![]() ![]() While praising the story panels and rhythm sections, he called the rest of the game lackluster, saying that he was not sure of the game's intended audience. Calling the core gameplay "shallow and boring", he also stated that the game's setting was "forgettable", with "simplistic graphics" that looked better in screenshots. Jordan Rudek of Nintendo World Report rated the Switch version 5.5/10. Describing the game's story as "interesting and emotional", he said that while he had a good time playing the game, it was not challenging enough, also calling the character's movement "loose and unwieldy". Calling the game "chill", he noted that it was very difficult to die. Lovable, cat-eared Annika sets off on a grand quest on the Island of Spica 3D adventure & rhythm action genres mesh in the lush, pastoral and beautiful manga-inspired world of Giraffe and Annika 19.99 Visit the Store Page Most popular community and official content for the past week. Stuart Gipp of Nintendo Life similarly rated the game's Switch version 7/10 stars, calling the game's world "laid-back and attractive" and the soundtrack " Ghibli-esque". Ultimately saying the game did not have much depth, he called it better than the sum of its parts. He praised the game's manga presentation for cutscenes and its rhythm-based battles, but said it would have been better if they made up a larger part of the game. Īlex Fuller of RPGamer rated the PlayStation 4 version 3.5/5, calling it a "wholesome game that feels ideal for kids" or anyone seeking to relax, and calling it "incredibly adorable". Giraffe and Annika received an aggregate score of 67/100 for the Windows version, 70/100 for the PlayStation 4 version, and 64/100 for the Switch version on Metacritic. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its visuals, story and battle system, but criticized the game's short length and "bland" design. The game uses a pacifist battle system where fights are done through rhythm based action. She must recover her memories with the help of a boy named Giraffe by finding three special star fragments. The game revolves around Annika, a catgirl who finds herself stranded on the island of Spica with amnesia. ![]() It released on Februfor Windows, Augfor PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, and Augfor Xbox One. Giraffe and Annika is an indie, action-adventure and rhythm video game hybrid developed by Atelier Mimina and published by Playism, NIS America, and Koei Tecmo Games. PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch ![]()
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![]() ![]() Requires a tricky jump since gears must stay in motion. * Paint in all the gears near the lever that raises the Fire Bridge to reveal a hidden alcove. * Ditto as above, but this time check out the left side. * Check out the alcoves along the upper level catwalks on the right side. * Thin out the wall just past the hippo to find this guy. * Paint in the platforms behind the giant giraffe. ![]() Free all the gremlins to use a retractable ledge. Paint in all the gears on both walls to lower the platform. * On a boat in the backstage maintenance area. * Repair the tea cup ride for Gremlin Tim. * Look around the courtyard for a toon door that can be thinned. Fling him into oblivion and all you'll get is some E-tickets. If you want the Gremlin Guardian pin, rescue the gremlin from the catapult. * Explore the secret room that opens after you shut down the mechanical arm. Finally, they're for sale at the Emporium for relatively cheap.įinally, I will be pointing out certain key DECISION POINTS within the game, and laying out exactly how certain choices will affect your ability to collect items during a single playthrough. Also, they tend to be hidden in the hub areas (Mean Street, Ostown, Ventureland and Bog Easy) instead of the action areas that close off after being beaten, so you'll have plenty of chances to backtrack and find them. One pin quest does require you to assemble 30 Power Sparks, but they aren't true collectibles, since there's no uniqueness factor: Any one is the same as any other. There are two points where the game offers you a choice of film projectors, and I will mark those locations. Just take your time to explore each film strip sequence, and you'll find the film reels. Those aren't covered here.)Īs long as you complete every pin quest, you will get most of the movies automatically. (On three occasions - at the Ticket Booth, in Ostown, and during a visit to Mean Street - the game requires you to free a gremlin to advance. The Gremlin Guardian pin is particularly demanding, requiring you to free every caged GREMLIN in the game. But at 1,000 E-tickets a pop, it's definitely better to find them yourself than to have to buy them, so they're included here. ![]() The PARTS to assemble Animatronic Goofy, Daisy, and Donald don't have to be collected, strictly speaking. Where certain pins require you to collect multiple components scattered across different maps, I'll track those as well. This guide will have four main categories of collectible, starting with the game's main goodies: PINS and BONUS CONTENT. Since the game closes off so many areas after you've passed through them, it can be very frustrating to go all the way "around the horn" just to get back to a room that's one projector screen behind you. The basic purpose of this list is to allow a gamer to know he has gathered every possible item from a particular map before moving on. I also thumbed through the Prima game guide for a few minutes at Wal-Mart to fill in a few blanks. I particularly benefited from Phil Hornshaw's walkthrough on GameFront, the Pins list by "Ben" at Feed the Gamer, and a very helpful list of Gremlins compiled by user AlbertWeskerUMB at the GameSpot forums. It's a combination of information from my own memory after 5 playthroughs (yes, I officially have no life), with LOTS of details I don't recall culled from multiple sources. I decided to assemble a complete list of the game's collectibles to fill that gap. I have found lists of certain categories of items, and walkthroughs that don't cover everything. There are some very helpful online sources of Epic Mickey information, but I haven't found one that points out all the game's collectibles in a chronological format. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once you’ve mastered classic Bubble Shooter, try your hand at Bubble EXTREME, Bubble Shooter Pro-or combine TWO all-time classic games with Bubble Shooter CANDY! If you love to spice up your gaming experience, then you’re going to love this place! We’ve built tons of different variations of the classic Bubble Shooter game, so you’ll never get bored. You spoke, and we listened! We’ve upgraded Bubble Shooter so that it can be enjoyed on every single device! Share your score with your friends! Warning: Bubble Shooter is addictive! We want our gamers to immerse themselves into Bubble Shooter, the website with amazing, free online gaming! We inject fun into every single level, every game, and every design. Want to know why Bubble Shooter has been so successful, and beloved by gamers all across the world? 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But it’s also the high quality of our games. ![]() ![]() Step 4: Click the OK button on Startup tab and then Restart PC.Īfter restarting your computer, your computer can work normally, and no CMD Should pop up anymore. Step 3: Move to the Startup tab on the System Configuration window, and then click Open Task Manager. Step 2: When you get the System Configuration window, please move to the Services tab, and then select Hide all Microsoft services, and finally click Disable all. Once the Run window pops up, please type msconfig and then click the OK button. Step 1: Press the Windows icon and the R key on the keyword simultaneously. Here is the guidance to run Windows Clean Boot to fix Command Prompt keeps popping up. Note: Please pay attention that you should log on to your computer as an administrator to perform a clean boot. Once you get the test result, please check it.
![]() ![]() Contrary to what every other guide says, the Skull II's actually DO chase you. This is because the Skull IIs are actually tracking how you move and will try to blindside you if you cut through their territory. You'll cut through the center with a smaller anti-clockwise circle while moving your mouse right. if you were kiting anti-clockwise, and keeping your mouse movement going to the left. When doing this, it's probably a good idea to alternate the direction you're looking in. Cutting through the center of the arena lets you kill a ton of them and makes it less likely that you'll get randomly snuffed by one. (and you should be strafe-running while doing so) is when you're in the middle of a farm and there's a lot of SKULL IIs flying around. And it's also part of my strategy for dealing with 134-174.Ģ. Running towards them is usually the most effective way to take them out. ![]() is when the arena is clear or mostly clear and a Squid or Spider spawns. There are only two times when moving in a straight line is okay.ġ. Sometimes it's necessary to go clockwise, but it's rare. Keep your movement in circles, and your circles mostly anti-clockwise. The Skulls move faster than you and will overtake you very fast. The most important thing to remember here is to NEVER run in a straight line. And kiting Gigapedes is also super easy, since they move as fast as you walk. You don't really have to kite centipedes, as they're pretty easy to deal with. I still don't understand how players like Bintr and Chupacabra can play with eDPIs in the 100s, but I get it now. So lower look speed is actually ideal for this game. Turns out good movement negates the need for twitch aiming, and you rarely have to turn more than 90 degrees in a short amount of time, and slower, smoother aiming is actually more effective at killing swarms of skulls and scraping centipedes. Unlike every other game that has a gamma setting, in Devil Daggers, lower means brighter. Smooth fluid aim is the key to getting those skulls under control.Īlso consider setting your Gamma low. Aim with your elbow/shoulder rather than your wrist. ^ why haven't I crossed this out up until now? ![]() This game moves VERY fast, so you need to be able to react fast or else you'll die. Get used to the high speed and you'll be able to react a lot faster to threats. You should be able to do a 360 spin with just a slight movement of the mouse. You want to set your look speed very high. Lower FOV is good for aiming, but as I said earlier, movement and awareness are more important, so set your FOV high and get used to it. Note that you don't get homing daggers until you get the level 3 hand, and you want to avoid using them as much as possible, as you need to save up 150 homing daggers (220 gems if you don't use any homing daggers) to get the level 4 hand, which is the most powerful upgrade in the game. This will prevent a shotgun blast of homings from being released, and allows you to better control where your homing daggers go. Same mechanics, although you can safely fire a short stream of homing daggers if you, while streaming daggers (left mouse), press the right mouse button. ![]() This is known as the shotgun tech, and it's covered in the Advanced Mechanics section.įurther, there are homing daggers you can use with the right mouse button. Holding down the mouse button during the cooldown period shortens the cooldown period, and timing that for another shotgun blast allows you to spam shotgun blasts at high speed. Letting go of the mouse button before the stream emerges causes a shotgun blast. Holding down the left mouse button releases a dagger stream. ![]() ![]() To flush DNS cache, type “ sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder” in the command line and hit return. ![]() Note: Sometimes, you might need to flush the DNS cache for the changes to take effect. Now, whenever any request is generated from your computer to the root domain (), it will point to your localhost.
![]() ![]() (Known issue: Displays KH/s but means H/s)įinally fixes curly quotes problem in manual config edit Right-click or ctrl-click and choose 'Open' to bypass gatekeeper warning. Just can't be bothered as it doesn't affect running the app, sorry! Compile from source if that's an issue for you. This version is not properly codesigned as in the over a year since the last update standards have changed and I haven't bothered to move all the dependencies in to a Frameworks folder and try signing again. ![]() New algo support is only for macOS 10.11+ Supports the following algorithms/cryptocurrencies: Credits, Scrypt, NScrypt, Pascal, X11, X13, X14, X15, Keccak, Quarkcoin, Twecoin, Fugue256, NIST, Fresh, Whirlcoin, Neoscrypt, WhirlpoolX, Lyra2RE, Lyra2REV2, Pluck, Yescrypt, Yescrypt-multi, Blakecoin, Blake, Sia, Decred, Vanilla, Lbry and Sibcoin Right-click or ctrl-click and choose 'Open' to bypass gatekeeper warning.Īdds support for many coins to GPU miner window by adding sgminer backend Minor GUI updates to reflect past changesįixes scrypt adaptive-n GPU mining - make sure to add the manual flag -nfactor 11 if you use thisĬhanges yescrypt from using nicehash sgminer to sgminer-gmĪllows GPU ethereum mining BUT only very basic support - all flags including pool, username and password must be entered as manual flags MacMiner downloads have been moved to the Github project releases page hereĪdds support for gekkoscience devices to cgminerĭe Stijl Art Factory: free art generator and colouring app for iPhone and iPadįabulousPanda also hosts an online arcade of free games, including soduko, 2048 and hextris.įixes an issue with cpuminer's link to janssonįixes several issues where a user could enter newlines, spaces and empty passwords in pool setupĪdds support for CPU mining Vertcoin (Lyra2REv2), X17, Decred, Cryptonight-Light (Aeon), neoscrypt and yescrypt with bundled tpruvot cpuminer-multi Please support FabulousPanda by checking out our latest creation: Unlimited Coloring Art: free art generator and colouring app for Mac ![]() ![]() ![]() There are hundreds of in-depth reviews, open source alternatives to proprietary software from large corporations like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. The software collection forms part of our series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. Our curated compilation covers all categories of software. ![]() ![]() Read our complete collection of recommended free and open source software. Very simple personal bank account manager Personal budget software for the rest of us Personal accounting software for the small household economy Personal and small-business financial accounting softwareĬross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software For each program we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources. Let’s explore the 11 personal finance applications. We focus on the best personal finance software for Linux. With increasing financial turbulence it’s as important as ever to look after your finances, if only to make sure there are no nasty surprises when you receive your next bank statement. Financial management is about planning income and expenditure and making informed decisions that enable you to survive financially. While it can be a struggle to make ends meet, it is possible to make life easier through better money management. Money to buy food, to purchase clothes, to pay our bills, as well as indulging in our other infinite wants and desires. However, for us mere mortals the simple fact is that we need money. By growing their own food, washing in the river, using a solar panel to provide electricity, and bartering for certain goods and services, these adventures have met with limited success. We have all read stories about people who have experimented living without spending any money whatsoever. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, you have to keep in mind that in order for this method to work, you can’t have the Messenger app installed on your phone. 4, and you’ll find yourself back on the Conversation page, and you’ll finally be able to send out a message. But now you’ll be taken to Google Play Store again.ħ. Tap on the person or conversation you wish to engage in. Now you’re back where you started, at the Conversation page. You can simply hit the ‘x’ and make the annoying message go away.Ħ. You’ll again find the message stating that Messenger is moving. If you use iOS, then you can simply press the Home button and return to your Facebook browser window.ĥ. Now you’ll have to go to the ‘Recent Apps’ section, and it’s a square beside the home button in Android. You’ll immediately be led to Google Play Store, and you’ll be asked to download Messenger.Ĥ. Across the top of your timeline, you’ll find all the regular options such as Friends, Conversations, etc. Open your browser and go to Facebook’s website.Ģ. However, if accessing your messages is that urgent, here’s how to do so on a mobile browser:ġ. The experience of using Facebook on a mobile browser is far from seamless, and you will have to patiently await each and every webpage to load. As Facebook is trying very hard to direct users to the Messenger app, they’re not making it any easier for their mobile web browser users as well. This is the next best option for sending a Facebook message urgently without Facebook Messenger. Part 1: Using the mobile browser to send Facebook message without Messenger Part 6: How to send a Facebook message without Facebook Messenger? Maybe don’t use it at all?.Part 5: Using a third-party app to send Facebook message without Facebook Messenger.Part 4: Using Cydia to send Facebook message without Facebook Messenger.Part 3: Using the Facebook SMS Service to send Facebook message without Messenger.Part 2: Using the PC Web browser to send Facebook message without Messenger.Part 1: Using the mobile browser to send Facebook message without Messenger.You can send Facebook messages with videos, photos taken by the best 360 camera without a messenger. We have prepared this simple guide to walk you through sending Facebook messages without Facebook Messenger. This is unless you are fine with the Facebook Messenger app, which, as a matter of fact, works just fine. We have, however, uncovered five workarounds you can use to bypass the Facebook Messenger app and send Facebook messages instantly. Surprisingly, Facebook did not crack under pressure to restore the service. People just do not see the need to use a whole other app to access a service that was working just fine on the main app. Many saw this as a frantic attempt by Facebook to direct users to the standalone app that no one wanted to use. Users had to install the Facebook Messenger app to access the messaging service. When Facebook announced in July 2014 that it was going to disable its messaging service on the official Facebook smartphone app, Facebook users worldwide were enraged. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Western Alliance (WAL.N) fell 1.4%, Valley National Bancorp (VLY.O) lost 1.5%, First Horizon Corp (FHN.N) shed 1.3%, and Synovus Financial Corp (SNV.N) dropped nearly 1%. The shares of other regional banks were also choppy. "We believe that PacWest and other banks have not been trading in line with their fundamentals," said Piper Sandler analyst Matthew Clark, who currently has an "overweight" rating on PacWest shares. The bank's stock has rallied by more than 92% in the last three sessions after a bruising sell-off sent it to a record low last week. PacWest rose 2.3% after losing as much as 10% earlier in the day following a decision by the Los Angeles-based lender to cut its quarterly dividend in an effort to bolster its liquidity. regional banks underpinned skittish trading in their stocks. Here's hoping Windows Vista and DirectX Video Acceleration 2.0 enables hardware accelerated video decoding out of the box.May 9 (Reuters) - PacWest Bancorp shares (PACW.O) regained earlier session losses on Tuesday as investor uncertainty about the financial health of U.S. But good luck getting everything set up in Windows XP. Anandtech found that, when properly configured, the latest video cards can significantly reduce the H.264 decoding burden on the CPU ATI reduced it by half, and Nvidia reduced it by a fifth. But the configuration, drivers, and software necessary to achieve this acceleration is daunting. If you own a relatively new video card, it is possible to offload some of the video decoding chores from your CPU to your video card's GPU. At least we have a few legitimate uses left for the ridiculous amounts of CPU power we've inherited over the years. They look better in less space, but they also require a lot more CPU power to decode. H.264 and MVC-1, however, are truly next generation encoders. It'll look awful and take up a lot more room than it should. Woe to the poor consumer who buys a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc encoded with the ancient MPEG-2 encoder. Both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD allow three different encoders: Windows Media, by all accounts, offers a very good next generation encoder, but it isn't the only encoder on the block. The mainstream PC is only now catching up to the performance required to watch high definition video.Īll the video samples I cited are in Windows Media format. Dual core does this especially well, although it appears to do so by brute force load sharing rather than any special multiprocessor optimizations in the decoder. Driving 1920x1080 requires a lot of grunt – both in terms of pixel-pushing video bandwidth, and also in terms of CPU power for the advanced encoding used to keep the file size down on these massive resolutions. It clearly requires a lot of CPU horespower to render high definition video. I doubt any PC system could play a true 1080p clip at the time these clips were mastered. I have a sneaking suspicion the reason Microsoft redefined "1080p" as 1440x1080 had to do with performance. Note that DirectX Video Acceleration was enabled in each case. I compared CPU usage in Task Manager during full-screen playback of each clip in Windows Media Player 11 on a few systems I have around the house. Interlacing has a lot of problems and should be avoided whenever possible. Interlaced video modes are generally considered inferior to progressive video modes, and should only be used if you have no way to enable progressive modes. Interlaced means resolution is effectively halved vertically in time frames alternate between odd and even lines each cycle. The official definition of 1080p is 1920x1080, so I'm not sure what Microsoft was thinking there. The official television resolutions break down as follows: You'll also note that Microsoft has an odd definition of 1080p. The resolution is the same, and the bitrate looks comparable. Note that I included the Step Into Liquid promo because it's the only clip on the WMV HD Showcase page that requires an abnormally large amount of CPU power to decode. Most of the clips had similar performance characteristics, so I chose one clip from each category. But the bitrates and sizes are still representative. It's a tad out of date now – most of these sample high-definition clips were mastered in late 2003 or early 2004, long before HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. I'll start by comparing three clips from the Microsoft Windows Media High Definition Showcase page. I'm seriously considering buying one of the $199 Xbox 360 HD-DVD kits and retrofitting it into my Home Theater PC. Now that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are starting to enter the market in earnest, I thought I'd revisit HD video playback on the PC. ![]() |
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