![]() ![]() Your choice of name, look, pronouns, online handle and more are elements of your character that you can tailor to be however you prefer. That’s partly because the customisation options extend far further in this follow up than they did in the original Arcade Spirits. Whether you want the character to be gay, straight, bi-sexual or totally uninterested in the romance within the game, you’ll likely feel catered for as a player. This is an alternative reality where They/Them is simply accepted, choosing your pronouns is the standard and who you’re attracted too is valid. What I found particularly impressive is that a large number of sexual preferences and genders are represented here without it becoming an all consuming attribute of the character. The core group of 6 main characters, as well as the many supporting cast members, come from a wide variety of backgrounds with very distinct personalities. The diverse representation of the characters is once again a major strength of Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers. The choices you make during every conversation or when you’re deciding your next course of action influences the player characters personality as well as the relationships you have with the core group of characters. It’s much slicker with an aim for the player to see much more content in one play through compared to the previous game. ![]() ![]() I won’t spoil the wider arc but what I will say is that compared to the previous game, the story moves at a much faster pace and doesn’t repeat itself at all. For every moment of warm and fuzzy team building where you get to learn more about your new cohorts, there’s a moment of intrigue, deceit, set back or frustration. The road to success in Fist of Discomfort 2 is a twisting one through out Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers. Banding them together, the player character leads this band of misfits in hope of FoD2 glory, in the name of friendship and maybe even love. Here, the character meets a rag tag group of gamers that mostly play games for fun rather than competitive venture. This establishment is part Pizzeria (Good), part laundrette (Clean) and part gaming arcade (Fun). Rather than directing your character to a pro group however, IRIS sends them to a place called Good Clean Fun. Your character’s rival has joined one of the best teams out there – Team Play 2 Win – thanks to the advice of an illegal AI called IRIS.Īttempting to follow suit, the player character downloads their own IRIS and tasks it to find a FoD2 team to join. Having gone as far as they can playing online at home, reaching the upper echelons of the competitive leagues, they decide it’s time to try and go pro. ![]() In Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers, you play as a skilled player of a game called Fist of Discomfort 2. This had a pretty profound knock on effect on gaming itself as well as the wider world. This means that arcades maintained their prominence in gaming culture, even becoming more popular than they were ever before. In this reality, the video game market crash of 1983 didn’t happen. Like the original, Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is set in an alternative version of our own world, set in the year 20XX. With a new protagonist, a new bunch of potential love interests and a new goal, can The New Challengers build on the solid base of the original? Yes. While this game isn’t a direct sequel, it’s a follow up to the 2020 original. Here we are, two years later and Friction Factory Games have once again teamed with PQube to being their latest title – Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers – to the world. As a premise, there was certainly a lot of potential there that had yet to be tapped. I remember coming away from my time with this game hoping we’d see a sequel. In that review, I said “Arcade Spirit is tightly written, with only a hand full of lulls, but plenty of heart and a tonne of quirk”. The Finger Guns Review.īack in May 2020, I had the distinct pleasure of reviewing the original Arcade Spirits visual novel game from Fiction Factory Games. The Finger Guns Review.Ī well written visual novel that’s acutely aware of gaming culture, Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is a real good time. A well written visual novel that's acutely aware of gaming culture, Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is a real good time. ![]()
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![]() These monuments were built at great expense, but their importance significantly changed under the changing political circumstances. With these photographs, we want to present the universal value of freedom, through the struggle immortalized in these magnificent monuments, created by the top artists of the time. You will be able to visit the VR Photo Gallery, with 156 photographs from 18 different monuments. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. Mai-Thu: Inventing Tradition A Vietnamese Painter in France. Download all free or royalty-free photos and images. For more information or to book a VR see our VR Services Page. ![]() Currently, the neglected monuments symbolize an ideology that is no longer widely acceptable. Visit our galleries from anywhere in the world. Those astonishing structures of concrete and steel represent grief, agony, sacrifice, and commemoration. ![]() The memorials displayed in this project were built in Yugoslavia to acknowledge of the events of World War II, and were built during the socialist era in an architectural style called Brutalism. Monuments are built toremind people about important events in history. It is not the app for displaying your own photos. NOTE: This app is only for viewing normal photos through VR headset. With VPRG Cardboard a VR viewer like Google Cardboard, you are immersed in a virtual reality photo gallery. Gaze into to predefined portals to teleport around the room. Turn your smartphone into a virtual reality photo gallery. Photos uploaded within VPRG app provide you a full experience of virtual three-dimensional gallery, side-by-side (SBS), slightly different views for each eye. Residence Photo Gallery & VR Tour Luther College at the University of Regina, SK / RESIDENCE & FOOD SERVICES / The Student Village at Luther College /. Descarrega VR Photo Gallery i gaudeix-ne a l’iPhone, l’iPad i l’iPod touch. Everything is handled by "where your gaze" commands. Gaze down to access the menu with options to change exhibition set. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While that might seem more appropriate for a security discussion, you can’t separate availability from security, and many tools for security design work equally well for availability. Medieval castles are a good analogy for visualizing availability defenses, so we’ll be relating our principles to castle defense. Regardless of intent, a challenge to availability means war! Traffic can increase for perfectly innocent reasons, like growth, or surge during an unanticipated, wildly popular, event. Not all availability threats are hostile. Sage Requests during a Denial of Service attack Surges due to a popular event can last hours or even days. They are often over and done within just a few minutes’ time, but are sometimes prolonged. Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks hit multiple regions simultaneously. Surges are usually handled with ease, but if capacity is exceeded, some users will start receiving 5xx errors. The chart below shows what a denial of service attack on Sage looks like in one region: a burst of requests that are multiples of normal load. Threat Modeling: Treating Availability like Security ![]() We believed we could obtain an order of magnitude improvement, and proceeded to develop next-generation availability defenses for Sage. ![]() Our analysis revealed several opportunities for improvement, and our engineers proposed a number of innovative ideas for increasing resilience they had either prototyped or were eager to try. When that happened a second time, we took the short-term action of tripling servers in the affected regions while we performed a deep analysis and decided what to do on a long-term basis. 3 9s of availability is a minimum expectation of all critical Twitch services. Last year, it came to our attention that Sage’s availability had dropped slightly below 99.9% one day in March. Sage was one reliable service you never had to worry about-until the day we did. It’s always been highly over-provisioned as a safeguard against denial of service attacks and fluctuations in activity. Sage runs in over a dozen AWS data centers around the world, fronted by hundreds of CDN points-of-presence. Availability measures the service, while deliverability measures the actual customer experience. A related metric is deliverability, the error-free rate from CDN to browser. We’re measuring availability as the error-free rate of the Sage service load balancers, reported weekly. Therefore, we care about high availability for Sage because you only get one chance to make a first impression. Once the web platform is loaded, Sage is out of the picture and other services support the viewing experience. If Sage fails to do its job, the user doesn’t reach Twitch and can’t enjoy live video, chat and everything else Twitch offers. That sounds pretty simple, but Sage also supports canary releases, A/B testing, policy enforcement, and search engine metadata retrieval. In response, the Twitch web platform, a single page application, is delivered to the browser by a microservice named Sage, in partnership with a CDN. Commit to ongoing innovation and continuous improvement.ģ0 million people visit on a typical day.Optimize your service for maximum efficiency.Don’t rely on standing defenses: respond to attacks.Invest in alerting, and avoid the extremes of false alarms and unawareness.Consider the impact of availability decisions on other areas such as latency.Regularly profile load and tune service allocation.Use proportional provisioning to balance overprovisioning and cost.Be ready to quickly add capacity when you need it.Design failover mechanisms for service unavailability.Use your Content Delivery Network (CDN) as a full partner to protect your service.We developed the following high availability principles for our service: We’ll be talking about what we’ve done beyond the basics. The basics of cloud high availability are well known, such as using redundancy to avoid single points of failure. Whenever you design high availability for a service, you should take into account both the common considerations (that apply to any cloud service) as well as specific opportunities for your service. In this post I’ll share our design, guiding principles, and results. Last year, we designed next-generation availability defenses for one of our critical microservices that raised availability from 99.9% (3 9s) to 99.99% (4 9s). The Client Delivery Platform team owns the infrastructure that delivers Twitch clients to users. There are many ways to view Twitch, including desktop browsers, mobile devices, game consoles, and TV apps. Twitch is the world’s largest live streaming platform for individuals. Contributors: Adrian Luff, Felix Kastner, and James Hartshorn ![]() ![]() "We're reaching out to clients who've already been good to us." ![]() But we felt like we really did have a large guest base down here, further into the South Shore," he said. "Quincy is my home, there is no mistaking that. The new eatery will be Keka's first outside of Quincy. Alba committed to anchoring the new Hanover shopping center Merchant's Row in January, and said it made no sense to slow down when the pandemic hit. During the coronavirus, he'll be able to serve about 100.Īlba is a popular name in Quincy Center, and Keka first expanded thee years ago with a Venetian-style tapas restaurant named Zef next door. Normally, Keko said the restaurant and small outdoor patio can seat 240 people. The function space will be used as a dining room until events are allowed again under COVID-19 restrictions. Toward the rear of the restaurant, a function room has a wall lined with wine racks. The new space is an open concept and includes a large bar, an open kitchen and exposed wooden beams. "But Todd has a great vision and I was very happy when he said he'd come do this with me." "It feels like I know what my guests want and it's hard for me to believe that other people do too," Keka said. Renner's resume includes time at Cinquecento in Boston and as the regional chef for Tender Greens. Keka said hiring a chef was the most stressful part of the new restaurant's opening. During his nearly 20 years of experience in NYC, Philip has worked numerous high-end Residential Projects & Commercial Projects from Trump Tower Penthouses to Hudson Yards Commercial Projects."It may seem weird in a steakhouse, but it'll be a good contrast and I think it'll work," he said. He began working with Coffee Electric from 2001-2003, then All-Star Electric 2003-2011, then Eco-Electric 2011-2017 before becoming a Partner in Alba Electric. Philip then established his own Electrical Contractors ‘EMS Electrical’ Dublin 1999-2001. Philip was then employed by Thorn DNT Lighting Company for 1 year, 1996-1997 in Sydney Airport, Australia before moving to work from 1997-1999 at Intel Ireland as a Plant Maintenance Technician. Philip has nearly 30 Years of experience in the Electrical Industry beginning with his Electrical Apprenticeship starting in Dublin, Ireland from October 1991-June 1996 with Gallagher Dublin Limited(Benson & Hedges Cigarette Company). ![]() Some of Gerard’s notable projects include Lacoste Soho, 17 East 89th St residential apartments, 40 Mercer St residential apartments, 480 Park Avenue residential apartments, 995 5th Avenue Penthouse, 10 East 78th Townhouse, 812 5th Avenue Penthouse, 730 Park Avenue residential apartments, 740 Park Avenue residential apartments, MUJI Hudson Yards, Fendi Soho, Zero Bond St Social Club, 230 West 56th Street residential apartments, Knotel 24th St Chelsea, TUMI 5th Avenue. We foresee the future to be very bright and to keep growing with every passing month. The company now employs over 30 men and has built up a large contact list with many different clienteles. In the short time they have been in business they have been extremely successful. In 2018 Gerard became a licensed NYC master electrician and partnered up with Andrew Horan & Philip Brady and started up Alba Electric. ![]() DOB inspections were always attended and passed for every project. This position included being in full control of a minimum of 10 projects at a time and organizing manpower, materials, schedule & attending all weekly meetings, and always made sure all projects were done in a timely & quality assured manner. In 2009 Gerard moved to Eco Electrical where he quickly became the director of field operations. In 2006 Gerard was promoted to a foreman position where he ran commercial & residential projects of all sizes. In 2004 Gerard emigrated to the United States and began to work for All-Star Electrical, where he first met his now business partner, Philip Brady. He was promoted to foreman in 2003 at the age of 21. He graduated from Kevin St technical institute and revived his national craft certificate as a qualified electrician in 2003. He first started his apprenticeship in Dublin Ireland in 1998 learning his trade from his two Uncles in a family-owned business, Alpine Electrical Engineering LLC where he built and installed custom switchgear and electrical control panels. Gerard Farrell has been working in the electrical trade for over 22 years. ![]() No surprise considering the family business in Dublin, Ireland. 22 years ago Gerard Farrell discovered his passion for the electrical trade. ![]() ![]() What if I already bought a license and you add new brushes later? please contact me so we can discuss a fee that reflects this use. 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![]() ![]() Wehner suggested that Apple’s changes aren’t having the same impact on search as they are on other types of apps. ![]() "It's on the order of $10 billion, so it's a pretty significant headwind for our business."įacebook’s admission is the most concrete data point so far on the impact to the advertising industry of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, which reduces targeting capabilities by limiting advertisers from accessing an iPhone user identifier.Ī study from ad measurement firm AppsFlyer in October suggested that 62% of iPhone users were choosing to opt-out of sharing their IDFA.Ī day before Facebook’s results, Alphabet blew past estimates with its fourth-quarter numbers, and cited strength in e-commerce ads, an area where Facebook saw weakness. "We believe the impact of iOS overall is a headwind on our business in 2022," Meta CFO Dave Wehner said on a call with analysts after the company's fourth-quarter earnings report. Meta Platform Inc's Facebook and Instagram have also tried to expand beyond social networking and messaging into e-commerce.From Kif Leswing's " Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10 billion revenue hit this year" posted Wednesday on CNBC:įacebook parent Meta said on Wednesday that the privacy change Apple made to its iOS operating system last year will decrease the social media company's sales this year by about $10 billion. ![]() It also made a push into mobile gaming and recently ended that venture as part of cost-cutting plans. Yes, Snapchat parent Snap Inc previously introduced peer-to-peer payments called Snapcash, but ended the feature in 2018. Musk and members of his inner circle texted multiple times about the idea of adding digital payments to Twitter, according to messages released in the discovery phase of litigation between Musk and the social media company. During the Q&A with employees, Musk said he wanted Twitter to grow from its 237 million users to "at least a billion." "You basically live on WeChat in China," he said, adding he saw an opportunity to create such an app.Īdding more tools and services to Twitter could also help Musk reach his lofty growth goals for the company. Grab, a leading super app across Southeast Asia, offers food delivery, ride-hailing, on-demand package delivery and financial services and investing.ĭuring a question-and-answer session with Twitter employees in June, Musk noted there is no equivalent to a super app like WeChat outside of Asia. In 2018, some Chinese cities began testing WeChat for an electronic identification system that would be tied to users' accounts, according to the South China Morning Post. Users can hail a car or taxi, send money to friends and family or make payments at stores. What are some of the examples of super apps?Ĭhinese super app WeChat has more than 1 billion monthly users, according to one estimate, and is a ubiquitous part of daily life in China. These mega apps are widely used in Asia because mobile is the main form of access to the internet for many people in the region, wrote Scott Galloway, a New York University professor of marketing and co-host of tech podcast "Pivot," last year. A super app, or what Musk refers to as an "everything app," has been described as the Swiss army knife of mobile apps, offering a suite of services for users such as messaging, social networking, peer-to-peer payments and e-commerce shopping. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The registration form will be closed on August 7th.Įarly registration deadline is extended until August 6th 2021.ĭue to the great interest, final abstract submission deadline is extended until July 7th 2021.Įarly registration deadline is extended until August 1st 2021.Ībstract submission deadline is extended until June 30th 2021.Įarly registration deadline is extended until June 30th 2021.Ībstract submission deadline is extended until June 15th 2021. NEW!The full timetable for all days at PHOTONICA2021 is now available here. Therefore, we kindly ask you to respect a dress code which you can read here. The conference venue SASA is the distinguished institution of supreme national importance. The information on how to prepare your poster presentation, both in person or online, you can read here. NEW! Important information for the online participation: the detailed instructions on how to use the Webex platform you can read here. NEW!The full timetable for the HEMMAGINERO workshop is now available here. Live stream from the Main hall during PHOTONICA2021 you can follow here. Information about the opening hours of registration desk. ![]() NEW! Photo gallery ( day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, and day 5) is now available. The final deadline for manuscript submission is October 15th 2021 October 31st 2021 November 15th 2021 November 22nd 2021. Manuscript submission in Optical and Quantum Electronics (OQE) will be open on September 1st 2021. All participants from the PHOTONICA2021 conference who are interested in this topic are most welcome to join HEMMAGINERO workshop. The workshop will be held in informal atmosfere where the discussion and ideas exchange are encouraged. Photo activation of hemoglobin by ultrashort laser pulses enables label free imaging of erythrocytes by two photon excitation fluorescence microscopy which is in the focus of this workshop, but application of other techniques for hemoglobin and erythrocytes studies like fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, THz time domain spectroscopy, hyper spectral imaging, Raman spectroscopy, flow cytometry and ektacytometry will be presented. The Workshop is related to HEMMAGINERO project funded by the Science fund of Republic of Serbia, within PROMIS program. HEMMAGINERO workshop is dedicated to hemoglobin and erythrocytes imaging and spectroscopy in various aspects. PHOTONICA2021 will host HEMMAGINERO workshop on erythrocytes and hemoglobin imaging supported by the HEMMAGINERO project. NEW! COVID-19: Conditions for entering the Republic of Serbia - please read here. NEW! Important information for the online participants: the detailed instructions on how to use the Webex platform you can read here. We are looking forward to seeing you at PHOTONICA2021 in August 2021! Representatives from the field of photonics. Last six meetings, with participation of more than 200 eminent scientists, young researchers, and companies This concept proved to be very successful in the Institutions, but also the partners from high-tech industry. It brings together not only the scientists from academic and government research Young scientists and the conference facilitating the exchange of new ideas and knowledge in cutting-edge It is conceived as a school for educating Progress reports, contributed talks and poster presentations. PHOTONICA2021 will include five days of tutorial, keynote and invited lectures, It means the Conference will comprise both an in-person conference and a virtual conference. PHOTONICA2021 that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia (August 23 - August 27, 2021). ![]() 4 Difficulty settings to let you play an even faster version of FOTONICA.You are cordially invited to participate at the VIII International School and Conference on Photonics.Electronic music by Michael Manning, Nicolò Sala, and legendary composer Baiyon.Beautiful, smooth, and unique vector-style graphics.20 Achievements to unlock plus game stats.Four-player split-screen local multiplayer mode!.Plus 3 different endless levels to compete for high-scores.Every pixel is drawn to convey the maximum sense of speed, an exhilarating journey through light and void. The visuals are a treat for the nostalgic player but also for those hungry for new aesthetics. Think you can outrun your friends? Try the split-screen versus challenges. A multi-layered level design across eight different tracks, together with a procedural endless mode make for a game that is incredibly deep. Ever wondered what running at 140mph feels like? FOTONICA is a first-person game about the thrill of speed and traveling flawlessly through complex environments.įOTONICA is simple, but is not easy: it follows a tradition of arcade games that are easy to pick up and almost impossible to master. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then "What’s Your Name" and "That Smell" after which Van Zant, asked the crowd, "So how many die-hard Lynyrd Skynyrd fans do we have in the house tonight, and how many have seen a Lynyrd Skynyrd show before?" The crowd screamed back chanting, “Yes!” Then came "I Know A Little," and Van Zant dedicated their next song, "Simple Man," to all our troops fighting for our freedom to live in the best country in the world. They opened their show with "Skynyrd Nation," a song from their new album, God & Guns, dedicated to all the loyal Skynyrd fans. The band members were Johnny Van Zant on lead vocals, only surviving original member Gary Rossington on guitars, Rickey Medlocke on guitars, Mark Matejka on guitars, Robert Kearns on bass, Michael Cartellone on drums, Peter Keys on keyboards and Dale Krantz-Rossington and Carol Chase on backing vocals. Behind the drum riser was a video screen and on both sides of it were banners that looked like a wall of speakers from the top of the lights to the floor. The stage, quite open except for the drum riser in the middle and piano and backing vocalists’ platforms on both sides of the drum riser. Inside, right before the almost sold-out show started, the fans were chanting Synyrd, Skynyrd, the lights went out and the band hit the stage. ![]() As I made my way across the parking lot to the venue, I ran into West-O's very own Steve O (probably Skip Dixxon's most frequent requester at his lunch hour show) plus quite a few other local people that made their way to the show. I only had to drive 30 miles west to the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center in Salisbury to see Lynyrd Skynyrd who have played our area on and off for over the past ten years or so. Well this was a treat for going to see a concert. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Xen aliens, the Vortigaunts, who have been enslaved by the Combine, also assist the resistance. In the Eastern European settlement City 17, Freeman meets surviving members of the Black Mesa incident, including Isaac Kleiner, Barney Calhoun, Eli Vance and his daughter Alyx Vance, and aids in the human resistance against Combine rule. ![]() Nearly twenty years later, Half-Life 2 opens as the G-Man brings Freeman out of stasis and inserts him into a dystopian Earth ruled by the Combine, a faction consisting of human and alien members, that used the dimensional rift caused at Black Mesa to conquer Earth in the interim. Barney Calhoun, a security officer, also escaped from the facility with Dr. The G-Man then destroys Black Mesa with a nuclear warhead, and detains Shephard in stasis. Back in Black Mesa, a second alien race begins an invasion, but is stopped when a Marine corporal, Adrian Shephard, collapses its portal in the facility. On Xen, Freeman eliminates the alien "leader" and is confronted by the G-Man, who offers Freeman employment before putting him into stasis. ![]() Freeman fights through the facility to meet with several other scientists, who decide to travel to the alien dimension to stop the aliens. Attempts by the Black Mesa personnel to close the rift are unsuccessful, leading to a Marine Recon unit being sent in to silence the facility, including any survivors from the science team. Gordon Freeman, a recently employed theoretical physicist, is involved in an experiment analyzing an unknown crystalline artifact however, when the anti-mass spectrometer beam contacts the crystal, it creates a resonance cascade that opens a dimensional rift between Black Mesa and another world called Xen, causing monsters to swarm Black Mesa and kill many of the facility's personnel. The Half-Life series begins in the 2000s, at the fictional Black Mesa Research Facility in New Mexico. An American scientific research facility opens a portal to a hostile alien world, who begin to invade the earth. ![]() |