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themarginalartist · 7 years ago

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Think... Ink: Chapter 2

So it was mentioned to me that Archive of Our Own wasn't accessible for some so I am reposting the story here for those who can't get there. If there is a formatting issue I won't be able to fix it until tonight so sorry about that!

I have to find Bendy. I have to find him. Maybe he will know what's going on. Why I now look like this.

I have to find Bendy.

I have to find him.

I have to find it.

Find it.

Kill it.

Bendy moved down the silent hallway, the only noise being the ripples of ink pushing aside as he moved. He checked the doors as he went, peering inside to see if he could find any signs of Henry, but he kept coming up empty handed. Growing more frustrated and sad that he couldn't find him he let out a growl.

What had happened to Henry?

The last thing he remembered was the two of them falling asleep in a side room. When he'd woken up there was no trace of Henry, not even his axe. Had Henry abandoned him?

He shook his head fiercely. He couldn't think like that. Something had to have happened. Henry had made his promise that he would help him get out (even though he still didn't believe him a little bit). Henry had been there for him through everything so far.

So why did it hurt so much the longer he looked?

He moved into one of the side rooms and shut the door. Moving towards the desk in the back he left a large in puddle before reaching inside himself and putting his paper on the desk to stare out to the room. When the ink finally dripped away he was sitting on his line, knees curled up to his chest.

"I wish Henry was here right now..." he whispered to the empty room. It had been so hard already.

Searching for Henry alone. Fighting searchers alone. Being alone. Tears formed in the corner of his eyes. It just wasn't fair, things had been going okay for them for once, Henry hadn't been injured for a while and his leg had been getting better and he had been gaining better control of his other form. He'd gone an extra couple of minutes longer each time he left the safety of a room to look for Henry.

"Where are you Henry? Why did you leave me?" Bendy laid down on his side and closed his eyes, a nap would help, he'd have to search for Henry later.

Sad.

Why sad.

So sad.

Hurts.

Do not like.

Anger.

Replace sad.

Hate sad.

Kill it.

Sad bad.

Only anger.

Only hate.

Kill it.

Tired.

Rest.

Pool.

Sleep.

Find it.

Later.

Wait.

Sleep.

Hide.

Wait.

Kill it.

Bendy had woken up a little while ago and had started searching again. He still tried to hope that Henry was safe and that nothing had happened to him, but as each minute dragged on, it was harder and harder to hope.

Why did you leave me Henry? Why?

Bendy kept on though. He decided that after that last break, he was done taking breaks, he had to find Henry.

No matter what.

Even if that meant he lost control.

Rage.

I feel it.

It hurts.

It feels so bad.

Why.

Hate it.

Do not want it.

Want it to stop.

Want to kill it.

Want to sleep.

Do not want these.

Feelings.

It hurts.

Anguish.

Do not want.

Kill it.

End it.

Make it stop.

It caused this.

End it.

Make it hurt too.

End it.

Kill it.

Make it suffer.

Bendy had lost control. He raged through the hallways. Any searcher that came up in his path was turned into a splatter against the wall. He roared. The pinprick of light in his eye scanned the hall as he went. He clawed hand leaving marks in the wall as he dragged it against it. He growled.

He was angry.

He was furious.

He was desperate.

As he continued down the current hallway he came to an area flooded in ink. Nothing that he wasn’t used to. He entered it without thinking.

Searchers popped up from the pool. He snarled. And the fight began. Left and right he swung his arms and smacked the searchers out of existence. He roared as some of them tried to get him from behind, quickly smashing those ones as well.

For what seemed like ages he fought off the searchers.

And then they stopped coming.

He panted heavily, rage starting to fade away slightly. His form smoothed out. He was back to normal, or at least back in control. He looked around at the pool. The area was silent. Too silent.

Then he heard it behind him. Something coming out of the ink and raising up. Excess dripping and falling off the form of what it was. He turned around.

It wasn’t the other ‘Bendy’ as he had initially feared. And it wasn’t a searcher. But it was terrifying.

It stood at the same height he was. Black and staring with a single wide eye. Entire face covered in ink. A large spike protruded from its head. It was leaning forward, huge arms supporting it upright, legs defined but just goopy messes that widened out as they went to the pool. They stared at each other. Squaring each other up. Tension in the room rising. Low growls coming from the new creature.

It roared, ink making stringy lines where it’s mouth was, and launched itself at him.

It’s spike aimed straight for his chest. Bendy dodged out of the way in the nick of time. It stopped itself quickly and turned raising an arm to swipe down at him. He blocked it with his own arm, keeping the hand from reaching his head. It grabbed him with the other arm though, yanking him aside like a doll, and threw him against the wall.

Bendy growled. It was strong. And he didn’t have Henry here right now to help him. He was just going to have to fight it on his own. But why did it’s head shape seem familiar?

He had no time to question it further as the creature launched itself at him, trying to drive its spike through his chest again. Bendy ducked down as it did so and grabbed the creature around it’s torso and threw them both down into the pool. He pinned it’s arms down, struggling to make sure that he had control of the creature. It lifted it’s head trying to use the spike to slice at him. Bendy was cut on his shoulder as he moved his head out of the way. He hissed in pain.

And suddenly it stopped. It froze. Eye widening.

And it hissed. The frozen moment suddenly gone and it pushed Bendy off with enough force to launch him some ways away in the pool.

“HuRTs” It growled.

That voice, distorted but familiar. Bendy hissed in pain as the cut on his shoulder let ink flow out of his form, the gash while not leaking heavily still hurt.

It came at him again.

But didn’t use its spike, swinging its arms instead, like it was afraid of something.

Bendy dodged out of the way easily. It seemed to be slowing down for some reason.

“SToP iT” It roared. dropping to its knees and clutching his head. “PaiN. dO NoT waNt It” It was shaking.

Bendy was too. He realized why the voice sounded familiar. Why when he first saw its head it was familiar. Why he was familiar.

“…Henry?” Bendy quietly questioned. It snapped its eye towards him and stared, only confirming Bendy’s suspicion.

“Henry, is that— Is that you?” Bendy felt the tears begin to well up in his eye. He was shaking heavily, trying to keep his form stable. The loss of ink from his shoulder, having come out of berserker mode a little while ago, and having just fought his only friend in the studio was taking its toll on him. But he needed to press through it, just for a little while longer.

“hUrtS” It hissed quietly.

“Henry it’s okay. It’s me. Don’t you recognize me?” Bendy carefully moved towards Henry. Henry didn’t move. He kept watching him. Shaking.

“Henry you need to calm down.” Bendy hated how much he had to speak right now. How his voice was distorted and awful. But Henry needed him.

Henry’s form was now losing globs of ink. He was slowly changing back. But back into what?

Bendy was two feet away when Henry’s form changed in a large splash of ink. Everything from that old form had fallen away. And left in its place was Henry.

Except he was definitely not human, or not fully human.

Bendy looked over his friends form. Henry’s body was coated in ink in different places. His chest obscured by ink leading down into his right arm and making it as large as Bendy’s own. His left arm starting just above his elbow was a skinnier, shorter version of the same. He saw how the ink was all the way up to Henry’s hip on his left leg, and from what he could tell it looked to be that his right leg started below the knee as Henry’s pants were still visible. White hair was all that protruded from his head, the remaining brown coated in ink that fell to his shoulders.

Bendy couldn’t stop the tears from flowing down his face.

“I— I’m a monster— I hurt you— I— I can’t— I can’t stay here— I can’t—” And with that Henry ran.

Bendy started to chase after, but immediately had to stop and clutch his head, waves of fear, sadness, and self loathing rolled through him. He remembered feeling those. He knew those feelings well. But those were not his. These feelings though overwhelmed him and he quickly spotted a door and threw himself inside slamming it shut. Spotting a desk he quickly reached in and pulled his paper to lay on the desk.

When the ink cleared away, Bendy was panting on the page, shaking.

“What, what was that, all of those feelings. And Henry, Henry what happened to him? I GAHH” Another wave of emotion hit the toon. It hurt so bad and it made him feel terrible. He wanted to help Henry so bad. He needed to help Henry. But he was just so tired.

Without realizing. Bendy eventually closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The last thought the toon had before he finally fell into a dreamless sleep from the exhaustion of the days events, ‘I will help you Henry, I promise.’

Alternate ending…

Bendy was too. He realized why the voice sounded familiar. Why when he first saw its head it was familiar. Why he was familiar.

“…Henry?” Bendy quietly questioned. It snapped its eye towards him and stared, only confirming Bendy’s suspicion.

“hUrtS” It hissed quietly.

“Henry it’s okay. It’s me. Don’t you recognize me?” Bendy carefully moved towards Henry. Henry didn’t move. He kept watching him. Shaking.

“Henry you need to calm down.” Bendy hated how much he had to speak right now. How his voice was distorted and awful. But Henry needed him.

Henry’s form was now losing globs of ink. He was slowly changing back. But back into what?

Bendy was two feet away when Henry’s form changed in a large splash of ink. Everything from that old form had fallen away. And left in its place was Henry.

Except he was definitely not human, or not fully human.

Bendy couldn’t stop the tears from flowing down his face.

“I— I’m a monster— I hurt you— I— I can’t— I can’t stay here— I can’t—”

Suddenly a door creaked open. A small figure appeared and crossed into the ink and stood a bit away from the two, the three creating a triangle. The figure crossed it’s arms and frowned deeply.

“What the hell you two?” She growled. “Why are you fighting? Just hug it out.”

“What—“ Henry started.

“You heard me. Hugs, now, you both need them.”

“Who are you?” Bendy looked down at the person? Wait, it was a cat? A cat person?

“ShinyZango. Now hugs. Do it.” Bendy and Henry looked at each other, then back at ShinyZango.

“Now.” She said again tapping her foot.

The two shuffled towards each other. Pausing just as they got next to one another. They looked back at ShinyZango again. She then mimicked with her hands them hugging.

Bendy was the first to move, wrapping his arms around Henry and holding him tight.

“See, much better.” ShinyZango nodded as she said this, then turned around, walked back through the door, and shut it with a slight slam. The door then quickly opened and she poked her head back out. “MARGINAL STOP HURTING THEM!” And with that she slammed the door shut.

“What the hell was that?” Henry asked after Bendy released him.

“No idea…”

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fromtheground39-blog · 5 years ago

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10 Years of Gaming PCs - 2015 - 2019 (Part 2)

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ah PC gaming in one way or another. It'S provided countless hours days weeks, even years of entertainment to generations of enthusiasts around the globe or discs, as it were. These last 10 years have been something of a roller coaster, ride for enthusiasts and novices alike, and today we begin our story, one of sloth and greed, of loss, rebirth and a never-ending thirst for more so make yourself comfortable. As we take you back in time and celebrate PC gaming in the only way, we know how I feel like a bunch of gaming PC's, it's gonna be fun. You ready, oh, and it's brought to you by actually powered by C sonic and brought to you by LG's ultra gear. Ultra wide gaming displays yeah any news crew ever to the first chapter of our story begins way back in the long long ago, time known as 2009, the 44th President of the United States of America was inaugurated. The Twilight series made its debut and James Cameron's Avatar became the highest-grossing film of all time, depending on your take on those events. It was either a great year or one that you'd rather forget but fear. Not 2009 was a pretty good year for PC gaming. We got Borderlands, Batman, Arkham Asylum left, 4, dead, 2 and Dragon Age Origins just to name a few to run those games Intel had just launched the core. I series as a replacement for the core twos that had gone toe-to-toe with AMD in the years prior. As a result, while the Linfield core i7 handily outperformed its core 2 quad predecessors, the price for those older chips fell steadily as the new platform found its legs and they remained a highly popular choice for builders, especially with early ddr3, costing a pretty penny and not Significantly outperforming the outgoing ddr2, so our build then is equipped with everything we need to make a great 2009 gaming machine, a Core 2 quad, q96 50 with gorgeous Zellman flower cooler on it, 4 gigs of ddr2, 800, dual Radeon, HD, 59, 70s in crossfire and, of Course, Windows 7, all for just under 18 hundred US dollars at the time, so I was actually pretty into both of these games. I guess I'll go with Dragon Age. It'S probably the more graphically demanding of the two and a have. You actually tried these games. I loaded them up to make sure they launched in that they're in the right resolution. But aside from that, Oh nope, you're, gonna, have to create a character and everything I actually probably don't have to do that I could. I could remote into my computer at home and load up my safe. I think I still have it alright. So, theoretically, I've thrown my old save file for a lira in here, but I don't know vps hosting seattle if it's actually gonna work. There'S a previous folder that has like a portrait stuffin, it man. I remember this. Alright, let's see if it's in their caverns whoa. Actually that ain't bad. I think I was kind of an evil character, which is why my face ends up looking kind of like scary and stuff arcane bolt winters grasp slowdown, you hoser finding the controls a little clutch in it in this after this. After so long, all right, obviously don't know any of my my binds here. Oh it's immune to fire, not that makes sense how about some lightning for you there. You know it's funny new games or they definitely look better, but this looks all right. Doesn'T it yeah? I mean like most of the graphical fidelity is made up in the lighting. I think, because the textures don't really hold up very well today, no they've aged for sure that was definitely a trip down nostalgia Lane. But one thing I won't miss is how loud gaming machines were back then and how bad the cable management options were. This case sucked the following year, saw Bioshock 2 hits Steam libraries along with Battlefield, Bad Company, 2 sip 5 Mass Effect, 2 and Starcraft 2 wings of Liberty. Carrying on this pattern of sequels AMD's new Phenom, 2 X, 6 offered more threads than the core twos did at a price much lower than the core AI series, particularly when it comes to the supporting hardware. This made it a favorite among enthusiasts, looking for something better than a Core 2 quad and a multi-threading workload without breaking the bank, because, while it was slower per thread, it held its own in most titles, wider availability of ddr3 made for a lower early adopter tax. Although ddr2 would remain much less expensive for some time to come, our 2010 gaming PC, therefore, is equipped with a phenom, 2, x6 10:55 T 4 gigabytes of ddr3 1333 and twin Radeon, HD 6970 s still rocking Windows, 7 or again just shy of 1800 dollars in 2010 well remember when you could right-click on Network crap in the bottom right and then you would well ok when it wasn't broken like that yeah and then you could just go to your network configurations. I did do that all right. So what are we trying to run out here again, 34, 40 by 1440, so full ultra wide. As you can see, it doesn't exactly scale the intro graphics, very well. No, but once again the textures are a little rough and a mocap technology definitely had a long way to go back then, compared to now you can definitely tell when things like godrays are hard-coded versus dynamically generated by the engine by the light sources. Yeah in this case, if you removed all the geometry in the scene, those godrays would still be there. He looks like he just smelled something bad, so this game apparently scales to ultra wide by narrowing your vertical field of view. That'S not a great gaming experience. Ultra wide support has definitely gotten a lot better over the years, so our number 10 bulb is actually cut off, and so is our point decrease button here. Well, I'm not sure how to proceed from here. To be honest, wha-wha 2011 brought us a huge number of hot titles like portal to Sky roll. Oh, that's! A pretty dead beam, sorry Skyrim, deus ex human revolution and everyone's favorite masochism, simulator, Dark Souls but 2011 was also a dark year for AMD. With the release of Sandy Bridge and Intel's new consumer LGA 1156 platform, until not only had a very fast line up of CPUs at their disposal, but a cost-effective one at that, AMD's response in the form of bulldozer failed on all counts, giving them a reputation as The cheap option that would take years to overcome now because in the early days hyper threading had a tendency to negatively impact gaming performance. There was very little reason to go with the high end core i7 2670 500k with 4 gigs of ddr3 ram, whose price had come down a fair bit since 2010. Now, this time around, we've gone green team for our graphics card, because in videos, GTX 590 outperformed AMD making it the goat card for over-the-top monster machines. But it was also around this time that enthusiasts began to shy away from dual GPU solutions due to the prevalence of micro, stuttering. The GTX 590 would be among the last such consumer cards from Nvidia this year we picked up check this link right here now an SSD for the first time, bumping our total build price to nearly 1,900 dollars, and that SSD option is something we'll be keeping in. All future builds unlike Windows, 7. For which, sadly, the road ends here, one thing that was a big deal that we didn't cover in the blurb for this year is that the define was pretty much the defining case of this time. Unlike the p180 series from an tech that preceded it, it was actually affordable, so you could get a nice looking quiet, discreet case. Without now I actually never actually played Skyrim when I was big into oblivion, but I never played this one. This is the one that everybody played. I know right, I got ta say the texture quality, even just in the loading screens, is feels more than a year ahead of what we were just looking at. That'S a huge difference, and this is even without the modding community. Coming in and fixing it for us yep, however, the 8k texture packs that were available for this wasn't actually 8k, but you know: should we just jump to one of the towns sure you watch out boom yeah you like that boom right fist, let's just oh he's, Got a sword boom, wow, wow, wow, oh great, a sword. Go nice, just got a knife or maybe he only had a knife in the first place. Wow. Oh, I have an axe. How do I equip it? Let'S go axe, some shiz lightning axe, oh wow! This is how waiting works in this game, yeah that is so ugly and unnecessary wow. This is really a much much better looking game, though it's still, it still doesn't hold up that well compared to modern stuff, like you can really tell a lot of the assets and the trees are obviously reused. Shadows are very lifeless feeling mm-hmm. It'S a shadow map. The trees don't move, you know, yeah no breeze, but one of the things that was really great about this game was draw distance like you could really look out into the distance and feel like you were in an immense world. Well, the world didn't end in 2012. It wasn't an outstanding year for gaming as a whole, either standouts include far cry 3 XCOM enemy, Unknown Borderlands, 2 and csgo. The CPU world, meanwhile, arguably came to a halt. Ivy Bridge was a modest tick to Sandy bridges, talk representing a die shrink and not much else. Pci Express 3.0 became a thing and they updated the integrated graphics and improved quick sync support, but neither of those things were earth-shattering at the time. Still, as gamers moved on to the new architecture, the lessons of the previous generation carried forward to this one to so many went with the core i5 this time around, and so did we, the 35 70k powers, our rig this year, along with 8 gigabytes of very Inexpensive RAM and the Radeon HD 7970, which, despite its slightly lower performance out of the gate, mostly kept pace with Nvidia's Kepler and eventually I performed it in the long haul, thanks to its larger frame buffer. At least this build costs less than last year's at just over 1,800, but we're now also running Windows 8, so have fun. With that, I never actually played Far Cry 3, even though I played the first one and loved. It played the second one and literally had my save game tanked because it had autosave and then it auto saved when I was too far from anywhere to recover from some poison or something oh, tennisforum.com/members/346995-routerhost.html?simple=1#aboutme the malaria yeah. So I couldn't I couldn't do anything so my save game got played. This is a crappy game anyway. So yeah didn't bother with this one, even though it was supposed to be good yeah, they skewed a little bit less towards the realism aspect of this one. You know, as far as I know, I was the first North American retailer to bring in the define r2 really yeah. We brought in almost a container of them at a time when they were basically a completely unknown brand. It was like a huge gamble for me as a product manager. They had their issues. I remember there was a big scandal where there learn the facts here now their front USB was like wired up wrong or something Oh, and they had to send us a bunch of like replacement USB harnesses, and I was like what am I gonna do with these, like. You expect me to have someone go in the back and replace all your stupid front panel, cabling literally open every case. I guess they expected them to like be shipped with the cases or something that was ultimately the solution making the customer deal with it, but it was not a good time. People were not happy. Facial animations have come a long way in even just a few short years now. They'Ve come a long way further. Since then, these releases here with specular, highlights, are much better than previous. Yet like we're getting to the point now where I'm not gonna play this game and go oh there's a little yeah see the highlights on those packages yeah, and you can see them in people's eyes too yeah the eyes, especially it gives them a lot more Life vegetation still looks pretty static. Mutants on this is pretty good as well, but I can tell that, like it kind of cuts off around there part of it too, is that they've also applied a depth of field effect. That was something that didn't come into play until around this time. Yep 2013 brought comparatively few, but major releases like battlefield, 4, dota, 2 and Saints Row. 4 AMD wasn't having much fun, though, and their desperate attempts to compete by both lowering their prices and increasing their clock speeds and therefore power consumption never quite managed to break them. Free of the rut they found themselves in has well, then, was the next talk, and this time around, we actually did get a bit of a performance boost, even if it was a single-digit one. Thanks to a move to Intel's 22 nanometer FinFET manufacturing process, hyper-threading also became more useful this year. As the concept of streaming your gaming began to take off in earnest, and the core i7 4770k was also clocked higher than the core i5 variant. So that's what we went with along with 16 gigs of fast ddr3 ram and a geforce gtx 780 Ti Kepler. Second outing certainly did a lot better than the first and unfortunately, for AMD. Radeon, still to this day, hasn't made a return to the top of the benchmark chart. This year, windows 8.1 made its debut, but I don't know that anyone actually cared outside of the fact that it was a free upgrade for Windows 8 users which I guess might have helped a little with the ballooning prices of enthusiasts PC hardware. This build all told commanded, a total of just over 2,100 u.s. dollars now. This is where we get into the games. That really make me say, is this even that old like I could play this game today, and it would be perfectly fine. This is battlefield. 4 textures look freakin, awesome, high res lighting. Reflections are handled differently depending on the type of surface that the light is hitting can actually see objects that move into the god rays, get illuminated by them. Like my gun. A lot of the improvements here aren't even just in technology they're, also in style like you, can really just tell how much more attention to detail is put into mocap yeah character models. These are so detailed compared to the ones that we were looking at at the beginning hall that bloom, yeah and lens flare love it like a really complex lens flare to the final year, represented in this first part of our series is 2014, which was another relatively Light year for high-profile releases with Dark Souls, 2 alien isolation, shadow of Mordor and The Sims 4 representing as for hardware and it's Ivy Bridge all over again. But worse. Tik-Tok and boars law largely fell apart this year and instead of a new microarchitecture or anything of substance, we got Haswell refresh literally just the core clock, improvement and, admittedly much needed more efficient Tim. We did get a new chipset to go with it, though, which, for the first time implements nvme support, not that anyone had any use for that at the time. But hey a features, a feature. So we went with a core i7 4790k, along with 16 gigabytes of ddr3 just like last time, but now we're dropping our hard drive in favor of a faster large SSD. The other main difference is in Nvidia's Maxwell based GTX 980, a complete rework of Kepler that improved efficiency and overall performance to running on the same process. Node. That was a pretty impressive feat and AMD wouldn't release their response until the following year. Mercifully, total cost is down significantly this year, and this will also be the last year that we build with Windows 8.1 with that said, I'm sure that there are still some fans of it out there somewhere. So this is alien isolation and yeah. One of the things that you'll notice - it's got Medicaid, yes, yeah, that's kind of the aesthetic of this, but it was also something that kind of became popular in around this time. Right. Real-Time Instagram filters yeah. So, as you can see, it's like fine when we're looking right at it, but if we move the camera yeah you get that red fringing on it yeah. I think I'll go green over here. That'S cute, yep lighting effects are so natural and it's amazing how much of a difference that makes I mean the graphics card manufacturers are constantly talking about how lighting is such a key component to making a game look more natural and more immersive, but, as we've gone Through this six years of gaming PC's, it's like yeah, certain things have improved like textures, but lighting is definitely the one that has been the most game-changing pardon, the pun, yeah and, like this watery effect here, the way the light plays off. Of that. That'S something that just didn't happen in previous generations, so much subtlety to it like just areas on the carpet that are more lit, like we've, got actual light, bounces yeah. So as we come out here, we can see that you know the carpet here. Well, it's not really carpet but like it's way less well, you lost shiny than this. This trim is yeah. It used to be that, like going back to really old games like doom three, just like the entire environment felt shiny if they wanted to have light reflecting off anything like they elect subtlety yeah, Full Article and in this case you can kind of see here like the way They did with the bump mapping here yeah. It looks shiny, but also greedy at once, which is a really difficult thing to pull off on previous generations. I remember it being a big deal to even be able to reflect the environment scope before this. Oh yeah yeah used to be like he was read an orchestra. You could have something that was either like a static scope or you could have a low resolution or a high-resolution reflection yeah, and there was a significant performance penalties for enabling it. It was a discrete menu option. Man, this the steam effects here, looked great yeah. The fact that, like when you go by them and the the light is no longer I mean it's that's kind of a screen space thing, but it kind of also works because it no longer is in your your field of vision. So it kind of just fades out so this first half of the last decade represented a steady decline in hardware improvements in innovation year over year. But somehow, on the software side of the gaming industry, they still managed to squeeze far more realism and image quality out of said hardware. Now some believed that this decrease in performance improvement would continue ad infinitum as a result of the death of Moore's law and the future. Indeed looked pretty dim. In 2014, it seemed as though PC gaming would begin to drop off, along with the decline in PC shipments. In general, but stay tuned folks, because for part two, where we go from 2015 all the way up to today. Well, let's just say if you're new - and you don't already know how this ends, I think you're gonna be surprised at where things go from here. What will be a surprise is this segue to our sponsors for today's video, LG and C sonic, who provided these monitors and, of course, literally powered all of our systems here? So if you guys are looking for a great gaming experience, LG's Ultra Gear gaming monitors are a fantastic choice. We'Re gonna have those linked in the video description and also down. There is gonna be some c sonic power supplies, no matter what kind of a rig you're, building small form-factor large power, sipping power, chugging, doesn't matter see Sonic's got you covered. So thanks for watching guys. 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schraubd · 6 years ago

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TV Timeout

Quick thoughts on some of the television I'm watching right now. Warning -- spoilers ahead for any of these shows: Game of Thrones

The last episode was basically unwatchable. Not because it was bad -- although it wasn't great -- but literally: it was so dark and blurry you basically couldn't see anything.

It's rare one says this about Game of Thrones but -- they were too skimpy on the character killing. Pretty much every major character came out alive. The big exceptions -- Theon, Jorah -- were at the end of redemption arcs anyway. There were no "shocking" or even particularly tragic deaths. Jaime, Brienne, or Grey Worm would've worked fine. Maybe GoT has gone soft in its old age.

I like Arya killing the Night King. I'd have liked it more if she had directly used some of the shape-shifting assassin skill she'd been developing, rather than sort of jumping out of ... nowhere? How did she get there? Is that supposed to be the assassin skill?

Billions

While I continue to think this is one of the best shows on television right now, I must admit I'm not enjoying this season quite as much as some of the others. Chuck's plot, in particular, seems to be spinning its wheels a bit. But the Taylor/Axe fight, which I think holds a lot of potential, still for me seems to mostly involve them circling each other and sending out skirmishes. I want a real battle.

You know who's due for a plot? Sacker.

I also don't like the direction they've taken the Rhodes' sex life. Showtime has often been weirdly good about handling non-normative sexuality in the least likely places (see also: a gender-fluid teenager in "House of Lies"), and I appreciated how it treated BDSM as non-pathological. This season? Definitely pathological. And that's putting aside Chuck's reveal on national television -- I'm talking about him physically mutilating himself because he "needs" the pain.

I do like that they quickly and, I hope, permanently disposed of the Russian oligarch character. One thing I've liked about Billions is that it resists the easy play that rich = utterly amoral such that they'd all just being willing to kill people to get what they want. Yes, they destroy lives via other means, but it is more realistic characterization that they think of what they do as very distinct from violent crime, and willingness to do the one does not translate to the other. The Russian plotline threatened to upset that, and I'm glad it went away.

Wendy is a straight-up monster, it turns out. Was she always so, or is this character development? I'm not sure, and I don't think that speaks well of how the arc has charted out. But Mafee sure earned that rant.

Speaking of Mafee, I'm worried about him. He's one of the very few "good guys" left on this show, which makes him a prime target for Axe to destroy/Taylor to betray. I don't want to see him get hurt.

Above notwithstanding, I absolutely do want to see him in a boxing match with Dollar Bill.

Taylor's dad = B+. Axe's new girlfriend = A+. Dollar Bill's "final solution" for the chicken problem = A++++.

American Ninja Warrior Junior

Just renewed for Season Two! This was a great show -- the kids were both adorable and talented, and the conceit of the show transitioned well.

While I won't say she's destined for a career on television, Laurie Hernandez worked as a sideline reporter. Also, placing Laurie -- who is basically defined by being "small" and "graceful" -- next to a bunch of nine-year-olds who make her look like a lumbering giantess is a never-ending source of visual comedy for me.

One point of adjustment: the pacing of the show on a season-wide level. The prelims lasted forever. And then there was no change to the course even in the semifinal or final round. Give those who advance a new challenge!

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

I'd say the jump to NBC is a success. There hasn't been a huge shift in tone, though it does seem like perhaps we're getting a bit more fan service than normal (hey -- we earned it for saving the show).

Oh, also NBC allows bleeping, which allowed the writers to set-up Santiago's fantastic "This B wants a C in her A" moment.

Obviously sad to see Gina go -- but happy that Scully and Hitchcock made the main credits!

Project Runway

I have to say, I like Karlie Kloss -- she who, as I've taken to putting it, "married one of the good Kushners" -- more than I thought I would. Like Heidi, she's sooooo pretty, but also seems fun and nice. She's doing a good job. Way to represent team Jew, Karlie!

The new judges are forgettable and should just let Nina run things. More surprising is that Christian Siriano isn't popping on screen at all. He's definitely no replacement for Tim Gunn.

I am enjoying the budding Hester/Tessa rivalry. I'm on Team Tessa -- I like her clean, sharp looks. Hester sometimes does cool things, but also sometimes seems like a Rainbow Brite doll who got locked in a rave for six years.

Surprisingly, the producers have done a decent job keeping the challenges feeling fresh and novel. Good job, producers!

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TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 (STEAM)

Ottaway from Down Under and today we have the top ten new free-to-play steam games of 2020 please note that Vassilis doesn't include well-known titles like wireframe Dota 2 and so on because more than likely you already know about those games this list will only feature the latest free-to-play games that are worth checking out in 2020.

Undefeated

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 a simple open-world superhero game that packs a punch and is a ton of fun the goal of this game is straightforward play over the open-world city and usual superpowers to protect the citizens against epic bosses, while that sounds like a familiar concept undefeated, decided not to follow the trends of a nerf superhero instead your superhero is ridiculously powerful and everything you do is flashy and epic now crazily enough this game is made by a single Japanese game student and it's amazing how well he's captured the feeling of being an epic superhero.

Iron Sight

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 the first-person shooter and this game are finally on Steam after months of waiting to put it simply iron sight is an FPS that wears its Call of Duty influences on its sleeve and it pulls it off fairly well fast-paced action a large array of weapons and an in-depth crater class system are solid pillars in this game and in conjunction with the decent amount of content and rank progression it's easy to sink in a ton of hours on top of all of this the lack of paid win and easing nature unlock weapons keeps things fresh without needing spandrel left money so this game has longevity and fairness which is a big plus with that said iron sight does have its problems in regards to servers and sniper balance but these problems are not to the detriment of the overall game with iron sight being a quality first-person shooter that is definitely worth a try.

Neon Beats

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 neon beats a 2d platformer with rhythm bass levels putting a twist on vijana defined by games like geometry - while simple on the surface neon beats is an addicting little game with its snappy movement in6 soundtrack the boo however please note that this game is very quick but for a quick game in between classes it's absolutely perfect especially as the game is also super easy to run.

Darwin Project

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 which is part survival game imparts battery out a new twist on the battery our genre the concept is simple 10 players are dropped into the match and have to survive the cold and fight to the death however there's a spicy twist where the spectators can affect the battle by giving players powers very much akin to the Hunger Games gameplay-wise it's nowhere near that a fortnight and the rest there is no looting and you only have a bow and acts as your weapons instead the focus is on crafting where you can craft traps and arrows along with upgrading your abilities and this results in a more skillful and tactical battery out this game has been out for quite a while but recently it went into a full release and the player base has spiked and had a very quite big resurgence so now.

Hellbound

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 hellbound survival mode on Steam I was very happy to see that a game like this actually exists the concept is simple you fight against hordes of enemies on a small island until you die with the main emphasis been on the adrenaline rush in combat the movement and gun mechanics are very much in line with the games of old but it has that 2020 coat of paint that holds up really well basically enemies just keep floating at you round after round off the round you get more guns there are lots of explosions and overall it is a ton of fun what else would.

War Selection

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 Age of Empires in civilization vibes into a free-to-play package now the big calling card with war selection is the fact that up to 62 players can be in one match which is insane and from my knowledge is something that hasn't been brought to the table before graphically war selection looks amazing as well especially for a free-to-play game.

DESTINY 2

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 destiny to the looter RPG MMO FPS is now finally on Steam and free to play after Bungie split from Blizzard while Destiny 2 was a game that was originally not received quite well Bungie has kept working tirelessly and the product is a fantastic triple-a game that is also free-to-play comparing this game to everything else on this list the higher production value shines through not only in the intense and feature-filled gameplay but also the beautiful graphics now in terms of the content the free-to-play launch came with a massive DLC release cold shadow keep however that is only for people that going but don't worry because the first years worth of content is included in the free-to-play edition so if you just download the game right now on Steam and play there is a ton of content for you.

BACKBONE Prologue

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 this demo is a short insight into what this game is going to be and damn it's fantastic beautiful-looking 2.5 deep pixels with a smooth jazzy soundtrack all adds to the atmosphere as you sniff out clues collect evidence interrogate witnesses and choose which leads to follow the gameplay has the sense of being a point-and-click adventure but it's much more interactive allowing you to soak up the environment and really get attached to the story overall this 40 or so minute demo is truly amazing and 100% worth a try a guaranteed you'll be sucked into the story and then when it goes and ends that 40-minute demo goes and ends you'll be wondering hey when can I go and buy the actual game.

path of Exile

TOP 10 Free PC Games 2020 in a particular path of Exile to for those who have never heard about this game path of Exile is one of the best free-to-play games on Steam and one of the best free-to-play games period it's a complete masterpiece for any Diablo fan or any RPG fan for that matter now the reason why I'm talking about this game specifically when I said I wouldn't talk about popular ones is that Path of Exile is getting an extremely huge update in 2020, that will completely change of a game forever what will be added you may ask well it's getting a new seven axe story a massive overhaul of the game's core mechanics a rework of the game's classes and a massive visual upgrade. Read the full article

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Define Your Market To Grow Your Martial Arts School

This week we’re gonna talk about “who is your market”?

This is more important than any funnel, any sale system you can build out.

If you don’t know who you’re talking to then you’re gonna be falling on deaf ears most of the time.

You’re gonna waste a ton of money.

This is super, super important: Do you know who you’re talking to?

This really got clubbed over my head when I went to Mitch Miller’s event in Phuket, Thailand. And basically, he broke it down that the most important thing is your market. And then, of course, your message to the market, but market is the most important.

Who are you talking to you?

What are they like? What are they into? What are their hobbies? What are their fears? What are their desires? What are their needs?

Define it as much as you can. Basically, take out a sheet of paper and write down everything about a person.

For me, my perfect avatar is a married guy with two kids between the ages of 28 and 50. Has a good job, owns a house, things like that. That’s my perfect avatar. Basically, because it’s almost like me. And I relate well to a lot of those guys. And they’re probably my best clients because they’re a lot of fun to work with. We got a lot of things in common.

But I can speak to them really easily. When I’m writing a fitness kickboxing ad I have to change completely. I’m trying to talk to me, and I run a fitness kickboxing ad for women, it’s gonna fall on deaf ears.

It just won’t make any sense. So you have to get in their head.

Some of the best copywriters in the world would literally try to get in their avatar’s head. They’ll try to become their avatar. Especially writing for women because women want way different things that men want. I mean we all know that, if you’re married you definitely know that.

Everyone has a little bit different appeal to it, so you have to know who you’re talking to.

A really good way to do this is get out a sheet of paper. Like I said write out a name like Tom or Spot, Suzette, Suzanne, whoever, anybody. Basically just go in and you create your avatar.

How old they are, where they live, what they want, what’s their desire.

When you’re writing copy you always write back and think back. Like, ‘I’m marketing this person, and I’m gonna spend money to drive these leads into my gym’.

They need to match my market. If my message is completely off of my market then it’s not gonna make any sense. They’re gonna scroll pass it on Facebook.

They’re not gonna look at it on YouTube, things like that. So you have to find out who your market is.

Get laser focused on that. Spend more time on that. It’s like the old quote where you had an hour to cut down a tree. You’re gonna spend the whole hour cutting down the tree. Or you’re gonna spend 55 minutes sharpening the ax so you can chop it down with ease.

Focus on who your market is. Then later on in a future episode we’ll talk about the message: How you take that market to message.

You connect the two and it’s huge.

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Conclusion

It accelerates everything. It amplifies your traffic, amplifies your sales, amplifies all your results.

So get laser-focused on who you’re talking to. Spend the time doing the research and I guarantee you it’s gonna pay off huge in the long run, because this is a marathon. This is not a sprint. It’s like I’m gonna be doing this for a long time, I want my gym around for a long time and all of my clients are the same way.

If you need help in growing your school, make sure to check out my Accelerator Program.

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