Fantozzi

Chris Rea Reasons

I'm so old ... when I was a young adult, talking to things like your car, the phone, the TV or your wrist watch was a clear sign of mental disorder.

Singer/Songwriter Chris Rea passed away this afternoon (GMT) at the age of 74.

You made me aware I confused SCSI and ASCII. You know ... I'm old.

Dacia Jogger

I'm so old, when I upgrated to SCSI I told all of my friends SCSI is the future and it will be there long after EIDE is gone.

Holden Monaro GTS

turn down their ...

I'm so old, recently I broke a record listening to Beethoven's "For Elise" more then 678 400 times ... ... while beeing on hold on service hotlines.

Cool. Very cool. But ... ... no T-Rex?

If you just need a naked player without any fancy stuff - free and open source and a solid, stable working horse - take "mpc-hc" or "mpc-be". This is "Media Player Classic - Home Cinema" or "Media Player Classic - Black Edition". As it's open source these two are different development branches. While the Development of the first mpc-hc stopped in 2017 (and of the original mpc already in 2008), a few projects were forked from the 2017-version and are still developed and frequently updated. I'm writing this, as there are quite a few site on the web, saying this player is outdated - (and the precoursor is indeed) but it's misleading information. Even damaged mp4 vlc or windows never will play at all mpc often manage to render at least partially. https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/2.5.2

Ólafur Arnalds (Iceland). Those northern musicians - with four or five notes they write a melody and from this simple melody they build a shelf ice of emotions.

I agree with matias. I didn't play the newest CAM version but it was always the way on the first four growing stages there was no big difference regarding the density (occupants per tile). Reason ist those stages are defined by other needs (water, electricity - so your city won't grow much regarding population but regarding size), So to "camify" bats on the first three growing levels never was really needed. It's mainly and above all an upward expansion adding 8 grow stages behind the 8 grow stages of the base game. The most important thing for gameplay is to have all your nice bats distributed over those 16 grow stages in a reasonable way. Imagine you'd have 5 bats on grow stage 3 and 500 on grow stage 4. SC4 tends to build always the same - best fitting - bat, it doesn't seem the algorithms can really make use of so many different bats in your plugin folder, if they are all on the same grow stage. Of those 500 most of the time only maybe 50 (don't know) may be seen. But always those poor 5 on level 3. So above level 8, starting with grow level 9,that's where CAM comes fully in charge. If there are no "camified" bats for this growth level ... well obviously nothing can happen then. That's why CAM must modify all maxis bats and reorganize them, spread grow stages out, distribute them over 16 instead of 8 stages. So "camification" is important for those big buildings without CAM they are stage 7 or 8 - with CAM should be 14, 15, 16 instead. On those - change of stage is hughe and makes a big difference (stage is doubled) while between stage 4 or 5, or 5 or 6 - it's not the same big step, the stats won't change dramatically, instead slightly. Now, Regarding the beautiful work of madhatter most of those bats are "borderline" regarding CAM. Camified or not mostly they wouldn't change growth level, maybe stats a little bit (lesser density/occupants per square). So imo they will run fine with or without CAM. If they don't grow, more likely there are already a lot of bats for this growth level in your plugin folder fitting better (choice/opinion by stubborn algorithms) . So you could alter grow level upwards, f.e. change it from 6 to 7. But then they may grow like weed. It's something I never got balanced in all those years. If you reach a certain amount in your plugin folder regarding a grow level some bats won't grown or grow one of ten cities you build. That's by far the bigger challenge - having a well distributed plugin folder, so each grow level is represented in a reasonable way. Or you make them eyecandy and ploppable. Especially such beauties. Wo would want to wait years for them to show up? Patience is a a virtue, shure, but at a certain point this starts to become torture. All these beautiful things - every week new. More than 22.000 downloads on the STEX!! So, yes, we have to accept, to plopp them to see them is the only painless way. It's smiply too much content to let it grow. Now I ran off topic. Silly old storymaker ... sorry. Better stop my litanies here.

Huh ... this post from June 27 ... revealing the hidden content ... this was really fun. This was like opening a large chocolate box looking and looking unable to decide which piece to take first. All look so nice. Thank you! They say when the muses kiss their chosen men, this ist the typical outburst of creative power what happens then.