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Perfect kicks me sizeup1/14/2024 ![]() A natural smile will fade slowly: switch it on too fast or let it drop too soon and it doesn’t feel sincere. ![]()
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Frozen bubble wand1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() Use this stencil to create a soccer ball. Easter Parade Bunny Bubble Wand 2.2 oz Buy now at Instacart 100 satisfaction guarantee Place your order with peace of mind. Frozen 2 Deluxe Figure Play Set 26.99 Frozen 2 Snowflake Waffle Maker 29.99 Frozen Emoji iPhone 6/6S Case Customizable 39.95 Frozen Emoji Lamp Customizable 52. Use this stencil to create an American football with all the details. Attach it to a headband or use as is for a festive look!Įxplore Nordic folklore and create a holiday gnome with a 3Doodler 3D printing pen, colorful eco-friendly plastic, and a stencil. Create a version of this historic bridge in 3D.Ĭreate a fun party hat in 3D. Introducing the right products into your personal care routine can have a big impact on how you feel throughout the day. The Edmund Pettus Bridge, now a National Historic Landmark, was the site of the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights in 1965. Create a pisces symbol in 3D with this stencil!ģDoodler took inspiration from the wintry weather and the long history of icy architecture to create a stunning 3D ice castle. The astrological symbol is depicted by two fish swimming in opposite directions, which represents the division of attention between fantasy and reality. Pisces is the twelfth sign of the zodiac for people born between February 19 and March 20. Find dressing up games, building blocks action figures and dolls from big brands like DIsney and L.O.L. Choose a range of colors or stick to classics for a fun Valentine’s Day craft! Instructions for blowing frozen bubbles When the weather is below 30F or -1C, go outside with your bubble mix and a bubble wand with a circle on the end Make sure your bubble mixture is shaken well and cool Stand where it is very cold and also protected from harsh wind Blow bubbles very gently through the bubble wand. Browse B&Ms huge range of cheap kids toys & games. Make one or a whole bunch to share with friends and family. Love is in the air with these adorable heart-shaped balloons. 6pk 4oz Bubble Wands - Sun Squad Sun Squad 1228 5.00 When purchased online Bubble Solution 4oz 6pk - Sun Squad Sun Squad 901 4.00 When purchased online Bubble Solution 80oz - Sun Squad Sun Squad 1054 3.00 When purchased online Super Bubble Stick Blower - Sun Squad Sun Squad 581 3.
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Mx8 midi patchbay manual1/14/2024 ![]() Then you are at the next patch in one button press. All that is required in this case is to simply press the increment up button. This gets old quickly, and is not useful if there are fast changes.Ī way around this is to program patches into the keyboard in the order they will appear in the show. Many keyboards have keypads where you have to type in a number, like "24" for example, and then press enter. Ideally, the keyboard will have banks of buttons that you can use to quickly call up patch changes in one or two presses. There are several differnet ways to change patches:įrom the keyboard front panel. So reaching for a rack box or a control surface like a Peavey or whatever is not practical in many situations. Punching buttons on a rack box does not cut it for live work if you have a lot of fast changes, which I often do. I prefer to call up patches from the keyboard. Any box without all three of those features is not going to be of terribly much use. ![]() The big features you need in any controller keyboard or processor box are the ability to set patch changes, volume, and keyboard zones. You can send multiple patch changes on different channels, set zones, volumes, and a few other features. The Korg Wavestation makes an excellent controller, for example. Very tough to program without that, but easy with the manual for the most part.Īlso, some keyboards have good master controller functions built in. They go cheap on eBay, but just make sure you get one that has a manual if you go for an MEP4. However, overall the Yamaha MEP4 is my favorite and I've used it a lot. ![]() I've owned many midi patchbay/processors and prefer the 360 Systems for relatively simple things like assigning patch changes to multiple modules. However, don't get any version of that box other than version 2 because the earlier versions are buggy. The JL Cooper box to consider is not one of the units that has faders, but the MSB+ Version 2. ![]() There are other boxes made by 360 Systems (Midi Patcher), Digital Music Corp. The nice thing about this box is that it turns *any* keyboard into a controller keyboard. It has four midi processors inside, which can again be assigned to any of the midi outputs. This box is a midi processor that has one midi input and four midi outputs. I also have a couple very useful boxes made by Yamaha called the MEP4. You would change the one patch in the A-70 and it would in turn send all the relevant patch changes to the connected keyboards and modules. So with a controller like the A-70 you could connect up to four modules to the midi outputs and then program the patch changes into the patches in the A-70. Each processor can be programmed to send it's own patch change, preset volume, pan, and lots of other data. So all 8 processors could be sent to midi out 1, for example. It has 8 independent midi processors onboard, which can be assigned to those four midi outs. I often use a Roland A-70, which is a 76 note controller keyboard that has four independent midi outputs. I use a controller keyboard to send patches changes to multiple modules or other keyboards. I do this for a living, so let me try and lay out a couple of ways I make this work for me. There are several ways to switch patches in multiple keyboards/modules in a live setup. It's been the most reliable tool in the shed and I've had it at least a dozen years now. Oh yeah - the Peavey is built like a tank. But then so does the Peavey and if I remember right I paid about $300 for it at a local store. See it here.Īs an alternative, I did find this on the JL Cooper web site, and it says it has 50 memories so it should be able to memorize 50 combinations of program changes. Maybe you should consider my solution - I use a Peavey PC1600X for all program change duties on stage and the 16 fully assignable faders and 16 fully assignable buttons come in mighty handy around sequencing time. I successfully used one of these with 10 synth modules back in the day without a glitch. They worked like this - you could designate a channel to receive a PC on, then assign which PC it transmitted on to the rest of your rig. Digital Music, JL Cooper, MAudio, Edirol, 360 Systems all made good ones at one time or another, but a quick googling brought up not much. Program changes should be included in any midi patcher worth it's salt.
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Cuphead speedrun1/14/2024 ![]() Cuphead is special, however, because the glitch that divides the community likely could've been looked over by the developers. It's the highest damage option in the game without using the weapon swap glitch, but it still can't compare in sheer damage-per-second.ĭividing a game into multiple speedrun categories for different glitches, patches, and goals is nothing strange in the wider speedrunning community. This is due to the extra time spent charging the charge-shot's powerful blasts. Oddly enough, the glitchless version of getting to the end of Cuphead is actually only about five minutes longer on average, but that's still a long time when the record-holding runs are well under 30 minutes. ![]() The category which uses the original patch of the game, and therefore the weapon swap glitch, is called "Legacy." Meanwhile, players who use the most recent version label their speedruns "Glitchless" or "1.1+," and play primarily using the charge-shot weapon instead of the roundabout/lobber combo. Two major categories now exist for the game. ![]() In the years since Cuphead's release, the developers have patched out this glitch, leading to a division in the Cuphead speedrunning community. It's also a rather simple glitch, but it makes all the difference. However, there is one glitch that the community uses that has kept them playing the game's initial version even after the game has turned three years old. The game is designed as a gauntlet of primarily bosses to begin with, so all Cuphead speedrunners really do is master the patterns of each boss in the game. The process itself is more about improving the player's fundamental skills than learning many progression skips or a ton of exploits. ![]() This is why the Cupheadspeedrunning community still frequently plays on the game's original patch, even over three years later.įor the most part, Cuphead is a fairly straight-forward game to speedrun. If a glitch they like is patched out, speedrunners will often keep playing the outdated version so they can still abuse it. Glitches and exploits are extremely common, which is why many speedrunning communities neglect to update their games. The game launched digitally for PC and Xbox One on September 29, but Studio MDHR previously stated that it plans to release a physical standard edition and collector’s edition soon.In the world of speedrunning, players will do anything to earn a faster time. How Long to Beat, a community-run website that aggregates the average time it takes to finish a game, states that it took seven and a half hours for most players to complete Cuphead’s main story.ĭeveloped by Studio MDHR, Cuphead is a run and gun indie game with a distinct 1930’s art style. Some have used bananas, bongos, and guitars to play their favorite games, and it was only a matter of time before someone attempted this with Cuphead.ĭon’t be disheartened if speedrunners can finish Cuphead in under an hour. Watch DancePad% || Cuphead | All Bosses – 1:24:40 from PeekingBoo on Using weird controllers to finish typical, seated game experiences isn’t a new concept. To switch weapons, he lunges towards the screen to press a button with his hands. PeekingBoo mapped almost all controls to the eight DDR dance pad buttons. It’s also amazing that he managed to come anywhere near the top speedrun time. While far from the top speedrun time of 27 minutes, beating Cuphead using a DDR gamepad is a feat in itself due to the game’s challenging fights. Speedrunner PeekingBoo definitely has some great foot-eye coordination as he managed to beat Cuphead in one hour and 24 minutes using a Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) dance pad.
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Osrs mortainia hard diarie1/14/2024 Getting it requires the completion of the Underground Pass quest. To use Iban’s Blast, you’ll need Iban’s Staff. If you plan on using Magic and want to be efficient (Especially important for those who can do multiple runs per trip), the best mid-level spell is Iban’s Blast. While Fire Bolt can get the job done, it won’t be the fastest. Once you reach the endgame of Combat, it’s almost more efficient to kill the brothers via the Combat style they’re weak against instead of using Magic on everyone. If you rely entirely on protection prayers, you’ll run out of Prayer much faster on trips. I don’t recommend that, however, as the crypt is all Melee monsters (Unless Ahrim or Karil is your last brother), so Melee equipment comes in handy. It’s entirely possible to defeat all six brothers with only Magic. But for Accuracy and damage purposes, at least 50 Magic is preferred.įour of the six Barrows brothers are Melee opponents, one is a Ranged opponent, and one is a Magic opponent. At 35 Magic, you can cast Fire Bolt, which has a max hip of 12.įrom testing experience, I can assure you Fire Bolt is more than enough to defeat the Barrows brothers. I suggest at least level 60 Attack and Strength, 61 Ranged, 43 Prayer, and 35 Magic. You’ll also need a spade to burrow into the Barrows, but there are some spades on-site.Īs for Combat requirements, you’ll need decent stats to defeat the Barrows brothers. To access Morytania, you need to complete the Priest in Peril quest. We’re going digging through Gielinor’s Barrows. Known for their combat prowess and powerful weapons and armor, taking on the Barrows is one of the first combat hurdles for a mid-level player.ĭefeating them and claiming their gear for yourself will go a long way toward helping you climb that progression ladder. The Barrows Brothers are some of the most iconic characters in Runescape history. Obtaining your first pet, skilling or otherwise, or reaching your first 100 mil GP.Īnd, of course, taking on the Barrows brothers for the first time. Defeating TzTok-Jad and getting your first Fire Cape or achieving your first level 99 skill. There are moments in everyone’s Runescape career that you never forget.
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Wizarding challenges wizards unite1/13/2024 ![]() The points needed for each Rank in Exploration caps at 100 points. Rank for all ten families caps at Rank 65. Earn Family XP by collecting Fragments of that Family, and when you rank up, you’ll receive Scrolls and a Runestone matching that family. The Exploration Section currently has ten Families:Įach Family in Exploration has its own rank. Recap: Exclusive WU Event at Universal Studios Hollywood.Live: Exclusive WU Event at Universal Studios Hollywood.Mysteries Chapter 3 - Penelope Fawley - Background.Mysteries Chapter 2 - Ministry Record - Grim Fawley.Mysteries Chapter 2 - Grim Fawley - Background.Mysteries Chapter 1 - Grim Fawley - Motives.Mysteries Chapter 1 - The Foundables Spell.Fortress Team Strategy: Professor Guide.Fortress Team Strategy: Magizoologist Guide.Fortress Team Strategy Guide: An Overview.Spell Casting Guide and Spell Trace Nodes.Can You Play Wizards Unite and PoGO Together?.I can’t say yet whether that charm will sustain the game over the course of months or years, the way Pokémon GO has, but for now, that’s enough. So yeah, if you’re a Potterhead, the early game will definitely sate your appetite and make you feel like you’re part of the wizarding world. I’ll do what I can for the Ministry from the shade. Of course, that could be because I’m biased - I live in Texas, it’s June, and it’s roughly 145 degrees outside. Doing Ministry busywork is not as interesting a reason to leave your house as the possibility of catching a rare Pokémon. The game’s not as inherently involving as Pokémon GO. You can also choose your own house, though this has no effect on gameplay - according to a Warner Bros executive (speaking to Game Rant), dividing everyone into houses would go against the game’s spirit of cooperation between wizards. ![]() I did appreciate that I was allowed to register my own wand - and I could exactly duplicate the wand assigned to me by Pottermore (larch and phoenix feather, for anyone who’s curious). Beyond that, the game also lets take pictures of yourself with HP-branded filters and decorations. I’m sure this will be very important in the later levels, but I found I didn’t need to worry about it right away. The game also offers a series of challenges and daily tasks which offer you the chance to earn rewards - potions to increase your spell potency, etc. The crux of the gameplay, and the in-game reason for you to wander around finding the “Foundables” (the traces of magic that have slipped the cracks and become visible to Muggles) is for you find the culprit(s) behind the Calamity and figure out how it occurred. Whereas Pokémon GO had you capturing pocket monsters because it’s Pokémon and that’s just what you do, Wizards Unite has a bit more a mystery angle, which I appreciate. Harry, now an Auror, even walks you through the tutorial (really it’s just an excuse to have familiar characters giving you instructions, but I’m okay with that). From what we can tell, series stars Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger have joined the Ministry of Magic and are spearheading the anti-Calamity efforts. It’s got a bit more of a narrative than Pokémon GO, Niantic’s previous offering - it even throws in tidbits to establish a timeline. The game’s story is, as all the pre-release footage implied - about a great Calamity in the Wizarding World that all magical folk must work together to combat. I immediately tried to download it and begin looking for Nifflers in the rubberized mat display, but I to wait until I got back to my home Wi-Fi connection before it would reliably run. I discovered the app was live during a routine trip to get my car inspected - sitting in the Toyota waiting room isn’t a terribly enriching experience, so I consulted my phone.
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Civilization beyond earth images1/13/2024 NOTICE: The following video chipsets are unsupported for Civilization: Beyond Earth In order to run the game with satisfactory performance, your Mac must meet these minimum system requirements: 2.2 GHz CPU Speed | 4 GB RAM | 8 GB free disk space | (ATI): Radeon HD 4850 (NVidia): GeForce 640M | (Intel): HD 4000 | 512 MB VRam Your feedback helps us make better games. Our Customer Support team is happy and eager to help. If you encounter problems playing the game, please visit. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Civilization: Beyond Earth does not utilize Steam for encryption and will not work with Steam Beyond Earth DLC. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Currently, Civilization: Beyond Earth for the Mac App Store is currently a single player experience. Additional information about Civilization: Beyond Earth.From your choice of sponsor and the make-up of your colony, to the ultimate path you choose for your civilization, every decision opens up new possibilities. As you embark on your journey you must make critical decisions. Explore and colonize an alien planet, research new technologies, amass mighty armies, build incredible Wonders and shape the face of your new world. As the human race struggles to recover, the re-developed nations focus their resources on deep space travel to chart a new beginning for mankind.Īs part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, you will write the next chapter for humanity as you lead your people into a new frontier and create a new civilization in space. Set in the future, global events have destabilized the world leading to a collapse of modern society, a new world order and an uncertain future for humanity. Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award-winning Civilization series.
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Irvue interfacelift wallpaper1/13/2024 ![]() Digital BlasphemyĪnother source of amazing digital art, this time from Ryan Bliss, is Digital Blasphemy. Of course, if you want, you can download the image in a larger resolution or a different aspect ratio, as well. When you visit the site, your desktop aspect ratio and resolution are immediately detected and set so that when you click a photo you like, you can immediately download it in the correct resolution. Wallpapers WideĪ more traditional wallpaper website is Wallpapers Wide, which has tens of thousands of wallpapers to choose from. To have unfettered access to everything on the site, including some extras like PSD files for some images, you will need to purchase a $14.99 (roughly £11 or AU$20) lifetime premium account. You will only get lower-resolution downloads of some photos for free. Not everything on Vladstudio is free, however. There you will find some truly amazing digital art wallpapers. If you're looking for something other than photography wallpapers, your first stop should be Vladstudio. All three together cost $15 (about £11 or AU$20). Pixels also offers an app for Mac and Windows, as well as a Photoshop plugin. You just have to make use of the search function to find exactly what you're looking for. I've come across many portrait-oriented photos, but I've also seen some absolutely stunning images that would make great wallpapers. That said, not all of them are suited for wallpapers. Every picture you come across on Pexels is also licensed under Creative Commons Zero. The images are hand-selected from user uploads or sourced from other stock image websites. Pexels is another image site similar to Stock Up. I haven't had any issues with images not being large enough to make a gorgeous wallpaper, however. Most the images you find on Stock Up are very high resolution, but not all of the sources Stock Up pulls from will tell you the resolution, or let you choose a version of the picture best suited for your monitor. So while Stock Up might require a little more digging, there is generally plenty to choose from. Most other websites have only a fraction of that. It pulls images from 27 different websites, all of which license images under Creative Commons Zero, and has over 13,000 images to choose from. And since it's setup more for all-purpose images, not all the images you find there are going to make great wallpapers. Stock Up is typically my go-to source for royalty-free or public-domain images. Irvue changes your desktop wallpaper on a set interval or with a hotkey command with images from Unsplash. What's more, if you have a Mac, there is a killer (and free) menubar application called Irvue, which is my personal choice for wallpapers on my Macs. Every photo you find on Unsplash is licensed under Creative Commons Zero, meaning they're totally free of charge and you're free to do what you want with those images. UnsplashĪnother very popular place to grab some high-quality photography wallpapers is Unsplash, where you will find 10 new photos every 10 days. However, there are two official InterfaceLIFT apps - the $1.99 (£1.49 or AU$2.99) InterfaceLIFT Wallpapers for iOS and $6 (directly converted, £4.47 or AU$8.06) Macdrops for Mac. Wallpapers from the InterfaceLIFT website are free to download. Not to mention, it detects your current resolution to make it easier to download the right wallpaper for the computer you're browsing on. It's also one of the easiest to navigate, and it makes it very easy to download a wallpaper in just about any resolution. It has en enormous library of very high quality photography. ![]() InterfaceLIFT is one of the most acclaimed wallpaper sources, and for good reason. ![]() Here are seven of the best wallpaper sites around. Whatever reason you have for constantly changing your desktop wallpaper (or not), it's always nice to have a few sources on hand for your next wallpaper. But for most people, wallpapers are purely for aesthetics - personal expression or to show off that gorgeous 4K monitor to make your coworkers jealous. How long has it been since you last changed your desktop wallpaper? It may be time to mix it up a bit.Ĭhanging your wallpaper to something inspirational can help you jump right into work without procrastinating in the morning, or one of beautiful scenery might remind you to take a walk and enjoy the outdoors for a change.
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Tom randolph dateline1/13/2024 ![]() ‘Dateline’ is in every place a consumer can find it. Randolph’s new trial is currently set to begin on May 9, 2022, the Clark County District Attorney’s Office, told. This summer he has participated remotely in pretrial hearings that have been seen on the Law & Crime Trial Network. “You don’t really attract an audience like you did in the old days,” Corvo said. Currently, Randolph is being held in High Desert State Prison awaiting his new trial. They lend themselves to delayed viewing in a way most news programs don’t, and the Peacock channel will need material. Not everything “Dateline NBC” does is true crime the show has done hours on the Capitol riot, COVID-19 vaccine development and the George Floyd case in the past year.īut crime stories are the central focus. “Dateline” has interesting inside looks at how the police and prosecutors reacted as the story unfolds, and they would likely not make it if the show was tightly edited into one episode, he said. 2, Part 4 Detectives hit the road and meet with Tom Randolph's first wife, Kathy, and her husband, Steve, who share some alarming details about Tom's past. “The story itself almost demands all of the time we are giving it because of all of the twists and turns,” he said. Slepian, who calls Randolph the “Joe Exotic of true crime” and hypes the “The Widower” as “‘Tiger King’ meets ‘Jinx’ meets ‘In Cold Blood,’” vouches for its ability to hold the audience’s attention. The risk, however, comes in following a trend and making a story longer than the material merits. HBO’s “The Jinx” and Netflix’s “Making of a Murderer” and several podcasts have illustrated the appeal of immersive crime stories that go beyond the one- or two-hour format of network newsmagazines. It's a Thursday night in Las Vegas in 2009. ![]() Dramatic police video would lead to the capture of a serial killer who'd been murdering women and somehow going undetected for the past 30 years. He kept following, and filming, the case until there was a recent resolution, said Liz Cole, the show’s executive producer. Pistol-packing husband Tom Randolph has just killed an armed intruder who has left Mrs. “Dateline NBC” producer Dan Slepian was embedding with Las Vegas police in 2008 when Thomas Randolph was arrested for murder. 18, 2021 NBC Over three episodes, NBCs new true crime series The Widower will explore the case of Thomas Randolph, who was married six times and had four of his wives die. “The Widower” is actually 12 years in the making. Slepian was embedding with Las Vegas police in 2008 when Thomas Randolph was arrested for murder. We’re not all watching one event at the same time like we did when we grew up.” Dateline NBC trying its first multi-part crime drama. ![]() “We’re trying to go where the viewers are going,” said David Corvo, the show’s senior executive producer, “and you have to do that. |