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![]() Often it’s hard to truly establish what Brady’s personality was like as a child, as those who knew him made their feelings known after the murders, but what is known is that he never felt like he belonged (having been abandoned and fostered) and yet he “never forgave himself for how badly he had treated them (The Sloan’s, his foster family)”. Personality: After his arrest, Brady was transferred to the Personality Disorder Unit at the Lawrence Ward of Ashworth Psychiatric Prison, having been diagnosed on different occasions with either a narcissistic personality disorder or as a paranoid schizophrenic.Sexual Orientation: Supposedly heterosexual, although Brady was a regular at The Rembrandt (formerly the Ogden Arms), one of the oldest gay bars in Manchester which is just off Canal Street, he engaged in oral sex with Edward Evans (as part of a threesome with Myra Hindley), engaged in anal sex with Myra Hindley (often seen as a substitute for gay sex in an era when it was illegal) and who raped and sodomised his young victims (both male and female), and although he identified as heterosexual, that is debatable.Health Issues: Owing to measles when Brady was a toddler, he was prone to light sensitivity and had to wear tinted prescription glasses (which many people mistook for sunglasses).As fans of The Goon Show, Hindley often referred to Brady as “Neddie”, after Neddie Seagoon. ![]() Nickname: Brady had various nicknames “Dracula” by neighbours owing to his love of horror movies, “Mack” (short for Mack the Knife) when he ran with a Moss Side gang and “The Understaker” as during his teenage years he’d walk around the Hattersley Estate in a long trench-coat, although most of these nicknames may have been created by those who knew Brady after his arrest, so there is no way to tell otherwise.Place of Birth: The Gorbals, Glasgow (Scotland).Birth Name: Ian Duncan Stewart (later changed to Ian Sloan, then Ian Brady).A family celebration will be held this summer at the island. Thanks also to Joe, Gloria and Marie Gionet for their dedication to the garden, the house, and its inhabitants. We are grateful to the personal support workers of the VON, particularly Jackie, Anita and Lisa. Mohr for their care over many years, and the palliative care team at KGH which eased his final days. We recall his tranquillity at the cottage nestled in the woods on an island on the Rideau as well as his unwavering dedication to his family, colleagues, and students. There was the fun and strife of co-authoring three historical novels for children with Mary Alice. We have a lifetime of happy memories - of his wit and intelligence which enlivened many a dinner party, of his love of chess, photography, his cats - and Nanaimo bars. In 1962, he returned to Canada to the Department of Chemical Engineering at Queen's University where he spent his entire career apart from three memorable sabbaticals at the University of Cambridge. and PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1959, he married Mary Alice and worked at the Gulf Oil Research Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. He worked for a year in Montreal as a chemist, then came to Toronto. He received a degree in Chemical Engineering at Strathclyde University and emigrated to Canada a day later. John was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. ![]() He was predeceased by his brother Leslie. He is survived by his wife of 63 years Mary Alice (nee Hunter), daughters Christine (Scott), Jocelyn (Brad), and Alexandra (Mike), grandchildren Sam, Nick, Matilda, Sofie, and Jack, and brother Sidney (Linda) and sister Catherine. John died peacefully at Kingston General Hospital. ![]() Naturally, I changed race, classType, and a few other property values to match what I felt works for Kate. Use a graphics program (or on the web) to find HTML color codes. I changed the nameColor from pink to purple. When making a new character profile, simply change property values instead of hunting through the layout text. These tags in the properties section make it easier to edit such that the values will be used later, possibly multiple times, using the title in curly braces. Replace “Camilla” with “Selene” and “Valerius” with “Kate” as shown below in nameFirst and nameLast tags. (Those greater-than and less-than signs are important reserved characters and can’t be used inside other text.) So, if the game freezes, check for errors in the XML file.įirst, we need to change the character’s name. Keep in mind that breaking XML formatting will cause the game to freeze when using OSA to interact with a character. 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Potentially this framework adds more interactive storytelling and personality to Skryim, which could extend replay value as we wait several more years for the next The Elder Scrolls chapter. “OSA - Skyrim Ascendancy Engine” framework by CEO provides a means to view character profiles, create personas, employ animations, set character expressions, and more. Let’s say we’ve created a custom NPC for TES V: Skyrim, or we just want to add some story backgrounds to existing characters. ![]() ![]() How-to: Create an OSA Character Profile for Skyrim I experienced no issues with any of the mods below, so in regards to a question I was asked not too long ago: Unless otherwise stated by the creator of the particular mod, mods will work on both PC/Windows and Mac versions of TS4: I then removed all of my CC, and just left the following Mods in their own folder. I chose not to look into this further as I was only testing mods and the above issue was a known issue for me at the time. If you wish to use more than 1000, I would recommend looking at this announcement here, which will explain how to do so. Now, as I tried to load this up, my game did crash (as I did have a lot more than 1000 files). I will recommend using categorised folders as it makes it more organised and easier to find certain files. You’ll notice that I have quite a few stray files and a lot of folders. The Resource.cfg will stay in the main Mods folder with the rest of the files and/or folders that you add.įor testing purposes, I moved my entire Mods folder over to my Mac partition and into my new game, so this is what my Mods folder looked like at the time: Please note that with The Sims 4, you do not need a Package folder within the Mods folder (like we had to do for The Sims 3). package files that you have downloaded can be moved to the following folder:ĭocuments > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods. Now that that has been enabled, we can close the game.Īll. You need to make sure these are selected: There will be two check boxes with the options to Enable Custom Content and Mods and use Script Mods. So before we get started, we’re going to need to open up the game, go to GAME OPTIONS and then OTHER. Hopefully, this one will do the exact same thing for you all. If you know about my mods guide for The Sims 3, you would know that it was written for the sole purpose of making it easier to understand for those who aren’t familiar with using mods or custom content (CC) in their games. ![]() So I’ve had a few requests here and there regarding mods and custom content for The Sims 4 on Mac, now that it has finally been released. ![]() For help on switching off TS4 and Origin automatic updates please see here.įor help on extracting compressed files such as 7z and RAR please go here. Remember, you MUST remove your Mods before patching your game. (For help on installing Mods in The Sims 3, please read itsaprilXD’s excellent guide here: ) Once again the fabulous itsaprilXD has written a very easy to follow guide on installing Mods on a Mac, this time for The Sims 4. ![]() While Grimm could have looked better (More on that later) she can at least fight and has 100 different tools. To me that rarely ends up working because for a series like this you need the main character to be able to fight. For starters, I’m not a big fan of Velou being such a little kid. Lets break this down into sections though as I’m jumping around a lot here. So as you can see, the series didn’t have a whole lot of time to do much here. The exam lasts the rest of the series with the exception of the final 3 chapters where we hit the climax. Regardless we even meet some of the big villains from the Red List and at the end of the intro Velou decides to become a hunter. It could also just be that the art gives this effect as the drawings never look complete and everything’s so convoluted. You can’t trust anyone and despair is right around the corner. Velou looks just like Emma from that series even down to the hairstyle and with Wolves lurking around every corner, the series is going for a bit of a horror theme. You also get some Promised Neverland vibes here. You get to really learn about the world and that’s never a bad thing. We get to see what a big threat the wolves are to the average person and there’s a lot of lore thrown right at you this way. This slower pacing is different but not necessarily bad. Usually in something like this you have 1 or 2 chapters for the intro and then you keep it moving. This intro mission lasts for almost half the series with around 7 so it’s a bit longer than you would expect. Her name is Grimm and while she appears to be a small child herself, she has never failed a mission before. There’s no way Velou can win on his own so the village spends all of their money to call in a hunter to help. Unfortunately Werewolves are quite powerful, can shapeshift, and even regenerate. We then cut to the main character Velou who is a kid that just wants to protect his village. Now they aim to destroy all of the werewolves next. ![]() The manga starts off by explaining that the hunters have exterminated all dragons off the face of the Earth. It goes without saying that this review will have complete spoilers so if you have not read the chapters yet, you will want to do so before checking this review out. It’s not a bad title by the end but I can certainly see why it was cancelled. Effectively the manga is starting itself off at a disadvantage. Manga’s such a visual medium where if the art is bad I think it will be extremely difficult to succeed. ![]() Well, I’ve finally checked it out and the manga had some fun ideas but is really held back by the art. 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Those curve balls are the only type of level that gave me pause. There are no squigglies or unnecessary knots. Every line is tightly packed into the grid. In Bridges, everything is placed in the optimal way. The level structure of Flow Free is different of that than Bridges. I quickly beat the standard levels and then started to dive into the other packs. I was annoyed with Flow Free: Bridges and so I downloaded Flow Free and bought all of the DLC. And that's frustrating! I wanted "Hard" to actually mean something! The more you do it, the better you become, so when there are larger grids they aren't necessarily harder, they are just about the same. Once you fill in the pipes that are obvious, the rest of the paths become clear. That means that in every level, there are assumptions that have to be true. The problem with the game is that the pipes have to fill the entire square. ![]() Sometimes, I would have to put the game down for a couple of days before loading it back up to solve a single puzzle. Train Yard puzzles get progressively harder. I never felt this way about Train Yard, which presents similar gameplay to Flow Free: Bridges. Maybe this game is not about being a puzzle at all, instead it's a distraction. The game was so easy, in fact, that I thought that either (a) I was some sort of genius or (b) the appeal of the game is how simple it is. I finished all 300 levels perfectly in a single day - while traveling and doing work. Each page, I was presented with a variation of the puzzle and each one was solved in mere seconds. It was as if I was reading a book, not playing a game. I kept thinking the game would get harder, but it didn't. The bright colors on the black background look awesome.įlow Free: Bridges was not a challenge. You cannot mistake Flow Free for any other game. I could easily see why people seem to love the game and why my coworker would be commenting on it. The interface is great once you're inside the game and it's pretty. I have had few, if any, clumsy finger mistakes and even when I did, there is an undo button when you stray too far from an acceptable path (in other words, you disrupt one path with another). The game is very responsive to the player's touch. Let me start with a major positive-Flow Free: Bridges (and Flow Free) are beautifully done. I obsessed over the Cut the Rope puzzles until I finished all of those (and the "Experiments" pack). I was pretty happy with the prospect of a new puzzle game. This variant by the game company included a single "bridge" in the puzzle. Instead, I started with Flow Free: Bridges. And normally, iPhone games are only one dollar, so I can afford to make a mistake every now and then. I understand the "try before you buy" model, but I trust reviews enough to know what I'm going to like. I don't like looking at ads and I can be skeptical about DLC. I have a rule about free games, which is that I mainly don't play them. Each puzzle has a single solution (I presume some of the larger grids have a couple of options, but not many), and the game is elegantly displayed with bright colors on a black background. The game has a simple concept - connect like-colored nodes and fill the entire grid without intersecting. It didn't take long to discover what she was talking about.įlow Free is a free (ad-supported / DLC-supported) puzzle application for touchscreen phones (it looks like the game is available on all of the major platforms). ![]() They connect brightly colored lines or something. A coworker that commutes from Brooklyn was telling me about this hot new game, "Everyone is playing it. |