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Normallywhen a new game comes out that I can get my hands on, I will try to write a review for it, but this time we are trying something different. Instead of a full review (which might come later, depending on how much time I have), this article is going to provide some potentially useful information, look at some tweaks, and discuss the game's performance. The game in question is Homefront: The Revolution. Powered by CryEngine, developed by Dambusters Studios, and published by Deep Silver, this game is set in a KPA occupied Philadelphia in the year 2026. The player is a member the Resistance, fighting against the much more powerful KPA with various improvised weapons and tactics.

Some of you may notice that this is coming out quite some time after the release of the game. There are a number of reasons for this, and among them is that shortly after launching, a statement was released that the developers would be working to address the performance issues many players were experiencing. In light of that, it was decided to wait until we saw at least one of these patches, as it could significantly impact the performance part of this article. At the time I am writing this, the game has received a multicore CPU patch on June 3, which may be the first of many improvements, but should certainly be significant on its own, and this should not be delayed too long.

The game has an ESRB rating of Mature for intense violence, blood, drug reference, strong language, and suggestive themes. If this content would be inappropriate for you, then the media included here might not be appropriate for you either.

Personally I like to know where my game's save files are so I can back them up easily, or remove old and unnecessary ones. I actually had to do a little digging to find the saves for Homefront: The Revolution because the place it keeps them is logical, but pretty uncommon. I found them in the Saved Games folder of my Windows 10 personal folder, where you can also find your Documents, Videos, Pictures, and other personal folders.

You can open "%UserProfile%\Saved Games" to get to this folder, unless you have changed the location of the folder (as I have) or open "shell:SavedGames" which works even if the folder has been moved. (Why so few games use this folder, which obviously exists and was designed to be a single, common repository of a user's saved games, I do not know, but at least this one does.)

The specific folder you want is named homefront2, in case you were not sure. In this folder is another folder for saved games and the game.cfg file, which contains the game's graphic configuration settings. All of these options are also present in the game's menus, so you probably will not need to touch it, unless you want to change the FOV to something outside of the 40-65 range. I just tested (really, right now) setting it to 80 in the file and it did work. There are actually two FOV options, FOV and DefaultNearFOV. I am not sure what is different between them, so I just set them both to be the same.

Something I do with every game I can is explore the install folder, to hopefully find the video files for the logo videos and such that run every time it opens. I do this because I always try to find a way to skip or otherwise disable these videos. It might only be seconds of my time taken by them, but after the first launch, I really do not care to see them.

Anyway, I could not find these files, so I could not find any way to skip them. I also did not find any redistributed installers, for DirectX, .Net, etc. which can be removed after you have launched the game at least once. (Steam installs these packages at the first run.) I did read the system.cfg file and look into the Localization folder and did an experiment. This experiment was removing all of the localization files for languages other than English, as that is my first language, and I removed the references to these other languages in that config file, for safe measure, after backing the file up.

So far, I have not experienced any issues after having removed these files, but that is not to say it is safe to do. Having Steam verify the game cache should reacquire them, so if problems occur in the future, it should be easy enough to fix. The deleted localization files came to over 7 GB of data, by the way. If you are hurting for space, this might be a way of recovering some of it.

At the request of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, University of Pennsylvania researchers estimated the number of lives that would be saved under the Biden administration's finalized minimum staffing rule for nursing homes. The researchers said fully implementing the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' staffing rule would result in 12,945 fewer deaths yearly.

In April, the Biden administration announced a new rule requiring nursing homes that get federal payments to meet minimum staffing requirements for registered nurses and nurse aides. Under the rule, nursing homes must provide each resident a daily minimum of 0.55 hours of care from a registered nurse and 2.45 hours from a certified nursing assistant. Each resident would get at least 3.48 hours of nurse care daily, and a registered nurse would staff homes at all times.

The American Health Care Association and the Texas Health Care Association stated in a federal lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas that it makes no sense" to mandate a 24/7 registered nurse requirement and "rigid staffing ratios on thousands and thousands of nursing homes across the country."

Dr. Rachel Werner, a professor of health care management and economics at the University of Pennsylvania, said the analysis relied on earlier research that estimated how total nurse staffing hours can affect mortality rates. Her team examined how death rates would change under the more robust staffing required by the new rule. Based on that review, she and a colleague concluded enforcing the CMS rule would save 12,945 lives per year.

Werner said patient safety hazards at inadequately staffed homes are well documented. She cited incidents such as medication errors, patient falls going undetected and dangerous pressure sores that developed on patients who remained in their beds for hours without being turned.

"There's a number of ways in which understaffed nursing homes increase the number of mistakes and decrease individual attention to nursing home residents that ultimately affect mortality," Werner said.

In May, Warren, Bernie Sanders and Richard Blumenthal along with Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Lloyd Doggett sent letters to executives of three large chains, questioning the nursing homes' spending on executive compensation, stock buybacks and dividends after the industry protested the staffing rule.

Three years into the remote-work revolution, research increasingly suggests that telework is a commodity, a job descriptor worth thousands of dollars in potential savings and improved quality of life.

A prospective employee will give up about 8% in annual pay for a job that is partly or fully remote, according to Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University economist who is a leading voice in remote-work research.

Remote workers spend about $6,000 less a year than office-bound employees, according to FlexJobs, a remote-work site that has run surveys on the value of telework. Workers reap those savings by preparing their own meals, walking their own dogs and making fewer trips to the dry cleaner.

Bergstrom took a remote job at Safe Families for Children, a nonprofit that works to support and stabilize families. Her new office is in Chicago, but Bergstrom no longer commutes. Her new routine is simpler and cheaper.

Other savings have revealed themselves over time. Bergstrom saves money on airfare now, because her more flexible schedule permits her to travel more or less when she wants. She spends less on business attire.

Just over one-tenth of full-time American workers were fully remote as of August, according to WFH Research, a scholarly data collection project. Nearly 1 in 3 worked in hybrid arrangements, pivoting between office and home.

Bloom cites two other key reasons Americans prefer to work from home. One is money. The other is flexibility: the freedom to pause your work and put in a load of laundry, or walk the dog, or sit on the couch and devour a bag of Cheetos.

If it sounds familiar, you've most likely seen the hit 2006 rom-com \"The Holiday,\" where the two leading ladies swap living situations, one leaving her Los Angeles mansion to cozy up in the other's cottage in the Cotswolds, and vice versa.

The trend has saved some families thousands of dollars on summer vacations: By switching homes with a friend, or even a vetted stranger, these getaways are a great way to avoid paying a pretty penny on lodging.

The current average nightly rate for a hotel in the U.S. this summer is $240, according to the popular travel booking company Hopper, which also found rental properties coming in at $182 per bedroom, per night, on average.

\"It's almost like this will become our home for the week. And I think, you know, if I could afford this home, I would live in a house like this,\" Wanders said. \"It's lovely just to get that experience right now.\"

Many have taken their search to social media -- with over 8.4 million \"house swap\" videos on TikTok alone -- to make a digital connection with fellow travelers who might be looking to trade properties.

\"This is not going to be like an Airbnb where it's a blank slate. There may be clothes in the closet. But that can be a positive if you're swapping with another family with small kids who already has the apparatus, the playground that can also alleviate a ton of stress from having to pack or buy those items,\" he explained.

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