3/29/2024 0 Comments New mechanics in soulcalibur ivHe also swears SCVI's +2M reported sales, which came from BN itself, don't factor digital sales in, which makes ZERO sense. when the very source he states (Wikipedia) notes those 2M were in the US alone and not counting XBox sales. In a video where he claims to be rebutting lies, he manages to spread even more lies, like stating SCVI was a huge success because even the very popular SCII had also sold only 2M. And we can't even say he's particularly good at assessing the information that is out there. If you see his videos from one year ago, he also made it seem like S3 was a given, then it was a maybe, finally he 'confirmed' (his words) it wasn't happening. Soulcalibur IV is the sixth entry in Namco Bandai’s Soul series. He doesn't have any inside info, so all he says is personal opinion and speculation, even if he seems to convey those as a fact.Īlthough I think it's positive for SC to have a YT channel as dedicated and passionate as his, the reason I won't even bother with his videos anymore is exactly that, whether he's aware of it or not, he kinda passes his ramblings as facts. Where SoulCalibur IV and V tried to add too many mechanics and systems at once, SoulCalibur VI holds back. If SCVI didn't turn a profit, then I'd really need to see the financials for the game as well as for several other fighting series that keep popping games despite their sales coming not even close to 1M, because otherwise I definitely will never understand.Ībout this Mark Yoon fellow. SCVI was generally well received and it was obviously a budget title that still managed to pull sales above 2M, the majority of them reportedly in the first couple of months, so at full price. 2B has flight attacks, and has a special evade mechanic that can quickly move her to an advantageous position. Many of these include a new icon on the UI. I'd say SCVII is more probable to happen that not. has given many characters on the roster is given unique traits of their own to help separate them from other beyond the baseline fighting mechanics. Likely not even BN has considered it seriously for the time being, let alone decide one way or the other. Upcoming Soulcalibur tournaments on smash.gg CaS Contest ThreadsĪll threads can be found here Other Links New fighting mechanics, and a finely balanced roster round out the hugely satisfying package here. Hayate EIN's 5 Essential Things for a Good Start Beginner's Guide First Released X360 SoulCalibur IV Reviews News & Features Videos Cheats & Guides Deals Soulcalibur returns with the same deep fighting system and a new online mode that makes. Learning Materialsīasic overview of the characters and their strategies Welcome! If you're new, we recommend checking out this thread for some helpful information. 7.) Kindly refrain from overt self promotion
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3/29/2024 0 Comments Best pro pinball ms dos gameThe table rules come on CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat format. Then, I dislike that regardless of the installation dir, an INI file is written to C: root and each time I start the game, some file is copied from the CD to the HD, duh. I'd like to hear from others about this oddity. It still requires the CD-ROM but at least it works though it uses 19MB instead of 8MB disk space. I worked around it by installing the entire CD-ROM PINBALL subdir in the root of the install partition. Unless there is a unique problem with my CD-ROM reader or the drivers, it almost looks like they screwed up with relative path references inside an executable. I could start the menu but not get to any tables. To avoid too much detail, the standard installation refused to find certain data files on the CD-ROM. I had a particular installation problem with the MS-DOS version and the install instructions are contradictive in a few places. SFX are cheap and few while the fluffy synthesizer music reminds one of Leisure Suit Larry walking through hotels and riding elevators. Sound-wise, both the effects and the background tunes are marginal. An absolute faux-pas for something that wants to be called a simulation and advertises "authentic ball movement to perfection" on the box. Also, unless the ball directly hits the pivot, it can't be stopped and cradled, it rolls right off the flippers. The slingshots are somewhat set back, exposing a piece of the in-lane rails to direct hits where the ball bounces off too hard and usually arches outside the reach of the flippers - it's right there but you can't reach it and have to wait for the trajectory to complete. In the flipper area it gets downright annoying. The ball generally moves softly and slowly, unnatural for a steel ball, making gameplay somewhat unnerving and boring soon. I'm especially disappointed in the physics again. It's got crisper graphics, more complex layouts and more advanced features than the dated Fantasies but doesn't top the non-scrolling Pinball Illusions (still the best 21st game, IMHO) in either originality, excitement or ball physics. Quality-wise, Absolute falls somewhere in between the likes of Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions with a hint of Psycho Pinball. A lot of effort has been put into the enjoyable dot-matrix animations. Multiball here is rather unexciting and anyway, why bother? Why wouldn't I already play in the most optimal resolution during single ball? Various video modes are featured that involve the usual games of hand-eye coordination skills. The only other available game option aside from sound volume is a seperate resolution for multiball play. However, Absolute considerately supports the Thrustmaster Pinball Wizzard (even in DOS) and the Philips Virtual Pinball Controllers (which I do not own). All keys are set and can't be customized. Screen resolutions can be switched on-the-fly via keys 1-4. Tables can be nudged left, right and up, tilt seems to be rather insensitive. Highscores can be reset but default back to annoying preset scores. All games are 5-ball play with the top 5 scores being recorded. Space is taken up by the dot-matrix display situated at the bottom end of the tables. A clever idea but how many people really feel comfortable doing this each time? Unfortunately then, the next best and preferred resolution is the scrolling "VESA Norm" which manages to display about 2/3 of a table at a time. This is the only non-scrolling display but requires the monitor to be put on its side. The last one is called "VESA Flip" and rotates the tables 90 degrees. The 2D scrolling planview can be employed in three VGA and two VESA resolutions: 320x240, 360x270, 320x400, 640x480 and 480圆40. It features four different tables whose themes - Paris-Dakar rally, Hollywood, deep sea, baseball - are not entirely original but sufficiently different from what has been done before. Absolute was designed by UDS - Unique Development Sweden - a growing company that got its start in the Atari world. However, Expert's Web site makes no mention of the product while a reference can be found on 21st's site but neither company lists the product in their official catalogs. While the software sports the big 21st logo, the packaging clearly indicates Expert. There is some confusion about the distribution. Desert Run, The Dream Factory, Aquatic Adventure, Balls 'N' BatsĪbsolute Pinball initially was only released in Europe but has now surfaced in the USA as a discount package from Expert Software. Whether or not they were made with such portentous meanings in mind, it's easy to find meditations on faith, belief, devotion, life, and death hiding within the narratives of these animated classics. However, that doesn't mean such readings are unearned. Finding deep adult themes in the Toy Story films has been a favorite past time of many a critic and cinephile since the first movie was released back in 1995. The reason for my morbid remembrance is that few films have ever captured the dreaded feeling that comes with the confrontation of one's mortality as well as the third cinematic adventure of Woody and Buzz. I lived, but I'll always remember the feeling of thinking I was going to die, the fear, and the resigned acceptance of it.Īnyway, let's talk about Toy Story 3 on its 10th anniversary… I couldn't breathe, I was alone and started to lose consciousness from lack of oxygen, gasping for air while the world around me was going dark. It was late at night, I was eating something and a piece of food got stuck in my throat. The third moment where I contemplated my death in a very immediate way is, weirdly enough, the one that still scares me the most. From the most searing pain I've ever felt to internal bleeding after surgery, it all seemed like it was going to end. The second time was considerably less spectacular, caused by gallbladder stones and some incredible bouts of bad luck. The first was in 2011, in Tokyo when the Tōhoku earthquake happened, making me stare in horror as skyscrapers swiveled around me, looking like they could fall at any moment. Have you ever thought to yourself "my time has come to an end, I'm going to die"? I have, in at least three instances. 3/29/2024 0 Comments Fireside BowlIt wasn’t until a few months later that I actually opened and read my stolen find. I casually slipped the zine into my back pocket and walked away, rejoining the crowd to watch the rest of the show. Surveying the room I noted everyone else’s interest was being funneled toward the stage opposite me. I knew I had to have it, but I’d already spent the last of my money at the door. The dog-eared pages were already starting to let go of the staples binding them together, giving off a wafting history of many good reads. The yellow cover had been softened from use and held the blanket texture of long circulated dollar bills or paper having been run through the washing machine. It was the eighth issue, particularly thick, with a nice weight to it. I dug through to the bottom for something good, but the only thing to hold my attention was a tattered copy of something called Burn Collector by someone named Al Burian. There was no way any band could have competed with the experience.Īfter spending some time checking the place out I came across an abandoned box of zines at a merch table in the back. Walking into the Fireside Bowl that night was the urban equivalent of repelling down into some long lost geodesic cave. Still young to the city I was a fresh receptor to its varied stimuli, its mysteries shedding themselves to me daily and by the minute. I was, however, thrilled by the building itself. It was my first time and really I was pretty disinterested in the bands on stage, most of which I had probably never heard of at the time. I’d been living in Chicago for about a year before my friend Jared took me with him to a Fireside show. R.I.P.Īpril 6th, originally uploaded by rebecca ann rakstad. Thanks for all the wonderful memories mister Fireside Bowl. That will be shut down probably by the time you’re reading this. But that’s a whole other band and a whole different all ages venue. After all these years of going to show I can honestly say that I have only seen one better show than that. The band did an encore and I knew that I had just seen the best show in my life. I didn’t even think that was possible and too this day I haven’t experience that again. My friend yelled out to me “it’s so hot in here my eye lids are sweating.” I realized that mine were too. I don’t know how my body was surviving all the heat. The guitar player ripped down a tile from the ceiling with his pointy guitar head. The band just kept tearing through song after song. He turned to me and said, “this is the best night of my life!” wow, it felt so good to be alive. The guitar player was swinging his guitar around so much that he sliced a kids face open. They put danger back into Rock n’ Roll that night (which is missing a lot these days but to me is a main part of rock). The kids went fucking crazy! I had never seen anything like it. They hit the stage and opened with Panasonic Youth, a new song. They finished and I made my way up to the front to see who I came to see, The Dillinger Escape Plan. Fucking awesome! The rest of the set was totally amazing. He wondered “what the fuck are you doing in the dirty ass Fireside Bowl bathroom when there are hundreds of bbq’s going down outside.” He then dedicated the next song to the fly. After one of the songs the singer talked about taking a piss and seeing a fly in the bathroom. The kids went wild! Everyone was dancing and going nuts. The next band was The Bronx, who totally fucking slayed everyone’s faces off. It was sold out and everywhere I looked someone was smoking a cigarette. It had to have been 100 degrees in there. What a fucking dickhead! By then the heat was starting to get to me. A kid right behind me was waving a big piece around until a bouncer came and kicked him out. They threw the broken pieces into the audience, who started smashing them even more. At the end of their set they picked up two laptops, smashed them and talked about how technology was destroying music. Next up was Decahedron, who was so much better. Great name but what a shitty band! A pit had already started. SWEET! We got in and soon Planes Mistaken For Stars hit the stage. My friends’ mom let us borrow her credit card to get tickets online so we didn’t have to worry about it selling out. We arrived to the show and there was already a huge line. No booze or dope for the night but I didn’t even care, I was just happy to get the hell out of work. My two best friends picked me up and we headed straight for the Fireside. It was a long day of picking up dog and cat shit at the shelter. April 15th, originally uploaded by rebecca ann rakstad. 3/29/2024 0 Comments Dallas cowboys roster 2001For some reason, Sean has gotten away from the run this year. There was a continued emphasis on the running game in 2000 – although the approach became a running back-by-committee one. His game-plan against the Jets in 1999 was what I thought his blueprint in New York would be – a heavy dose of a feature back (in that game, Joe Montgomery carried the ball 38 times) and a lot of play-action. To his credit, Fassel admitted to the inadequacy and promoted Payton. Payton, you will remember, was elevated to the offensive coordinator position when it became obvious that Fassel was having difficulty calling plays and managing the game at the same time. But unfortunately, that’s not Jim’s nature.įassel’s biggest coaching problem this year has been Offensive Coordinator Sean Payton. Personally, I wish Fassel had more of a kick-butt personality about him in spirit of a Jon Gruden as I think players will reflect the nature of their head coach. Fire Fassel and you could get lucky and find another Bill Cowher. Unless a coach has a special aura about him such as a Bill Parcells, selecting any new coach is a crap shoot. Once a player signs a big contract, it becomes more and more difficult to motivate him – it’s simply human nature. With ever growing player salaries/bonuses, the salary cap, and free agency, players have more leverage vis a vis the head coach than they ever had. But before you start yelling for firing Fassel and hiring a guy who will instill fear, note that those kind of guys are difficult to find. They don’t really fear him and thus his threats to punish are most likely not taken that seriously. Fassel’s major con is that he is a good guy and his players know it. Fassel’s players like him and continue to play hard for him. Many coaches do not have the latter asset as most are stubborn to the core. Fassel’s assets are that he is very intelligent, analytical, organized, hard-working, and somewhat open-minded. Bad coaches don’t win two division titles, a conference championship, and a “Coach of the Year” award in their first four seasons. He’s not a great coach, but he’s not a bad coach. Let’s break down our analysis into the following compartments: coaching, talent evaluation, injuries, players and 2001-specific factors. It’s not just the coaching, the injuries, the schedule, or the players – but a combination. There is no easy scapegoat to pick on here. Game Overview: What is going on? How can the Giants be in the Super Bowl one year and be fighting to stay out of last place in the NFC East just one year later with virtually the same roster? Instead of reviewing the unit-by-unit breakdowns again (something that would sound like a broken record in any event), I want to use the review this week to address the various interrelated factors that have contributed to the Giants’ demise in 2001. 3/29/2024 0 Comments 2d rocket league logo funhausThis time, I played as one of the tribes in the south of China. And I was surprised by how much the gameplay differed between factions. There was also a story questline, which served as an alternative way to win. In my first playthrough, I mostly ignored it. The goal of this faction was to unite all tribes and conquer the south of China. Their units had more soldiers in them than other factions, which meant I usually won just by the numbers. Not just as a unit but also as a rideable animal for generals. And these were really sought after by other factions. So some of my income was from selling elephants to other factions. Especially to the ones that had no land in the south, so I never had to worry about them using them against me. In my next playthrough, I once again tried something new. Her playstyle revolved around taking over land and selling it to the highest bidder while slowly building her own small network of bandits. I once again followed up on her story questline because there was no way I would be able to take over China with her. She started without any land and was placed right between the two strongest factions. Overall, I enjoyed my time with the game. It was surprisingly easy to get into, but it required a lot of work to get a hold of some mechanics. Call of the SeaĬall of the Sea is a great example of using horror tropes in a non-horror game. It takes cosmic horror lore and puts it in the most colorful and positive game I've played in a while. The gameplay is simple it's a nice mix of walking sim and puzzle game. 3/29/2024 0 Comments Us map population density 20198.81 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est)* *age-adjusted death rate.10.45 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 78th.12.023 births/1,000 population (2023) Country comparison to the world: 151st.The median age of the total population as of 2021 is 38.8 years the male median age is 37.7 years the female median age is 39.8 years. Proportion of Americans under the age of 5 in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census Age and sex distribution as of 2021 age (years)Īge distribution by selected age groups. The 12 month ending general fertility rate increased from 56.6 to 57.0 in 2022 Q1 compared to 2021 Q4. In the same time period, births to Asian American and Hispanic women increased by 2% and 6%, respectively. Īs of 2022, births to White American mothers remain around 50% of the US total, reflecting a decline of 3% compared to 2021. However, multi-racial Asian Americans are the fastest growing group in the country, with a growth rate of 55%, reflecting the increase of mixed-race marriages in the United States. Īsian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in America, with a growth rate of 35%. Immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants are expected to provide most of the U.S. The Hispanic or Latino population increased by 23% between 20, an increase of more than 11.6 million. Latino Americans accounted for 51.1% of the total national population growth between 20, increasing from 50.5 million in 2010 to 62.1 million in 2020. People who identified as white alone (including Hispanic whites) numbered 204,277,273 or 61.6% of the population and Non-Latino whites made up 57.8% of the country's population. Īs of 2020, white people numbered 235,411,507 or 71% of the population, including people who identified as white in combination with another race. children under the age of 18 are members of ethnic minority groups. Population growth is fastest among minorities as a whole, and according to the Census Bureau's 2020 estimation, 50% of U.S. population grew by 1.6 million from 2018 to 2019, with 38% of growth from immigration. population to continue its rapid increase, with the foreign-born population doubling from almost 20 million in 1990 to over 45 million in 2015, representing one-third of the population increase. It is estimated to have reached the 200 million mark in 1967, and the 300 million mark on October 17, 2006. population almost quadrupled during the 20th century – at a growth rate of about 1.3% a year – from about 76 million in 1900 to 281 million in 2000. The total fertility rate in the United States estimated for 2022 is 1.665 children per woman, which is below the replacement fertility rate of approximately 2.1. The Census Bureau showed a population increase of 0.4% for the twelve-month period ending in July 2022, below the world average annual rate of 0.9%. The United States is the third most populous country in the world. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands) as well as several minor island possessions. territories ( Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. This figure includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia but excludes the population of five unincorporated U.S. The United States had an official estimated resident population of 334,914,895 on July 1, 2023, according to the U.S. (primary language at home) English 78.5%.Samoan is an official language in American Samoa, Chamorro is an official language in Guam, Chamorro and Carolinian are official languages in the Northern Mariana Islands, and Spanish is an official language in Puerto Rico. Hawaiian is official in Hawaii, 20 Native languages are official in Alaska, and Sioux is official in South Dakota. English is designated official in 32 of 50 states (and in all 5 U.S. Population pyramid of the United States as of July 1, 2022 You've installed Microsoft 365 on your computer. 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3/29/2024 0 Comments Clone hard drive to ssd macIt is important to note that the “Restore” option in Disk Utility will work by copying the files from the backup to your core drive. You will be presented with a list of all the volumes including the internal hard drive and the external hard drive. Simply open Disk Utility from the Spotlight (Command+Space) or on the Utility folder in your applications. If you are going to clone Mac hard drive to SSD, it is recommended to use Disk Utility. Using Disk Utility to Clone Mac HDD to SSD Although this is not suggested for daily use, it is a possible option. They are relatively sluggish than the solid state drives (SSDs) that are found in most of the latest Macs. In case you prefer to keep your files synchronized from a desktop and laptop, free up purgeable space to enlarge your storage, or have an on-hand bootable backup duplicate of your system, there is an unseen feature in Disk Utility that makes the process an easy task.Įssentially, booting from an external hard drive is usually slower, even if you are using the latest Thunderbolt or the USB-C drives. There are several reasons why it is best to boot from an external hard drive. People Also Read: How to Partition A Hard Drive on Mac? How to upgrade your MacBook Pro with an SSD? Can I Use Disk Utility to Clone Mac Hard Drive to SSD? At present, you can purchase an 8TB external drive for less than $150 while that same amount of money will only provide you with a 500GB SSD.Ĭompared with HDD, SSD has faster reading and writing speed, more top -level performance and stability, and more durable. Nevertheless, SSDs are considered as a costly option if you are considering the cost to storage ratio. SSDs are generally more dependable, and in case they fail, you can still read data whereas you cannot do this with a hard disk. When you accidentally drop your laptop when the hard drive is spinning, there is a likelihood for the drive to be damaged and lose data. SSDs also utilize less power, run cooler, lighter and do not have any movable parts which make them suitable for laptops. Remember that hard disks might go into sleep mode when not used for a certain span of time and takes a few seconds to spin up. Generally, SSDs are quiet, compact and fast, especially if you are starting up a computer or waking up the device. You can also find them in 2.5” format that you can install in a laptop or an external enclosure. If built into a computer, they are usually seen as chips on the circuit board. Solid state drives or SSDs utilize flash memory to keep data. Another advantage with the cloning process is that if you have a duplicate hard drive with setup volume, it can aid in booting your Mac easily in case of unexpected disasters.Ĭontents: Is It Good to Clone a Hard Drive to SSD? Can I Use Disk Utility to Clone Mac Hard Drive to SSD? It Is Better to Clone or Backup? Let's Wrap It up Is It Good to Clone a Hard Drive to SSD?īefore you decide to clone Mac hard drive to SSD, let us take a close look at SSDs. Essentially, when you clone the hard drive, you will no longer worry about reinstalling the operating system as well as transfer folders, files, applications and some configurations on the new hard disk. In most cases, all these demands can be achieved with the help of cloning. Generally, it is recommended to clone the hard drive of your Mac in case you decide to upgrade the hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD), replace an old or corrupted drive with a new one or if you are going to create a bootable hard drive. I worry that I may overwrite the original drive etc.When it comes to the cloning topic, what do you expect from the process? If you are planning to clone Mac hard drive to SSD, let us take a close look at what is the cloning process all about. If this proves to be working fine I guess I could create a script for making further clone backups without worrying about the correct syntax etc. no need to have double the Bootcamp partition size free in order to make a clone). Let's call the internal drive original_SSD and the external, empty USB-attached drive empty_SSD.ĭo I need to prepare the new drive in some way? Partition it for the Mac and Windows partitions, or does "dd" simply make an exact copy of the entire drive anyway? Does it also check that the copy is OK?Īnd does it make a disk image of the Windows (Bootcamp) partition before copying it over (like "Winclone" does), or does it just read from the source drive and write to the destination drive? (i.e. Click to expand.Excellent! I would like to give it a go before needing to buy Winclone or some other commercial app.Īssuming I boot my Mac from a USB flash drive with MacOS on it (and then run the Terminal from it), what is the exact syntax and command(s) for cloning the internal drive over to an external USB attached drive? |
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