If those words have at all piqued your interest, stop reading right now, and go play Strangeland.īut if you must know more, here’s the deal: you awake outside a nightmarish carnival (the titular Strangeland) in the middle of a black void, with no memory of how you got there. The less you know about it going in and the more you can just let yourself drown in it, the better. It’s a bleak, eerie adventure, darkly funny at times and deeply, terrifyingly depressing at others, but an assault on the senses from start to finish-and I absolutely mean that as a compliment. It’d be a strange, surreal ride regardless, but coming in with no expectations, knowing nothing about it other than the title, and letting it just overwhelm the senses is Strangeland at its best. This feels like most an art exhibit and nothing more.I didn’t really go into Strangeland with any preconceived notions, other than a fondness for Wormwood Studios previous game, Primordia. To explore a world and story and characters. What is Strangeland? Why am I here? How did I get here? Why am I in a straight jacket? Nothing is answered or explored which is the main reason adventure games exist. It looks good, it's not super cryptic like most adventure games are, and the voice acting is good, but the story just doesn't make sense and we never get to know more about the characters. In the end, Strangeland is so short that I don't have a lot to say about it. I really enjoyed the art and the voice acting, but that's all there really is to the game. It ended so abruptly and unsatifactorily that I just shrugged in the end. Your ultimate goal is to kill The Dark Thing, and I believe the ending had a choice, but I wasn't sure. It's not possible to get lost, and once you exhaust all the dialog options with a character you can no longer talk to them. There's gore, gross fluids, strange pits that lead to nowhere, and sadly it's all smushed into this tiny play area with not much to do. And again, I can't stress how awesome the art is. There are many 8 main screens you visit, and the second half of the game reuses these screens when you are in Deadland. I just randomly clicked around and solved them, so there's that. It's not really hard to figure out what items go where you don't get that many, but there are a few puzzles in the game and they don't feel like puzzles. Even the ending didn't really make much sense after all of what you go through feels pointless. This world looks interesting and I want to learn about it, but it's so short, about three hours long, and there are so few characters that I feel I have rushed along to the end. Each character speaks in pointless riddles that have no meaning and I don't understand why. The largest downside to Strangeland is its complete lack of world or character building. There isn't much to the controls as you just walk around picking up items, some might need to be combined, and figure out where to use them. You can acquire hints for the game at any time by using the payphone in the main area and this is a really big help. The main goal of Strangeland is to fight something called The Dark Thing and you are trying to find a golden-haired woman who you think is your lover, but you aren't sure. As you talk to the talking entranceway you gain entry to the main area of the game and like every adventure game ever made you progress by exploring, talking to people, and picking up objects. The point-and-click adventure pixel art of yesteryear looks great and I love this style of visuals. The art style is dark, dreary, depressing, and looks great. Strangeland starts out with you playing like a man I a straight jacket inside a carnival of sorts. By ivory_soul | Review Date: June 12, 2021
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SpamSieve now integrates with Postbox, an enhanced version of Thunderbird. For more information, see the “Setting up Outlook” section of the manual. SpamSieve now integrates with Microsoft Outlook 2011. SpamSieve works with any number of mail accounts, of whatever types are supported by your email software (e.g. SpamSieve doesnt delete any messages '†it only marks them in your email client '†so youll never lose any mail. SpamSieve for Windows I’m unable to recommend any Windows product but support your request for information. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules SpamSieve actually gets better over time as you train it with more messages. It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like, so it wont confuse them with spam. It learns what your spam looks like, so it can block nearly all of it. Gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular email clients. 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The computer player is a cheating bastard whenever the "rules" differ between you and Video Game A.I.-controlled opponents. Jonny Ebert, lead designer of Dawn of War II on video game A.I. In general, I repeat that my main concern is the possibility of having the created HiRes, MidRes, Thumb folders "fall" next to the Tiff folders. Perhaps it is possible by doing it with nconvert maybe. I just mentioned that the possibility of having it would be the real "life saver" and the huge difference with all the other programs that are bragging about their easy to use functionality as far as batch procedures are concerned. I have searched many posts and I have seen guys combining nconvert with python using loops or others combining nconvert and imagemagick.Ĭhanging the UI is for my issue is out of the question. It is one line cross checked from my to do list every day. I repeat that even by advising me how to create the conversion folders next to the TIFF folder, gives me a great advantage. And the same goes with the other conversions. By just typing "HiRes" in the "output folder" tab, the program creates a "HiRes" subfolder in every tiff folder. The beginning of my problem is to output my conversions next to the Tiff folders. When running them from Tiffs it takes almost as much as the Tiff to HiRes conversion (Reading 100mb tiff files instead of 2mb MidRes jpgs). Just to make it clear, running 1000 MidRes into Thumbs takes 3 minutes. So, by running the Tiff files 3 times for also creating the MidRes and the Thumbs is really a time consuming procedure and it will bottleneck the performance of my PC (which I need to be at 100% in order to scan 1000 Tiffs daily). And that is because the Tiff files are 100mb each (color, uncompressed). However, this is not the solution to my issue. exe file and renaming it with the suffix "_instance1", "_instance2". With other programs (that are not multithreading) I have achieved running many instances simultaneously by copying the. Especially having all the changes updated on the preview window is by far the difference with other programs. Save the master files into a first output, then the second output to a third, the third into a fourth etc.įirst of all, thank you so much for the immediate responce to my post.Īnd, also, congratulations for this incredible program. It would be a life saver if the xnconvert Output tab could have multiple outputs. The final directory tree looks like this: and finally I am merging the 4 root directories, in order for the subfolders to be placed next to each other. The thumb will have the midres converted to jpeg 72 dpi with 280 pixels for the longest side.įor now, I am doing each batch one step at a time with preserving the folder structure, renaming the output folders "tiff" to"hires" etc. The midres will have the hires converted to jpeg 150 dpi with preserving the print size and qith quality 100% The Hires will have the tiffs converted to jpeg 100% quality, I need one of xnconvert/xnview/nconvert to batch process at once these tiff folders and create the following: next to every TIFF folder, I want to create three folders named So, even though I am familiar to batch processing softwares (like irfanview, xnconvert, photoshop, bridge,lightroom, faststone, blah blah blah), I want to simplify my life by being able to convert a set of images located in a root directory with many subdirectories to many other formats.įor example, let's say I have a directory tree like this:Īll of the above "chris" folders have a subfolder named "TIFF", which contais tiff files. 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