![]() It’s intuitive, fast, and handles everything - it even recognizes the native Affinity Photo and Designer files. I’ve been running it hard for a couple of weeks now, and it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. It’s been around, continually updated, since 1995. NeoFinder is a file cataloging application it doesn’t care what the file is, it’ll catalog and organize it using common metadata and the OS X file system. The article introduced me to a product called NeoFinder, which I promptly downloaded. The author was having some of the same issues I was (though coming from a completely different place) and he detailed his search for a good DAM. Then I ran across an article on ZDNet titled "Beyond Lightroom: How one Mac power user found the Holy Grail of media asset management”. Some of them were ridiculously expensive. I found a few apps, but none of them were particularly good. Its image editing features were useless to me and they no doubt contributed to the code bloat which slowed the app down.Įventually I got frustrated and went looking at anything else I hadn’t yet tried. Updating the library was a hit-and-miss affair. Some things were tedious, and sometimes it failed to import everything it was supposed to. It’s not intuitive, and even after nearly a year’s use I still have to stop and think how to do common tasks. What’s more, I never really warmed up to the their interface. Scrolling through images was painfully slow as I waited for it to display thumbnails. Where Aperture (and most of the other replacements I auditioned) would scroll through the whole catalog quickly and easily, Photo Supreme just bogged. It seemed to do exactly what I wanted, but after putting my whole image catalog into it (and adding more every week) I discovered that PhSu really slowed down as the image count increased. ![]() I tried a number of products and initially settled on Photo Supreme. The only way to do it was to output to TIFFs, but then again if I wanted to make a small change I had to start over with the RAW file.īasing a DAM on the OS X file system and image metadata, plus a common image format, seemed to be the way to go. In Aperture, for instance, all the non-destructive work I’d put into developing my images was lost going to any other application. I wanted an “open source” solution, one which wasn’t tied to any particular app. So, I went looking for a suitable replacement.Īs I looked, I decided that I never wanted to go through this again. As I got more comfortable with those packages, I found I was only using the DAM functions in Aperture. DxO produced far better RAW development than Aperture ever did, and I got to the point that I could do more, faster, and with better results in Affinity Photo. I was having issues with it (most of which were caused by the Apple TIFF debacle) and knew it was living on borrowed time.Īt the same time, I had moved to using standalone apps for RAW development (DxOptics Pro) and image manipulation (Affinity Photo). While I loved the app (I was an early adopter, back in the days when it was several hundred dollars), as we all know it’s gotten long in the tooth. A year or so ago I went on a quest to replace Aperture.
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It is very common for escorts to enter the business through referrals from friends who have been in the business. ![]() Transsexual or transgender escorts are available from some escort agencies. Agencies commonly specialize in only one sex. There are male-for-male, female-for-male, and female-for-female escort agencies, as well as a few male-for-female agencies. Some agencies may specifically deal in a certain type of escort. ![]() Escort agencies typically maintain a list of escorts of different ages and appearances to cater to the varying interests of clients. RecruitingĮscort agencies often recruit individuals to work as escorts by placing employment advertisements in a magazine or newspaper. Some countries have used a two-pronged approach of criminalizing street prostitution but permitting or licensing prostitution in brothels or via escort agencies. However, there almost certainly do exist agencies that do go by these laws and do not facilitate prostitution. This has been criticized as hypocrisy, especially where governments license and tax the escort agencies. This fact in turn is well known to police and the political powers, who, where prostitution is illegal, usually prefer to act against more visible and problematic street prostitution. Advertisements for escort agencies often carefully skirt the legal line, and avoid specifically offering prostitution or sexual services. While the escort agency is paid a fee for this booking and dispatch service, the customer must negotiate any additional fees or arrangements directly with the escort for any other services that are not provided by the agency involved, such as providing sexual services (regardless of the legality of these services).Įscort agencies claim that they are dispatching these individuals to provide a social or conversational service rather than a sexual service, since prostitution laws often forbid taking payment for sex or communicating for the purpose of arranging a contract for sexual services. Some agencies also provide escorts for longer durations, who may stay with the client or travel along on a holiday or business trip. The agency typically arranges a meeting between one of its escorts and the client at the customer's house or hotel room (outcall), or at the escort's residence (incall). An escort agency is a company that provides escorts for clients, usually for sexual services. There are two components to the initial velocity: horizontal and vertical. ![]() Please assume that the initial velocity is u and the projectile angle is □. Kinematic Equations for Projectile Motion: Initial Velocity formula: The acceleration pointing down remains constant during the flight of cannonballs. Only the acceleration due to gravity, 9.8 m/ s 2, governs this type of motion. You can find the proofs of these results in our tutorial videos. The velocity along the X-axis remains constant throughout the motion, whereas the velocity along the Y-axis varies with its position. The minus sign appearing in the equations indicates that the y-axis must point upwards, or opposite the. As the path of projectile motion is always parabolic, it is represented as:īefore reaching the earth, the cannonball will take a parabolic route during its journey. A formula used to model the vertical motion of an object that is dropped, thrown straight up, or thrown straight down. g 9.8m/s2 32ft/s2 at the surface of the Earth. In the following equations, note that V is the initial velocity, is the launch angle, and g is the acceleration due to gravity. Any object moving in this manner is referred to as being in projectile motion. For convenience, weve provided the essential projectile motion equations below. Treat the motion as two independent one-dimensional motions, one horizontal and the other vertical. It is tracing this curved route known as a trajectory, which has the form of a parabola. Initial values are denoted with a subscript 0. From here on out, it will continue to go forward but in a downward direction. It begins to go upward and forward until it reaches its maximum height. Now let us see how to calculate projectile motion:Īssume you’re shooting a cannonball. In projectile motion, you only need to provide force at the start of the trajectory the object is only affected by gravity after that. As a result, projectile motion is two-dimensional. The object, in this case, travels vertically and horizontally at the same time. When an object is launched and moves along a symmetrical parabolic path, the motion is referred to as projectile motion.The object’s parabolic path is referred to as its trajectory. This post will look at the parameters and how to calculate projectile motion in a detailed analysis. ![]() The kinetic energy K is given by K 1/2 mv 2. The potential energy U(z) of the projectile is given by U(z) mgz. When an object is launched, it follows a parabolic path and the motion known as projectile motion. Energy is conserved in projectile motion. ![]() After the first drop, both the patients will appear and you will have to simultaneously treat each one of them while the window dips in and out of the player's monitor. (This is not a bug as it is required for window movement to function) A few seconds into the level, the window will start to rise and float, and during each drop, the window will constantly be moving around, even going outside the players' monitor. The level starts off with the game entering windowed mode. The fifth and final level, where both Cole Brew and Nicole Ting both make an appearance. Players are told to come to the cafe for a break from defibrillating, and they can play a keyboard by pressing any key on their keyboard. No new special beats or deviations are shown here. The player must listen closely to the cues from the nurse to catch the beats that slide down the cardiogram without looking at the hitbar.Ģ-4 Song of The Sea (Intermission Level) The level starts off with Nicole Ting and her cardiogram offscreen, making it impossible to see the yellow hitbar. Swing Oneshots is the Oneshot version of Swing Beats, where the beats are constantly changing and quite unpredictable. The third level in the SVT Ward, and it introduces Swing SVT Oneshots. New players not yet familiar with the beat type may find the second to last part a bit hard to manage. ![]() The level starts off with the SVT Attack tutorial, and after the tutorial, the player treats Cole Brew yet again, but with varying Oneshot speeds throughout the song. When the patient's heart settles, it will halve the speed of the Oneshots, where the nurse will promptly cue the player aswell. The nurse will signal the attacks by telling the Get-Set-Go cue as the attack happens. The second level in the SVT Ward, and it introduces the player the SVT Attack, a sudden increase of the speed of Oneshots being triggered by coffee. Around halfway into the level, Ian will appear and treat Samurai that is suffering from Swing Beats. The level starts off with the Oneshot Tutorial, and after the tutorial, the player treats Cole Brew. It delivers with it a new Get-Set-Go cue for the nurse on the Oneshot beat type. This is the main introductory level for the SVT Ward, teaching the player on how to treat a patient suffering from Supraventricular Tachycardia. Subset 1 2-1 Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Beats To Treat Patients To 2.2 2-4 Song of The Sea (Intermission Level).1.1 2-1 Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Beats To Treat Patients To.Now all of a sudden it Only shows up in a totally different state and with exact name search. Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? I have been without my listing for a few months now and have NO calls coming in from it. ![]() If you search Locksmith Independence, KS it shows up on the maps. ![]() If you search Locksmith Matthews, NC my listing does not show up at all. Keep in mind the GMB is in Matthews, NC All my service areas and the actual map show the correct areas. Now if I search my business name under the auto populate I see it with Independence, KS on the listing. I pretty much do not have any traffic, views or calls now. Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name. You can mark videos you find on any Website using the Boxee bookmarker available for download on Boxee’s Website. The YouTube app on many media streamers made it possible to share videos on your TV with your friends and family. Boxee offers you videos to watch that you didn’t know you wanted to see but are glad you did. I was inspired by a video with graphic artist Milton Glaser in which he discusses how older artists stop creating because they lose their ability to be astonished. The Artist Series videos found on Vimeo follow famous artists, musicians, writers, and thinkers. Others are short videos from around the Web. Boxee’s home page displays popular and unique videos. What makes Boxee stand out is the inspiring and thought-provoking content that will stretch your horizons. You can connect Boxee’s Slingbox app to a cable or satellite receiver in another room or even another house. With a Boxee Live TV accessory ($49), you can watch over-the-air or basic cable local programming. Boxee is unique because you can also watch your Facebook friends’ shared videos, check out Boxee’s recommended videos, and view videos you find online. Many media streamers have those capabilities. There are numerous apps to access online videos from Websites and podcasts. Like many media players, Boxee provides access to popular TV shows and movies, as well as the media saved on your home network computers and attached hard drives. When I started to really explore the Boxee Box for my evaluation, I was struck by Boxee’s seemingly unlimited content and was surprised that it wasn’t all junk. Today, Boxee’s philosophy remains focused on trying to bring all your media (from the Internet, your personal digital media collection, and live broadcasts) to your TV with no monthly fee. D-Link partnered with Boxee to manufacture the current Boxee Box. ![]() With the jailbreak, the Boxee interface expanded Apple TV’s exclusively iTunes offering to provide access to online videos. Third-party developers took it a step further, creating software that could jailbreak a first-generation Apple TV (hacking a device without While the Xbox software, XMBC, still exists, Boxee morphed and was released as a Web-based program in which users could access all the TV shows, movies, and video content from the Internet in one place and watch It began when the founders started using open-source (any developer can add to it) software to play their digital movies and music on their Xbox at a time before Roku boxes and media players were available. The company’s beginnings explain its rebellious attitude. It takes a while to get the hang of the menu and remote, which can be intimidating to the less tech-savvy user.īoxee existed before the current Boxee Box and had a techie following. Plus, Boxee’s menus are crowded with options. It’s blocked from many TV networks’ Websites, and it lacks Hulu, which means you either have to rent many TV shows or watch them on Boxee Live TV. Streaming services, from live TV, and from your home digital library via your network or NAS.īoxee has media streaming figured out better than any of its competitors, but it has limitations, too. It seems that Boxee’s ambition is to be the box that controls everything you see on your TV. From its cockeyed box shape that’s missing a corner and its froglike logo, to its menu organization and social video-sharing features, it’s easy to see that Boxee stands out. ![]() The Boxee Box is unlike any other media streamer or media player. Direct access to movies from the Web, Vudu, or your own digital collection.Connect to Slingbox via the Slingbox app. ![]() Price: $180 At A Glance: Includes Web browser ![]() At the end of the ten-year lease term, the racking system has been fully depreciated. Over the course of the lease period, the owner uses straight-line depreciation to offset the cost of the racking system (1/10 of $50,000 per year). ![]() At the beginning of the lease term, the owner invested $50,000 in different racking systems to support the warehouse operator. Let’s say a warehouse has been leased to a single tenant for 10 years. Residual values are calculated based on the amount that the asset’s owner would earn by selling the asset, minus any costs incurred during that asset’s disposal. Residual value is sometimes also referred to as a property’s “salvage value”. In cases where the fixed assets are outdated or obsolete, this could lower a property’s residual value as the assets would need to be removed from the facility to make way for more modern equipment and systems-all of which comes at a cost. Properties can have both appreciating and depreciating residual values, depending on the perceived value of the equipment and fixtures left behind. The incremental value associated with these fixed assets is generally a factor when negotiating lease terms with prospective tenants. A property that has been outfitted with state-of-the-art fixtures and equipment is considered more valuable than a core-and-shell building that needs to be built out from scratch. Most regional and national retailers choose to lease their business property. Residual values are often used when leasing single-tenant retail properties. The residual value would be the estimated worth of the property at the end of that tenant’s lease term. An alternative way to value the property, particularly if that tenant is nearing the end of its lease period, is to consider the residual value of the vacated space including the value of all equipment and fixtures left behind. The value of these properties generally depends on the value of the cash flow generated by the tenant each month, as well as ancillary factors such as the tenant’s creditworthiness and the risk profile of that business. This is especially true if the space was fit-out with specific equipment to meet that tenant’s needs. For example, once a detailed design has been worked up, the price may change.For example, residual values are sometimes applied to properties with long-term, NNN leases. Also, it is necessary to bear in mind that some forecasts and estimates may change. This can be addressed by way of the discounted cash flow method. ![]() It is necessary to consider these costs not only at the point the residual valuation is carried out but at that future point at which the proposed development is completed. It may incorporate an allowance for expenses between when a project is completed and when it is sold or let (for example, utility and security costs and void periods). For example, land surveys, demolition costs and land remediation costs (the removal of contaminated material). Other costs: These costs are not exclusive, and others we have not listed may apply to some projects. When considering finance, a valuation should also take into account cash flow.Ĭontingency costs: A Residual Method of Valuation may include a contingency for cost overruns and other increased costs. The cost of financing: Borrowed capital, including interest and arrangement fees. They also include the marketing costs of the completed project. Sales or letting costs: These comprise an estate agent’s fees and commission for selling a completed development or a letting agent’s fees for finding a tenant or tenants. It may include fees which arise directly from the building work as well as legal fees, project management costs, planning costs and costs associated with Section 106.įees: This includes most professional fees payable on the project that are not included in building costs - for example, fees for legal, planning consultants and environmental impact assessments. It is likely to be based on an estimate, allowing for an estimate of the cost when the work is carried out. These are also known as acquisition costs.īuild or construction costs: The cost of building on the land in question. Land costs: The purchase (likely purchase) price of the land at the point of buying it. This will likely dictate the maximum price the developer will pay for the land. Profit: The amount of profit the developer requires or is willing to accept. It may be based on the likely rent and yield of the completed project. Gross development value (GDV): This is the market value of the completed project. Although the residual valuation calculation is simple, there are several issues to consider and different values to estimate when using the residual method. This Mercury retrograde promises lurches, errors, and technical difficulties in your daily life, impeding your Martian conquest. Now is the time to rehash your commitments: Examine your relationships and projects with an air sign focus on efficiency, and invest in a more streamlined direction for the rest of 2021. What, or who, stands in the way of perfection? As the sun and Mars come together in Libra, they bring your individuality into contrast with your need to keep everybody else happy. Week two (October 5 to 10) calls for confrontation. Consider this a preparation of the body, so that the soul feels safe to launch into a deeper journey. Bring not only peace, but space into your daily life. Double down on rest and restabilization by investing in routines and rituals. The first week of the retrograde (September 27 to October 4) promises to knock you out of orbit, forcing a pause by piling disarray on your inflexible plans. Focus on your own makeover so that you’ll be ready to act with clarity, efficiency, and authority when the world gets moving again. The Libra retrograde invites personal initiative. The chaos of our economic and public health systems should not hold you back from bringing order to your life. Mercury’s extra time in this sign is a chance to realign, reorganize, and re-harmonize your personal sphere. What do your home, your wardrobe, and your lover say about who you are? Though Libra works extra hard to keep everyone happy, it doesn’t let sentimentality compromise its ideals of perfection. Ruled by Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, Libra encourages us to elevate our external circumstances to our internal vision. With the autumn equinox on September 22, in which day and night come to equal lengths, we’ve launched into Libra’s domain, where balance, harmony, and objective perfection are at stake. ![]() A bright 2022 is in view, if you can fight your way out of this final crucible. But, by the time Mercury resumes its regularly-scheduled rotation around the sun on October 18, the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto will have gone direct, indicating a return to (relative!) linearity, efficiency, and possibility. This retrograde is the cherry on top of a brutal few months: the big-picture malaise and uncertainty about your future, as symbolized by Jupiter and Saturn’s retrogrades, comes to the fore in daily life. Meanwhile, Mercury, the planet of communication and action, works in the personal sphere, yielding immediate consequences through your inbox, rent check, and travel plans. Since the start of the summer, these more outer planets - which tend to register effects in the global sphere - have fallen like dominos, halting unity in an age of Aquarian reinvention, revealing how easily entitlement and avarice can devastate our frail systems of public health and governance. In what amounts to a planetary administrative shutdown, Mercury joins Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in retrograde, a phenomenon in which one planet catches up to, and speeds past, another, resulting in the illusion that heavenly bodies can stop in place, or move backwards. ![]() Take this dive into uncertainty, and you may emerge with a new direction. From September 27 to October 18, Mercury becomes the sixth planet to stall and reverse course, wrenching the year’s challenges to a breaking point. Progress, by any linear standards, has become an abstract idea. ![]() ![]() A Met Gala held in September defined a summer of cultural disarray, a large-scale mess indicated by a grisly five planets currently in retrograde. Despite the equinox on September 22, and the recent Jewish new year, autumn has so far failed to launch. ![]() ![]() TRANS ACTION: A Step by Step Workshop for Allyship in Actionįlorida's Senate Bill 254 is one of the most devastating anti-LGBTQ pieces of legislation in the country - and there are currently 474 the ACLU is tracking - and it was just signed into law. He has given over 450 trans literacy and inclusion trainings across the country and beyond and brings this expertise to his seminar series. As seen on The Ellen Show and The Olympic Channel, Schuyler was the first transgender athlete to compete on an NCAA D1 men’s team, competing for Harvard's winningest team in 50 years. Schuyler Bailar (he/him) is an internationally renowned inspirational speaker and inclusion advocate. Join for a 2.5-hour workshop on hands-on allyship for the trans community.ĪGENDA: (1) a brief review of the political landscape as well as relevant terminology to situate everyone in context, (2) Schuyler's allyship toolkit, (3) dissection of four scenarios to demonstrate use of allyship tools, and (4), Q&A, for which there will be ample time. When we learn how to shift our day-to-day interactions towards allyship, we can save lives. We do not have to be lawyers, politicians, doctors, or otherwise politically powerful people to make meaningful change. ![]() True and lasting change not only comes when leadership shifts, but also when society does. Trans people, of course, do not need to be eradicated. "Transgenderism must be eradicated," claimed one conservative commentator. Everyone seems to be discussing where trans people belong - or, rather, where they believe we don't belong. Over 400+ anti-trans bills litter the political landscape. Schuyler's workshops are a great place for allies (and people in the community!) to better understand the landscape of anti-trans legislation, as well as to get practical tips to take action to make a change.Ĭompanies and individuals can benefit from his work (and note, if you can't make tonight, he is hosting another on June 20).Ģ023 has already seen record-breaking numbers of anti-transgender legislation across the country, attacking mostly trans children in healthcare, schools, and sports. Tonight trans advocate and FOLX ambassador Schuyler Bailar is hosting one of his powerful workshops on allyship in action. ![]() Your first post in the sub may not be self-promotional in nature. Please ensure self-promotion is no more than 20% of your contributions. Keep self-promotion under 20% of your posts, and special rules for businesses selling accessories. The only exception that will be made will be for abandonware. 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Keep the discussion civil and light, or your submission/comment will be removed. Official Website Frequently Asked Questions Steam Deck Discord Steam Deck Forum ProtonDB Rules:īe kind or Get Yeeted. You'll get points for every purchase on Steam, which can be redeemed for profile avatars, backgrounds, or badges as well as emoticons and backgrounds for games in your library.Welcome to r/SteamDeck, the subreddit for Valve's handheld computer. There's also a Points Shop that launched alongside the Summer Sale. This year's Steam Summer Sale has a road trip theme, which awards you one trading card for every $10 you spend. We have separate roundups highlighting the best overall deals in Steam's Summer Sale along with the best PC exclusives on sale at Steam, so make sure to take a peek at those for even more recommendations. Just make sure you actually plan on playing them! There are few better times to save cash on your game collection. ![]() You can even wind up saving more by buying multiple, as Steam is knocking off an additional $5 when you spend $30 or more. In the spirit of bargain shopping, we've put together a list of 15 stellar games you can pick up for $10 or less in the Steam Summer Sale, including Celeste, Darkest Dungeon, The Witness, and more. One of the best parts of Steam's large sales is the number of games you can get for super-cheap to save for a rainy day, especially if they are games you may not have even thought about or heard of before the sale. ![]() There is also a good chance you won't find a better deal on that game for months, as these savings don't happen too often. If there's a PC game you've been eyeing, there's a good chance it's on sale right now. Steam's Summer Sale has been live with thousands of great deals on PC games for nearly two weeks, and now just one day is left until the sale ends on July 9 at 10 PM PT / 1 PM ET / 6 PM BST. It allows our team to leverage our technical expertise and focus on creating the best possible PC experience that takes advantage of all the exciting possibilities the PC platform has to offer,” said Jurjen Katsman, Nixxes’ Founder and Senior Director of Development. “ I am extremely pleased with our collaboration with Insomniac on the Marvel’s Spider-Man series, the shared support provided between our teams and their dedication to quality above all is inspiring. Probably emboldened by the success of the other PlayStation exclusives that find a good home on PC, Sony has decided to bring more triple A titles to other platforms, including mobile.įully optimized for PC by PlayStation Studios partner studio Nixes Software, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales are getting a lot of PC-specific improvements, including adjustable render settings and ray-traced reflections. Instead, the Japanese giant announced it will bring two of its PlayStation-exclusives to the PC: Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.įollowing God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn, the two Spider-Man blockbusters are now looking for new, much larger audiences. The addition of Nixxes Software to PlayStation Studios follows news of Returnal and Resogun developer Housemarque’s recent acquisition.Bloodborne is probably the most requested PC port of the decade, but Sony would not give it to us. Speaking in an interview with Famitsu, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan said: 'We are. ![]() PC versions of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Ghost of Tsushima are also reportedly in the works, though Sony has yet to officially announce them. Sony has confirmed its acquisition of Nixxes is designed to enable further ports of PlayStation titles to PC. ![]() Sony Interactive Entertainment has been expanding to PC in recent years, bringing previously PlayStation-exclusive games like Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone to Windows. Jurjen Katsman, founder and senior director of development at Nixxes, added that the studios is “excited to bring our technical and development expertise to an IP powerhouse like PlayStation Studios.” Nixxes will be a strong asset for everyone across PlayStation Studios, helping our teams focus on their most important goal, which is to create unique PlayStation content at the best possible quality.” “They have a passion for improving games and for delivering the best possible experience for gamers. Sony seems to base their exclusive porting decisions by targeting pc similarly to how they target the ps4 audience, 3rd person action adventures with inoffensive gameplay and a cinematic angle, while literally holding onto IPs like Bloodborne, Demons Souls. “I highly respect Nixxes and am excited for this very experienced team to become part of the world-class development community at SIE,” Hulst said in a news release. ![]() If successful, we might see a PC first where a game specifically lists having an SSD as part of its requirements. In other words, it sounds like PlayStation Studios’ gain is Square Enix’s loss. Nixxes Software was recently seen hiring individuals to help them port the PS5-exclusive game, which relies heavily on the flagship consoles proprietary SSD, to the PC. PlayStation Studios appears to be stepping up its Windows PC porting efforts, thanks to a new addition to the “PlayStation family.” Head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst announced Thursday that Sony has acquired Nixxes Software, a technical developer based in the Netherlands whose credits include PC ports and optimizations for games like Marvel’s Avengers, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and the modern Tomb Raider trilogy. |