Using these points the player can unlock additional skins in the multiplayer's main menu.Ĭould you point me to that "Games For Windows Live" version you talking about?Īs far as i know all PC versions are require steam to be installed: īut maybe there is some unofficial versions with custom installers, maybe you meant those.Īnd some info about "Games for Windows - LIVE": getting more points for trophy kills) or a killing streak. Players also gain experience points through winning matches, killing enemies in different ways (i.e. Domination: A group of players vie for various strongholds scattered throughout the map, the goal of which to take these points and reach a certain point count to win the match. Mixed Species Deathmatch: Three groups of players of mixed species fighting other mixed teams. Species Deathmatch: Three groups of players use teamwork to take out the other teams of the opposite species, basically Marines vs. Deathmatch: Standard free-for-all ranging up to 18-players However, when an Alien player kills a Marine then that Marine will become an Alien and join that player. Infestation: Similar to Predator Hunt, out of a group of Marines one will be chosen to be an Alien, the goal of being to kill the Marines and earn points. If a Marine player can kill the Predator then they will become Predator until they are killed or time runs out. Predator Hunt: Out of a group of Marines one will be chosen to be the Predator, the goal being that the player can use the Predator to gain extra points through killing other players and extend the time limit of being the Predator. ![]() Survivor: A group of four marines surviving against waves of advancing aliens. The Predator can also leap across long distances, mimic voices to distract victims away from groups and use their signature cloaking device to move through enemy encampments without being detected.Īlong with the single-player campaign there are also several multiplayer modes including: Weapons include the Plasma Caster, Wrist blades, Combi-Stick, Mines and the Smart Disc with health being replenished through shards. The council orders him to wipe out the human and alien presence and discover the secret of the hunting grounds. He is then dispatched to the planet to investigate, upon arriving he discovers humans have taken over the planet and unleashed the serpents (The term the Predators use for the Aliens) upon the planet. Predators: The player takes control of a Youngblood fresh from training he receives word from the Predator council that a distress signal from a long lost hunting ground has been set off. Health can automatically regenerate, but the player can bite the head of a fallen enemy to automatically regenerate their health. The Aliens are considered very weak and vulnerable and only have their claws and tails as weapons, but possess great speed and the ability to climb on walls and ceilings. When the power in the colony goes out, Six escapes and begins to wreak havoc against the humans and propagate his species across the planet. Captured and raised by Weyland-Yutani scientists, Six has been hearing the call of the Matriarch for a period of time, desperate to escape and join his brethren. ![]() ![]() Aliens: The player takes control of an Alien nicknamed "Six". There is also the iconic motion tracker that can pick up on enemy movement, flares and a flashlight for seeing in very dark spaces and stims that will replenish their health. There are various weapons such as a pistol, pulse rifle, sniper rifle, flamethrower, shotgun and the smart gun the player can use against the various enemies scattered throughout the stages. Once arriving they realize that a Alien outbreak has occurred and the player must traverse various environments. Marines: The player takes control of the "Rookie" as they are dispatched to the planet to investigate the distress signal. This is where the story begins for the three factions: Curious, they decide to forcibly open the doors and cause a massive energy backlash that causes the power on the entire planet to go out, unleashing hell in the process. The story takes place on the planet designated BG-386, in a mining colony owned by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation where they have found a mysterious site an ancient pyramid that depicts an unknown alien race and the Xenomorphs. Aliens vs Predator is an update of the 1999 PC game Aliens Versus Predator, in which the player can choose either Marine, Xenomorph (commonly known as Aliens) or Predator in a first-person shooter.
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![]() To sell the fish, they have to be at least 22 (just hold a fish with the mouse and their details with come up at the black screen at bottom), the fish can then be put in the selling tank, just drag the fish to the Tank Sell button at top right. To get rid of dead fish just drag the dead one to the bin on the bottom right hand corner. To feed them there is food in yellow containerat top left hand corner. To breed the fish, just drag the fish you want to be pregnant to the blue space on the bottom right hand corner(next to health and fed), then drag another fish to it, then the first fish will become pregnant. If anyone has problems, just ask and ill help if i can! You can download the full version, or buy it. However, in this pizza decoration game, one can choose all such things and come up with mouth-watering varieties of pizzas. Yet, wanting to choose everything, right from the base, crust, toppings and accompaniments may be a little far-fetched longing. In Pizza Shops, we may be allowed to choose the toppings. The game runs on real time meaning the fish will go about their business when you are not online, so make sure you check on them regularly or they will die. Fish tycoon Addicting Games - Free Online Fish tycoon. Was this answer helpful? Yes | No, I would like to submit a support request.In this game you basically have to care for fish, breed 'magic' fish and sell them if you want to upgrade your tank. If they are unable to resolve the problem, please submit our Support Form (select the "No" response, below), and we will attempt to assist you. For issues with games purchased from Reflexive, you should contact for assistance. Reflexive Arcade: Reflexive Arcade was acquired by in 2008.Real Arcade: launch RealArcade and click on the Help Desk item on the far left.You will usually find their help or support links near the top or bottom of each site's page. The following information provides contact links for the most popular game sites. To obtain a replacement activation code for a game that you purchased from another game site, you will need to contact that distributor for assistance. The activation code or other activation methods used by one distributor are not compatible with any other distributor's version of the game. Big Fish Games, Yahoo Games, etc.) manages their own sales and support for the games that they sell. How do I fix that and obtain my game?Įach game distributor (e.g. E-mail address: I accidentally entered the wrong email address on my order.If you like horror games, the Maze series seems interesting. These are real time, so they plants/fish/people will grow/go about their business even if the game isnt running, but they can paused or their speed adjusted. Activation: My activation code doesn't work. Theres also old (but great) games like Fish Tycoon, Plant Tycoon, Virtual Families 2.Activation: I bought the game, but I don't see where to enter the activation code.Activation: How do I activate (register) Virtual Families for Windows?. This can be useful to deliver your drawing to other users who want to open and edit your drawing without having to install AutoRebar on their computers. The Bar Bending Schedule can be either inserted in the drawing or exported to Excel with a simple click, while the EXPLODESEL and EXPLODEALL command explodes the AutoRebar objects into standard AutoCAD entities. The great thing is, whenever you modify the concrete shape and stretch the dimension, the total number of bars updates on the fly. The user can add a new Mark by selecting the Rebar to be linked, and double click it to edit data such as the bar grouping criteria, the bar spacing and the size of the range alternatively, normal AutoCAD dimensions can be linked to the Mark and used to specify the range of a bundle of bars in the concrete structure AutoRebar calculates the total number of bars in that range. Rebar objects can be created and stretched like polylines and the bar size is quickly edited with a double click. Since all AutoRebar entities are graphically connected, a modification to one or more Rebars causes all the linked objects to update automatically. There are four types of dynamic objects: Rebars, Marks, Call-outs and the Bar Bending Schedule. You can now focus on the conceptual part of the design rather than having to deal with time-consuming CAD editing work. With AutoRebar you can now quickly produce high-quality drawings by automating the repetitive tasks previously involved in rebar detailing with plain AutoCAD. ![]() Rebar detailing software and automatic bar bending schedules.Įasy-to-use interface for immediate productivity.ĪutoRebar provides Autodesk® AutoCAD® (and all vertical products) with an extra toolbar with specific objects for rebar detailing of reinforced concrete structures. ![]() ![]() ‘Get You’ is equally sentimental, with the chorus hook (“Who could’ve thought I’d get you”) explicitly regaling true adoration and unworthiness, and portraying a romance that is perpetually anchored in the honeymoon phase. ‘Best Part’, the opening song on the album, is a saccharine ditty that flows through themes of vulnerability and openness, and evokes images of gentle, morning moments between lovers who are in blind infatuation. and Kali Uchis respectively) both stand apart from the other joint ventures for their plush, tight arrangements and vocal performances. ‘Best Part’ and ‘Get You’ (featuring H.E.R. With Freudian, Caesar enlisted the artistic forces of Kali Uchis, H.E.R., Syd and Charlotte Day Wilson, with many of the collaborations producing the finest material on the album. Whether by creative volition or out of circumstance, Caesar has mostly operated independently on his two previous EPs. The muffled synths and snare-accenting guitars hark back to both neo-soul jams and 70s soul records. Yet that R&B feel is omnipresent throughout the album. The album’s sonic spectrum plants it firmly in the services, concerts and conventions that Caesar would have undoubtedly grown up attending. The Hammond organ is generous applied as gloss paint over the majority of Freudian, which provides a devotional sheen to a familiar R&B sound. Gospel roots in the form of choral harmonies can be heard on ‘Neu Roses (Transgressor’s Song)’ and ‘We Find Love’, whilst gospel instrumentation is strewn across the tracks. So whilst Caesar may have left the church behind him, it pervades Freudian. While Caesar draws from elements of R&B and neo-soul, Freudian is grounded in black gospel in both music and subject matter. Lyrics, mood, vocal capability, cohesiveness, presence, and guest features all fit nicely within the 45-minute runtime. So with Freudian, Caesar sought to reconcile the dichotomies that fraught his life.įreudian is a ten-track anthology centred upon sacred elements and secular sentiments, which are packaged in velvety, sensitive songs. The polarity between those devotional and secular styles was mirrored in Caesar’s life by his growing disillusionment with his Christian upbringing. Yet the sounds of R&B and neo-soul were too alluring for a youngster who was exhausting the gospel music on which he was raised. For Caesar, a child growing up in a tight-knit community of Seventh Day Adventists, a mainstream or secularist music culture was simply not a part of his upbringing. However, Caesar also draws from his pious experiences growing up with parents and a community unwavering in their fidelity to their faith. So when Freudian was released late last year, Caesar certainly delivered to the fans precisely what they wanted.Ĭaesar called the album Freudian after learning of Sigmund Freud’s Oedipus complex, finding inspiration in the theory’s proposition that a child has an unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent, in order to make sense of his own previous relationships. Having released two EPs, Praise Break and Pilgrim’s Paradise in 20 respectively, Caesar has amassed a steadily growing body of devotees who are drawn to his ecclesiastical sentimentality and emphasis on tender intimacy. What we didn’t know, however, is just what Daniel Caesar’s debut album would sound like. ![]() We knew that Daniel Caesar channels his religious values and experiences into the lyrical themes of his songs. We knew Daniel Caesar sings with a Canadian sensibility. ![]() We knew Daniel Caesar grew up on gospel music. ![]() Cause if you just sit there, everyone will be wondering “Who is this foreigner?” And you’ll receive bold stares for the rest of the service. ![]() No one will notice because 92.3% of the congregation will be acting the same as you or probably doing much more, not to be outdone. And look up at the ceiling a few times as if you hear God calling your name himself. Behave in a flamboyant Holy Spirit inspired manner. After you’ve familiarized yourself with the lyrics, just add melodramatic movement from side to side making sure you grasp all the attention that was initially given to the musicians and the music playing. Most songs are one divine declaration repeated over and over and over again accompanied by an authentic African beat. Just do as follows: First of all, you’ll probably learn each song in it’s entirety after the first line. If you ever find yourself at a Nigerian church and you feel like you’re not fitting in, it’s alright. (Audience now must proceed in shouting Hallelujah according to the number of times the lead singer requested, in accordance to the rhythm provided. ![]()
![]() Developers' notes: We're reducing the mana cost to help with mana tension.Big Bad Voodoo mana cost reduced from 200 to 150.Reducing the mana cost should help boost the desirability of this ultimate by reducing mana tension. At the same time, Paladins often spend much of their mana casting Holy Light to keep units alive in the first place. Developers' notes: Resurrection already has the restriction of waiting for a player's army to be dead before being cast.Resurrection mana cost reduced from 200 to 150.We're adjusting the power on both sides, with this being the Human side of the change. We don't inherently want the rifle push to completely disappear nor for riflemen to fall too far in power, but rather for the push to be slightly more equal between the attacker and defender. Developers' notes: This change is focused around the Human vs.Attack delay increased from 1.35 to 1.4.We want to reduce its uptime, which should also allow players to better micro against the Mountain King by giving them more time to reposition between casts. While meta changes in 1v1 have seen its usage reduced, it remains a very strong ability in team games. Developers' notes: Over the past year, the Mountain King's Thunderclap has been slightly overperforming.Thunderclap cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 7 seconds across all levels.Team-colored healthbars are no longer "On" by default for new users.This did not affect competitive multiplayer, but was inconvenient for custom map makers. Fixed a legacy issue where the Summoned Damage data field for Feedback abilities was capped at 10.Fixed a desync caused by script timer whose period is less than the game FPS.Resolved an issue with walking animation speed in certain campaign maps.Fixed an issue with the Northrend Tree Wall Doodad where they appeared white on the minimap. ![]()
![]() ![]() Theon's appearance may be one torture scene too many for people (but fortunately the last one of the season), although it does confirm what the novels only later vaguely infer. Dany's confrontation with the Yunkish envoy is also very good (with some exceptional dragon CGI). The stand-out scene of the episode, Jaime Lannister's Big Damn Hero moment, was even moved over from another episode. It's solid, and certainly a welcome improvement on The Climb, but it lacks the oomph of his other episodes. Martin has written the two best episodes of the whole show so far, so it's a bit disappointing that The Bear and the Maiden Fair does not rank on the same level. However, in the middle we have a whole load of random scenes thrown together to see what sticks, and it doesn't really work. Aiden Gillen, whose performance as Littlefinger has been underwhelming throughout the whole series so far, gets a rare opportunity to shine in the role during his closing monologue, which is one of the more disturbing scenes the series has done. The actual Wall-climbing sequences are visually hugely impressive, amongst the best things the show has ever done, but the saccharine final image and the uncharacteristically awful CGI in the final shot let down the hard work elsewhere. Diana Rigg and Charles Dance bring their all to this scene of courtesy and threats and it pays off very well. The Climb is the weakest episode of the season, though it still has some very strong moments such as the barbed confrontation between Olenna Tyrell and Tywin Lannister. ![]()
Yes, this may have worked 10 years ago, but in today’s economy it’s not good enough. We’ve all been led to believe the way you develop sales is by developing strong relationships with your customers. ![]() Summing it up, the authors don’t believe relationship selling is all it’s cracked up to be, and they have the data to back it up. More importantly, they blow up several of the myths most people have come to believe regarding sales. In the book, the authors reveal the findings from their extensive studies regarding the sales process. Because let’s face it – the next global meltdown ought to be here in no time.I recently read The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson. In the spirit of the theme of the uncomfortable challenge, I invite you to reflect on the opening line of this review. There are dozens more lessons herein, but I’m out of space. And be memorable not agreeable, for as nice as it is to talk about sports and kids, “unless you frame your conversation around an edgy or unique insight” you will be long forgotten in record time. Eliminate hasty agreements to requests for price concessions because – well, you’re better than that. Don’t “allow personal boundaries to be breached by the customer,” which is exactly what the Relationship Builder abides. Decision makers rank price #5 as a value driver, with “widespread support for the supplier” at #1. Be willing to rock your customer’s world a bit by sharing potentially upsetting data which they are likely unaware of (and anecdotally, this is an area where marketing departments can truly support sales reps beyond creating another shiny, happy brochure). Knock off the “yes man” approach, because it does no one – you especially – any good. It’s tricky stuff to execute when you don’t want to cross the border into the land of free consulting, so if this concept is appealing you’ll want to read the whole book.Īnd if all you want to swallow is one more paragraph of this stuff, following are some key takeaways. We have to be a step ahead, anticipating the issues our customers and prospects are experiencing, sharing with them valuable information they currently lack. In CEB’s model, we can no longer ask the lamer-by-the-day “what keeps you up at night?” line of discovery-based questions. And having a quality deliverable is no longer good enough because what sets us apart as professionals is the value of our insights. “If your strategy as a sales rep is largely one of being available to take care of whatever your customer needs,” they conclude, “that can be a recipe for disaster.” The problem is that being Guy Smiley and checking in on your accounts may work for finding business but it doesn’t work for creating it, which is naturally the key for anyone looking to proactively grow profitable revenues. ![]() What may surprise you is the least effective type is the first one, where relationship building is tantamount to hand-delivering warm oatmeal cookies straight from an Easy Bake Oven. By the book’s title, it’s easy to guess that what the authors term “the big winner” is the last category (think of them as professional cage rattlers). Their team discovered that there are five types of salespeople in the marketplace: Relationship Builders, Hard Workers, Lone Wolves, Reactive Problem Solvers, and Challengers. That’s twice as many as usual and let’s just say there’s work to do, with the core premise being that now is the time to update our skills and strategies so as to be optimally prepared for the next economic downturn, whenever that may occur.ĬEB’s research concludes that it’s not what you sell that matters, but how and they’re telling us to be more provocative. ![]() It’s average in length (just over 200 pages) and yet my copy now has more than 50 sections flagged for review. Based on extensive research, the book was released in 2011 and I wish I’d read it then – twice. Thankfully, The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson (from the member organization known as CEB) was recommended recently by a few different friends and it’s loaded with meaningful ideas for anyone who goes out to kill that night’s dinner. When was the last time you updated your sales approach? Personally, it’s been years since I altered the way I run a first meeting with a prospect. The famous standoffs between the Stalinist Russia and the Nazi Germany in Paris 1937, or the juxtaposition of the USSR and USA pavilions in Brussels 1958, are examples of very explicit shows of force. The volume gives a fascinating account of architecture assuming the role of the carrier of war-related messages, some of them camouflaged while others quite frank. I will see you out there! Bliss the f%^# out, brothers and sisters, bliss the f%^# out.This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 19. Surely the Chinese philosopher Laozi was referring to it when he said, “A journey of a thousands miles begins with one small magazine…” Here it is, your starter gun to the summers rhythmic rituals… BANG!Įnjoy, my friends, you little Pac-men and women, Players and Go-ers, here’s to raspberries and bubbling cocktails. The enlightened compass by which so many of us will plan our tours and trips, vacations and vocations. The North Star of celebration navigation. Like the summer past and the summer before that, the approaching festival season begins with the arrival of this little gem of a resource, The BCM Ultimate Summer Festival Guide. Welcome to the congregation brothers and sisters our saviour is sonic and there is no need for seating. Blissed the f%^# out, festival day after festival night, a sea of glowing faces, eyes closed, bodies moving. Far away from the everyday, enveloped in the warm pulsing hug of music reaching affectionately out from the stage. Gleefully detached, is a good description of some of the audiences I’ve seen, communally lost in auditory rapture. You, the festival go-er doesn’t suffer too badly either. Now for those readers who are not Players, don’t feel amiss. Be it the sweaty downstairs hall at Artswells or the open-sky tree-lined fields of Haida Gwaii. The fattest raspberries on the vine morph into sun-kissed faces, those smiles, that seething mass of happiness ebbing and flowing before us to the beats we are dishing out. It’s anything but a hard knocks life for us. Be they gymnasium fine dining, hot running water, mobile homes, tee-pees, smoked salmon by the bucket, warm kitchens full of happy cooks, backstage boogies, lacrosse-ball hockey, masseuse/stage managers and full moon parties with free beer to name but a few. That little piece of ID documentation opens up some pretty nice doors both in front of the House and out the back. That hand-painted “All Access” wooden tag hanging from that drifter-with-a-banjo’s sweaty brown neck ain’t just hippy bling. Now, having had the good fortune to be playing a festival, a “player” if I may, is quite the treat. I both envy and admire their commitment to a good time. My memories are but a mere parking ticket compared to the lengthy shindig rap sheets stuffed in the glutted glove boxes of many a festival go-er, who criss-cross Pac-Man-like up and down this province, climbing every mountain, fording every stream, following every rainbow… their red taillights drawing abstract astrological formations into the night sky, the festivals their constellations. To be perfectly honest, the first real music festival I ever attended was because my band was playing it. Now I am by no means a seasoned festival “go-er,” or a seasoned anything for that matter. Like those raspberries in the summer heat. We tap them when we are happy, sad, forgetful, longing, in need of inspiration or just want to escape back, to feel once again those same good feelings. We naturally immortalize them into ideal moments of blissful pleasure where the averages of life sink to the bottom of the keg allowing the juicer bits to bubble forth and over-ripen. Like Gulf Island raspberries dripping between the thorns in the summer’s heat. It’s midnight, the end of August at the end of the Edge of The World.Īaaah! a good music festival memory, one that briefly lights up the darkened corners of the mind that time is slowly redeeming. At this party the bass is upright and the boom box is oral. They’re talking, drinking, smoking, drinking, laughing, drinking, kissing, drinking and of course, singing and drinking. I am beyond the reach of the firelight, on the far outer edge of a crowd of people gathered enthusiastically around a raging bonfire. One that I have never seen, but I trust his judgement, he seems like a good enough fellow. ![]() Somewhere in the darkness Dave Bidini is crooning the assets of the land he loves most. Edge of the World Festival 2014, photo Jason Shaftoįingers of sleepy dark cloud scratch lazily at a fat summer moon as I lay back in the long cool grass where the fire still keeps the falling dew at bay. |
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