![]() For some of us this can be easier than for others. Tune in to Boogie Beat Suite on June 23 for your high dose of future funk. Hello Readers Happy New Year, once again This year make it a priority to stay positive Whatever circumstances you find yourself in, try the best that you can to keep an optimistic outlook. So we thought we’d bring that vibe back to you again. GHOST-NOTE 18adv / 22dos 8pm doors 9pm show 21+ Nectar Lounge 412 N 36th St WE ARE GHOST-NOTE HEADED BY SNARKY PUPPY’S MULTI-GRAMMYWINNING PERCUSSION DUO OF ROBERT SPUT SEARIGHT AND NATE WERTH, GHOST-NOTE IS AN EXPLOSION OF SOUND. Thomas also played with Grammy Award-winning R&B artist, Ne-Yo, on his fourth studio album. He is known for his presence on YouTube playing bass guitar and known for being one of the last people to work with Prince. also known as MonoNeon, is an American bassist and experimental musician. They paid us a visit last year ahead of their MIJF performance and lit up Studio 5 in the most beautifully colourful way. MONONEON (Bassist/Prince, Ghost-Note) Dywane Thomas, Jr. ![]() since performing at the 2019 Wellington Jazz Festival with Ghost-Note. Working with a rotating group of collaborators, Ghost-Note make a kinetic, stylistically varied blend of groove-based funk, EDM, hip-hop, jazz, and rock. MonoNeon, Experience the thrill of the greatest fcking electric bass player. And we certainly cannot wait for the festival to return, but in the meantime one of the way we can feel euphoric again is by revisiting one of its major highlights from 2019, the inimitable US jazz funk ensemble Ghost-Note.įounded by Snarky Puppy’s percussionists Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth, centred around the exceptional bass work of Dwayne “MonoNeon” Thomas Jr., and featuring an expansive roster of outstanding musicians, Ghost-Note is a band from the future, playing forward-thinking jazz motifs that are layered up on some pretty gripping grooves. A highly inventive, percussion-based ensemble, Ghost-Note showcase the combined talents of Snarky Puppy bandmates drummers Robert 'Sput' Searight and Nate Werth. Headed by Snarky Puppys multi Grammywinning percussion duo of Robert Sput Searight and Nate Werth, featuring MonoNeon, Ghost-Note is an explosion of sound. One of the YouTube commenters for this video described it as a band falling down the stairs, and that is pretty apt. Dywane Thomas Jr., keyboardist Dominique Xavier Taplin, saxophonist/flutist Michael Jelani Brooks. A Ghost-Note két albuma-a Fortified és a Swagism- mindketten az iTunes Jazz Chart 1. , Dominique Xavier Taplin billentys, Michael Jelani Brooks szaxofonos/fuvolista, Jonathan Mones szaxofonos/fuvolista és Sylvester Onyejiaka szaxofonos/fuvolista. The festival was sadly cancelled last year, but this doesn’t mean that we can’t reminisce on it. The group also includes bassist MonoNeon, a.k.a. A csoportba tartozik még MonoNeon basszusgitáros, más néven Dywane Thomas Jr. Right around this time each year, music lovers around Melbourne would still be experiencing the euphoria induced by the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, discussing their favourite shows from the season’s line-up, and looking forward to next year’s program.
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![]() But what if your wi-fi is still dropping, still slow, still losing a wi-fi connection randomly when waking from sleep or for no apparent reason? Read on for more troubleshooting tips. Is your wi-fi working? Great, then you don’t need to do anything else. Obviously for a work or school computing environment that may not be possible though. This is easiest in a home environment where you can just unplug the router, let it sit for a minute or so, then plug it back in again. It’s often a good idea to reboot the wi-fi router the Mac is connecting to as well, which can resolve some simpler wi-fi router issues that sometimes pop up with certain router brands and Macs. If that’s the case, be satisfied with the relatively easy troubleshooting process and you don’t need to proceed any further. When the Mac boots back up and wi-fi is enabled again, for many users their wireless internet connection will immediately work again as expected. When the Mac has booted back up as usual, go back to the Wi-Fi menu and choose “Turn Wi-Fi On” and join your typical wireless network.After those matching wi-fi configuration files are out of the SystemConfiguration folder, reboot the Mac by going to the Apple menu and choosing “Restart”.Remove those matching files, you can either place them into a folder on the desktop as a rudimentary backup, place them into the Trash without emptying, or actually delete them. ![]()
![]() Part of this is because most people aren't prepared to pay for them, but it's also because large corporations actually make surprisingly decent apps sometimes. There are a handful of circumstances where end-to-end encryption isn't appropriate, like with public group messaging and some kinds of business communications but across the board, I favored services that cared about security and privacy. The best chat apps all have end-to-end encryption enabled by default, or at a stretch, allow you to quickly turn it on. Do you know who can read your SMS messages? Pretty much everyone. Text messaging should be about the person, not the device. We don't want any green bubble/blue bubble drama here. If, however, you're starting a friend group, desert island colony, or fan club from scratch and you get to pick the tools you use, this is what you should be looking for in messaging apps:Īvailability on both iPhone and Android. The big reason to use any of those apps is that your friends do. Nor did whatever Google is calling its latest messaging foray. Neither iMessage, SMS, nor Android Messages made this list. So when it came to putting together this list, that freed me up to be pretty strict about the requirements for inclusion. If that's SMS or smoke signals, you have my full permission to use it. They evolve and become more capable with increasing human interaction.I still believe the best texting app is normally the one people will actually reply to you with. Also, since their era has just begun, excuse them if they don’t get a couple of your queries right. And 100,000+ of these can definitely bring a storm of change in how we interact with machines to get things done! Go ping these amazing bots. Messenger couldn’t have been this powerful and productive without these masterpieces of tech. These are my personal favourite 5 among the few bots I’ve stumbled upon. Ping the bot, look among popular memes to use, and customise the text yourself. So now, for the fun part, here’s a bot for you to make your everyday conversations with friends more fun, since Messenger is all about conversations, right? Never miss a chance to create an appropriate meme to make the receiver crack up with humour, and astonished with the speed you reverted with the meme. How would the content prevalent on social media look like if you extract out all the memes? Boring, for sure, even if not life changing. HealthTap - Get your health queries answered: Niki is only available for Indian users as of now, some of the services are only supported on Niki Android App: 2. Niki has also been featured in the Messenger bots success stories: Link Services Niki supports as of now - Recharge (Mobile, DTH, postpaid bill), Utility bill payments (Electricity, gas, water bill), Hotel booking, Bus booking, Movie ticket booking, Laundry, Event tickets, more services coming soon. In a single sentence, you applied source location filter, destination & date filter, and got options to choose from. ![]() Niki has grown up enough to understand complex queries, using which you can apply multiple filters.įor example, when you type ‘Book a bus from Delhi to Jaipur this Friday’, Niki understands and displays exactly what you want. It is a smart AI-powered bot to help you get things done super-quick on chat. You can ping Niki for everything commerce. Niki.ai - Pay bills, do recharge, book movie tickets, cabs, and more If this intrigues you enough to get on the bandwagon and experience the unleashed power of bots available on Facebook Messenger, do ping the best 5 Facebook Messenger bots, curated for you: 1. ![]() The above data definitely creates a picture of how the future will look like in the absence of hundreds of apps, and chat bots being ubiquitous. David Marcus, Messenger’s CEO, states that the number of messages sent between businesses and customers has reached to 2 billion a month. There are more than 100,000 bots available on Messenger today. And since then, developers from around the world have been working to leverage the next-gen technology. Last year, at Facebook’s Developer Conference, F8, the support for bots on Messenger platform was unveiled. Research shows that the number of people using chat apps has surpassed the number of those using social networking apps, which is believable yet surprising!įacebook Messenger claims to have recently hit the much coveted ‘billion’ with 1.2 billion users on the platform. With an unprecedented increase in the number of people using messaging apps today, and the advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, the rise of chat bots seems to have been inevitable. 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Then imagine a benchmark on the C2 that gets to actually use a properly working L2 cache. L2 cache patches put into their u-boot to set it up, but take a look at the linux kernel starting at 3.18 where all the ARM L2 cache patches go in. I'm not convinced the ARM L2 cache is setup properly or perhaps working at all. I have an issue with the C2 beyond the artificially capped clock rate. I want to overclock a beta board because itĮxposes weaknesses in the design or implementation, not because I want a box faster than anyone elses. However, I would like more transparency into the binary blobs, as for me anyway, the fun with theseīoards is making them do things they weren't designed to do (like the old PC hacking days of the 80's). I don't like the ancient kernels (not their fault). Responds, often fixing the issue and where they can't discussing why (thinking of the USB cpu usage issue among others). I have purchased many other vendors boards, typically complaints about defects or not living up to specifications fall on deaf ears. This service includes fixing the manufacturer's kernel, responding to issues, openly discussing problems, etc. We do care for CPU performance though.įor me HK provides a service for their boards that is impressive enough that I keep coming back to get more We install the board, install BOINC and then remote control the BOINC agent, without messing around much with the SBC. While I do appreciate the HK software support, our use case usually doesn't require sophisticated functions, HW, GPU or codec support, etc. When only little or no benchmarks between two A53 based boards available, the outstanding 2GHz CPU becomes a strong selling point for those primarily looking for CPU power. Other people might use their fleet of C2s for distributed rendering, compiling, building hash tables, etc. Of course we want to fully utilize each board and care mostly for the CPU performance before other features. In our team we have some members with dozens of C2s, XU4 and older boards. Different people, different use cases.Īs I wrote in my initial post, I am using my 8 C2s for distributed computing. While some users might not max out the CPU or would benefit from another 4x500MHz, there are users who do. What appears to be the upper limit, 1) to much thermal load or 2) not enough power being able to be supplied to the cores or maybe even the cache? How accurate are the rests of the clocks, ie what frequencies are the caches, ethernet, memory and USB running at? How much thermal load does mali require and what clock speeds are they running (750MHz I believe) at? Im also interested in the following information if are able to provide. Offer a larger heatsink (possibly a fan) for the device. Create a new governor / power module / policy to shutdown cpu's when not required and up frequency on remaining cpu's. Provide a driver for the amlogic crypto module Thanks for your honesty and information on this matter, im very interested in seeing what HK and AML can offerĪs it appears 2GHz is out of the question are hardkernel or Amlogic able to help with any of the following to improve performance of processing the board. Please accept my sincere apologies for the mistake and kindly understand our situation. But we need to check what we can do first. So we will change the C2 specification in our home page next week as per the test result.Īnd we must consider some compensation for C2 users. I fully agree most people don't like this approach.Īnyway, we know well 1.65Ghz or 1.75Ghz is still very far from the 2Ghz. But we need further stability test too.Īnd yes. If we disable two cores, the SoC can run up to 1.75Ghz probably. Once we will have a test result, we will report it on this thread with update package for further sampling test in early next week. We will run the burnA53 on Ubuntu and the Stress app on Android with 10 set of C2 boards in this weekend (for 48 hours stability test) to make sure it. We've been modifying/testing the B元x code to find a maximum feasible/stable clocks like 1.53Ghz, 1.58Ghz, 1.61Ghz, 1.65Ghz, 1.68Ghz, 1.71Ghz, etc for a couple of weeks.īut 1.65Ghz seems to be the maximum one due to some power and heat issues. But we should detect it earlier in our internal development stage. The kernel clock frequency 1.75 and 2Ghz do not exist in the B元x blobs. Odroid wrote:Please don't waste your valuable time.Īll the Coretex-A53 based Amlogic SoCs have the same issue. ![]() You can set messages to self-destruct, share videos and documents and participate in group chats of up to 200,000 users. (Yes, Telegram really does support group chats that large.) However, chats with more than two participants won't be end-to-end encrypted.Ī caveat? Telegram uses its own custom MTProto encryption rather than a more proven system. To get it, you'll have to switch to a Secret Chat mode. However, end-to-end encryption is not enabled by default on Telegram. It has grown into a worldwide social-media platform, with huge user groups and broadcasts that let accounts reach millions of followers in an instant. Like Signal and WhatsApp, Telegram lets users link their phone number to a Telegram account to send fast, encrypted messaging over the internet, with client-server encryption for standard chats.īut Telegram is much more than just a messaging service. Telegram (Android, iOS: Free)Įnd-to-end encryption isn't enabled by default Here's our guide on how to use Signal.ĭownload Signal: Android (opens in new tab), iOS (opens in new tab) 2. User-friendliness without compromising on security makes Signal a fantastic option for users looking for an encrypted messaging and calling app. But unlike Facebook, Signal's parent company is a non-profit foundation created by an anarchist cryptographer and one of the founders of WhatsApp.Įase of use and strong, open-source, regularly audited encryption makes Signal a favorite of the security-conscious, with accolades from Edward Snowden and other privacy advocates. Signal's encryption protocol is so strong that WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger use it too. A new update lets you change phone numbers while keeping Signal account data as long as you're staying on the same device. You can transfer Signal accounts (opens in new tab) from one Android phone to another, and from one iOS device to another. A Chrome browser plugin (opens in new tab) lets you use Signal from your desktop as well. Recent updates have added user-friendly features such as custom wallpapers and animated stickers, and Signal group video chats can now have up to 40 participants.Īll Signal messages can be set to self-destruct after a certain amount of time. You can send text messages, voice calls, group messages, media and attachments to your phone contacts, all without having to mess with PIN codes or special login credentials. ![]() Goldman, the law professor, said even if the plaintiffs were able to get around those protections with their arguments, the First Amendment could also be applied since it protects conversations like the one that led to the murder. “Without the benefit of these types of algorithms it would be, I daresay, impossible for them to exist in that form,” he said, noting the Boogaloo group might not exist in its current form otherwise.Ĭhanges to Section 230 have drawn support from both sides of the political aisle and even Facebook, now Meta, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed support for changes to the shield wielded by his company and others. “Facebook is generating the ability and bringing people together in the same conversations,” through its technology and suggestion algorithms, Leopold said. “The person who pulled the trigger, that’s the proximate cause.”įederal investigators have alleged that Carrillo and Justus were connected through Facebook and arranged to meet ahead of carrying out the killing.Ĭarrillo and Justus had never met in person before carrying out the killing, the new case said, adding, “Their paths had no reason to cross outside of Facebook.” The case alleges that Facebook’s proprietary algorithms, including those that suggest friends and groups on the site, fostered the environment that led to the killing. “Gun and bullet manufacturers are all the ‘but for’ causes but they don’t pull the trigger,” Goldman said. He said establishing causation and responsibility was a high bar to clear and that the law differentiates between “but for” and “proximate” cause. “I’ve seen dozens like this and they don’t win,” Goldman said, noting that courts had rejected the assertion in the past that website algorithms and their authors are liable for offline activity. Professor Eric Goldman at Santa Clara University School of Law said he was skeptical the case would succeed for several reasons. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland on, May 29, 2020. Her brother, a contract security officers for the Department of Homeland Security was shot and killed while guarding the Ronald V. The complaint says Underwood Jacobs is seeking damages in excess of $25,000.Īngela Underwood Jacobs, sister of the late Dave Patrick Underwood, enters the theater to attend a memorial service at Pinole High School on June 19, 2020. “Facebook bears responsibility for the murder of my brother,” Angela Underwood Jacobs, the sister of slain officer Dave Patrick Underwood, said in a statement. The lawsuit argues those actions were too little and too late. The company said in an update in November that the company had taken down 4,000 pages and 20,600 groups related to militarized social movements, along with identifying more than 1,00 militarized movements on its site. “We’ve banned more than 1,000 militarized social movements from our platform and work closely with experts to address the broader issue of internet radicalization,” Meta spokesman Kevin McAlister said in an emailed statement. Robert Alvin Justus Jr., who prosecutors allege drove the van from which Carrillo opened fire, is also facing federal criminal charges over the killing.įederal complaints have tied both to the online “Boogaloo” group, a far-right anti-government extremist movement which advocates for a second civil war and whose supporters wear Hawaiian shirts and often appear heavily armed. ![]() Air Force, is currently facing federal murder charges over the slaying. Steven Carrillo, then an active sergeant in the U.S. ![]() This paid dividends for the early cichlid colonisers of the lake bed as even breeding females were not tied down to any one small patch for a month at a time and instead could be upwardly mobile, go forth and colonise. All the mbuna, and all the other haplochromines in Lake Malawi are maternal mouthbrooders, meaning that they lay eggs, which are then taken into the female’s mouth where they are incubated, hatched, and then finally spat out as fully formed fry. Maternal mouthbroodersīut the fascination doesn’t stop there, as the mbuna deliver a double whammy of appeal by way of how they breed. Tropheops chilumba female, mouthbrooding - juveniles and females are all yellow in colour. So think freshwater reef fish and you would be about right, as the colourful yellow and blue mbuna we keep bask in the clear blue, sunlit waters and live in and around the rocky outcrops. Things got interesting for the haplochromines however, which went through “adaptive radiation” and today comprise around 1,000 species, which is about as many as live in the whole of the North Atlantic! This was great news for human populations who could then fish the lake for food, scientists who could study evolution - and us fishkeepers, who get to marvel over Malawi’s bountiful beauty in our home aquariums. Image by MP & C Piednoir, Ĭichlids entered Malawi via its tributaries, with two tribes - the tilapiines and the haplochromines - taking up permanent residence there. ![]() Lake Malawi is the ninth largest lake in the world. Tales abound of early explorers mistaking it for an ocean, which let’s face it, you would. That’s bigger than Wales…Ī lake of that size comes complete with waves, rocky cliffs and sandy beaches. Its 360 miles long, 50 miles wide and some 11,000 square miles in area. Malawi is the ninth largest lake in the world and the second deepest, at 706m. It filled with river water and fish - and these then changed, evolved and adapted to suit their new, lacustrine environment.Īnd it’s big. Mbuna are endemic to Lake Malawi in Africa’s Great Rift Valley - a 3,700-mile long trench created by the African tectonic plate tearing apart. ![]() To keep mbuna at their best we must first look at how and where they live in nature. Image by AquariumPhoto.dk Mbuna in nature Metriaclima lombardoi is a larger, more aggressive species and is best avoided by the novice mbuna keeper. This all adds to the overall appeal of mbuna. You wouldn’t be able to keep 30 Central American species in one tank - it would be chaos - and even a community tank of fish from many different, very varied genera would struggle to hold that many because so many species need to be kept in groups of their own kind. An average mbuna community could hold 30 different species - a large tank 50 or more. No other aquarium is capable of holding as many different species of fish per volume as a Malawi cichlid tank. Next is the number of species you can keep together. Yellow and orange are common mbuna colours but importantly, and rarely for any wild-type tropical fish is blue, and this is where the mbuna excel, with literally hundreds of bright blue species, which have tricked many an onlooker into thinking these totally freshwater fish are in fact marine. One qualification any aquarium fish needs to become really popular is colour, and mbuna deliver this in swathes. The mbuna as they are known (pronounced mmm-boon-a or mu-boon-a,) are hardy, easy to keep, easy to breed, and widely available. Above: Cynotilapia afra has the mbuna's classic blue vertical bars.įishkeepers the world over struck gold with the introduction of the small colourful rock dwelling cichlids from East Africa’s Lake Malawi. It is now possible to install the plug-in selected in the plug-in store.(RICOH THETA V).If the download is cancelled during firmware update, the update can now be downloaded from the point when it was cancelled upon restart.The displayed image can now be captured and saved.The camera date and time is now synchronized when connecting to a Windows PC or Mac via USB.Select – when top/bottom correction is required. Video captured with stitching turned ON while shooting is now played back immediately. The following functions can be used with the RICOH THETA V firmware update scheduled for release soon.Improved a function to correct rotational shake when a video is converted.Posted images will be available to everyone. Privacy Settings are no longer possible when posting to 360.com.Improved a function to correct rotational shake when converting video.RICOH THETA SC2 for Business is now supported.Weibo and WeChat can now be selected when posting.When logging in to, it is now possible to also log in using a Weibo account.* For the THETA V and THETA Z1, this function is available only for videos recorded while “Stitching during shooting” is OFF. * Applicable models: RICOH THETA m15/S/SC/V/Z1 Image processing has been improved for video conversion, and the differences in brightness in stitched sections of the image have been reduced.*In case of using RICOH THETA for Mac Version 3.7.0, please also check here. * Videos shot using the plug-ins “Route Shooting BETA” and “Outside-in Shooting BETA” for RICOH THETA X can be played back as they are without converting them. Videos may not be converted depending on the shooting environment and conditions. * Videos shot with all RICOH THETA models are supported (excluding videos shot with the file size “1280 × 720”). (This function is in the Beta (β) version.)įor a video shot while moving, you can display the route you moved, and play it like a hyperlapse video to the selected point.įor a video shot while walking around the subject, you can view the subject from various directions like a frame-by-frame video. It is now possible to convert shot videos to “Route” and “Outside-in” videos and play them back.Microsoft and Visual C++ are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. ![]() ![]() – Note that video conversion is not possible unless the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime is installed. Follow the on-screen instructions to install it. If the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime is not installed, the installer will be displayed automatically. The Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime components (version 14.0 or later) are required for video conversion. Blur correction may not work depending on the shooting environment and conditions. ![]() – Videos shot with all RICOH THETA models are supported. * Relative position information based on self-position estimation (this is not position information from a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System)) Select →, and then select the check box before starting the conversion process. It achieves high precision correction using the camera position information* detected with the Visual SLAM technology. The blur correction function used when converting videos has been improved.It is not updated automatically, so download and install the app from here. Windows only: The certificate required for installation has been renewed. ![]() Even in spite of the game’s story mode (which is, as the ancient indie game laws mandate, actually about capitalism being bad) having a clear mission and adventure, SkateBIRD is completely content with letting you vibe your way through it. There’s also the decent possibility that other platforms just won’t see these same issues at all.Įither way, I do want to stress that these issues can be addressed, but in spite of them, I think SkateBIRD is a real chill time. I’ll leave it up to critics more versed in accessibility issues to determine whether what’s available meets as many needs as possible, but I was able to address a majority of the issues I had with SkateBIRD over the course of stopping and adjusting things as I went. Most AAA studios can’t seem to use a font size bigger than 5 pt, but SkateBIRD is over here dropping contextual reminder text options that blow up the text to something visible by someone without a home theatre. Frankly, it’s wild to see the level of adjustment provided to a console game here. ![]() However, to the credit of SkateBIRD’s shockingly small team, there are a plethora of settings tweaks and control modifications to mitigate and eliminate as many of these problems as possible. All of these frustrations then got compounded by random drops in performance that only a full restart of the software could solve-both in the Switch’s docked and handheld modes. Even when the camera would behave, that just opened the door for other strange behavior: my cool bird would clip right through ramps and walls, the process of gaining momentum would stall out, and some tricks completely stop registering during various objectives. By the time I reached the admittedly clever final “skatepark,” I would find myself remarking surprise when the camera wouldn’t get stuck in place mid-trick than the opposite, which is not a great feeling. Keeping in mind that I was working from a Nintendo Switch copy of the game, I found myself pretty frequently fighting everything around me. This is never fun to do, but since there’s a lot more to take from SkateBIRD, it’s best to rip off this bandage right away-playing this game is pretty rough. Unfortunately in practice, SkateBIRD plays more like Skate went on a drunken bender with Goat Simulator than it does Tony Hawk but with a real hawk. Naturally, this is all very cute and it’s very easy to fall in love with the concept. SkateBIRD, as the title implies, is very much a you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter premise. Thankfully over the past couple of years, there’s been an influx of games of both varieties with the natural culmination being SkateBIRD. Article taken from are two specific sub-genres in games that I particularly love: the “be an animal that doesn’t have to pay rent” and the “skateboarder” genre, because I cannot be either of these things. Otherwise, just skate around and enjoy sweet little birds doing tricks. There's a few birds scattered around which give you little quests to do too. There's even a button in the menu that gives you a new random bird with a different little outfit and it's a bit hilarious. Goal was to address prior feedback and see how folks felt about it now." and they also improved the balancing behaviour and lots of other little things.Ī very unique take on skateboarding of course, a little silly but adorable at the same time. It's the same map but they've given it all new skating physics, "We iterated on momentum, top speed, pushing behavior, and grind friction. What's different to the original demo? According to Fox, quite a lot behind the scenes. Funded on Kickstarter in July 2019 with thanks to 2,526 backers giving the team $67,220 it's not actually due to release until later in 2021, so this small slice gives a quick look at what to expect from it. SkateBIRD is a game that doesn't need much of an introduction. Megan Fox of Glass Bottom Games announced that SkateBIRD has a demo up again, to celebrate being included in the Tokyo Game Show 2020 and you can play until September 28. |
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