![]() ![]() Ben Kuchera of Polygon enjoyed the enemy behavior and combat execution, saying it outweighed a poorly translated story and repetitive music. Alex Orona of Nintendo World Report liked the game's music and fast-paced combat, but considered the story sparse and simplistic. Travis Northrup of IGN compared the game to Dead Cells and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, praising the diversity in playstyles that the skulls offered, while criticizing the game's bosses as repetitive. The game received generally favorable reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Levels may contain a new skull, gold, shops, or a sanctuary area where Skul can spend gold in exchange for hit points or helpful items. At the end of each level, Skul may choose between two doors, which have different contents inside. ![]() Levels are procedurally generated, and have a boss at the end of every three stages. Skul can equip up to two heads at a time, and can switch between both during combat. The player can remove Skul's head and replace it with a skull that he finds, giving him new abilities in combat. Skul can slash enemies with his sword, dodge attacks, and throw his skull to damage enemies or teleport to where it landed. As Skul, the player must traverse randomly-generated levels to save the denizens of the Demon King's castle who were captured by the heroes. The player controls a living skeleton named Skul, who serves as a soldier in the Demon King's army. Skul: The Hero Slayer is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer with roguelike elements. ![]() The game received positive reviews on release. The player can remove Skul's head for different skulls, granting new combat abilities across randomly-generated levels. In the game, players control a skeleton named Skul as he attempts to save demonkind from their enemies, the heroes. The game was released on Janufor Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, and launched on Octofor Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4. Skul: The Hero Slayer is a 2021 roguelike- action platformer developed by SouthPAW Games and published by Neowiz. ![]()
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![]() In the latest game, Fury must hunt down the Seven Deadly Sins, personified as vicious monsters, in order to assist the other three Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The original Halloween Verse was created by spaceman I’m just playing in their sandbox.Five videos will be released in all, intended to “help gamers de-stress this holiday season.” They might be stressed from playing Darksiders III, which ditches the multi-enemy combat of its predecessor for more one-on-one battles designed to reward strategy and caution. Someone needs to learn why screwing with a Horseman is a Bad Idea. Except this time there’s a crazy kid calling him Ethan (the hell?), a pointed absence of his brothers (the Hell?), and, to add insult to injury, he’s short. Then there’s this ugly black spot - followed by a reenactment of the Apocalypse. ![]() The last thing Strife remembered was helping War kick ass after the Seventh Seal was shattered.
![]() ![]() ![]() Scapple is a good alternative to paper an pen, enabling you to write down rough ideas and create connections without sticking to a template. Get your ideas down on a virtual whiteboard You can modify the font, the text alignment, indentation, colors borders and the write direction.Ĭreated idea maps can be exported to various formats for easy sharing, including PD, TXT, RTF, Outline Markup or image files. There is a collection of design styles that you can apply to each note, while also giving you the freedom to create your own. ![]() Notes can be automatically distributed over the workspace, modified to match certain dimensions or stacked together to build a compact list. The application features automatic spelling correction, special character substitutions and basic text editing options. Customize notes' appearance and export your maps Making connections is just as easy, since you just have to drag and drop one note on top of another and a dotted line appears between the two. Trying to keep things as simple as possible, Scapple can create a new note anywhere on the canvas and connect them only if you choose to.Ī new note is created by simply double clicking in the work area. You are not forced to start with a central idea and create branches, connect notes or use templates to organize your thoughts. Scapple is similar to mind-mapping software, but it does not follow the exact pattern of such applications. Write down your thoughts and make connections Designed as an alternative to paper and the classic blackboard, it can be used as a freeform text editor that enables you to create simple mind maps and link ideas. Save the perfectionism for the final product, not your notes.Scapple is great for brainstorming sessions and project planning, acting as a virtual whiteboard where you can scribble down ideas, create connections and make notes. ![]() The only person who needs to see your Scapples is yourself. It’s worth it, just don’t let yourself get too distracted. It’s $14 bucks, which cheap in the grand scheme of productivity software and if you’re a visual thinker like I am it’s very handy at getting your plot laid out. Scapple is the best mind-mapping program to fill that niche in the market. Effective at mapping and laying out snippets of text visually. That’s not Scapple’s fault, as I mentioned in my post “ Shut Up and Write!“, if we’re looking for distraction, we’ll find it. You can spend a lot of time stylizing, tweaking, and laying things out. (Which I bet is coming.)Īlso, while not a reflection on Scapple, I should mention that this very much one of those programs that can get in the way of actual work. I feel that a lot of this could be solved with some snap-to-grid system. It’s not as forgiving as some programs, and often I find myself scrambling to lay things out properly. There’s a lot of plot points to juggle in this one so making sure I have everything organized was key for me, and Scapple helped me quickly get my thoughts down so I could progress. Spoilers!) Only a portion of that is the actual story (highlighted in blue), but I wanted to make sure I paid attention to what else was going on. Here’re the first five chapters of my new unnamed project: I can get my ideas onto the screen, make connections between those ideas, and then step back and see the big picture. Everything is drag and droppable allowing for me to work quickly. It really was the product I was looking for: it’s both part mind-mapping and part free-form text editor. Scapple has been on my radar for a while, but it wasn’t until recently that I decided to step in and give it a shot. I’ve even tried using Adobe Illustrator, which has a lot of similar features, but in the long run is too bulky and cumbersome for this type of work. I have even tried lists within a document, but I found it too difficult to step back and get the big picture. I have tried spreadsheets with Google Docs and Apple’s Numbers, but those are too cumbersome for this type of work. Paper is too small to write this sort of stuff out and ultimately a waste. So I have been looking for alternative means to organize my work without sacrificing space. Sadly, I don’t have room in my house for a whiteboard. Be it for wireframes, or just to start hashing out ideas, the temporary nature of a whiteboard allows me to be loose with my thoughts and explore avenues with little to no expense. I am foremost a visual thinker I work with whiteboards all the time for my day job. (I wrote a post about Scrivener as well, you should check it out. I mentioned in my previous post that over the last month I have been exploring Scapple, software from Literature and Latte, creator of my favorite word processing software Scrivener. Robert Goddard at Clark University – via Flickr ![]() ![]() Potentially, this could have been used to identify you from your online activity. Previously, we were concerned that the VPN logged the city from which a user was connecting, as well as their unique device ID. We’re pleased that Atlas VPN has recently improved its logging policy. You can trust Atlas VPN to keep your data private. ![]() You can read Atlas VPN’s full privacy policy on its website.Īs this data is aggregated and non-identifying, it’s nothing to worry about. Here are the full results we recorded when connecting to all three Atlas VPN Free server locations with a 100Mbps internet connection: For example, if you’re located in India, your nearest Atlas VPN free server is 4,500 miles away, which will cause slower and less reliable speeds. However, as there are only two countries that you can connect to, your experience will vary significantly based on where you are. As it stands, this is the fastest local speed result of any free VPN we’ve tested. In our tests, we measured a speed loss of just 3% when connected to our nearest server location in the Netherlands. Atlas VPN Free Speed TestsĪtlas VPN Free is fast for a free VPN service. We were also able to access geo-blocked cloud gaming services, like Xbox Cloud Gaming. ![]() As these are streamed, Atlas VPN’s fast download speeds made the experience almost identical to when we played locally on the device. However, it performed better on cloud gaming services. Atlas VPN’s ping is too high for most games. ![]() ![]() ![]() We employ an industry unique design philosophy we call Constructional Security, an approach where protecting data is put on par with communicating, creating, and managing. Most commercial off-the-shelf communication and collaboration products have an inherent weakness – “Security was NOT considered a key design feature.” All SpiderOak’s products are built secure from the ground up. SpiderOak products leverage a unique combination of Zero-Trust encryption and private Blockchain, delivering solutions with a level of confidentiality, integrity, and availability unavailable until today. Our growing portfolio of Secure Communication & Collaboration products leverage Zero-Trust Distributed Data Enclaves and a unique deployment of Blockchain/Distributed Ledger, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your most sensitive data in any environment.Īt SpiderOak, security is our key design principle. Pro Instant disaster recovery Your files always synced online means instant disaster recovery. SpiderOak has been building encrypted software since before the first iPhone was released. Up to 18GB of free storage space Dropbox personal accounts start out free, with 2GB of space, but users can get extra space by recommending the site to friends, or taking part in events like 'Dropquest', where users can win extra space by solving puzzles. We want to change the world, and we’ve already done it once. ![]() Thank you for your interest and feedback, and most of these issues will go away in the next major version.Founded in 2006, SpiderOak is on a mission to protect the world’s data. SpiderOak’s data deduplication process, which provides for space efficient storage and versioning, means that the transactions, reference counting, and distributed transaction replay across all computers, are important to get 100.00% right. For the 1.0.0 release, we focused on making the core accurate. There are numerous optimizations planned for making this less CPU intensive, but many of these involve platform specific code across 3 operating systems. With SpideOak’s transactional nature and comprehensive encryption, each file is built (converted into a cryptographic data structure) before upload. So, on a typical network connection, there will be short spikes of CPU activity as more files are built, with the spikes separated by long upload periods of negligible CPU use while uploads progress. Typically the high CPU use times are short (when queued files are being built.) Once a few upload transactions are finished building, SpiderOak waits for some uploads to complete before building more. There are definitely some known situations where SpiderOak can be slow to respond, and corrections for this are the focus of the next major release. Google Drive is a cloud file storage, synchronization, and collaboration platform and service, that features Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for document. Currently, we’re able to allow downloads to the US, Canada, United Kingdom, most of the European Union, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. This is a legal process that involves paperwork and waiting. SpiderOak One Backup gives you a free 21-day trial. Backup This is where you tell SpiderOak One which files and folders you want it to back up. SpiderOak Raises 16.4M in Series C Round Empyrean Technology Solutions, a space technology platform backed by Madison Dearborn Capital Partners VII, leads oversubscribed round to complete on-orbit testing, achieve flight heritage of OrbitSecure 2.0 a revolutionary architecture for space cybersecurity WASHINGTON, Jan. Due to the nature of SpiderOak’s strong encryption, we’re required to notify and gain the approval of the NSA before “exporting” SpiderOak. It shows you which devices are connected, what has been, or is currently being synched, how much storage space you are using, and so on. ![]() ![]() ![]() French Union forces had been engaging Viet Minh forces for nearly a decade when General Henri Navarre took command of the Indochina War in May 1953. does a fine job of combining the personal stories (of which there are many) of Marine tankers with well-documented descriptions of both tactical and strategic situations as they developed throughout the war.near the top of my must read military history list.March 13 - – While fought years before American troops would be involved in Vietnam in any significant way, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu would have a profound effect on American involvement in Vietnam. ![]() Luckily Vietnam has not been as forgotten as some other wars, however the role of the USMC tankers has largely been ignored not so now. an often gut-wrenching account of brave, highly trained men doing their best under circumstances that defied them at virtually every turn., Gilbert's book is a highly readable account of the Marine Corps' tankers campaigns in Vietnam.Very highly recommended., '.does a fine job of combining the personal stories (of which there are many) of Marine tankers with well-documented descriptions of both tactical and strategic situations as they developed throughout the war.near the top of my must read military history list"., If you're interested in The Vietnam War, Tanks, or the US Marine Corps, this is an interesting book on an interesting subject that should give you some hours of entertainment, and remain on hand as a reference for the modeller or historian. " This book is as readable as the films are watchable, but its content hasn't been tarnished or simplified by artistic license.". His previous published works include the widely acclaimed "Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific" (2001) and "Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea" (2003). GILBERT, Ph.D., is a former marine artilleryman and currently a geoscientist living in Texas. To the bitter end-despite the harsh conditions of climate and terrain, confusion, endless savage and debilitating combat, and ultimate frustration as their own nation turned against the war-the Marine tankers routinely demonstrated the versatility, dedication to duty, and matchless courage that Americans have come to expect of their Marines. In their "spare time" the tankers guarded lonely bridges and isolated outposts for weeks on end, patrolled on foot to seek out the Viet Cong, operated roadblocks and ambushes, shot up boats to interdict the enemy's supply lines, and worked in the villages and hamlets to better the lives of the brutalized civilians. Under constant threat of ambushes and huge command-detonated mines that could obliterate tank and crew in an instant, the tankers escorted vital supply convoys, and guarded the engineers who built and maintained the roads. Some of the duties the tankers were called upon to perform were long familiar, as they provided firepower and mobility for the suffering infantry in a never-ending succession of search and destroy operations, conducted amphibious landings, and added their heavy guns to the artillery in fire support missions. It was a brutal and schizophrenic war, with no front and no rear, absolutely no respite from constant danger, against a merciless foe hidden among a helpless civilian population. ![]() Both foes were equipped with modern anti-tank weapons, and sought out the tanks as valuable symbolic targets. The highly motivated troops of the North Vietnamese Army, equipped with long-range artillery and able to flee across nearby borders into sanctuaries where the Marines were forbidden to follow, engaged the Marines in brutal conventional combat. ![]() The battle-hardened Viet Cong were masters of the art of striking hard, then slipping away to fight another day. Young Marine tankers fresh out of training, and cynical veterans of the Pacific War and Korea, battled two enemies. Nevertheless, like good Marines, the officers and enlisted men of the tank battalions sought out the enemy in the sand dunes, jungles, mountains, paddy fields, tiny villages, and ancient cities of Vietnam. For the United States Marine Corps, the protracted and bloody struggle was marked by controversy, but for Marine Corps tankers, it was marked by bitter frustration as they saw their own high levels of command turn their backs on some of the hardest-won lessons of tank-infantry cooperation learned in the Pacific War and in Korea. As the Marine Corps presence grew inexorably, the 1st and 3rd Tank Battalions, as well as elements of the reactivated 5th Tank Battalion, were committed to the conflict. In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing unwelcome attention to America's first, almost covert, commitment of ground troops in South Vietnam. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was looking for a patio furniture set that would weather well in a coastal environment.
![]() ![]() The only downside of Core Temp is that it doesn’t have a real-time monitoring feature like MSI Afterburner. If you want a more straightforward program, I recommend using Core Temp.Ĭore Temp is a very lightweight program that is very easy to use. MSI Afterburner is a fancy overclocking tool that you can use to monitor your CPU temps, but it is not the only one. If they are too high, your CPU is likely overheating if not, the problem is most likely the GPU. If your computer starts to crash and your fans start spinning fast, checking the CPU temps is a good idea. ![]() To make the most out of your test, I recommend playing the same game for the same time you did when you first noticed the problem.įor example, if you first noticed the problem while playing Witcher 3 for an hour, then play Witcher 3 for an hour while monitoring your CPU temp. If you do not see any temps in the top left corner of your screen, press “Alt +O,” and the temps should start being displayed. If your temps start to get too high, you should try to find the cause of the problem and fix it. I am currently playing The Witcher 3, and as you can see, my CPU temps are around 40 degrees Celsius, which is perfectly normal. Now that everything is set up and working, it is time to start gaming.Īs you can see in the screenshot below, my CPU temps are displayed in my screen’s top left corner. You can now close this window and start gaming. If everything works as it should, a new window with a graph of your CPU temps will pop up. To do this, click on the heartbeat monitor in the bottom left corner of the MSI Afterburner window and ensure your CPU temps are displayed correctly. Now that you have configured MSI Afterburner to check CPU temperature, it is a good idea to check if everything is working as it should. Make Sure You Have Setup Up Everything Correctly Then click on the “OK” button, and you are done. Once you have selected all the sensors you want to monitor, click on the “Apply” button at the bottom right corner of the window. This will display your temps in the top left corner of your screen while gaming. The sensor labeled CPU Temperature that doesn’t have a number after it is the average temp of all your CPU cores.Īfter you have checked all the boxes next to the sensors you want to monitor, make sure also to check the “Show In On-Screen Display” option for each one of the sensors you want to monitor. For example, CPU1 Temperature is the temp of thread 0, CPU2 Temperature is the temp of thread 1, and so on. The sensors with a number after them are your CPU thread temps. Under the “Active Monitoring Graphs” section, you will see all the CPU temps that can be monitored.Īs you can see, all the CPU-related sensors that can be monitored are labeled with the word “CPU” in front of them. This is where you can see all the options for monitoring your CPU temp. Now that you are in the settings window, go to the monitoring tab. To start monitoring your temps, click on the gear button at the bottom left corner of the window.Ī new windows like window (no pun intended) will pop up. All these settings are for overclocking your GPU, which we will not be doing in this guide. Launch the program once it is installed, and you will see this window.Īs you can see, there are many options and settings here, but we are not interested in any of them. MSI Afterburner is very easy to install just download it from the link I provided and run the installer. Related Article: What Is A Good Processor Speed For A Laptop? 1. MSI Afterburner is my personal favorite because it is very user-friendly and has a lot of features, so this is what I will be using for this guide. To do this, you should use a program like MSI Afterburner or Core Temp.īoth programs are very easy to use and will show you the temps in real-time. ![]() Let’s start with monitoring the CPU temp while gaming. Related Article: Is 75hz Good For Gaming? How To Monitor CPU Temp While Gaming? It works with all GPU and CPU brands and is very easy to use, it is completely free, and you can download it here. I know many of you are wondering if it is only for MSI GPUs or motherboards, but the answer is no. MSI Afterburner is a software for managing your overclocking settings, but it can also be used to monitor your temps. Related Article: 100% GPU Usage: Should I Worry? What Is MSI Afterburner? There are many monitoring programs out there, but I recommend MSI Afterburner. ![]() įind digital download of this game on GOG or Steam. īuy original game or NES console on or. More details about this game can be found on .įind this game on video server or. After a few successful mountains climbed, all enemies' speeds increase. These can form on the bottom of any type of platform. Other obstacles include deadly falling icicles. If Nana or Popo are forced off the screen, the player loses a life. Pounding the ice, the Polar Bear forces the screen to move up. This enemy, wearing sunglasses and pink speedo, appears on screen only when Popo and Nana take too long to advance. Taking them into account along with moving platforms and sliding ice, timing jumps can be more difficult. Unlike the Topi, which is confined to one floor of the mountain, Nitpickers can cross over multiple ice layers. The Nitpicker is a small, mountain-dwelling bird that swoops down from icy caves on the levels' edges. This process repeats until no more openings on their layer of ice exist. To do this, a Topi scouts out an opening in the floor, runs back to its cave, and reemerges pushing an icicle to fill in two blocks. Topis have the ability to fill in holes in the floor with ice. Topis come in two varieties: the blue seal featured in the Japanese Famicom Ice Climber release, and the short yeti seen in Western versions and VS. At the top of the peak, the Condor flies overhead.Įnemies encountered on the way up the mountains include the Topi, Nitpicker, and White Bear. Collecting just one piece of corn from the fifth bonus stage is the only way to gain an extra life. The peak is also the only place to recover stolen vegetables, most notably eggplants. Within a 40 second time limit and no enemies, the Ice Climbers often face trickier jumps and multiple moving platforms. Finally, many mountains include unbreakable moving platforms resembling clouds. Hatched ice acts as a conveyor belt sliding the Eskimo either left or right. Square ice blocks with higher detail are indestructible, forcing the player to take another path. Standard, dull ice blocks pose no threat other than an easily disposed of barrier and platform. Each mountain level consists of eight layers of colorful ice and a bonus stage. ![]() The only tool they carry is a wooden mallet to carve openings in the ice above and to club enemies. ![]() The first player controls Popo, a boy wearing a blue Eskimo parka, while the second player controls Nana, a girl wearing a pink Eskimo parka. In some European countries, the NES console was sold bundled with the game, increasing Ice Climber's familiarity outside Japan. In Ice Climber, the characters Popo and Nana, collectively known as the Ice Climbers, venture up 32 ice-covered mountains to recover stolen vegetables from a giant condor. Ice Climber is a vertical platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Family Computer in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America in 1985. Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. 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