Nature, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08473-yRemote sensing, field survey and microbotanical analyses show that the pre-Columbian Casarabe culture in the Bolivian Amazon invested heavily in landscape engineering, constructing a complex system of drainage canals and newly documented savannah farm ponds.

Nature, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08478-7Eurasian grasslands have high production sensitivity to extreme drought compared with North American grasslands.

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Shortly before the launch of Marvels Spider-Man 2 on PC, many gamers questioned why neither Sony nor Insomniac made an effort to promote the release with a proper marketing campaign, with theories ranging from the underwhelming performance of God of War Ragnark on PC discouraging the studios to spend additional money on ads to Sony testing whether their ports even need promotion in the first place. Now that the game is out, the community has identified another potential reason for the lack of fanfare and, unfortunately for Spider-Man fans, its not a pleasant one.InsomniacDescribed concisely as good game horrible port by many, Marvels Spider-Man 2 launched on Steam to Mixed reviews, with only 56% of players giving it a positive rating. Much like the 2023 port of The Last of Us, the bulk of negative feedback revolves around the games abysmal optimization and a variety of bugs and glitches that, for some, make it borderline unplayable even on high-end hardware.Some of the performance issues highlighted by the community include frequent crashes, framerate drops, lighting and shadows bugs, audio bugs, missing textures, broken DLSS, the game freezing, T-posing characters, characters becoming naked in cutscenes, character models missing limbs, heads, and whole bodies, GPU overheating, long loading times, visual glitches, and the game mixing up the square and triangle prompts in QTEs, just to name a few. Given the extent of these problems, the general advice among gamers is to hold off on purchasing until Nixxes Software, the studio responsible for the port, ships a patch or two to address the issues.As for the games performance (the other kind), Marvels Spider-Man 2 has peaked at just over 18,000 concurrent users on Steam, which might still go higher after all, its been less than 24 hours since the launch, and weve got the weekend ahead of us but given the track record of Sonys PC ports, even if it does, it will likely see a sharp decline in the coming weeks, compounded by the technical issues at launch.Speaking of Sony, yesterday, the company announced its plans to remove one of the most frustrating and widely lambasted features of its PC ports the mandatory PSN requirement from some of its games, including Marvels Spider-Man 2. However, an interesting caveat remains: one of the main reasons gamers dislike PSN region-locking still persists, and even without mandatory account linking, Marvels Spider-Man 2 seemingly remains unavailable for purchase in 136 countries and territories, according to SteamDB.Dont forget to join our80 Level Talent platformand ournew Discord server, follow us onInstagram,Twitter,LinkedIn,Telegram,TikTok, andThreads, where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.Source link The post Marvels Spider-Man 2s PC Version Gets Mixed Reviews on Steam Over Technical Problems appeared first on CG SHARES.

Earlier this week, 3D Generalist Edward Urea impressed thousands of people with his amazing cartoon-style 3D facial rig resembling the face of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas. In a turn of events many of us have hoped for, the artist continued the project by releasing a step-by-step video tutorial demonstrating the working process behind the setup.In his guide, Edward showcased the entire pipeline and the nodes behind the rig, allowing you to easily recreate the setup leveraging Blenders Geometry Nodes toolset. Whats more, the creator has also shared the rig itself, which you can download for free over on Gumroad. Check out the tutorial attached below or by visiting Edwards YouTube channel:Also, have a look at this amazing 3D rig of Mao Mao from Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart made by the artist by combining the rig with Blenders Shrinkwrap constraint:Follow Edward Ureaon Twitterand dont forget to join our80 Level Talent platformand ournew Discord server, follow us onInstagram,Twitter,LinkedIn,Telegram,TikTok, andThreads,where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.Source link The post Learn How to Set Up a Cartoony Facial Rig in Blender With Geometry Nodes appeared first on CG SHARES.

Marvel Rivals is the new competitive hero shooter game released by NetEase Games that is taking the world by storm. Fans of Marvel Comics can take control of their favorite characters and duel it out in familiar and dynamic maps. Players with a more competitive spirit will find themselves climbing the ranks to become the One Above All, or the designation as the best Marvel Rivals player.

While the recent addition of Conan the Barbarian as the latest DLC character in Mortal Kombat 1 has sparked renewed interest in the title, hype around his release seems to have been surpassed by the attention that the franchise's latest secret fighter is receiving. Subtly included with the update that brought Conan, the pink ninja known as Floyd can now be encountered as a hidden battle if the player achieves certain conditions. Although there's a clear novelty to him being a new ninja who has never been seen before, it also seems that Floyd borrows heavily from several existing Mortal Kombat 1 characters.

Severance season 2 takes viewers to a previously unseen area of the Lumon severed floor: Mammalians Nurturable, where a herd of goats is grazing and is tended to by a sizable workforce. The goat room also introduces us to an all-new character played by guest star Gwendoline Christie, the apparent senior member of the Mammalians group.Mark and Hellys excursion to the goat room leads to many new questions mainly, What the hell is up with that goat room?We previously saw the room adjacent to the goat room in season 1, when Mark and Helly went on a mental health walk in The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design. In that episode, Mark and Helly encounter a caretaker feeding a room full of baby goats. Wyatt the Goat Wrangler (played by Brian Rock) tells Mark and Helly, Theyre not ready. You cant take them yet. Theyre not ready. It isnt time!Gwendoline Christies unnamed character greets Mark and Helly with a similar assumption regarding their arrival: Are you here to kill me? she asks while wielding an onion shear. Intriguingly, the goat room leader seems rather matter-of-fact about her possible fate, and later tells the MDR visitors that the goat room staff is not afraid of them. Which makes sense: There are a lot of people working there. More than 20 staffers including the return of the Goat Wrangler appearto be involved in the raising and breeding of goats.The goat room herders seemingly confirm they are severed employees. One recounts a session with Ms. Casey in which he learned that his outie was skilled at stargazing, at least acknowledging that they dont stay down here forever (to their knowledge). But the innies of the goat room are much more disheveled and dirty than other Lumon staff; some appear to have skin conditions. Like other aspects of Lumon, some of the herders appear to be holdovers from another time period, based on their grooming and clothing.Perhaps most interesting is the manner of speech Christies character uses. Like Jame Eagan, who earlier this season scolded Helena Eagan with the insult fetid moppet, she uses anachronistic language. She speaks of not abiding fripperies and refers to the sketch of Ms. Casey as a page of paper. She warns that theyve [sent] a courier to inform Mr. Milchick of your inquiry. Yes, many Lumon employees have unusual speaking habits, but Christies goat room character stands out in how closely she echoes Eagans bygone vocabulary.The goat room employees appear to have some connection with another division at Lumon. Like the Optics and Design team, they wear green badges. They likewise suspect the Macrodata Refinement team of being marsupials. And similar to O&D, our first glimpse of their department back in season 1 belies their true size; we went from knowing of one goat herder to nearly two dozen, just like the reveal of the expansive O&D group.So where does all that leave us? Goat imagery has shown up throughout Severance. An adult male goat-person appears in the painting of Kier Eagan taming the four tempers, with the goat representing the temper Malice. The same temper was represented by a goat-masked dancer at Dylan G.s waffle party. Theres also a bust of a goat head in Devon and Rickens home. One astute Severance viewer noticed comparisons to the shows themes and Arthur Machens 19th-century novel The Great God Pan, a reference to the Greek god of shepherds and hunters who is part man, part goat. Other theories posit that the goats being raised on Lumons severed floor are temporary hosts to the brains of dead Eagan family members, and that the Board that never speaks cannot because they are preserved in goat bodies; or that if Lumon is experimenting with cloning technology, its utilizing goats. Those Lumon goats certainly appear to be well cared for, free roaming and being hand fed by severed employees.Those theories certainly make an exchange between Mark and Helly in season 1 more interesting. In The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design, after the encounter with the Goat Wrangler, Helly asks, What if the goats are the numbers? Like, were deciding which goats live and which ones Oh, God. To which Mark replies, I doubt its that.An earlier exchange between those two may be even more illuminating. When Helly R. is having her contentious orientation in Severances very first episode, she asks Mark S., Am I livestock? Did you grow me as food, and thats why I have no memories? To which Mark incredulously responds, You think we grew a full human, gave you consciousness did your nails? No, youre not livestock. Good lord!Only one things for certain: As with many episodes of Severance, were left with just as many new questions as we are answers.

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