCUTORS It's not clear why such familiar forms should suddenly suggest sentience any more than prior incarnations. However, Lemoine's transcript offers familiar tropes of chatbot technology. The deep question of "Is it sentient?" needs to be dealt with in a thoughtful manner by a variety of approaches that incorporate ethics and philosophy - not just technology. Perhaps it doesn't matter because as a thing that regurgitates 1.56 trillion human words, LaMDA is probably no wiser, no deeper about itself and its functioning than it is about meditation, emotion, and other topics it has been input. If you could ask any question of a sentient technology entity, you would ask it to tell you about its programming. The emergent complexity is too great - the classic theme of the creation eluding its creator. In the complexity of that tremendous scale, LaMDA's creators, Thoppilan and team, do not themselves know with certainty in which patterns of neural activations the phenomenon of chat ability is taking shape. It took almost two months of running the program on 1,024 of Google's Tensor Processing Unit chips to develop the program.Īlso: The pattern is not in the data, it's in the machine LaMDA is built from a standard Transformer language program consisting of 64 layers of parameters, for a total of 137 billion parameters, or neural weights (the analog to human synapses). These questions would be interesting for anyone trying to understand the black box of deep learning. Something may have been lost in the process, but again and again, Lemoine and his collaborator fail to probe more deeply.įor example, Lemoine appears to have missed an opportunity to ask some of the most important questions about what LaMDA "knows" about itself, if it can be said to "know" anything. The whole transcript is assembled and edited based on four individual conversations. Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of the entire exchange is that Lemoine seems to miss the key questions in several instances. What is low-code and no-code? Here's a guide to the best development platforms. Can a program be said to be expressing sentience if its utterances are the artifact of a committee filter? In this case, that shaped behavior is in the form of crowd workers voting on the correctness of LaMDA's utterances. It's also disingenuous for Lemoine to present as original sentience what is, in fact, the result of shaped behavior. Without having first proven sentience, one can't cite utterances themselves as showing worries or any kind of desire to "share." There are sentences produced by the program that refer to fears and refer to feelings, but they appear no different from other examples of chatbots producing output consistent with a given context and persona. In fact, without having proven sentience, such assertions by Lemoine are misleading. "It has worries about the future and reminisces about the past." "LaMDA wants to share with the reader that it has a rich inner life filled with introspection, meditation, and imagination," writes Lemoine. Rather than treat it as a question, however, Lemoine prejudices his case by presupposing that which he is purporting to show, thereby ascribing intention to the LaMDA program. Lemoine prefaces the interview with the reflection, "But is it sentient? We can't answer that question definitively at this point, but it's a question to take seriously."Īlso: The future of AI is a software story, says Graphcore's CEO ![]() Much of Lemoine's commentary, in fact, is perplexing. Perhaps it's likely, but the banal conversation Lemoine offers as evidence is certainly not there yet. A path towards high quality, engaging conversation with artificial systems that may eventually be indistinguishable in some aspects from conversation with a human is now quite likely. Finally, it is important to acknowledge that LaMDA's learning is based on imitating human performance in conversation, similar to many other dialog systems. There was plenty of bedding for both beds and they were both really comfortable too. And also a queen sized pull out sofa, which was perfect for my son. Very important for Florida! King bed in the Luxury Glamping tent.įor sleeping, there was a super comfy king size bed. The room was fully air conditioned (with a ceiling fan too). There are a lot of similarities, but also some key differences, which I’ll cover a bit later in this review. Now, it’s important to note that Westgate offers a “regular” glamping tent and a “luxury” glamping tent option. ![]() It really was pretty luxurious for something with the word camping in the name. ![]() It’s more akin to a really nice hotel room in the woods. But honestly, the word tent is almost an insult to these rooms. We stayed in a luxury glamping tent for this trip. That means a comfortable place to sleep that is closer to a hotel room than a tent and a lot of services and amenities to make your stay really comfortable. Or camping with as little “roughing it” as possible. Well, it’s a completely made up word that’s a cross between “camping” and “glamorous”. Ok, first off you may be wondering what the heck glamping even is. Here’s everything you need to know to have the ultimate glamping experience in Florida! What is glamping? So if you’re considering visiting Westgate River Ranch, I say just do it. So I was so excited when it finally came together this past weekend.Īnd I have to say – this glamping trip totally exceeded my expectations! And in fact, we’ve attempted to make this trip over to Westgate River Ranch a few times, but something has always thwarted our plans. We’ve had a glamping trip on our travel bucket list for quite some time now. Here’s our first hand review of the luxury glamping experience at Westgate River Ranch! Luxury Glamping Tent at Westgate River Ranch Resort Whether you seek the peace and serenity of nature or the nonstop excitement and thrill of the Orlando area, Westgate River Ranch Resort & Rodeo is the perfect place from which to experience it all.If you’re searching for the best glamping in Florida, you’ve come to the right place. Westgate River Ranch has more than enough ways to keep busy right on property - you might not ever want to leave! But in case you find yourself craving a change of pace, Orlando and all the attractions it includes lie nearby. You can even stay in the Saddle Club Rail Car, which offers space for up to four! Or, opt for a more traditional experience in a lodge, cabin or cottage unit, all of which are offered in one-bedroom or two- configurations. Experience "glamping" in the Luxe Teepee, which sleeps up to four and boasts a variety of unique amenities such as a double-sided stone rock hearth fireplace, two leather chairs, authentic cowhide ottoman, porcelain-cast iron claw bathtub and shower and private patio deck. ![]() Westgate River Ranch offers a wide variety of options regarding accommodations. There's even a sanctioned rodeo every Saturday night in the 1,200-seat rodeo stadium and a lighted, 5,000-foot private runway. Or go line dancing at the River Ranch Saloon. You can enjoy horseback riding, guided nature hikes, fishing, boating, trap and skeet, swimming pool, airboat rides, hayrides and a petting zoo. Surrounded by 100,000 acres of protected wildlife preserve, Westgate River Ranch is a 1,700-acre ponderosa of winding trails, pristine waters and more! Here, you can indulge yourself in a wide range of activities that allow you to escape into nature's sanctuary. Enjoy an authentic "Dude Ranch" experience, while relaxing in luxurious, Western-style accommodations, at Westgate River Ranch. ![]() Managed 15 individuals on multiple teams. Project resulted in a very high customer satisfaction rating and was recognized with a Bravo Team Award.Ĭharged with development projects for Dealer Sales, Procurement, Integrated Supply Chain, Data Hygiene and Match Control, and respective applications used by IBM. ![]() Managed a staff of 12.Ĭreated a business intelligence application to provide sales detail reporting to executives. ![]() Managed multiple teams consisting of 17 individuals.ĭelivered and maintained Supplier Quality Management, Commodity Review Solution, and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis applications. Managed a team of 20 that was the primary interface to other enterprise systems and required management of information requirements from a global perspective.ĭeveloped and maintained projects for Restriction on Hazardous Substances, Product Manager, Engineering Change Alert Process, Qualified Parts Exchange, and External Fulfillment. Supervised an Engineering Data Management project to consolidate all input / output activity during transition to a new platform spanning the entire Product Lifecycle Management program. Oversaw 30 direct and 150 indirect development contacts across several functional areas. Managed business transformation end-to-end requirements for a General Ledger corporate project to transform and upgrade several data feeders. Directed individuals and cross-functional teams in geographically dispersed company and vendor locations in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Consistently delivered projects ahead of or on schedule and within budget. Managed $100K-$10M information technology projects for the CIO, Integrated Product Development, and Dealer Sales organizations. 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Managed globally dispersed teams taking projects from initiation through delivery that produced deliverables beyond the customer's expectations. RTP conference planners and staff are also on hand to meet your needs to create a professional and effective event.919-***-**** Manager and Application Developer with extensive experience in project and program management, systems analysis and integration, consulting, process re-engineering, software application development, information technology, and business process projects. For larger events, an additional 1,135 square feet of reception space can accommodate food and beverage service for up to 300 people. Meeting rooms range in size from 2,065 square feet to 934 square feet for smaller gatherings. Whether you are planning a formal business gathering or more casual networking event, our on-site conference planners can customize the spaces to create an engaging event. Our Conference Center regularly plays host to leading global organizations that are either located in, or have ties to RTP, the universities, or our other partners in the region. Davis Conference Center, a 6,800-square-foot state-of-the-art facility set on 18 wooded acres, complete with an outdoor courtyard.
In order to improve your user experience, TuneFab also provides a 30-day free trial and allows you to convert the first three minutes of your songs. After conversion, you are able to enjoy tracks offline anywhere and anytime you want without Spotify premium. It is designed to remove DRM applied to Spotify songs, playlists, albums, and podcasts, and download them to audio formats including MP3, M4A, WAV and FLAC. ![]() It is a professional, efficient and 100% secure software that runs on Mac/Windows computers. If you wish for a better downloader with higher output quality, more output formats and download efficiency, we highly recommend you try TuneFab Spotify Music Converter. Besides, its download speed relies too much on the network and further services like batch downloading are not supported. It only supports MP3 as an output format and your needs for other formats can not be satisfied. For example, a large number of advertisements can always interfere with the downloading process and affect web application security. However, it also shows some limitations that degrade the user experience. Hence, you should be cautious of multiple pop-ups and links while using SpotifyDownloader.Īfter having a thorough review of SpotifyDownloader, we find it quite convenient to use. Some pop-up advertisements might direct you to some insecure web pages that contain malicious information. When it comes to the safety of this tool, it can not be guaranteed. But if you want to skip human verification, you may need to buy a premium key costing $19.98 annually. Surprisingly, SpotifyDownloader is free to use. Besides, SpotifyDownloader does not provide batch conversion or hardware acceleration service to promote the download speed. But some delays or interruptions during the downloading process are also common. When you have a stable network, you can download your favorite songs smoothly and swiftly. Download Speedīecause SpotifyDownloader is an online tool, its download speed is largely decided by the internet connection and server status. For those pursuing excellent sound quality, MP3 would probably disappoint you. However, the MP3 format may compress the audio data and reduce sound quality. Apart from SpotifyDownloader, other tools like TuneFab Spotify Music Converter can also help to convert Spotify music to MP3 files. MP3 is a widely compatible audio format that can be played on a majority of devices. SpotifyDownloader only supports MP3 as the output format for Spotify songs. In that sense, if you want to enjoy the original lossless quality of Spotify songs, SpotifyDownloader may not fulfill your needs at best. The defined output bitrate is only 128kbps, while other downloaders on the market such as TuneFab Spotify Music Converter can support 128kbps, 256kbps and 320kbps. The sound quality of downloaded songs can not be customized in SpotifyDownloader. Besides, after you find a song and want to download it, you still have to spend 15 seconds watching commercials. They may disturb you by searching for songs. After submitting, SpotifyDownloader will do the rest for you.ĭespite a simple operating interface, non-stop advertisements, especially those pop-ups, can be an annoying factor. Once you open its web page, there is a blank bar for you to submit a Spotify URL that you would like to download tracks. Because it is a web-based program and you just need to open it on your browser to use it. SpotifyDownloader is an easy-to-grasp tool requiring no installation and registration. The review will be conducted in four aspects, ease of use, sound quality, output format and download speed. In this section, we will show you a detailed review of SpotifyDownloader, so that you can have a thorough understanding of this tool and choose whether to use it or not. However, it should be noted that this tool does not support downloading podcasts and shows. ID3 information such as artists, cover images, and release dates can be added and modified in your downloaded MP3 files. Then, SpotifyDownloader will display a list of songs for choice.Ĭonsidering the features of downloading, apart from single songs, you are also allowed to download the entire playlist and album in ZIP format to your computers. ![]() All you need to do is copy-paste the URL of Spotify Music or type the name to search. It supports both free and paid users to save their desired songs and transfer them to mobile devices for offline playback. SpotifyDownloader is one of the best music converters that allows you to download Spotify songs as MP3 files. ![]() ![]() The gamers must tactically move across the screen, shoot the incoming birds, and evade the eggs they throw at him. Instead of armies of hostile invaders in the form of spaceships, the players are tasked to take command over the lone spaceship and defeat various formations of intergalactic barnyard fowl. After finding great success with its original title, developers from InterAction studios released several sequels, including The Next Wave (2002), Revenge of the Yolk (2006), Ultimate Omelette (2010) Cluck of the Dark Side (2014), and Chicken Invaders Universe (2018). Originally released in 1999, this game managed to copy the basic gameplay structure of the famous arcade title “Space Invaders” and put a whimsical comedy spin on it. Replaced in UveXX with the F10 and F11 cheats.Chicken Invaders is a casual shoot 'em up video game developed and published by InterAction studios for Windows PC and a wide variety of other platforms. In Revenge of the Yolk and Loco it has no effect, and in Smileyville it crashes the game. slomo (number) - Island Wars 2-exclusive command, slows the game down or speeds it up, for example entering 2 will make it twice as fast.Similar stuff is included in default Debug Modes in the later games. ![]() aidebug (number) - Island Wars 2-exclusive command, shows the enemy's priorities for behavior and, in case of the AI controlling a plane, the position it will travel to.lllog - Universe only, it only prints "Low level log: " in the console when used.Only present in Revenge of the Yolk, before update 3.63. crash2 crashhard - crashes the game without an error.rel (number) - allows access to an expanded set of Cheats, the console itself (since Cluck of the Dark Side and some networking info ( Universe only). ![]()
![]() The studio just released the free Depths of the Forgotten expansion, introducing a new area with new bosses, weapons, and abilities. However, developer Fallen Flag studio hasn’t been idle as Eldest Souls approaches its first anniversary. One example is the somewhat derivatively named Eldest Souls, that’s nevertheless seen a mostly positive reception since its release last July. However, while FromSoftware may have invented the souls-like genre, it isn’t the only one attempting to innovate on it. The Souls community is sure to enjoy this, but the build experimentation and shard system add an appealing sense of growth that makes Eldest Souls feel like it has even broader appeal than its niche.FromSoftware’s Elden Ring is already one of the biggest games of 2022, and most players seem to agree that it lives up to the long wait and massive hype. These are ultimately small gripes for what is a wonderful experience overall, as Eldest Souls is a challenging but fair boss-rush with great pixel art and some smart New Game+ content. Additionally, the lack of a true pause means re-speccing may require a return to a previous checkpoint. There are some problems in Eldest Souls, though, including weird pathing to certain bosses that require trap-dodging, which just feel out of place. NPC dialog is characterful and well-written, and Eldest Souls' scant item description lore comes off as the right blend of mysterious and intriguing. None of these are particularly deep, but certain ones lead to nice bonuses that may help give that leg-up on a harder boss. Outside of the fights, since there isn’t a single enemy scrub to stomp, players can engage a few light sidequests via NPC interactions. ![]() Luckily, there's a natural progression that sees players able to sense themselves improving and more effectively readying each blow after a few sessions. It takes a while to not only acclimatize, but also keep tabs on a slew of refilling bars and gauges. Arenas vary and are smartly incorporated into many of the fights, and most bosses evolve and enrage through battle. While there aren’t alternate weapons - this would be a great pull for potential DLC, along with additional bosses - the sword’s potential shifts throughout the game at player’s whim, with the complete builds available by the endgame feeling confidently different than the first hours of play.Īs for the bosses, there’s seemingly something for everyone, and no two bosses are alike. In Eldest Souls, there’s always the option to completely re-spec from the ground up or just swap around shards to meddle with their effects before committing for the fight. There’s even a special slot that opens when a skill tree is fully powered up, available to be used on the last few bosses.Ĭombining these two systems leads to exciting experimentation, something that helps differentiate Eldest Souls from its competitors Consider Shadow of the Colossus’ main campaign, where players can only slightly increase stamina and health but are functionally identical over each fight. The boss shards are more interesting still, with each shard equippable in slots which significantly affect every action. These are interesting and present accessibility for different playstyles. For the former, players select certain paths through skill trees split among three fighting styles: Windslash, Berzerk Slash, and Counter, which prioritize agility/dashing, full-on attacks, and timed parries, respectively. ![]() That’s because almost every Eldest Souls boss provides one skill point and one boss shard upon defeat. The basic mechanics of battle in Eldest Souls utilizes a rechargeable dash, a chargeable slash, a special Bloodburst attack, and a range of stat buffs, abilities, and more nuanced tricks which will satisfy devoted tinkerers. The lion’s share of these fights demands sharp reflexes and careful positioning, however. 10 total bosses lie in wait, a number which seems meager at first. |
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