![]() ![]() There will be no binding gender or body-type choices witches can be assigned masculine voices, wizards feminine voices, and so on. Most recently, a report leaked out of Avalanche this week proclaiming that Hogwarts Legacy will include a trans-friendly character-creation tool when the game launches in 2022. ![]() Sometimes they’ve ignored the blowback outright, and other times they’ve offered overtures to fans who are, understandably, disgusted by the sharp, discriminatory rhetoric of their former favorite author. Interactive, have attempted to find a middle ground between affirming Rowling’s influence and quietly repudiating her prejudices. In the months since Hogwarts Legacy’s announcement last fall, Avalanche, and its publisher, Warner Bros. It can never be completely divested, and the studio is learning that Potter fans are increasingly unwilling to sweep it under the rug. Rowling’s ever-expanding Harry Potter universe no matter how much money there is to be made, or whatever portfolio prestige that comes from contributing to one of the most popular franchises in entertainment history, Rowling’s transphobia hangs over every project. This has become routine for every company bankrolling J.K. GamesĪvalanche Software, the studio behind the hotly anticipated Hogwarts Legacy video game, is mired in a damage-control cycle that seems to never end. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Photo: Avalanche Software/Warner Bros. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. I welcome feedback and opinions on how you feel about the game itself, and how it should be covered.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. ![]() It’s hard, and a wholly unique situation in many ways. But JK Rowling’s presence looms too large and she remains too connected to the franchise, so I understand the desire for boycotts based on that alone. I have deep childhood connections to Harry Potter and I know that thousands of perfectly unproblematic people worked hard to make a fun, charming game based on that world. We can just go on Twitter every day and see Rowling’s latest anti-trans statements in real time, which is why I know so many people have an issue with this. Yes, I know we support a lot of different products that end up giving money to bad people or bad corporations that do bad things with it, but this one feels more tangible. It stands to reason that yes, any time any Harry Potter property makes money, that filters back directly to JK Rowling herself. No, she may not be writing Fantastic Beast scripts or working on Hogwarts Legacy, but this is not a George Lucas situation where she’s sold the rights to Harry Potter to WB (as much as they might love that). JK Rowling is also not divorced from Harry Potter as an entity. JK Rowling is doing active harm to them daily. And this is not a settled issue in our society, in that in America we have Texas attempting to enforce egregious anti-trans laws against children and their parents, and the trans community remains one of the most at-risk groups around the world, namely because of how we’ve treated them. JK Rowling is very much around today, and constantly making headlines with fresh anti-trans rhetoric daily, a truly bizarre obsession of hers that has made her one of the lead figures in the anti-trans movement. (Photo by Gareth Davies/Getty Images) Getty Imagesīut I also understand how the JK Rowling situation is different, and divorced from say, someone like HP Lovecraft and his extremely awful views on race, as he died in 1937. ![]() The film is titled "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone" for it's U.S. (Harry Potter) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) attend the world film premiere of "Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone" at the Odeon Leicester Square cinema in London on November 4, 2001. LONDON - NOVEMBER 4: (L to R) Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), author J.K. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A four-second segment plays until you're done typing, and then you can press Tab, and it plays the next loop. This is also the only app we tested with a closed captions tool that loops audio while you add the text. Configuring these elements was easy enough, but previewing the video and exporting the final product was noticeably more complicated after adding interactivity. Our only hiccup was with the interactivity features, which allow you to add quizzes or clickable buttons to your project. Creating surprisingly professional intro and outro segments and dropping them into our test video took a matter of seconds. Click-and-drag effects and a decent selection of stock media are located along the left-hand side of the app, with detailed properties and customizations appearing on the right-hand side whenever you select an element from the timeline.Ĭamtasia provides outstanding tutorial videos for anyone that struggles with its editing tools. There's an exhaustive list of editing options that manage not to feel overwhelming. Its built-in video editor is a different story. You choose your capture area, whether or not to include webcam and microphone inputs, and click Record. The Camtasia video capture interface is straightforward and no-nonsense. Business plans start at $12.50/month/user with unlimited uploads. Loom pricing: Free for 25 videos of up to five minutes. Still, Loom will get the job done without a lot of fuss for most users. The iPhone and iPad apps can't combine video with screencasting. The Android version, for example, requires users to enter their Google password in order to log in instead of using the built-in Android support for Google accounts, which is odd. The desktop app works well, but we found the mobile apps limited in confusing ways. ![]() And you can always download your videos and store them somewhere else if you're getting close to that 25 video threshold. It's limited, sure, but great for quickly showing something to a collaborator, coworker, and/or archenemy. With the free version of Loom, you can store up to 25 videos of up to five minutes each. It's all very quick, which makes it, overall, the best screen recorder for PC. You can do some basic editing in the browser, if you want, or you can copy the link to share the video. Once you finish, your video will be uploaded to Loom. Loom isn't overly complicated when it's time to record: you can choose whether you want to record just your screen, your screen with webcam video, or just your webcam. If you want to quickly record something and share a link, give Loom a chance. Many video conferencing, communication, and productivity tools-not to mention your mobile phone-have added screen recording to their feature sets, so it's worth checking if you can get the capabilities you need from a tool that's already in your stack. One thing to note: It's possible that an app you already use has screen recording built in. The quality of the final product can make or break user engagement, so we also considered the post-capture editing features. Of course, the process doesn't end with the screen recording. Simultaneous microphone and system audio recordingīuilt-in video sharing and/or convenient exporting tools The option to superimpose a webcam feed over the screen capture The ability to record your whole screen, one window/app, or a specific area Each of our picks for best screen recorder app offers a unique feature, but they all meet some basic criteria: The options are priced from free all the way up to several hundreds of dollars. ![]() In our research, we tested several dozen apps, ranging from minimalistic three-button windows to complex apps overflowing with tools. But different people are going to be looking for different things. The best screen capture software makes it really easy to show how things work-or, if you're filing a support ticket, how they don't work. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. ![]() We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site-we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. ![]() ![]() Listed below are different possible combinations.Ĭurrently many different breeders are working with Mack Snows, crossing them into different morphs and creating new and exciting combinations. There are different results when breeding Mack Snows. As they grow, the birth color fades into a white body with black broken pin stripes. When they hatch, they seem to have an all purple or silver hue to them. Mack Snows, when bred to Mack Snows, have the ability to produce a Super Snow. Normally, temperature sexing works in the following way: 80¬∞F - 83¬∞F majority females will be produced, 84¬∞F - 86¬∞F, an even mix of males and females will be produced, and 87¬∞F - 89¬∞F majority males will be produced. Most Mack Snows will tend to lose their white as it will fade to yellow as they grow older.Īnother key feature of Mack Snows that while all the other Leopard Gecko morphs are temperature sexed, Mack Snow Leopard Geckos have not been proven to be consistently temperature sexed. As hatchlings, they have white bands instead of yellow bands. ![]() There are a few distinct features of Mack Snows which normal Leopard Geckos do not express. The Wild Type do not have the Mack Snow gene and generally look like Normal Leopard Geckos. The Mack Snows are the heterozygous form of the Mack Snow gene. The Super Snows are the homozygous form of the Mack Snow gene. There are three different forms, Super Snows, Mack Snows, and Wild Type. ![]() Now after further review, they seem to be Incomplete Dominant. Mack Snows were first to be thought as Co-Dominant. ![]() In the breeding, they produced Super Snows, Mack Snows, and Normals. The following season, John and Amy bred the hatchlings back to each other. They came across some hatchlings which looked like "Snow" hatchlings rather than normal hatchlings. The Mack Snows came from John and Amy Mack from Reptiles by Mack. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Obfuscated in these discussions was the fact that Wolf’s “ perfect smokey eye” line capped off a joke about Sanders’ constant, republic-endangering dishonesty to journalists and civilian audiences, rather than a misguided makeup choice. If the President of the United States and his policy-making cohort can’t gleefully critique women’s looks without backlash, they reasoned, then nobody should be able to. In the aftermath, instead of reporting on her quips about the political establishment’s “wavering values” on abortion, the ongoing Flint water crisis, or the actual, verbatim, “collapse of the republic,” pundits seized on Wolf’s jokes about Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ makeup to illustrate the comedian’s feminist hypocrisy - and by extension, the hypocrisy of all liberals. She wasn’t just funny she was nuanced, creative and apparently fearless. She fought fire with fire, hurling digs at the expense of the right and left politicians and media blatantly racist gubernatorial candidates and “well-meaning” corporations doing damage control. ![]() But in Washington that night, unbound by advertisers or the FCC, she responded to the increasingly chaotic state of American politics and discourse with an appropriately confrontational monologue. Wolf’s previous appearances on The Daily Show hadn’t left much of an impression on me, I suspect due to the gag effect of cable TV standards on her most controversial jokes. This wasn’t hard to remember I’ve watched it at least three times in the wake of her incendiary remarks at the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. That’s the same thing she wore to tape Nice Lady.” It's definitely something worth rewatching throughout the day, so when you do, make sure to settle down with a nice drink or light snack, and be prepared to laugh.Certainly because I’ve always been hyperfocused on clothes and in all likelihood because she is a woman, the first thing I thought as comedian Michelle Wolf walked onto the set of her new Netflix show The Break was: “Huh. Wolf's roast captured the frustrations a lot of people are feeling with the current administration. I think it's - the only other person that didn't go was Reagan when he was shot. Trump's insistence on missing out is pretty telling and something Wolf didn't hesitate to call out, going on in her CBS interview to say, "I think it's cowardly not to go. With the entire point of the annual dinner being to celebrate the First Amendment and honor journalism with awards and scholarships, the president is pretty important. Granted, Raegan was recovering from being shot in an assassination attempt, according to The American Presidency Project, and even phoned into the event. In 2017, Trump was the first president in 36 years to skip the WHCD, according to NPR, becoming the first since President Ronald Raegan to make that decision. This was the second time, though, that the president failed to attend the annual dinner. ![]() Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Wolf opened her routine with a shot at the absent president, referencing one of his ever-present scandals: "Like a porn star says when she's about to have sex with a Trump, let's get this over with." According to Politico, Mercedes Schlapp, director of strategic communications, and her husband, conservative activists Mat Schlapp, were among those who walked out long before Wolf's routine was over. The point of a roast is never to protect feelings and Wolf certainly didn't spare anybody's, to the point where some members of Trump's administration reportedly ended up leaving the dinner. While Wolf didn't go out of bounds by poking fun things like people's appearances, she definitely wasn't hesitant to share what she truly thought of people. With social media still buzzing about the roast, here's how to rewatch Michelle Wolf's White House Correspondents' Dinner roast for maximum enjoyment.įirst off, this isn't a roast for the faint-hearted. No one was safe from critique in Wolf's scathing and fearless keynote-turned-roast, where she cracked jokes about news networks, Republicans, Democrats, and members of the White House administration that were in attendance. Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner was making itself out to be a quiet evening, with President Donald Trump himself absent, until comedian Michelle Wolf took the podium. ![]() ![]() ![]() Game Booster does not overclock your hardware. The interface is also intuitive for complete computer beginners. Game Booster takes on a vibrant look that greatly appeals to most gamers. ![]() Game Booster v2 can tweak your PC for the ultimate system and Internet speed with a single click.įine-tune mouse, keyboard, and specialized game controllers with ease Tweak System for Top PC Performance New!.With the improved defragment engine, Game Booster v2 can quickly defragment game directories and files, to make your games load and run faster than ever. Game Booster v2 Simplifies and speeds downloading and updating of necessary game software like Ventrilo and Steam, to enjoy a better gaming experience. Now Game Booster v2 keeps every game's specialized drivers up-to-date, including drivers for video/sound cards. PC gamers know how important it is to install new drivers for modern PC games. ![]() With the innovative "Enhanced 3rd parties' services detection" technology, Game Booster v2 can automatically detect and close more unnecessary background services.Īdd and manage your games in a small box and boost the game automatically with Game Booster v2 when launching. Game Booster can easily and quickly close background processes and unnecessary Windows services, to speed up your game playing and avoid possible conflicts and incompatibility.
![]() ![]() Windows Media Player Runtime: Exposes methods and properties to manipulate multimedia playback from a webpage or an application. Windows Media Player application: Enables Windows Media Player features, such as the ability to play media files and audio CDs, manage media in a library, create a playlist, provide metadata (including album art) for media, create an audio CD, transfer music to a portable music player, and play streaming content from a website. These technologies include, but are not limited to, the following features: Customers can restore the functionality of these technologies by installing the Media Feature Pack for N versions of Windows 10/11. Windows 10/11 N includes the same functionality as other Windows 10/11 editions, except for Windows Media Player and related technologies. More information about Windows 10/11 N Excluded features This update doesn’t replace a previously released update. You must restart your computer after you apply this update. To apply this update, you don't have to make any changes to the registry. To install this update, you must have Windows 10 N or Windows 11 N installed. Media codecs for playback of media in apps and in the browser: Such apps include (but are not limited to): Additional stepsĪfter you have installed the Media Feature Pack, there are additional apps that can be installed from the Microsoft Store to regain additional functionality. Note: You will not be prompted to restart your computer, but you must restart in order to successfully complete installation of the Media Feature Pack. Select View features next to Add an optional feature, and then select the Media Feature Pack in the list of available optional features. On Windows 11 N: Select the Start button, then select Settings > Apps > Optional features. Find the Media Feature Pack in the list of available optional features. On Windows 10 N: Select the Start button, then select Settings > Apps > Apps and Features > Optional features > Add a feature. ![]() Here’s how to install the Media Feature Pack: The Media Feature Pack for Windows 10/11 N is available for download as an Optional Feature. You must install additional software from Microsoft to have this communication functionality and to play or to create audio CDs, media files, and video DVDs, to stream music, or to take and store pictures. These include media-related technologies (Windows Media Player) and certain pre-installed media apps, such as Movies & TV, Voice Recorder, and Skype. This update provides support for media features in Windows 10/11 N. ![]() ![]() ![]() Psiphon does not prevent your browsing history and cookies from being stored on your computer, and depending on the mode you’re using, not all traffic is tunneled. Your internet service provider will not be able to see the content of your internet traffic, such as web pages you’ve browsed, chat messages or your uploads. ![]() Privacy and securityĪll of your data that goes through Psiphon is encrypted but the software is not designed for anti-surveillance. Psiphon is regularly updated and is subject to peer review. This helps to increase transparency, which is rare in the VPN industry. Open SourceĪn admirable quality of this software is that it is open source, which means that the original source code is freely available and may be distributed and modified. You can watch videos, but don’t expect to stream in 1080p or higher. It is fast enough that you can browse the web seamlessly and access content. Speed will vary depending on your connection and you may want to experiment with a few to find the most suitable. A new browser window will then appear to show you your new IP. You can select a server from over 20 different regions including the UK, USA, Spain, Switzerland, India, and Canada. The interface displays your connection status well, though it doesn’t highlight your new IP address. You will have to check the option that states “don’t proxy domestic web sites.” When you do that, Psiphon will report any unproxied domains in the message box. There is also a split tunnel option where international traffic is tunneled through the proxy, while domestic traffic is not. If you are in SSH and SSH+ mode, the program will automatically set the Windows system proxy settings which should be respected by all major web browsers. When the connecting icon stops spinning, and there is a green one displayed, it means that your connection has been established. Users have the option of selecting their preferred tunnel mode. Once you select to run the client program, it will automatically start connecting. It’s easy to get this Psiphon download for PC and run it on your device. ![]() ![]() Here’s what the deep scan looked like on my machine after running it for a while: You can try the quick scan first, and if it doesn’t find whatever files you’re looking for, only then run a deep scan. On my fairly new laptop with just a few GB of storage used, Disk Drill completed a quick scan on my main hard drive in just a couple of minutes:ĭisk Drill will then likely bring back a bunch of different files, many of which you’ve probably never looked at:ĭeep scan in Disk Drill is vastly more comprehensive than the quick scan above, and may take you over 100 times longer. What follows is a simple demonstration on how to use the quick scan, deep scan and allocate existing data features of Disk Drill. I was able to install it within a couple of minutes:Īnd here’s roughly what it’ll look like when you open it for the first time: At the time of writing, the current version of Disk Drill is about 34MB, so perfectly reasonable. I strongly recommend only downloading Disk Drill from (the company behind it) and no third-party source. There should be a big green button to download it for free: To install Disk Drill, go to and click either the “Data recovery for Mac” or “Data recovery for Windows” header links. ( Click here to jump straight to the verdict on how good I think Disk Drill is) Installing Disk Drill Here I’ll test out the software on my own machine, answer some FAQ’s, and write up a short review with my recommendation on whether it’s worth trying or not. 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