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Gog eye of the beholder 310/31/2022 Having lived in a commune of navel gazers for a time, it most assuredly isn’t the same.īut, as you mentioned, we are all cosmic schmucks, regardless of what appeals to us. I’m an unabashedly on the side of indirect realism over naive realism. There are some pretty compelling arguments against naive realism, which is ultimately what RAW is trying to point out with his question. The concept of “who is the master that makes the grass green” isn’t exactly General Semantics, but it is a very important tool for understanding the difference between indirect realism and naive realism (or, direct realism). A bunch of people getting tripped up on the word ‘homeless’ in a conversation? Well, specify which homelessness you’re talking about – people who are unable to take care of themselves at all (Homelessness1) people temporarily displaced by circumstances but otherwise able bodied (Homelessness2) people voluntarily choosing to be without a home (Homelessness3) and so on… Now the conversation has a level of clarity that neutralizes most of the arguments. It’s a way of thinking that deeply satisfies my Ti. My favorite questions don’t have answers, but still manage to shake something loose inside of me.įrom my perspective, General Semantics couldn’t be further from navel gazing. I’ve been asking lately: How often is our personal reality tunnel – the belief structures and conditioning that form our experience of reality – the product of other people’s reality distortion fields? How many belief systems are a cult of personality, and are we essentially assigning these people god status by accepting their reality tunnels as our own? If “history is written by the victors,” how much are our minds’ programming essentially products of past victors, people of which we may not even know the names? (If this were a Wilson book he would make an asterisk with a footnote that would say, “Dear Reader: I’m referring to everyone but you, of course.”) He pulled it from a Star Trek episode that described how a certain alien species created their own new world through mental force. Later, Bub Tribble coined the phrase “Reality Distortion Field” to describe Steve Jobs’s charisma and its effect on the people who worked for him on his projects. It’s not to presume that there is no objective reality, but that all reality is being reinterpreted through things like our senses, conditioning, belief systems and I would add, personality types. The basic concept is that truth is in the eye of the beholder. Timothy Leary coined the term “Reality Tunnel,” which Wilson helped popularize. This comparison, the buggy release and lack of major improvement are probably why EOTB3 gets panned but none of these are big issues playing it now so I reckon it’s worth playing.“We don’t see things as they are we see them as we are.” Westwood made Lands Of Lore instead which came out around the same time and is leagues ahead. are set in the the game data so currently this only shows walls and floors. I don't for example know how the doors, buttons etc. The reason why this is separated from the ASE for EOBs 1 and 2 is that EOB3 uses a different game engine and there isn't that much known about it. The levels can be a bit uninspired but it does have the virtue of being a whole lot easier and I’m enjoying it well enough. This is an automapper for the GOG-version of SSI's Eye of the Beholder 3. opening a door in some of the levels makes an electric guitar sound for no clear reason. The digital samples are used far too much and aren’t always appropriate – e.g. GOG EYE OF THE BEHOLDER 3 PATCHIt’s much smaller, the story is less well told and the music isn’t a patch of Frank Klepacki’s EOTB2 score. I can’t speak for playing it back then but playing the GOG version now, it’s a decent enough game from my experiences. I think other issues have been fixed also – it wasn’t a case of applying a single fan patch prior to this having looked into it before going for the GOG version instead. GOG EYE OF THE BEHOLDER 3 32 BITThe version on GOG uses a 32 bit version of the previously 16 bit engine which apparently fixes this so we aren’t seeing it as it was. I gather this caused all sorts of speed issues due to the digitised sounds it uses when all the monsters move around. SSI didn’t use the same engine and used the one from Dungeon Hack instead. I didn’t play it at the time but I’m on to number 3 now.
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Hearthstone addons hstracker10/31/2022 So what’s the fuss about? Hearthstone Deck Tracker creates an in-game overlay that provides you with information that otherwise requires a extremely high level of attentiveness and concentration to obtain. Some competitive players have gone so far as calling for it to be banned by Blizzard due to the advantages it provides. Of the three options tested here, Hearthstone Deck Tracker is the most well known and the most controversial. Track-o-Bot also includes other standard features like a built in Arena tracker, game replay playback via a simple text based interface, and import/export functions to allow you to share the same account across multiple devices. The card you’ve added as the new flag may never be drawn in a game, or it may also be a flag for a different build, creating conflicts in the recognition software. HEARTHSTONE ADDONS HSTRACKER SOFTWAREYou can create a new deck entry by telling the recognition software to look out specifically for the cards you changed, but this is unreliable for a variety of reasons. If you change one or two cards in your build as a response to your data on the meta, it’s difficult to get Track-o-Bot to then provide you with the information on your new deck as a separate entity. Although this works fine in theory, it makes it difficult to track the difference in win rate between slight revisions of the same deck. The downside of Track-o-Bot is that it uses the same card recognition process to decide which deck you’re playing. That’s why keeping personal stats is crucial for players hoping to improve performance. However, your own experience, depending on the server you play and the time of day, may well differ wildly. Meta snapshots like those provided by Tempo Storm (opens in new tab) and Liquid Hearth (opens in new tab) can provide you with data on which decks are supposedly common or should perform well. It's also easy to lose track of exactly how well a deck has performed for you over a day's play. So why is objective data important? Well, it's easy to overestimate the amount of Face Hunter you're actually playing against: those losses tend to feel extra painful, and so they stick out in your mind. Importantly, all three of the tested options here are, at the time of writing, deemed safe for use by Blizzard and do not contravene any aspect of their ToS. They achieve this through a background process that records data from the Hearthstone client through various methods ranging from image recognition to software hooks. He also writes guides for Icy Veins, all while finding time to be a national Yo-Yo champion.ĭeck Trackers will take your ladder matches and turn them into easily quantifiable data that you can then base decisions on. Simon ‘Sottle’ Welch is a multi-Legend rank player, tournament winner, and caster who regularly streams on Twitch (opens in new tab). I’d say that Activision Blizzard should be ashamed of itself, but I doubt the company is capable of that.Photo from H2K Gaming (opens in new tab). That is epic level “we don’t give a shit.” And yet, it leaves support for visually impaired users to random users in its community. While I haven’t played it in years, back in 2017 VentureBeat reported that Hearthstone was raking in $40 million each month.Īctivision Blizzard had revenue in 2020 of $8.09 billion, with a net income of $2.197 billion. The obvious question this raises, however, is why visually impaired users had to wait for some dedicated community member to provide what Blizzard should have implemented years ago. I am not an NVDA or JAWS user, but by all accounts, this is a well-done mod, and the developer deserves nothing but praise for their efforts. In the meantime, several players have successfully been using OCR to access other areas of the game and created Golden Cursor scripts for NVDA players who would like to use them. While these things aren’t available yet, I do intend to work on them if there’s enough interest. Once you’ve gone through all of this, you’ll probably want to move on to other things such as playing against other players or going through Hearthstone’s solo adventures to learn more about the lore of Warcraft. * Play the first two adventures of Book of Heroes which cover the story of Jaina and Rexxar * Play practice games against expert-level AI opponents to get familiar with all the classes and game mechanics * Build standard decks for any class you’ve unlocked * Use any of the 10 different classes in practice games to unlock all basic cards as you level up * Play practice games against AI opponents in order to unlock all 10 classes and their basic decks HEARTHSTONE ADDONS HSTRACKER HOW TO* Play through a fully accessible tutorial composed of 6 games to learn how to play
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Ascii key codes10/31/2022 This is helpful if one of your keyboard keys is non-operational.Īlt codes 32 through 126 are dedicated to these keys. #Ascii key codes codeThe first 31 alt codes are dedicated to fun characters like happy faces, arrows, and other common symbols: Alt Code SymbolĪDVERTISEMENT The Alt Codes for uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and keyboard symbolsĪs I mentioned earlier, you can use Alt codes to type characters you could otherwise type on your keyboard. The Alt codes for emoji and other fun characters OK – now let's break this list down by sections. These are inaccessible to people with visual disabilities, and make it hard for everyone to copy-paste the codes. It took me a while to assemble all of these get them looking good.Īs a developer, when I search for these codes I often get results that are image-based. (Note: this does not include the many, many characters from non-western European languages – otherwise it would be 100,000s of codes long.)īelow is a nice ASCII-formatted table of the most commonly-used symbols and characters. These Alt codes are also helpful if you have a keyboard with a stuck or missing key.īelow I will break down the entire list of alt keys by category. You can type a lot of characters that may not have a corresponding key on your keyboard – such as European language alphabetic characters, ASCII symbols, and even Chinese characters (also known as Hanzi, Kanji, or Hanja). In Windows, you can type any character you want by holding down the ALT key, typing a sequence of numbers, then releasing the ALT key.
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Duran duran greatest hits10/31/2022 If Duran Duran were essentially an electronic band with a heavy rock guitarist bolted on, then Hungry Like the Wolf was the sound of the rockier elements within the camp winning (the battle rather than the war). That didn’t stop him getting his teeth into some mucky scenarios, like on Hungry Like the Wolf, a straightforward simile alluding to sexual appetite, taken from the second album, Rio. Le Bon similarly wanted to emulate Jim Morrison the problem was, that with his sailing, he was less Doorsy, more outdoorsy. “I want to be David Bowie or Iggy Pop,” complained Robbie Williams once upon a time, before conceding he was more Norman Wisdom than anything else. And how they’d love to find a song of this quality down the back of the couch now. It’s fair to say his vocal, and the band’s squelchy, angular attempts to emulate Chic, were works in progress, but the raw goods were all there from the beginning. Lyrically, it deals with nothing much deeper than all-night parties in hotel rooms, but the tune is magnificent and draws you in, with Le Bon’s voice going from a deep insouciant croon to a deranged “la la la” in the chorus. What they had in spades though – aside from delectable cheekbones – were great songs, and tellingly Late Bar was tossed off as Planet Earth’s B-side, not even making the final cut of the band’s debut album. At 6ft 2ins, Hertfordshire-born lead singer Simon Le Bon was an imposing figure, but styled in foppish collars and cuffs, he looked “more like a scrum-half who’d blundered into his mum’s washing line” according to one reviewer. These days, boybands, for want of a better word, are normally militarily slick from the off, so it is a joy to behold the amateurishness of an inchoate Duran Duran. They’d set their sights on the very thing they were singing about on their debut single. The single peaked at No 12 in 1981, though Duran Duran were thinking bigger than a trendy club scene dominated by Spandau Ballet. Dropping the words “new romantic” into the song earned the derision of their cooler Blitz-kid contemporaries in London, and bass player John Taylor admitted it was an “opportunistic” attempt to get their foot in the door (even if Rhodes later claimed it was sarcastic). The first signs of life came when Planet Earth was released in 1981, a gloriously catchy sci-fi adventure that owed a debt of gratitude to Japan’s Quiet Life, right down to the sequenced opening it was the kind of homage that could have been brazened out had keyboard player Nick Rhodes not turned himself into a bleached clone of Japan’s David Sylvian. Their faith would be repaid handsomely as a bidding war broke out, with EMI emerging victorious. They were managed by the entrepreneurial Berrow brothers, owners of the Rum Runner nightclub in Birmingham, whose conviction that the five-piece would eventually hit the big time was such that Michael Berrow mortgaged his house to finance a tour with Hazel O’Connor. Duran Duran emerged out of the state-funded art-school free-for-all of the 1970s, though their naked ambition and subsequent years of success would coincide with those of Margaret Thatcher it’s difficult to imagine they could have existed at any other time. |