![]() ![]() Set their schedule to Constant Training and fill the squad over time, then start a new one. Once you get enough dwarves that you feel safe sending some to train full time, start putting migrants without useful skills into a military squad that's told to train full-time and sleep in the barracks as well. They can serve as auxiliaries for big enemy attacks. Putting your first few squads of militia dwarves on a schedule of partial training is a good call: They'll train for three months out of every six, and do normal work as assigned for the other three. Once created, you can use the Zone interface to tell certain squads to train, sleep, and store their stuff here. ![]() It's good to put it somewhere near the entrance, or near where you expect enemies to come from. This is usually a decent-sized 10x10 room with 10 beds, some chests, some cabinets, and a few armor and weapon racks for flavor. Once the fort is running decently, usually by the first autumn or winter, you'll want to dig out or build a room for a barracks. Later you'll want to make a proper squad and tell them to equip proper armor and weapons, when you have them, or create custom sets of equipment if you don't. Even with no proper equipment to give them, a pack of dwarves with your default copper bring-along weapons can defeat a few examples of dangerous local wildlife: Dingos, wolverines, thieving keas, or particularly angry geese. It's useful at first to just start a squad and fill it with your dwarves, giving them the Leather armor preset. Note that they'll automatically go after any enemy they see from there-no such thing as battle discipline in Dwarf Fortress. You can use the sword icon here to send them after specific targets, and the arrow icon to send them to defend a specific location. This is where you can create and mobilize squads of military dwarves. By pressing the Q shortcut or clicking the banner icon in the lower right you'll bring up the Militia menu. ![]()
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![]() ![]() That means that some Valentine’s Day content could make an appearance, as well as a return of the Overwatch Archives event. It’s tough to say exactly what we’ll find behind the curtain of Season 3, but it’s very likely to include seasonal and themed content, something many live service games share in common. It’s certainly possible that season 3 could have this long-asked-for experience waiting for us. ![]() ![]() These missions have been delayed but are set to release in 2023. One massive development that will set Overwatch 2 apart from its predecessor is the promise of cooperative story missions against AI opponents. It’s incredibly likely that this date will also mark the start of season 3. It definitely won’t be in 2022, as a nine-week duration from season 2’s December 6th launch places us at a February 7th end date. That leaves many wondering, when can we expect season 3 to make its debut so that we can test out this new, unnamed support hero? In fact, lead hero designer Alec Dawson stated that his team is focusing on creating great new support-type heroes, so that queue times to play Tank and DPS roles aren’t so dramatic, which has been an ongoing issue since the first Overwatch. In his own words, the character will play a “more solid support” style-refreshing news from a game whose player base notoriously favors DPS and Tank Roles. According to commercial lead John Spector, we’ll be seeing the release of a new support hero. Season 3 of Overwatch 2 will be the first of 2023, and naturally will be getting heaps of new refreshing content and a pleasant surprise. The official Overwatch 2 content roadmap promises plenty of fresh cosmetics like hero skins and sprays, as well as new modes and battle passes which will be included in each update. Overwatch 2 promises three to four new maps and heroes every year, with seasons every nine weeks that alternate between releasing one and the other. What exciting new content might it offer? Everything We Know About Overwatch 2 Season 3 We can’t help but wonder when Season 3 will take the spotlight. Overwatch 2 promises an experience with more frequent releases and action-packed content than the original could have ever offered, with a new season set to drop every nine weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To Alison’s point, even though objectively he is better looking than Bacon, somehow Bacon is not only weirdly sexy in R.I.P.D., he’s sexier than Reynolds. It just seems like he doesn’t know what to do with himself, nor does Hollywood know what to do with him. I actually think Reynolds is a far better comedic and dramatic actor than most give him credit for. ![]() And even Bacon had humble unpromising beginnings in his career. is it just me, or was Kevin Bacon weirdly sexy in this movie?Īlex: He did remind me of Matthew McCounaghey in Reign of Fire in that sense: realizes he’s in a completely stupid and crazy movie in which he can chew the scenery to his liking, and goes for it with gleeful relish. I think he was probably the only actor who decided on what movie he was in and just stuck with it. He and Bacon also had awfully nice haircuts and clothing for Boston cops, crooked or no.Īlison: Speaking of those haircuts, is it just me, or was Bacon weirdly sexy in this movie?īil: No more so than usual. What I found most weird about the film though was when Ryan Reynolds stop sabatoging his own career?īil: I first encountered him in National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, so I don’t know if he was ever destined for great things in my book. Lines like “Don’t be cliche,” “unprecedented cock-up,” “a dull persistent ache.” It felt like the movie was reviewing itself half the time. has an entertaining knack for serving up quotes that effectively double as criticisms of itself. ![]() Though that line does remind me that R.I.P.D. More online!Īlex: The R.I.P.D.’s lack of awareness of doomsday devices at least begets one of the movie’s rare moments of self-deprecation when Bridges – upon hearing about said doomsday device – exclaims “Why would someone make something like that?” It’s the kind of self-awareness the film could have used more of to correct its derivativeness. Unpopped Kernels: The panel just can’t say enough bad things about this movie. Besides that, Bridges is working so hard at turning True Grit into a pension plan but for some reason he’s never particularly funny. I feel like I’m supposed to relax and enjoy a jaunt in an imaginative premise, except it’s not really imaginative, it’s gimmicky with moments of imaginative execution, but also with the worst lack of rules to its fancy than I’ve seen since Pixar’s Up. And why does the elevator explode out the ceiling of the building? These guys don’t have magical powers, they’re just immortal. Universalīil: I didn’t get what deados were either, but apparently they cause the world’s problems like global warming and financial crises. How is Bacon’s character, who has only, we’re told, been an evil deado for three years, suddenly a mastermind able to pull of some weird apocalyptic prophecy that deados have been trying to do for thousands of years? And why on EARTH is the RIPD, who have been tracking down deados for eternity, completely unaware of all the various artifacts that can bring down the hereafter? Even mortal police departments have better recon than that. What are “deados” anyway? How do they even work? And how do they communicate? Are they operating on some crazy psychic deado frequency, because it sure looks that way when they’re passing off the gold to each other. There’s a desire to create deep characters, with these speeches and the conflict of Kevin Bacon going after his dead partner’s wife, but then there is also this plot that relies on too many objects, including that orb-thing that causes an explosion in the afterlife (an afterlife that is technologically vulnerable to explosions and, for that matter, measures its employees’ contracts in earth time).Īlison: This movie is unconvincing in its mythology. It’s a terrible movie in that it is empty, a collection of inane scenes that are easy to watch complete with Bridges phoning in his True Grit roleīil: That’s why the movie is SO weird! There’s Looney Tunes action, but then Jeff Bridges gives speeches about sitting on regret and learning to live with the past and it’s an attempt at depth that is so awkwardly out of place. I have to admit that while I resented his disruption of my theatre experience, I understood his boredom. R.I.P.D.’s hyperactivity instead lulled an audience member in my screening into an hour-long snoring session. Except Looney Tunes shorts are actually, you know, good, as well as effective in creating engaging lunacy. Coyote-style from great heights, cars drop on characters like ACME anvils, and Bridges is practically playing Foghorn Leghorn here. that makes it feel like a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon. Article contentĪlex: It’s especially hard to take the movie’s action or drama seriously when there’s a strange current of hyperactive mania running through R.I.P.D. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() ![]() The first step towards calling the API and getting useful information is to inspect the documentation. ![]() To do this, uncheck the box from the top-right. One more thing to do is disabling the particle system to control whether it snows in the beginning or not. Now that the basic snowing effect is in place, you can move on to the more interesting part of the tutorial. You can play around with these options to achieve the desired outcome. The next step is to decrease the speed of the particles and their size, while also increasing the Radius property of the Shape in order to cover the whole plane. This is how the properties should look like (on the right side of the window): Set the Y coordinate of the system to be located higher than the plane and also rotate it on the X axis, to have the particles ‘fall’. You will, however, slightly alter the properties of the particle system to make it look more like a snowing effect. Leave the default particles, since they already look like ‘snowflakes’, but you can download one of the many packs that offers different particles from the Asset Store. Click the Create button from the left menu and choose Effects->Particle System. The main thing that will be used in this tutorial is a particle system that will simulate snowing. Of course, you could also create a more complex scene, depending on your needs. I created a plane on the scene just to have something simple to look at, but this is not mandatory. Press the New button from the top-right and make sure the 3D checkbox is selected although you could easily replicate the tutorial in a 2D environment, since this example will not use any 3D-specific features. Create an account and you will be offered an API key which will be necessary when making the requests. The code uses the OpenWeatherMap API for this, since it is free and allows a decent number of requests. The code will check whether or not it is snowing in a particular city and will simulate the same in our game. In order to make the things a little bit different, I chose to use a weather API for this tutorial. The principles that I present should be applicable to any game engine that allows coding except maybe for the engines that implement their own language. If you are not familiar with Unit圓D, you can read more about what it is and how to install it from this introductory article. What I will do in this article is to present different ways of calling a RESTful API from Unit圓D. NET, but most programming languages are capable of doing this. ![]() This article explains how to create a RESTful API in. This article does not cover the creation of such a web service but trying to do so would be a good exercise for learning how they work. ![]() Another advantage is the flexibility of the message, which can be sent in the form of XML, HTML, JSON or any other desired format. A RESTful API is easy to scale, due to the loose coupling between the client and the server. What are RESTful APIs?Ī RESTful API – or a RESTful web service – is an interface that can receive HTTP requests ( GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) in order to manipulate data. Nowadays, the most common way to solve this problem is to use a RESTful API. While in the multiplayer scenario data is constantly exchanged between the server and the client, the other cases that I mentioned only require a simpler request/response pair: the client sends or requests some data to the server, and the server performs the required action, while also providing a response to the client. In-game payments, global leaderboards or login systems are just a few examples. Besides the most obvious reason – having a multiplayer game – there are certain cases when games need to get or send information to an external entity. In the process of developing a game, it is often necessary to communicate with a server. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holy Water, for instance, is an excellent side weapon that lets me burn the ground in front of me. The new DLC adds a collection of Castlevania-themed items to that pool, many of which just make sense with Dead Cells’ combat system. Just like a normal run of Dead Cells, players can discover blueprints for new items and weapons. The new weapons are the most impactful change here, though, as they bring something exciting to the entire game. ![]() Foes like bone-tossing skeletons and pike-wielding guards feel like they’ve been in Dead Cells all along, as they test my ability to quickly read attack arcs and dodge around them. The Castlevania elements slot into that format incredibly smoothly, from enemies to weapons. While the aesthetic influences are obvious, I’m still very much playing with its quick action and mobility-heavy dungeon crawling. Image used with permission by copyright holder Classic music from Castlevania have been remixed to perfection here too, nicely matching the rest of Dead Cells’ score while still retaining the feel of the original tracks. That’s apparent off the bat in its visuals, which map the general feel of Castlevania onto Dead Cells’ distinct pixel art style. What works so well here is that both of these IPs find an easy way to meet in the middle. I quickly found myself on a mission to infiltrate the castle, warping into it and looking for a way to bring its massive drawbridge down. My first trip down that path was immediately joyful. Rather than following the usual level progression path of the standard roguelite, I’d now have the option to jump into a new door that would take me to the outskirts of Dracula’s castle. While exploring the roguelite’s opening area, I bumped into none other than Richter Belmont, who asked for my help in taking down Dracula. I started a fresh file in the game on PC and was able to access the new content within an hour. The Castlevania DLC slots into Dead Cells quite naturally. A (not so) miserable little pile of secrets ![]() It isn’t just a nostalgia trip for fans of the classic monster-slaying series it’s another strong Dead Cells expansion in a long line of them, cementing the roguelite’s legacy as one of the best indies of its era. Sure enough, Return to Castlevania does not disappoint. ![]() ![]() When the other signer adds their e-signature, you will get notified of the signed PDF by email. 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Go to settings on your computer screen (the 3 vertical dots) in the top right-hand corner. what happened to the history channel app ive been looking for the history channel app on my 360 and cant find it anywhere.Plug your Chromecast in to your laptop or desktop.Note that on Amazon Fire TV your Firestick needs to be inserted to the TV. Xbox app available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.ĬomCast includes: Xfinity X1, Xfinity Flex and Xumo TV You’re now logged in and ready to watch.Īndroid TV operating system on the following devices: Sony, JVC, Sharp, Philips.Open /activate on your computer or mobile.Go to the respective app store, search: “History Hit”.When you open the page, go to the 'Help with games' section in order to find the right path to look for help. You can choose what appears in the Apple TV app, including Apple TV channels and apps, live scores, notifications, play history, and items in Up Next. Enter your username and password.Īndroid TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Xbox and ComCast* Click here and we’ll get you to the right game studio to help you. Once installed it will prompt you for your login details.FuboTV starts at 54.99 a month for more than 100 channels, 30 hours of DVR. To watch History Hit on your Samsung or Apple TV simply: Live video and 4K are both supported on Xbox One X and Xbox One S. We've built up an extensive library of history programmes: hundreds of hours of documentaries, exclusive original films, interviews and ad-free podcasts made for proper history fans. We have recently launched apps for all IOS and Android phones as well as Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, Roku, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Xbox, Xfinity TV and you can cast using Chromecast.īelow are the ways you can watch History Hit TV on to your phones and smart TV. History Hit TV is a new kind of history channel. ![]() You can now watch History Hit TV on an array of different TV services and your smart devices. ![]() ![]() In app.js I will add the following (right after the last app.use): var elastic = require('./elasticsearch') Įlastic.inde圎xists(). Now I need to create the index and add the mapping. This is NOT the right way to do it inproduction, of course. TYPE 2: throw new IllegalArgumentException(Completion suggester 2.x is not supported. Right after that, let's initialize elasticsearch. Project: elasticsearch-master File: Suggest.java View source code. Or maybe instead :-) ): var documents = require('./routes/documents') This will output the JSON delivered from elasticsearch straight to the user.ĭon't forget to add this line to app.js (right after the other already-defined routes. Using promises, I am routing the results from elasticsearch to the response.json(data) function. Var elasticClient = new elasticsearch.Client() First, I'll create elasticsearch.js: var elasticsearch = require('elasticsearch') I'll create an elasticsearch module that will be imported where needed. ![]() Which will add the following line in package.json: "elasticsearch": "^9.0.2" heading - 4 head - 4 header - 4 With fuzziness 2, max score will be 3. A quick tests shows that searching for headi will give the same score to. Now, I'll add the elasticsearch npm package to the express.js app I created before: npm install elasticsearch -save Elasticsearch Completion Suggester documentation states: Suggestions that share the longest prefix to the query prefix will be scored higher. Then run cd locationOfElasticsearchīin/elasticsearch (OR bin/elasticsearch.bat on windows).ĭoing that will initialize elasticsearch using the default parameters (port 9200 on your localhost is the default configuration, we'll need it later). Download elasticsearch, and unpack it somewhere in your file system. Now the application is ready to be launched. Getting startedįirst, let's create an Express app! I will be using the express.js generator. I would have used the import/export function (which I really like) BUT it is not yet available everywhere, and I don't want to use TypeScript or Babel for a simple tutorial. The code can be found in this GitHub repository and is using ES5 syntax. In this tutorial I will be using elasticsearch 2.0.0 and Express.js 4 to deliver a simple JSON with text suggestions. If you are already using elasticsearch for serving your search results, why not use it for other tasks as well? And if you are not using it, why not use it for your search results as well? elasticsearch is built for such tasks - text analytic in (almost) real-time. The second question would probably be - why should I use elasticsearch for such a simple task. The full answer can be read at the suggester's doc page. ![]() The completion suggester is extremely fast. The first question asked is - why is it even needed. To get fast results I can only suggest using the completion suggester feature of elasticsearch, which I will also use in this short tutorial. You might call it typeahead, it depends how cool you are. It is being actively developed.Īpart from searching, one of the simplest-but-yet-powerful feature elasticsearch has to offer is a fuzzy auto-complete feature. It is now at version 2.0, with over 550 new commits in the 2.1 branch and 500 new commits in the 2.2 branch. ElasticSeach Auto Complete using Completion suggester to Return the Complete Document. Elasticsearch Completion Suggester doesnt return documents on searches that match input. Starting as a very simple search engine, it became a super-monster capable of so many things, while still preserving the ability to deliver very fast results. Completion Suggester in Elasticsearch 6.5.4 with Java REST Client API. Tried few options but these didn't work directly, instead, you can define the weight of a document at index-time, and these could be used as a workaround to get the boosted document, below is the complete example.Getting started with elasticsearch and Express.js An example of how to deliver simple and fast auto-complete suggestions using elasticsearch and Node.js/Express.js 24 November 2015Įlasticsearch is being rapidly developed. ![]() ![]() Newspaper Recipes - some of my own favorites have come from newspapers, including the original version of my most popular recipe Recipe #88939. Second Chance - a generous list of Zaar recipes that received a low-to-mediocre rating but may deserve a second look Some of those I've particularly liked include: For awhile she held the record for most cookbooks at Zaar. Julesong was one of the first to take advantage of the multiple-cookbook option of premium membership in a big way. These ladies know how to set 'em up and I know how to chug 'em! If I'm hanging out in heaven a hundred years from now, I'm hoping to find they've had the good sense to make NcMysteryShopper and Bev the twin bartenders there, so after I go to my final reward I can continue to imbibe offerings from Cheryl's Book #99544, Book #148198, Book #90314, Book #73634, Book #75595, Book #74074 and Book #70836 cookbooks and Bev's Book #86058 and Book #124180 cookbooks. If I want to cook something to eat with my friends, the go-to person is Miss Annie:ĭancer^ is single-handedly responsible for tons of great salad dressing and seasoning mixes posted at Zaar. I've observed that Sharon123 is a great one for cooking fare that's healthy and tastes great, which is why I trust and turn to her: I'm not a vegetarian, but I do eat meatless meals a fair amount of the time. UPDATE: evelyn/athens, host of the Greek Cooking Forum and Greek food expert extraordinaire has a cookbook of her own Greek fecipes that could be the only reference you'll ever need for Greek cuisine: (Another great way to find Greek recipes is to go cirectly to evelyn/athens' recipe list and then sift for Cuisine->European_>Southern->Greek. Cookbooks of hers I find especially handy include:Īs I mentioned above, while I love the cuisines of all regions of the world, my favorite is Greek, and the following from Cookiegirlandi is chockful of great Greek recipes: PaulaG's own recipes are a well I go back to again and again-I've made tons of her dishes, with great results. Judging from comments in the forums, her burger cookbook is the most popular and referenced cookbook at Zaar, and her appetizers cookbook is a treasury of finger foods as well as a major hunting ground for Dim Sum: If you've been around Zaar any length of time, you probably know that Bergy writes wonderfully detailed and helpful recipe reviews and has also contributed a wealth of wonderful recipes of her own. Her cookbooks focus on a variety of inspired topics, many of them health-related, and the introductions often provide an encyclopedic disquisition on the topic at hand. ~Rita~: Thanks to her stunning photographs, she has one of the most beautiful cookbook lists at Zaar. The entire group of recipes tagged, cooked and reviewed for the Cook-a-Thon are contained in: In January-February 2007, the Chefs of 1-2-3 Hit Wonders hosted a Cook-a-Thon for veteran Zaar member Sharon123 while she was undergoing chemotherapy at Duke University. I have over 100 bookmarked to refer to occasionally, but some of my favorites are from the following: Some of my favorite sources of recipes are the public cookbooks of other Zaar chefs. My popular Recipe #89132 is actually her recipe-check it out sometime, it's great! She eventually realized how useful having several cookbooks can be, so I gave her a premium membership as her birthday present in March 2008. ![]() Her chef name is Sagadahoc (the county in Maine she lives in). In 2008 my dear sister finally joined Recipezaar. I loved hosting the game and the players there were and are the best, but competing obligations required me to give it up and it's now ably presided over by HokiesLady. Other cookbooks I frequently use are Weil & Daley's The Healthy Kitchen and Cooking Light's Five-Star Recipes cookbook.įrom January 2005 to September 2008, I hosted the recipe tagging game ONE-TWO-THREE HIT WONDERS, taking four months off in late 2007, during which the tireless, compassionate and totally wonderful Game Forum Hosts ~Nimz~, justcallmetoni, Lauralie41 and Andi of Longmeadow Farm with incredible kindness of took over my workload. Nowadays, I rely heavily on Kitty Rosati's Heal Your Heart book (lots of low-sodium recipes) and Donald Gazzaniga's No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook. I share a love of ACC basketball with my brother in upstate New York. Often I go walking in the morning with my sister, who lives near me on the Maine coast-we truly live in a beautiful place. In 2004, I moved home to New England after many years living in the South. ![]() ![]() Fortunately, there are many tools to help you deal with heat. If too much accumulates in the reactor, the reactor will start doing Bad Things, such as poisoning players in the area, or exploding violently. If too much accumulates in a component, that component is destroyed. It can either go into a component (such as the heat vent) or into the reactor vessel itself. Heat is generated every second by any uranium cell which is generating EU. Which brings us to a key concept in reactor design: heat. It will also generate 4 heat per second into the heat vent, and the heat vent will try to dissipate 6 units heat, only find 4, and dissipate that. If you apply a lever ON/OFF switch, this reactor will produce 5 EU/t. Heating mode uses Reactor Pressure Vessels to heat Coolant into Hot Coolant, which can then be used to generate EU. This is intentional, as there are now two operating modes for a reactor, the second "HEATING MODE" being dependent on surrounding the reactor proper with other certain blocks. As of IC2: Experimental, any setup of this nature is referred to as "EU MODE" in the Reactor's UI which also states that the output is being reduced by half. The simplest reactor contains one Uranium Cell and one Heat Vent. Place the right components in the reactor in the right locations, and voila - nearly free energy! Place the wrong components or in the wrong locations, and BOOM! Once you have your reactor, you want to get some power out of it. Helpful forum post Recipe Experimental v2.x But one thing wasn't completely changed: nuclear meltdowns!Īs of Minecraft 1.3.2, IndustrialCraft 2 has had a second re-write of the Nuclear Reactor with additional components and removed environmental effects such as water and Ice cooling.įor old mechanics and tips, see Old_Reactor_Mechanics_and_Components. With IndustrialCraft 2, the reactor system is fully recoded! Instead of lame Uranium refining, you now have to make a good setup for your reactor with all the reactor stuff you can find in the navigation. You can enlarge the space of your reactor by placing up to 6 additional Reactor Chambers directly adjacent to the reactor. A very efficient setup can give more than 32 million EU per uranium Cell. ![]() If cooling is insufficient, the reactor will gradually overheat and eventually explode.Ĭopper Cable is sufficient for basic reactors, but advanced reactors will require Gold or HV Cable.Įach Uranium Cell will last 1 reactor cycle (20,000 seconds, ~5h 33min) inside the reactor, providing at least 5 EU/t power (at least 2 million EU per cell). Heat may be removed by several different cooling methods. As cells decay inside the reactor, they produce heat. The Nuclear Reactor is a generator that produces EU by slowly breaking down Uranium Cells. ![]() |
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