Another great choice in terms of art direction.
By ANDREW YANG
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 20, 2020 | 7:15 AM
The novel coronavirus thatβs reached pandemic proportions has already seen more than 13,000 U.S. cases, close to 4,000 of them here in New York. Neighboring New Jersey is seeing one of the highest death tolls, with one family hit particularly hard. And in an attempt to curb the spread of the disease despite a late start, social distancing has become the catchphrase most Americans are living by.
All of us staying at home is particularly problematic to those of our neighbors who work in the service industry. In previous times of crisis, New Yorkers have banded together to keep a sense of community together and to help small businesses.
After Hurricane Sandy, communities helped small businesses rebuild. In the wake of 9/11, New Yorkers, refusing to give in to the fear that the terrorists tried to spread, made it a point to go out and live their lives. With everyone trying to avoid spreading the coronavirus, local businesses will be hit a lot harder than theyβve ever been hit before.
On the average waiterβs or hotel employeeβs salary, itβs impossible to have a two to three-month safety net saved up, so many workers are out of a job and quickly running out of money.
Iβm glad to see the federal and state governments taking steps to ensure that there is some assistance. However, too much of the focus has been on helping businesses, with no-interest loans or interest rates being lowered to help corporationsβ bottom lines.
Instead, weβve got to focus on doing the one thing that we know will help people hit the hardest economically by this crisis: Send them a check of at least $1,000 each month so that they can continue to live. So they can keep their families healthy and safe. So they can make sure their kidsβ lives and learning are disrupted as little as possible.
Iβm glad this idea has risen to the top of the list in Washington, with even the Trump administration agreeing to the wisdom of direct cash payments. This idea isnβt partisan. The list of supporters includes Sen. Tom Cotton (R), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D), Sen. Mitt Romney (R), and New Yorkβs own Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D).
Such an infusion would inject nearly $13 billion per month into the state of New York. Not by moving money into the accounts of banks, but by moving it into the accounts of our friends, our neighbors and ourselves.
This isnβt a time for fighting, and it isnβt a time for half-measures. It isn
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My gut seems to be telling me it's alright, but I'd just like to hear what you have to say. I'm not trying to push any sort of National Socialist agenda at all, but I like art and 2 paintings of his, in particular, speak to me. Here's the Wikipedia page concerning this subject. When it comes to art, though, I usually stick to music and I've seen many films, so I don't know much about paintings, etc. and maybe this stuff isn't much good, I'm not sure. If you didn't know who painted them, what would their reception be? They seem like very peaceful paintings to me.
Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ (1913)
There is another that I think is great called "Mountain Scene with Wayside Cross" from 1923-25, but for the love of Christ and all that is holy, do not go outside of this link to view it. Please, trust me, I don't think you want anything to do with either of the sites that I found it on for various reasons (C'mon Wikipedia!). Thank you.
http://www.weatheradvisor.info
https://reddit.com/link/g3mipo/video/op7eanyvhkt41/player
This is very long, but I am incredibly excited about this game and desperately want to mod the crap out of it. Iβve played with Cities Skylines and Space Engineers and found working on mods and installing mods difficult. By far my best experience with mods has been Factorio (20+ mods and no issues), distant second being Kerbal.
TLDR; Iβd like to understand more about why the devs are using Cities Skylines as the standard for a modding enabled game, and present my argument for Factorio as a better standard to emulate. https://youtu.be/3SlgWMK88mo?t=24m40s
My experiences with steam workshop and Cities Skylines mods have not been the greatest. For me the gold standard is Factorio. Factorioβs mods add tremendous content, normally they are updated and working very quickly even after major updates, typically before I can even play the newest version. (I donβt even look anymore, I just leave it on βlatest experimentalβ)
1 Game Content Should Itself be a Mod
Stationeers seems similar to Factorio in regards to mods, the base game is really just a Stationeers-engine. It makes sure the atmospherics, electric, biological, radiation, etc, simulation is fast and efficient.
All content including, vanilla content, is contained in mods. This is the part I think that makes Factorio the gold standard, your modding ecosystem will be healthy if your game itself relies on it. (In factorio this is known as the βBase Modβ which is actually in the mod list and can be turned off)
2 A Light Weight Modding Language
Another one of the devs goals is to make it easy to add new blocks. Which is another win for Factorioβs method, using LUA (Or another scripting language, Factorio Devs arenβt totally in love with LUA). LUA makes it easier to create simple mods for those with less programming experience or time. Simple mods only need subclass or extend a Base Mod object, scripting languages are more forgiving for new learners, copy pasta, and rapid prototyping. All traits that benefit easily adding new items. Performance isnβt an issue because the heavy lifting is done by the game engine.
Unless the idea is modders can add totally new simulations and feature sets that are not remotely part of the game today. I feel this is not the case for 95% of mods Iβve ever used or seen in any game.
3 Mod Portal [Fairly opinionated]
There is plenty of evidence that modding communities can mai
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