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I had to retrain my Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech profile, because as I have explained before, and due to the attack/accident that took place in 1962, where the right side of my face was basically rebuilt. The slight imperfections that people have in their faces where they talk slightly differently out of the left side of their mouth as compared to the right side of their mouths, of course, are slightly more exaggerated with my face as a result of the injuries that the right side of my face sustained in 1962.
I was wearing the microphone on the right side of my face because it was a little more comfortable or accessible because of course I'm right handed. But because the glasses I'm wearing one of the arms from the glasses on the left side is slightly broken. If I were the microphone on the right side of my face. That leaves the arm of my glasses on the left side of my head. Actually being exposed to digging into the skin right behind my left ear.
So by switching the headset to the left side of my face the ear pad for the single sided headset microphone is actually pressing on that arm that is slightly broken and thereby keeping it from inadvertently digging into my skin. But because the microphone is on the left side of my face versus the right side of my face. I have had to go through training because my voice actually sounds different at least two speech programs, when I am talking out of the right side of my face or the left.
It's not noticeable. People don't seem my mouth jerking one way or the other to the right or the left. That's not what happens. It's simply that the skin around my mouth on the right side of my face is just slightly tighter than the skin on the left side of my face. So that when I speak. If I have the microphone like a headset microphone positioned on the right side of my face and subsequently on the right side of my mouth. The sound of my voice actually sounds different than if the headset microphone were positioned on the left side of my face and subsequently on the left side of my mouth.
And that subtle differences enough to make it more difficult for the speech program to recognize my speaking accurately. It's no big deal. It's just something that I've known about for a number of years, especially ever since I began using Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
Today, of course, is the anniversary of when my darling Aileen and I first met. So it is somewhat of an important day. It's also the day just before Thanksgiving. And the news in the world is basically pretty much garbage. We humans have done a really great job of making things is lousy for ourselves as we possibly could. And of course it that's not true then we would not have millions of humans from every walk of life and in every country on the planet suffering so badly while the extremely selfish wealthy people do everything they can to keep their money and make themselves out like they are better than everyone while at the same time they pretty much grind most of us who are middle and lower class and the poor into the ground. As much as they can.
But that's not my fault and it certainly is not the fault of most of the people in the world. The conditions of water happening in the world are directly as a result of the cumulative greed and selfishness and egocentrism and ethnocentrism that is basically affecting humanity. Like some very terrible sickness.
With the foregoing in mind, I plan on resting for a few hours and then I will do my e-mail at 9 AM when I normally do. And because I am basically caught up on my petitions I should not have any trouble in being able to do the news stories like I want. I was mistaken the other day because I thought I had actually lost some days when I transferred my mail from Thunderbird back to Outlook. I discovered yesterday that is not the case. I have all the e-mail. So I have not lost any petitions or e-mail.
That of course will be good news to a lot of my fellow human rights advocates and activists because it means that I will not ignore her or forget to address any of the petitions coming through my inbox. So it will all get done.
But like I said, I just had some breakfast. Some hot cereal. So I'm going to do a little morning meditation and then I will move forward with getting everything done. But part of me wonders how much ugliness we are going to do today. How many people will have their rights violated how many children will be killed how many women will be raped and beaten and murdered. How many of us will be driven to the point where we can't stand it anymore and we will take our own lives.
And for everyone we lose, for every single one of us who dies needlessly we in the human condition lose another potential lawyer or Dr. or politician or another potential nurse or doctor or teacher or just a good mother or father or sister or brother or son or daughter. But we don't think about that collectively that much because the world is becoming consumed with the, me first, mentality. And that's sad. Because that kind of selfishness. Generally really doesn't do any good for anyone except the individual and then nobody benefits from anything that the individual is doing for themselves. Because they are not doing it for the benefit of anyone else they are doing it for the benefit of themselves only.
All I can say is that I don't ever and never really have had any major problems in my life. Even though it appears that I have. And I suppose simply on the basis of the physical elements of my life that my life truly has been rather strenuous and in many ways just a lot of work. Always having to watch what I say and watch where I am. And knowing that wherever I might be that I actually might be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because of all the racism in the prejudice that people have against Jews and then even more specifically against my type of Jew, the Sephardic Jew.
But then I learned very early in life that I would never be treated equal in this world. Not only did my parents make sure that I understood that because they didn't consider me very valuable to themselves or to the family. But I also learned that very well. Because of how much hatred there was in the world for me as a Sephardic Jew and then for me as a Jew because I was coming from a mixed religious family.
So I learned a long time ago. When I was very young that I would never be treated equally in this world, because the world enjoys its racism and its hatred and bigotry. The world enjoys hating and subscribing to hatred on the basis of all these horrible things like racism and bigotry and prejudice. And as long as the world enjoys hating as much as it does racism and prejudice will probably not go away anytime soon.
And yet the reality is that, whether we like it or not because of all of the various population reports and scientific reports that have been coming forward over the last several months. Humanity will get to a place ideologically and conceptually and anthropologically where it's just not going to be a very good idea to continue all the hatred and the racism in the bigotry and prejudice. And of course when that happens, the purveyors of racism and bigotry and prejudice are going to be very angry because they are going to be able to continue to support and promote their ugly hatred. Because there is that faction in the world.
There are those groups of right-wing extremists in every culture and in every philosophy and in every aspect of humanity. Those right-wing extremists who don't like the planet very much they don't like Earth very much they don't like themselves hardly at all. They don't like humanity. They don't like anything except their hatred. Because that's all they spend their time and their energy and their efforts supporting and promoting.
So when these factions from the right-wing extremists here in the world suddenly realize that the world is getting fed up with their hatred. Then the purveyors of hatred will begin to behave really very ugly. They will start killing people. They will start murdering people in order to force people to subscribe to hatred. Because that's what drives these right-wing extremists. Hatred. That's what they live for. That's what they want to see in the world, because they hate the world.
Just like the wealthy don't give a damn about the poor. They only like our money. So the wealthy business owners want everyone in the world to know that they and their families consider most of us nothing but pieces of crap. But they do like our money. So they don't want to have anything to do with us and they want to cheat as is much is possible. And they want to steal from us is much is they can and they want to make sure we understand that they as the wealthy people of this world. But they hate us in every way possible. But they do like our money. So they want us to get used to being hated and at the same time they want us to put up and shut up and give them as much of our money as possible. Because there wealthy and we are crap. And we will always be crap because we're not wealthy.
And as long as that kind of really stupid bastard thinking exists in the world business in the world is only going to become worse. It's only going to get worse. Because we the people who are middle class and poor are finally getting tired of being told that we are nothing but crap and it. The only thing that the wealthy like about us is our money. And at the wealthy will cheat us and steal from us and even kill us in order to get our money. Because the wealthy hate us that much.
We who are of the middle class and the lower class and the poor are finally getting fed up with that kind of asinine bastard behavior which is why this holiday season shopping may not be as profitable for these retailers as it was in the past. Because we the people of the middle class and the lower class and the poor are getting fed up with the wealthy coming out and screaming at ass and yelling at us about how they hate us how they hate everything we are how they don't want us to be able to live right how they don't want us to have food for our families. How they don't want us to even survive, they just want our money.
We of the middle class and the lower class and the poor are finally getting fed up with that asinine bastard anti-life anti-God selfish, hateful behavior that the wealthy people in this world have been showing us for hundreds of generations if not thousands of years.
So no matter what kind of media. Bullshit that TV stations and these businesses try to put on TV and on the Internet to convince us to give them most of our money. So that we can end up starving. That's probably not going to happen this year. Because the wealthy have been very effective at stealing as much money as they possibly could from this world and stealing as much money as they could from the poor and the middle class and the lower class. The wealthy have done everything they could to make sure that we of the middle and lower classes and the poor understand that we are nothing but crap to this world. At the wealthy people of this world will pick up their guns and their weapons then they will go through the cities and they will start killing children and murdering women in order to get their money because they don't care about anything else and they hate all of us. Because the only thing they like about us is our money. They don't want us to have rights they don't want us to have freedoms. They do don't want us to be able to enjoy anything they don't want us to do anything except put up and shut up and give them our money.
And of course, if what I'm saying is not true. Then the world markets would not be in the state they are in right now. And our politics throughout the entire world would not be set up in favor of catering to the wealthy and telling the rest of humanity to basically eat crap and die.
So the wealthy are having really wonderful Thanksgiving is here in the United States and the wealthy are having a really wonderful winter season throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Just like the wealthy are having a really wonderful summer season in the southern hemisphere. They are getting everything they want. They have all the comforts they could possibly ask for in their homes and they don't give a damn how many children are dying and starving they don't give a damn how many women are being beaten, raped and murdered. They don't give a damn how many people are having their rights taken away from them or how many people are losing their homes. They don't give a damn about the mentally ill. They don't give it damn about those who were diseased. They don't give a damn about women eating murdered and beaten they don't give a damn about people who are disabled because all they care about being wealthy people is their money and getting as much of that is possible. Regardless who they have to murder regardless who they have to cheat regarding who they have to steal from because all they care about is their dirty filthy money and having as much of it is possible. And if millions of children and millions of men and women die in the process the wealthy don't care they don't have any problem walking on the dead bodies of men women and children and then picking their pockets while they are lying on the ground and stealing our watches and taking everything they can from us while we are lying dead.
Because it's not the poor people of the world who are engineering the wars in the world. It is the wealthy who are engineering those wars and they are doing that because they hate us the middle class the lower classes and the poor. So badly that they want us to basically die as quickly as possible so that they can have more of their money because that's all they care about. Money. They don't care about human life. They don't care about God. They don't care about any form of God, whether they are Muslim or Jewish or Christian or Catholic. All they care about is their dirty filthy money and they will lie to us and they will cheat us. And they will steal from us in any way they possibly can.
And what's really sad is that the stupid bastards who are the wealthy in this world have no clue that within about 150 years all their stupid bastard money won't be worth anything. Because within about 150 years the human condition is going to go through some of the most tragic changes that humanity has ever faced. And no amount of wealthy bastard money is going to change any of those things. It's not going to stop those things from happening. Because the things that are going to happen to the human condition are pretty much the fault of the human condition.
We didn't manage ourselves very well. We have not managed the planet very well. We have not managed our money very well. Just like we have not managed our politics or our religions very well. Because the end result of what we have and what we have done can be seen in this holiday season in the northern hemisphere and actually all over the world. Because it's not just the poor people in one country or another who are suffering. It's the middle class and the lower classes and the poor in every single country in this world who are suffering all because the wealthy have become nothing more than cold-blooded killers whether they are politicians in the United States government or politicians in any other country. It doesn't matter. The wealthy hate everyone in this world. They hate everyone who is middle class and poor and all they want us to do is to die. And then give them our money.
Which is why. Like I said. This holiday season may not be as profitable for some of these wealthy pieces of crap bastards as it has been in the past because we as a middle class and lower classes in the poor are finally getting fed up with being told that we are nothing but crap when the leaders of all four major religions on earth stood up for us. The poor. Mohammed and Moses and Jesus and Buddha did not stand up for the wealthy. They stood up for us. The poor. The disenfranchised.
Which is exactly why the wealthy did everything they could all through human history to murder and kill as many of us for being middle class and lower class and poor as they were able to. Which is why it all the wars that have been fought it was never the wealthy who went out on to the battle I'm it was always a middle class and the lower classes on the poor who were sent out to die because that's what the wealthy want they want us to die. And then just simply give them our money.
Like I said. What's happening now is the culmination of what we humans have done to each other and done to ourselves and done to this world by allowing the wealthy to lie to us and to cheat us and to steal from us and to convince us that being middle class or lower class or poor means that we are supposed to simply give them the wealthy all of our money and then go away and die. Because that's what the wealthy want. They don't care about anything as long as they can keep more of and get more of their dirty filthy money. And if they have to start a war so that millions of us of the middle class and lower classes in the poor end up dying. That's exactly what the wealthy will do, because they have all that money. Which means they can buy anything they want they can get anything they want, including their own way.
So was you are gathering for your thanksgivings in North America and as you are gathering for your holiday season is all over the world. I would ask you as one of the members of the poor that when you are sitting down with your table's full of food that you remember that there are millions of us who are poor and who are middle class and lower class and while you who are wealthy have tables full of food. The only reason you have tables full of food is because you were able to steal as much money from us the middle class and lower classes in the poor as possible. And without us going to you are businesses and giving you our money. You who are wealthy would not have tables full of food, because you wouldn't have the money to buy that food. Because, whether you like it or not you need us who are the middle class the lower classes in the poor because it. We don't spend any of our money on any of your crap products or services then you don't get any money from us unless you kill us, so the fewer of us to spend money on your crap products and year garbage services. The less money you have and the less money you have, the less food you have on your table, which means you who are wealthy have a very clear choice. You'll have to either pick up your guns and start going into the streets and killing us for being poor and middle class and lower class and simply take all the money you want from us. After you have murdered us.
Or you who are wealthy will finally have to put up and shut up and realize that you need us. You need us who are middle class, lower class and poor. Because without us going to your businesses most of which are crap and laying down our money. You won't get our money. Like I said, unless you are willing to pick up your guns and go into the streets and start killing us. So that you can pick our pockets. Because that's what you who are wealthy do all the time. You'll I in you cheating you steal just to get what you want and you have the money to do so.
In my home this Thanksgiving I am praying for all of the wonderful and amazing men women and brilliant children throughout this world who are poor who are of middle class and lower classes who are struggling just to have any food on the table, struggling to feed their families with millions of women being murdered and slaughtered every year with millions of children dying every year from starvation and poverty and abuse and cold-blooded murder with hundreds of thousands of the middle class and the poor and the lower classes being so desperate that the only thing that these poor souls can think of comes down to taking their own life.
So while the wealthy will be celebrating themselves with highballs and lots of drinking and celebrations those of us who are in fact part of the middle class and lower classes in the poor. We will be doing something else. We will be reaching out to our brothers and sisters in every single country in this world. We will be doing so knowing that we won't be able to save them. In many cases, but at least we can let them know they are loved.
So while the wealthy don't give a damn about any of us who are middle class lower classes and poor. In my home that's not the case. And on this Thanksgiving I will be thinking about them. Brilliant children and amazing men and women all over this world living in conditions and under conditions which are so horrible that many if not most will not be able to continue. My thoughts will be with all of the wonderful children and amazing men and women who are becoming so confused in their own life and so desperate and so afraid that the only thing they can do is to take their own life. My thoughts will be with them. Knowing that I can't do anything to prevent them from taking their own life. But at the very least I can pray. I can pray that God will have mercy upon them and that as they leave this world if we are not able to get to them in time to save their life that at the very least when they go back to God they will know that some of those here on Earth actually did love them no matter how they may have felt.
While the wealthy are gorging themselves with as much food as they can making themselves feel like they are really better than everyone else in my home that's not what will be done. In my home. I was celebrate the least of those among us. The ones who never get on the news the ones that most people never hear about but the ones that every single spiritual leader from all four of the different religions the Jews and the Catholics and the Christians and the Muslims Mohammed and Buddha. And Allah and Jesus and Moses. These people were real humanitarians and they love us. They love to the middle class and the lower classes and the poor because they spent their entire lives defending us. And they died for us. They didn't die for the wealthy and all the selfishness in this world. They didn't die for hatred. They died on the basis of love and they died loving us. Those of us who are middle class and lower classes and poor because they knew full well that we were the victims of the hatred of the wealthy.
So well everybody is visiting with families and people are getting drunk and families are arguing about this or that in my home. I will be praying. I will be praying to God that some of these amazing children and some of these unbelievable and wonderful men and women regardless of where they are will somehow find the courage to keep believing. Even though to them. There doesn't seem to be a reason to do so.
And those of you who are part of us. The middle class the lower classes on the poor and those of you who actually do care about us. I would ask you to do the same. This Thanksgiving. Pray for your brothers and sisters because we all are. At least that. Pray for them because they are suffering horribly every single second. And by the end of today, many of them will no longer be alive. If we can't do something to help them. Let us at least let them know that we love them. Don't they deserve that?
If they are going to leave this world in the next few minutes. Don't they deserve to know that they really were not hated in this world? Don't they deserve to know that we really do love them and that we are sorry that they are dying? The wealthy don't care about them dying. The wealthy don't care about anything except their filthy money. So it's up to the rest of us. It's up to those of us who are not racist and prejudiced and bigoted and hateful to remember that Jesus Christ and Mohammed and Moses and Buddha were all pacifists they did not believe in violence. They did not believe in hatred they did not believe in bigotry or prejudice or war they believed in love.
So I'm urging everyone at least anyone who's reading this Journal and anyone who may feel like I do. It's the day before Thanksgiving in the United States. And regardless of how ugly the history of this holiday in the United States really is regarding the hatred that white humans have had for Native Americans. Regardless of that. It's still a time during the year all over this world, where at the very least every one of us has the opportunity to let those who we really love know how much we love them.
If God will not allow the smallest sparrow to fall to the ground. Then why should we as a creations of that energy or that God or Allah do any less?
So is your gathering for your family gatherings and celebrating you with drinking and songs happy insecure in your homes stop for a moment, please. Just stop for one moment and think for a moment that as you are celebrating with all the food you could possibly want with all of your comforts. But by the end of today millions of wonderful men women and children all over this world will be dad and they did not have all the food you have. They didn't have any of the comforts you have. They didn't have any of the peace of mind. And generally speaking they are dying and they have died in a very faraway places that the news doesn't report on with most of them dying alone feeling that no one in the world really even loves them.
As you celebrating today. Take a moment and close your eyes. Send your love and all of your emotions to these children to these brilliant women in these amazing men all over this world feeling like no one love some because they will be dead by tonight. Send them your energy send them your love. Let them know that they are loved, regardless of what they have been told or how they feel. If we can't save their lives. Let us at least embrace their lives. Let us support their lives. Let us let them know that is they are going back to God that they were not hated here on Earth that there were some who loved them.
It's not that I cost you anything to do that. It's not going to cost you one single penny. Because it doesn't cost any money to close your eyes and think about those two are going through terrible difficult situations. They need our love they need to know. And they deserve to know before they die that they were not hated in this world. Nobody deserves to die feeling that way.
And as you are thinking about these people then become quiet for a second moment and the second moment is really important the first moment you are becoming quiet the said your love and all of your energy to these people who are dying who are suffering who don't have enough food who are battling conditions and circumstances in their own lives which are so horrible that most of us won't even look at what is going on with them. So it's important to send that energy and our love to those people. They deserve to have our love and our respect.
But the other part of the process is just as important because after you have sent your energy to these people who are suffering that I'm going to ask you to do something very difficult. But it's only difficult because it's a state of mind. I'm going to ask you to think about yourselves with all the creature comforts you have with all the foods you have with all the things you want right at your fingertips think about all those wonderful things you have well. Millions are dying because the second part of this process which is so hard very important. Includes being grateful. Not just being grateful for everything you have. But being grateful that you are not one of these people who are suffering so badly, but to be grateful with the utmost of humility, knowing that it wouldn't take very much in this world to put you exactly where these other people who are dying are at this very second.
If we can't have any humanity between us, then where is our humanity?
May God have mercy on us for what we have done.
I'll write later.
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The mind is like a book. Opened and much is learned. Closed and nothing is learned. (N. Maschke – 1994)
My Pro-Life Statement
For the record, I am pro-life . I do not support violence against, or the killing of any human being under any circumstances! In the entire 62 years of my life I have never raised my hands in anger at, or struck a single human being. And the only way that I ever deviate from that stand is that I do not believe that God has ever given any human the right to dictate to any woman how she is to arbitrate her life with the Almighty, and/or God . Therefore, I believe that all women deserve the right to choose for themselves the fate of their own bodies, pursuant to their relationship with the Almighty, and/or God . My position regarding this statement is more fully explained in my article entitled: Second Gear.
My Statement On Religion
For the record, I do not now, nor have I ever hated any human being on earth. I do not hate, regarding my spirituality, and spiritual beliefs, anything that the energy that is beyond this world that so many of us call, God, did make. Meaning that I do not hate the "humanity" that exists within any human being. However, God did not make the personal choices that humans make, regarding how they behave, and/or present themselves, to the world. So if a human being chooses, of their own free will to demonstrate their behavior with racism, bigotry, prejudice, and hatred for other humans, on the basis of their own free will choice as to how they define their spirituality within themselves, that is their own choice. So I do not hate any human being for being that which God did make. I hate only the choices and the manner in which humans have decided to demonstrate their behavior to one another. Whereby, as a result of those choices, war and mass murder have all too often been the primary result. I do not hate religion. However, I will never give my support to "any" religion, that has ever caused harm to, or killed, a single human being, in any way, as a result of the religion demonstrating, or manifesting it's presence in the world. If any religion has ever harmed or killed a single human being, I respect the right of all humans to believe what they want in life. And subsequently, to follow whatever religion they choose. however, I, personally, will under no circumstances give my support for, or to, any religion, or theological belief, that has ever harmed or killed even a single human being. This is what I have dedicated my life to as a spiritualist and a pacifist here on earth. So any attempt by anyone to portray me as hating anyone is a lie. Because that is not so, as the foregoing clearly explains.
- 25,000 children die each day from poverty
- 1041 children die every hour due to poverty
- 17 children die every minute from poverty
- 750,000 children die every month from poverty
- 9,000,000 children die every year from poverty
- 9.2 million children die every year
- 780,000 children die every month
- 26,000 children die every day
- 18 children die every minute
- US Religious Demographics
- US Domestic Violence Statistics
- US Child Abuse Statistics
- US Child Neglect Statistics
- US Suicide Statistics
- US Hate Crime Statistics
- Transgendered Hate Crime Statistics
- US Transgendered Discrimination Statistics
- US Domestic Violence Statistics
- US Child Abuse Statistics
- US Child Mortality Statistics
- Crimes
- Domestic Violence (national domestic violence statistics )
- Rapes
- Murders
- Hate Crimes
- Child Molestations
- Child Abuse (US Child Abuse Statistics )
Human Rights Statistical Data
Child mortality Statistics:
An estimated 9.2 million children under the age of five will die this year – nearly 26,000 per day or 18 every minute. This is greater than the annual number of deaths from 1. AIDS (2 million), malaria (900,000), and tuberculosis (1.5 million) combined. 2. Neonatal disorders, pneumonia and diarrhea are the major causes of under-five mortality.
Globally, 80 percent of all child deaths are due to only a handful of causes: neonatal causes, pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria. 3. Pneumonia or sepsis, pre-term delivery, and asphyxia at birth are the leading causes of neonatal deaths. Malnutrition is responsible for over a third of child deaths.
From: http://www.globalhealth.org/child_health/child_mortality/
And, according to recent United States statistics, there are approximately 43,000 suicides that take place, in the United States every single year. That would be one suicide taking place, by children as young as 12, or possibly younger, up to our oldest citizens. Approximately every 15 minutes.
Not one single penny that the pro-life movement spends on their so-called pro-life movement goes toward saving any of these "living" children's lives. Not one single cent. Which means that not one single cent of the so-called pro-life movement is being used to save any of the amazing children and absolutely fantastic women, and men, who are being killed, or suffering horribly, every single minute. so naturally, it becomes impossible to conclude that the pro-life movement is pro-life at all, if they will not even save the lives of living children and men and women. But will always only be concerned with, and define life as the "fetus" only. And THAT'S NOT how their own God Jesus Christ defines life, in their own Bible.
Which means that the pro-life movement is not pro-life at all. Because their money is "not" going to save any living life on this planet. Their money is only going toward forcing women to bear children against their will. And that's not how their own God, Jesus Christ defines pro-life.
If The Almighty will not allow the smallest sparrow to fall from the sky, why, should we, the creations of that same Almighty, do any less?
With 78% of the population of the United States being Christian, (US Religious Demographic Statistics ) that also means that 78% of all the:
incidents that take place every year, are committed by approximately 78% of the population, meaning people who claim to be Christians. (US Religious Demographic Statistics ). And that is something that the Christian conservatives , and those who are Catholics, never seem to want to discuss, and in many, if not most, cases, will lie about. Unless they are forced to do so, and/or tell the truth, in a court of law.
And again, their own God, Jesus Christ says in their own Bible, not to judge anyone, and not to hurt anything that God makes. That's anything. So, these statistics are really meant to illustrate about being responsible for one's own choices and actions. That would be, in their own Bible, free-will choices and free-will actions.
The mind is like a book. Opened and much is learned. Closed and nothing is learned. (N. Maschke – 1994)
Lawsuits and Civil Rights Violations In Ohio:
- Lawsuits Against Columbus, Ohio
- Lawsuits Against Dayton, Ohio
- Lawsuits Against Cincinnati, Ohio
- Racism and Columbus, Ohio
- Racism and Dayton, Ohio
- Racism And Cincinnati, Ohio
- Civil Rights Violations In Columbus, Ohio
- Civil Rights Violations In Dayton, Ohio
- Civil Rights Violations In Cincinnati, Ohio
General Further Reading:
- Jesus Christ
- The Sermon On The Mount
- God
- Allah
- The Bible
- The Torah
- The Talmud
- The Koran
- The Ten Commandments
- John The Baptist
- The Burning Times
- The Crusades
- Joan Of Arc
- The Children Of Lourdes
- The Children of Fatima
- The Spanish Inquisition
- Opus Dei
- The Battle of Independence
- George Washington
- The Mountain Meadows Massacre
- The American Civil War
- Slavery
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Wilkes Booth
- The Christian Conservatives
- The American Baptist Congress
- The American Jewish Congress
- Ashkenazi Jews
- Sephardic Jews
- Jews
- Muslims
- Buddha
- Buddhists
- World War I
- Prohibition
- The Great Depression
- The Battle of Washington
- World War II
- Dachau
- The Korean War
- The Vietnam War
- Richard Nixon
- Oliver North
- The Iran-Contra Affair
- The Gulf War
- The Savings-And-Loan Crisis
- Bill Clinton
- The Balanced Budget Amendment
- The Iraq War
- The US Debt Clock
- The Kondratieff Wave
- Profitability Analysis
- Financial Analysis
- Vance Packard
- Laissez-Faire
- Inflation
- Bank of America Fraud
- Most of the Bail Out money going for executive bonuses
- Most companies LIE about their environmental fines Banks Using Bailout Funds To BRIBE Congress Banks Pay Lavish Bonuses To All Employees
- Money Managers Accused of $550 Million Fraud
- How The Republicans Use The Constitution To Lie (article 1, section 6, Subsection b) of The US Constitution
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Hi All. Please can someone explian in layman terms to me whats the differance between bracketing and exposure compensation, and when would you use one over the other, just didnt grasp it last night at night school. Kind Regards Pete
Exposure compensation is used to overcome issues when the sensor is confused by the amount of light coming into the camera.
In its simplest form, the sensor assumes that the overall tone of an image is mid-grey (this is nothing to do with colour). If the amount of light coming in is higher than mid-grey the camera reduces the amount of light by shortening shutter speed or narrowing the aperture.
If you are taking a picture of a peron standing on snow, then the average light is very bright so the camera reduces the exposure. The snow comes out greyish and the person is horrendously underexposed. When using exposure compensation you are telling the camera 'I don't agree with you, I want you to give it 2 stops more light'. The person is now correctly exposed but the snow is a burnt-out white background.
The same happens in reverse if you have a spotlit subject against a dark background.
Bracketing is where you can take that same picture at two or more different exposure levels, one for the person and one for the snow. The intention is that in post processing you combine the two elements - the correctly exposed snow and the correctly exposed person - into one image.
A development of bracketing (pun intended) is HDR where you take two or more images at different exposure levels and a program blends the images in a much more complex fashion. But that is a whole different story
I should have added that even in a snowscape, it is useful to add exposure compensation to avoid the snow coming out grey.
Nowadays camera meters are much more sophisticated. They have in their memory a database of several thousand images and on seeing that the scene is not an overall mid-grey it compares the image it detects with this catalogue and once it finds the closest match it applies the settings it thinks is most appropriate (I still think it is amazing that it can do this in a split second). So you may find that the snow scene comes out pretty close to ideal even without your intervention. And with face detection, if it detects a face it will expose for the face in preference to the background. Cool, eh?
The beginner's bible on this topic is 'Understanding Exposure' by Bryan Peterson.
The difference is perhaps best described in the purpose behind the techniques. For example, exposure compensation is where you adjust the compensation in response to a known (or likely) problem with your camera's metering. E.g. a camera's light meter is set to give a correct exposure for 18% grey and therefore if you take an image of a snowy scene the resulting image will show the snow as being grey and not white. In other words the meter has been fooled by the snow and has underexposed the scene - hence adding between 1-2 stops of + exposure compensation can help override the problem. The point being that the photographer recognises the problem and adjusts the exposure accordingly.
In bracketing the exact exposure is unknown. i.e. we can't be completely clear as to whether the meter is going to be correct, or whether a degree of exposure compensation is needed - or if it is how much. Bracketing an exposure allows us to hedge our bets - we take multiple images of the same scene at several different exposures (i.e. using different levels of exposure compensation) to see which is best at a later time. Bracketing is often an automated option on cameras - you can customise the degree of exposure compensation applied either side to the exposure set, and in some models the number of images taken. A modern use of bracketing is to blend exposures in post processing - e.g. taking the sky from one image and adding it to the foreground on another. HDR takes this a step further.
Hope this helps,
Bracketing means taking several photographs of the same subject with different exposures. Say your camera is giving you an exposure of 125th@f8 You shoot one at that exposure, another at email@example.com and a third at 125th@f11. This gives you the possibility of choosing which of the 3 exposures you prefer. Most modern cameras can be set to bracket 3 or 5 frames automatically.
If you take one picture, you might find when you view it on your computer screen it looks different from on your camera's LCD. If you have bracketed your exposure as described above, you have the option of picking a frame that looks better exposed to your eye.
Exposure compensation is like bracketing in that you change the exposure to suit the subject but implies that you choose the amount of correction yourself at the time of taking the picture. Say you are taking a portrait of someone with the sun behind them, a back-lit subject. The camera's exposure meter will tend to read the bright light around the subject and expose for that, making the person's face too dark. If you switch on your camera's exposure compensation and add + correction, the face will be lighter. You have compensated for the camera's tendency to underexpose in back-lit conditions.
The best analogy I can think of is of someone shooting at a target. Bracketing is firing, say, 5 shots at the target and picking the one closest to the bullseye. Exposure compensation is judging the range, holding a finger up to feel the wind speed, taking careful aim and loosing off one shot that is as accurate as you can make it.
Both methods have the same aim, getting an optimum exposure. Exposure compensation involves making decisions at the time of taking the picture, bracketing allows you to defer it until you get home.
You wouldn't want to use bracketing for any subject where the moment in time you take the picture is important. If you are taking pictures of your cat chasing a ball of wool, the good exposure will be unlikely to be the one where the action is best. If your cat is black, compensate the exposure by + 1 stop and shoot away with your eye on the action.
But, if you are taking a landscape picture with your camera tripod mounted, bracketing would be the way to go. Shoot 5 frames at half stop intervals and pick the best frame later. It would even give you the possibility of combining one or more of those pictures to get exactly the effect you want.
You said you are a novice, though, so first things first!
thanks all, I think, more reading is called for and out with camera this weekend and just shoot away trying different settings then, will check the book out Mike, just more thing, I understand the bit about bracketing taking 3 or 5 frames, but once you set say 3 frame bracket, do you actually press shutter three times or does it automatically take 3 separate pictures, btw I have a 600D, only asking because a mate uses the Panasonic FZ100 and when set his he just pressed shutter once but it fired three shots off, but mine just shot once, Pete
Digital has many advantages over film. With film exposure is crucial where to ensure a frame is well exposed bracketing could be relied on by taking a meter read exposure then taking two more, one stop over and one under. it can practiced easily from home outside or inside. Your camera will, or should, have bracketing on a menu on your camera. It will fire your choice of exposures over and under.
This might help
Compensation is similar by setting the exposure below or above the speed rating the camera is set on.
Both options are useful in unusual or tricky lighting which is mainly bright and dark areas in the same shot.
It will pay dividends spending an hour so at home, no need to travel miles, going through exposure options on manual. You can be efficient with all the automatic settings letting the camera tell you what the exposure is while I prefer to tell the camera. You can then have that knowledge fixed in your memory ready to be used with any camera, digital or film.
A classic example of where you'd use exposure compensation is taking a picture of a bird flying (against the sky). Almost always the camera will expose for the sky and the bird will just be a black outline. To compensate for this you would increase the exposure so that the bird was correctly exposed but by so doing the sky would be over exposed.
Bracketing, I use this for such techniques as HDR photography, deliberately setting the camera to take three identical shots, one exposed, one over exposed and one under exposed. The three images are then merged thereby taking advantage of the full colour and lighting capability of the sensor.
Get out there and play..it's free!
try this link for how to do 'bracketing' on the 600D:
600d bracketing
Hi All. Really appreciate you all taking the trouble to explain things to me, do feel a bit better now, did try it out last night at home, and can see the different results you can get, would have loved to go outdoors, but no chance unless I wanted a soaking, but weather looks ok for weekend round here though, little night school assignment to do Autumn colours, berries, fungi, reflection, so Ill attempt to it all into practice and incorporate Bracketing & Exposure, like you said cheddar its free, ordered the book last night Mike
Understanding Exposure' by Bryan Peterson.
Kind Regards Pete
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Dec 3, 2012Right now (December 2012) his game has 6 weapons, 15 Totally different towers, 8 maps, and more than 10 different enemies. Thats a lot of content. You can buy 7 more maps at low cost and then you will have a BIG game. My steam account says I have spend 230+ hours in this game and Im not tired of it yet. I play mostly alone, but multiplayer is very good when you have some friends to share the game. Sanctum is well designed, balanced and beautiful. The monsters challenge you to build a good strategy and the towers allow you hundreds of setups for every map. This game is too fun, you can bet.… Expand
Nov 21, 2012Este juego es un excelente tower defense. Más calmado el sistema de combate que "Orcs Must Die!"(Omd!), pero muy desafiante. Me agrada como el escenario se comportará según de como diseñes la ubicación de las trampas, además hay que ser muy cuidadoso al elegir cuáles usarás y donde las pondrás. Tiene variedad de enemigos con distintos puntos débiles, por lo que debes ser rápido y adaptarte al estilo de juego para enemigos específicos. Cada escenario es un increíble reto, mucho más desafiante que Omd!… Expand
Aug 22, 2012It's a first person shooter, tower defense hybrid. If you like either genre, you'll probably enjoy it. However, it's much more satisfying with a few friends.
Apr 22, 2012Like tower defense ?
If yes get this game, awesome places, a lot of fun in single player, even more better on multiplayer, even if is a bit dead there will be always someone willing to play it.
Feb 8, 2012I honestly have a tough time imaging any way to improve this game. You can even skip the opening animations of the studio and technology ads (something I haven't seen since in a game pre-2000). You have the strategy a Tower-defense, with varying enemies you need to consider in your design - and the fast-passed action of an FPS.
And whatever you may think of DLCs, theirs are good and entirely al a carte - maps $1.99 and towers are $0.99 (weapons are free updates). You can even pull in players who do not have a particular map for a round or two of multiplayer - also something that I haven't seen in a while (Starcraft 1 with their "Spawn" system I believe was the last time I saw something like this).
What more do you want for $10?… Expand
Jan 25, 2012A wonderful game. It perfectly combines elements of FPS and tower defense. Playing tower defense games, I would love the setup, but found the "wait while the enemies march" portion a bit dull. I enjoy FPSs, but have seen anything fresh in a while. This game cherry-picks the best elements of both genres and creates something better.
Jan 4, 2012To make this game really shine, you must play it with some friends. On its own it can still be fun but feels pretty lonely. The game is definitely unique as I have not heard of a FPS tower defense game except this one. The game is pretty simple to understand and easy to pick up. And when you play with more people, it just becomes interesting to see the different strategies all mixing together in one level. The game just keeps getting updated with new levels, new *and cheap* DLC. I would defiantly recommend this to anyone looking for some good Co-op fun.… Expand
Dec 24, 2011This game is mint! easily the best casual tower defense and FPS game out there, great soundtracks, decent graphics and addictive gameplay, co-op on this game works very well and is fun with a good team
Dec 6, 2011This game has a ton of updates and new free stuff added every couple months. It also has AAA graphics and co-op or single-user game play for the price of an indie puzzle game -- on sale. Lots of replayability on the few maps it comes with, and (though somewhat controversial) the new maps and weapons released as DLC are a lot of fresh fun that I feel are worth the cost. The DLC weapons can be used by you in games that your friends may not have them, which helps keep your load outs unique to eachother, and they're cheap if you ever want to add on. Those complaining of this model are forgetting how much replayable game you are already getting for the base price of 9.99. The extra stuff is just sprinkles and doughnuts. Play it with your friends or alone, it's a great mesh of tower defense and varied, upgradable gunplay. Simply stunning game.… Expand
Nov 7, 2011*In response to some of the negative reviews about DLC for this game, I would like to say this: The DLC is completely optional, and quite cheap compared to games like Call of Duty's DLC, also, the developers have actually released 2 free updates for the game, both adding new weapons, maps and towers, even a few new features have been added.* Now, onto the review:
Sanctum is amazingly beautiful, providing that your idea of beautiful is a gleaming futuristic look kind of like "Portal's" look. The maps are very well designed and offer many different ways to create mazes. The game never seems unfair, you always seem to know where you failed at making your defenses, and can always change them around. The game is especially fun multiplayer, where you can have up to 4 people also building towers and working together. All around, a very fun game where content is being added all the time, and that is just making the game better. Plus, it's only $10, so why not give it a shot.… Expand
La película tiene una fotografía increíble, la trama te mantiene pegado al asiento durante toda la pelicula, muy buenas actuaciones. Te produce varias emociones, de entre los cuales está el miedo y la ira, pero también da un sentimiento de comprensión debido a que recuerda las ocasiones en que una persona se encuentra acorralada contra las circunstancias y debe necesariamente actuar de alguna u otra forma.… Collapse
Oct 14, 2011Amazing, creative and innovate game with great graphics, artstyle and music, an excellent game! However its a little short on content, there are very few weapons and maps to play on. There is a decent amount of towers and enemy types though, but you might have to buy the DLCs if you want it to feel like a full game.
Aug 28, 2011It´s probably the best tower defense game I have played for man years. The Co-OP mode is extremely fun and probably makes it one of the best TD games ever made.
The reason the critics didnt like it, is because they got there ass handed to them on medium and have no friends to play co-op.
Jul 29, 2011A great fun tower defense game! i love it by far one of the best.And on top! there's coop gameplay what more can you ask for?Unless it's too hard for you then maybe it wouldnt be your pick.
Jul 28, 2011I got a 4-pack during the last Steam sale because my kids and I like to play tower defense games. I wasn't sure how well TD and FPS styles could ever co-exist in one package, but Sanctum pulls it off pretty flawlessly. I'd strongly recommend this title for tower defense genre lovers. The multi-player co-op is well done and smooth, although the default font-size for text chat is ginormous.
Game play is conducive to both quick, casual games, as well as multi-hour slugfests, depending on your mood and time. The maps and gameplay can get a bit repetitive. If they had 10-15 maps even, they could add to the replayability. I also feel they max out the player's FPS guns too quickly. FPS mode is critical to success on some maps and with anti-air, but the monsters scale way past your guns after 20 or so stages. At later stages, it's just about impossible to lose to the ground monsters while simultaneously being just about impossible to kill the air monsters.
Probably an 8 game, but +1 for an interesting concept and for critics rating too low.… Expand
Jul 17, 2011An absolutely delightful indie game in a time when major developers are failing to deliver. In short: simple, challenging, frantic co-op fun. Sanctum is a tower defense game played in first person with 1-4 players. Sure it's a simple recipe, but it works. The graphics and audio are pleasing, controls are solid, the interface is... slightly confusing at first but honestly works. As an added bonus, text to speech provides hours of hilarity. I bought Sanctum as part of a four pack hoping for a bit of fun with friends but not expecting too much for the price - and have not been disappointed in any way. I personally don't feel there is much that could be improved on,. Additional turrets might overcomplicated things, but perhaps a few additional maps and perhaps even a 4th weapon class (to match the recent patch allowing 4 player coop) would be nice, but like I said, it's a simple recipe and it works. I do definitely suggest that you play Sanctum with friends to get the most enjoyment out of it, but for those who enjoy tower defense type games alone, you won't be disappointed.… Expand
Jul 15, 2011$15 for this game and i have already got about 10 hours of gameplay. Very fun game if you like TD games, also the variety in enemies makes it fun, you dont just shoot at the enemies, you have to hit their tiny little weakspots, which makes it a lot more fun, Although to me this game would only be good if you had a few friends to play it with, singleplayer is a bit dry.
Jul 10, 2011Outstanding tower defense game for the price. Critic reviews are way too harsh on this game for what it is meant to be, especially for the price. Bubble tanks and Bloons 3 got me to love tower defense games. Those have been the only two I found fun and haven't wanted to play any other tower defense game, until now. Hopefully the makers of Sanctum release more levels.
Jul 9, 2011I don't know why someone didn't think of this concept sooner. I also don't know what the critics have against it, but this is probably the best Tower Defense game out there and well worth the price. Only thing I'd really like to see is more maps.
Jul 9, 2011It's funny how far off the professional reviewers are from the people who actually play these games. Notice the user reviews are all positive. This game is plain and simple fun. Easy to learn, hard to master, mix of fps and tower defense/strategy casual game. There aren't a billion weapons, and you don't need a billion weapons to have fun. For the ridiculously low price I paid for this it was an amazing buy. For $10 or so you'll get your moneys worth and then some.… Expand
Jul 8, 2011Game-wise, its one of the best 3 dollar purchases I ever made ( via steam summer sale). Addictive, good graphics with intriguing art style and beautiful levels, well developed towers and enemies. The fps-tower defense combination feels very comfortable/natural. Its also pleasantly challenging. I find myself going back and trying new build orders, maze designs, and tower compositions. Despite its general lack of content, it does not lack replay value. Score one for Indy developers!… Expand
Jun 20, 2011A game I accidentally stumbled upon that mixed two of my favourite gametypes, FPS and Tower Defence. And in same box! Gameplay is really smooth and intuitive, after playing 5 minute tutorial you are very much ready to kick some ass and chew bubble gum while at it but it does not take away from the complexity of the game that is the waves of enemies. Easy to learn, hard to master would be a perfect saying for this one.
The waves of enemies, one of the most important factor of the game wouldn't mind some tweaking though. While the enemies themselves are diverse, you are usually grouped with two types at once only, and even then it can be repetitive of what kind of enemies approach.
Maps are well built and forces one to think even at lower difficulties, which in this modern time and date is only a welcomed feature. And think you can as the game is divided into two phases, buying and battling ones, so there is no haste when you are building stuff. Overall, excellent game.… Expand
Jun 8, 2011AWESOME mix of FPS and Tower defense, the best part is on steam they can totally keep patching it with levels and other stuff. There is more to the levels than just defense and shooting, hidden treasure!!!!
Jun 1, 2011They have captured the potential this game had with the recent patches and they just keep adding stuff! I have gotten more than 40 hours out of this game that is actually very deep regardless of what the "professional" review sites say.
May 29, 2011An amazingly fun first person shooter tower defense game that will take hours of your time away, especially when playing with friends. A one of a kind game! :)
May 19, 2011This game gets better and better. There are now 4 maps in the game and by the looks of official statements from Coffee Stain more free content is in the making. No ETA on 4player mode yet but in the devs list of " what we are working on it right now". Also MP casual mode is much easier than before so anyone should be able to enjoy the later stages in co-op gameplay now. (A review written May 17 that claims the game only has 3 maps looks weird as the fourth map was released in a free patch May 12 and was automatically added through Steam to all (legal) game copies. Please check your facts before publishing reviews.)… Expand
May 16, 2011A challenging and rewarding game, with a lot of variety in working strategies...You can upgrade your weapons, your towers, or a little of both. Sniping is *crazy* fun in the game. The developers are very active within the community and have responded quickly to community requests. The game has a lot of replayability and is priced just right, so you'll be sure to get great value for your money.
May 16, 2011Great game! It shows how it is possible to remake a old idea with originality. Simple, fun and addictive.
It would be even better with a wider possible choice of turrets and weapons.
May 15, 2011It's awful on your own, but a complete blast with friends. There is no co-op like it. Get it. Fantastic game
Stop reading this review, go out and buy it.
Go on.
May 14, 2011Good mix of strategy and action. Graphics and theme are reminiscent of an old game Incubation. It looks great and learning curve is not steep. Important part of strategy is to carefully balance investments in base towers and your personal weaponry.
May 13, 2011I would not have found this game if it were not for the Yogcast, and what a horrible thing that would've been.
The gameplay is a unique and a refreshing experience from other games. The music is very well done and the world is BEAUTIFUL!!! Well done on that. Not to mention the easter eggs! They're very fun to find and I think you did a brilliant job on it.
What's more is that there is a bunch of free DLC coming. That I likes indeed :).
Great game, get it.… Expand
May 5, 2011Critic reviews are pretty unfair to this game. Granted, Sanctum isn't one of those 100-level tower defense games where you lay things down and wait through wave after wave without any control. I personally detest tower defense games, but I love Sanctum. It's not the first game to allow player control in waves, from what I hear, but it does it with great finesse. The game can vary from easy and relaxing to intense and challenging, depending on the difficulties. Co-op is more challenging, but single player is a good way to learn the basics and refine your layouts.
A large part of the fun comes from learning the game. Everyone builds differently, and there are enough options to suit players whether they want to build towers and watch them work, or be the main tool of destruction themselves. The game is challenging enough to require both improvements to really do well.
Granted, the game is not perfect. Co-op joining can give troubles, and has only worked on a local connection for me thus far. But the developers are devoted to supporting the game, already planning to implement 4-player co-op and new maps. So what the critics say about not having enough content is not necessarily true. Co-op features more weapons and monsters, and there is more to come. It's very good for a beginning developer, and they need support and fan interest if they are to continue development. Critics may only see what came out at first, and not the full potential of the developers.… Expand
May 4, 2011Awesome game that truly sticks to the traditional tower defense concept. The FPS brings you right down into the action but it also adds more depth to the tactical complexity of the TD genre. With the easier game settings it is quite forgiving - you get away with just having a decent long maze path and upgrading whatever towers or you want and point and shoot. However to get anywhere far in the higher difficulties and later stages in co-op you need to carefully plan your maze and tower placement as well as choose crowd control strategy and selection of guns. Should I use the freeze gun to spread out the enemies or clump them together? Should I focus on single target sniping, or grenade bomb them with the assault? Which enemies must be taken out first? Which enemies can I safely leave to my towers and which needs to be gunned down? The different enemy types requires you to master different tactics often within the same wave. It is as much a brain-game as it is intense action and the more you play it the more you discover opportunities of improvements of your defenses. Ive ditched 40+ hours in Sanctum and I still feel I have lot of things to learn. On the downside, if you never played tower defense games before or you simply don't find TD gameplay amusing this might not be for you as Sanctum is very true to the traditional TD concept. It might not be a game for everyone but then again - how many games are?
For a TD fan this is a no-brainer for a measly 15$ or even 12.50$ if you share the 2-pack. If you are on the fence, more content is being created by the developers including new maps, towers and guns. I would like to underline that the devs have been very responsive to users requests and questions about the game and they have delivered patches as promised. Also 4-p co-op is an upcoming feature that should bump Sanctum from being a great game to a superb game.… Expand
May 4, 2011It combines the best of Tower Defense (planning and building) with the best of First person shooters (fast action). When they add in the 4 player Co-op this game will be the most bang for the buck I've played in years.
Apr 22, 2011Excellent game. I played the beta for 15 hours, and that wasn't even feature complete. I'm starting in on the full game now, and the other maps seem more complicated and interesting. The mix of first-person shooter and tower defense works well, and navigating to set up your defenses is thankfully a breeze. The defenses are crucial, but you always feel like your own fighting matters. It's one of the best looking indie games out there, and takes full advantage of the Unreal 3 engine. Overall, this would be a great game for $40... for $15 it's a steal, and fans of tower defense strategy games, or FPS fans looking for something new, will find a lot to like here. It's also worth noting that it has a 2-player online co-op mode (4-player soon), and that the developers are active on the Steam forums and working on tweaks and new content. My only complaint would be the save system (one save at a time, and save points aren't for every wave), but it's a minor complaint and likely to be fixed based on community feedback.… Expand
La película tiene una fotografía increíble, la trama te mantiene pegado al asiento durante toda la pelicula, muy buenas actuaciones. Te produce varias emociones, de entre los cuales está el miedo y la ira, pero también da un sentimiento de comprensión debido a que recuerda las ocasiones en que una persona se encuentra acorralada contra las circunstancias y debe necesariamente actuar de alguna u otra forma.… Collapse
Apr 21, 2012Sanctum is one of the most innovative tower defense games to date. The player discovers new play styles time and time again through a varied mix of first person shooting and placing towers. The cooperative mode makes the multiplayer last for a long time to boot.
Oct 17, 2011I hope that future patches and expansions will fix the game, since right now Sanctum brings only headaches instead of joy.
Sep 9, 2011Really just a quick game for LAN parties as there's no long-term motivation. But wait and see what the future holds: Coffee Saint Studios has announced there'll be numerous improvements to esure the game won't win the title of most beautiful indie game on the market not just for the graphics.