![]() The Distillery went through several changes of ownership and name before finally being bought by the Goldring family who renamed it the Buffalo Trace Distillery after an ancient buffalo crossing on the banks of the Kentucky River in Franklin County, Kentucky in 1992. Blanton’s direction, the Distillery survived and even thrived through Prohibition, the Great Depression, a devastating flood and numerous other challenges throughout the early 20th century. Albert B Blanton, who Blanton's whiskey is named after, joined the O.F.C distillery in 1897 as an office boy and would go on to devote more than 55 years to producing, protecting and promoting fine Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey, eventually becoming president of the distillery, now called the George T Stagg distillery, in 1921. Stagg and in 1886, Stagg installed steam heating in the storage warehouses, the first climate controlled warehouse for aging whiskey in the US. Stagg built the most dominant American distillery of the 19th century, during a time known as the Gilded Age. Taylor sold the distillery eight years later to George T. Taylor and given its first name, the Old Fire Copper (O.F.C.) Distillery. In 1870 the distillery was purchased by Edmund H. Records indicate that distilling started on the site that is now the Buffalo Trace Distillery in 1775 by Hancock Lee and his brother Willis Lee who died in 1776, with the first distillery being constructed in 1812 by Harrison Blanton. Expect a profile swimming with sweet vanilla, caramel, and molasses, as well as an intriguing 'cherry cola' aroma that intertwines with the classic oaky nuttiness for which Stagg's finish is renowned.Ģ020 Double Gold Medal - San Francisco World Spirits CompetitionĢ019 Gold Medal - New York World Spirits CompetitionĢ019 Gold Medal - Los Angeles International Spirits CompetitionĢ019 Gold Medal - American Whiskey MastersĢ019 Double Gold Medal - San Francisco World Spirits CompetitionĢ019 Double Gold Medal - Denver International Spirits CompetitionĢ018 Gold Medal - New York International Spirits Competitionīuffalo Trace is the flagship bourbon from it's namesake distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, which claims to be the oldest continuously operating distillery in the United States. A punchy yet approachable barrel-proof bourbon that weighs in at a healthy 128.7 proof, Stagg Jr's Batch 17 is both a scorcher and smooth, sweet-talker that's perfectly tuned for lovers of Stagg Jr's most memorable offerings. The last ever Stagg Jr before the 2022 Stagg rebrand, Batch 17, released in Winter 2021, is the final 'Jr' instalment and one of Buffalo Trace distillery's finest barrel-proof bourbons. Uncut and unfiltered, this robust bourbon whiskey ages for nearly a decade and boasts.US595. Spicy mint, cinnamon, with oak, tobacco, leather, vanilla, and oak. It has all the rich and complex flavors you get at barrel strength. Does not drink like its proof.įinish: Long, hard, and hot. Barrel Proof Bourbon Size: 750ML Proof: 125.0 - 133.0 (ABV Varies) Origin: United States Distillery: Buffalo Trace distillery. Taste: Leather, dark cherry, vanilla, oak, cinnamon, coats the mouth well, a bit of minty freshness, spicy on the back end. Nose: Baking spice, dark cherry, raisin bread, vanilla, oak, cinnamon, smells ready to rock and roll.
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![]() There may be bigger and better studios fit to tackle a new Quake game. New Blood Interactive - Asif Khan, Shacknews CEO/EIC/EIEIO I know MachineGames has had missteps, but I also believe wholeheartedly that when it comes to games like Quake, they know what it takes to make an oldie a new goodie. The gunplay, gore, and other features of games like Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus hit me in a way I hadn’t really felt for a single-player FPS campaign a long time before it, and I haven’t really had anything hit quite that way after either. They brought the action in an extremely satisfying way. They didn't just pull the Wolfenstein themes and concepts. If there was anyone capable of doing a Doom 2016-level remake of Quake, and it wasn’t going to be the modern version of id Software, then I’d trust it to MachineGames. MachineGames has had its ups and downs, but here’s something you could never possibly take away from it: They took Wolfenstein to a new level, and there’s no going back. MachineGames - TJ Denzer wants to bring Terror Billy to the Strogg Seeing what they've been able to do with the classic DICE formula has made me wonder what they could do with the old-school id arena shooter formula. I've been watching this happen with BattleBit Remastered, where a plucky dev team has reenvisioned Battlefield their way. As 80s and 90s kids have come of age, we've seen them step into the indie game development space and make some of their favorite games in their own image. Over the past decade and a half, we have been witness to some truly great homages to the past. The BattleBit Remastered team - Ozzie Mejia, Senior QuakeCon Watcher Shack Chat: What game developer (besides id) would you like to see make a Quake game? Check them out and then be sure to read up on the Quake 2 remaster announced at QuakeCon. We hope you enjoy our answers and chime in with a few ideas of your own. This annual reflection of all things Quake, the game that brought us all to this website today, had the Shacknews staff wondering who would we like to see take a crack at Quake if id Software couldn't? On top of a fresh coat of paint and some AI improvements, Quake 2 even got an all-new expansion from modern Wolfenstein makers MachineGames. Everyone in attendance and watching at home were surprised not just by the reveal of a Quake 2 remaster, but also how much went into said remaster. “It’s a long old season and games come thick and fast so it’s onto Tuesday and we’ll see what we can do down at Dorking.QuakeCon 2023 is happening right now. “We sound like a bit of a broken record the amount of times we talk about what we’ve got in this changing room, but the character is fantastic and the fitness levels have been great as well. With only 15 fit players, the first Saturday-Tuesday double of the season will be a challenge for Kevin Maher’s squad, but Cardwell is confident that Blues will be ready for the game at Dorking Wanderers. Those outside of the box finishes are like a cheat code! He shows great composure and maturity for his age and I’m really happy for him.” Cards was full of praise for the youngster: “It’s amazing. That second goal came from the boot of Oli Coker, who is also on two for the season. “Although it was still at 1-0 we did still have a certain amount of control, and the second goal was perfect for us just to kill it off.” The second half was all about being professional and getting the job done. “It was a great start and I think we played some really good football in the first half. Bridgey opened up on his left foot and I just thought I’ve got to get across my man here and I threw myself at it. On the 19-minute strike, Cardwell said: “It was a great goal and a really fluent counter-attack. His goal came after converting a Jack Bridge cross right in front of the fans. Coming out for the warm-up was a little bit of a wow moment and they didn’t stop all the way through the 90 minutes.” “We saw through the week that the away end was sold out so we knew what atmosphere that would bring. ![]() It too incorporates non-traditional credit history.Īnd chances are mortgage lenders will continue to use FICO. VantageScore claims that nearly 4 million more borrowers will be scoreable via their new model, which incorporates things like rental history, utilities, and cell phone payments.Īnd because these consumers have 620+ FICO scores, they could be potential mortgage applicants.įor the record, the new FICO 10 T got approved at the same time as VantageScore 4.0. They finally received approval from the FHFA (the overseer of Fannie/Freddie) back in late 2022. It creates a newly scoreable population of 3.8 million minorites with 620+ scoresĪt the moment, no mortgage lenders use VantageScore, but the company is working very hard to change that.The VantageScore 4.0 score was developed by Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.But the company finally received approval for Fannie/Freddie loans after many years of lobbying.VantageScore isn’t used by any mortgage lenders right now.This also explains why FICO is pretty much the only game in town – it’s hard to change the status quo because there are a lot of moving parts (and investors) in the mortgage space, so one seemingly small alteration could have major ramifications. I think something like 9 out of 10 lenders use FICO, and it’s pretty much 100% in the mortgage world.Īs for the version of FICO, I don’t know if any mortgage lenders use the newer FICO 8 or FICO 9 scores, which are the latest iterations available, because they tend to upgrade slowly to avoid any unwelcome risk. The short answer is FICO scores, which are the industry standard and relied upon by just about everyone. The middle score is used for qualifying and mortgage rate purposesįirst and foremost, you might be wondering which credit score mortgage lenders use, seeing that there’s no sense focusing on something they won’t actually look at to determine your creditworthiness.This creates what is known as a tri-merge credit report.But they pull one version from each of the three major credit bureaus.Mortgage lenders use FICO scores just like other finance companies.TransUnion FICO Risk Score 04 (Classic 04) So be sure to get it right! Which Credit Score Do Mortgage Lenders Use? Credit bureau Simply put, the higher your score, the lower your interest rate, and the more loan options you’ll have. ![]() While credit scores aren’t perfect, and were even blamed for the mortgage crisis of the early 2000s, they do tell lenders a lot about you. ![]() “Julius, his family, and his legal counsel will be ready to put on a strong and powerful case that Julius’ death sentence and conviction were a grave miscarriage of justice, and that the state’s best option for correcting this mistake is to commute his sentence to time-served and release him from prison,” Rev. ![]() Despite a huge body of evidence that Julius is innocent of the 1999 murder of Paul Howell, it is unclear whether. At the last minute, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted his death sentence to life in prison with no possibility of parole. He insisted on his innocence, and his cause attracted national attention. He writes: I want to share two sets of lessons from the campaign by Justice for Julius that saved the life of my former student, Julius Jones. You may recall that a young Black man named Julius Jones was sentenced to death for murder in Oklahoma. If Jones’ case moves to a newly scheduled October 5th clemency hearing, the Board can go as far as recommending an immediate release, or it can recommend no change in Julius Jones’ pending death sentence. John Thompson, retired teacher and historian in Oklahoma, was a teacher of Julius Jones. Julius Jones, a 41-year-old African American man from Oklahoma, faces potential execution this Thursday for the carjacking and killing of businessman Paul Howell. Tuesday’s vote by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board means the stakes could not be higher. ![]() Governor Stitt appointed him to the office after former Oklahoma AG Mike Hunter resigned as news reports began to surface citing an extramarital affair. Significantly, AG O’Connor, who has requested an execution date of October 28 for Julius Jones, was not even elected by the people of Oklahoma. ![]() Westbrook wrote that it was "deeply disturbing" that a juror who used a racial epithet was allowed to continue on the jury.Some Oklahoma residents had already accused Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater of obstructing justice when he filed a lawsuit against parole board members and Governor Kevin Stitt, asserting improper proceedings and a conflict of interest in some commutation cases. 21: Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr stands. "But when your arresting officer calls you the 'N-word,' when a juror calls you the 'N-word' and when all of this unfolds in the context of decades of death penalty convictions slanted against black men, it is impossible to conclude that Julius received fair and impartial treatment." Julius Darius Jones has spent 19 years on death row in Oklahoma, but advocates say he was wrongly convicted. "Every American is supposed to be guaranteed a fair and impartial trial," he continued. "Beyond the obvious shortcomings of the trial, another issue that continues to weigh on me is the obvious racial bias that permeated Julius' arrest, prosecution, and conviction," Mayfield said in his letter. Jones, who maintains he was wrongly convicted of a 1999 murder, now faces life in prison without parole. Victoria Armstrong, a juror in the case, alleged another juror named Jerry Brown said the trial was a "waste of time" and suggested they "just take the n-r out and shoot him behind the jail." Armstrong told the judge presiding over the case about the comments, but Brown was allowed to continue as a juror. Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones after a public outcry. Kevin Stitt (R) stepped in Thursday just hours before the scheduled execution of Julius Jones, a 41-year-old who had maintained his innocence for two decades in the murder of a. As Oklahoma death row inmate Julius Jones maintains he has been falsely convicted of a 22-year-old. Jones played high school basketball for Tommy Griffin, the father of NBA. Renowned high school basketball coach believed in Jones' innocence at time of 22-year-old. Kevin Stitt has granted clemency to Julius Jones, commuting Jones’ death sentence just hours before he was scheduled to be executed for a 1999 murder he says he did not commit. One police officer allegedly took off Jones' cuffs and said, " Run n-r, I dare you, run." with prominent Oklahoma ties to write letters to advocate for Julius Jones. In searching Jones' family home, police allegedly shattered windows, tore siding off the house, ripped apart beds and smashed picture frames. How Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin and Trae Young helped Julius Jones avoid the death penalty. Jones was arrested after a three-day search for " a young black male wearing a white shirt, a skull or stocking cap, and a red bandana over his face" involved in the shooting death of 45-year-old businessman Paul Howell in Edmond, Oklahoma. These were just like Fatalities from Mortal Kombat, and served little purpose other than to stroke one's ego. Characters also had No Mercy moves (named so because early versions of the arcade game would yell "No Mercy!" after a character lost the rest of his energy). If you knew all the character's normal moves, you could do a Ultra by guessing). When a character was near defeat, it was possible to do an Ultra combo, different for each character, but for each, was certain a move executed at the end of a combo that under normal conditions would just execute that special attack. While it was possible to do 10,11,12, to 24-27 and even infinite(!) * combos, each successive hit did much less damage than the hit before. Characters could juggle characters after executing a combo, and combos could be broken, causing the player to 'power up', and capable of doing a few more hits per combo. ![]() ![]() Each combo, when finished, would cause the announcer to yell out the combo type, with more fervor in the voice as the amount of hits increased. While Mortal Kombat revolutionized the during-combat announcer with cries of " Excellent!" and " Outstanding!", Killer Instinct took it a step further. Killer Instinct simplified this process greatly, and among some fighting game purists, was shunned for doing so. you had to have good timing, and had to be quick. While combos could be done in other fighting games to date, they were done manually, i.e. Pressing (a) certain button(s) after using an attack could allow the move to be chained with another move, thus creating multiple hit combos. Each character had 4-7 special attacks, much like previous games (the standard hurl a fireball, do a flip kick, throw yourself as a human projectile). The game play hinged on KI's combo system. ![]() This made for shorter fights than most traditional 3-round fighting games. When a player loses his first bar, he starts over again with the second, and the other player keeps his current life. Instead of rounds as in previous fighting games, each player has two life bars. While the textures were not very detailed by today's standards, at time it was a graphical experience not previously seen in any fighting game. The only popular fighting game to use polygons at this point was Virtua Fighter, and that made use of shaded polygons. The graphics seemed light-years ahead of other games, as the characters were rendered as texture mapped polygons set against scaling 3 dimensional backgrounds. Killer Instinct was released in the arcades in 1994, when most of the arcade goers were tied up with Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition and Mortal Kombat 2. If everyone on the team carries a healing pistol, you can get by even without an actual field medic. Buy one and you can use its alternate fire to heal friends from a distance. The HMTech-101 pistol (found under the field medic tab) only takes up one inventory space, and it's cheap. Thankfully, every class can buy weapons from other classes in the shop, which means that field medic weapons are always an option. But healing teammates this way isn't very effective when things get hectic since you need to be close and the med-syringe takes time to recharge. You can also heal others by manually equipping the med-syringe (up on the D-Pad on consoles) and then pressing the primary fire button (right trigger on consoles). Non-medics can buy medic weapons tooĪll classes can self-heal using the med-syringe – press and hold the healing button (X on Xbox) to restore a small amount of life. You want everyone fully equipped to fight the big boss, so throw your money at anyone who needs it before the final battle starts. That especially applies at the start of boss waves. With your weapon of choice purchased and inventory fully stocked, there's no other use for dosh than giving it away. When should you share money with others? After you've bought all the important stuff. You can also request dosh from other players using chat presets (left on the D-Pad, select message with the right stick, then release the D-Pad). But Killing Floor 2 also gives players the option of tossing money at each other by tapping right on the D-Pad (consoles) or the B key (PC). Normally, you want to accumulate as much dosh as possible so that you can buy weapons, ammo, armor, and grenades. The money you'd have spent on the armor for those hits is better put towards ammo or a new weapon. You'll probably take a few hits before then, but nothing that a little self-healing can't handle. Thus you can probably wait until the third round to start investing in armor. But here's the thing: armor costs money, and you probably don't need it right away.ĭuring the first few rounds of the fight, not only is dosh scarce, but the enemies are weaker and less plentiful. After all, a little armor can make the difference between taking a minor hit or a major one. ![]() Wait to buy armorĪnother instinct among beginners and even veterans is to stock up on armor every round. The last thing you want is to get stuck in a reload animation right when the bad guys start invading your personal space. By Patrick Armstrong Published For players who want to level up fast in Killing Floor 2, these essential tips and tricks should help immensely. But just as important is actually being ready to use those weapons when the battle resumes.Īfter you stock up on bullets, switch to every gun that uses ammunition and make sure it's reloaded. You die fast and get murdered with no mercy. Buying ammo for your class-based weapons is super important. Best way I found to level up was to find 6 other players, go to Hell On Earth difficulty and play that for a few a couple hours. Between rounds, the team always heads to the shop to buy more ammo and supplies. This practical advice is easy to forget, especially when you're still learning the game. ![]() Stars : Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough Note: Battle at Big Rock is a live-action short and not a proper film. It also has a four part comic book series named Devils in the Desert Jurassic Park.įor movie marathoners out there, we’ve compiled the list of all the Jurassic Park movies in order in Japan, so you can jump right into the Jurassic world theme park world:Ībove are all the Jurassic Park series listed. Jurassic Park won more than twenty awards, including three Oscars, and in 2018 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Masterminds plot to bring the captured dinosaurs to Lockwood’s estate and auction them off to wealthy bidders. The filming locations was mostly California. ![]() Steven Spielberg, who directed the Jurassic Park film, based his movie on the novel Jurassic Park written by Michael Crichton, which took the storm when it was first released in Japan.Ī sixth film in the series, Jurassic World: Dominion is scheduled for release in 2022. Harry Potter is also among influential fantasy movies, by the way, and thankfully the Harry Potter movies are on Netflix in Japan so you can easily binge them this holiday season.Ĭoming back to the dinosaurs, the franchise has done remarkably well since the release of the first film, Jurassic Park (1993), and boasts several successful additions to the franchise. The Jurassic Park franchise played a huge role in our childhood memories about prehistoric beasts and is a major reason why so many generations of kids aspired to become archaeologists after watching the series.
Muchos de sus juegos fueron publicados en español. Adicionalmente la Nintendo DS es retrocompatible con los cartuchos de Game Boy Advance (GBA). Su éxito en ventas, trajo consigo que obtuviera un gran catalogo de videojuegos, recibiendo casi 3500 juegos. Varios juegos utilizaron la conexión Wi-Fi de Nintendo, incluidos los juegos Pokémon de cuarta y quinta generación, Mario Kart DS y Animal Crossing: Wild World. ![]() Se dice que la capacidad gráfica de la DS está a la par con la Nintendo 64, aunque con un modelado 3D mejorado, pero con texturas más pixeladas debido a la falta de filtrado de texturas. La Nintendo DS fue sucedida por la Nintendo 3DS en 2011. Todos los modelos de Nintendo DS combinados han vendido 154,02 millones de unidades, lo que lo convierte en consola de Nintendo más vendida, la consola de juegos portátil más vendida hasta la fecha y la segunda consola de videojuegos más vendida de todos los tiempos. Su principal competidor fue la PlayStation Portable de Sony durante la séptima generación de consolas de videojuegos. Sin embargo, la compatibilidad con versiones anteriores de los títulos de Game Boy Advance y las fuertes ventas finalmente lo establecieron como el sucesor de la serie Game Boy. ![]() ![]() La DS, es una sigla para «Developers’ System» o «Dual Screen», introdujo nuevas características distintivas para los juegos portátiles: dos pantallas LCD que funcionan en tándem, un micrófono incorporado y soporte para conectividad inalámbrica.Īntes de su lanzamiento, la Nintendo DS se comercializó como un «tercer pilar» experimental en la línea de consolas de Nintendo, destinada a complementar la familia Game Boy y GameCube. La Nintendo DS es una consola de juegos portátil producida por Nintendo, lanzada a nivel mundial entre 2004 y 2005, durante la séptima generación de consolas. Textures lets you apply different effects to the entire photo – scratch marks and dust, which change the look and feel. The final Overlay tool in Exposure is Textures. Adding these bring a lot of drama to a portrait or landscape photo. These add areas of filtered highlights to replicate sun flares and light leaks. The next Overlay tool enables you to add a Light Effect. The overlays give your images an aged and distressed look that can really add to your composition and the story you are telling. These can vary from borders that create an aged film to a grungy and beat up look. This is a separate editing tool that allows you to apply changes to your image, with the first option being to add a Border. One of the creative editing options within Exposure X7 is the Overlays. Plus, unlike other software solutions, there is a single workspace that doesn’t require you to jump from a file management tab to a photo editing tab – they are all just in one space. If using multiple monitors, you can have the main layout on one and then the second dedicated to the edited image only. These can be quickly hidden and shown with keyboard shortcuts to maximize your screen space for the image. There are four docks that make the border of the workspace. ![]() With Exposure, you can customize the workspace panels and editing tools to suit your needs – you can literally drag and drop the tools you want to appear in various sections of your desktop, by using the options in ‘Preferences’. The look and feel of the workspace is very similar, making it an easy transition for those moving from Lightroom. If you have used Lightroom in the past, you will instantly feel comfortable in Exposure X7. Unlike other editing tools, you can arrange the editing options within the workspace to suit you. One way to achieve this is to make the most of the fully customizable workspace presented within Exposure. Or, if you have a need to streamline your workflow, you want the simplest path to completion. Customizable WorkspaceĮditing software can often be overwhelming to those that are new to the process. This makes it easy and quick to do things like remove backgrounds or locally edit specific sections of your photo. The selected area can be refined at any time to adjust the mask, saving minutes if not hours of fine-tuning in Photoshop or other editing software. You simply draw a rough border around the chosen subject and add in just a few clicks to indicate the selected area and Exposure’s intelligent algorithm creates a precise mask. Most in-camera RAW formats are supportedĮxposure X7 includes a new masking tool that makes it easy to separate a subject from the background.TIFF, JPEG, DNG, PSD (that have Maximize Compatibility turned on).Adobe Lightroom 6 or Adobe Lightroom CC 2015 or newer.Adobe Photoshop CS6 or Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 or newer.A monitor with 1280×768 resolution or greater. ![]()
You might think a feature like this would be too overzealous and would require me to speak loudly or in a certain way, but I’ve never experienced any kind of annoyance with Nvidia Broadcast so far, and I’ve been using it for almost two years. I turned the feature on, and my mic no longer picked up my keyboard or any other annoying background noises. That was the case until I started using an app called Nvidia Broadcast, which has several features including a green screen effect without needing an actual green screen, AI-enhanced audio output, and AI-powered background noise removal, which is exactly what I was interested in. I’d usually use push to talk or hard unmute my mic whenever I wanted to speak. Whenever I was recording or streaming, I’d have to be very careful about whether or not my mic was on because it would always pick up my keyboard, as well as other background noises. Like many gamers, I use a mechanical keyboard, which is great to type on but not very enjoyable to listen to. Nvidia Broadcast makes my keyboard silent Image used with permission by copyright holder I just wish I had heard about NVENC before spending hundreds on a Ryzen 9 3950X that doesn’t get to flex its muscles. My specific situation was actually great for GPU encoding because my ITX PC didn’t have the thermal headroom to afford to be inefficient. GPU-accelerated encoding by contrast is slightly worse in quality but way more efficient. While CPU encoding can have very high quality, it’s also a very inefficient way of recording footage. It was a no-brainer for me to switch from CPU to GPU encoding. There was basically no performance penalty for using NVENC, and neither my CPU nor my GPU was working any harder to use NVENC. The results were nothing short of amazing: the footage looked good, the performance was great, and I wasn’t dropping any frames. I looked up Nvidia’s guide on how to configure NVENC in OBS, configured OBS, and tested it out. ![]() Then I remembered that I had an Nvidia GPU, and I had heard that NVENC (Nvidia’s GPU streaming codec) had gotten really good, so I decided to check it out. How Immortals of Aveum wants to rethink PC optimization with Unreal Engine 5 Nvidia’s AI-driven game characters are getting toxic Despite mixed reviews, the RTX 4060 is moving the needle for Nvidia |
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