Hey guys! This is my last post on this website, it’s been quite a semester and I wish to make it about how much we’ve went through and wishing you all good luck. Now.. this semester has quite something, from hard works that take days to finish, the crisis of the early decade from the possibility of World War and now with the ever apparent pandemic of the Covid-19 virus plaguing the world. Even so, it’s been a fun experience overall to learn about the basics of Psychology as it is my bachelors degree, learning the basics of French to learn more about other languages, having Social Sciences and Humanities teach me about the reality of the world and ideals that could plague or save it and finally this class, Technology (Informatica) as it taught be the wonders of the internet, how you can spread out information to the internet and to be wary of it’s many issues. Overall it’s been a good second semester and I do hope I’m able to get semesters as decent as this one for the ones to come! Now please, do me a favor and enjoy your day/night/evening and have a lovely summer!
Hey there viewer! Man, it’s been quite the semester hasn’t it? 5 full months of work, sweat and a lot of random postings all around. Well.. I suppose this and another few more posts will be the last of what this website will provide, thank you for all that’s been provided for this place, it was a nice experience and fun as hell to try! Now then..
Review of the course and my autoevaluation
-Informatica 103 has been an interesting course for me to try out, as its implication to be able to create and innovate your own website to share things that you want to show the world was a nice experience overall. The professor was also a big help in the progress on how to full achieve a well done website, programs to use to be able to make full use of the internet and it’s wonders such as Diigo for Bookmarking to Feedly to archive links and articles one can use for later works.
-The two of my favorite and most interesting concepts that we taught about in this course was the usage of WordPress to create a website, which you can see now as you’re reading this, as it helped me see how one can create their own step into the virtual world with ease; along with the discussion over the lack of privacy present on the internet and how we should be careful when surfing across the internet as it is an important thing to keep in mind.
-In terms of changing anything to do with the course would probably be how it does require the use of some social media outlets such as Instagram and Twitter, since at the beginning of the course I didn’t use any of these two formats. I’m not saying you shouldn’t use these formats whatsoever but to simply try to expand the threshold when it comes to social media outlets, perhaps opening to more social media options when it comes to looking up certain information and posts about the subject being given.
-Overall, I’ve also made up to 8 weekly posts, 7 work posts and other smaller changes to the website, with all of them getting a combined view count of 33 views, which is.. about a ton more than I expected so it means a lot that my website got some love while it was being active!
Welcome welcome! This post is made to be able to share the group effort of my team while working on the last project for the class of Informatica 103, which was about 3D printing and it’s usefulness to the world at large!
3D Printing (Brief review)
-3D Printing is a currently expanding practice of technology that uses a strong material in order to process and create a 3D model of an object. This practice has seen its growth in popularity due to how resourceful and how much variety it has when it comes to constructing objects through this process. As it grows even more, methods have been discovered in order to expand its usage in many fields such as the medical field and the architectural field; along with increasing the consistency of the structure of these models in order to better the product as a whole. For more information over this practice, feel free to check out these two links, one being information that was joined up by the group in a post, along with the other being in a slide show presentation that we used to present to the class.
Welcome welcome! Today I’ll be talking about a website that was introduced to use recently, that of Diigo, an online bookmark service that lets you, not only store up links from the internet, but also make it able for you to share them based on groups you can make, along with giving brief descriptions of each one and tie them onto different tags.
Now then, on with describing, shall we?
The site was used in order to harbor in 12 links in total, 6 of the project that’s being worked on at the moment with 3D Printing, with each link leading to cites that contained good information about the technology, companies that endorse and use it, along with important steps to take when one is starting out with this subject.It’s very interesting and I heavily suggest you check it out! One the other hand, 6 were used for my own tastes and websites that I regularly visit! Feel free to check them out, it’s mainly news from stuff that I deeply enjoy. That about covers it! Now to share my link so you guys are able to check these links out. Enjoy!
Hey there! Alright, now we’re close to finishing up the semester and the posts coming in for this account, but don’t worry, I’ll make these last posts worth it! Alright so.. I few posts back I gave a few comments and details over Rainbow Six Siege, specifically the current season called Void Edge, talking about the new operators and the map rework of Oregon. Now.. this isn’t exactly a full info list due to these only being leaks for the next season, not exactly all confirmed so pardon if I make some mistakes in explanation or these changes don’t come.
While I spoke that most of the information is only leaks, we are confirmed over one thing, that being the rework of a famous map to the game, one that had remained the same for over 5 years, that being House. The rework for house seems to expand the rooms and try to fix the issue that the defense team had more lines of sight to the outside where they can easily kill the attackers as the come in. Now.. sadly it seems like the map won’t join into the ranked maps, but it is nice to see them try to balance the maps that were notoriously bad for most players.
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Now we move to the characters:
>Odin (A Norwegian 2-armor/2-speed Attack Operator that’s coming in the next season. Now.. I must say, reading his ability I was.. astonished to say the least. He comes with a drone that can attack to the wall and ceiling, somewhat like Echo I presume, and, get this, creates a healing AoE effect for any allies. Aside from this, he comes with recycled weapons, possibly the best Attack weapons in Jackal’s C7 AR and the famous AK-12 from Fuze. In terms of secondary weapons he comes with the 9mm and the PMM. No secondary gadgets have been revealed, although.. if I may predict, possibly he’ll have stun grenades and smoke grenade, like Dokkaebi’s load out at the moment.)
>Philisiwe (A South-African 3-armor/1-speed Defense Operator with an interesting gimmick that I must say.. Her main ability comes with a “Smart” Razor Wire that she can place on the ground, causing any gadgets such as drones to be pinged, along with causing damage to any attack coming through it; oh and you can’t brake it with melee like other razor wires used in the game. Her weapons at the moment are Lesion’s SMG with the access to an ACOG scope and Mira’s/Jackal’s primary shotgun, along with the RG15 as her only secondary option. Like Odin, her secondary gadgets have not been determined yet, but I can imagine she might come with Impact Grenades and maybe a Bulletproof camera.)
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Other additions:
-A new ping system was added where you’re able to ping down enemy gadgets with drones and character ping, which is nice for games where voice communication isn’t an option. -Many changes to operators that we know of such as Doc becoming a 2 speed, losing his ACOG but acquiring Impact Grenades in return, for more information over these changes can be seen in the next video.
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Alright! That’s all we know at the moment due to the season coming later down in Summer, so I do hope more information can be given while we wait for this season. I must say, these new operators seem like a lot of fun and I hope they fit well with the game, especially Odin, I’m very excited to get my hands on him. Have a good day!
Definiciones de las tecnologías estudiadas, breve historia:
La impresión 3D es el proceso por el cual un cable de un material generalmente plástico se moldea por adición para tomar una forma específica que corresponde a unos planos desarrollados por computadoras. Esto comenzó mucho antes de lo que imaginamos, en 1982 un ingeniero de diseño llamado Chuck Hall tenía un problema que quería resolver. El problema era un proceso en que se diseña una pieza y se hacen planos de ella. Luego se habla con un fabricante de herramientas el cual se encargaría de radiar el molde de una pieza y dos meses después (maximo) se dispone la primera pieza. Hall planteó el diseño para la impresora 3D por estetografia. Utilizó luz ultravioleta para aglutinar polímeros en capas. La luz incide una capa de polímero que se endurece y después desciende hasta un baño de polímero líquido. Las capas se endurecen hasta que se obtiene la forma deseada.
En 1988, S. Scott buscando como hacer un sapo de juguete para su hija. Con una pistola de pega caliente se funde el plástico para verterlo en capas finas. Llamo a este proceso Fused Deposition Modeling. Este proceso funde los filamentos de plástico y los dispone en capas sobre una superficie plana y el objeto comienza a coger forma a medida que el plastico se enfria. Se utiliza un software de control numérico para automatizar el proceso. Este proceso es el más comúnmente utilizado en la actualidad.
Descripción de tecnología
¿Que es una impresora 3D?
Es un cuerpo físico capaz de crear objetos sólidos de tres dimensiones a través de capas de un material que en la mayoría de los casos es utilizado el plástico. Entre las diferencias a las formas tradicionales de la elaboración y la impresión 3D es que en el primer método se quita el material sobrante, mientras que en la impresión 3D se trabaja estrictamente con el material que utilizarás. Los materiales que se utilizan para la elaboración de un objeto 3D se dividen en termoplástico PLA o ABS que son los que se utilizan en la mayor parte de los casos debido a que es un material económico. Sin embargo el material mencionado anteriormente no es el único que se utiliza para hacer las impresiones, también materiales como resinas, fotopolímeros hasta metal que es utilizado en el ámbito industrial debido al costo de este.
¿Cómo funciona una impresora 3D?
Para trabajar con una impresora 3D debes instalar un archivo creado un software de modelos 3D para que le indique a la impresora que quieres modelar. Esto se debe a que estos archivos tienen las instrucciones acerca de las coordenadas que se deben utilizar para la elaboración de un objeto.
Formas de hacer una impresión 3d
Hacer una impresión 3D no es tan fácil como parece, ya que detrás de la elaboración de este objeto y un sofisticado sistema mecánico y electrónico que permite el control de los movimientos de la máquina. Sin embargo la persona que vaya a imprimir algún objeto sólo debe encargarse de que la máquina contenga el material que se utilizara ya que no es necesario saber a fondo el funcionamiento de dicha impresora. Esto se debe a que en la mayoría de las impresoras el funcionamiento es igual; en primer lugar cargas la información del archivo con el diseño deseado. Luego de ella cargas el material para la impresión dándole a la máquina la orden de imprimir.
¿Cómo nos ayuda la impresión 3d en el presente?
El avance de las impresiones 3D ha avanzado tanto que con ella podemos imprimir tales cosas como herramientas, ropa, casas, equipos médicos hasta órganos para el cuerpo humano. Poniéndonos en contexto con la situación actual del Covid-19 la impresión 3D ha sido de mucha ayuda. Pues muchas empresas se han aliado para trabajar en máscaras médica haciendo más efectivo el cuidado y prevención de dicho virus..
3. Aplicaciones y apps (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows)
– 5 de las mejores aplicaciones de diseño 3D para modelar en 3D con IPad y Android
Shapr3D: Professional Parametrics
Esta aplicación que se encuentra en la App Store tiene un promedio de 4.6 estrellas, funciona con el mismo motor de modelado que el software de modelado profesional SolidWorks. No se necesita mucha exploración de su interfaz de usuario y conjunto de características para ver que esta aplicación está dirigida a ingenieros profesionales y diseñadores industriales. Shapr3D le permite crear conceptos sobre la marcha, todo lo cual se puede exportar a software de escritorio para una edición más granular en cualquier momento. En pocas palabras, si está buscando una aplicación incluso para un caso de uso semiprofesional, Shapr3D es una de las aplicaciones móviles más funcionales y confiables que existen para el modelado paramétrico.
Plataforma: iOS
Precio: versión de prueba gratuita o $ 20 / mes
Sculptura: Stylish Sculpting
Una aplicación donde tiene un sistema operativo centrado en el tacto sin esculpir aplicaciones. Es una herramienta de escultura bastante intuitiva similar a Sculptris, el software de escritorio comúnmente conocido como “versión ligera de ZBrush”.
El sencillo conjunto de herramientas disponibles en Sculptura lo hace más adecuado para crear mallas base, que luego se exportan al software de modelado de escritorio para realizar ediciones más granulares. La interfaz es limpia y el rendimiento es fluido. Es una experiencia de modelado claramente optimizada para dispositivos móviles, por lo que si la funcionalidad se adapta a su flujo de trabajo, no se sentirá decepcionado.
Plataformas: iOS, Android, MacOS
Precio: $ 10
Putty 3D: Simple Sculpting
La aplicación en general no tiene tantas calificaciones, pero hace el trabajo por aproximadamente la mitad del precio. En comparación con Sculptura la aplicación anterior, las herramientas de modelado de Putty3D son un poco más limitadas. Sin embargo, aún obtiene la experiencia de modelado optimizada para dispositivos móviles, la exportación de archivos a aplicaciones de escritorio y la interfaz de usuario limpia, por lo que si el presupuesto es una preocupación suya, esta es su oportunidad de trabajar en esas mallas base sobre la marcha.
Platforma: iOS
Price: $4.99
uMake: Contact Conceptualization
Esta aplicación tiene un enfoque único para el modelado: entrada táctil. Aunque uno usa principalmente bocetos 2D para formar formas 3D, la experiencia de alguna manera se parece más al dibujo 2D con una dimensión adicional en lugar del modelado tradicional con planos y bocetos. Una buena ventaja con uMake es la capacidad de ver sus diseños 3D en realidad aumentada.
Plataforma: iOS
Precio: gratis
AutoCAD LT: Miniature Master
Este popular visor y editor de DWG es una opción bastante sólida para las funciones relacionadas con la arquitectura o BIM. La versión móvil de AutoCAD está diseñada para ver y editar ligeramente archivos DWG (formato utilizado para almacenar datos y metadatos de diseño bidimensionales y tridimensionales.). Está aplicación ademas de las otras esta en una categoría completamente diferente a las otras aplicaciones mencionadas, y es constantemente confundida por una opción de modelado 3D para sus necesidades de impresión.
4. Referencias. Anoten cada ficha con una breve descripción. Los recursos bibliográficos deben ser:
Articulo 1: Perfect combination of the expanded flap and 3D printing technology in reconstructing a child’s craniofacial region
>Descripcion: Reconstruir una cabeza o estructuras faciales faltantes en el área craneofacial es un trabajo muy difícil para los cirujanos plásticos. La impresión 3D es una nueva tecnología con gran potencial de desarrollo. Esto tiene muchas ventajas en la reparación de la pérdida de cráneo grande. Es importante utilizar las técnicas correctas para este proceso. Este estudio propone un método para combinar el método de colgajo expandido y la tecnología de impresión 3D para lograr la remodelación natural de la región craneofacial en un niño.
Referencia:
Wang, Y., & Qi, H. (2020). Perfect combination of the expanded flap and 3D printing technology in reconstructing a child’s craniofacial region.16(1), 1–15. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com
Articulo 2: Application and progress of three-dimensional printing technology in hip arthroplasty.
>Descripcion: La tecnología de impresión 3D es una nueva tecnología de creación rápida de prototipos, que se ha aplicado inicialmente en ortopedia, especialmente en la aplicación clínica de la cirugía de reemplazo de cadera. (1) En la aplicación clínica de la cirugía de reemplazo de cadera, la tecnología de impresión 3D se utiliza principalmente para hacer modelos anatómicos para la enseñanza clínica o el plan preoperatorio, guías quirúrgicas específicas del paciente, implantes personalizados o prótesis. (2) Las ventajas de la tecnología de impresión 3D pueden compensar la deficiencia del tratamiento tradicional, yn pueden ayudar a optimizar el plan quirúrgico, acortar el tiempo de operación, disminuir el sangrado, reducir las complicaciones postoperatorias, mejorar la precisión de la cirugía y los resultados clínicos. . (3) El tratamiento individualizado con tecnología de impresión 3D se convertirá en una nueva dirección en la artroplastia de cadera.
Referencia: Guo, Y., Feng, D., Wang, L., Ling, Y., Wang, zhidong, & Yang, H. (2020). Application and progress of three-dimensional printing technology in hip arthroplasty.24(12), 1962-1968. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/
Articulo 3: La adaptación de métodos para usar “full-reference” imágenes para mejorar la calidad del 3D print
>Descripcion: En este artículo se encuentra información sobre cómo la cualidad de las superficies en los productos hechos por 3D printing son difíciles para poder mantener en alta cualidad, pero con los métodos que se presentan, describen maneras de cómo, no solamente asegurar que la cualidad sea más constantemente buena, pero también como provocar que la producción use muchos recursos si se ve que se tenga problemas en la superficie.
Referencia: Okarma, K., & Fastowicz, J. (2019). Adaptation of Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment Methods for Automatic Visual Evaluation of the Surface Quality of 3D Prints. Electronics & Electrical Engineering, 25(5), 57–62. https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.eie.25.5.24357
Websites:
>https://3dprinting.com/what-is-3d-printing/ (The main website to use in order to find the right information for 3D printing, from it’s foundation, the industry in a world-wide scale and different variants of the printers and their usage.)
>https://3dprintingindustry.com/ (The website is mainly for news of the 3D printing industry, from new adjustments and models made for this practice, along with news over companies that use these devices to better their lifestyle.)
>http://tredeprinting.com/ (This website is the main place to learn and acquire means of 3D printing products in Puerto Rico, along with helping to learn more about the main current producers of 3D printing in our country.)
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5. Listado de 6 nominativos de de personas expertas en el campo
Vicente Gascó
Fundador / Managing Director de la compañía Tredé
Vicente Gascó tiene conocimientos en la arquitectura y en la fabricación digital. Vicente se convirtió rápidamente en un pionero en 3D Printing en Puerto Rico. Aparte de haber fundado su compañía Tredé, es considerado uno de lo mejores expertos en la materia. Incluso es profesor de la materia en la Universidad Atlantic University. Vicente tambien ha sido un orador en TEDx.
Diseñadora / Fabrication Manager de la compañía Tredé
Autodidacta profesional en el área de diseño de producto, fabricación digital y el proceso que conlleva el 3D printing. Tiene conocimientos en literatura en ingles. Fundadora de la primera compañía de joyería hecha totalmente en 3D printing llamada Keznr. La misma ha ganado competencias de diseño en Londres y su trabajo ha sido expuesto en lugares como Barcelona. María Laura también es una educadora del 3d printing y tiene varias iniciativas de la misma.
Rich Port 3D Solutions Dra. Jenny Carrero es bien apasionada en ayudar compañías caribeñas ha que adopten nuevas técnicas de manufacturar. Carrero tiene una extensa carrera en tecnología y como consultante. Tiene un PHD en Biofísica de la Universidad de Illinois en Champaign-Urbana donde trabajó con Champaign-Urbana Medical device. Es la organizadora de la conferencia anual de 3D Printing en el Caribe. Es una figura de mucha importancia en la industria en el Caribe.
Escuela de Troquelería y Herramentaje de Puerto Rico
José Báez es un profesor de Access Control Machinery en la escuela de Troquelería y Herramentaje de Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Es un profesional autodidacto y tiene estudios en currículo. En la escuela el profesor les enseña y les ayuda a sus estudiantes a hacer herramientas básicas para la vida en 3D Printing. El mayor objetivo del profesor es los estudiantes crean interés en la materia y que aprendan a hacer sus propios diseños solos.
Estudiante Ingeniero Mecánico / Diseñador de Productos / Fundador de Design MX
Aníbal Betancourt es un estudiante universitario con experiencia profesional en el ámbito de la impresión 3D. Posee una impresora 3D en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Ha trabajado con compañías como Johnson & Johnson y E.P.I.C. Marker Space. Además tiene su propia compañía llamada Design MX donde hace macetas para plantas entre otras cosas para fundar sus estudios.
Inventó la primera pieza en 3D Printing, llamada Stereolithography. Comercializó el prototipado rápido , y del formato de archivos STL. Es Ingeniero Físico.En el 1986 funda 3D Solutions.
“Impresoras 3D ¿Qué Son? ¿Cómo Funcionan? Todo Sobre Impresión 3D.” Tecnología + Informática, 4 May 2018, http://www.tecnologia-informatica.com/ impresoras-3d-que-son-como-funcionan-impresion-3d/.
Welcome! Today I’m going to talk about a subject that may not seem to relevant these times, but I’ll be honest it’s not easy to just post weekly with stuff that can be relevant, well.. content that isn’t controversial or political in nature, at least. Now then, before we start.. what is Smash Bros? Super Smash Brothers is a Nintendo fighting and party game series produced by Sora Unlimited and started as an idea to the developer known as Masahiro Sakurai back in the late 90s. It’s been spanned over to 5 games, from it’s first release in the Nintendo 64 in 1999 to now Smash Bros Ultimate, released in late 2018, creating a world-wide fan-base of loyal (and sometimes controversial) players, making the game of the highest grossing series Nintendo have in their gallery. One of the biggest appeals of the game is the large roster of characters spanning from Nintendo’s large gallery of games, to even surprise additions from other big game developing companies around the world. The game is regarded a sort of celebration towards games as a whole, as it contains many past and present characters in a sort of union to make a unique and fantastic fighting game.
Now then, I wished to discuss the next pack of characters that are coming to the game during the period of 2020 and 2021, with the first series already being revealed in a recent Nintendo Direct, that series being ARMS (One of Nintendo’s newest original game series that use characters with spring-like arms for fighting, along with special abilities tailored to each one.) Now.. A lot of fans have found this reveal disappointment, mainly for the lack of an actual character being confirmed, which is a bit annoying but considering the current pandemic, we ca be patient enough to wait until the character gets revealed. Thing is, this character chosen might determine the next ones to be added in the second pack, as many of the ARMS main cast is already in the game as in game assist characters, costumes for Mii Fighters and even Spirits stickers, so depending on the character shown.. they could confirmed the idea that characters already in as these different variants do have a chance to get added in. Now then I won’t try to predict the next characters, but I do have a favorite in Phoenix Wright, but I don’t mind whoever gets in, as long as it’s what Sakurai believes is for the good of the game.
In the current year of 2020, the Disney+ service has been going on strong, adding many old series and movies to their expansive gallery of classic Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars media, ranging from movies, series and other forms of media. But today we’ll focus on the Star Wars aspect of it, namely the award winning series from 2009, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and how it managed to be revived from cancellation and how it’s 7th and final season is developing in Disney+. The Clone Wars was a 2009 series from Lucasarts, airing on Cartoon Network for over 5 years and spanning across 5 original seasons in the channel; the series is originally based on the 2008 spin-off move of the same name, although the movie was received poorly, the series is now considered one of the best Star Wars media has to offer in terms of good story telling, character development and a series that many fans can agree is very good.
In 2014, around a year after Disney had bought the rights for Star Wars from George Lucas, the series was firmly cancelled from Cartoon Network by Disney, as a way to push away the old canon stories in order to try to tell their own stories. This soon heavily backfired as many Star Wars fans found the decision to be very poor, as the series had already grown to be such a favorite for many fans and the abrupt end made many fans feeling empty over the fate of many characters that are original to the series such as the fan favorites Ahsoka Tano, Cad Bane and Captain Rex. This soon lead to the creation of Star Wars: Rebels in late 2014 as a way to make up for the absence of The Clone Wars, even being directed by the same guy, Dave Filoni, that helped build up and co-write the original series. Rebels had an extremely rough start as the strong sense of “kid friendliness” and a lack of a solid plot during the first season put off many fans from the series, although this soon changes as the series grows into its 4 season, introducing more mature plots, old fan favorites from the Clone Wars series and even a canonical response to certain characters such as Admiral Thrawn and the creation of the Rebel Alliance faction from the Original Trilogy.
While Rebels had grown to be a fan favorite as it grew, the cancellation of Clone Wars still was apparent to many fans, with only certain novels and comics to make up for the lack of a proper final season for the show. But in 2018, a trailer was shown and revealed the active production of another season being made for the Clone Wars series, being said to be the final one before the events of Revenge of the Sith. Many fans rejoiced as many stories that were written and developed throughout the years will finally be animated properly, along with having a sense of completion towards the beloved series; later down the 2 year long wait for the first episodes, a lot of hype was built up and in January 22, 2020, the first episodes aired with the “Bad Batch” arc, bringing in older fans in rejoice and newer fans to see what the hype was all about. Currently the series is still on going and growing in popularity within the new fan-base, and more episodes are still in the way. I made this post to clarify both my love for Star Wars and this series, along with how much I can appreciate Dave Filoni and his efforts to bring back what many fans would consider the saving grace of the franchise after the many bumps it has taken with the Sequel Trilogy; point is, I can admire how much a series can play into the hearts of fans and how such a strong demand of a good ending can take a series which was believed to never come back, to be brought up and keep on going, without missing a single beat.
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Hey there! It’s me again back with another weekly post about info that I’ve gotten recently throughout the week, although today I bring you a small review and information over Animal Crossing’s new title in New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. Animal Crossing is a slice of life game series that first spawn with it’s first title “Animal Crossing” for the GameCube back in 2004, although for Japan it had come out in 2001 for the Nintendo 64 console, how neat! Anyways, the growth of the series as one of Nintendo’s most profitable series is very apparent, with 7 main games and 2 spin-offs under it’s belt. The game is mainly famous for it’s calm and endearing nature, one that doesn’t feel too kiddish but still keeps the aura of innocence and cuteness to charm people into enjoy the characters, the setting and the atmosphere. New Horizons, announced all the way back in September of 2018 alongside the inclusion of the game’s famed secretary, Isabelle, into Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, has finally gotten released in early March of 2020 after it’s delay from the original 2019 release. It has turned out to be a big success, with almost billions of copies sold world-wide, even spawning a meme that it seems to be the best thing in 2020 so far, keeping it’s light heated and endearing nature to appeal to the wider audience.
With each new addition, some changes to the atmosphere and settings are given to make every game a different experience to play through, with New Horizons going for an island adventure sort of feel. In this title, you take a vacation of sorts to a “deserted island” that’s sponsored by the Nook foundation, mainly by the Nook family of Tom, Timmy and Tommy, and your main goal is to live and build up your settlement up from a group of tents to a small village with houses and such. Along with this, there is also online play in that other villagers are able to visit other islands, get visitors themselves and interact directly with others with the in-game chat, another new feature that has grown in popularity is the design creator, where you’re able to build up designs from the ground up for pieces of clothing, and being able to give them to other players and let them use them as well.
All in all, while I haven’t gotten too far in the game due to my lack of free time with college work, it’s still nice to go back into and check on my island to see how much it has produced. It’s definitely a great game to try out if you enjoy the type of games that take their time to build up and those that enjoy to exploring a bit, as the islands, while small, are still nice to visit around and change up as well to the person’s pleasure. It’s a definite 9/10 for me, a pleasure to play and perfect for someone stuck in quarantine, hopefully I’ll be able to focus more on the game soon, at least before summer kicks in, now then, thank you for your time and have a wonderful day!
As we all know, the internet has its benefits when it comes to acquiring data for certain topics, expressing yourself towards the world at large and to talk to people from across the globe, whether it would be same country but different cities, or foreign people from other parts of the world. But with this comes an aspect of the internet in which people have greatly criticized as an “inhumane” action towards one’s rights as a citizen of a country that has been stated as “free”, this issue is the breach of privacy that is apparent in the internet itself and how it has grown paranoia in people when it comes to sharing personal information such as credit card numbers for online shopping, your address for mailing companies or even just to see your hobbies and preferences by taking in reference from friends or people you follow on social media.
Monitoring your usage of the internet
Whenever we look up things on certain browsers we’ve used a lot we always seem to get options towards previous subjects we’ve looked up, unless you use incognito mode, or of certain topics that seem to be relevant towards one’s region/country. With this we can see that these browsers can store up data of past searches through simply taking a peak at your history in the device and/or of your account tied to that browser, such as how Google Chrome uses your gmail to sync up information from all the devices that have this account synced to. This is the same to social media, as normally they can use the tracked information to let you know of certain trends or even people that could share the same interests in the recommended list they tend to give out to their users.
Now, this might seem a bit harmless on paper, simply them taking in consideration your interests and such, and trying to find the ideal people for you to share a conversation with. However, the fact that the browser still takes in the information that was being searched for and even things like passwords are taken into account, it can cause some issues as it has been revealed that very popular browsers such as Google, Yahoo! and etc. store up this information and it can be used in a negative way. Such as when hackers or people inside the company in the higher ups can have access to this personal information of yours.
Along with these issues, one that is heavily present and can also create a lot of tension for these companies alongside what was already established was how it could monitor your movements, as in any, yes, any location that the internet is accessible to, that’s just freaky. One thing to also take note is that most of these browsers also take in information you you may think is long gone, such as deleted links, images that may have been downloaded and even just everything done in incognito mode, although it does make you believe otherwise. Certain apps and programs can also have access directly into your camera and microphone, where even information that you never intended to put on your phone can end up on. All in all, anything that can be put into the internet will always be there, somewhere, mainly inside the information archives of these big software companies, alongside even things that are simple as locations and links you’ve visited before; just remember to be careful with what’s shared and what isn’t over the internet, you’re always being monitored one way or another but can always try to check what got monitored or not using certain options such as the My Activity option that Google gives to let you know of any actions made inside your account and so forth.
My two most used sites and their credibility
Now then, another topic that I wish to share with this post is how you can easily monitor certain websites and see where exactly their sources come from. This can be used to see how validated certain cites are and how they can acquire the information they’re trying to share to the internet. One of these programs which I have found major success with is Disconnect.me, a handy application from the Google Chrome store that adds in an extension where you’re able to register the current website on your screen and determine what sources this cite uses to convey the information given or even where most of the information they find is originated from. From this, I will explain two of my most frequent cites and how this tool can be used by my part to see the sources and any other small additions given to the page itself from others:
–YouTube We all know YouTube and how much it has influenced over the idea of sharing information, ideas and other things towards the internet, where many people have found many uses from perhaps a tutorial for certain activities, helping to share ideas and even to just find a nice video to feel better for one’s self. Now then, using Disconnect.me, I was able to find quite a few things that are tied to the main page of YouTube, as you will see. Of course the main branch would mainly be from Google as the company had bought YouTube during it’s early days to expanded their enterprise, along with smaller branches of Google such as the ads that comes with the YouTube service, or the simple doubleclick.net, which.. I mean, if you’re using the internet and not know about the double click thing, it’ll be quite surprising.
–Fire Emblem Wikipedia Now then, Fire Emblem is one of my favorites Nintendo franchises out there, with now a 16 games lineup and still growing in strength, especially in recent times due to the major success of recent releases such as Fire Emblem Awakening (2012) to Fire Emblem Three Houses (2019). Now then, with that out of the way, like many other franchises, Fire Emblem has a Wikipedia site dedicated for simply information of the franchise and anything related to lore, stat lines or even just small trivia if needed be, and I use it a lot mainly to look up certain art pieces, stat lines or even to just read up on things I have still yet to understand, even after playing all 16 games in the franchise. Now then, onto the information given, we can find up to 32 other links that branch out of the main page, although some are hard to make out due to the crossed out aspect of it, the main ones seem to be wikia, which makes sense due to it be a subbranch of Wikipedia itself, although many sources are also of original Japanese sites where a lot of information of both Western and non-Western released Fire Emblem games come from, mainly from Intelligent Systems themselves.
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My thoughts
Overall, one should always stay safe with the information given out to the internet, you never know if it’ll be used for the wrong reasons against you and it’s understandable to have a lot of paranoia, although.. I will say, I believe it’s not a bad practice, it’s understandable there are certain breaches that are necessary to ensure the security of people, and I do have some faith in some of these big companies that have done everything to keep their services hacker-free, although I can’t lie some do slip from time to time, but still I think it’s not that bad considering it’s a price to pay to ensure the safety of people and society as a whole, but of course there’s always a line when it comes to one’s privacy and that must be respected, so hopefully these companies believe in this respect, especially when it’s something that isn’t exactly bad. And of course do try out Disconnect.me to check out and try out this extension to help check out the sources of certain cites, what smaller aspects they use to present themselves and to prove the legitimacy of these sites when it comes to information gathering/sharing. Now, with all that out of the way, please, have a lovely day.
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