This led to several disagreements with the show's star. A close bond developed between the others, while Tina never really became a part of the clique.Īnother factor was actually Tina's desire to portray Ginger as a man-hungry sexpot. Stories abound of the closeness of the other six cast members, laughing together on the set, while Tina sat alone in her dressing room. It is more than likely she did, indeed, expect to have "the starring role" in the show, and ended up as one of the seven castaways (with Bob Denver obviously the show's star in the title role). One has no idea when exactly Tina became disenchanted with her Ginger Grant character and the show Gilligan's Island itself. Ginger was originally written as "a wise-cracking Lucille Ball type,” but when Tina was cast, it was quickly changed to a Marilyn Monroe-type sex goddess. (The role of Ginger had been played by Kit Smythe in the pilot for Gilligan's Island in 1963). So Tina, assuming this was the "starring role" she had been promised, agreed to take on the Ginger role. The role on the show of movie actress Ginger Grant was originally offered to Tina's old acquaintance, Jayne Mansfield, but Jayne said no. She did a few more serious films, but in 1964, she played an ultra-sexy beach bunny in For Those Who Think Young- featuring another actor named Bob Denver.Īccording to Tina, in 1964, the president of CBS promised her "a starring role for TV.” A new series called Gilligan's Island was being cast. She did the Italian epic Garibaldi in 1960 and became a member of the prestigious Actor's Studio, studying with famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg. By now, Tina seemed to have wanted more serious roles, trying to slightly distance herself from her sex symbol image (she turned down the movie Li'l Abner in 1959). This role was a dramatic one, not the usual "girly eye candy" gig for Tina. To further her sex symbol image, Tina did a pictorial layout for Playboy magazine in May of '58.īut Tina also landed her first movie role in 1958 in God's Llittle Acre. Tina's image as a guy magnet was pushed even farther when she and another upcoming starlet named Jayne Mansfield both posed for the 1958 Frederick's of Hollywood catalogue. Hmmmm.sound familiar, Gilligan's Island fans?) Although Tina didn't realize it at the time, her character Apassionata was to be the template for her later role as Ginger Grant. (in the play, the sexy Apassionata is hired to vamp Li'l Abner. It was in Li'l Abner that she played the role of femme fatale Appassionata Von Climax. In this period, she had also appeared in several broadway shows, most notably Li'l Abner. She displayed her versatility in 1957, when she recorded an album It's Time for Tina. She possessed a great natural beauty and charisma, had wonderful comedic timing, and had an amazing amount of sex appeal. By the late Fifties, Tina was quickly becoming a fast-rising young actress/sex symbol. By the age of 17, Tina had began studying acting, singing and dancing. Nobody in any family can be hurt if anything happens to this name because it's my name only,” she says.Īfter high school, Tina attended Miami University in Ohio. During her senior year in high school, she mentioned to her drama teacher that she was "the only girl in class without a middle name.” She chose the name “Louise" and it stuck. The surname name “Louise" was reputedly added by Tina herself. Tina Blacker was born to a Jewish family (she was the only Jewish cast member of Gilligan's Island) on February 11, 1934. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook. Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen.
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Nimur ( talk) 19:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC) An easier way than all of that would to run a program that would make a movie out of whatever is displayed on your monitor, and then run the KMZ file. Alternatively, consider using NASA's free Blue Marble data-set with the free NASA World Wind software - see these instructions to export video from World Wind. Perhaps you want to export a video from Google Earth? If so, you need to follow these instructions from Google, and purchase the "Pro Version" of their software. A general-purpose video player will not be able to meaningfully display the KMZ file. A few other GIS software programs can import and interpret the KMZ file format (but again, they are providing the geographic visualization data on their own). All of the visualization and geographic data is contained in Google Earth, not in the KMZ file. Roughly speaking, the file contains nothing more than a "set of instructions" for Google Earth. KMZ is a compressed XML file in the Keyhole Markup Language. I then emailed myself the file, which turned out to be a kmz file (?) - Is there an easy way to convert that file to one that might be playable on windows media player or in a browser or something (As in, on something that is not Google Earth)? Cheers (and apologies for my dearth of techy knowledge), Darigan ( talk) 16:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC) Not really. Hi, I've just been having a play around with Google Earth, and I've created a video-type file that shows the changes in an area by using the record function (after having read this ). Are you sure that you got the right files? Paul ( Stansifer) 18:44, 7 March 2011 (UTC) Are you using Windows Easy Transfer? - Gadget850 (Ed) talk 19:51, 7 March 2011 (UTC) 92.29.124.221 ( talk) 12:05, 7 March 2011 (UTC) I can't think of a reason for a system-to-system transfer to be converting or renaming files like that. Alternatively Irfanview would tell you if the file was a misnamed image file if you try to open it with Irfanview. jpg and see if it results in an image when you click on it. You could try renaming the ending of one of them from. What program do I need? -Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.47.149.197 ( talk) 02:48, 7 March 2011 (UTC) Are you sure they are actually your jpg files? CSV or Comma-separated values files are something completely different and are not graphics files. The files I was trying to extract were jpeg files. I just bought a belkin ez transfer cable for windows 7. You can click here to learn more about the strategies on how to defeat them. This boss battle has two phases, the first is where you'll fight one of the mantis then upon defeating it, you'll enter phase 2 where you'll now fight the other two. To start the boss battle, walk up to the middle and interact to challenge them. Eventually, you'll come across the switches to unlock the gates and at the end will be a path that you'll drop down into leading to the Mantis Lords. Most of the gates are locked that has a switch that you can use to open it, so you'll want to head northwest and make your way down counterclockwise. Now, you'll find more spikes on the ground and walls alongside Mantis Youth enemies that will follow you around once you are seen. Collect the Geo and head down into the next section below. Before heading down, you'll find a cluster of Geo just across the gate in front of you. Continue heading east and then clockwise to find a switch, hit it to open the gate in front of you as well as a big gate that will open on the lower part of the room. Make sure to cling onto the wall and the dash towards the platform to avoid falling into the pit. Finding the Mantis Lordsįrom where you acquired the Mantis Claw, you'll want to go back down then proceed northeast where you'll find a spiked pit. You can test the ability out by going up one level, and perform a wall jump to your right to reach 2 caches of Geo. Jump up on the platforms, kill the Mantis Youth along the way and jump down into the room with the shelves where you can pick up the Mantis Claw - with the Mantis Claw, you can now cling onto walls to either reach higher ground or to slide down safely. Once they're dead, jump and dash to reach the other end to your left and just continue heading west until you see shelves full of Mantis Claws just above The Knight. After activating the switch, retrace your steps and jump onto the platform that will take you to the 2nd level of the section.Īnother Mantis Warrior will be blocking your way and a Mantis Youth by the large gap, kill it to regain SOUL and to clear your path. You'll encounter more Mantis Youth and Mantis Warrior as you walk down the path. Acquiring the Mantis Clawįrom here, head all the way to the western end until you reach the switch that is on the ceiling. Continue heading up one level and proceed west where you'll find another Mantis Warrior blocking the path leading to the village - kill it and enter the next section. Second head back down and use the mushroom to pogo off it and proceed east, then head up on the platforms until you reach the surface where you'll encounter 1x Mantis Youth alongside 1x Mantis Warrior, kill both the enemies to reach 2 more caches of Geo. First, jump on the platforms and stay to the left where you'll see a Mantis Youth, just pass it, you'll find a cluster of Geo that you can destroy to obtain Geo. Once you're back, we'll go through a few parts of the section before heading into the village. For now, head to the very bottom part of the cavern to find a statue of a warrior and the Dashmaster charm just next to it - obtain it and head back to the previous section. That bug is Bretta, and you'll have to save her later when you acquire the Mantis Claw ability. Just be careful going down and always try to look below you to check if there are only a few platforms for you to jump on to avoid falling into the pool of acid.įrom the bench, head west into the next section where you'll see a shivering bug to your left. Acquiring the Dashmaster Charmįrom here, head down southeast, then southwest, then southeast again which will lead you towards the path to a Bench. Continue going east where you'll now encounter a Mantis Youth hanging like a bat on the ceiling, once you're within its range, it will start to fly and swoop in to attack you, continue going east where another Mantis Warrior is blocking your path. Towrads the end, there is a locked door, but you can drop down and then head clockwise where you'll find an intersection leading down - drop down to enter the next section. You'll first arrive within the boundaries of the village where you'll first encounter a Mantis Warrior, be careful with its attack since it has quite a long reach when it swings its claw. Mantis Village Walkthrough The Boundary of the Village In this assignment you are going to make several specific modifications to turn the web server into a server that implements the URL shortening service. Start by downloading the code for version three of simple web server I showed in lecture. This will cause the user's browser to immediately go to the page that the original URL points to. When the user uses this shortened URL in a browser the application will respond with an HTTP 301 response redirecting the user's browser to the original URL that the shortened URL is based on. The server will respond by sending back a short web page that has the user's shortened URL embedded init. Clicking the submit button on the form sends a request to our server to generate a shortened URL for the user's URL. The page contains a form where the user can type or paste in the URL that they want shortened. To start the process of making a shortened URL, the user will start by visiting a web page. When a user submits a shortened URL to the server the server will respond with a command to the browser redirecting the user to the original URL that the shortened URL is based on. The application will allow users to create shortened URLs and then use those shortened URLs. In this programming assignment we are going to construct a network application that implements a simple URL shortening service. Clicking the link will take your browser briefly to the bitly web server, which will immediately issue a command to your browser to go instead to the original URL for the course web page. Here is an example of a shortened bitly URL that resolves to the course web page for CMSC 480. When users click on the shortened URL the service that provides the short URL automatically redirects the user's browser to the original, longer URL.įor example, offers a popular URL shortening service. A URL shortening service allows users to substitute a much shorter URL for a longer URL and save space in a message. Since tweets have length restrictions, embedding a long URL in a tweet can leave little room for a message. A typical use case for one of these services is embedding a link in a tweet. Bit.ly/THWTAPRIL+ will lead you to the Bitly page where you can see my original presentation URL and see when I created the shortened URL.A URL shortening service is a service that allows users to create short URLs that resolve to a longer URL. Bit.ly/THWTAPRIL will lead you directly to a copy of the slides that I used in my recent Intro to Teaching History With Technology webinar. You can try this trick with a URL that I recently shortened. When you add the “+” the URL will redirect to the Bitly or TinyURL page (respectively) on which the shortened URL is hosted and will show you what the original link was. The trick is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly or TinyURL address. The “+” Trickįortunately, there is an easy way to quickly determine what’s behind a Bitly or TinyURL link without actually clicking on it. Some people use them to hide nefarious links. Unfortunately, not all Bitly and TinyURL users are using those tools for good reasons. I often use Bitly to shorten the links to my Google Slides and Canva slides presentations. Registered users can create shortened URLs that people can actually spell to use in place of unwieldly URLs. Bitly and TinyURL are popular URL shortening tools for good reason. I couldn't test the controller support as mine was started to have issues. Setup your mouse, or controller if it works. You'll know be able to use the keyboard to navigate the menu. While in windowed mode, open the virtual keyboard, and focus it on the Zdoom window. Relaunch zdoom, and it'll ask you to select the available wads. WARNING: May cause reinstall to be necessary! While I didn't get around to testing it, you could try the different sound engines by changing the option at the end of 'snd_mididevice' to the following. As far as I could tell the default fmod didn't option didn't offer any midi playback, but it did work with the mod tracker formats. I'd recommend changing the fullscreen option to 'false' while your editing the file. This post has been edited by NobodyHere: Jun 21 2011, 08:47 PM The second post will be the results, before my only Xbox controller detected by Xdsl was rendered useless. This happened to me a few times, when the mouse was 'grabbed' by Windows apps running in Wine. If for any reason you have to manually power-off the Xbox while in Linux, there's a good chance the system will be rendered non-bootable. The reason this is installed after a backup is that it makes Xdsl unstable. Open your MyDsl extension browser, and load the 'nvidia_.dsl'. Okay, once your loop-back image is backed up you can proceed to install the Nvidia package. Alternatively, you could open a command prompt, and type 'sudo mount /mnt/hda55' without the quotes. You can mount your Xbox's F drive (if available) by opening up Emelfm, navigating to '/mnt', highlighting 'hda55', and choosing mount from the right mouse click menu. While in the Xbox system through Xdsl frugal, or FTP, copy the loopback install compressed image to your Xbox's F:\ drive, or your PC. Either reload the system in 'frugal' mode, or FTP into the Xbox from your PC. Reboot the system, with the 'backup' option checked for safety. Save the file changes.īefore installing the Nvidia package, I'd recommend doing the following. I also loaded the 'Xfree86.dsl', and used the option in the Xdsl menu to run the install script.Īs root I'd suggest editing the '/opt/bootlocal.sh', and appending the line 'modprobe joydev' to it without quotes. After rebooting into the loopback install, I opened up the MyDsl browser, and loaded the 'dsl-dpkg.dsl' enabling apt. I then re-installed Xdsl (through the frugal) as a loopback install. The first step was FTP installing Xdsl to the E:\ drive, and transferring all the above downloads to a directory on my F:\ drive. I left it out.īecause I had seen so many threads mentioning it, I also tested out the Windows PC game 'StarCraft'. I did get the latest Windows Zsnes to load in Wine, but not the Wine version required for everything else. There are several versions of Wine in the DSL repository. Keeping it simple, I also downloaded the following Windows binaries. Although only old versions of Wine were available, I proceeded.Ĭonsidering I have no way of connecting my *box to the net, I had to manually download the following DSL packages, or any other Debian Sarge debs. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of native Linux games, or ports, that won't work due to dependencies on later kernels. Specifically, the 0.7beta 0.02 linked to from HERE. I recently have been doing a bit of testing here and there on the gaming capabilities of Xdsl. How do I delete CTH? Go to Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features on your PC, find CopyTrans HEIC for Windows, double-click, grant it administrative privileges, click “Yes” to uninstall. What versions of Windows does CTH support? Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11. Does CTH for Windows affect other programs? No, CTH doesn’t interfere with other programs and has no impact on them. Can I transfer HEIC files on my PC back to my iPhone? Yes, you can do so using CopyTrans Photo. But hey, you can view them! You can also transfer HEIC images back to your iPhone and edit them there. You will see a converted JPG image next to the HEIC one.Ĭan I edit HEIC images? Not on your PC. How can I convert a HEIC file to JPG?Īfter installing CTH, right-click on any HEIC file and choose “Convert to JPEG with CopyTrans” in the drop-down menu. Now you can view HEIC photos by simply double-clicking on them. After that, right-click on the HEIC photo – click Properties – click on the ‘Change…’ button next to ‘Open with…’ – pick Windows Photo Viewer or Photos. How can I view HEIC photos on Windows 10 and 11? To view HEIC images on these OS versions, please install Windows Photo Viewer or Photos app first. To do that, right click on the HEIC photo – click Properties – click on the ‘Change…’ button next to ‘Open with…’ – pick Windows Photo Viewer. CopyTrans HEIC doesn’t open HEIC photos in the Photos app, you need to associate it with the Windows Photo Viewer. I tried opening HEIC images with the Photos app but the photos are blurry. CTH only supports HEICs taken on iOS devices. Step 1: Check the origin of the HEIC file. I installed CTH, but I still don’t see HEIC files. Currently CTH is the only HEIC plugin for Windows. HEVC video format uses video codecs (there are lots of them already), and HEIC photo format uses Windows image plugins. Both HEIC and HEVC use the same image encoding technology, but in a different way. Enjoy it for 1-year free Terms of the offer: This is a 1-year license for version 8.9.2 No free update No free. Enter your email address and your activation code to activate the software. If the version on the website if higher, delete the old codec and install the latest version. After confirmation, your account and activation code will be sent to the e-mail address provided. If it’s the same, you have the latest version. Then visit this page, hover over the download button and compare it with the version you have installed. Go to Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features on your PC and check which version of the codec you have installed. How do I update to the new version? First check whether you need to update. Voila! CTH is installed on your computer.Click Next, read the License Agreement very carefully like you always do when installing software, click “I accept the agreement”, click Next, click Install.Run the CopyTransHEICforWindows.exe file and grant it administrative privileges.Scroll down until you see the “Download” button.It’s absolutely free! Unless you plan on using the software for business purposes. Also, you can download videos in any format from hundring of video sites worldwide.Frequently asked questions How much is CopyTrans HEIC for Windows (CTH)? You can also quickly transfer your favorite music. The Anytrans license code helps you to view and manage your iTunes or iCloud backup files, etc. To do so, you no need to switch to your device. And what not? As through this software, can download all the music for free. As such you can play the music along with you irrespective of the location. All the music surrounds the life each and every day. This is best to transfer all the files with no data loss. One can say it act like an iPhone manager. This is a vital part of the system and needs to express that records to stream a bit later. The anytrans license code is an excellent solution that helps to move the file transfer from your phone to your PC or Laptop in a simple way. After that, the smooth process of transferring data by a single touch will make you fall in love with the software. Please keep in mind, AnyTrans might slow down your computer so it would be better if you restart once after you finish the activation process. 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JSTOR ( June 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭash4Life is an American multi-jurisdictional lottery drawing game as of April 2021, it is offered by ten state lotteries and is drawn nightly.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. This image has become very popular in edits, remixes, and numerous YouTube videos. SpongeBob then shoves Squidward out of the way, and he looks as if he is dancing. This is an alter-ego of Squidward from " The Two Faces of Squidward." After SpongeBob hits the door on Squidward several times, he becomes more handsome than before. This meme became popular among caption memes and users in DeviantArt often replace Patrick with a different character. He then says to SpongeBob, "Does this look dangerous?" The quote is used again in " Ridin' the Hook." The image of Patrick saying this quote was used in The Complete 1st Season and The Complete First Season in the episode selection screen as the select image. This is a quote by Patrick in " Hooky" where he leans on one hook with a lot of hooks in his mouth. Edits replacing the short song Squidward plays in response (usually with something that sounds nothing like a clarinet) have become popular, often deliberately rendered in low-quality video to poke fun at the interstitial's already Limited Animation. This is a quote from an interstitial from the defunct " SpongeBob's Nicktoon Summer Splash" programming block in which SpongeBob reads a piece of viewer mail asking Squidward to play "What a Girl Wants". The original scene "Does Squidward take requests?" SpongeBob's voice actor, Tom Kenny has explained a variety of memes based on SpongeBob SquarePants in a 2019 video. 5.21 "You took my only food! Now I'm gonna starve!".5.19 "You like Krabby Patties, don't you, Squidward?".5.10 "What? It's just an ordinary Krabby - oh my goodness! Squidward!".5.6 "We did it Patrick! We saved the City!".4.64 Trying to get the pizza from SpongeBob.4.53 Surprised/Starstruck SpongeBob and Patrick.4.51 Squilliam Shawty's like a melody and Wocky Slush.4.42 Spunch Bop (Sad SpongeBob picture).4.24 "Shoot, that was my last quarter.".4.22 Security System Takes Control of Squidward's House.4.16 Primitive SpongeBob and Patrick Hate X.4.11 Please Nickelodeon, Don't Turn Me Into a.4.8 "Patrick shows SpongeBob something on his TV".3.43 "Nah, I don't really feel like it".3.26 Inappropriate Timing SpongeBob Banner.3.22 "I will trap Santa in my box, locked up like Fort Knox".3.15 "I Cannot let you escape Squidward". 3.9 "Hey Squidward, why do you sound like Patrick?".3.7 "Hey, Plankton, can our first song go like this?".3.6 Here lies Squidward's hopes and dreams. This next room is a maze filled with Uomas, Oomas, and exploding orange bubbles on the floor.On the wall on the right, slightly above that small platform, you will find an exit not seen on the map. Head up until you find a tree with orange bubbles on top of a small platform above a Charged Lumafly on the right side. The Knight will encounter more Uomas, Oomas, and Charged Lumaflies in this next part of the room.Go through them and take the exit on the right. Then, the Knight will encounter three more Uomas and a pool of acid below. Be watchful of the explosive bubbles on the floor. Next, continue to the right, where the Knight will encounter 11 more Oomas.It is worth noting that Cornifer can be found at the top part of the room after the Shade Gate, and the Knight can purchase the map of the area from him for 150 Geo. Continue to the right, where the Knight will encounter five more Oomas and four Uomas, then take the exit on the right. Press the assigned dash button to use the Shade Cloak ability and pass through the Shade Gate. To continue, the Knight must use the Shade Cloak ability to pass through the Shade Gate. If the Knight tries to pass through, the Knight will bounce back but will not deal damage. Eventually, the Knight will find a Shade Gate, which is a gate made from the void, in the middle of the room. Next, head to the right, where five Oomas, two Uomas, and a pool of acid are below.Head to the very top of the shaft and take the exit on the right. The Knight will encounter more of Uomas and Oomas in this next room.Head to the very top of the room and take the exit on the left. Be careful when attacking Oomas, as it will result in its shell popping, and its orange core will home in on the Knight and explode. In this room, the Knight will encounter a lot of Uomas and Oomas. The Knight has now arrived in Fog Canyon.Starting from the Queen’s Station Stagway Bench, take the exit on the right, jump up the platforms, head to the top, and take the exit on the left.To find the Charm Notch, this is what the Knight must do: With these abilities, obtaining the Charm Notch is very easy. To go through Fog Canyon and find the Charm, it would be best that the Knight has obtained the Shade Cloak ability, which allows the Knight to dash through enemies and their attacks, as well as Shade Gates, the Monarch Wings ability, which allows the Knight to perform a double jump in mid-air, the Mantis Claw ability, which allows the Knight to cling to walls and jump off of them, and the Isma’s Tear ability, which allows the Knight to swim in pools of acid without taking any damage. Fortunately, the Knight will not face Uumuu to find the Charm Notch. As mentioned above, the Knight will also encounter Uumuu, the main boss, in the area. In the Fog Canyon, the Knight will encounter different kinds of enemies like Uomas, Oomas, and Charged Lumaflies. The Charm Notch in Fog Canyon can be found inside a hidden room filled with Oomas, Uomas, and exploding orange bubbles on the left side of the area. One of the best solutions i've heard is to move Vaal Pact, make it for melee only - and for true melee only, this would kill two birds with one stone.ġ) this is the situation WE as a playerbase ASKED for. There's the often suggested solution that melee dmg skillpoints should also grant defenses, but then we have a problem with skills like Earthquake that clearly aren't melee. Now the problem with PoE compared to other ARPGS is that you can theoretically use every skill/talent/item with every character in every combination. There's a pattern with the best/worst melee skills, the best have the biggest aoe. So the slider for speed is not actually dmg, but range and aoe. Dmg values are so overtuned that even a 50% dmg bonus to all melee skills would change nothing. Melees have to get up close and go from pack to pack so they're inherently less safe but also slower, even if they'd deal much more dmg. If you kill the mobs before they can even hit you, that's the best defense you have. Which means that speed and safety are very intertwined. And defenses except insta leech and EHP are shit in general. There's nothing that makes melee inherently more safe except fortify which can still be used with whirling blades/shield charge. The things that matter in PoE are speed and safety. We are more likely to see "Wild Elemental Strike" and "Even Heavier Hit". Yet it will never happen, because they don't want to. There have been numerous solutions or at least approaches for all kinds of problems / balance. Nothing about that skill is melee.Įverything in this game is fixable. The first thing that needs rework is the devs' mindset. It wasn't top on clear speed / budget / DDPS, yet it was nerfed into the ground of being barely playable, because it apparently didn't fit into this game's spirit of monotonous uniform grinding. It was innovative, had really great passive and gear combinations. Explosive Mirror Arrow Clones was a great build. PoE on the other hand tries to make everything shit. Torchlight 2 / Titan Quest for example just made (almost) everything good. The reason other games feel better is because they don't care about some weird fringe balance. Worst case scenario they could just browse reddit and get some starting ideas from there. Don't forget these are the guys who work (probably) fulltime on their project. Yet they made this exact mistake while at the same time weakened the effect on other abilities (CoC). The devs had the foresight to add damage effectiveness to spells, because they knew fast hitting abilities with flat damage / effects can scale out of control. Frostwall is a prime example that took forever. The gem, very specific keystones and a manageable amount of uniques. It's not easier to balance nor is PoE more difficult to. So.back to my dual-class melee monsters in Titty Quest. Not to turn PoE into a hydra when a dragon was enough. But it was always implicit, wasn't it, that we could trust GGG not to let it get away from them? Not to keep adding more and more mechanical complexity when the game even in a beta state was so far ahead of the field in mechanical complexity but far, far behind on polish and user friendliness. More importantly, it's what GGG should have imposed on themselves back when we loved and supported the game.back when it actually was a much more compact, tight product.ĭid we praise the freedom of choice, the skill gem system and the skilldrasil? Of course. I've always espoused that it is with limitation that we get creative and perform optimally whether it's a deadline, a word count or a limited skill/gear set, defined finitude is what we need, not a vast illusion of choice. But PoE has shown that absolute freedom (or something close to it) is in itself a constraint, both for players with analysis paralysis and devs who are faced with the impossible task of pre-empting a player base literally tens of thousands of times larger than their balance team. I mean, I'm still playing Titan Quest on my tablet months after quitting PoE and it's ridiculously constrained in comparison. There's a reason virtually every other ARPG has skill and class tied: it's much easier to balance. The shitty thing is we really should have seen it coming. |
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