![]() Other is not that f2p games are free, it is that their progression is stored on servers so pirating it or cheating would require significant investment into emulating that part. And as custom servers are just not a thing many games have, you have to have original copy and account to play. One is that multiplayer games in general are less likely to be pirated, because detecting same key used across multiple clients at the same time is pretty easy to detect and block. Now I pay subscription for Spotify, because it is so damn more convenient, and I buy games, because "just click and install", cloud saves and auto updates also make it much more convenient (and I want developers of games I like to make more games). I've pirated a shitton of games and music when I was poor and had no own income. ![]() That college kid might not have enough cash for a $60 release, but he very well may be willing to spend $15 a month on cosmetics for Rocket League or whatever. The revenues comes in much smaller bits, which - interestingly - people who are somewhat strapped for cash might be more willing to part with. If the game's free, there's no pirating to be found. ![]() More playing -> more people talking about your game, reading about it, commenting about it on social media, and so on, all of which is essentially free PR/advertising.īut beyond this, it's also true that a large part of the reason FTP-with-microtransactions/Games-as-a-Service has become such a popular model is that it makes piracy irrelevant. There can actually be somewhat of a potential positive effect here, because (a) piracy can act as a form of 'free demo,' and the person may buy the game if they like it, and (b) the more people playing your game, the better. It can also happen among people who are simply looking to try a game out without committing to a full price purchase. These people were never in your market to begin with. They're just not going to play them at all. If you make piracy impossible, that kid isn't going to begrudgingly go out and buy those eight games. For instance, take the college kid who has enough cash for two paid games, and pirates an additional eight. Piracy is most likely to happen when the person is already at their limit for discretionary spending. You're talking about piracy in developing countries, piracy among cash-poor teenagers/college kids, etc. Basically, the idea is that when people pirate a game, it's almost always the case that they wouldn't have bought it anyways if piracy was impossible. I know I've seen such research in the music space, and I believe I've heard similar in games. There's been market research done that suggests piracy has a negligible impact on sales across entire mediums. /r/GamePhysics - Clips of game physics shining and glitchingĭesign based on /r/FlatBlue created by /u/creesch./r/gaming4gamers - middle ground between purely-for-fun and more serious subreddits./r/GamingLeaksAndRumours - Leaks and Rumors.Posting unmarked spoilers will result in removal and warning, and posting spoilers with malicious intent will result in a ban. Please report posts containing spoilers unless they are hidden using the following method or are inside a thread clearly labeled as containing spoilers. If you want to promote without participating in the community, purchase an ad. For more information, see the self-promotion on reddit FAQ. Some promotional submitting (posting your own projects, articles, etc.) is permitted, but it must be balanced out by a much greater level of non-promotion participation in reddit - the rule of thumb is no more than 10% of your submissions may be promotional. Promotion must be kept within acceptable limits.Follow all specific content restrictions.No off-topic or low-effort content or comments.No personal attacks, witch hunts, bigotry, or inflammatory language.No content primarily for humor or entertainment.Questions likely to generate discussion.Want to schedule an AMA with us? Read our guidelines for more information! To see previous AMAs, click here. New to reddit? Click here! Subreddit Calendar Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers.įor examples of quality discussion posts we'd like to see in our subreddit, please review this page.įor an in-depth explanation of our rules, please review our rules page. The goal of /r/Games is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. If you're looking for "lighter" gaming-related entertainment, try /r/gaming! Please look over our rules and FAQ before posting. ![]() r/Games is for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions.
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As for midrange, vocals and instruments are clear and forward. On its default EQ setting without the Bass Boost turned on, bass sounds tight but and lacked depth especially at the lower end of the spectrum. Sound qualityĭesigned with a cylindrical shape, the Soundcore Flare 2 is capable of 360º sound so it is best to place it in the middle of the room where your gathering is situated. Even so, voice reproduction seems to sound rather distant. The microphone isn’t really usable unless you are speaking next to the speaker. I believe the microphone is situated at the Soundcore logo. Charging is the Flare 2 is done via USB-C.Īnker didn’t advertise the microphone abilities on the Soundcore Flare 2 and rightly so. The Soundcore Flare 2 is rated to last 12 hours of playtime on a full charge without any lights on. You can also control the audio and light effects of all the speakers in the Part圜ast group. ![]() Part圜ast supports multi-product compatibility, meaning that the Flare 2 you have now can connect to any Part圜ast speaker. Part圜astĪny feature that the Soundcore Flare 2 has is called Part圜ast, which allows you to connect the speaker to over 100 speakers in one Part圜ast group. The equaliser is not some gimmicky feature, you can really create significant changes to how your music sounds. What you can do app is merely to control the lighting effects, play/pause, volume, and adjust the equaliser. Unlike the Liberty 2 Pro, the Soundcore app does not allow you to re-map or configure the controls. Skipping tracks require 2 to 3 taps of the middle button, but I found myself needing to press the middle button 3 to 4 times instead. The main controls are situated on the top which are button that controls power, volume, play/pause, and lighting effects. The base of the speaker has anti-slip rubber to prevent it from getting shifted around too easily. This means if you accidentally drop the Flare 2 in the swimming pool, it will be able to survive under one meter for up to 30 minutes. ![]() Sadly, there isn’t an 3.5mm AUX out port so the Flare 2 is strictly a Bluetooth only speaker.Īs for build quality, the Soundcore Flare 2 feels really well-built and features an IPX7 waterproof rating. On the back of the speaker, you’ll find a Bluetooth button, bass boost button and a USB-C port which is covered is covered. The speaker is wrapped by a fabric-like mesh which gives the speaker a sleek yet rugged look. Unlike the original Flare, the Flare 2 now comes with two LED light rings at the top and bottom. The Soundcore Flare 2 has a cylindrical shape with flared bottom for better stability. The Soundcore Flare 2 is IPX7 rated, has 360º sound, and an eye-catching light show – which retails for S$159. And when it comes to portable Bluetooth speakers, the Soundcore Flare 2 is no slouch either. Anker is probably most known for their reliable and high quality power banks, but their audio sub-brand Soundcore has also been dishing out great products such as the Liberty 2 Pro. ![]() Her powers were no match for those of the evil Mr Dark, who defeats her at the beginning of the game, stealing the Great Protoon and kidnapping the Electoons. Prior to the invasion by Mr Dark, it seems that it was Betilla's job to protect the Great Protoon – the mystical orb which keeps the world in balance – and the Electoons, little creatures which gravitate around it. She appears to be a meditative and peaceful character in both games (despite the chaos Mr Dark has brought upon the valley in the original Rayman), with great wisdom and the helpfulness to guide Rayman throughout his quest and teach him to use his powers effectively. She also wears small golden earrings, a necklace and several gold bangles on both forearms. In Rayman Origins, while she retains her long red hair (which has become even longer) and ability to float, she now has small, very translucent wings, wears a bikini top, a short skirt and a tall pointy hat of dark and light green colours, and what appears to be dark green kneesocks that are worn up to her now-existent thighs. At the tip of her hat float three pink orbs. She has long red hair, and wears a green and yellow dress, and a hat and shoes covered with blue stars. She does not have wings, and does not appear to have the elven ears characteristic of other fairies such as Ly the Fairy. ![]() In the original Rayman, she shares only a few attributes of a typical fairy, such as her ability to float in mid-air, and her ability to give Rayman his powers with her magic. Betilla, as she appears in the original Rayman game.īetilla is one of the earliest creations of Polokus, making her one of the most ancient creatures in the Crossroads of Dreams. ![]() This update fixes a few recent bugs with Olympus/OM Digital and Panasonic RAW support.ĭownload the free demo of Iridient Developer 3.6.4 here. Iridient Developer 3.6.4 update available. The list of supported Olympus camera models can be viewed here. These Iridient Transformer releases feature updates to many critical external software libraries used by these applications including the latest Adobe DNG SDK 1.6 release plus support for the lastest new RAW camera models from Canon and Fujifilm and other improvements.Ĭ-Transformer: Canon EOS R7, EOS R10 and EOS R5C.ĭownload a free demo of X-Transformer 2.5 here.ĭownload the free demo of C-Transformer 2.5 for Canon CR3 and CR2 images here.ĭownload the free demo of S-Transformer 2.5 for Sony ARW and ARQ images here.ĭownload the free demo of N-Transformer 2.5 for Nikon NEF and NRW images here.ĭownload the free demo of O-Transformer 2.5 for Olympus ORF and ORI images here. X-Transformer, C-Transformer, N-Transformer, S-Transformer and O-Transformer 2.5 updates released! This update adds RAW support for new cameras, updates to image format libraries and other improvements. Only sporadic RAF images shot in lossless compressed mode seem to contain invalid data and it may be specific to early camera firmware versions. These updates fix an issue with loading some RAF images from the Fujifilm X-H2S that may contain an invalid RAW metadata field. Iridient Developer 3.7.1 and X-Transformer 2.5.1 updates available! The list of supported Nikon camera models can be viewed here. This N-Transformer update adds support for the new Nikon Z 30 model.ĭownload the free demo of N-Transformer 2.5.1 for Nikon NEF and NRW images here. Iridient N-Transformer 2.5.1 update released! ![]() ![]() This Iridient Developer update adds RAW support for the Fujifilm X-H2, all iPhone 14 models, the Hasselblad X2D 100C and the GoPro HERO11 Black and HERO10 Black.ĭownload a free demo of X-Transformer 2.6 here. This X-Transformer update adds support for the new Fujifilm X-H2. These updates bring support for new RAW models, bug fixes and other improvements. ![]() Iridient Developer 3.8 and X-Transformer 2.6 updates available! The list of supported OM Digital/Olympus camera models can be viewed here. The list of supported Sony camera models can be viewed here.ĭownload the free demo of O-Transformer 2.6 for OM Digital/Olympus ORF and ORI images here. The complete list of over 800 supported RAW camera models supported by Iridient Developer 3.9 can be viewed here.ĭownload the free demo of S-Transformer 2.6 for Sony ARW and ARQ images here. New RAW camera support in these releases include the Sony A7R V, OM Digital OM-5 and Google Pixel 7 series.ĭownload the free demo of Iridient Developer 3.9 here. This Iridient Developer update should resolve sporadic crashes on the final release of macOS 13 (Ventura). Iridient Developer 3.9, S-Transformer 2.6 and O-Transformer 2.6 updates now available! The list of supported Canon camera models can be viewed here. The complete list of supported Fujifilm RAW camera models can be viewed here.ĭownload the free demo of C-Transformer 2.6 for Canon CR3 and CR2 images here. The complete list of over 800 supported RAW camera models supported by Iridient Developer 3.9.1 can be viewed here.ĭownload a free demo of X-Transformer 2.7 here. New RAW camera support in these releases include the Fujifilm X-T5, Canon R6 Mark II and DJI Mavic 3 Classic/Cine.ĭownload the free demo of Iridient Developer 3.9.1 here. Iridient Developer 3.9.1, X-Transformer 2.7 and C-Transformer 2.6 updates now available! ![]() This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. 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It simply changes how you RECORD what you had been eating. Doesn't make a rat's hinny of difference. It is simply a way you can TRACK what you are doing so you can change/ tweak if necessary. So, as long as you KEEP CONSISTANT in the measurement method, don't stress about how the measurement is finally calculated.īUT. I will say that Fitday REALLY sux for counting and I never use it and never recommend anyone to use it either. ![]() Much more accurate would be - NutritionData's Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter (gosh I love that site) and Nutridiary :: Free Online Diet Diaryįitday's estimates of calorie values for different foods does suck, you're right. My "almonds" (for example) are a custom food (one that I've entered myself) and the nutritional info is copied right from the packet to ensure accuracy. Fitday works great if you work with it in this way. I'm still dumbfounded about the Total not being the total though. 13 reviews for FitDay, 3.8 stars: Nutrition matters a lot, especially nowadays. My testosterone levels dropped significantly after going on a low (2,000 or less) calorie diet with only 5-10% of calories coming from fat. A more modern and efficient calories and exercise tracker. No food calorie counter is faster at calorie counting and nutrient tracking than DietPower’s award-winning diet software It’s made with love by the people at 5pm Record, track, and analyze your food, mood, and symptoms to gain insights into your digestive health Mindfulness Daily, Suite 4100, Suite 4100. This way, you can avoid any system-related technical issues.Professional advice dictated I up my calories to around 2750 and take in a LOT more fat (12g per meal Vs 10g per day!). In addition, you can check the minimum system requirements of the emulator on the official website before installing it. If you follow the above steps correctly, you should have the Fitdays ready to run on your Windows PC or MAC. If you do not want to download the APK file, you can install Fitdays PC by connecting your Google account with the emulator and downloading the app from the play store directly. ![]() Open Fitdays APK using the emulator or drag and drop the APK file into the emulator to install the app.Firstly, download and install an Android emulator to your PC.So it is advised that you check the minimum and required system requirements of an Android emulator before you download and install it on your PC.īelow you will find how to install and run Fitdays on PC: However, emulators consume many system resources to emulate an OS and run apps on it. There are many free Android emulators available on the internet. Fitdays is an Android app and cannot be installed on Windows PC or MAC directly.Īndroid Emulator is a software application that enables you to run Android apps and games on a PC by emulating Android OS. In addition, the app has a content rating of Everyone, from which you can decide if it is suitable to install for family, kids, or adult users. It has gained around 1169783 installs so far, with an average rating of 3.0 out of 5 in the play store.įitdays requires Android with an OS version of 5.0 and up. Fitdays is an Android Health & Fitness app developed by ICOMON and published on the Google play store. ![]() As a native New Yorker, I always wished for snow as a wide-eyed child when the holidays rolled around. “White Christmas” is one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, originally performed by Bing Crosby. I’ve always loved the melody of this song and the mysterious, deeply strange feeling it gives. When I was in elementary school, I had a Christmas album on CD that I listened to on my Walkman and I used to wander around with it in the snow. It’s a very popular song that Puerto Ricans always sing at parrandas. This is definitely the song to bring out the love, peace, and holiday happiness. In these crazy times, we all need some magic, cheer, and funky jams to uplift us through the winter. I wrote this song years ago with the Chambers Brothers, and Moonalice has reimagined it for the 2022 holiday season. “ Merry Christmas, Happy New Year ,” the Chambers Brothers The holidays can bring a lot of people pain, and I think that we look to these kind of heartbreak songs during that time because it’s really important to represent, or to be represented, if that holiday brings back hard memories, or if you have lost someone that you think about in a concentrated way during that time. Hearing it was the first time I realized how some people might look at the season from a very different, less joyful perspective. There’s something about “River” that perfectly encapsulates the aching beauty and heartbreak of the season. On Hark! I mashed it up with “ Greensleeves.” It’s so beautifully written, it just warms my heart every time I hear it or play it. There’s a song by the Handsome Family called “So Much Wine” about a relationship unraveling from mental illness and alcoholism on Christmas Day. But “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” has the most beautiful musical turnaround on “here we are as in olden days” that tugs at my heartstrings. Top to bottom, the whole things has no skips, so it was hard to pick one (I mean, “Merry Christmas, Darling”?! Karen’s voice!). The Carpenters’ Christmas Portrait album is me and my mum’s ultimate holiday record. “ Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ,” the Carpenters And he wrote a song about Rudolph that is better than the original classic! It only lasted ten minutes, but it was so beautiful and the world stood still for a few seconds.īecause he is the greatest rock-and-roll lyricist of all time. Most days, the birdbath was just frozen, plus some light frost on the ground, but one afternoon we looked out the window and it was snowing. Every morning I woke up early to check if it was snowing. It was my first Christmas ever outside of Australia and I spent it in the desert in Joshua Tree. ![]() I played it every day (followed by McCartney II). I got obsessed with this song last December. “ Wonderful Christmastime ,” Paul McCartney I like the erotic twist on “sliding down your chimney” and the idea of being someone’s sexual Santa. I love this jammer because it’s funky and playful and just a little nasty. “ I’ll Be Your Santa Baby ,” Rufus Thomas I always loved the way that Dipset were aware of their own iconic status and leaned into it just enough. Jim Jones was also joined by the late Stack Bundles, just a year before his passing. In 2006, Jim Jones from the mighty Diplomats released A Dipset X-Mas, and the song “Ballin’ on Xmas” puts a new spin on Run DMC’s famous “Christmas in Hollis” track. When an artist or band makes a Christmas album, I think they reach a whole other level of familiarity. ![]() A few participants responded with their own songs (which, fair enough), but most reached deep under the tree to recommend the likes of Prince, the Carpenters, Cocteau Twins, Kurtis Blow, the Pogues, and even a Monty Python alumnus. Some chose age-old and feverishly played selections, but many came back with unconventional pop, punk, R&B, and indie-rock alternatives. ![]() To help, we asked seasoned hitmakers to give us a few words on their favorite holiday tracks. When you’ve had your fill of Mariah’s classic and other yearly staples, it’s not hard to find less ubiquitous carols. That’s the agony and ecstasy of yuletide commercialism: Encountering the same Christmas songs over and over can be grating, unless you’re like Carey - “I live Christmas to Christmas,” she wrote in her 2020 memoir. Over the years since its 1994 release, Mariah Carey’s juggernaut has become one of the standards that soundtracks supermarket speakers, radio stations, Spotify playlists, and every eggnog-sloshed party worth attending. If there’s a single sound that announces holiday season, it’s the opening twinkle from “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Hearing those familiar ascending notes feels like stepping into a snow globe. ![]() This puts it bottom of our list of the best large 3.5t vans for payload. The most any 3.5-tonne Daily variant is quoted able to carry is 1,362kg. Iveco Daily maximum payload at 3.5 tonnnes Once you make the climb you’re unlikely to be disappointed this is an enormous van, helped by what Iveco calls the ‘load efficiency’, which is the ratio between the overall vehicle length and the length of the load area.Ĭheck out the full load area dimensions combinations in the table below. That rear step is important, because one of the downsides of the separate chassis design of the Iveco Daily is the height of the load area from the ground – and this comes despite a significant improvement in this area over the previous model. Iveco Daily load area dimensions and capacity Height and overall width and length will vary with the body fitted on the back – another beauty of the Daily’s separate chassis construction being the variety of conversions it can easily be adapted for. The chassis cab variant has the same basic width, but offers a further three wheelbase options (4,350mm, 4,750mm and 5,100mm). The 2019 onwards model with the three-piece front bumper are also marginally longer than before we're still waiting on Iveco to confirm the exact dimensions, but it is only a matter of a few millimetres. Also note the exterior width is without the door mirrors, as that's all Iveco provides. The total exterior lengths include a rear step, which can be deleted to save around 11mm. ![]() When viewing on a mobile, you may need to turn the screen sideways to see the whole table Iveco Daily variant The exterior dimensions of the various combinations available are outlined in the table below note that the H values refer to the three available body heights. Take the Daily to the max, and as much as 19.6 cubic metres of load volume is available, more than any other standard panel van on the market. The Iveco Daily van offers three wheelbase options, five bodylengths and three roof heights. We’ve added some detail about the Iveco Daily chassis cab too, though for the most part we are concentrating on the van. ![]() ![]() Additional chapters have since been added during the game's time in Early Access, adding in new block types and furthering the story of the abductees' escape attempts. By successfully completing all the puzzles, the player's character is rescued from the alien race by other abductees to a hidden base on the alien homeworld, and begins to work with the other abductees to find a way to escape the planet and return home. Completing a specified quota of puzzles on a world lets the player advance to the next one, as well as advancing the story. The game is divided into 6 worlds with several puzzles per world. The player takes the role of a human that is abducted by an alien race and is put to work to help the aliens construct equipment the character does not appear to be the first one that has been taken for this purpose as throughout the levels are the corpses of other abducted humans, which the player can find and listen to their last audio log. Infinifactory is a puzzle game, structured as several sets of puzzles based on various tasks. The game combines elements of Zachtronics' previous SpaceChem and Infiniminer, with the assembly lines being built from blocks in a three-dimensional space. In the game, the player takes the role of a human abducted by aliens and forced to construct assembly lines to create certain objects for apparently-nefarious purposes. The game was later released on PlayStation 4 in December 2015. Infinifactory is a puzzle video game developed and published by Zachtronics, initially released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on June 30, 2015. Furthermore, only 44% of the final decisions at the EU level include corrective measures, such as fines or orders to stop processing. The report authors noted that less than 10% of the employees across EU data protection authorities are tech specialists. “The Irish government and the governments of all EU member states need to allocate adequate resources to their national Data Protection Authorities in order to allow them to successfully carry out their functions as required under the GDPR.” The German authority alone counts for one-third of the entire EU spending.įor Paolo Balboni, a privacy professor at the Maastricht University, the Irish authority is not the only one to blame. The report found EU countries continuing to increase the DPAs’ budgets, but at an increasingly lower rate. ![]() However, the report also stressed weaknesses in the overall GDPR enforcement architecture.Įnforcement is also highly concentrated in a handful of countries, as France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden receive more than 70% of the total complaints. The Irish DPC also came in for criticism by its peers for its ‘timid’ approach to GDPR enforcement. Ireland hit Facebook’s WhatsApp with a record 225 million euro ($266 million) fine on Thursday following an inquiry into the messaging app’s transparency around sharing personal data with other Facebook companies. Irish data privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp 225 million euros The report compares the DPC’s performance against that of the Spanish data protection authority, which has drafted ten times more decisions despite having an annual budget of € 15.8 million, below the Irish € 19 million. However, almost three years and a half since the GDPR entered into force, the DPC has only issued four draft decisions, leaving almost 98% of cases unaddressed. The Irish DPC is looking into 164 cross-border cases of alleged GDPR breaches. The Commission continues to closely monitor the cooperation in cross-border cases,” the Commission representative added. “Several steps have recently been taken in this direction within the Board. ![]() The European Parliament voted on Thursday (20 May) in favour of a resolution calling on the European Commission to open an infringement procedure against Ireland for failing to enforce the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Ī Commission spokesperson told EURACTIV that “we are aware, as stressed in our 2020 GDPR report, that the efficiency of the cooperation between data protection authorities needs to be further improved” and that the letter will be carefully assessed. MEPs call for infringement procedure against Ireland |