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![]() Keep these delays in mind for when you’re summoning units mid-combat, as well as for effectively aiming your spells Minions, on the other hand, have a 1.5-second delay period when they are summoned, during which they’re rooted in place and inactive, but can still be targeted and attacked. For spells and buildings, this base delay is 0.5 seconds, plus whatever individual delay that they may have, which varies from card to card, but is never over 2 seconds. And to this end, there are a few things you need to know about how your minions behave in combat.Īfter you first drop a card on the field, there’s a slight delay before they can start moving and attacking. While your knowledge of what each of the card stats affects is important, you must also know how to use each of your units effectively. However, even if you know about your cards’ stats, it’s also important to know how units actually behave in combat, which brings us to our next point… Minion Behavior Knowing what each attribute represents and what they mean in practice is always the first step in building effective card decks. This stat indicates the targets that the unit can attack. Targets: Represented by the crosshair icon.Corresponds to the attack range of the unit in question. Corresponds to how many attacks a unit launches per second. Attack Speed: Represented by the swinging sword icon.For reference, the bridges on the battlefield are 8 units long each. Corresponds to how many units of range the minion can move per second. Simply corresponds to the amount of HP that each unit has. Health: Represented by the cross icon. ![]() ![]() The DPS stat between parentheses is obtained by multiplying the unit’s damage by their attack speed. This stat corresponds to the damage done by the units with every attack. ![]() Damage: Represented by the sword icon.Here’s a breakdown on each stat and what they affect: You can check a card’s stats simply by clicking on them in the card menu, after which you’ll find their basic stats to the left. Now that we know how to add new cards to our decks and rosters, let’s go ahead and check out their stats and go over what they actually mean in practice. Players can also acquire new cards randomly from playing in the Draft game mode, or by purchasing them from the store whenever there’s a featured offer. And speaking of full cards, another way to get new cards is also from the Power Tower itself, which also has a chance of yielding full cards per token. Through this method, every 5th token spent is guaranteed to give you a rare shard or card. These tokens are purchased either with gold, at a rate of 1,000 per token, or with Rubies, at a rate of 80 per token, and with a minimum purchase of at least two tokens. Players can acquire new cards in Minion Masters firstly through collecting their shards, which are obtained every time you use a Power Token in the Power Tower. In other words, while there are various modes that can reward you with more cards for your deck, you never really know what you’re going to get, which is why playing on multiple instances can be so helpful. There are a few ways in which you can obtain new cards in Minion Masters, most of which are, sadly, randomized. And if you’re playing Minion Masters on PC with BlueStacks, you can even use the Instance Manager to play on multiple accounts simultaneously, and in this manner try out a variety of different builds and cards, just to see which one you like the most. Acquiring New Cardsįirst and foremost, while you always start your game with a full deck, you’ll want to start diversifying your roster with new cards, at least if you want to try out new strategies and builds. If you’re new to this title and would like to start on the right foot, then we highly suggest reading this guide, as you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to win all your battles. However, this game also has its own set of mechanics and systems to set itself apart from the rest, and stand proudly as its own unique thing, and it has done so since its initial PC and console release back in 2019.Īnd now that Minion Masters is now on mobile as well, we figured that now would be as good a time as any to revisit the basics and go over the game’s mechanics and systems. Minion Masters is similar to other real-time card games out there like Clash Royale, or Revolve8, among others. I had TextExpander ignore my capitalization and always use a capital “B”. Now I could type his name using a normal “o”, and TextExpander would fix it for me. ![]() You can guess what my first TextExpander snippet was! When I first started using TextExpander I regularly wrote to an author called Björgvin. How unprofessional! If you find yourself making the same typos and spelling mistakes regularly, set up TextExpander to automatically correct them for you. My personal take: When do you realize there’s a typo in your email? Usually just after clicking Send. I need to be careful because using the spelling I learned at school might be technically wrong. I’m an Australian who often needs to use US spelling. You use the wrong spelling as the abbreviation and correct spelling as the snippet. Here are some examples I tried in the past-some common typos and spelling mistakes. Allow TextExpander to help you create emails and documents without errors. There may be a few words you consistently spell incorrectly, or that your fingers mess up when typing fast. Correct Frequent Typos and Spelling ErrorsĪutomatically fixing errors is a useful safeguard. Watch out for opportunities to set up snippets, then without a few keystrokes, the app will enter the text for you accurately every time. My personal take: If you type the same text repeatedly, TextExpander can definitely save you time. Finally, you type in the snippet-the actual address-and you’re ready to go. Alternatively, you can easily search for the snippet from Apple’s menu bar. Alternatively, you could end with a delimiter, like addr. By repeating the first character, you’ve come up with something unique. ![]() For an address, Smile suggests you could use aaddr or hhome. In TextExpander terminology, the few characters you type is called the abbreviation, and the long passage it expands to is called the snippet.įirst, you need to come up with a good, unique abbreviation that will never be typed under other circumstances. Maybe you notice yourself typing the same text into your calendar or to do list app. Depending on your job, there may be some industry-specific words you find yourself repeating. Fortunately, you can disable this feature if you find it annoying.Ĭommon opportunities for snippets include addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and signatures, and web addresses. Helpfully, TextExpander watches what you type, and when it notices a frequent phrase prompts you to create a snippet. Computers were created to solve problems like that! When I first got into computers I made it my aim to never retype anything, and text expansion software helped.įrequently typed words, sentences and documents vary from person to person. Typing the same things over and over again is a waste of your time. In each subsection, I’ll explore what the app offers and then share my personal take. TextExpander is all about speeding your typing, and I’ll list its features in the following five sections. TextExpander Review: What’s in It for You? According to the TextExpander app, it saved me from having to type 172,304 characters, an equivalent of over seven hours. ![]() ![]() I used and enjoyed TextExpander for a number of years, but pressed the pause button once it moved to a subscription model. Most of my family were Mac users, and I eventually joined them. When I moved to Linux, I discovered AutoKey. I used that app to totally customize my computer. When I switched to Windows I explored the alternatives and eventually settled on PowerPro, an app that includes text expansion, but does much more, including scripting and macros. I could even get the software to pop up a box asking for specific information so I could personalize what was entered. I did use it to quickly type addresses, phone numbers, and frequently used business letters. One of those features was text expansion, and way back in the late 80s I started thinking through the best ways to use it.Īt the time I decided not to use it to automatically correct common typos (like changing “hte” to “the”) or spelling mistakes-I was concerned that the software would encourage me to keep on making them. When DOS was the operating system of choice I settled on AlphaWorks, a “Works” program (word processor, spreadsheet, database) that had a lot of smart features. They saved me a lot of time and keystrokes. My name is Adrian, and I’ve been using text expander apps since the late 1980s. Why Trust Me for This TextExpander Review? Correct Frequent Typos and Spelling Errors TextExpander Review: What’s in It for You?.Why Trust Me for This TextExpander Review?. Looks like if I get one, it will be Underrail. You get the answer for linking to that very helpful review of Exanima. The one thing that would be awesome addition to the game. I can't really comment on it personally, but before you decide to buy Exanima, it would be wise to check out a reviewer (website/youtuber) you trust. It also features a stealth system that works very good. Don't expect the same level of writing or quests or even memorable characters (you'll most possibly be dissapointed on that account) but expect a lot of enjoyable combat with a great combat ![]() It was also voted as the “BEST video clip” in Metal Edge’s 1992 Readers Choice Awards. In addition, MTV also placed it at #1 on their 100 videos of 1992. Not only the video got A LOT of play on MTV (and by A LOT I mean that people were watching the video literally every second), but it won them a “best cinematography” award at the 1992 MTV Music Awards where it also got a Video Vanguard award (by the way, the performed the song with Elton John on piano during the show – it’s such a beautiful performance). The price was high, however what the band got out of it was much more valuable and it proved that it was a totally worthy investment. Naturally, one could imagine how expensive such lengthy and beautifully made music video would cost – in our case, the video costs were over $1.5 million – it makes it one of the most expensive MVs in history. The essence of the video is its narrative quality – it tells us a story about love and many other things that come and go with it… The music video was directed by Andy Morahan – a noted English music video director who worked with artists such as George Michael, Ozzy Osbourne, Cyndi Lauper, Simply Red, Tina Turner and many others. “November Rain” has a few similarities with both those songs which can be observed in the advancement and progression of the melody and quick changes of the rhythm. In a several occasions, he mentioned that Zeppelin and Queen, especially, were a huge influence to him and his career. ![]() On an interesting note, it seems like Axl was always striving towards making a song that resembles “Stairway to Heaven” or “Bohemian Rhapsody”. I should say that based on my research, Slash completely disagreed and contradicted such claims. I am not sure how truthful those statements are because Axl Rose likes to make up stories every now and then. He said that eventually he managed to convince them that this could be a good direction for the band. According to him, they wanted for the band to stick to rough rock music and don’t go with a song like this one. He stated that his ideas and visions for a more symphonic, power-ballad style rock song were rejected from Slash and McKagan. As I said, the lengthy artistic visions of Rose had to be cut down, along with the guitar solos of Slash… (the song was shortened to almost 9 minutes).ĭuring the Chinese Democracy Tour, back in 2006, Axl Rose shared with the audience that the other band members were opposing the production and release of this song. Actually, Slash plays a few guitar solos in the song ( depending on how you see it). Interesting fact, the song contains the longest ever guitar solo in a Top 10 single. I need Moody’s help,” said Tracii Guns, founding member of Guns ‘N Roses about Axl Rose working on this song since at least 1983. And I’d go, “When are you gonna finish that already”, you know? And he’d go, “I don’t know what to do with it. And, like, anytime we’d be at a hotel or anywhere, there’d be a piano he’d just kinda play that music. He’d go, “Someday this song is gonna be really cool.” And I’d go, “It’s cool now.” “But it’s not done”, you know, he used to say. It was the only thing he knew how to play, but it was his. Guns, like ’83? He was playing “November Rain” - and it was called “November Rain” - you know, on piano. I would honestly love to listen to this song for almost half an hour, though. The original version, by the way, was 25-minutes long – wow! However, they had to cut it short – a completely understandable move, having in mind the radio and TV limitations back then. Furthermore, “November Rain” is the longest song in history to enter the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart – it runs for 8:57 minutes. In the USA, it got to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and worldwide it reached top 10 positions in countries such as Australia, Canada, UK, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Ireland and others. He actually wrote it on his piano in the early 80s…The power-ballad style song made a huge statement the moment it was released to the public. “November Rain” was written by Guns N’ Roses’ lead singer – Axl Rose and was recorded sometime between 19. (I feel like I should just mention that “Use Your Illusion I” and “Use Your Illusion II” were released simultaneously, however I still stand for what I said in terms of which one is better) Not to mention that it was certified 7x times platinum by the RIAA, got a bunch of Grammy nominations and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard charts. By the way, it’s an awesome album and in my opinion their most admirable one. Guns N’ Roses – “Use Your Illusion I” (1991) album coverĮven though “November Rain” was released as a single in 1992, it actually featured in their 1991 album “Use Your Illusion I”. ![]() Voice actress Ella Balinska manages to make the most out of her lines, sometimes providing some great intonation within the game’s dialogue that helps sell her fish outta water situation. ![]() If the visuals underwhelm, the sound of this game at least carries its side of the bargain. And if you are planning on brute forcing more beauty out of this game on a PC version, buckle up with those insane PC specs to get much of it. While some environments stand out with their design and the lightning can impress in certain scenarios (especially when your powers are on the screen), considering it’s a current generation exclusive, it’s shocking how weak the game is visually. While the game does offer its resolution and ray traced shadow modes at 30fps, which does make the game look better, it’s still not a looker. ![]() Yet, as soon as I started moving, the game could sometimes become a mess of image reconstruction, always uglying the look when the game was at its most kinetic. On the PlayStation 5 version I played for review, running the game on its relatively smooth performance mode with few framerate dips, when standing still, the game could look relatively sharp and detailed. It’s even stranger considering how photo-realistic the game attempts to be with its visuals, yet the technical chops of the engine makes the game feel very blurry and old. Using the beleaguered Luminous Tools that powered Final Fantasy XV, the at times quirky fantasy tones from Forspoken seem quite at odds with how bland the game can sometimes look. However, it certainly can be said that a lot of this humor seems at odds with the visual style Forspoken has going for it. And while some of the so-called “cringy” dialogue from that 30 second ad is still present, when presented in context of a back and forth, the dialogue is not as bad as it seemed going in and, at times, got some great chuckles out of me. It’s hilarious seeing Frey sometimes try to explain her slang/f-bombs to them with a straight face. The contrast between Frey being this foul mouthed New Yorker juxtaposes hilariously with all the people from Athia who speak in the most medieval fantasy way possible. The story by itself is not too dissimilar from classic “fish outta water” tropes or a classic Japanese Isekai, but it does a decent job of mining some fun out of the scenario. ![]() Frey begrudgingly takes it upon herself to find a way to stop/get rid of this “Break” plague as a means to an end to go back to her home in New York and to Homer. After an early incident forces her to separate from Homer, by a twist of fate she finds a magical cuff which, as soon as she wears it, teleports her immediately to the fantasy dimension of Athia, a land ravaged by a mist plague called “The Break” which turns many people and creatures into zombies with rock-like growth formations. In Forspoken, you play as Alfre Holland, aka “Frey,” a down on her luck young adult barely scraping by in New York City as she tries to find a way to better herself to find a better life with her cat Homer. All while delivering a coming of age story with heart not too dissimilar from what people see in something like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It manages to transcend some of its bland trappings to deliver a mostly satisfying power fantasy which hearkens back to the Infamous and Prototype games of old. However, like the saying goes, “the devil is in the details.” After a good 29 hours of playtime, amidst the rubble that makes Forspoken seem rubbish, is a game that, when all is said and done, has a ton of charm. Coupled with visuals that didn’t seem to take advantage of its position as a major exclusive tent-pole title for the PlayStation 5 (with an amazing 2-year exclusivity contract locking it in on top of that), it’s easy to write off Forspoken as a whiff, specially in the crazy week it ended up releasing in. Originally announced as “Project Athia” back at the PlayStation 5 reveal event in 2020 (and positioned as one of the key titles for the console), Forspoken became a game easily mockable thanks to its fantasy trappings mixed with its seemingly out of touch “How Do You Do Fellow Kids?” try-hard tone. This quote from a small 30 second ad released on August 8th, 2022, has really come to define Forspoken, the new, timed PlayStation 5 and PC exclusive from Square Enix and their beleaguered Luminous Productions team. Yeah, OK, that is something that I do now.” I’m somewhere that’s not what I would call Earth. RESPONSE: 'This is a known bug and will be fixed in a future update.' When using the graphical flight plan editing, when I attempt to insert waypoints by rubber banding and selecting lat/lon, the app tends to insert the new waypoint after the next sequential waypoint than before it. (Note, this is not the same as refreshing downloads) Touching the Downloads tab, then immediately back to Airports tab, then everything works fine. On a fresh startup of the app, none of the Airport Diagrams or A/FD links work properly. This means that I get a blank map page because the default is the USA. on app startup, the map layer selections are forgotten and must be reconfigured. RESPONSE: 'In the future we hope to have additional means in accessing this information.' For example, BC has 49 pages of approaches that you have to scroll through one by one to find a particular airport. They are available for download into a separate 'binder' section, but they are not searchable. Here is my description and Fltplan's official response: ![]() I found five bugs very quickly, one of which is fatal. The executive summary of my short evaluation: Fltplan Go is not ready for prime time. ![]() I downloaded the Fltplan Go app from the Apple store and spent a day getting familiar with the basic operation, including a cross-country flight. So when announced their Go app with FREE Canadian charts and publications, I was cautiously optimistic. ![]() IFR pilots face much more onerous costs, to be sure, but that's another topic. Put another way, this is more than the engine depreciation cost! Something is fundamentally wrong. For one of my VFR aircraft, this is about $10 per operating hour. Unfortunately, a $175 per year subscription for Foreflight, plus a similar fee for Pocket FMS on my SkyView plus a Jeppesen update fee for my Aera puts my total annual cost north of $400 for databases. Recently, Foreflight brought complete mapping/publication data to their slick 'gold standard' App. Preamble: Canada has been terribly underserved by the lack of availability of digital charts and publications due to the inaction of Nav Canada. Hardware: iPad Mini, iOS 7.1.1, cellular, 32GĪpp: Fltplan Go version 2.5.4, May 8, 2014 This is a first look review of the Fltpan Go app for the iPad. ![]() ![]() One problem that occurs here, though, is that they can delete some branch name(s). ![]() Note that git branch -a includes git branch -r, but adds the word remotes/ in front of the origin/master names. Running git branch -r will list your remote-tracking names, so git branch -r shows you what your Git saw in their Git, the last time your Git updated using their Git. When you run git fetch origin (or just git fetch, if there's only one remote named origin), your Git calls up the other Git at that point, obtains any new commits that they have that you don't, and updates all your remote-tracking origin/* names. These names simply remember that, the last time your Git called up the other Git at origin, they said that their master was some particular hash ID. To do this, your Git creates, in your repository, remote-tracking names 1 such as origin/master. Meanwhile, because you Git has called up another Git before, and remembers the URL for that other Git under the name origin, your Git also remembers their Git's branch names. The commits are the part that your Git shares with other Git repositories, though there is some degree of name-sharing as well. Your Git has your branch names, tag names, and other names, and a collection of commits. Your Git, on your computer, keeps and updates your Git repository. The git remote command is the main user-facing command for working with remotes, but since git clone creates the remote named origin for you initially, you almost never actually need to use git remote. There are additional things you can do with a remote, besides just storing a URL, but storing a URL is sort of the main thing. You can have as many remotes as you like. The remote itself holds the URL by which your Git calls up some other Git. Remotesīefore we get to the two answers, let's mention that a remote is just a short name like origin. The key issue here is that there are at least two different Git repositories involved. This question has several possible underlying meanings, so it has several possible answers. ![]() ![]() If Word is closed normally these auto recovery files are not saved. They mean that every 10 minutes, a copy of the work in progress will be automatically saved to the user's N:drive. These are the standard settings for users on IT Services computers. Shown below this is the AutoRecover file location which in this example is "N:\" - ie the individual N:drive for the user. Tick 'Keep the last saved autoversion if I close without saving' check box.In the minutes box, type or select a number to determine how often you want to save files eg every 10 minutes.Tick the Save AutoRecover information every check box.In Word 2016, you can see how this is set up in the Options. But AutoRecover does not replace regularly saving your files, you must still do this. Of course, the best way to guard against this risk is to be in the habit of regularly saving your files while you are working (every 10 minutes is recommended).įortunately many programs, such as Microsoft Word, have an in-built "auto-save" function that automatically backs up a copy of your work every few minutes. This can be very frustrating and lead to a lot of extra work. If you are part-way through working on a document when due to circumstances outside your control (such as the computer crashing or a network problem), you are unable to continue, there is a danger that the changes you have made will have been lost. 1643How can I recover a Word document I was working on when my computer crashed? ![]() Two of these locations are the craggy island of the Dragon Queen with its dark catacombs and mysterious ruined temple, and the twin desert cities, Hatmandor and Cheznaddar. Gandohar's palace, with its brooding and menacing atmosphere, is only one of the many fascinating locations which await the player's avatar. only then can he finally rescue his sister, Kyra. So he starts out on a dangerous journey through a land desecrated by evil - a journey he hopes will shed some light on Gandohar's dark past and help him find a weak point in the defenses of this powerful Mage. She is both beautiful and mysterious - but the hero must trust her if he has to have his long-planned revenge. now he has to find out why the Orcs helped him - and learn as much as he can about their mysterious leader, the legendary Dragon Queen. Still sceptical about this new-found truce between two races which have always been deadly enemies, the hero once again finds himself confronted by a completely new situation. ![]() The hated Orcs have put together a rescue squad and the hero is amazed when they free him from the chains of his tormentors. However, just as his despair has reached its lowest ebb, a faint ray of hope appears from a completely unexpected direction. Evil influences are attempting to awake the slumbering powers of an old generation in order to dominate all of Antaloor, and the hero is powerless to do anything about it. In spite of a self-sacrificing battle against evil, the twins were separated and Kyra is now under the influence of a powerful magic spell from which there is no escape. He is a prisoner in the dark dungeons of Gandohar's castle and any hopes he has of saving his sister seem to have vanished along with his freedom. and the hero's strength is finally exhausted. New skills may be learned by reading Skillbooks.Ī Tower Defense spin-off, titled Two Worlds II: Castle Defense, was later released, set between the events of Two Worlds and Two Worlds II.įive years have passed since the dramatic events in Antaloor brought the whole world to the edge of the abyss. The classless system of leveling from the first game returns, allowing any character to learn and upgrade any skill. Character creation allows for greater freedom in customizing his appearance. The player reprises their role as the nameless Hero from the original Two Worlds. This enabled the developers to expand the narrative even further, and a more sophisticated engine, GRACE™, was created to develop the game. However, it quickly grew much larger than originally intended, and it became a full-fledged sequel. Two Worlds II began as Two Worlds: The Temptation, which was to be the second expansion to the first game. It was released January 25th, 2011 in North America and was released 21st October in the UK and Australia. It is a sequel to the 2007 game Two Worlds. Two Worlds II is a computer role-playing game developed by Reality Pump and published by TopWare Interactive for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. ATI Radeon HD 5600 or better/NVIDIA 8800 GTX or higher.Internet Connection (Required for Multiplayer).Shader 3.0 and 512 MB ATI Radeon HD 2900/NVIDIA 8800GT video card.512 MB RAM, 2 GB With Windows Vista or Windows 7.Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 |