![]() “Just get to the next town!” Sometimes, when a battle begins, and the same two Dredge variants that you’ve fought forty times already pop up across the grid from you, auto-pilot can engage. Despite all of its majesty, sometimes you get sick of your little caravan walking through the snow. The biggest issue with The Banner Saga lies in a tendency to drag on occasions. Difficulty does not really follow a standard progression some of the early battles are abnormally difficult, and some later fights that you expect to be epic throwdowns are cakewalks. The lack of indicators to what will happen based on choices you make can lead to frustration for some, and the lack of explanation of some game mechanics can lead to some painful early lessons. This can be especially disorienting when three or more characters are having a discussion who is speaking and to whom they are speaking gets lost very easily. The story is great, but the lack of voice acting or cutscenes turn conversations into walls of text. There is a bit of opportunity for gamesmanship of a few combat mechanics, and the characters tend to skew a bit too much toward standard RPG tropes during battle, but combat in The Banner Saga is streamlined, interesting, and fun.Įven though it has a lot of good going for it, The Banner Saga is not without its problems. The combat here is intense and strategic, different units have hugely different styles, abilities, and strategies, and several numbers need to be juggled in order to determine the most efficient way to fight. On any given turn, a character will receive so many actions to spend: moving around, taking cover, using abilities, or attacking foes. Anyone who has played a tactical RPG knows how these work: the battlefield is a grid, with units and obstructions scattered throughout. ![]() The other half is the tactical, grid-based combat. The caravan, RPG aspect is only half of The Banner Saga. Strongholds can dwarf your caravan of refugees. However, it would not be surprising if they do not. As a player, you want the characters to survive against the impossibly bleak landscape and horrible enemies chasing them. It helps that the characters are interesting, believable, and flawed and that the story is engaging. In multiple playthroughs, how you behave as a leader and treat others in your caravan can dramatically change the story and characters available to you. In The Banner Saga, both of these problems are either not present, or they are hidden so well that it is impossible to tell. Second, options are usually too obvious as to what outcome they will cause (see: Mass Effect‘s Paragon/Renegade system). Generally, the plot is going to be about the same one way or the other. First, choice rarely makes for dramatically different outcomes in games. ![]() The issue of choice in many games is twofold. Will you let them join your group, knowing nothing about who they are and what they’re capable of? Will you continue on, leaving them to die (or possibly meeting them later, out for revenge)? Or will you attack them and steal their supplies? These kinds of scenarios pop up extremely often in The Banner Saga and rarely are your choices insignificant. As your caravan proceeds across the countryside, the player will be forced to make decisions. The caravan will add new characters, including the Varl, powerful creatures that are essentially Giants. The Dredge are essentially sentient suits of armor, lacking any emotion or mercy. The player takes the role of commander of a migrating caravan of people, fleeing from a monstrous army called the Dredge. The Banner Saga is essentially The Oregon Trail meets Final Fantasy Tactics but dressed up as a bleak Viking epic. The grid-based battle system should look familiar to tactical veterans.
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Would be so much simpler, but they have to complicate it all. They could also offer either a monthly rate or a yearly rate. They could instead offer multiple season pass tiers or stick with their membership tiers. I bet some people actually have both thinking the membership is an add on. I have no idea why they just don't offer one product as in either Season Passes or Memberships. With the Gold Plus membership there are some added benefits like "Discounts on Food/Merch Every Visit" which I didn't get with my season pass. I guess that is about what I paid during the last flash sale in 2019 because I think it was like $55 or $60. So in order for you to be able to visit all the parks, you need to get a Gold Plus membership which will cost $6,00 or more per month depending on the park or $72 per year since you have to commit to the year. Thankfully, I never bought memberships before anyway. I almost bought the season pass thinking memberships were an "add on" and it isn't. As confusing as their crazy system is, you either get a season pass or a membership. The other thing that I always found confusing is the memberships in that I always thought you needed a season pass and then you purchases a membership, but that is not the case either. Become a Six Flags Member if you want a Pass that lets you visit ALL Six Flags theme parks and waterparks." "A Great Escape Season Pass can only be used to visit Great Escape (or enter your home park). They say the season passes are non refundable, but they really didn't do a great job explaining the change and hid a lot of stuff in the FAQs which read.Ĭan I use my Season Pass to visit other Six Flags parks besides those listed above? So if you bought the $39.99 deal, and you want to visit other parks, you need to call Six Flags immediately to somehow cancel your order. I live near Great Escape, which is worthless, but New England and Great Adventure are both close by too, so I typically go to 3 parks. $39.99 is a great deal if you ONLY plan on visiting one park, but not so much if you want to go to others. The 2022 season passes are only good for the park you bought it from unless that park specifically has some sort of an exception because they don't have a water park, etc. Unfortunately that isn't the case for 2022. In the past when they ran the flash sale, the season pass always included the Gold option which gave you free parking and visits to any of the other Six Flags parks. ![]() Even if you just ride Joker/Medusa, use your skip the lines, watch a show or two, and leave by 2.Those of you that jumped on what seemed like a fantastic $39.99 deal to renew your season passes will get a big surprise next year if you care to visit other parks than the one you bought yours through. Rides also are frequently on one train or only can have one train.Įspecially since you have a pass I think it’s worth it to at least check it out for a couple of hours. Discovery Kingdom has rides broken down frequently throughout the day, and in my 3 visits (early summer, winter, late summer), never have all rides been open at the start of the day and at least 1 ride doesn’t open at all. I’m sure they get old fast, but for a first visit I liked the tiger one for example. The zoo/shows is something that’s not really taken into account when people talk bad about the park. There are also animal shows that, apart from the dolphin one, are more educational than having the animals do tricks. As far as safety/feel goes, Joker is like Twisted Colossus, Medusa is like Scream, Boomerang is like Viper, and Superman is like Full Throttle/West Coast Racers. The rides will feel very similar yo Magic Mountain as far as safety goes. ![]()
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How Do You Conduct Quantitative Market Research?ĭifferent quantitative market research firms have various ways of conducting this research, but typically the flow looks like this: This research method asks questions to groups of people, using a focus group or online forum, to define market problems and understand consumers’ beliefs. Qualitative market research - When companies conduct qualitative market research, they aim to understand consumers’ opinions, attitudes, and feelings. Data collected from this research method comes from questionnaires, surveys, and similar methodologies. It utilizes mathematical analysis to inform on vital statistics important to your market and business. ![]() Quantitative market research - This market research method is all about numbers and measurement. If you are not sure you need a quantitative research agency or a company providing qualitative market research, read on to learn the difference between quantitative and qualitative market research. 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Players can also collect a material called "cells" which will allow them to access permanent upgrades, but, much like the Dark Souls series, players will lose all of the cells they have collected upon death. Players are tasked with exploring dungeons, killing enemies, and collecting different kinds of upgrades and weapons to assist in their journey. Much like other Rogue-like titles, the game incorporates procedurally-generated maps, but it also retains the action-adventure and exploration gameplay from the Metroidvania genre. While the game has gotten several free updates since then, this will be the first expansion containing paid content.ĭead Cells has been described as being in the "roguevania" genre, meaning that it has elements of both Rogue-like and Metroidvania games. After it spent a year in early access, Dead Cells released in August of 2018 to almost universal praise. The surprise indie hit Dead Cells will be getting its very first paid DLC in February. ![]() This casual, stoned suggestion would change the way audio engineers thought about concert sound. In a 1969 meeting when brainstorming ideas for musical exploration and solutions for their technical problems and smoking ‘special’ cigarettes, Owsley proposed putting the P.A behind the band. Rumored to have taken inspiration Buffalo Springfield’s monitoring setup, Owsley was not satisfied with the standard speakers and amplifiers that were available to him and began modifying and manufacturing his own audio gear with his apprentice Tim Scully, eventually founding the company Alembic. He insisted on sound checks and encouraged them to listen to tapes of their performances, so that they could hear how they sounded, and also correct him on what he was doing. Keeping a sonic journal of each performance of the band, he would use it to improve on his setup and mix for each concert and highlight issues to the band members. After a hallucinatory incident, where Owsley ‘saw’ the Grateful Dead’s sound, he became obsessed with aural perfection and started on an endless path, working with the band, to achieve it. He was also the person who along with his good friend Bob Thomas, helped design the iconic lightning bolt logo, which would sell countless t-shirts. Owsley, or ‘Bear’, as he became known, began to work with the band as their sound man and financed them with his earnings cooking acid. An engineering dropout, he met the Grateful Dead through Ken Kesey, during one of his infamous ‘acid test’ parties in 1965 and became friends with them. The band which formed in the San Fransico bay area during the hippie days of the mid-1960s boasted of a huge cult following. A former ballet dancer and craftsman from Kentucky, Owsley was also jailed twice for manufacturing and distributing LSD, the profits of which he used to finance the Grateful Dead for some time. Whispering to the huge mass of equipment, Bear said, “I love you and you love me- how could you fail me?” This story sums up Owsley’s obsession with sound, both as a concept and as a physical thing. The famous story goes that in 1974 the Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart walked on stage to find Owsley “Bear Stanley standing in front of a wall of over 600 speakers with tears streaming down his face. ![]() Owsley Stanley, left, with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead ![]() Though incredibly frustrated with the noisy, feedback-laden, underpowered situation, they did not want to give up playing live, and the Dead had Owsley on board to help solve the sound situation. It was after this era that the band, the Grateful Dead, became obsessed with their sound, largely thanks to their eccentric and dedicated sound engineer. Things were so bad that the Beatles quit touring in 1966 because they couldn’t hear themselves over the audience. Screaming fans meant that low-wattage guitar amps could hardly be heard and without the help of monitoring systems, bands could barely hear themselves play. ![]() While rock concerts grew in size and scope throughout the 60s, audiences grew larger and louder, without the technical sophistication of amplification ever changing to meet this scenario. It was a time when live sound problems plagued engineers, bands, and audiences equally. A vision during an LSD trip is what inspired Owsley “Bear” Stanley, the Grateful Dead’s sound engineer’s mammoth feat of technical engineering, “The Wall of Sound”, irreversibly changing live sound and engineering for the better. ![]() Both of these formats require CAD software (free viewer here Autodesk Viewer). In order to view these formats, you would need the appropriate software. The contours are offered as an additional layer on DWG and DXF files. Supplementary lines appear as dotted lines, indicating flatter terrain.Typically one index line occurs for every five intermediate lines. Intermediate lines are the thinner, more common, lines between the index lines.This tells you the elevation above sea level. Index lines are the thickest contour lines and are usually labeled with a number at one point along the line.There are 3 kinds of contour lines you’ll see on a map: intermediate, index, and supplementary. Shallow slope (the contours are spaced apart) Steep slope (the contours are close together) For example, several contour lines spaced close together would indicate steep terrain, while lines spaced far apart would indicate a gentler slope. If each line represents an equal point of elevation, then any change in elevation would lead to inconsistent line spacing. When checking quickly a topographic map you can immediately know if a landscape is mountainous or flat. The contour lines we are using today came into popular use in the mid-1800s along with the rise of resource extraction industries like mining and logging. It would be thousands of years before cartographers could chart large areas of terrain with any real accuracy. The first known maps to include geographical features were found in Ancient Rome. ![]() ![]() Specifically, a topographic map represents the three-dimensional landscape of the Earth within the two-dimensional space of a map. Topographic maps use a combination of colors, shading and contour lines to represent changes in elevation and terrain shape. A map with contour lines on it is called a topographic map. Topography is the study of the geographical features of a landscape. In addition to backpacking and hiking, countless other professions use them - land surveyors, architects foresters, engineers, miners, geologists, hunters and more. This information can be helpful when selecting a hiking route. Download 1m Contours of the UK for CAD software hereĭiagrams provided by Encyclopaedia BritannicaĬontour lines are critical to understanding the elevation profile of your terrain or a particular land formation. Contour lines are pictorial, meaning they do not exist on the ground. Understanding contours is a skill that will allow you to look at a map and picture the hill, with depressions for streams, hills and thin mountain ridges, etc. In other words, contour lines show the topography of the land. They're useful because they illustrate the shape of the land surface on the map. Contour lines show elevation and the shape of the terrain. Contour lines are the faint red-brown lines drawn on a map connecting points of equal elevation above sea level, meaning if you physically followed a contour line, the elevation (height of the land) would remain the same. In general, skin is healed in about a week. Recovery depends on how aggressive the treatment is and can range from mild redness to crusting to occasional blisters. Laser tattoo removal can be very painful, so we often offer numbing with a topical cream, shots with a numbing solution, and distracting techniques like vibration or cool air. The number of visits is almost impossible to predict because each person responds differently to laser treatment. The visit may be longer if topical or injectable numbing is offered. 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In general, older tattoos and single-color tattoos respond better to laser removal. Yes, it's possible to completely remove all of the ink in a tattoo. She answers some common questions.Ĭan a tattoo really be fully removed, and does it matter if I have light or dark skin? We recommend you avoid these products to ensure you don't make the area appear worse,” she says. But skip the creams, do-it-yourself kits, and home removal techniques like salabrasion, says Elizabeth Geddes-Bruce, MD, a dermatologist in Austin, TX. Today's removal techniques make it possible to erase what you thought was permanent and give you a do-over. Clean Slate: What to Know About Tattoo Removal By Kara Mayer Robinson, ![]() This thesis concludes by proposing an adapted version of Riemannian theory (removing the need for a key), which can be applied not only to computationally encoded scores, but also audio and other computationally available data (Chapters 5, and 7). Some of the apparent discrepancies in human-annotated harmony datasets specifically, the Chordify Annotator Subjectivity Dataset, a subset of Chordify’s user edit data, and my own annotation study using the song ‘Little Bit O’ Soul’ (Chapters 3, 4, and 6). Riemann’s theory is then utilised to explain ![]() I propose that we would be better able to extract high-level musical features by using traditional music-theoretical methods.įirstly, I report an initial study that highlights harmonies relevance in participants’Ĭlassification of audible music similarity. My doctoral research explores whether traditional scholarly music-theoretical methods of determining harmony (such as Riemann’s theory of harmonic function, and aspects of Schenkerian analysis) could aid in developing better methods for determining similarity. ![]() Indeed, it is surprising that such crucial applications still generally rely upon ad-hoc and proprietary methods for determining similarity. However, long-established theories of harmony such as Hugo Riemann’s theory of ‘harmonic functions’ have been under-utilised in the fields of music cognition and perception, and particularly in music information retrieval and forensic musicology. Harmony appears to have a vital role in listeners’ perceptions of musical similarity. The author argues that in the nineteenth century the idea of music theory as a primarily written discipline (centered on textbooks and written exercises and largely separated from musical performance) became a central element of these general characteristics of music theory pedagogy that would be taken for granted and accepted as self-evident across institutional traditions. Although the traditions are different on several central points (e.g., ties to Italian partimento pedagogy in Paris, to Ramellian fundamental bass in Vienna, and to Weberian Roman numeral analysis in Leipzig), they also have some fundamental similarities that drew the borders-the defining limits-of conservatory music theory. The second section compares these traditions from three perspectives: theoretical framework, pedagogical approach, and historical legacy. In the first section, the characteristics of the three individual traditions are discussed separately. What characterized conservatory music theory pedagogy in nineteenth-century Europe? This article discusses the traditions of music theory pedagogy associated with the conservatories in Paris, Vienna, and Leipzig, specifically focusing on the middle of the nineteenth century (ca. |
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