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When I played i the first time through I actually stopped at certain moments and thought to myself "Should I go back and get XYZ?" Then I'd say nah only to say later that I should go back. Glad I did as I'd have missed quite a bit of the game if I hadn't. What did you think of the game?

Think @Azeem has some thoughts on the new Assassin's Creed

Its one of those beat-em-ups where if you just try and go full gung-ho you'll lose pretty fast and the incentive to do longer damage combos makes it really fun to play.

Yeah you're kinda close to the end maybe another 3 - 4 hrs depending on how much scouring you want to do and pick up stuff. I am on the final stage of SoR4 and finishing it with Blaze first. Then Axel. Then the new characters. I quite like it and its worth it for the cost imo.

Thanks now I also know what I am getting it on console-wise but I'll stick with the PC version for a while. Found three friends who are also getting it on PC so we can all take turns playing while connected to Discord. I really wish they'd just say we're in 2020 and enable 4-way multi-player online. This was my big gripe with Darksiders: Genesis (please dont play this on the PC as its riddled with issues) because I felt like they should have made it a 4 way co-op and added more characters to the roster just to make it a fun game for party play.

If Nintendo ever wanted to give its fans something to rejoice about in this lockdown they'd start working on a network system that allowed players to play online rivaling their competitors. But, we must also remember this is Nintendo and they really give two shits about online gameplay.

Think its 10% they did the same thing for the PC version which is why i picked it up in the first place. I am thinking I'll get it for the Switch instead of the PS4 as I havent really bought anything there in a while.

What are you playing it on? PS4? Gotta say I was very tempted to pick it up for my Switch because it would remind me of the Game Gear days.

PC, it was really cheap on Steam so I figured just buy it.

Its actually quite good. Played a few minutes this morning and I'll do a run later tonight.

You're right. I did a cursory glance and read through it yesterday (the Chinese one) but I have no idea why they added the other drugs to the list? I am thinking they wanted the subjects boosted and for enzyme creation to stop but that makes no sense as if they were testing remdisivir then wouldn't they want that to be the only constant in the equation?

So odd right? I'd try and push it down to core genetic-makeups of the test subjects and the strains used in each case. The China labs might be using something with a far more advanced structure than the ones in America. But, I still find it odd that labs are finding different results and I'd have expected it to be the other way around honestly.

Read the same and they apparently reward you with every playthrough after the first run with the vintage character models and the 5th hidden character too.

It is interesting but I don't know how much I buy into the casual linkage of data even if you use quantum computing to treat the data as conversations versus you know, actual data. The idea then that a chat-bot can actually diagnose (and with accuracy) symptoms and then offer a remedy course is definitely something worth looking into but I still think so much data is missing even in that sector as is pointed out when peer-reviews applauded the concept but said it could also go horribly wrong. What I do like about all this is how far we've come in analyzing data and more importantly how inflection points are gathered from information sources that are totally dissonant from each other. Used to be you'd be asked to create data repositories and they needed linkage but these days you dont even need that.

Its also annoying when you go on group trips and someone sees a nice camera in your hand and say shit like "Oh this will look so nice on my Facebook profile". Yes, that's exactly why I brought my camera on this trip ...

Yeah it was fancy at the time haha for sure. I do like the body but I use it very sparringly these days as I spend more time just pulling my phone out and shooting the pic unless I really get the bug to take it out and use it. I do prefer portrait photography and I am slowly trying to learn to shoot rooms and closed spaces.

Have to say with LR the tutorials are really hard to master from any angle (beginner to advanced) just because its such a sadistic application which shows you very little but has so much hidden under the hood. Give this a try to get started then start applying the basics they teach you and if you have questions post them here because I'd like to learn as we solve problems together. For me the learning goes this way. Figure out what I want to learn - E.g. Whitebalancing Read Adobe materials and forums to know how the tool does it Go read articles from anywhere on the internet about how white-balancing works Find pic and then play with it to fix problems and learn on the fly. If I run into an issue I just read more until I get to where I need to be. Try this video too as I think it covers a lot of the basics.

Far from fancy haha if I had never been given that body as a present I'd have gone with something more midrange later on when I wanted to get into photography more (at 24 I was more interested in what alcoholic beverage was going to take me to xanadu and music than I ever was in photography). It's also the most annoying body to carry around for any kind of trip photography but with the advent of my iPhone 11 Pro Max that has now become a thing of the past. I love that Sigma lens you own because I have seen it in action but I just cant find a good use for it which is why I have never really pursued that line of lenses.

I'm going to try and answer this the best way I know how ignoring the first paragraph as I am completely in agreement with you there. Color profiles and the rabbit hole called sRGB and color gamut profiles with Windows specifically. You aren't necessarily limited in your expectations for what to expect from a pre-processing aspect of taking pictures because guess what, all you have with the traditional camera system (not digital) is light, mirror, image. Obviously you'll get aberrations in the color spectrum just because its going through so much before it finally reaches the mirror that you probably lose about 20% of what the natural light spectrum allows you to see before you finally get it reproduced in a light room (not the software) where you can lose even more depending on what you're working with. With digital its far different and this goes directly into the mechanics of light-sensor and mirrorless devices where we think that the 20% can be reduced to something closer to 8% or maybe lower but you still have to remember that its only achievable because of the lens you're using and when you get into this dirty territory the money starts to pile up really fast. Then you go back to the link you posted about composition and understanding light because lets face it you can see it and the ambient light source you're dealing with from a perception standpoint is nowhere close to what the lens has going for it before it spins the image and fires that onto the sensor for processing. We'll also take into account that the same tech in phones and their corrective abilities are now transmitted back from the lens to the mirror in the body to allow for even more correction based on all the settings the camera has (these settings you have no control on as the firmware does most of this and you really dont want to mess with it anyways). I've found that with much higher end bodies coupled with a mid-range to high-range lens that the first shot pushed against a RGB (whichever standard you use) profiler produces some of the best and closest to what was shot and I'll explain the issue here and its not even you or your camera. So, the end note here is this, better body + better lens in the digital world = closer to life pictures but they still come with all the good loving issues of lens profiles, color gamut corrections, profile scaling, etc. because god-forbid any of these companies make a true lens that does this then you'd probably need a lens body the size of, well your body and thats very impractical haha. Now, lets get to the one place you probably will struggle a lot when it comes to image clarity and that is ... your monitor. Yes, its your monitor. Over the years I have learned that when you get monitors from your vendor or look at images on laptops you tend to get poor reproductions of pictures until you take the same picture to a printer (not the regular ones either) and then see the awe of your shot because of whatever color profile you set at that point. But, lets put that aside and go back to your monitor. The type of monitor used comes with sRGB and Adobe RGB corrections so what you see on the screen may not even be what you shot no matter how much you correct it and keep in mind that the LightRoom or whatever app you're using is correcting it incorrectly if the monitor isn't in the higher 99% bracket and even then there are limitations like black reproduction etc. If you choose to navigate this path you'll end up spending a lot of money and in some cases it will produce the color repro you want without the post-production but I generally find that if you're going to spend that time in post-prod spend more time learning how the lens profiles work and work around the limitations of the lens if your monitor doesn't have the reproduction ability you want it to have. So, yes you are being a bit unrealistic in your expectations about pre-processing image expectations but keep in mind that what you see on the camera display vs the monitor display vs print reproduction all have varying levels of reproduction failure with the print repro having the second highest failure due to the fact that its costly to actually reproduce pictures the way you want them to be reproduced. As for gear I am using this is what I have accumulated over two decades of fiddling with cameras and trying my hand at strictly portrait photography haha. Canon 1D Mark II (Birthday present from my family when I turned 24) Canon 50mm f/1.2 L Canon 50mm f/1.8 Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 I have some other odd ball lens from Canon and two from Sigma but I like my portrait lens the most and I have a wide-angle lens from the introductory range of Canon lenses too. As for desktop processing and using Lightroom I use the following which I have also carefully purchased over the years. The new kid on the block - LG 32ML600M-B Monitor The old kid on the block - LG 34UC98-W Monitor (I don't recommend this monitor for any kind of picture/color work as wide-screen curved monitors are absolutely horrible for this but its better than the previous monitor for color reproduction) LightRoom - for touching up pics that my family sends me from what they shoot because the only way to get better is to just keep trying and learning

At that price Isolation is a steal. I'd recommend if you've never played it to give it a go as its probably very high on the list of proper survival horror games.

Phew, thats quite comprehensive and covers so much about the varying aspects of taking pictures. I spent a lot of time maybe four years ago or more in trying to learn post-pro fixes with Lightroom and I think no matter where you're sitting in the spectrum of producing your work there is so much to learn. Camera phones can take such gorgeous pictures these days you are sometimes hard-pressed to wonder how much the on-board software is doing versus doing it manually. Thanks for starting this thread and I look forward to seeing what we can come up with in here.

Im pretty sure NHS has his face up at all the big spots by now. No one in the medical profession on the front-line deserves to be abused or treated poorly at a time like this.

Just name the person and let all of NHS know who he is so when he does get sick from anything he understands the importance of manners.

Yeah it was poor science to begin with just because the originator parent class of the current virus happened to have a vaccine didn't necessarily mean it was going to work. Now that its been taken off the table labs can start pushing more focus on other fronts.