This has been taken from my post on the Quake Live official forum - The Ultimate Quake Live Guide [and very slightly modified for Steam. I kept finding myself repeating things so I wrote this guide on the most asked about cfg settings and QL/Q3 playing tips so you can learn to play like this, or duel just like the professionals and aim to take on Cypher. For some reason embeded video's won't show up if you view this in a web browser, please use the Steam client instead. It covers everything from basic setup, input ideals, coloured names/players, to movement concepts and config scripting. To restore the regular crosshair, remove the gfx.wad file from the QW folder.This is a broad guide that should have something to help all levels of player, from absolute beginner to pro level players. The game will ignore the gfx.wad file inside the pak0.pak. QUAKEWORLD: Download a crosshair file from this page, rename it to gfx.wad, and put it in your QW folder. To restore the regular crosshair, delete the gfx.wad file you added, and rename the original file in the pak0 back to gfx.wad. Now download any of the replacement Quake crosshair files below, rename the file to gfx.wad and place it inside your ID1 folder. Right click it and rename it to anything you like. When you open the pak0, you'll immediately see the gfx.wad file listed in the right window. See the Create a New Pak instructions in the Quake 2 section for info on how to set up Pak Explorer. NETQUAKE: You'll need to get a copy of Pak Explorer (or other pak file editing tool) to open the pak0.pak file inside the Quake/ID1 folder. Installation is slightly different for regular NetQuake than it is for Quakeworld. The replacement crosshairs here are built into gfx.wad files that are all identical to the original, except for the crosshair itself. But you don't need to mess around inside it. Gfx.wad holds all the console text characters, the hud numbers and icons, and many other small graphics - 127 files in all. The crosshair is contained in the gfx.wad file inside the pak0.pak. With the second, the game will execute the command for you automatically each time it starts. With the first method, you'll have to type that command each time you start the game to bring out the crosshair. Put the autoexec.cfg file in the quake\ID1 folder. Inside it type the command, crosshair "1". If you don't already have such a file, create a text file with Notepad or any word processor and name it autoexec.cfg. There are two ways to start it:īring down the command console with the tilde (~) key, type crosshair 1, and hit Enter.Īdd the command to your autoexec.cfg file. Which is why it's limited to the small size. The crosshair in Quake is really just the PLUS ( ) sign from the character set that the game uses for onscreen messages. People are still playing (and just discovering) it, and hundreds of Internet servers are running it or one of it's many offspring 24 hours a day all over the world. But here we are four generations of the game and many years later. Even the mouselook command had to be activated from the console or a config file rather than the options menu and the off hand, by the way type of comment that "yes, you can play Quake over the Internet"(prime candidate for understatement of the decade!) that was buried in the Network Subsystem Documentation section of the techinfo.txt file just reinforces that view. I'm still not sure that Id Software understood the full scope of the phenomenon they had just unleashed upon the world when Quake arrived. "Added unsupported crosshair option (" crosshair 1" from console)". If you bothered to wade all the way through the readme.txt file, you might have seen it mentioned as one of the features added in the v0.94 beta. For most of us it was word of mouth, newsgroup, messageboard, or somebody's web site. Remember how you found out there even was a crosshair in Quake? It's not there in the Options menu.
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I don’t expect anything more or less from the Crunchwrap I love. In the end, both Crunchwraps taste comparably artificial, and pleasingly so. The lettuce and tomato, mainstays of the original, were reliably crisp and cooling. Since I wasn’t seeking out the taste of dairy when I bit into the vegan version, I didn’t miss it. I don’t eat a Crunchwrap to chase the pure flavor of farm-fresh cow’s milk cheese and sour cream. The elements of the vegan version are approximations of approximations. There’s nothing particularly “natural” about the OG version, which packs savory flavor and crunch into every bite.Īlready, the nacho cheese and sour cream of the original are at most dairy adjacent in flavor. The main challenge with the veganification of Taco Bell’s Crunchwrap wasn’t to imitate the flavor of meat-because frankly, meat was never the focus of the original Crunchwrap. I’m not surprised that Taco Bell is able to mimic the texture and flavor of the original in its Vegan Crunchwrap. It’s also the latest entry in the fast-food rat race to launch meatless versions of quintessential menu items, to varying degrees of success. Taco Bell’s newest creation is instead filled with a “proprietary” vegan beef ( made from pea protein and soy), plus “cool vegan blanco sauce and warm vegan nacho sauce.” The chain has long been known as one of the few big fast-food operations where vegetarians could easily eat, but this is the company’s first fully vegan entrée item. Added to Taco Bell’s permanent menu in 2006, the Crunchwrap has since grown into an extremely cherished, infinitely duped fan favorite. A crisped flour tortilla is wrapped around layers of ground beef, lettuce, tomatoes, creamy nacho cheese, cooling sour cream, and that hallmark tostada in the middle, which grounds it all with an intense crunch. The hexagonal beauty that is the Crunchwrap Supreme is one of fast food’s textural marvels. When this Vegan Crunchwrap launched yesterday, I knew I needed to track it down. The fast-food chain is beta testing a meatless and dairy-free version in Los Angeles, New York, and Orlando, to potentially roll out to a wider audience down the line. Taco Bell’s going vegan with a new take on its beloved Crunchwrap. There are men who haven’t left their room for years, limiting themselves only to playing video games or interacting virtually with others. However, data from more patients globally, not just from Japan are needed. Kato of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Kyushu, the instigator of the study insists that these investigations are just the beginning of the quest to understand what orchestrates hikikomori syndrome. A small alteration has also been seen in acylcarnitines, compounds that are key in supplying energy to the brain.įor now, Dr.They’re also often present in people dealing with major depression or seasonal affective disorder. For example, the regulation of blood pressure and the urea cycle. These are types of molecules associated with different bodily functions.In fact, the levels of ornithine and serum arginase activity are much higher than in the population without this socially isolating characteristic. Biomarkers associated with hikikomori syndrome have been discovered in the blood.Thanks to their initiative, an investigation was finally published in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. The purpose was to understand a little more about this shocking reality. In 2013, Kyushu University Hospital in Japan created the world’s first outpatient clinic for hikikomori research. The key could be in two types of amino acids However, one conclusion recently reached, and which appears to offer strong evidence, is that of ‘metabolic signatures’. Some theories insist on the presence of psychiatric disorders. While the diagnosis itself now has a more rigorous basis, the origins of the disorder haven’t yet been fully clarified. He claimed that social isolation for more than six months should appear as a factor, accompanied by emotional discomfort and a clear functional deterioration in the individual’s responsibilities (not attending class, work, etc.). Kato proposed clearer international diagnostic criteria for this disorder in a study. We don’t currently have figures for the West, but it’s thought that it’s increasingly spreading among the younger population. South Korea and Hong Kong have similar figures. It’s estimated that about 1.57 percent of the Japanese population suffers from hikikomori syndrome although there could be more. The biological origin of hikikomori syndrome Hikikomori syndrome has several triggers – personality, social, and biological. Although, until not long ago, its triggers were unknown, more information is now coming to light. This is a reality that not only affects Japan. Locking themselves in their rooms was -and still is- a defense mechanism against a too strict society that they don’t like, and in which they can’t, or don’t know how to survive. They sought physical and also mental shelter. Unable to adjust to that yardstick, many young people (and some not so young), fed up with feeling ashamed or as if they’d failed, opted for an escape valve. It’s a protest against work and academic stress and the kind of family severity that means these young people are expected to be the best, achieve success, and be good workers. As expressed in some of the media, hikikomori symbolized resistance to world pressure. This phenomenon first became evident at the end of the last century, around 1998. Now, science seems to have found the biological origin of hikikomori syndrome. They live locked in their rooms, isolated, playing video games or spending time on the Internet. In 80 percent of cases, they’re men and they avoid all kinds of social contact, leisure, friendship, and even work or study. The testing only takes 30 minutes and will help people stop the spread of the virus – protecting families and communities and saving lives. This new service will make it even easier for people to access rapid testing twice a week. I have been delighted at the level of interest and how fast the response has been from pharmacies to take part, with 9 in 10 registering to offer rapid test kits within 10 days. Now, they will play a key role in our rapid testing programme, which is a vital tool in reopening society in the months ahead. Pharmacies make an invaluable contribution our health service – they have gone above and beyond in response to COVID-19 to serve their communities. Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: Regular testing continues to play a critical role in stopping the spread of the virus and breaking the chains of transmission.Īn online checker has launched so people can find their nearest pharmacy offering free rapid test kits. The Pharmacy Collect service is available to people aged over 18 without symptoms, who are able to visit a participating local pharmacy and collect a box of 7 rapid tests to use twice a week at home.Īlongside the rollout of the vaccine, testing will form a crucial part of everyday life as parts of society reopen.Īround 1 in 3 people with coronavirus don’t have symptoms, which means they can spread the virus without knowing it. Rapid, regular testing is now available to everyone in England and the new ‘Pharmacy Collect’ service provides an additional route to regular testing, making it as easy as possible for people without COVID-19 symptoms to access testing twice a week. 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All the kids used to like him but now he's a pain in their butt! Barney is a ninja all way's stalking your feet. Bam Bam Bu Bam Bam barney's on the floor! We shot him more while he was on the floor to make sure he was dead! Barney's original I hate you song:(Sing in tune of The Mean Kitty song.) Big fat dinosaur Big fat dinosaur Big fat dinosaur Big fat dinosaur! This dinosaur got old about two month's back. Bring a gun and shoot him to the floor cause he might be at the door. Heap of blood: Lets go out and kill a barney dinosaur. Grab a kitchen knife and stick it through his head. Not exactly like the original version of Barney sucks. Thank you to all, especially YOU, Misty with her spectacular parody, and this great Website Editor for keeping everything in order. Once again, just for good measure, I apologise to all whom I may have offended with my comments (deleted or not mine or someone else's). L.O.L., I hope this comment serves you guys well, showing that this is a specific thread and to NOT SCREW UP!!! By the way guys, thanks to everyone on this forum, cheering me up when I'm blue, making me laugh when I need it, and hatin' on Barney when it is best to (i.e. Although I can't prove anything, I'll be sure to not go with that name "barney's Assassinator", just to keep confusion of who is who. I have confidentally and respectfully read your letter, Website Creator, and I'll be sure to stay on topic, not disrupt the chat, and to stay anonimous. I apologise to all and anyone whom I may have offended, and I'm sorry for causing a disruption (me or otherwise), upon this well-written parody, Barney-"hating", and perfectly designed website (). Website Editor for what had happened on this thread and I'll be enjoying this thread some more, but under a new "name". All I can say about what the last comment had said was that it was outragious, crude, and inapaproppriate, and I accept the shame :P. Okay, sorry about what happened about the last message I had posted someone (I have no idea whom) had used my "name", so please forgive me of that comment. I hand this name (Barney's Assassinator) to Misty, the Queen whom made the parody we're loving and hating on. Lastly, Peace Dogs, I'm giving up on this website I'm looking for a real chatting/ I.M.ing website. So what? Oh well, and also, the comment that I posted (in which is now gone) was the LONGEST comment ever (which would've been good, or so I thought), but supposably the "programmers" who made this website supposably doesnt care for GOOD PUBLICITY. If you guys just hate me, I don't really care.oh yeah, since this is a Barney Hating website, I misewell say something about Barney.he sucks. The kids leave the school, learning the fun, imaginative process of storytelling.Okay, what the hell? I keep on posting comments on this (extremely awesome) forum, and SOMEONE keeps on deleting it.Is it the proogrammers whom made this website that's doing it, or is it someboday else that just doesn't like the comments that I posted? I am sorry (maybe) if I had offended anyone on a BARNEY HATER website.I'll be sure NOT to type anything that might offend anybody, like the other comments posted before me. After telling the three stories, Barney and the kids help Stella pack up her suitcase. Baby Bop joins the group to help tell the latter two fairy tales. Seeing this as an opportunity to show the kids the magic of storytelling, Barney and Stella come up with ways for the group to act out three classic fairy tales: Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Stella tries to unplug her suitcase when all of a sudden, the case begins unpacking all of her props. 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At range he will pick up and throw corpses of friends and foes at you and he has a powerful in-built electrical current that he can weaponize, gathering up electricity in a burst to hurl at you, or to slam into the ground making a immensely powerful area of effect attack. Remember your Handy foe has a multitude of ways to attack you the primary being to close the distance and just punch you with a massive fist, doing high damage. Yep, it's the massive glowing heart on the creature's chest, so focus your attacks whenever possible on this weak spot. If you've been playing video games for a long time you should be able to pretty much work out the Handyman's weak spot straight away. Alway's a threat, and always a heavy drain on Salts and Ammo. In combat Handymen are at the top of the list. 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Dropped from a height of seven meters into a gently inclined, 0.5 m wide channel, the hot pile of pumice and ash quickly generates a miniature pyroclastic flow that careens down the 17 m long channel, before barrelling out a large roller door to safely peter out in the cordoned off 13 m long carpark beyond. While much smaller than their real counterparts, the experimental PDCs being generated in the old boiler house on Massey University’s Palmerston North campus are strikingly realistic. “We use between 250 and 5,000 kg of volcanic ash and pumice collected from the Taupō ignimbrite, which is sieved to less than 16 mm grainsize and heated to between 120 and 500 ☌ to simulate a scaled-down equivalent of a real PDC,” Gert explains. While the inherently destructive nature of PDCs makes them difficult and dangerous to study in the field, the PELE apparatus-the largest of its type in the world-enables Gert and his team to study PDCs in a safe and controlled environment. Gert runs the Pyroclastic flow Eruption Large-scale Experiment (PELE) facility at Massey University. “In New Zealand, all of our volcanoes produce PDCs, so one of the foremost tasks of volcanologists is to forecast and mitigate against PDC hazards,” Volcanoes Programme researcher Prof Gert Lube of Massey University told attendees at the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) Scientific Assembly held recently in Rotorua. This makes them a top priority for research so we can develop better hazard models and provide better advice to keep people safe around active volcanoes. Ranging from particle-dominated flows through to gas-dominated surges, PDC’s can be triggered by a range of volcanic events-not just large eruptions-and are responsible for more than a third of all volcano-related deaths worldwide. The eruption cost $700 million in damage, $100 million of which was damage to 16 aircraft flying at the time of the eruption and $250 million in property with the rest a combination of agriculture, forestry and land.Pyroclastic Density Currents (PDCs) are ground-hugging clouds of super-heated volcanic ash, rock and gas that have a reputation for destroying everything in their path. Pyroclastic flows, lahars as well as the ashfall hazard all resulted in damage and casualties. Pinatubo eruption caused widespread impacts across societal, economic and environmental areas. This combination gave rise to wet ash, increasing loading on structures with a large proportion of the 847 death toll due to roof collapse.ġ991 Mt. The ash plume height reaching more than 40 km (28 mi) high and ejecting more than 10 km 3 of magma, classifying it as plinian/ultra plinian eruption style and VEI 6 in eruption size.Ī complicating factor in the dispersal of ash was at the same time as the eruption, Typhoon Yunna channeled the ash from the usual dispersal out to the ocean toward the island of Luzon. June 15, 1991, it erupted, resulting in the second-largest eruption of the 20 th century. Pinatubo is a stratovolcano in the Philippines. Shortly before settling into their more energetically favourable native conformation, molecules may pass through an intermediate " molten globule" state. Protein folding may involve covalent bonding in the form of disulfide bridges formed between two cysteine residues or the formation of metal clusters. The regular alpha helix and beta sheet structures fold rapidly because they are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonds, as was first characterized by Linus Pauling. Formation of quaternary structure usually involves the "assembly" or "coassembly" of subunits that have already folded. Often folding involves first the establishment of regular secondary and supersecondary structures, particularly alpha helices and beta sheets, and afterwards tertiary structure. At the coarsest level, it appears that in transitioning to the native state, a given amino acid sequence takes on roughly the same route and proceeds through roughly the same intermediates and transition states. Although most globular proteins are able to assume their native state unassisted, chaperone-assisted folding is often necessary in the crowded intracellular environment to prevent aggregation chaperones are also used to prevent misfolding and aggregation which may occur as a consequence of exposure to heat or other changes in the cellular environment.įor the most part, scientists have been able to study many identical molecules folding together en masse. In eukaryotic organisms chaperones are known as heat shock proteins. A well studied example is the bacterial GroEL system, which assists in the folding of globular proteins. Specialized proteins called chaperones assist in the folding of other proteins. The process of folding in vivo often begins co-translationally, so that the N-terminus of the protein begins to fold while the C-terminal portion of the protein is still being synthesized by the ribosome. It is generally accepted that minimizing the number of hydrophobic sidechains exposed to water is the principal driving force behind the folding process, although a recent theory has been proposed which reassesses the contributions made by hydrogen bonding. Most folded proteins have a hydrophobic core in which side chain packing stabilizes the folded state, and charged or polar side chains on the solvent-exposed surface where they interact with surrounding water molecules. While these macromolecules may be regarded as "folding themselves", the mechanism depends equally on the characteristics of the cytosol, including the nature of the primary solvent ( water or lipid), the concentration of salts, the temperature, and molecular chaperones. It will fold spontaneously during or after synthesis. The amino-acid sequence (or primary structure) of a protein predisposes it towards its native conformation or conformations. Known facts about the process The relationship between folding and amino acid sequence 2.4 Techniques for determination of protein structure.2.3 Computational prediction of protein tertiary structure.2.2 Energy landscape theory of protein folding.2.1 Modern studies of folding with high time resolution.2 Techniques for studying protein folding.1.3 Incorrect protein folding and neurodegenerative disease.1.1 The relationship between folding and amino acid sequence.Several neurodegenerative and other diseases are believed to result from the accumulation of misfolded (incorrectly folded) proteins. Failure to fold into the intended shape usually produces inactive proteins with different properties (details found under prion). That is, to predict the structure of the complete protein from the sequence of the protein.įor many proteins the correct three dimensional structure is essential to function. Therefore scientists have tried to use different biophysical techniques to manually fold a protein. However the sequence of that protein is often known. The mechanism of protein folding is not completely understood.Įxperimentally determining the three dimensional structure of a protein is often very difficult and expensive. The resulting three-dimensional structure is determined by the sequence of the amino acids. These interact with each other and their surroundings in the cell to produce a well-defined, three dimensional shape, the folded protein (the right hand side of the figure), known as the native state. These may be hydrophobic, hydrophilic, or electrically charged, for example. However each amino acid in the chain can be thought of having certain 'gross' chemical features. This polypeptide lacks any developed three-dimensional structure (the left hand side of the neighboring figure). Įach protein begins as a polypeptide, translated from a sequence of mRNA as a linear chain of amino acids. Protein folding is the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic three-dimensional structure. |