![]() As previously noted, that vision had clouded any user friendly design. Special debugging commands became widely distributed online (in an ironic move to disconnect the game from the world wide web), to which Maxis responded saying that they opted against implementing the developed offline mode as "it didn't fit with our vision". Yes, it was online and yes there were some cool features with curved-roads and a wide variety of natural (and unnatural) disasters, but SimCity 2013 felt to many like a step backwards.įurther criticism came when it was found that SimCity could've been run in an offline mode all along as the code was there but Maxis hadn't implemented it. It was also frustrating to many that a franchise which had been the granddaddy of city building simulations for 25 years now offered far less available land for city building than previous iterations. ![]() Given the strength of criticism in those early reviews, EA and Maxis also promised to make improvements to the artificial intelligence - They did not. Perhaps this was the push EA and Maxis needed as they did eventually resolve the server issues by expanding capacity and disabling certain "non-critical" features.īut that's not all. It got to the point that the complaints around the server issues created enough negative user reviews at that they temporarily halted sales of the game. This critical connection issue went on for several weeks following the launch. Once in, players would have to hope they didn't get disconnected part-way through a session before they had a chance to save any progress on their city. Players were made to wait upwards of thirty minutes to just play SimCity. When SimCity was released in March 2013 there was no offline mode included and the servers for online connectivity were well over capacity. In best Arrested Development voiceover - They did not. Due to the limited amount of people online many reviewers connected OK and could play the title, but some reviewers were unable to review the game, labeling the launch a "disaster" and the game "unplayably broken", urging players to avoid purchasing SimCity until the issues were resolved. All of this was vital because SimCity 2013 was only playable online at this time. ![]() When they were finally sent the 'completed' game for review, it was riddled with technical issues including network outages, problems with saving progress and difficulty connecting to the game's servers. Many pre-release peaks at game demos had been met with praise by gaming magazine reviewers, but none of them had been hands-on with SimCity at that point. Sounds like a cool idea in theory, but somewhere along the way vital components to support that idea where overlooked, and vision seriously overtook playability. Developed by Maxis and Electronic Arts (EA), the aim was to augment the normally single-player city-building game with online features that would allow players' cities to interact with one another, building a software platform rather than a single game. Just like every title in our Terrible Games collection, it's not that the 2013 reboot of SimCity is just bad, as such, it's that given the strength of the franchise it really should've been better.
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![]() The class is designed to educate and teach the students, to return to their law enforcement agencies and give them the tools and knowledge to conduct successful undercover online sting operations. These topics are covered through a slide presentation, lecture, discussion, and practical application. With this class, the students will become familiar with building an undercover chat persona, become familiar with current chat apps used for sting operations, become familiar with chat lingo, learn how to set up an undercover sting operation, and become familiar with the “house vs car date” sting operation methods, in addition to other strategies. More and more law enforcement agencies have been exploring undercover online chatting and sting operations, but the logistics can be daunting. Because of this, there has been a higher demand for law enforcement to take a proactive role in combating these online predators. Offender/Predator is seen loitering near places children or other. Accordingly, you should confirm the accuracy and completeness of all posted information before making any decision related to any data presented on this site.With the ever-growing number of kids using social media apps to chat with family and friends, there has been a jump in the number of online predators contacting underage victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The offenders found to be sexually violent predators are committed to the South Carolina. Owners of assume no responsibility (and expressly disclaim responsibility) for updating this site to keep information current or to ensure the accuracy or completeness of any posted information. Some addresses or other data might no longer be current. Some persons listed might no longer be registered sex offenders and others might have been added. All names presented here were gathered at a past date. No representation is made that the persons listed here are currently on the state's sex offenders registry. Marks/Scars/Tattoos: tattoo on r_ear (3 stars behind ear) tattoo on neck (a on back of neck) tattoo on neck (zealeta on left side) tattoo on shoulder (front left has a flower) tattoo on l_arm (2 ribbons for cancer) tattoo on l_forearm (forgive and forget) tattoo on l_arm (in order to live some must die) tattoo on lh_finger (bgb on ring finger) tattoo on stomach (left side has flowers and butterflies) tattoo on r_foot (music note) tattoo on thigh (right stars butterflies and flowers and lynnia) tattoo on r_hand (rai vyn and stars) tattoo on shoulder (back side libra symbol) tattoo on shoulder (front chest area infinity loyalty and love) tattoo on l_arm (upper a lock my brother soldier) tattoo on r_arm (upper my sisters armor) scar on r_leg (cuts) scar on l_leg (cuts) tattoo on l_calf (chain "alone we are strong") tattoo on r_arm (sleeve) tattoo on r_arm (sleeve) tattoo on r_forearm (broken heart "de angelo") tattoo on r_thigh (3 faces human type) Crime: 9999 - OTHER CRIME, Conviction date:, Jurisdiction: North Carolina For further information on any registrant listed on this website or if you believe that any of the information found in these records is in error, please contact the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Sex Offender Registry at Post Office Box 21398, Columbia, SC 29210, Phone (803) 896-2601, Fax (803) 896-2311, or by e-mail at sorsled.14(c).), Conviction date:, Jurisdiction: North Carolina ![]() (b) Taking indecent liberties with children is punishable as a Class F felony. SORT is designed to make the sex offender registry process as efficient and effective as possible. Department of Justice to the State of South Carolina. SORT is provided at no charge by the U.S. (a) A person is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if, being 16 years of age or more and at least five years older than the child in question, he either: (1) Willfully takes or attempts to take any immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with any child of either sex under the age of 16 years for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire or (2) Willfully commits or attempts to commit any lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body or any part or member of the body of any child of either sex under the age of 16 years. Welcome to the South Carolina Sex Offender Registry South Carolina has moved to a new sex offender management application called SORT. Crime: 14-202.1 - Taking Indecent Liberties w/a Minor, Attempt 2nd Degree Rape, & Sexual Offense * 14-202.1. ![]() MacOS Sonoma Installation (VMWare) - A quick explanation how to install macOS Sonoma including Virtual Machine options from TechsViewer. Upgrade Directly to macOS Sonoma - Also from EliteMacx86, how to upgrade an Intel or AMD PC running macOS Ventura (macOS 13) to macOS Sonoma. MacOS Sonoma Fresh Installation - A detailed, step-by-step guide from EliteMacx86 that covers a new installation of macOS Sonoma on a PC using OpenCore. ![]() MacOS Sonoma USB Installation - Originally for the beta, and updated for the final release, this brief guide from tonymacx86 explains how to create a USB installer for macOS Sonoma via the Clover and OpenCore bootloaders. 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Helpful individuals have provided step-by-step "how to" guides and tutorials as well as general advice on installing OS X on everything from self-built desktop systems and notebooks to netbooks, and more. links to everything you need to build a Hackintosh and get macOS Sonoma (macOS 14) as well as many earlier versions of Mac OS X running on an unsupported computer - instructions, step-by-step "how to" guides, and tutorials - in addition to installation videos, lists of compatible computers and parts, and communities for support.įor Mac specs, prices, answers, side-by-side Mac comparison, a tool to lookup Macs by serial number, and more, see, too. ![]() Using my GPS, I turned into the parking lot where Turtle Beach Grill is located off of Midnight Pass Road. Turtles on Little Sarasota Bay is waterfront. Second: Am I wrong again? There are two restaurants in the same area: Turtle Beach Grill and Turtles on Little Sarasota Bay. 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![]() He prophesizes that there is no hope unless the factions of Azeroth prepare for the coming doom in the western continent of Kalimdor. Now against the background of growing civil unrest and a plague that had gripped the northern lands of Lordaeron, a mysterious figure known only as 'The Prophet' has started appearing to the leaders of Azeroth with an ominous warning that the whole world is in peril. Despite growing tensions in a fracturing Alliance, a fragile peace has taken hold over the world of Azeroth. Thanks to some courageous Alliance heroes, the Dark Portal through which the invading orcs came has been destroyed. The Alliance of humans, dwarves, and elves have defeated the orcs and herded the remaining survivors into internment camps to become slaves and prisoners. Warcraft III custom games even helped give rise to several modern genres like MOBAs via the Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) map.Īfter many years of fighting, the Second War has finally ended. The epic campaign and PvP of Warcraft III fall into the RTS genre, but thanks to limitless custom games and a powerful World Editor players can sample innumerable genres of games from tower defense to ARPGs. A player must macromanage their entire army to create a thriving economy, but also micromanage individual units to ensure they're best positioned and using their abilities optimally to defeat opponents. While the basics of an RTS tend to be easy to learn, controlling hundreds of units and structures simultaneously while reacting to your opponent can be quite demanding. As an added complexity, players can also utilize these resources to upgrade their units and structures making them more powerful or providing additional functionality. To create additional units and structures, players must accumulate resources found in various locations about the map. In a typical RTS, players create, position, and maneuver units and structures under their control destroy their opponents' army or accomplish other pre-determined goals. There are no turns for each player as found in turn-based strategy (TBS) games. Players and opponents implement a chosen strategy simultaneously without delay due to the actions of the opposing side(s). RTS's or real-time strategy games are a genre of video games characterized by the live or 'real-time' progression of the game. Will we be able to crossplay with friends who are playing the original Warcraft III?Ĭrossplay between original Warcraft III and Warcraft III: Reforged is supported, and both will continue to receive balance patches and gameplay updates. 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You can pre-purchase the standard edition of Warcraft III: Reforged digitally now from the Blizzard Shop for $29.99-or for $39.99, you can pick up the Spoils of War Edition, which includes a host of extras as well as in-game bonuses for other Blizzard games that will unlock immediately upon pre-purchase. 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![]() And some, like Paramount+ and Peacock, have yet to see their losses peak. ![]() Only Netflix reported a profit: $6.5 billion. Discovery and Paramount lost a combined $10 billion on their streaming services in 2022, according to a review of their annual reports. The result has been tens of billions of dollars flowing into streaming content and away from linear TV … and massive losses for the legacy media companies that entered the space. In the aftermath of that debut in 2019, the floodgates opened, with NBCUniversal introducing Peacock and the arrival of Paramount+ and HBO Max (now Max). Netflix’s success panicked Disney into announcing in 2017 that it would pull all its content from Netflix and launch what would become Disney+. Its stock price, which opened 2017 at about $130 per share, would soar to more than $360 in 2018 as Wall Street began valuing the company as a tech platform, giving it a multiple rivaling the likes of Google and Facebook. Yes, Netflix had been serving original content for a decade before that, but in 2017 its streaming business kicked into high gear, with annual net income jumping from $186 million to $559 million (it would double again to $1.2 billion in 2018). The so-called “streaming wars” really trace their origin to a few fateful months in 20. There’s just one problem: The streaming battles took very lucrative entertainment giants and made their rich profits vanish faster than CNN+. And the drive for scale means that streamers have been available at a bargain price, with the ability to cancel or resubscribe at will. The fierce competition between services means more choices than ever. Consumers can watch what they want whenever they want. Image Credit: Peter Kramer/Peacock/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images In the meantime, however, the industry must still grapple with five crises the strikes might have overshadowed but certainly did not solve. I think we’re going to see over the next couple of years, hopefully, more productivity and more selectivity, and in some ways, I think it’s a good thing.” “Writers are, producers are, and studio executives are. “People are hungrier now,” says producer Todd Black. For some creators, more guardrails and feedback will be welcome. Post-strike, expect companies to be pickier about what they make and talent and financiers to be more closely aligned on fiscal responsibility and quality. Whether it’s a big movie or TV show or a small one, we have to make it good.” ![]() “There needs to be more of a focus on quality,” says Avatar producer Jon Landau. “Where was the incentive to stay on budget or make something great?” asks an agency source. It’s a system, many industry sources say, that led to a lot of crap. Post-strike Hollywood also is likely to transition from what has been a strange era in the entertainment business, one when success was often divorced from compensation, thanks to the streaming formula of big up-front paydays without the prospect of performance-based rewards - or even information about how a show or film did on a platform. For the working-class writer, director, producer, you’re going to see a contraction.” “This business has now gone through a pandemic, a dual strike and an economic downturn, and the companies have sobered up,” says one agency executive. ![]() The new, post-strike Hollywood is going to be a much leaner one. But that heyday has officially ended, thanks to unsexy factors like high interest rates and industry consolidation, and the strikes gave studios cover to drop their unwanted deals and trim their budgets. ![]() So it can mimic a scene having exactly 10 stops of luminance range. The step wedge has a minimum optical density at step 1 of 0.05 and a max density at step 31 of 3.05 in 1/3 stop increments. It’s a Kodak Tri-X negative that’s been exposed through a Stouffer’s Step Wedge®. Using these settings, click and it will give a quick scan of the negative converted to a positive (like normal). Here’s my initial settings in VueScan using my Epson V700. I sometimes deviate from this with color negatives I’m having issues with, but that’s not common. I scan the negative as a negative, both for color and B&W films. If you’re serious about getting great scans, you need to know to turn off all/most of the built-in presets. ![]() Like any consumer machine, its controlling software has built-in defaults and automatic settings for folks who just want something fast. Luckily, controlling the machine isn’t difficult if you use the right scanning software. But, because it’s technical, realize that you must control the machine (i.e., the scanner and its software) to get the most out of it. There is little room for creativity, so don’t try to make it that. Perfect rarely happens in real life photography. Automatic scanner settings will often assume a perfectly exposed negative, perfectly developed negative, a ‘common’ film or type of film, a ‘common’ type of scene, and/or it assumes you want sharpening, dust removal, color balance, resolution, and any number of other assumptions. The image above (“A Moment On the Nez Perce River”) is an example from a scene having extreme dynamic range that can give automatic scanner settings the fits. But to scan some film images, you must know how to control the scanner and its software. There is no reason a properly exposed and developed negative can’t be scanned without clipping any shadow details or any delicate highlights, even specular highlights.Don’t ask too much of your scanner and scanning software: it’s only good for one thing, and that’s to get every bit of useful information from the film image as is possible.There is little usefulness for creativity during scanning. You don’t need a degree in scanning to get the job done. Scanning film is a craft that requires learning, but folks, it’s not rocket science.I’ve compared Epson Scan to VueScan in scanning B&W film here. That’s when you need the tools and the skill to get every bit of useful information from the negative before you can make a great image. But there are those times when things don’t go as planned, and you’re left with a great composition on a crappy negative. I have no doubt that if all your negatives (color or B&W) are perfectly exposed and developed, you won’t need the advanced tools built into VueScan (however, it will take care of those too) and so the basic scanning software like Epson Scan will work fine. Try VueScan® here: (I have no association with it). VueScan, because it includes so many controls for so many scanners, can be frustrating to use sometimes, but if you follow my workflow, and refrain from experimenting too much, you’ll be okay (I think). By far, I’ve found VueScan is the most flexible and effective, and what I say below relates to its use. I’ve tried Epson Scan®, SilverFast®, and VueScan®. ![]() Software can make a big difference in user experience. For those film images, we need to learn how to force the scanner and scanner software to do the best job possible to get all the useful information from the film. But there will always be those film images that fail miserably during scanning automatic settings and presets just can’t provide a digital image that we can process into a fine image for printing or sharing. Scanning film requires a special machine (a transparency scanner) that passes light through the film and to the scanner’s sensor, and records minute differences in density and color at millions of sampling points on the film, and records those differences in a digital file.įor some images on film, we can relay on automatic settings in scanning software to adequately read and convert the film image to an acceptable digital image. Scanning film is a necessary evil if you shoot using film cameras and want to convert the film image into digital format for proofing, sharing to the web, making a digital negative for alternative processes, or for inkjet printing. This tutorial covers how I manage my film scanning to get every bit of tonal information from a negative and avoid clipped shadows and highlights, which ensures I get great scans from my film images. “A Moment on the Nez Perce” by J Riley Stewart Why Scan Film? ![]() Expected to arrive in 2025, the BMW M2 CS could have more than 500 hp with an upgraded version of the eight-speed automatic found on the current car. The 453-hp M2 is already a firecracker as it is, but BMW plans to push the envelope even further with the upcoming M2 CS. The first of its EVs doesn’t come with many details, but we can at least look to the EXP 100 GT concept from 2019 for design inspiration. The future of Bentley is electric as the company commits to a full battery-powered lineup from 2026 on. The most powerful version could also pack 469 hp via two electric motors. With Audi's scalable Premium Platform Electric (PPE) architecture underneath, the A6 E-Tron will have 800-volt charging capabilities and offer up to 400 miles of range. ![]() We’ve already seen the Audi A6 E-Tron in concept form (the image pictured here), but the production version should debut sometime later next year before going on sale. Expected early in 2024, the Aston Martin Valhalla will reportedly have a flat-plane-crank V8 engine and could have north of 900 hp with an expected 0-60 time of around three seconds flat. The mid-engined Valhalla will be the next supercar in the Aston Martin lineup. We know it will have retro design cues (like our rendering pictured here) and should arrive before the end of the year. Early rumors suggested that the proposed Alfa sports car would use some form of plug-in-hybrid power, but the latest reports hint that this could be the brand’s last "old-school" coupe. ![]() Another upcoming Alfa is the rumored sports car or supercar – although this one should arrive before the electric Giulia, and potentially with gas power alone. |
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