![]() ![]() From there, you can pass segregatory legislature, introduce David Duke as a government employee, and rebuild the country as an ethno-nationalist state. If you decide to push the country in that direction, he’ll be made president. But like the rest of Paradox’s games, some of Ted’s work on Millennium Dawn has been embraced by the fringes of the ultra right-wing.įor instance, the leader of the nationalist faction in the United States is Richard Spencer. Ted52 achieves this by reworking the game’s National Focus system, which allows you to determine exactly which policies and ideologies your state will focus on. Or they can pilot the United States, and welcome Jill Stein in as the champion of a new far-left brigade. Players can control the Islamic State’s caliphate and continue the campaign into Damascus. Ted’s work in Millennium Dawn essentially does the same thing, except it simulates the political rumblings of the 21st century. You can also do the same in Germany and build the Marxist, Soviet-sympathising state that Hitler feared. You could, for instance, take control of the British parliament, plunge it into Nazism, and replace Winston Churchill with the real-life wartime fascist Oswald Mosley. That was an era of fascism, communism, political revolt and genocide, and the game’s toolkit lets you play with it all. Here’s what Ted is referring to: Paradox Studios’ Hearts of Iron 4 simulates the tumultuous political landscape of the early 20th century, from 1933 to 1949. “I am not getting paid for any of this, and I can’t be bothered to explain to every 15-year-old edgelord who just discovered 4chan last week why fascism is not something I want to see.” “The immense toxicity that is developed by these fundamentalistic ideological fronts within the community is where my patience ends,” said Ted when I interviewed him over Discord last year. As someone who’s found himself in the centre of the culture war raging inside of the Hearts of Iron 4 mod scene, this is just how things work. Steam’s infrastructure made it difficult to remove unsavoury threads individually, and he tells me he has more control of things over at his Discord channel, where he can eliminate any racists, idiots and anti-Semites with reasonable efficiency. Last December, a 22-year-old modder who calls himself Ted52 purged the Steam forums for his Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Millennium Dawn. ![]()
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More specifically, a slit 2 is axially formed in the outer periphery of the winding shaft 1, and the lower end 4 of the tube 3 is inserted into the slit 2. 3(a) shows a conventional tube squeezer in which a closed end of a tube, filled with contents such as a paste, is wound on a winding shaft so as to fully squeeze the paste out of an open portion of the tube. ![]() This invention relates to a tube squeezer in which a closed end of a tube is wound on a winding shaft so as to squeeze out the contents of the tube.įIG. The tube squeeze of claim 3, wherein said lock lever is integrally formed with said outer member and made of resilient material. The tube squeezer of claim 3, wherein said outer member is substantially in the form of a semicylindrical shape.ĥ. The tube squeezer of claim 2, wherein said disc-shaped plate has said alternate radial projections and grooves.Ĥ. The tube squeezer of claim 1, wherein said engagement retaining means includes a disc-shaped plate fixedly mounted on one end of said inner cylinder.ģ. A tube squeezer wherein a closed end portion of a tube is wound on a winding shaft so as to squeeze out contents of said tube, said tuber squeezer comprising:Īn inner cylinder having a slit for retaining the closed end portion of said tube, said slit extending along an axis of said inner cylinder Īn outer member rotatably fitted on an outer periphery of said inner cylinder, said outer member having an opening portion for receiving the closed end portion of said tube, and said open portion extending along an axis of said outer member andĪn engagement retaining means for retaining an engagement between said inner cylinder and said outer member without any displacement therebetween in a rotational direction when said closed end portion of said tube is retained by said inner cylinder, wherein said engagement retaining means includes alternate radial projections and grooves, and a lock lever supported at one end of said outer member for engaging desired ones of said radial projections and grooves, wherein said lock lever is pressed downwardly to engage said grooves.Ģ. 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Other systems on the network print to the shared queue rather than directly to the device. a server) and in turn the device is shared on the network via a print queue. In this setup, only one system connects directly to the device (e.g. have an Ethernet connection) and support multiple connections.Ĭonfigure a shared print queue. Print queue: There are typically two ways of providing shared multi-system access to a printer:Ĭonfigure each system to print directly to the device. Terminologyīelow is an overview of the common terminology. You can install PaperCut NG/MF directly on a Mac print server, offering native, end-to-end Mac printing. As Mac systems have become more popular recently, many sites are opting for Mac print servers to support their Mac workstations. In most cases only one section applies on your network. This section of the manual is split into different sections for ease of use, one section covering Mac OS 10.8+ installations, and another covering Windows hosted print queue setup. ![]() ![]() Soul Shackles chain nearby enemy champions dealing magic damage based on their max HP then slows and reveals them for three seconds. Because of this, you will be able to thwart most initiation just by being attentive and responsive on the battlefield. But more often than not, it is better to reserve this ability to protect your carry against disables and magic damage.īlack Shield has almost no casting delay. You may use Black Shield to protect Morgana while attempting to use her other abilities. It applies a magic damage shield and as long as the shield is active, it blocks all forms of crowd control.īlack Shield virtually makes it wielder unstoppable just like Olaf is when his ultimate is active. But be careful not to use it too much as it will easily shove the wave into the enemy turret, putting you and your ADC in a dangerous position.īlack Shield is what makes Morgana one of the best support in the game. In the laning phase, you can use it to harass enemies and to easily stack Manaflow Band. By taking the Red buff leashed then killing the Blue buff and Gromp at the same time, Morgana clears 3 camps with 5 seconds to spare before the river scuttlers spawn.Īlways use Tormented Shadow in conjunction with Morgana’s other abilities and with your ally’s crowd controls to maximize its damage output. If the jungler fails to take down the Epic monster using Smite, there is a high chance that the damage tick of this ability will be the killing blow as it ticks every 0.5 seconds.Īs it deals increased damage to monsters, Morgana is actually a viable jungler. Always use it when your team or even if the enemy team is taking an Epic monster, Drakes, Rift Heralds, or Baron Nashor. Tormented Shadow deals 150% damage against monsters. It deals surprising amounts of damage to enemies who do not respect it. Tormented Shadow is an area damage per second ability that deals increased damage on low HP targets. It is wise to try the Flash-Dark Binding combo on the practice mode before using it on an actual match as it has a pretty tiny window of error. Practice holding off using Dark Binding for random skill-shots as every time you miss, it gives the enemy team a time window to play more aggressively, knowing that your crowd control ability is on cooldown.ĭark Binding can be Flash-buffered, allowing for surprising long-range initiations. To increase your chances of hitting an enemy, use it under brushes or if you are ahead, you may pressure the enemy by walking up to them while applying Morgana’s 3rd ability, Black Shield on herself to nullify any counterattacks. Because of that, an enemy simply has to hide behind minions in order to avoid the ability. ![]() At max level, it roots for 2.75 seconds.ĭark Binding can be hard to hit because it is a slow-moving projectile that only affects the first enemy hit. Although, it definitely heals a lot on mid to late fights where enemies are grouped up and are affected by both Morgana’s 2nd ability, Tormented Shadow, and ultimate, Soul Shackles at the same time.ĭark Binding is a slow-moving skill shot that deals magic damage and roots the first enemy hit for a relatively long duration. It is not exactly magical vamp because it does not work on all kinds of enemies and it is not exactly game-breaking that the enemy has to rush grievous wounds against Morgana. ![]() Morgana’s passive allows her to heal off of the damage dealt by her abilities against champions, large minions, and large monsters.
![]() ![]() We should pay special attention to this when memory leak occurs because they aren't automatically garbage collected: JNI global refs: 15, weak refs: 0 "VM Periodic Task Thread" os_prio=31 cpu=5.82ms elapsed=11.42s tid=0x00007fd7a5c35fd0 nid=0x9903 waiting on conditionįinally, the dump displays the Java Native Interface (JNI) references. Therefore, we are able to identify the root of the problem by looking at the source code or other internal JVM processing.Īt the end of the dump, we'll notice there are several additional threads performing background operations such as Garbage Collection (GC) or object termination: "VM Thread" os_prio=31 cpu=1.85ms elapsed=11.50s tid=0x00007fd7a7a0c170 nid=0x3603 runnable If we look further down we'll see all the JVM methods executed by our application behind the scenes. (a .ReentrantLock$NonfairSync)Īt a first glance, we see that the main stack trace is executing java.io.BufferedReader.readLine which is the expected behavior. Let's focus only on the interesting bits of the stack waiting to consume the message: "Monitor Ctrl-Break" #12 daemon prio=5 os_prio=31 cpu=17.42ms elapsed=11.42s tid=0x00007fd7a6896200 nid=0圆603 runnable Īt .SocketDispatcher.read0( /Native Method)Īt .SocketDispatcher.read( /SocketDispatcher.java:47)Īt .yRead( /NioSocketImpl.java:261)Īt .NioSocketImpl.implRead( /NioSocketImpl.java:312)Īt .NioSocketImpl.read( /NioSocketImpl.java:350)Īt .NioSocketImpl$1.read( /NioSocketImpl.java:803)Īt $SocketInputStream.read( /Socket.java:981)Īt .StreamDecoder.readBytes( /StreamDecoder.java:297)Īt .StreamDecoder.implRead( /StreamDecoder.java:339)Īt .StreamDecoder.read( /StreamDecoder.java:188)Īt java.io.InputStreamReader.read( /InputStreamReader.java:181)Īt java.io.BufferedReader.fill( /BufferedReader.java:161)Īt java.io.BufferedReader.readLine( /BufferedReader.java:326)Īt java.io.BufferedReader.readLine( /BufferedReader.java:392)Īt .2$1.run(AppMainV2.java:61) We can see from top to bottom what the different threads are doing at the time of the snapshot. 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