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Carla lalli music cookbook8/18/2023 ![]() “A gorgeous new cookbook from Bon Appétit’s former food director Carla Lalli Music, Where Cooking Begins presents a beautiful guide to truly modern cooking. “Carla Lalli Music knows how to help with ingredients, strategy and technique, but most important of all, she understands how to help you become confident as a cook.”-Nigella Lawson Where Cooking Begins is her 250-page argument that you should believe in yourself, too.”-Julia Moskin, The New York Times Her superpower is that she believes in you as a cook. “ is like everyone’s favorite aunt, the one who shows up and makes surprising things happen. “An ideal tool kit to transform a timid cook into an adventurous and confident improviser.”-Helen Rosner, The New Yorker The no-fail techniques, textured recipes, and strategies in Where Cooking Begins will make you a great cook. Music’s modern approach-pick up your fresh ingredients a few times a week, and fill your pantry with staples bought online-will make you want to click on a burner and slide out a cutting board the minute you get home. Where Cooking Begins is also the first recent cookbook to connect the way we shop to the way we cook. Here, too, is her guide to the six essential cooking methods that will show you how to make everything without over-complicating anything-and every recipe includes suggestions for swaps and substitutions, so you’ll never feel stuck or stymied. ![]() ![]() The food editor at large at Bon Appétit, her intuitive recipes are inspired by the meals she makes at home for her family and friends and the joy she takes in feeding them. The indispensable recipes and streamlined cooking techniques in Where Cooking Begins are an open invitation to dive into Carla Lalli Music’s laid-back cooking style. ![]() Laid back and built to share, these simple but sophisticated recipes are the kind you accidentally memorize and learn to live by."-The Chalkboard "If you loved Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, this is the next book for you.A gateway cookbook for novices and anyone who wants to be a better home cook, Where Cooking Begins gives readers a modern approach to shopping, simple cooking methods, and more than 70 innately flexible recipes.Ī modern approach to mastering the art of cooking at home from the food editor at large at Bon Appétit, with more than 70 innately flexible recipes. Where Cooking Begins is her 250-page argument that you should believe in yourself, too."-Julia Moskin, The New York Times "Carla Lalli Music knows how to help with ingredients, strategy and technique, but most important of all, she understands how to help you become confident as a cook."-Nigella Lawson "A gorgeous new cookbook from Bon Appétit's former food director Carla Lalli Music, Where Cooking Begins presents a beautiful guide to truly modern cooking. Praise for Where Cooking Begins "An ideal tool kit to transform a timid cook into an adventurous and confident improviser."-Helen Rosner, The New Yorker " is like everyone's favorite aunt, the one who shows up and makes surprising things happen. ![]() Music's modern approach-pick up your fresh ingredients a few times a week, and fill your pantry with staples bought online-will make you want to click on a burner and slide out a cutting board the minute you get home. Here, too, is her guide to the six essential cooking methods that will show you how to make everything without over-complicating anything-and every recipe includes suggestions for swaps and substitutions, so you'll never feel stuck or stymied. The indispensable recipes and streamlined cooking techniques in Where Cooking Begins are an open invitation to dive into Carla Lalli Music's laid-back cooking style. JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER - GOOP COOKBOOK CLUB PICK - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker - Food52 - Library Journal A modern approach to mastering the art of cooking at home from the food editor at large at Bon Appétit, with more than 70 innately flexible recipes. ![]()
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Swish activation function keras8/18/2023 ![]() The simplicity of Swish and its similarity to ReLU make itĮasy for practitioners to replace ReLUs with Swish units in any neural network. For example, simply replacing ReLUs with Swish units improves top-1Ĭlassification accuracy on ImageNet by 0.9\% for Mobile NASNet-A and 0.6\% for As such, a careful choice of activation function must be made for each deep learning neural network project. The choice of activation function in the output layer will define the type of predictions the model can make. To work better than ReLU on deeper models across a number of challengingĭatasets. The choice of activation function in the hidden layer will control how well the network model learns the training dataset. Our experiments show that the best discovered activationįunction, $f(x) = x \cdot \text(\beta x)$, which we name Swish, tends The searches by conducting an empirical evaluation with the best discoveredĪctivation function. Using a combination of exhaustive and reinforcement learning-based search, weĭiscover multiple novel activation functions. How to Choose an Activation Function for Deep Learning Photo by Peter Dowley, some rights reserved. The activation function for output layers depends on the type of prediction problem. The modern default activation function for hidden layers is the ReLU function. To leverage automatic search techniques to discover new activation functions. Activation functions are a key part of neural network design. Have managed to replace it due to inconsistent gains. Currently, the most successfulĪnd widely-used activation function is the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU).Īlthough various hand-designed alternatives to ReLU have been proposed, none On the training dynamics and task performance. Download a PDF of the paper titled Searching for Activation Functions, by Prajit Ramachandran and 2 other authors Download PDF Abstract: The choice of activation functions in deep networks has a significant effect ![]()
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Streets of rogue patch notes8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I may not respond to everything due to lack of time, but I do read everything. You can send them through the in-game feedback form (click Feedback on the main menu), send them directly to my email, or post them in the #bug-reports channel of my Discord. I don’t think demand for the feature is high enough to justify it at this point. The game isn’t currently built to support multiple players locally within an online environment, and it would be a ton of work to get this implemented, not to mention it would result in a massive number of new bugs. Will the game ever have combined local + online multiplayer? But for now – They would change the scope and complexity of the game by a huge degree, and add a large amount of development time. If this game gets a sequel, all of these things will be on my features list. Vehicles? Multi-story buildings? A more open-world city? If I were to work on something like that, it definitely wouldn’t be until after the game hit 1.0. A map editor would be a very large task by comparison. In particular, I’d like to allow people to create and share their own characters and mutators. I’d like to have mod support at some point. Will the game have mod support? Workshop Support? A Map editor? Specific plugins I’m using include 2D Toolkit for tilemaps and other non-UI 2D stuff, Light2D for lighting, Rewired for input, A* Pathfinding Project for pathfinding, NAT Traversal for networking, Steamworks.NET for Steamworks integration, uEcho for opening multiple instances of Unity (life-saver when working on multiplayer), G2U for importing text from Google Docs, Bad Word Filter PRO for language filtering, and EnhancedScroller for “infinite” menu scrolling. The game began development on Construct 2, but I ported it to Unity about 9 months in. tinyBuild are handling the bulk of marketing responsibilities, promotions, contacts with console manufacturers, all that jazz. The music and sound effects are created by Craig Barnes, and I have Matthew Weekes do environmental art when I need it (floors, walls and some objects). In terms of full-time day-to-day development, yeah pretty much. Full-time development began in March of 2015. How long has the game been in development? Unfortunately no, there wouldn’t be any way to share your creations since nothing like Workshop exists on consoles. Will the level editor be coming to consoles? This would have been really difficult to pull off as an indie dev. Also FYI, any mobile versions that you might see on the app store are fake, so don’t get suckered!ĭoes the game have cross-play between consoles, or the ability to transfer save data? It’s not currently planned, but we’ll see. I’m not going to rule it out, but this would require significant changes to the gameplay and user interface to be feasible. Could be a week, could be a couple months! When is the next PC/Mac/Linux build coming out?ĭuring Early Access, builds were released on a bi-weekly basis. Unfortunately there have been issues out of my control that have held up some of the console patches from release for a lot longer than I would have liked. Once the new console versions are built, they are then submitted for certification. This can be quick or it can take weeks, depending on how busy the porting team is with other projects. Once I’m satisfied that everything is stable, I can work with the porting team to merge the new code into the console versions. When I release new content on PC, user feedback allows me to quickly weed out bugs and release hotfixes. The console versions will always be a bit behind the PC version. When will the console versions get updates? ![]()
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Dbeaver local postgresql install8/18/2023 ![]() Thank you for reading this “PostgreSQL Connection Refused or Timeout Expired ” tutorial Now test and check if you are able to connect with the server or db from client. This setting is just for testing purpose please use the setting as per your requirement. (h) Check and add Inbound Rules under the security group of the VM. (g) Enter the following command to restart the PostgreSQL services sudo service postgresql restart Add this line : host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5.Enter the following line ( host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5) below the line #Database administrative login by Unix domain socket as shown in the following image.Once the pg_hba.conf is opened (as shown in the following image) just press ” i ” from keyboard to activate the insert mode. (f) Type the following command and press enter key to open the pg_hba.conf file to edit Type :wq and press enter to save and exit.Search for the ” l isten_addresses = ‘localhost’ ” and replace it with listen_addresses = ‘*’.Once the nf is opened (as shown in the following image) just press ” i ” from keyboard to activate the insert mode.Type the following command and press enter key to open the nf file to edit.(e) Now we are in the location where nf file and pg_hba.conf file exists and we want to edit these two files To go to this path ” /etc/postgresql/10/main/ ” just type the following command and press enter as shown in the following image. ![]() (d) Now go to the desire path (/etc/postgresql/10/main/ ) to perform certain actions. (c) After successful login your screen will look like below Enter the user name, password and press enter (enter ubuntu if using ubuntu machine). (b) Once successfully connected your screen will look like the following. ![]() You can use any method of your choice to connect to ec2 vm. (a) I am using PuTTY to connect to the ec2 machine. OR check the following screenshots of errors.In ODK Aggregate connection refused with PostgreSQL database.PostgreSQL connection refused localhost.PostgreSQL connection refused port 5432 windows.Connection to server at “3.15.*.* “, port 5432 failed: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?.Cannot connect to PostgreSQL using DBeaver ( a SQL client software application ).Cannot connect to PostgreSQL using PGAdmin ( a web-based GUI tool for PostgreSQL ). ![]()
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Jetbrains datagrip mongodb8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() To write and run queries, open the default query console by clicking the data source and pressing F4. (Optional) If you are connecting to a data source that contains a lot of databases and schemas, in the Schemas tab, select the schemas that you need to work with.įind your new data source in Database Explorer. To ensure that the connection to the data source is successful, click the Test Connection link. To set an empty password, right-click the Password field and select Set empty. Specify database connection details: a login, a password, and the database that you want to connect to. Read more about the DNS seedlist connection format in DNS Seedlist Connection Format at. MongoDB Atlas (SRV protocol): DNS seedlist connection format (for example, mongodb+srv:///). Read more about standard connection string format in Standard Connection String Format at. For more information about creating a database connection with your driver, see Add a user driver to an existing connection.įrom the Connection type list, select your connection type:ĭefault: standard connection string format (for example, mongodb://localhost:27021/admin). You can specify your drivers for the data source if you do not want to download the provided drivers. The IDE does not include bundled drivers in order to have a smaller size of the installation package and to keep driver versions up-to-date for each IDE version. ![]() As you click this link, DataGrip downloads drivers that are required to interact with a database. On the Data Sources tab in the Data Sources and Drivers dialog, click the Add icon ( ) and select MongoDB.Ĭheck if there is a Download missing driver files link at the bottom of the data source settings area. In the Database Explorer ( View | Tool Windows | Database Explorer), click the Data Source Properties icon. You can open data source properties by using one of the following options: In this case, the connection URL will look like: mongodb://localhost:27017/local?authSource=admin. If no authentication database is specified, MongoDB uses the admin database by default.įor example, you want to connect to the local database but your authentication database is admin. ![]() If the authentication database differs from the database to which you want to connect, specify the authentication database with the authSource parameter in the URL. In MongoDB, for authentication, you must provide a username, password, and the authentication database that is associated with this username. Only after that you will see the DataGrip interface and will be able to create connections. You need to create and open a project from the Welcome Screen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Select the desired template from the Select Template dropdown menu, choose one of the radio buttons labelled "Use local email client" or "Use AppColl" and click Create Email. ![]() Click the email icon in the upper right corner. Saved email templates can be applied to a specific matter, task or contact record. Additionally, any documents sent with the email will be attached to the task. The contents of the email will be included in the task comments. Moving forward, the Load Template dropdown menu from the New Email Template window will show templates affiliated with the client/contact first, with unaffiliated templates shown below.Ĭreating 'Email Sent' Tasks: A the bottom of the New Email Template page is a check box labelled, "When email is sent, create a task for the matter called 'Email Sent', copy email body into task comments and link all attached documents to task." If checked, emails sent via this template will generate a task for the matter indicating an email was sent. In t he below popup window, s elect one or more contacts and click OK. In other words, you can create email templates for individual clients.Ĭlick the Affiliated Contacts Add button. You can also load and edit existing templates by using the Load Template drop down menu.Īffiliated Contacts: AppColl allows for email templates to be optionally affiliated with one or more contacts. You can delete the existing template with the "Delete This Template" button. You can also create a new template using the current one as a shell by clicking Save As. Save the template by clicking Save or Apply Changes. Click the button to edit the message directly in HTML. creating task type email notifications and calendar entries. The new template page is shown below with some example data. The advantages and disadvantages of each emailing option are further explained below.Ĭlick the Create Template link to create a new template from scratch. ![]() There are also options to use your default email client (i.e., Outlook, Google Mail, Apple Mail, etc.) or use AppColl's internal email form. The New Email popup window provides options to create a new template, or edit an existing template by selecting the desired template from the drop down menu and clicking edit. Click the icon to open the popup window shown below. In the upper right corner of any details page is an email icon. You can easily create email templates, which are very similar to task type notification templates. The advantage of sending an email directly from a matter, task or contact is by using email templates. A form letter provides a downloadable RTF document to be opened in a word processor, then sent via email by copying and pasting the contents into a message. These emails differ from form letters, because the emails can be dynamically sent without having to download an RTF document. You can send emails directly from a matter details page, a task details page, an invoice details page or a contact details page. ![]()
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Tampa bay lightning hats8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() 11 after playing in the NCAA Tournament for the 42 nd consecutive season. Penn State is coming off a season in which it finished 26-8. The Lions go on the road to play Big Ten opponents Northwestern (Sept. Other conference matches at Rec Hall are against Indiana (Oct. Penn State's Big Ten schedule begins at Rec Hall with a matchup against Rutgers on Sept. They fell to Penn State at Rec Hall in the opening round of last year's NCAA Tournament. The Retrievers are the three-time defending America East champs. The non-conference portion of the schedule closes with the Penn State Classic, where the Lions host UMBC and Seton Hall on Sept. The Cardinals are the three-time defending champs in the ACC and played in last year's National Championship match. 8, Penn State welcomes the task of going on the road to play Louisville on Sept. That marks five straight 2022 NCAA Tournament qualifiers to open the Lions' schedule.įollowing a match at Temple on Sept. Enjoy the perfect fit every game when you choose Tampa Bay Lightning Hats, including adjustable Lightning snapbacks. The Lions play Conference USA champion Western Kentucky, Patriot League champion Colgate, and Sun Belt champion James Madison on consecutive days at the event. Rec Hall hosts three conference champions for the Penn State Invitational on Sept. The Yellowjackets recorded five wins in the NCAA Tournament over the past three seasons. The Lions continue play in the event against Georgia Tech the following night at USF's Yuengling Center. The match is a part of the Road 2 Tampa Bay Invitational. 25 at the Tampa Bay Lightning's Amalie Arena, which is the site of the 2023 NCAA Volleyball Championship. Penn State opens the season in a matchup of two of volleyball's traditional powers as the Lions take on Florida on Aug. They put together a non-conference schedule this year that features six conference champions. The Nittany Lions went 13-0 against non-conference opponents last season, including regular season wins over Stanford and Oregon and a pair of victories to open the NCAA Tournament. ![]() The slate includes 15 matches against teams what qualified for last year's NCAA Tournament and seven matches against teams that won a conference title. ![]() – Penn State women's volleyball announced the schedule for the 2023 season, which marks the second year under head coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley. ![]() This does not check that very important box.Story Links UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Bold, brave, inventive uniform choices are always welcome, but it’s important to make it look good. That said, putting all the best players in the league in those hats is an admittedly funny bit that probably won’t do much for MLB merchandise sales. That could be enough to overlook the ugly hats, which might be less offensive at a distance or on the television screen. A good white-or-navy base with Seattle turquoise is the way to go. 101 sold Reebok Tampa Bay Lightning Structured Adjustable Hat 12.00 New adidas Cuffed Kinit Pom Beanie hat NHL Hockey Champions Tampa Bay Lightning 15. The MLB can still save face with more elegant uniforms that aren’t puke green. It is, evidently, an homage to Seattle sports? It’s that green tinge the bread you forgot in the pantry starts to take on after a couple weeks. There’s simply no reason for this to be the color scheme. Those Mariners colors peak through on the sides and the little star above the logo is a nice touch, but it’s hard to get excited about the uniform reveal when the hats are starting from such a position of weakness. The Mariners’ classic navy and turquoise has, in this instance, been swapped out for… light green? But not even grassy, color-of-nature light green it’s more of an ugly pastel green that feels more at home on a knockoff Mountain Dew can. An apparent leak of this year's MLB All Star Game hats /H1ss圆swSi ![]()
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Slik 634 cbh8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() I did idly ponder putting the slik top end on the Novo but it would require some machining. The slik has an older style two screw knobs, a large lock/unlock one and a smaller tension setter, and it's hard to get a smoothly progressive increase in friction tension/minimum setting with it. But in operation the Novo is simply better, smoother movement of the ball, more precise friction control. Very smooth, one up on those arca fiddlings. Then plop it into the circular mount and lock in and you are ready to go. The plate is circular and the screw is fixed so you can crank it on, no medding with a fiddly little D ring. But what it does have is a great QR plate and mount system. The Slik 80 has a 40mm ball and is quite well used, and simply doesn't have the friction control and smoothness of the Novo. I remedied with some double sided tape and pieces of acetate sheet. The seller remarked "well it's only compatible". And a larger arca compatible plate I bought didn't lock in tight. But niggles twice the screw holding the arca type QR plate to the lens started to come loose. I used this to take the pipit pics I have been posting with my DFA 150-450mm and I have to say in use its great. ![]() The Novo 46 (46mm ball) is relatively new and has great friction control with a modern style tension button on the main friction knob. ![]() Both have immediate plus points and slight niggles. And IMO both of these shape up pretty well. Well coincidently two likely items popped up on ebay at the same time, and I bid on and won both at a very satisfactory price point.Īs I remark in a quick review of the manfrotto, once you've tried a good one you're not going back to a cheap one. I have been making do with a cheap manfrotto ballhead on my calumet CF monopod for ages, but in the back of my mind was always the thought that I should get a good one. ![]()
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Slice of life mod sims 4 dehydration8/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Also, it may not be possible to plead for a drowned Sim, as living Sims will not be able to get to the Grim Reaper if he is out in the water. In The Sims 2, it is not possible to plead for a Sim who has died of old age. In The Sims, the Grim Reaper may be in a bad mood, and bring the deceased Sim back as a zombie. The chances of success are determined by the relationship of the pleading Sim with the newly deceased, and pure chance. In The Sims Livin' Large, The Sims 2, and The Sims 4, a living Sim who is on the lot can plead with the Grim Reaper, asking him not to take the newly deceased Sim. His nice side shows when a Sim with a gold or platinum aspiration bar dies of old age, during the animation of a pet's death, or resurrecting kids with the Resurrect-O-Nomitron. His personality is perhaps a reference to the personified Death character in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels. Unlike most legends of the Grim Reaper, he seems to be a kind being in The Sims series. In The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, the Grim Reaper plays a cameo depending on the method of death and the aspiration level of the Sim in question. However, the Grim Reaper does not come if a Sim dies in a Skydiving Simulator in The Sims: Superstar, if a Toadified Sim is eaten by a dragon in The Sims: Makin' Magic, and if a Sim is eaten by the Cowplant in The Sims 2: University. Additionally, you will need to have the game closed for the mod to be implemented.Starting with The Sims: Livin' Large, Sims that have died are visited by the anthropomorphic personification of death in the form of the Grim Reaper. Otherwise, the mod will not install into the game properly. ![]() After this, open The Sims 4 file on your PC, and place the extracted files into the mods folder. ![]() Similarly to any other mod you install, you will need to download the Zip File from the Slice of Life Mod Page first and extract the files once the download is complete. When it comes to installing mods into The Sims 4, the process is straightforward. For a complete list of commands this mod offers, keep an eye on the official Slice of Life Mod page on The Sims Catalog. So no matter your play style, there will be some new skills and personality traits to implement into your gameplay. There are also several fun additions to the game through this mod, such as the ability to throw parties, watch movies on your phone, and get drunk from consuming alcoholic beverages at the many bars and clubs on offer. Although The Sims 4 already has a level of unique charm, this mod builds upon the foundations in place to create an almost human experience. Essentially, this mod is designed to make The Sims feel more natural. The Slice of Life Mod introduces realistic lifestyle traits that the base game leaves out, such as the ability to talk about memories, call friends and family in group calls, more personality attributes, and a new realm of realistic sickness for your characters to experience. What is The Slice of Life Mod in The Sims 4? So read on to find out what this mod offers and how to install it. The Slice of Life mod introduces some new elements which the base game completely overlooks, which Sims will benefit from the second it’s installed. But while these quality-of-life mods make the players’ life a lot better, a lot of mod creators are focusing the purpose of their mod on improving the quality of the characters’ lives in several ways. At this point, players have seen everything from something simple like autosave to something more complex, like invisible fences. The creativity of The Sims 4 community is unmatched when it comes to mods. ![]()
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Play spades full screen8/18/2023 ![]() "Breaking" spades refers to playing the initial spade. Spades may not be led until either some player has played a spade (on the lead of another suit, of course), or the leader has nothing but spades left in hand. Each trick's victor advances to the next. The highest spade played in a trick containing a spade wins the trick in the absence of a spade, the trick is won by the highest card of the suit led. Turning clockwise, each player must follow suit if they can if not, they may play any card. You must place a minimum bid of 1 if you do not wish to take the Nil bonus or penalty.Įvery card other than a spade is led to the first trick by the player to the dealer's left. Bidding no tricks requires bidding a Nil first. The pair also wants to beat Nil's partner's bid for the number of tricks. This has a benefit if it succeeds and a penalty if it doesn't. This is a promise that the player who bet Nil won't succeed in winning any tricks during the game. East and West strive to win at least 7 tricks (4+3), while North and South try to win at least 5 tricks (4+1). South deals, West bids three, North bids one, East bids four, and South bids four. There isn't a second round of bidding because already placed bids cannot be changed. Unlike other bidding games, there is no necessity that each bid be greater than the one before it, and players are not permitted to pass. Anyone must place a bid, and in theory, any number between 0 and 13 is acceptable. The person to the left of the dealer makes the first bid, and so on clockwise around the table. The amount of the two partners' bids for each team determines how many tricks the team must attempt to win in order to receive a good score. The cards are jumbled before being dealt one at a time, starting with the person to the dealer's left, going clockwise until all 52 cards have been dealt and each player receives 13 cards.Īll four players make a trick bid when playing spades. The cards are ranked from highest to lowest in each suit as follows: A, K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.ĭealing turns spin clockwise, with the first dealer picked at random. The four players are seated across from one another in fixed pairs. Reprinted with permission from (C) John McLeod, 2011. These came from John McLeod's website,, which provides guidelines for almost all card games. I play spades according to these guidelines. The sound effects are also appropriate and add to the overall gameplay experience. The game has a simple, clean interface that is easy to navigate, and the card designs are easy to read. The graphics and sound effects in Spades Online are basic but functional. The game also features a chat function that allows players to communicate with their teammates and opponents during gameplay. One of the unique features of Spades Online is the ability to play with people from all over the world, which adds to the social aspect of the game. The game is available on various platforms, including PC and mobile devices. ![]() It is a digital adaptation of the classic Spades card game that has been popular for decades. Spades Online is an online multiplayer card game that allows players to team up with others and compete against opposing teams. ![]() |