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Photo by Nahrizul Kadri / UnsplashA few days ago I saw a post on Reddit where someone had released a tool for taking Halo Infinite replays and turning them into a 2D represented viewer with playback. https://demo.lvelup.info/en/t/halo_infinite/players/demo-player/matches/572e236b-8740-4052-a351-33ec0204053d/replay This wasn't the first time one of these products had come up, because a few months prior to that OpenSpartan released their own iteration of this tool. From someone who had peeked at…

After brutally beating a prisoner, the police leave him alone in his cell but soon they (and the audience) learn of the man’s powers to change form and bend the laws of physics to make good his escape. Home Media Availability: Released on Bluray. Mr. Fantastic Audiences of the 1900s particularly loved two genres: special […]

In our last episode we read three stories from the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales, including a story by Robert E. Howard of Conan fame that is associated with the Bran Mak Morn character, "The Lost Race." Today I'm taking my 2005 paperback edition of Bran Mak Morn: The Last King off the shelf to read three stories about the Picts, the little people who conquered Britain and then in turn were overthrown by the Celts and driven underground, where they nurtured a desire for revenge and became…

To cap off our run of interconnected Halloween Month one-shots, I ran a game of Blades in the Dark for the group. Instead of using the game's default Doskvol setting, I used Krevborna. The premise was that the characters were all blackened skalds--devil-worshipping bards--who had been hired by the infamous Nightsong to infiltrate a Hallowmass party and steal an unpublished manuscript written by Morten Jaqard (who featured in all four of the Halloween Month games). CharactersWinterwake, the…

In this blogpost, I will share my experience as an Indonesian TTRPG player who have been referred to using these two religious terms with negative connotations: a Heretic and a Cultist. Painting by Francisco de Goya, "The Inquisition Tribunal." HERETICThe year was 2018. I joined an Indonesian D&D Discord community. My first Indonesian player found it and said we should join, so we could find more players to play with. At that time, I was craving to run Call of Cthulhu, since I know the people…

We had a really wonderful day yesterday, mostly spent attending local events. Our first stop was the library to return and borrow books, and we headed to the community center. Upon arriving we learned that there was a large book festival going on! They had a mobile library in addition to the regular one, and an activity where you collect bookmarks from various stations around the facility. One of the stations had you creating your own mini popup picture book, by cutting shapes out of…

I failed my digital detox two days in. My theory is that I'm too stressed or energy deficient to do any of the usual things reccomended to 'fill your time' while detoxing. I yearn for slop!1 It takes a sledgehammer to my thoughts. Everything else takes time and energy I do not have. I'm a husk of a person, and even the husk falls apart on the weekend. I've keeping "done lists", even without a to-do list. Sometimes, it motivates me to continue tasks. Today was not one of those days. I did ...…

David Hammons was among the fourteen artists commissioned to make permanent works for the new Atlanta Airport in 1979-80. For more than ten years, I’d tried to find out what Hammons’ work was like, and if it still existed. Dr. Kellie C. Jones had seen the works, of course, which “is made from a variety of hair constructions. Located over an escalator that connects Concourse C with the intra-airport transportation system, he installed different configurations in each of four overhead bays.…

I’ve been putting a lot of pressure on myself that if I’m going to post something, it has to be “worthwhile”. It’s reached a point where I haven’t posted anything substantial since the beginning of October. I feel like I need to break the ice with a low-effort post and get back to my regular rhythm. I do have one recent regret, and I think it has something to do with the slump. When I migrated from antoniosantos.io to otolock.net, I chose to use 11ty instead of migrating my existing Django…

Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks originally aired at a time before access to the World Wide Web was commonplace. While I dabbled in bulletin boards via CompuServe in the late 1980s, I didn’t access the internet until spring 1995. The early 1990s, however, saw some technological marvels that formed a foundation of the social... The post Twin Peaks Publicity – AP Leafdesk Photograph of Kyle MacLachlan from July 27, 1992 appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

Well, I didn't make it out to the GalaxyCon in Saint Louis this year. I had plans set and they were kind enough to grant me a press pass, but a whole bunch of life stuff came up. This week had me alternatively insanely busy and exhausted (there was nothing terrible, just a lot). I have seen a variety of praise from those who were able to go, and it looks like it was a ton of fun. I hope that when we presumably have another GalaxyCon for Saint Louis in 2027, I will be able to go and have a great…

i ask myself, "when was the last time you listened to george harrison's all things must pass"? and the answer is usually, "i dunno, months ago, years ago?" and then i put it on, and am reminded of how happy i can be. there was a time i listened to this every day, as a routine, and then i fell out of it, and i started feeling more like shit. though every time i put it on, i instantly feel good, and whole. listen to all things must pass.

A new post from ben.balter.com · Read it on the web →Twelve years ago, I built a little Heroku app to convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown, because government employees kept asking me for one. It now lives at word2md.com, and these days it’s busier than it has ever been. I’d bet most of the people using it aren’t developers. They’re people with a folder full of .docx files who’ve noticed their chatbot gives better answers when they paste in plain text. They’ve figured out something I…

Skinks and rats and goddesses and illusory assholes. Right before I decided to get off for the night I decided to at least offload some of the wares I'd picked up. And I accidentally just gave about 400 gold worth of stuff to a merchant for free because I didn't balance the fucking barter. Argh augh eugh painful. And my last save was way back before I did a bunch of inventory management and re-equipping of things, I'm not doing all of that. The merchant doesn't even sell anything good, the…

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The going got progressively easier the further south we got. In the early hours we had some rain showers that turned the wind, and so in the morning we set up the poled out genoa and shook to first reef. Soon after we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn. Lille Ø is out of the tropics for the first time since leaving Canaries. Around noon we saw a forest of masts rising up from the horizon. Minerva Reef is a convenient stop along the way to New Zealand, a lot of this weather window’s departure…

TL;DRNo matter how cheap AI makes software, that software still has to interact with other people’s software, and traditional APIs are _grotesquely_ inflexible.The only way we can obtain the dividends that AI and cheap software promise is to thoroughly redesign APIs. The answer lies in the relational model: new APIs must be relational and programmable.Thanks for reading FREST Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Pencils DownThe originator of Ruby on Rails, David…

a few days ago i re-read my comic for the first time since i initially shared it online late last year... i avoided it until now on purpose because i couldn't help but cringe whenever i looked at it. idk, something about sharing something so freaky yet so deeply personal with so many people made me worry so much about how others saw it, how others perceived me because of it, and every time i looked at it it brought those thoughts and feelings to the forefront of my mind. i swear this is a…

I mentioned yesterday, how I had felt strangely sleepy all day. Typically, when that happens, as soon as I lay diwn to try and sleep, I end up wide awake. Not this time! I lay down, planning to just rest a bit. I woke up some 8 or so hours later, having not moved the … Continue reading Progress, though not by me 😆

Yesterday I submitted an entry for Binary Star Games' Minimalist Jam 26, a jam focused on delivering something punchy and playable with an active de-emphasis on production value. I'd kicked around a few different ideas over the last two months with my friend Zak H at Bommyknocker Press but yesterday I just happened to have the exact right mix of inspiration and time on my hands to hammer something into shape. Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money is a three-player card game that gamifies the 1979…

My first video in four years: A practical look at the different types of fleece with its pros and cons. Read More ... Continue reading Fleece Types Explained: Classic, Grid, Alpha, Octa, Microgrid, & Goat Grid at PMags.com.

Got a couple new Peanuts books coming in the future, as well as catching up in news about the AAUGH Blog itself. Upcoming books “Please”, “Thank you”, sharing, and all that are coming your way in Snoopy’s Book of Manners, a board book by Patti Michaels and Robert Pope (based on the work of Charles M. Schulz, natch) heading your way next May, and available for preorder now. May also brings us Snoopy Snacks — not a recipe book as one might hope, but another board book, this one from the mighty…

Evil Dead Burn (2026, Sébastien Vani?ek) Oh right, it’s the New French Extremism sequel, which is actually none of those things. Lot of severed body parts lying around as the girl kills a final zombie with a lawn tool then sets the place ablaze. Nice photography when the girl stands still and there are no CG beasties around, but any action is shot and/or edited like shit. I think her trauma is speaking to her in the form of a crumbling demonified husband who wants to get her holy dagger. The…

Things were widely discussed, ideas were shared, I was convinced. Later, I read more opinions and experience reports, and I was convinced otherwise! The discourse is sometimes wrong, no matter how intuitively right it seems. Superficial isn’t super-right. Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. intentionally weaken their product If you find yourself thinking, “are the models worse today?”, it’s possibly time to step back and look at how you’re using them. Which is not to say it’s a “skill issue”. More likely,…

Contrails If you were a conspiracy theorist, you’d be wondering where all these planes were going to meet up. Sadly, I think the answer was Stansted Airport :-( Quote of the Day ”Any sufficiently advanced punditry is indistinguishable from bollocks”. Dan Davies, riffing on Arthur C. Clarke’s celebrated adage that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Dónal Lunny and Aimee Farrell Courtney | Banish Misfortune Link…

It is nearing year end; it is also the business's busiest time of the year. I would normally prepare small festive gifts for my clients and family members. As I go through the list, it dawned to me that I have received a lot of help throughout my life. It not only limited to my clients and family. I did an exercise by listing down the people who had impacted my life. The criteria are simple; the person's action has an impact in my life. It can be intentional, or unintentional. As such, I…

Some of us Obsidian folk, including me, have gotten wrapped around the axle of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) over the years. I remember my excitement in the early days: if I capture all my thoughts and the world’s knowledge in my proliferating zettels, then, in time, I was sure to become Dr. Manhattan. Well … that didn’t work. If you have any other ideas on becoming Dr. Manhattan, please shoot me an email. Alas, I didn’t achieve Great Insights™ through Markdown munging. But there’s a big,…