![]() No significance? What are you talking about? She was a key tool Ardyn used in order to direct Noctis' motivation towards fulfilling his plan. You do remember Lunafreya having almost no significance in the plot right? Her death did not matter because the player was not given enough exposition to care. I would prefer not to waste either of our days If you really wanna go back and forth for hours right now, we can. Why? Because you hear things online, see the hate bandwagon and feel empowered joining along without thinking critically about anything you're saying. Thats the thing, all you guys do is say the exact same talking points every time. I didnt want to get into it because Ive already done this too many times in 2016 when people would use the same talking points. Neither kingsglaive or Brotherhood are required to understand the main story of the game, and you KNOW this, but of course people like you just continue to repeat talking points. I've played this game on release, followed it extensively and done extensive research on it's development. I loved FFXV, I waited 13+ years for that god damn game, and while I did enjoy my time with it as I was actively playing, in retrospect we've all got to admit where the game falls short, and it does that in many aspects.Ĭontinuing to be disingenuous huh? Nah, you can Trust me, I've done it all and more. The entire empire somehow had the military might to destroy Insomnia completely, yet all of a sudden everyone died and left when you finally get there? Her brother "realized" the error of his ways off screen through 3 paper notes scattered about his office. Not even gonna bother arguing with you if you’re gonna be disingenuous i find it interesting how you’re just regurgitating all the common hatepost talking points You can still feel the effects of Nomura getting taken off the project and most of the teams work being scrapped/salvaged. It's really hard to believe that Forspoken is their second attempt at an open world when they did significantly better in FFXV.īecause it doesn't really exist? Even if you watch every medium the story is spread across through the Kingsglaive movie & the anime shorts for each character, trust me, I have done it all. I'm really dissapointed because i expected Luminous Studio to built off the foundations laid by FFXV. ![]() Forspoken world design is so bare bone that i have trouble believing that anyone lived in that world at some point. The world of Eos felt lived in, by wild life, by people and by our characters. They gave me a reason to care about them and what they are doing. Sometimes it's just small talk, sometimes they are joking around, and then they can also have serious conversation that makes you reflect on their relationship and what's happening in the world. ![]() The main characters banters are also way better, they have varied discussions. Moment that felt unique in the game and were designed to be memorable. ![]() There were a tons of interesting set pieces like Titan's battle or Altissia. The story and characters were also miles better in FFXV just on presentation alone. The soundtrack can't even be compared, Forspoken OST is so forgettable that i can't remember it once i close the game. Forspoken is a step down in terms of world design and graphics. 2019 and undeserved), Left Alive in 2019 (deserved), Quiet Man in 2018 (.), etc).Īside from the gameplay, i completely agree. I see most reviews are a 7/10 so it's a decent game so should I wait until a price drop to 20-30€? 70€ for this seems so wrong.Īlso seems like the game gathered a ton of trolls who will never play or buy the game and just look at metacritic reviews, so this is probably 2023's targeted hate game and also 2023's Square Enix meme game (my personal opinion is that SE each year makes an ok/meh/bad game where people with zero interest in jrpgs, rpgs, action or strategy games hate and meme it for no reason, like in 2022 it was Babylon's fall (deserved), 2021 it was Balan Wonderworld (deserved), 2020 it was Star Ocean First Departure (I know, Dec. At least the combat looks like a huge upgrade from vanilla XV + short loadings, those were unbearable in XV. This totally looks like FF XV-2 to me, great graphics with nice particle effects, combat looks nice from what I hear but it looks like they repeated the mistakes of XV, bland world and disconnected areas, bland story, small font, terrible npcs and the old combo of "story written by 50 year old japanese men/ I'm gonna tell you a Tetsuya Nomura story now". ![]()
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Google Chrome is built for speed, security, and simplicity, so it will run well even on your aunts ancient PC. This release updates Google Chrome to the latest Dev version, allowing you to test the upcoming release without impacting your local or portable stable install. Google Chrome Portable automatically downloads and installs Googles innovative Chrome browser and converts it into a portable form. Google Chrome Portable is a web browser that runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. Once uncompressed, place your RPCS3 folder in a. A new version of Google Chrome Dev Portable has been released. For Windows users, simply extract the compressed file using any decompression software that supports. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let's take a second and figure out what 24 actually represents, 24 is the number of ways you can arrange "pencil" with "pen" being a single letter, but we got 6 of those (pen, nep, epn. And "pencil" just became a 4 letters word, so it has 4! ways of being arranged, therefore 24 ways. Now we're doing it with 3 letters "p e and n" so there are 3! ways of arranging them, therefore 6 ways. Finally we added them together to get our answer. But really we looked at all the different ways to arrange 2 items, and there was 2! ways of doing it, so 2 ways and "pencil" was treated as a 5 letters word. With "e" and "n" we figured out that "en" and "ne" were the only two possible way to arrange them, and treated them as a single letter. ![]() Now to dig in a little deeper what if we wanted "p e and n" to always be together ? Have a go at it before looking below :) ![]() There we go ! There are 240 different ways to arrange "pencil" so that e and n are always next to each other. First let's think about it a bit, to figure out how many ways you can arrange "Pencil" with N and E always next to one another it's going to be all the different ways to arrange "pencil" as if "en" was a single letter and the same thing with "ne"ġ) How many ways can we arrange Pencil as if "en" was a single letter?ĥ! = 120 ways, we have 5 things to arrange P c i l and "en"Ģ) Now how many ways can we arrange Pencil as if "ne" was a single letter? ![]() ![]() ![]() 2491: Layout designer: Edit region button causes preview window to appear full screen when clicked.2497: Folders: sharing on the root folder.2500: Interactive: layout code actions include more layouts can necessary in required files.2516: Xibo Layout Scaler wrong dimensions on Android.2517: Notify Status: webOS/Tizen players send "splash" as currentLayoutId.2518: World Clock elements misplaced on Linux Player.2527: Calendar Widget Visual Editor Snippets/Library positioned incorrectly.2528: Layout Designer: Bootstrap Tooltip fixes.2532: Fetch Remote DataSets task does not finish thanks to 2530: Case sensitive search Fields on World Clock.2536: Display Profile Settings: On/Off timer override not working.This release is available on Xibo in the Cloud! Changelog 37 issues have been resolved since 3.0.0-rc3.If you'd rather read the announcements we've made at each stage, you can do so in the following release blogs: In our Whats new in Xibo version 3 article you can find a summary of all the things we've added and changed. ![]() The new modulde can be downloaded from your My Products. If you use any of our commercial players (Android, webOS or Tizen) and have taken advantage of on-premise licensing, please update your on-premise licensing module at the same time as you upgrade your CMS. We recommend using player software of the same version as your CMS. V2 players will connect to a v3 CMS, but please be aware that v3 features will not be supported.ġ.8 players will also function but please be aware that v2/v3 features will not be supported. The minimum version of Xibo for Tizen that will function with a v3 CMS is v2 R202.Īt the time of writing these are the latest players: ![]() The minimum version of Xibo for webOS that will function with a v3 CMS is v2 R206. We have new v3 Android and Windows players available with this release, with the other players functioning in a backwards compatible mode. Please use the links below to download this release: It's last closest approach to the sun was in December 2014 and is on it's way back in July 2021. William Henry Finlay (Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) discovered the comet on September 26, 1886. Xibo v3 - code name “Finlay”, has launched! Check out our release announcement and our What’s New in Xibo v3 blogs for more details about the updated features.īelow you will find all the release notes and download links for this latest and greatest version of the Xibo CMS.ġ5P/Finlay is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 6.51a (Julian years). ![]() ![]() ![]() Shuttle come every 15 minutes, but plan on 30 minutes from hotel to terminals 5-6-7, during peak travel times. That was a bummer, but not a deal breaker. Slept pretty well, although woke up to beating drums and chants outside the hotel, apparently from local hotel worker union protest. Valet service was excellent, and allowed me to leave our rental vehicle curbside, while we got the family check in and settled in room. This property is big, with a large lobby and meeting rooms available. Our family of four had four different meals, and each was above average. Used the lobby restaurant which offered a limited menu. Front desk was great, check in was quick and easy, although mid day on a holiday weekend didn't hurt with that. Budget return location, only two blocks away, so was able to walk back after dropping car off. Booked two rooms and was able to get them connecting. Stayed here for one night before an AM flight. 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Oddly I heard the clerks tell two guests that they'd been upgraded rooms but even as the top of the line Bonvoy member I didn't. Finally one of the other clerks figured out I was still standing around and helped me. Meanwhile, the other two clerks were still drawing guests from the regular line. The clerk was trying to deal with having this person pay cash for parking and incidentals. While they have a line for Elite members, that one clerk was taken up for nearly 20 minutes by someone who was clearly not Elite and didn't have a credit card. The Sheraton Club was also full of them, not sure how they have the status to get in there. I could hear them in the hallway through the paper thin door. I'm not quite sure what was going on around this hotel but 90% of the guests seemed like they were going to the Junior Prom. I came down here instead of just having appetizers in the club lounge for free, because I wanted a full meal but now I know better. As I sit here having finished most of my dinner, no one has expressed an interest in how my meal is. I also wasn't given a napkin, I had to reach over and grab a handful of cocktail napkins. Then my food arrived and he walked past me another 3 times before I asked him for another beer. I finished my beer and the bartender walked past me 7 times. I finally asked for and received a menu from a different bartender. I thought maybe he would come back with the menu. I asked for a Stella and a menu and got a Stella. One of the bartenders walked past me 5 times before acknowledging my existence. Went down to the bar for dinner and that's where it all fell apart. Went up to my room, which by all accounts seems nice (I haven't slept in the bed yet, as I compose this). My check in process was absolutely wonderful. 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These hooded spirits seemingly prevent Cloud from dying after falling from Sector 5, and protect Aerith from being captured by Reno and his Shinra guards. Whispers of FateThe most frequently appearing new element in Remake’s story are the Whispers. Well, until Sephiroth takes on that job, of course. These creatures were not revealed until Cloud’s later flashback to the Nibelheim Incident in the original game, but bringing a similar story into Remake helps cement Shinra as the big bad that it is. These creatures are failed experiments, and appear to be Remake’s answer to the original game’s Makonoids humans who have been saturated with Mako to the point that they have become monsters. ![]() While exploring its tunnels in search of Wedge, Barret and Tifa discover practically a whole army of fishman-like creatures who attack them on sight. Sector 7’s hidden labWe’ve already established that Shinra is pretty evil, but did you know they’re evil as in secret-underground-lab-conducting-human-expeirments evil? After the company drops an entire sector of the upper city on the slums to try and wipe out Avalanche, the party discovers a hidden laboratory that’s been operating in secret beneath Sector 7 – something that doesn’t exist (or at least is never mentioned) in the original. This marks Roche’s first and only appearance in the whole game, but it’s pretty memorable thanks to some absurd motorbike acrobatics and a boss fight that sees Cloud 1v1 him within a circle of Shinra guards, as if they were in a Midgar underground sword-fighting club. Apart from this entire mission being new, including the attack on a Shinra warehouse to secure more explosives, we’re also introduced to a whole new villain in the form of Roche, a flamboyant member of Shinra’s elite SOLDIER division. Turns out her mom is very, very good at making pizza. Here we get to see how the wealthier people of the city live, as well as visit Jessie’s family home. Jessie’s missionOne of few completely new locations in Final Fantasy 7 Remake is the Sector 7 Employee Housing Area, a residential zone on Midgar’s upper plate. In the original, Wutai is never brought up in relation to Avalanche, and the only direct sabotage of Midgar by Shinra is when they drop the Sector 7 plate, which remains here. Shinra wants to encourage the population of Midgar to support a second war with the nation of Wutai, and so it begins to spread propaganda that Avalanche is in allegiance with them. But why did the company do this? Surely they’d want to keep the Mako reactors working, in order to generate electricity and profit? Well, turns out the one thing that makes more profit than energy is war. Instead, Shinra does the dirty work itself, causing an explosion far bigger and more devastating than Avalanche had planned. Shinra blows up its own reactorUnlike the original game, the bomb Cloud and Barret set in the Sector 1 reactor in Remake does not blow the facility up. Dissatisfied with being demoted to little more than a librarian, Mayor Domino helps Cloud with his attack on Shinra HQ. ![]() More helpful, though, is the fact that Avalanche has a man on the inside at Shinra: Midgar’s Mayor Domino. Both of these come in handy as Avalanche basically has to bail out Cloud and his pals at a couple of points in the story. ![]() The organisation at large is surprisingly well equipped, with an arsenal of weapons and even helicopters. Barret’s team isn’t much loved by Avalanche’s leaders, though, hence their independent-like status. Instead, it’s a much larger organisation with multiple cells, of which our heroes are just one. Avalanche is huge, and has a spy in ShinraUnlike in the original game, Avalanche is not just a tiny rag-tag band of warriors. ![]() ![]() ![]() She turns down Male’s advances, but continues to develop a romantic story with the Female version of the main character. She has a close relationship with both Female and Male Shepard. While she does appear as a beginner communication specialist, her skills help more than just a few people across the galaxy. She has a fun, dorky personality and is confident in her sexuality. Although Samantha’s character is overshadowed by other fan favorites, she is the first openly lesbian character in the series. Mass Effect 3 is an action role-playing game set in the Milky Way in 2186. His ultimate goal is to be able to live freely and be himself. His character is surprisingly complex in a way heterosexual characters are usually depicted. As a result of his actions, he had to flee his community to save his life. We know that Lev was born as “Lily” to a Seraphite family, openly stating that he is actually a man once he was assigned to be the wife of an Elder. Lev and his sister Yara form a bond with the protagonist, Abby. Screenshot from The Last of Us II (Lev is on the right)Ī third-person perspective, action-adventure game, The Last of Us II takes place in the post-apocalyptic United States. There’s also a dialogue option which leads to the two women confirming they are going to get married. During a small talk with Tiny Tina, Athena confirms her speculation that she and Janey are romantically involved. She’s comfortable flirting with an openly lesbian mechanic named Janey Springs, and shows confidence in her identity and sexuality. We don’t really know much about her past, other than the fact she was trained to become an assassin ever since she was a child. Originally a supporting antagonist in the first game, and with very little screen time, she came back to the pre-sequel iteration. Athena from the Borderlands seriesīorderlands, an action role-playing, first-person shooter, set in a scientific fantasy world, features a character called Athena. Here are 5 best such characters that I found in video games: 1. And while it’s not always done correctly and with good taste, there’s quite a few examples of LGBTQ characters that were created just right. However, it’s not always done politically correct and with good taste. In RPG games, you most likely will have a lot of freedom and choice on how to create your character, ranging from not only external appearance, but also sexual preferences (especially in BioWare’s works). But are they taking into consideration the possibility of portraying characters in a humane way? Are their characters fetishized, stereotyped, or harmfully sidelined? So, did the gaming industry take these findings into consideration? Has it learned anything? If you Google “LGBTQ video games” in your search bar, you will get tons of results. It covered the whole scope of LGBTQ politics and the degree to which these characters were stereotypical rather than actual depictions. The analysis did not focus on the games alone. To put it in simple terms: human characters were more often portrayed as player characters, whereas nonhuman characters were more likely to be enemies.Ĭoncluding, this suggested that characters with sexual differences correlated with nonhumanness. What’s interesting (and quite disturbing) is that the humanness of these characters was significantly associated with their character role and the explicitness of their sexuality. ![]() If they did, they were generally depicted as characters coexisting in implicit or explicit romantic pairs. What they found is that LGBTQ characters did not primarily appear together in games, with very rare exceptions. What was next? There’s a study from 2018 on games published between 19 and the representation of LGBTQ characters in 163 games. ![]() Aside from being the first video game focusing on LGBTQ themes, Caper in the Castro was the only game around 1980s and 1990s to reference HIV and AIDS. The player takes on the role of Tracker McDyke, a lesbian private detective on a quest to find her kidnapped friend and drag queen, Tessy LaFemme. The setting is a historically gay San Francisco neighborhood, the Castro. It’s a murder mystery, single-player, point-and-click adventure game developed by C. What was the first known game with LGBTQ representation? 1989’s Caper in the Castro is one of possible answers. In terms of representation, I’ve researched and learned that gaming developers have still a lot to learn, but there is several of them who did it just right. Although video games are believed to be a heteronormative world, that’s far from the truth. June marks Pride Month and as a cisgender, straight woman I am celebrating the resilience and the determination of the LGBTQ+ community to live freely and continue the fight for full equality. ![]() ![]() Other Final Draft 10 features include real-time collaboration, an index card view to aid scene arrangement, over 100 templates, and a mobile version (sold separately).įinal Draft writing software has just about everything you need, barring some pre-production tools like storyboards, and shot lists.īut if it’s out of your price range ($249.99 at the time of of this writing) there are other robust options to consider. ![]() It also includes organizational tools like Story Map (for outlining), Beat Board (for beat sheets) and Alternate Dialogue (for storing additional dialogue options).įREE TEMPLATE: Download a Save the Cat style beat sheet template hereĮven if you’ve got a keen sense of writing dialogue, it can a great help to give yourself options later on. This means you can break down scene elements (actors, wardrobe, props) to feed into production reports later. Its SmartType function remembers scene elements like characters and locations, which you can reinsert as you write.įinal Draft 10 also includes robust tagging and reporting tools. It’s been an industry standard for decades, and has been used by top writers and filmmakers. This free Mac application is a product of Celtx Inc. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this app available. The only available language in this program is English. Celtx Shots 1.2 for Mac was available to download from the developer's website when we last checked. The size of this program is small, and it does not eat up a lot of processing power when running. Download now 48.1 MB 2.5 on 11 votes Developer: Greyfirst License: Commercial 17 Total downloads: 6,295 (16 last week) Latest version: 3.3 Report incorrect info Description Create complex movies projects using the script-writing and multimedia pre-production options. It is available for the Mac and Mac OS X systems. ![]() You can’t discuss screenwriting software without Final Draft 10. This program is free to download and use, but only for a trial version, and it was created by the Celtx company. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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