I might eventually add some notes.
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Roleplaying > Dungeons & Dragons >
Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition
https://dnd.wizards.com/
- Properly titled Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 5e
- Fifth edition
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I used roll20.net to play this.
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A website to help connect roleplayers and let them play over the internet.
Tries to be everything-in-one, and includes a tabletop engine that’s not too bad. Definitely needs improvements to everything everywhere, but it’s all good enough.
I started using it to play AD&D 5e
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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers, SVG viewers >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/
A web browser by Google, designed to be fast and perfectly willing to sacrifice features.
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Properly titled Google Chrome
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Noise Reduction Digital Voice Recorder came in today, and I fiddled with it. It’s awesome.
- It’s too bad it doesn’t play all the formats it claims to, and can’t use a TF card.
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www.dx.com/p/401458
A very high quality and easy-to-use dictaphone / mp3 player / USB stick.
highly recommended
- DEAD – This isn’t in use, even as a music player, because I wrecked the audio jack.
- abandoned – the store page is gone and I didn’t have a brand page
- There is no name brand or model identification on this device or its documentation.
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dx names this 1.2″ 8GB Noise Reduction Digital Voice Recorder w/ Speaker – Grey
I’ve been thinking of it for a while, and I think these Five Things posts will also include new entries.
- Reading was updated with some new items.
- /tag/quiet-computing+computers was created.
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CubieTruck had bookmarks imported.
- This project has been killed.
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The Fountainhead – (1943 book), by Ayn Rand was created.
- Oh god oh god oh god this is bad. I can’t read past the first few pages.
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Free Speech Isn’t Free – (2016 book), by Roosh V was created.
- I haven’t begun reading this enough to comment.
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Five Things was updated, prompted by my now thinking about Reading in the same way that I think about other media.
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Entertainment > Reading >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0452273331
A famous work of philosophy, especially because it’s told using a story.
A terrible work of storytelling that entirely shrouds any philosophy it may have. From the first sentence I rolled my eyes and couldn’t make it through the first half-page before setting it down in disgust. I still haven’t been more than a handful of pages in.. it’s just so god damned bad.
This’ll sit on my shelf, among its betters, probably for years before I get around to trying to read more of it. Just as books in ancient Greek need translating, I think this needs a real writer to re-tell the story.
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Entertainment > Reading >
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01GMQZ5ZA
https://www.rooshv.com/free-speech-isnt-free
Free Speech Isn’t Free – How 90 Men Stood Up Against The Establishment And Won, by Roosh Valizadeh
I like free speech, and already know the phrase “free speech isn’t free”, so this caught my attention.
It was cheap, and I’ve been making a habit of getting some more books in dead-tree format. I was bumbling around on Amazon when I found this. I have neither an idea who the author is nor do I know anything about this topic. I like that it’s “recent”.
After reading: It’s good storytelling, and even after its lengthy description of events I have definitely not heard of any of it. It describes the sorts of things people are willing to do once they succumb to an ideology, and the “two minutes of hate” they participate in. Even politicians must follow suit, if only with hollow rhetoric. Media are wholly in on it, as they are at best ambulance-chasers for entertainment-news, and at worst willing to start and stoke a fire to have any sort of relevancy.
- Available as an e-book.
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I’ve been re-watching Mr. Robot – (2015 show)
- Mr. Robot season 1 notes was split off. I wrote an impression after watching this season a second time. I think I’ll make a habit of doing this, it’s good overall practice.
- Watched some more Andromeda – (2000 show) s04e15+
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Writing is a new zombie project.
Here, have some Music. clipconverter.cc is a great way to download YouTube videos, including 1080p with full audio.
- Alexandra Stan – Mr Saxobeat
- Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Atlas Hands (Thomas Jack Remix)
- Betsie Larkin & John O’Callaghan – The Dream (Official Music Video)
- Crooked Colours – Another Way
- Elènne – Between Us (ft. Mothica)
- Emma Hewitt – Colours (Official Music Video)
- Emma Hewitt – Miss You Paradise (Original Mix)
- Ferry Corsten feat Betsie Larkin – Made Of Love
- Sorrow – No More Hesitation (ft. CYN)
- Tep No – A Different You (ft. Jessica Hart)
