Half Life 1 Trainer
Julie Followell
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Travelling down to Devon, we treated ourselves by listening to Paul Avins on Team Dynamics - which is Paul's unique perspective on 'Talent Dynamics' within organisations. As a fellow Creator, Paul mentioned that ideas were 'perishable' - that they had a limited life-span. He drew attention also to the phenomenon of someone else coming up with 'your' ideas - in the sense of someone else seeming to develop (successfully) an idea you had had, but had not acted on.
This was to tap into the concept of the energy inherent in any idea... for a while. Ideas have energy like radioactivity. They can be very powerful, when harvested and harnessed, protected and focused.
As soon as you have an idea (and I have 16 before breakfast every day), it begins to give off energy and matter - within a decaying time-frame. This is the time to harvest the idea by harnessing the energy. Some ideas have a longer life - similar to certain fashions.
For example, I think a classic-cut biker-jacket, or a double-breasted suit, will have a long half-life spanning decades. The same can be said of an elegantly tailored white shirt, and even of a simple black T Shirt. Flared trousers, on the other hand, have a very short half-life... thankfully (just watch TOTP2 and groan...especially from the 70s!)
My key thought is that you can borrow from the energy of an idea only for a limited time. If you fail to act on that idea within that space of time, the moment will have passed. This should not be, and doesn't have to be. This also mirrors our understanding of the time we have to get value from a learning event. The ability to mine value from an event diminishes (as a generalisation) over a 3 week period as the neural pathways lose their interest (and their 'charge' that leads to long-term memory and habit change).
David Allen (of 'Getting Things Done' fame) recommends we all have an 'ubiquitous capture tool' so that all our ideas are secured in their own 'in' box. This way, no idea is ever without a home to keep it safe. None will be lost.
With the advent of digital Mind Mapping, I can now save hours by quickly capturing ideas, and then having the tool to develop them later, at the appropriate time - confident that their radioactive essence is safely stored within their lead container!
Large Corporations have their own Research & Development departments - and massive R&D budgets. There is every reason that even a one-person-business should take R&D as seriously. In fact, not only would I recommend scheduling creative time, I'd recommend choosing dedicated creative space too!
I find ideas simply divine - and a bit ethereal! Ideas grow in substance, becoming more real, as I talk about them - they become 'word' and the word becomes clearer through mind mapping, discussion, note-taking, and sharing. But that Word only becomes flesh when we take some action.
Results are presented describing serum caffeine half-lives for three healthy subjects and two patients having alcoholic hepatic disease. The mean serum caffeine half-life for the healthy subjects was 5.7 hours. One patient, a 35-year-old man who had...
This is a pharmacology problem. Caffeine is primarily broken down by Cytochrome P450, much like everything else, where metabolites are then eliminated through the kidneys. It follows first order kinetics, so that keeps things simple. Your rate of caffeine breakdown is less dependent on your heart rate, blood pressure or anything like that as the metabolism of it is mediated by enzymes in the liver.
In the absence of caffeine and when a person is awake and alert, little adenosine is present in CNS neurons. With a continued wakeful state, over time adenosine accumulates in the neuronal synapse, in turn binding to and activating adenosine receptors found on certain CNS neurons; when activated, these receptors produce a cellular response that ultimately increases drowsiness. When caffeine is consumed, it antagonizes adenosine receptors; in other words, caffeine prevents adenosine from activatin...
I do drink coffee now, lots of it, and it does make me anxious but I burn it off on rides and to be honest actually love getting jacked up on caffeine and nailing a hard session. I do avoid caffeine socially otherwise though.
That exercise/sleep comment reminded me of how, during exercise, the level of adrenaline is stable but the reabsorption rate slows down, resulting in more adrenaline in the system. (I could be remembering that process completely wrong.)
The effect of moderate exercise on the kinetics of caffeine in 12 healthy volunteers-6 heavy coffee drinkers (HD) and 6 light coffee drinkers (LD) has been studied. Kinetics at Rest was measured first (R): the subjects remained at rest for 8 h after...
Most individuals adjust their caffeine intake according to the objective and subjective effects induced by the methylxanthine. However, to reach the desired effects, the quantity of caffeine consumed varies largely among individuals. It has been...
Yup, and those studies show that your recent behavior has an even bigger effect on rate of metabolism. The frequency in which you consume coffee or other drugs (eg. cigarettes) will have a greater effect than your genes.
Hey everyone, I'm sad that it had to come to this, but it's finally time.
Due to an even higher volume of harassment and slander that I've been met with in the past few weeks, I am entirelyquitting modding.
Some people might've realized already that the Discord link is missing on the website, I am scheduling my Discordaccount for termination.
I have released new, final versions of every mod I still actively support, from NFS to Midtown Madness, just to makesure nothing is left unfinished or inconsistent.
It turns out the people who have been harassing me non-stop for the past 3 years were not stopped by me simply quittingGTA.
I have recently heard that they were trying to pin the GTA V leaks on me, and considering they're willing to go THISfar, even putting me into the crosshairs of Take-Two, and also considering people are believing it wholesale, I am notgoing to risk anything this serious. I quit.
Before that though, I'd like to make a final statement about everything that I've been put through over the years.Basically a warning about ever interacting with the GTA modding community.
If you haven't read my previous post about quitting GTA, go read it now. It'll put a lot of things into context.
For some additional context, we'll have to go WAY back. I've already said that these people are willing to use years-oldout of context screenshots to discredit and slander me, so we're going all the way back to 2020, when I was 16.
At that time, I was part of a GTA IV multiplayer community. We were basically the main group of people who still playedMP, organized events, etc. My Discord server was originally a place only for this community.
In fact, this is where both ZPatch and ZMenu initially came from! ZPatch being a fork of XLivelessAddon withcompatibility for Games for Windows - LIVE, to make features such as the intro skip work in multiplayer, and ZMenu beinga replacement for Simple Native Trainer for messing about in freemode, since patch 1.0.8.0 removed the separated lobbysystem between modders and non-modders but broke compatibility with Simple Native Trainer, so we had to find or createan alternative, which is where I stepped in and ZMenu was born.
It was a tight community, we took care of our own and self-moderated the Peer 2 Peer matches, so we could play in publiclobbies and not be bothered by the countless cheaters.
For context, it was remarkably easy to just go on Google and install a mod that allows you to crash the games of entirelobbies of players. We were trying to counter this in any way possible, and were mostly successful in doing so, althoughthere were some really sophisticated tools that could crash lobbies in a single frame after the player joined in.
I was one of the main people who helped with this anti-cheat effort, I created ways to auto-kick and auto-ban cheatingplayers if you're the host of a match, first based on player name, then based on XUID (the Xbox Live user ID), PCID (an Xbox Live generated unique ID, completely random) and IP.
All of this information is in plain view as the game's multiplayer is Peer 2 Peer, which makes this rather simple.If I recall correctly, a part of this still lives on in a similar community called GTRF, where they are using a specialscript to ban cheaters on an XUID blacklist if the community is hosting a game.
All of which were in the community Discord, in which we were updating each other's ban lists, and lists of people tolook out for. You don't even have to look elsewhere for context, most of it is right there in the screenshots, talking about people crashing lobbies and how we had to IP-ban them. To clarify even further, none of this was ever part of any version of any mod I've ever released, this was a strictly private moderation tool, just for the community.
The only thing I did wrong here was not clearing all the old logs earlier, as soon as my server became more than just a small GTA IV multiplayer community, which I do admit was a bad move, but it didn't occur to me until it was too late.
Some time passed, and GTA Connected came out. We were still the main group of people who still played multiplayer, andso we were giving advice to the developers on how to make it as good as possible.
One of the ideas was having advanced moderation tools, such as being able to see what mods/scripts each player hasinstalled. These were later added, which made things a lot easier in terms of moderating a GTA Connected server.
I also cooperated on my end, by adding specific support for GTA Connected into my trainer, allowing server admins to"limit" ZMenu on their servers to prevent cheating, making only the harmless features be available. (what I referred to as a "killswitch")