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Video color fixer app3/21/2024 ![]() VSDC is a free, non-linear video editing suite that works well for basic tasks like cutting, rotating, and cropping videos. Just drag and drop a video or audio file into OpenShot and start editing your content.Īdd titles using one of OpenShot’s templates or make your own, render beautiful 3D animated effects, like flying text, snow, or lens flares, or add time and slow motion effects to add drama and intrigue to your videos.Ĭompatibility: Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS 3. VSDC Video Editor Pro Getting started with the software is easy. Then, you can text, apply filters, and other effects from OpenShot’s vast collection. The cross-platform video editor offers many ways to cut your video in a simple user interface using basic features, like the trim tool. OpenShot is an open-source video editing program that also won’t place a watermark on your video exports. Want to join the thousands of creators already using Descript’s video editing app? Take a tour of the dashboard today.
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Collect call from jail prank3/21/2024 ![]() ![]() The case put forward at the hearings was that the IDF dropped millions of leaflets and made telephone calls to individuals, that they had better immediately leave their homes and neighbourhood and move to the south, because they, the IDF, were going to bomb and obliterate the entirety of Gaza City. Rumours that Israel is secretly building gas chambers are, I pray, not true. It could have done this but chose instead to slaughter tens of thousands of innocent people. It could have done this with very little collateral damage. Israel could have released its Mossad and Shin Bet and any other assassination forces it has, to hunt down and kill every Hamas fighter it wanted…like it did to the Munich terrorists. The carpet bombing and decimation of Gaza defies all sensibilities. One could argue that the Israeli reaction was far in excess of the Palestinian response. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction: witness the Israeli response to the Palestinian response. Israel was the flame and the exploding peas in the cooker were the Hamas terrorists. One would think that the Jews in Israel would be particularly sensitive to this.īut no, they have ramped up the dehumanisation of the Palestinians to such an extent that the pressure in the cooker came to the point of an explosion. Sort of like the Nazis did to the Jews and others before and during the Second World War. The people of Gaza are sentenced to a death sentence in a prison from which there is no escape. Try sailing into Palestinian waters off the coast and see how far you can get. With no hope of any future for their children, no freedom of movement, no contact with anyone or any country without Israeli approval, the people of Palestine and especially those in Gaza are living in one big open air concentration camp. ![]() Without being trite, Israel’s dehumanisation of the Palestinians is even worse. ![]() I believe that the government of Israel is very much like, in many ways, the Apartheid government in South Africa, which looked at the black African population as inferior and in some way sub-human, and which had to be kept packed away, preferably behind electric fences, massively high cement walls and miles of razor wire. The Gaza Strip is really a very large rat cage in which rats are confined in conditions that defy all morality of human beings. But the action must be looked at in the context of the actual real time and real life situation in the entire neighbourhood: Israel and Palestine. There is no excuse for this for any reason. Make no mistake, there was an horrific attack on innocent people when the Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians. I must say that I was very proud to be a South African and witness one of the only countries on the planet decrying in the most unequivocal of terms the atrocious and diabolical actions of the Israeli army and government upon the innocent Palestinians. On Thursday the 11 th of January the panel of South Africans made a very compelling case that Israel has waged and is continuing to wage a genocidal war against the people of Gaza. As I write this, I am watching the International Court of Justice proceedings taking place in The Hague where South Africa has taken the State of Israel, on a charge of systematic genocide against the people of Gaza. ![]() There is an horrific slaughter taking place at this very moment before our eyes in the Gaza Strip. Facebook Tweet LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram Reddit ![]()
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Okra stew with neck bones3/21/2024 ![]() In Puerto Rico, the word for okra in Spanish is quimbombó. Living here in Charleston and staying as an adult has definitely molded my outlook and appreciation for humble foods in both Puerto Rican and Gullah Geechee cuisines something which I take pride in making and sharing with others. You can read more about okra soup and try out the recipe in the linked New York Times Magazine column by Amethyst Ganaway and Samin Nosrat (which I am so excited and proud about! So dope to see fellow Charleston lady chef friends like Amethyst making moves!). Okra soup is special to Charleston, its people, and to me. Thinking about how important okra is to the South, its foodways, and its connection to the African diaspora, stewed okra and tomatoes spooned over white rice is a quintessential Charleston and Gullah Geechee dish (more-so than shrimp and grits in my opinion). ![]() ![]() Growing up on James Island, there were many days of hanging out at friends’ houses when I would be sent home with a plate of food for my mom, most notably okra soup and rice. This particular recipe is a dish that shares many similarities between both my birthplace and my hometown and the cultures that make them special. ![]() Learning more about each of these influences has inherently shaped and strengthened my connection to my ancestors in and out of the kitchen. Puerto Rican cuisine is interwoven with West African, Spanish, and indigenous Taíno foods and cooking methods. ![]()
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Attack on titan switch game3/20/2024 ![]() I would’ve preferred a dynamic resolution to maintain 60fps on Xbox One X and PS4 Pro. On the performance side of things, the game felt very good but it tanks when there are too many titans close to you and you start panning the camera. Character models and cutscenes look great though. This affects every console version of the game I played. The biggest visual issue is the pop in for textures and foliage. Visually, AOT 2: Final Battle is gorgeous almost all the way. Omega Force has added a new control assistance option that lets you slay titans with greater ease and without worrying about timing your button presses right. I enjoyed the default controls for AOT 2 and didn’t really have trouble with them but I know a few people who struggled. I love it when developers make games more accessible. The inclusion of the thunder spear is amazing and it feels superb to use during gameplay. Your aim here is to progress turns like a board game or a recent strategy game while reclaiming territory and leveling up characters and gear. ![]() I hope they give this mode more focus with the next game because it absolutely deserves your time. The Territory Recovery mode is actually pretty great and a fantastic addition to this game. If you are going into this fresh, you create your own avatar for the story from the first two seasons and play alongside everyone you love from the anime. It takes place in its own mode called Character Episode Mode that has a flowchart split up into action sequences with gameplay and story segments told through visual novel like panels and actual cutscenes. If you’ve played AOT 2 already, you will be a bit disappointed to realise that the season three content is completely separate from the campaign you experienced already. In terms of core content, Final Battle includes a new strategic mode that impressed me alongside the story content from season three in its own mode. The naming is really something, isn’t it? When the final season of the anime airs next year and Koei Tecmo announces a game, I look forward to playing AOT 3 that covers season four. If you missed the original AOT: Wings of Freedom, you don’t really need to bother with it since AOT 2: Final Battle includes it alongside the second and third season content. In terms of the anime, AOT 2: Final Battle covers the story from all three seasons. This release feels like excellent value for new customers, but people who sprung for the base game last year are kind of getting the short end of the stick with the asking price for the expansion. The Upgrade Pack is available to bring the base game from last year up to speed with this new release and the pricing is a bit high given the content. ![]() This is priced the same as any full priced release. The first is the complete experience which includes the base game from last year and the Upgrade Pack that has the new mode and the Season 3 anime content for the game. ![]() Having only recently watched the third season of the anime, I was craving more Attack on Titan and Final Battle delivered in almost every aspect.ĪOT 2: Final Battle is available in two formats for consoles and PC. After reviewing three Attack on Titan games prior to this across handhelds and consoles from different publishers, the best Attack on Titan game gets a massive expansion and re release in the form of AOT 2: Final Battle (known as “Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle” in North America) from Koei Tecmo and Omega Force. ![]()
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Sonic mania angel island extended intro3/20/2024 ![]() ![]() In 2015 PWG joined in collaboration with Christian Whitehead and Stealth to create Sonic Mania, and Tee Lopes was the number one choice to tackle the soundtrack, for which he is best known today. Angel Island Zone is a Sonic Mania mod with a new stage - Angel Island Zone, similar as an Angel Island Zone from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. ![]() He has worked with a few other indie developers on some smaller projects, while composing jingles and instrumentals for advertisements, and singing cover music at bars and restaurants. To form PagodaWest games, and hired Tee to create his first full soundtrack for the award-winning "Major Magnet" for iPhone/iPad, which gave him his first real taste of envisioning a fully fledged musical world. He was soon noticed by Jared Kasl and Tom Fry, who after working together on a well known fan project, decided After the boss fight of Marble Garden Zone, the mountains can still be seen as Tails. We see Sonic pushed up by water to Marble Garden Zone, so high that he slides down hills in the beginning of the zone. In 2008, Tee posted the first of many Sonic The Hedgehog remixes on his YouTube page, gathering some notoriety amongst the We see Sonic go up a huge waterfall before the Angel Island Zone boss and then goes to another waterfall where he falls to Hydrocity Zone. However, when the chance to create music for a video game arrived, he immediately fell in love with the industryĪnd made it his goal instead, to become a full-time videogame composer. In Portuguese, winning several remix contests and being featured on hip hop magazines and mix tapes in his home country. Not gonna lie, took me hours on in to get all gold medallions again. He originates from a family of music enthusiasts, and has been linked to the stage and entertainment world from a young age.Īfter graduating high school, Tee began working on a career as a self-taught beat maker and rapper, releasing many hip hop songs The debut for mania plus is here As soon as I purchased this, I was already hyped lol. Sonic: 28th October 2017: A. Tee Lopes is a creative mind, known predominantly as a video game composer,… Read Full Bio ↴ Tee Lopes is a creative mind, known predominantly as a video game composer, but also as a songwriter, singer, arranger, voice over artist, DJ and occasional graphic designer.īorn in Coimbra, Portugal, Tee came to the United States at the age of 15 and currently lives and works in New Jersey. Angel Island Zone 4: Sonic: 4th April 2018: MabsKMK: Angel Island Zone 3: Sonic: 4th April 2018: MabsKMK: Angel Island Zone 2: Sonic: 4th April 2018: MabsKMK: Angel Island Zone 1: Sonic: 4th April 2018: MabsKMK: Sonic Mania Green Hill Zo. ![]()
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Google internet speed test app3/20/2024 ![]() In other instances, your internet speed can fluctuate depending on peak usage hours. If there are walls or other obstructions between your router and the device you're using, this could cause your internet speed to fall. Moving away from your router can further hinder your speeds. Wi-Fi will almost always be slower than an Ethernet connection. There are a few things possibly affecting your speeds, but using a Wi-Fi connection is the most likely cause of tested speeds lower than the speeds your ISP runs to the home. In fact, Ookla's speed test is the one we use when we're testing Wi-Fi routers, so we know from firsthand experience that it's reliable. Our team has approved these internet speed tests through several factors, including speed, consistency, accessibility and browser compatibility. We strive to personally test products and services to give insight to readers and offer them multiple options for what they're looking for. How CNET chose these internet speed testsįor over 20 years, we have used respectable sources, expert opinions and a hands-on approach to review data. ![]() Since streaming videos requires more bandwidth, the download speed must be high enough to support the action.
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Medieval castle blueprints inside3/20/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() This area also included space for villagers and domestic animals. A bailey (enclosed courtyard) surrounding the motte was constructed to secure the central area which housed the keep, great hall, chapel, and other important buildings. First, ditches were added to slow down the approaching invaders. Medieval castle designs changed to keep up with changing tactics and weapons of invaders, and later to reflect prestige and wealth. While invaders were struggling to get over the ditches and climb the mounds, bowmen at the top had the perfect opportunity to shoot arrows directly at the invaders. Additionally, while excavating rock and soil from the ground to strengthen and increase the size of the mound, a ditch was formed around it–making the mound even more difficult to access. The original natural mounds frequently had earth and rock added, to make them higher and steeper, and thus more difficult to climb. The effectiveness of the fortifications lay in the fact that the earthen mounds were difficult to ascend while arrows from the keep rained down on the invaders, whose returning arrows would just get stuck in the wooden palisades. Everything and everyone, skilled and unskilled, could participate in constructing this type of defense. The alarm was sounded when invaders were scouted preparing to besiege a village. Cardiff Castle flickr photo by michaelday_bath shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license As their grasp on invaded lands became stronger, the Normans transitioned to stone keeps or castles to hold their lines and lands, which was the start of castles as we know them today.Ĭardiff Castle in Wales is an excellent example of the Norman architectural style. The Normans built their earliest fortifications of wood in the motte-and-bailey style. These noblemen were constantly at war with their local neighbors in an attempt to expand their own territory, but their methods of fortifications have not structurally survived history. This structure was known as the central keep by the time the motte-and-bailey structures developed it was part residence, part office, and part treasury.Īnglo-Saxon nobility operated on a feudal system, collecting taxes from their tenants. In medieval times, noblemen and kings at first built wooden structures to house their families, other nobles, and household guards on top of the mound, later called a motte. 3 Gothic Architecture: Tales of Ghosts and Ghouls.2 How Did They Build Castles in Medieval Times?.1.1 Norman Innovation: The Motte-and-Bailey. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Spawn ranges will help you find proper distances from mexes and other spawn points.ĭouble clicking on units group will select all units inside this group so you will be able to faster find what units are inside it. You can now scale whole editor UI from 25% to 400%.ĭuplicate feature will allow for faster copy/pasting of selected props/decals/units. ![]() They looks nice but many players hate them, so I don't want to make it simple enough so all 'trash' maps will now had everything covered with clouds. Editor will probably never has support for displaying them, because using weather effects (clouds etc.) on maps is a controversial topic. You can now add and remove weather nodes in editor.
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Higgins black magic vs india ink3/19/2024 ![]() ![]() it is thick but it depends on how diluted that resin is as to how thick the ink is, this depends on the manufacturer PLUS how long the bottle has been open & exposed to the air to allow the water to evaporate & thicken the ink. Shellac is is a resin secreted by the lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. Hi Sheila All genuine india inks contain “shellac” in their mix. While I do like India Ink I have not ever had this experience and I’m in search of someone who has. What do you like about the inks aside from cost? Someone once was telling me about an ink that settled “above the paper” and had a 3-D effect. Wow! I have never thought about India Ink by the quart! I always spill the bottle before I get around to emptying it so I’ve always thought of it as “neverending”! Martin Bombay that I like the best, but really can’t justify at the price of $190 to $225+ per quart! I am going to try some Speedball Super Black to replace the rather expensive Dr. I am going to be doing a lot of large sized ink work soon and need a substantial amount of ink that won’t break the bank and is very waterproof. I wanted to try some after looking at this review below as being more opaque and more water resistant than Speedball Superblack which is one of the least expensive truly waterproof india inks at $12-$19 / QUART – yup the equivalent of 32 1 oz bottles! The Pro Art was also fairly inexpensive at about $1.50 per ounce. I rely less on them after reading about how lots of them are posted by shills to give a product a better standing.Īpparently it was a house brand distributed by in Oregon which has unfortunately gone out of business after nearly 50 years distributing art and craft supplies. If you do try it, I’d be interested in how you like it.Īmazon reviews can be very confusing and contradictory sometimes. I saw some on Amazon but there was only one review for it and it was a pretty bad review so I don’t know that I would try it. ![]()
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Anime fandoms in a nutshell3/19/2024 ![]() ![]() If the creation isn’t yours, you are REQUIRED to provide a link to the original.While sharing any form of fan work, tag your post with appropriate flair, distinguishing it as either Original, or Found creation (or My / Found meme art).Low effort linking to streams, or let’s plays is not allowed unless the stream is of special occasion (charity, some event…), or if the video is of higher production value.Unless you are looking for help with fan project related to Undertale, please don't make posts that are just invitation to subreddit or discord.Do not ask users to participate in anything that is not Undertale-based.As such do not discuss or share screenshots of these versions here. Additionally, since there is no official port of Undertale to mobile devices, most of the available ones count as piracy too. Discussions of piracy and attempts of illegal distribution of the game are not allowed.Don't promote the kinds of merchandise that Toby is not okay with.Do not share or discuss content that is more sexually suggestive or obscene than the game itself.ģ) No bootleg merchandise and pirated content.If the connection to UT/DR is too tenuous, the post may be removed under this rule as well.Ģ) No sexual or otherwise obscene content Keep your posts on topic! Posts discussing/sharing content about Undertale AUs, Deltarune AUs, or the subreddit itself are also permitted. ![]() Breakdown of purpose and use of subreddit’s flairs. ![]() Please look here before submitting Question posts.
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