![]() ![]() Instead, what you do is manufacture the right kind of music, cultivate the right image for the bands, and then just watch the spreadsheets of numbers go ballistic. I’m completely convinced that this is a thematic consideration rather than an indie developer’s budget speaking: in idol culture, the quality of the music and performances is almost irrelevant. You don’t even get to hear the songs that the girls perform, or see them dance. You will be encouraged to see these girls as resources to be exploited and discarded, rather than artists and performers. ![]() You will have to deal with everything from creepy fans to the bullying culture that can build up around the girls. Even people that love idols know it all goes a bit too far in the way it exploits a bunch of girls that want to be stars, but purely on perception, it seemed like this game was trying and wash over all that to be a simple, “fun” take on the industry.īut Idol Manager is surprisingly unflinching about this. The first time I played I figured it would be uncritically fanservicesy and celebratory of a business model that is often terribly exploitative. As the name of the game suggests, it tasks you with building up an idol business – think AKB48 in Japan – and it’s a surprisingly unflinching look at it. That is a pity, because Idol Manager is interesting. But this is too painfully clunky, and does test my definition of “playable.” My over-arching philosophy is that so long as the game is interesting and playable, I’ll sit through it. As people that read my reviews know, I just don’t usually spend entire paragraphs complaining about this stuff. As a final kick in the ‘nads, you can’t play this with touchscreen control in handheld mode. You can mess around with the speed of the cursor in the settings, but even turning it up to its maximum wasn’t smooth or fast enough for me, and in general, I’ve never reached the point where I’m comfortable with how this game controls. You can scroll through the menu using buttons, but it scrolls in one direction only, and then, if you want to cycle through a window that’s bigger than a single screen, you need to press a button and use the control stick to simulate a mouse wheel action. On the Switch, many of the actions are still designed around the virtual mouse pointer, but unfortunately, the speed of the cursor on the screen is glacial and some real dead zone issues make “clicking” on the tiny icons that you need to a pain. But the problem with Idol Manager starts almost immediately on loading it up. As a point of reference, Project Highrise – another simulator built around direct input and with a similar presentation – worked beautifully on consoles. Idol Manager on the PC was very much built around mouse control, but not in a way that shouldn’t have been adaptable to console. I just had no idea they’d get the potential for a console port this wrong, and that has everything to do with the controls, sadly. Idol Manager is a far more thoughtful take on all of this than I was expecting, and consequently, I’ve found the whole thing to be fascinating.” I’m not the world’s biggest fan of idols (at least, idols that aren’t digital and with aquamarine twintail hair), but I do find the culture behind them fascinating to study. ![]() The irony here is that the one bit of that original review that still exists – my summary on Metacritic – actually calls for a console port: “Idol Manager really needs a console release – the scope and design of the game makes it perfect for the Nintendo Switch in particular – but in the meantime, I can see myself spending a lot of time playing this on the PC. And that’s a real pity, because I wanted to link to that review, say “this game is really, really good”, and then proceed to rip the console port to shreds. Idol Manager seems to be one of the very few articles that we lost when we transferred from that old, Blogger-based (remember how ugly that site was by the end?) to this new host. Well, this review puts me in a bit of an odd position. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I had high hopes when I used the Mac version but the iOS app versions really fall short. I'm not impressed by this app at all which is a shame because I own all versions of the app including for iPad and Mac and feel it was a wasted purchase even if it was on sale. You just have to go to your blog, load it into Safari and refresh to view changes. When sending the edited post back out to the blog as published, there's no real indicator that the task has completed. Sometimes while typing really fast, the text output doesn't seem to be able to keep up and it freezes while tapping out text. When choosing a typeface, they show up in a boring scrollable list but just in Helvetica, not their native typeface. When coming back to edit the post, all the single spaces between periods have been removed and all the hard return in between paragraphs have also been removed making it extra work to go back though and put them all back.Ĭhanging the font size does effect the published version, but only the size changes, not the typeface so no WYSIWYG editing there. This is redundant since it's much easier to just highlight the word and use the built-in iOS formatting. In this app, you tap the 'A' button and then toggle switches for bold, italic or underline. So lets say you want to make a word bold. Tapping text in landscape mode is ok, but the tools are much too close to the keyboard which makes for east formatting mistakes while tapping fast. The scrolling in portrait mode is unreliable. Tapping out text in the app is a horrible user experience. This is a major pain and I've seen other apps that get it right so why can't MacJournal? Come on! Coming back to the post and making changes ( as I'm doing right now) seems to work out alright without the need to re-authenticate.īefore I could submit the first post, I had to authenticate through my 2-step verification several times despite already authorizing the app to post to my blog. So, I headed back here to the MacJournal app on my iPhone to see if I can amend the post. First off, I attached two images and neither showed up in this post on my blog. What is this? An email? Even emailing a blog post is better than using this app at the moment. This is a severely underdeveloped app! I see I can "attach" an image. I'm disappointed right away by the fact that I don't yet see a way to add an image or place a text link. Many of these APFS snapshots will be automatically deleted after about a week or after TM sends the backup to the external TM drive.I'm finally getting around to trying to blog from my iPhone using the MacJournal app. These APFS snapshots are used by macOS and various backup utilities like Time Machine. If you are using macOS 10.13+ and the APFS file system, then the files you deleted may still exist within an APFS snapshot. The command returns Thinned local snapshots: I found a date in /Volumes//Backups.backupdb/MacbookPro I not only had to remove TimeMachine local snapshots, but also thin local backups: Not sure if this was necessary but after completing this process, I ran disk first aid on the APFS container itself and the individual volumes. Repeat the whole process several times until you no longer see space increases. Select your main volume again and you will probably see the “available” space has increased.Select the new volume (double checking you’ve selected the right one!) and click - Volume in the toolbar to delete it.Set the new volume’s reserved space to slightly under the supposed “available” amount of space (the max space and name don’t matter) and save.Click the + Volume button in the toolbar. ![]()
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"Swatch and Flik-Flak timepieces are laser sealed during the manufacturing process, therefore our timepieces are unable to be repaired or serviced". From a response to my email equesting a simple repair of a new case back: Seems that as of today they are glorified paperweights if anything goes wrong. I had read conflicting things on here and on blogs about whether Sistem51 watches are repairable. My wrist was fine but the case back melted and turned very rough. I was cleaning a paintbrush and got acetone on my wrist between the skin and the case back. I received a Swatch Sistem51 Irony Arrow as a present a few years back. 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They can really open up your intervals, especially the size of intervals Techniques but a very small percentage actually practice arpeggios.Īrpeggios are really instrinsic part of building harmonic ideas on Saxophone Arpeggio Exercises and Practice IdeasĪ lot of students practice a lot of scales, itudes and other melodic The triads than you are at this point, and that can be benefitial. You might think you know them, but you basically can get further into The triads are kind of the basic building So if you know some scales, trying playing some arpeggios. Just changing it a little bit-playing a variation of something you When you are playing an arpeggios of a certain scale you are kind of You are struggling with major scales on saxophone. You will find all the saxophone fingerings, both main and alternative, On saxophones if you are just getting started. I wrote an awesome note-by-note guide to playing all 12 major scales Scale, it becomes harder because you are now suddenly learning two If you are trying to play an arpeggio that's based on a certain scale,Īnd you can play that scale it becomes easy. Once you know the major scales, it will be a lot easier to build from What I recommend for most people to do is learn the major scales first. Taking I, III, V, VI off a major scale or i, iii, v, vi off a minor You can have major arpeggios, minor arpeggios, diminished, augmentedĪnd all sorts of different variations. Just like there all kinds of different chords. There are all kinds of different patterns you can do with arpeggios, ![]() ![]() The seven notes of C major are C D E F G A B, and the arpeggio would be Start out spacing them, eventually, you get the same notes of the So for arpeggios you use the same notes as the scale. you are basically skipping one note (D then F, and so on You can think about how chordsįor a scale such as C major you play C D E F G. ![]() Together, whereas with chords they are further apart.Įach arpeggio is related to a scale. The feeling of playing chords we play arpeggios on saxophone.Ĭhords and scales ultimately refer to the same thing, it just has to do Play literally different notes at the same time. Pretty much what a chord would be if you were playing on a harmonyĪs saxophone players we can't play chords. Sometimes people refer to arpeggios as chord scales. 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Prayer Twist presents a nice variation to some of the other yoga poses. Arms move upward above the head, and the eyes look forward. Feet are close together and the bottom is slowly moved into a seated position, as if sitting in a chair. Chair pose is a nice hamstring extender and core stabilizer. Emphasize relaxing and being loose (like a rag doll) in this position and finding your breath.ĩ. If desired, you can slowly sway side to side while in this position. It is essentially a forward fold, wherein the knees are slightly bent with the upper body folding forward, arms hugging and head down. If this pose places too much pressure on the wrists or shoulders, you can modify by going down to your elbows.Ĩ. The pose helps strengthen the shoulder and upper back muscles as well as stretch the calves and hamstrings. Downward facing dog is probably the most popular yoga move in many yoga classes around the country. ![]() Breathe through this exercise as you then lift the spine slowly so it makes a slight rainbow arch, and then transition again into the cow pose (as pictured above)ħ. Try getting on all fours on a mat surface, lift the head and press the spine toward the ground. Cow pose is a nice spine extension exercise. This is a full body strengthening pose.Ħ. Then, lift yourself back up to the original position. If you feel comfortable, try this pose on a mat surface and hold for a couple seconds and then slowly lower yourself toward the ground as if performing a push-up. Bottom should be down and in a flat alignment with the back. The pose is similar to a push-up position, except the positioning of the hands are slightly different. Chaturanga is a more challenging yet common yoga pose used in the more experienced yoga classes. Remember to refer to the instructor for modifications of the tougher yoga moves.ĥ. You can always lower the bent leg if balance is an issue. Tree pose acts as an effective hip opener and core stabilizer. There is so much to balance in our daily lives, and yoga presents a physical way that we can master that balance with our bodies. Tree pose can be a challenging pose for balance, but much of the challenge comes with trying to maintain focus. For more information, check out our website or ask the front desk!Ĥ. There will be a Warrior workshop offered at the DAHLC on October 18th. Rather than the arms being extended front and back, one arm will extend upward, while the other lightly supports the body by grasping the lower leg. Reverse Warrior is similar to its sister pose, Warrior, yet it includes a lateral stretch or bend. Arms are extended toward the front and back, and the focal point is just beyond the fingers on the front hand.ģ. 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