I kept watching videos until the 'and now let me list my patrons' at the end, only for it to show up forever in my 'keep watching' feed, clogging it up. Now that you can mark as watched, I shall never suffer thusly again!
I recently started watching Kings and Generals, a YouTube channel with great summaries of the Punic Wars. The videos include panning around a map of Italy and North Africa and dramatic battle scenes where the rectangular troops move into position, vibrate at one another, and disappear if killed.
I thought it would be awesome to do the same for some of my own battles, since I have a pretty firm idea of who went where when and what the landscape was like.
But, I'm flummoxed by a simple software option. I really just need the ability to move SVGs across a map at set times, whereas when I googled this, I got options like Blender and Unreal Engine, which are full-service key-frame animation options.
Happy for any recommendations! Right now the best I've found is just doing it in PowerPoint, which seems like a bad option.
For those unaware, it's a one-time purchase application: https://www.murmurtts.com/
Ever since Google Gemini changed its vocal quality (and ratcheted down the free tier), I've been looking for an alternative. I'm not in love with Kokoro's quality, but I found the murmur implementation in the sample videos pretty good.
Wondering if it's actually that good when you buy it or if the samples were cherrypicked as the top 1% of all potential outputs.
I'm coming back to the game after a break and it seems there are a bunch of new clans who have giant military units that they can make indefinitely and I find it annoying. Is there a way to just play against the standard / normal clans instead of all these new ones?
I have created a base layer of landscape brushes and would like to add transparent political colors on top but when I make a new brush layer, it goes right over the border between land and sea, whereas I'd like it bounded on the land.
I tried to copy the mask from the starting brush layer but there is no copy option, just settings.
Windows, in app.
For those of you in critique groups, especially if you've been in them for a while, what guidelines do you use for offering and receiving critique? My group has run into a small kerfuffle and we realized we have no hard and fast rules and barely even any preferences for how to give feedback.
Giving feedback is an art in and of itself, so what's working for you?
(I consider a critique group a group of fellow writers who are offering advice as writers, as opposed to beta readers, who are offering advice as readers. However, I know there are no hard and fast rules and I'm interested in what works for everyone.)
Anglicization:
>Mdi-tho ihumdäzy f'kombax
Surinrin gëskombax
Literal translation:
>You [civilian] can stop working hard.
Use the elevator.
More accurate translation:
>You're off duty, take the lift!
Why?
Mvaiya have a very athletic culture, but they are also discovering the importance of population density in cities. When buildings are more than nine or so stories tall, the stairs get clogged, and adding more stairwells takes up precious floor space.
I was trying to make an apartment blueprint in Inkarnate and was on the hunt for some simple, black and white furniture icons. I didn't love the options, so I made some in PowerPoint. They are available as white PNGs here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pJY6R9o_T8wWBokaK_uOIs_P0HK8259p?usp=sharing
If you want fully transparent ones, you should be able to pretty easily make these black only with Photopea or PowerPoint.
I thought he was her husband at first because he was kind of bantering and I’ve seen couples who play like this. So I kept quiet.
But the second time he hit her in the head, she up and left the game. I ran after her to ask if she was okay but I clearly fucked up by that point already. She left open play. Dude was a total dick about it.
What am I supposed to do in this situation? Just tell him to not be a dick? I racked up to not play with him again.
I’m a small guy and not very confrontational and obviously misread the situation.
Any other tips?
Crossword constructors often ask one another to test solve. What is it you are looking for? Just whether it's possible?
For theme, clues, etc. I'd assume you could give someone the completed crossword with clues to get feedback, so my main question is what the actual solving is for.
If you've gone the premium route, how emotive are the voices? Is the output generally high quality without needing to spend hours compressing and working around words that it messed up?
I'd like to replace Google Gemini, whose quality has taken a huge nosedive since the last update (at least for what I do, which is listen as I sleep, meaning I need the volume to remain pretty steady and not whisper and shout randomly) (I don't like 11labs for the same reason - too whispery to listen to while sleeping except on very high volume).
That said, I also prefer more emotion than, say, Microsoft Edge or kokoro. I like it when systems can guess, based on context, how to express a sentence, just don't want it shouting or going suddenly quiet like I'm listening to a theatrical performance.
tl:dr - if you've gone for Hearem premium, I'd love to hear anything and everything about your experience.
I came in with a 173 on January 31. I have taken 17 total PTs and they are all between 170-177. My progress over time is essentially flat.
I review every wrong answer and explain why it's wrong, why right is right, why I chose wrong, why I didn't choose right. It seems like I just get 1-3 questions wrong every section no matter what. I track which types I tend to get wrong, and it's basically level 4s, regardless of type, followed by inference and strength/weakness for level 3.
I often have time leftover, usually in the 5-12 minute range per section. I use it to review flagged questions. I tried a new strategy where I note which questions I think are level 4 (I'm decent at this) and review them with my free time, but I actually think that's worse because then I might make a mistake on a different flagged one that's easier to fix and a better use of my time.
Is there any reason for me to keep studying? It seems like basically luck whether I score a 173 or a 175 - level of sleep, am I hungry, is work distracting, etc.
Taking ~10 / week on this is just a lot at this point. I'm kind of lost, not sure what to do. Would love to hear from others in a similar boat.
Theme? Fill? Clues? Something else?
I'm curious!