![]() At an alleyway, Booker found Robert and Father Comstock with Anna at an open portal between dimensions, ready to cross over. Feeling immediately regretful for his actions, he pursued Robert to retrieve his daughter. On October 8th, 1893 Booker gave Anna to Robert as instructed. Later that year, Booker was contacted by Robert Lutece, a representative of Father Zachary Hale Comstock, an enigmatic man who offered to pay off all of Booker's debts in exchange for ownership of Anna. Booker then descended into depression, excessive drinking, and gambling, which resulted in him building up a large amount of debt. Booker, a former Pinkerton agent, had been expelled from the agency around the time of Anna's birth for his use of extreme brutality in quelling workers' strikes. 3.9 Return to Rapture and the Civil WarĮlizabeth, originally named Anna DeWitt, was born in 1893 to Booker and Annabelle DeWitt, with Annabelle dying from childbirth.2.6 The Hand of the Prophet and Songbird.2.4 Emporia and Confrontation with Lady Comstock.This review was based off of the PC version of the DLC. It might be worth it to wait until both episodes of Burial at Sea are out before making the leap. Recommendation: If you’re eager to revisit Rapture and see what it was like before everything went to hell, you’ll enjoy the first episode of Burial at Sea, but chances are you’re going to be frustrated by its brevity. The story is almost enough to carry it on its own (especially since it has one hell of a twist ending), but with the combat feeling lackluster at times the whole thing is too brief of an experience to really recommend.īottom Line: Burial At Sea tells an interesting tale with plenty of twists, but it doesn’t have enough substance on the gameplay side of things to back it up. You’ll be able to complete the DLC in approximately two hours, even if you do some exploration on the side to pick up some of the audio logs or new gear. ![]() What harms Burial at Sea the most, though, is that it’s really just too damn short. However, when Elizabeth reveals her reality-warping powers part way through, and starts summoning samurai warriors and gun turrets left and right, it turns the combat from tense, make-every-shot-count firefights to into something more mediocre and generic. Ammo and EVE is limited, so you can burn through your resources very quickly if you’re not careful and enemies will respawn in areas you think you’ve cleared. The first few minutes of playing through Fontaine’s Station almost feels like it has some survival horror elements. A few gameplay components from Infinite make an appearance in this section also, such as the skyhook (called air-grabber in Rapture, naturally) and its ability to let you travel along rails and hooks hanging from the ceiling, but there’s not much opportunity to pull off the elaborate aerial stunts you could in Infinite. Here’s where fans of the original BioShock will feel the most nostalgic as you make your way through darkened corridors and past burst pipes, all while fighting off insane splicers that are around every corner. The second, combat-heavy part of Burial at Sea takes place in Fontaine’s Station, a series of dilapidated buildings that have since been separated from the rest of Rapture and turned into a makeshift prison. While not the most engaging introduction to the game, it’s really nifty to have the chance to see Rapture as an actual, living city before all the awfulness tore it apart, and to see people use plasmids for regular everyday work. This sets up the first part of the game, which takes on an adventure style of gameplay where you explore a more pristine version of Rapture with Elizabeth while tracking down clues as to where Sally may be, and the one man who might know where she is – the infamous Sander Cohen from the original BioShock. A woman – a version of Elizabeth with dark eye shadow – comes looking for a missing girl named Sally, and despite Booker’s insistence that she’s dead, Elizabeth convinces him to head out into a pre-civil war Rapture to find her. I’m going to start this off with a warning – BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a tricky piece of DLC to talk about without touching on some of the major spoilers of the original game, so if you by any chance haven’t finished Infinite just yet, you may want to do so before leaping into this review.īioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea takes us back to BioShock‘s Rapture, where an alternate universe version of Booker Dewitt is working as a down-on-his-luck private investigator.
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![]() You can create good things but everything is very manual, doesn’t scale well Has a lot of things, a bit overwhelming the first time You can add/change anything you want in the diagram ![]() As a drawing tool you can customize everything, and you can surely create beautiful diagram, but it will take a lot of time. The SQL import was quite easy, and the fact it generated tables as saved shapes helped a lot to manually add them in the canvas (instead of having everything loaded from scratch and figure it out). If you are looking for an online pen and paper to draw your database schema, they are the tool you need.Īs a drawing tool I didn’t expect much but had a good surprise. They may have dedicated assets for ER diagrams and their main selling points here are their flexibility and design capabilities. Here are the categories and the best ones I found in each of them:Īs Entity-Relationship Diagrams are primarily diagrams, no surprise we find here diagramming tools. No need for exhaustivity here, just know where to look and find one that does the job.Īfter looking at a lot of them, I could identify 4 categories or relevant tools (leaving many on the side as they are quite outdated). Either strict ER diagrams with all the correct notations or kind of ER diagrams, just having tables and relations but without all the semantics of an ER diagram.Īs the offer is huge (here is a list of 79 Data Modeling Tools Compared, and it’s far from complete), focus on the task you want to achieve to choose a category, then try out a few ones. ![]() And when looking for a visual tool for your database, you will always find Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) on your way. Finding the right tool for the job can clearly be a game changer. ![]() Tap Install certificate and then CA certificate.Ī warning message will appear. ![]() Scroll down to Advanced, open it and then tap Encryption & credentials (these settings may be called variously on different devices - the main thing is to choose advanced security settings). Go to the app's main screen and tap Turn on next to the HTTPS filtering is off message (it will be highlighted in orange if the AdGuard certificate is not installed yet).Ī new screen will appear, tap Next, Next and Save it now when prompted to download the AdGuard certificate.Īfter the certificate is downloaded, you will see a new screen. Now you need to install the certificate manually. On Android 11 and later automatic certificate installation is no longer available. On older versions of Android OS this was done automatically during the onboarding process or later via AdGuard settings, and it only required a couple of taps. To be able to filter HTTPS traffic, AdGuard needs to install a certificate into your device's user storage. It happened so that most advertisers use this protocol as well, this is why HTTPS filtering is really crucial for a modern ad blocker. Nowadays almost all websites work via HTTPS, the web protocol where the last S letter stands for "secure". Tip: use the Import feature to transfer your rules to a different device. If you want to try your hand at this, we would recommend studying the article on creating your own ad filters which describes the AdGuard rules syntax in detail and provides plenty of examples. Custom filters ĪdGuard allows you to create your own custom filters, using the same type of rules that we have in our filters. For example, filters in the Annoyances category are very different from the language-specific ones.įind out more about all the filters available for AdGuard products by reading their descriptions in the app or this comprehensive article. The program uses a lot of different filters, our own and third-party ones, sorted by language and their purpose. ![]() Read this comparative article to learn the differences between AdGuard and other ad blockers. Most mobile ad blockers for Android use this principle, but what is pretty much the whole app in their case is only one of the many features for AdGuard. The program has a default and constantly updated set of filters but you can also add your own filtering rules and filters to this set. The whole process is managed by filters - lists of special rules. Most importantly, AdGuard works as a universal filter sifting through your apps traffic and deciding what to do with this or that web request. The ad-blocking feature is pretty obvious in its concept, but there are some points worthy of a separate mention. The mechanism of filtering ads is described here. Ad blocking Īny ad blocker's main purpose is to block ads, and for the majority of AdGuard software ad-blocking algorithms are mostly the same. The only place it can be downloaded from is the AdGuard website. AdGuard for Android, on the contrary, is a powerful application to block ads, manage applications, and perform other roles that will be described in this article. AdGuard Content Blocker is an app available in Google Play that has truncated functionality to meet restrictions imposed by the store. ![]() To see how it works, download the AdGuard appĭisclaimer: AdGuard for Android is not to be confused with AdGuard Content Blocker. This article covers AdGuard for Android, a multifunctional ad blocker that protects your device at the system level. ![]() ^ Back to Top ^ © 2023 ESPN Internet Ventures. 286 with an 1.121 OPS in April and followed it with a. Harper hit nine HR in April last season and 15 the rest of the season, and that wasn’t the only rate that fell off. 418 batting average and is second with a 1.358 OPS.īut April wasn’t the issue last year, either. Harper is off to a good start this season - one that indicates he may be on track to have a season more like his 2015 performance than his 2016. With just 1.6 WAR in 2016, Harper posted the largest WAR drop off of any position player ever in his reigning MVP season, losing 8.3 WAR from his total in 2015. Harper won the 2012 Rookie of the Year award and the NL MVP in 2015 - the youngest player to win MVP unanimously - but then had a vastly different 2016. Harper’s journey hasn’t been as consistent as Trout’s. The only other player to finish top-2 in MVP voting in five straight seasons, since the Baseball Writers' Association of America began voting on awards in 1931, was Barry Bonds in 2000 to 2004. ![]() Trout has finished top-2 in MVP voting in each of his five full seasons in the majors. The last player to do that in either league was Babe Ruth, who did so in six straight seasons from 1926 to 1931. Trout led the AL in WAR in each of the past five seasons. The next-most WAR accumulated belongs to Clayton Kershaw (35.7). Trout’s 49.6 WAR since 2012 is the most in the majors in that span. Trout has accumulated a total of 50.3 WAR in his career, while Harper is at 23.4. They posted two of the four highest wins above replacement totals in a position player’s age-22 season or younger.Įach has won at least one MVP in addition to the Rookie of the Year honors, but there’s a clear difference in WAR total between the two. Both got off to fast starts at young ages. The two went on to win Rookie of the Year honors in their respective leagues that season. He went 1-for-3 with a double and an RBI at the Dodgers, in a Stephen Strasburg start. 324 BA.īryce Harper, the 2015 National League MVP, debuted on this date in 2012 for the Washington Nationals at age 19. Trout went hitless that day and recorded just one hit in three April games, but picked up the pace in May, with 5 HR, 15 RBI and a. 403 in 20 games there to start the season, Trout was called up to the majors by the Los Angeles Angels for good on April 28. Mike Trout, the American League MVP in 20, played in 40 games in 2011, but began the 2012 season with Triple-A Salt Lake. On April 28, 2012, two of the best players in baseball officially reached the major leagues for good. More recent vintage seasons that look like they have had two very successful players win Rookie of the Year included 2006 (Justin Verlander and Hanley Ramirez) and 2007 (Dustin Pedroia and Ryan Braun).You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserĪpril 28 is Mike Trout and Bryce Harper day There are 14 former Rookie of the Year winners in the Hall of Fame, and there are three years in which both Rookie of the Year winners eventually were enshrined in Cooperstown - 1956 (Luis Aparicio and Frank Robinson), 1967 (Rod Carew and Tom Seaver) and 1977 (Eddie Murray and Andre Dawson), plus another that at this point looks like it will join those three great years for rookies in 2001 (Ichiro Suzuki and Albert Pujols). Those, however, are just the single-season WAR numbers, which is all we really have to judge either Trout or Harper at this point. *In the event of a tie, the better WAR among the two tied players was used Here are the top 10 Rookie of the Year combos:ī wins above replacement used Harper's 5.0 WAR was the best among National League rookies, bettering second-place finisher Wade Miley (3.2) and third-place Todd Frazier (1.9). Trout's 10.7 WAR (the version) was one of the best seasons in baseball history, so it's no surprise he and Harper combined for the best total WAR for a pair of Rookie of the Year winners in baseball history. Both Mike Trout and Bryce Harper delivered, and they did so in historic fashion.Īlthough WAR certainly has its detractors, and there's a difference between WAR for hitters and pitchers, it's not exactly apples and oranges, more like grapefruit and oranges - they're both citrus fruits. This year, though, there may be even more, because we saw one of the greatest rookie seasons of all time and the debut of perhaps the most hyped prospect of all time. Although the voting is done on what a rookie did that season and not what he's expected to become, there's always some optimism toward the Rookie of the Year, whether it's Bob Hamelin or Albert Pujols. It's not exactly uncommon to be excited about the future when the Rookie of the Year winners are announced - it's part of their charm. Mike Trout and Bryce Harper won Rookie of the Year in their respective leagues. This category is a bit of a catch-all because GIMP and Photoscape aren’t in direct competition. Although both programs can add preset assets like brushes, GIMP has a much wider following, and its open-source nature means that any software developer can develop extensions for it. You can entirely change the user interface, add new features such as panorama stitching or RAW support, and add new brushes, patterns, and all sorts of presets – usually for free (though this is at the discretion of the creator). Thanks to its open-source nature, GIMP allows for an almost unlimited degree of improvement. It does offer support for new color treatments, brushes, shapes, and stickers, although these have to be purchased from their parent company’s store within the app rather than created and shared freely by the community. Photoscape does offer a huge number of presets – but only in the Pro version Purchasing the Pro version does unlock the full range of its tools and abilities, but since they are already technically a part of the program, I don’t consider them a plugin or extension. Photoscape doesn’t offer plugin support for adding new features. It’s nice to have the ability to extend an image editor’s functionality by adding new features and preset asset packs. Software developers do their best to make sure that their programs are meeting the needs of their user base, but they can’t always predict or include every single feature. Photoscape’s primary focus is automatic adjustments instead of manual ones, so it shouldn’t be any surprise that it excels here. Photoscape offers an impressive range of automatic adjustments, and even though they don’t always work exactly as intended, they can be a huge help to an image editor who’s in a rush to meet a deadline and isn’t overly concerned about polishing every last pixel into place by hand. These aren’t always very effective, either. Unfortunately, GIMP only offers very few extremely basic automatic adjustments, such as Auto Levels and Auto Tone. Automatic adjustments can simplify the editing process dramatically by quickly providing a baseline edit to work from which you can then polish and tweak until you’re satisfied. Automatic AdjustmentsĮditing photos can be a lot of fun, but doing the same basic edits over and over again can quickly become tiresome. Photoscape also doesn’t offer support for layer-based editing, which I consider to be a basic feature for modern image editors. GIMP offers much more flexibility and customizability, but Photoscape’s tools are very capable. ![]() Winner: GIMP, but it was a lot closer than I expected. Photoscape has no layer support at all, although it does have some specialized tools for creating collages and other one-off projects. Perhaps the biggest difference between the two programs is that GIMP offers layer-based editing, allowing you to combine images easily into anything from a basic photo collage to a photorealistic surrealist masterpiece. The high-resolution TIFF image I used to test responsiveness looked a bit off in the thumbnail, and the problem was even more apparent when viewed in full size. If the developer doesn’t get this part right, all the fancy extras are made worthless.ĭuring my testing of Photoscape X, I ran into a problem immediately, even before I started working with the tools. ![]() They’re the manual adjustment tools that you use to do the vast majority of edits: clone brushes, selection tools, paintbrushes, and transform tools. Basic Editing Toolsīasic editing tools are the core piece of any good image editor. I’ll explain a bit about each one at the start of the section, so let’s get started! 1. Here are the areas that matter when comparing GIMP and Photoscape: GIMP vs Photoscape X: Which Should You Use?īefore we dive into the good stuff, I want to take a second to outline the various categories that I used to assess the capabilities of the two programs. If you’re tired of reading software comparison reviews that sound like the writer has never touched the programs they’re writing about, then this article should make for quite a refreshing change (and hopefully it’ll be useful, too). I’ve used almost every image editor available today, from open-source software like GIMP to industry-standard software suites like Adobe’s Creative Cloud programs. I’ve worked in the graphic arts and related fields for well over a decade, and my love of digital photography stretches back nearly twice that long. ![]() In case this is your first visit to, I should introduce myself quickly: my name is Thomas Boldt, and I’m the writer and image editing expert on the TGT team. GIMP vs Photoscape X: Which Should You Use?. |