Peacocks shed their tail feathers naturally every fall, and workers at peafowl farms simply pick them up off the ground. Range Control only affects the selected slot. Bulgari assures us that no peacocks were plucked or harmed in the making of its new Diva’s Dream Peacock collection, and that’s kind of a relief. ![]()
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![]() Every level you have to change basically every number on the sheet, and that gets to be a bit much. But quickly I broke down and went digital again. I was at one point kind of looking forward to going back to a simpler paper sheet for the PF2 playtest, in large part because of the distractions issue. Using auto calculations is incredibly helpful, as is having basically an infinite amount of room to write all the info needed. Maybe I've just gotten lazy and complacient, but I'm not sure I could do PF1 with a paper sheet anymore. We even do more than just the sheets, we use a virtual tabletop and a projector to handle maps and movement as well as show character art and such. My group has gone fully laptop based for PF1. Personally I prefer digital character sheets, but my players are evenly split between digital and paper. There are a couple reticent players that I basically had to get a copy of their character sheet and manually rebuild it on FG, but I'm glad I did - building characters is fast and being able to see the whole party's skill bonuses in one place is amazing. I started using Fantasy Grounds recently, and I've required my players to build their characters in that regardless of what character sheet they actually plan to use - specifically because Fantasy Grounds has a very convenient "party view" that lets you see the entire party's stats at once. and then use their phones to play mobile games, read reddit, or some other distraction while it's not their turn. ![]() However, my players seem much more interested in having a paper sheet that will get cluttered, smudged, coated in food and beverage stains, have important details missing, and have things forgotten to be updated, only to have me print a replacement 2-3 times per campaign. I would absolutely love it if all of my players would have their characters on their phones - especially if it were through a service I could also view the character through on PC at the same time, and that helped them with the details so things wouldn't get written down without all the needed info because of forgetting or just not wanting to write "that much" Stacking their dice into towers, rolling little games of yatzee to themselves (even making up their own lil dice games to be playing), doodling on the margins of their character sheet, or even just twirling their pencil around.īetter, in my opinion, to get at the root of the problem (whether it's a player being genuinely distracted/disinterested in the game, or someone else being overly sensitive to the idea of someone being distracted/disinterested) than to give up all the benefits of allowing technology at the table "just in case" I have had to repeat myself to players that had nothing more to get distracted by than their character sheet, pencil, and dice. I have had plenty of players not know what they can do because they were left responsible for looking up their abilities and writing them down and there were a lot of words so they summarized or just wrote a name and a page reference, instead of having a tool that would present them the full relevant information at any moment they needed it with no more effort than checking a box.Īs for getting distracted, that's a whole different problem and the presence of technology just makes the symptoms more readily visible, it's not the cause though. If I was running Pathfinder Society stuff then I'd just roll more nat 20's against someone who wasn't paying attention :-P (not really, but I might threaten it) I realize this may seem Draconian to some, but I'm the Dragon Master!!! And these are my friends. During role play interactions where the party is talking to Someone Important, inevitably I have to repeat myself because someone was playing on their Atari 2600 and not paying attention!!! It's too easy to get distracted, and I'm not just talking about during combat. Phones, tablets, computers, game boys, iPods, Commodore 64s, and Babbage machines are not allowed at my table, nor are things like them. More than once I've had players not know what they can do because they had a tool put everything together automagically.Ģ. Creating a character for the first time, and having to level it up manually means you actually had to go look up the ability and write it down, and not just check a box. I *require* my players to use pencil and paper, for two reasons:ġ. ![]() Freeman reconnects with Alyx Vance and her robot, Dog, as they continue their support of the resistance's battle against the Combine forces. Freeman, who must immediately face the repercussions of his actions in City 17 and the Citadel. Half-Life 2: Episode One - The player reprises his role of Dr. And a lot of people - people he cares about - are counting on him. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa. Games included in The Orange Box compilation: The original Half-Life 2 - The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Make meaningful choices and mature decisions, ultimately culminating in the grand question: do you exploit the innocent survivors of Rapture.or save them? Experience truly next generation graphics that vividly illustrate the forlorn art deco city, highlighted by the most detailed and realistic water effects ever developed in a video game. Explore a living world powered by Ecological A.I., where the inhabitants have interesting and consequential relationships with one another that impact your gameplay experience. Genetically modify your body through dozens of Plasmid Stations scattered throughout the city, empowering you with fantastic and often grotesque abilities. Upgrade your weapons with ionic gels, explosives and toxins to customize them to the enemy and environment. Take control of your world by hacking mechanical devices, commandeering security turrets and crafting unique items critical to your very survival. Now the city is littered with corpses, wildly powerful guardians roam the corridors as little girls loot the dead, and genetically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more. After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Going beyond "run and gun corridors," "monster-closet AIs" and static worlds, BioShock creates a living, unique and unpredictable FPS experience. Some vertebrates, including humans, have an area of the central retina adapted for high-acuity vision. Because of this, cephalopods do not have a blind spot.Īlthough the overlying neural tissue is partly transparent, and the accompanying glial cells have been shown to act as fibre-optic channels to transport photons directly to the photoreceptors, light scattering does occur. In contrast, in the cephalopod retina, the photoreceptors are in front, with processing neurons and capillaries behind them. No photoreceptors are in this region, giving rise to the blind spot. The ganglion cells, whose axons form the optic nerve, are at the front of the retina therefore, the optic nerve must cross through the retina en route to the brain. The vertebrate retina is inverted in the sense that the light-sensing cells are in the back of the retina, so that light has to pass through layers of neurons and capillaries before it reaches the photosensitive sections of the rods and cones. Structure Inverted versus non-inverted retina Much like the rest of the brain is isolated from the vasular system via the blood–brain barrier, the retina is similarly protected by the blood–retinal barrier. It is the only part of the CNS that can be visualized noninvasively. In vertebrate embryonic development, the retina and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of the developing brain, specifically the embryonic diencephalon thus, the retina is considered part of the central nervous system (CNS) and is actually brain tissue. Several important features of visual perception can be traced to the retinal encoding and processing of light. Neural signals from the rods and cones undergo processing by other neurons, whose output takes the form of action potentials in retinal ganglion cells whose axons form the optic nerve. Light striking the retina initiates a cascade of chemical and electrical events that ultimately trigger nerve impulses that are sent to various visual centres of the brain through the fibres of the optic nerve. A third type of light-sensing cell, the photosensitive ganglion cell, is important for entrainment of circadian rhythms and reflexive responses such as the pupillary light reflex. Cones function in well-lit conditions and are responsible for the perception of colour through the use of a range of opsins, as well as high-acuity vision used for tasks such as reading. Rods function mainly in dim light and provide monochromatic vision. The primary light-sensing cells in the retina are the photoreceptor cells, which are of two types: rods and cones. The neural retina consists of several layers of neurons interconnected by synapses and is supported by an outer layer of pigmented epithelial cells. The retina serves a function which is in many ways analogous to that of the film or image sensor in a camera. The optics of the eye create a focused two-dimensional image of the visual world on the retina, which then processes that image within the retina and sends nerve impulses along the optic nerve to the visual cortex to create visual perception. The optic nerve then transmits these signals to the visual cortex – the part of the brain that controls our sense of sight.The retina (from Latin: rete "net") is the innermost, light-sensitive layer of tissue of the eye of most vertebrates and some molluscs. The retina acts like an electronic image sensor of a digital camera, converting optical images into electronic signals. Light focused by the cornea and crystalline lens (and limited by the iris and pupil) then reaches the retina – the light-sensitive inner lining of the back of the eye. Process called accommodation, this lens helps the eye automatically focus on near and approaching objects, like an autofocus camera lens. ![]() The eye’s crystalline lens is located directly behind the pupil and further focuses light. ![]() The iris of the eye functions like the diaphragm of a camera, controlling the amount of light reaching the back of the eye by automatically adjusting the size of the pupil (aperture). Light is focused primarily by the cornea – the clear front surface of the eye, which acts like a camera lens. In a number of ways, the human eye works much like a digital camera: Read on for a basic description and explanation of the structure (anatomy) of your eyes and how they work (function) to help you see clearly and interact with your world. ![]() How vision works or health problems that can affect the eye. When surveyed about the five senses - sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch - people consistently report that their eyesight is the mode of perception they value (and fear losing) most.ĭespite this, many people don’t have a good understanding of the anatomy of the eye, ![]() This was intended to soothe the inhabitants of New York City and let them enjoy a "natural setting." 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This was a system that bound laborers into virtual slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer found to violate the 13th amendment in 1911. This African-American journalist began crusading for racial justice after the lynching of three friends. ![]() This term refers to any system of seperating people on the basis of race. Murdering of blacks in the American South for violating racial etiquette It kept many poor whites and blacks from voting. This had to be paid to gain access to the voting booth in many poor Southern states. These pioneer aviators helped make airmail possible. This landscape architecht spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks. This city's Back Bay area was originally a 450 acre swamp. This was the first city to electrify its urban transit. Louis, Missouri.Ĭompleted in 1883, this "eighth wonder of the world" that connected Brooklyn to Manhattan took 14 years to build. 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