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I often get a book looking fine in Calibre, put it on my Kobo, mutter "oh, crap", and go back into the editor to fix something. Contents 1 Prerequisite 2 Install 2.1 Download 2.2 First-run 3 Kobo Setup 3.1 KePub Metadata Reader / KePub Metadata Writer 3.2 KePub Output 3.3 KoboTouch Extended 3.4 Kobo Utilities 3.4.1 Setup 3.4.2 Read Percent 3.4.3 Backups 3.4.4 Block Analytics 4 eBooks with DRM 4.1 eBooks from Kobo 4.1. Why does Calibre display them differently than your reader? Completely different display software, and different screen resolution. But then every image would be like the cover. If you select it, check the boxes for full screen and keep aspect ratio, and then click on an image, it will put it into an svg wrapper similar to the cover image. It can traverse directories to convert any EPUB files it finds, mirroring the directory structure in the output directory. Once you have something you like, you can use search and replace to fix them all.Īnother possibility: The Calibre editor has a very cool "add image" tool (an icon at the top of each text page). kepubify is a command-line utility available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, that does a lightning-fast conversion of multiple EPUB files into KEPUB. You have to look at it in the editor and play with the coding to get it right for your reader. I don't do comics, but I often see this in images coming across in conversions of any sort. When I look closely, the kobo does not appear in the file explorer. Something like height: 100% by width: auto might work better for comics. If they are height: Xpx by width: Ypx, then you are going to see a different size image on screens with different resolutions. There is still the problem of how the images are coded in the book. The options and default values for the options change depending on both the input and output formats, so you should always check with: ebook-convert myfile.inputformat myfile.outputformat -h Below are the options that are common to all conversion, followed by the options specific to every input and output format. However, calibre accepts a very large number of input formats, not all of which are as suitable as others for conversion to e-books. Conversion Output Profile for Kobo Aura HD Conversion. That may work, although it may also result in a monstrously huge epub. Normally, you just add a book to calibre, click convert and calibre will try hard to generate output that is as close as possible to the input. Then Calibre will not re-size the images. When you convert, try going to the page setup panel of options, and choose output profile = tablet. Depending on your conversion, Calibre is probably reducing the size. If the cbz file is typical, the images are huge, both in file size and real estate. (In most non-comic books, the odd image is not full-screen.) This is different coding than images in the text files of the book. Title page image (cover): Calibre puts that image into an svg wrapper that ensures full-screen and keeps the aspect ratio. A couple of things can be happening here. The Kobo Utilities plugin lets users to remove or set font settings for ebooks, remove tiles from new home on the Kobo Aura HD and Glo devices, update ebook metadata, change the reading. Continuing the retro theme, The Game Kitchen has also included several new render modes, emulating older TV effects that can be applied throughout the entire standard game. Core mechanics will change to suit the classic style as well, as The Penitent One strives to gather five golden skulls and defeat a new boss to reap the rewards. Each run is assigned a score based on various factors, with medals available for the toughest of Penitents.Ī Demake Area has also been added that pays homage to classic 8-bit platformers, providing a linear experience, played inside an arcade cabinet that is hidden in a secret location on Cvstodia, with reimagined visuals to match the retro style. Ramping up the challenge to new heights, the mode features courses containing a selection of bosses that players take on using any of their save files. ‘Strife and Ruin’ also introduces Boss Rush Mode, which becomes available after completing the main storyline. Filled with traps that force the player to hone their precision platforming abilities, those who pass the test and help Miriam return to her world will have a special reward bestowed upon them. Tasked with helping Miriam return to her world, players must complete a series of platforming challenges and collect shards to repair her portal home. The new mission is part of the free ‘Strife and Ruin’ update that launches on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on 18 th February. The Game Kitchen has included several new render modes as well that would emulate the old TV effects that can be applied to the whole game.īlasphemous is now available on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch.Team17 and The Game Kitchen have teamed up with 505 Games and ArtPlay for a crossover that sees the character of Miriam from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night arrive in Cvstodia, seeking help from The Penitent One. The mechanics have changed too, which tasks players to collect five golden skulls and defeat a new boss to gain the rewards. Looking forward to all that, devs: I just love your dedication. Challenge rooms: Blasphemous platforming with a Super Meat Boy vibe, nice. It has reimagined visuals to match the retro style. Strife & Ruin comes to all players as a free update. It provides a linear experience and can be played inside an arcade cabinet hidden in a secret location on Cvstodia. There is a Demake Area added to pay homage to classic 8-bit platforms. Each run is assigned a score based on many factors and with medals available as rewards. Hello Sinners, Introducing Blasphemous: Strife & Ruin, the next free update coming to the game on February 18th Find a new and unexpected ally in the form. This will feature courses containing a selection of bosses that players taken on using any of their save files. Strife and Ruin update will introduce the Boss Rush mode, which will be available to access after completing the main storyline. Completing this mission and helping Miriam return to her world will grant them an awesome reward. There will places filled with traps that will force them to hone their precision platforming abilities. 0:00 / 1:34 Blasphemous: Strife & Ruin - Free Update Live Now Team17 52.8K subscribers Subscribe 14K views 2 years ago Available to all players now as a free update The Penitent One gains a new. They will have to finish different kinds of tasks like platforming challenges and collect shards that could repair the portal that could send her home. Players will be helping Miriam return to her own world. It will be available on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 this coming February 18. This is a new mission where it is free to get and it is called Strife and Ruin. The crossover is from the popular game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and its protagonist Miriam landing in Cvstodia and seeking help from The Penitent One. Game publisher Team17 and developer The Game Kitchen has partnered with 505 Games and Artplay today for a crossover event for video game Blasphemous. The content of this article has not been verified by anyone who could take responsibility for damage to your game, or gaming device.The Just Cause Wiki will not take any responsibility for any damage to your game your gaming device, or any legal action that might be taken against you as a result of any end-user license agreement violation.It is therefore suggested to scan the downloaded files with trusted anti-malware software. There is no way to be sure if the files you download and/or install will work at all, or if they will turn out to be a computer virus.Most modifications require the installation of third party software.So I kind of can't wait to see what people do now that we've expanded the toolset so much." - Roland Lesterlin, JC3 game director, in the third part of the "developer diary" promotional video series for JC3. You have a responsibility to put out a game that allows them to do it again. All that's an incredible thing to do as modding and some of these guys worked on mods for years to get them to work and that sort of dedication to a game. You know, the multiplayer guys coming out, trying to figure out how to run the game on a server. I mean, watching a lot of the mods, I mean, the famous ones, the Superman mods, the infinite grapple mods. " The modding community took - and it's a complex piece of code - so the fact that people were able to get in there and do what they've been able to do. " We have taken inspiration from some of the mods, that were produced for Just Cause 2, for some of the more crazy ideas that we've put into Just Cause 3" - An unidentified developer for JC3, in the third part of the "developer diary" promotional video series for JC3. We think it's an homage to when people are willing to spend their personal time to come up with awesome and crazy ideas and build incredible new systems." - Roland Lesterlin, JC3 game director, in some JC3-related interview. we would love people to continue modding Avalanche games. A lot of us came from the modding community, so there's a lot of will to help it out. " Everyone here at Avalanche loves the modding community. Needs identification (the video interview may be on the JC3 article). A game that's all about the sandbox - really in a good spot." - An unidentified developer for Just Cause 3. Quotes from game developers " The modding community has always been something spectacular in all games and any game that gets the love of the modding community is already in a good spot. There’s a blue circle that closes in on you every few minutes, collapsing the playable area as people die off. It has the same nondescript grassy hills look, broken up here and there by generic suburban houses and gas stations and whatever. Suffice it to say, it’s like Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds but polished. I already wrote at length about Blackout during last month’s beta so I’m not going to spend too much time on it here. It’s the reason you should buy Black Ops 4. That part I’m 100 percent on-board with, even if I’m not sure I have the patience to learn all their intricacies. It exists, and I’d like to see more creative settings like Ix and Voyage of Despair. Your pistol and melee swipe are borderline useless by even the third round.Īnyway, I’m no Zombies expert. That’s great if you want a faster, more dangerous Zombies mode, but it’s one more factor that could push away newcomers. Also it might just be me, but it felt like players went down a lot more in my matches, even on Normal. The perk system’s been completely overhauled, and the “Choose a Class” menu is an absolute mess of icons. (Or are willing to watch a lot of YouTube videos.)Īnd on the other hand, Black Ops 4 changes so much I’m curious whether it’ll alienate longtime fans too. Those sorts of secrets are cool with an experienced group, but hopefully you have friends to stumble through your early matches with or get lucky enough to find a patient guide. One of my early Ix matches, a guy spent the first five minutes just trying to explain to the rest of us some arcane business about cutting down banners to spawn in certain challenges. The series has so many systems stacked on top of each other at this point, it’s hard to even know where to start-especially when screwing up means letting down three others. If you’re not already into Zombies, chances are Black Ops 4 is not going to get you into it. I love circling around a sandy arena, machine gun in hand, mowing down zombie gladiators. The colosseum map, Ix, includes zombie tigers and plate-armored brutes and an entire crowd of cheering onlookers.Īs someone with just a passing appreciation for Zombies, these sorts of visual hooks are my favorite. The Titanic map, titled “Voyage of Despair,” starts with the ship hitting the iceberg and then turns into a zombie-killing brawl across six or seven different decks. These are undoubtedly some of my favorite Zombies maps from a purely aesthetic standpoint. Treyarch’s “Aether” storyline continues for those who are invested in that lore, though to me the bigger draw is the new “Chaos” storyline-a pulpy time-traveling romp that takes players to the Titanic and to a Roman colosseum. Zombies at least stands on its own, and thus is less affected by the lack of a campaign this year. Instead of grenades you might have a grappling hook or a shield or even a dog buddy. Movement’s faster than in last year’s WWII, and Black Ops 4 brings back “Specialists” from the previous Black Ops game-basically hero-type character classes. Mechanically of course there are some Treyarch trademarks. None of it feels like “Oh yeah, Black Ops.” Some of them are repeats from previous games, but there’s no unified aesthetic. There’s one in some sort of luxury villa, one on a snowy mountain with a gondola, one set in Panama, one in the Vietnamese jungle, one in a little seaside bunker, a Far Cry 5-esque prepper compound with a bombed-out church. What I do know is that every multiplayer map feels like it comes from a different game. I don’t know what was planned for the Black Ops 4 campaign, I don’t know why it fell apart, and I don’t know whether the inclusion of Blackout mode was to blame. The answer is apparently: You don’t bother trying. Little ties the series together except for like, “Weird PSYOPs, man.” IDG / Hayden Dingman Without a campaign to tie it all together I wondered “How do you make it a Black Ops game?” After all, the first Black Ops took place during the Cold War, the second blended Cold War elements with near-future warfare, the third was some sort of virtual reality dreamscape. The church manifested a special combination of holiness, lay initiative, missionary zeal, and apocalypticism. The Brethren, a primitivist Protestant movement dating to the 1820s in Ireland and England, left a deep imprint on the piety of both Elisabeth Howard and Jim Elliot. The Howards were dyed-in-the-wool members of the Plymouth Brethren church. Where else shall we go?Įlisabeth (Howard) Elliot was born in 1926 to an American missionary family serving in Belgium. He has not promised to answer our questions.” And yet, Elliot would remind us, God has the words of eternal life. To the contrary, Elliot concluded that God “has never promised to solve our problems. Seen in this light, Elliot’s life refutes common Christian assurances that if we obey, all will go well. We cling to God for his character and for what he accomplished in Christ’s death and resurrection, not for worldly peace or prosperity. Much of the book recounts how Elliot, through repeated and largely inexplicable instances of suffering, grew in wisdom about what it means to truly follow the Lord. The core of their problem, to Austen, was the way that postwar evangelical culture gave young people a naïve view of discerning God’s will. Austen is especially unsparing with Jim Elliot, who comes off both as a courageous missionary and a vacillating (at best) suitor in his ludicrously protracted courtship of Elisabeth. At times she clearly finds her subject frustrating. In recent years, growing numbers of iconoclastic authors-especially academics-have gone to the other extreme, reviling once-revered evangelical figures and judging them irredeemable due to their complicity in various sins.Īusten happily inhabits the judicious middle in this spectrum. Some Christian authors choose a hagiographical approach, presenting their subjects in a holy, inspirational light. By that time, Elliot was a bestselling author whose now-classic books Through Gates of Splendor (1957) and Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot (1958) were fast becoming standard reading among evangelicals.īiographers of figures like Elliot always grapple with finding the right tone. About three-quarters of the book covers Elliot’s story up to 1963, when she returned to the US from South America. Austen’s Elisabeth Elliot: A Life is a biography worthy of its subject, diving deep into Elliot’s vast body of correspondence and other writings to present an exceptionally detailed and sometimes conflicted portrait. Before returning to the US, Elliot had become one of the best-known evangelicals in America, with coverage of Jim Elliot’s death and of her endurance on the mission field appearing in major national outlets like Life magazine. Perhaps even more remarkably, Elisabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint (whose brother Nate also died in the attack) went to live among the Waorani in 1958. Anyone even marginally affiliated with the American missionary community knows the stirring and tragic story of Elisabeth and her first husband, Jim Elliot, who was killed in Ecuador by Waorani tribesmen in 1956. But he is unequivocal in stating that the majority of Americans at the time were Christian believers of some kind or other, and that the evangelical component of them (Patrick Henry, for example) played a formative role in creating the new republic.Elisabeth Elliot was one of the most extraordinary and controversial evangelicals of the post–World War II era. Kidd is careful not to adopt an explicitly ∜hristian nation' view of the role of religious faith, especially evangelical Christian faith, in the nation's founding. The lesson of American history is that although church and state are institutionally separate, morality and freedom are seldom at odds and that, in fact, they are mutually reinforcing.” He points outcorrectlythe errors of both present-day secularists on the left, who insist that the founders barred religious voices from political discourse, and the church-state separation deniers on the right. One of the many virtues of this book is that Kidd is a careful and judicious historian. ∿ull of information about the religion situation of the colonial, revolutionary and early periods of America. ∻alanced without being bland, lucid in the telling, Thomas Kidd's chronicle corrects the excesses both of those who overstate the degree to which America was founded as a ∜hristian nation' and of those who seek to minimize the formative role of religion in the new nation's character.” demonstrates effectively the variety of faiths among Americans of the revolutionary era.” all the more valuable because that story clearly is in danger of being expunged from the historical record.” a salutary reminder of the role religious belief played in the founding of our country. Thought-provoking, meticulously researched. Figure out what you want to prioritize depending on your character’s needs and plan your moves accordingly. Flint is an essential material for a lot of your basic tools, and you can find it when searching Roads. Water can be harvested from any lake, river, or ocean. When you are outside of towns, you can get wood, fruits, and herbs from the forest. Ruined buildings are usually good for getting scraps that you need for crafting. For equipment, you can search armories, tailor shops, and similar structures. Pharmacies, infirmaries, and hospitals contain medical supplies like painkillers, bandages, and ointments. You would usually want to raid restaurants, cafes, or canteens in order to get food and water. The loot is usually related to the type of building you are raiding. There are a lot of places where you can search, and each one drops different loot. Walking from one location to another takes time, so it is best if you have a purpose for every move you make. Tap on the arrow buttons on either side of the Daily Login screen to see the rewards for other weeks. You also get better rewards when you log in for consecutive days. The game gives out food, resources, tools, and equipment as daily rewards. Just log into the game and claim your reward. You don’t even really need to play if you’re too busy. Log In Every Day Your RewardsĪs with most other mobile games these days, you will receive rewards for every day that you log in. Choose your game mode wisely as it will determine your overall enjoyment of the game. That means if you mess up, you will not be able to backtrack from your last Save. Keep in mind, however, that there is no Save option for Online mode. Finally, the Online mode lets you interact with other players. We recommend that you hold off from playing this mode until your second playthrough. Real-Life mode is for veteran players who want a bit more of a challenge. Sandbox mode is perfect for beginners and casual players. These are Sandbox, Real-Life, Superhard, and Online. When you launch Day R Survival for the first time, you will be asked to choose one of the four modes. It’s a good thing our Day R Survival guide comes with a bunch of tips, cheats and strategies. Of course, that will only happen if you don’t have a plan. Danger lurks in every corner, and it is only a matter of time before you succumb to death. Hunger and thirst are the least of your problems. You will have to scavenge for food, water, and other resources in order to survive your journey.Ĭraft various equipment in order to prepare yourself for surprise attacks from wild animals and other creatures. Available on Android and iOS, the game does a great job of providing a post-apocalyptic experience. You set out to discover the truth behind the world’s end in hopes of finding fellow survivors and recovering your memory. What will you do? Day R Survival puts you in the shoes of a man who somehow survives the apocalypse. You wake up alone and without any memories. Enscape integrationsĪs mentioned above, there are Enscape plugins for Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad and Vectorworks.īIM Track for Enscape allows you to create and edit issues in Enscape, and automatically sync with BIM Track for easy tracking and resolution in authoring software like Revit, Archicad, and Vectorworks.īricsCAD BIM V20 integrates Enscape real-time renderer which allows BricsCAD BIM users to create interactive, photo-realistic rendering of their BIM models in real-time. To read about installing Enscape in SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad and Vectorworks, and about the first steps with Enscape, please visit. Select a valid view in Revit so that the ribbon bars are not greyed out.Make sure you have at least one 3D view in your project. Once installed, the Enscape ribbon should be visible under its own tab in the Revit menu.Select the Revit Plugin from the four possible components that are available in the Enscape installer window. Use 360° images to place your model right in its future neighborhood.If you’ve set a certain date, time and location for your project, Enscape will display the sun angle correctly depending on where it’s located on the planet.Light view setting – gives you a perfect impression on how much lux is falling onto each surface in real-time.Changes the time of day (Shift + right mouse button in Revit).Number of Display Settings that may prove useful for your presentations.This is true for any material changes, moving objects, changing Design Options, or Phases, Sun settings, and so on. Enscape is directly connected to Revit at all times, so if you’d like to change anything about your presentation, you can simply do the changes in Revit, and Enscape will update the scene immediately. Enscape will read all the Material, Texture, and Model information from your Revit Project and display it in realistic graphics. You can just select the 3D view in Revit you’d like to start with, click the Start button, and Enscape will do the rest. After installation, Enscape adds a new ribbon that will give you access to a number of tools you can use to control Enscape. Enscape is a real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin for Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, Archicad and Vectorworks. The New War – Supporter Packs The New War Invasion Pack All other Items and Customisations are available for purchase with Platinum starting today from the Warframe Market. The Ravurex Gunblade Skin, Sentient Color Palette, Archon Nira Glyph, and Archon Nira Sigil are time-limited exclusives to The New War Supporter Packs. A variety of Supporter Packs for The New War are available for a limited time and offer bundled access to some of Warframe’s most anticipated new features and offerings, including its newest Warframe, Caliban, and a slew of Sentient-inspired upgrades that will inspire beauty, grace, and brutality in the fashion framing community. The launch of The New War brings additional features to Warframe which lets players wield limitless power to look and play the way they want, including the addition of a new Warframe, and an Arsenal reinforced with new Customisations, Weapons, and Accessories for the ultimate fight on the frontlines against the invading Sentients. We can’t wait for players to discover this experience today.” “This next chapter is full of surprising twists and turns and will take players to new areas in Warframe in unexpected ways. Our community of Tenno that has waited so long for this moment – we share every emotion on this journey with them!,” said Rebecca Ford, director of community and live operations for Warframe at Digital Extremes. “It’s an incredibly emotional experience for all of us on the team to finally deliver The New War to players. As the war rages on, players will discover more about the truth behind the conflict, understanding the Lotus’ past and the nature of their mother-and-child relationship to unlock a new future. The biggest chapter in Warframe’s free Cinematic Quest line, The New War takes players on a journey across 3 massive acts as they experience war from different perspectives and complete Missions in new environments, including Open Worlds besieged by Sentients, and sets the stage for the next chapter and the future of the game. We truly put everything into this – we hope we have given our Tenno their best chapter yet in “ The New War’,” said Warframe at Digital Extremes creative director Steve Sinclair.Īlso Read: CEO Rameesh Kailasam on regulation, policy challenges and future of India’s online real money gaming industry We’ve always considered our storytelling our greatest strength – and to finally continue this story alongside our community is just one of the wildest and most rewarding experiences. The New War launch trailer demonstrates how the cinematic expansion takes advantage of some of Warframe’s most thrilling features and systems, including ship-to-ship space combat with Railjack, Necramechs, and of course, more Warframe action: “We are incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to develop The New War for a community of players that continues to be overwhelmingly supportive and patient. Love.” by Elizabeth Gilbert, I have a slightly different association with this phrase. Although I must admit that after reading “Eat. It is completely understandable – in our time of collapsed chests and constant agitation, “heart-opening” practices help us reverse the computer posture, breathe deeper and feel more open and confident. Those types of practices had become very popular, second only to “hip opening” practices, it seems. The poses out of all four groups are commonly used to manifest the idea of “heart opening”. The asymmetrical nature of those poses also makes them ideally suited to work with body imbalances to stretch and strengthen the two sides of the body separately. Group 4 poses are asymmetrical, which means that in addition to stretching the chest and abdomen, they facilitate the stretch of the hip flexor muscles. Because of this leverage deeper back bending is possible, but it also comes with more risks. Group 3 poses use the muscles of the arms, shoulders, legs and hips to push up into the arch. Here it is necessary to pull the shoulder blades down and in to push the chest forward and up. Group 2 poses utilize the muscles of the back as well as arms and shoulders to lift against gravity and generate the back bend. This is how we develop back strength and stability. We need to avoid using arm leverage here and instead use the muscles of the back to lift the upper body and/or legs up against gravity. Group 1 poses are mostly used for the purpose of strengthening the back. Now let’s take a look at different types of back bends and what we can expect to get out of them. We need to remember to protect our lower backs when bending backward. The deeper we go, the riskier it becomes. Collapsing into one’s lower back while attempting deep backbends is a pretty common occurrence in the bendy yoga world. This is a really important point to remember when we attempt deep backbends. The secondary purpose of all backbends is to strengthen the muscles of the back (and it actually becomes primary for some prone poses, like Cobra). This is the most important quality of the backbend, not how far you actually bend back. This is why you will often hear the instruction to “Lift the chest away from the navel”. Any sort of imbalance in this relationship will affect our posture, the way we move our bodies and how different body parts relate to each other.ĭifferent back bends give us an opportunity to stretch different parts of the Superficial Front Line, but whatever pose we do, we need to focus on the upward lift through the front of the body. To balance each other out, the back line pulls down from the bottom to the top, while the front line needs to pull up from top to bottom. SFL and SBL have a reciprocal relationship that is similar to the rigging of the boat that holds the mast in place. These two lines work in opposition to keep the body upright every waking hour. This line of pull is best understood in relationship to the Superficial Back Line (SBL) that runs along the back of the body. Thomas Myers in his book Anatomy Trains calls this particular line of pull that runs along the front of the body, the Superficial Front Line (SFL). We need to remember that all of those structures are interlinked via fascia, so tension and restriction in one area is likely to affect the other structures along the same line of pull. Structurally speaking, the primary purpose of all backbends is to stretch the front structures of the body (chest, solar plexus, hips and thighs). So why are we so attracted to those beautiful deep backbends? Is it vanity, or do they actually do something good for the body? By the time I developed the necessary core strength, I lost interest in the Scorpion (funny how that works). Unfortunately, whenever I had attempted it, I would collapse into my lower back, simply because I had a lot of mobility there and not enough core strength to support myself. I remember the time when I was obsessed with mastering the Scorpion pose (like the one above). There is something about backbends that makes the practitioner look strong, capable and accomplished. If you follow any famous yogis on Instagram, you will inevitably see many beautiful, glamorous images of backbends in your feed. |
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