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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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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
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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.
VoIP >
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For extremely cheap telephone service using VoIP, I have this device. Instead of having my computer on all the time, I have this box hooked up to my network. I then have a regular telephone plugged into it. Once configured, everything is magic.
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I think I purchased mine from CanadaComputers – Cisco SPA122 on canadacomputers.com
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4209256/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200911092658/https://www.usanetwork.com/colony
The Earth is invaded by aliens, and although civilization is cordoned off and human-managed, pockets of resistance remain.
A largely-boring drama. I don’t know why I don’t like this.. there’s something about its tone that grates on me. I did watch ten episodes, but it never “clicked”.
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Set in Los Angeles United States
I wanted to play Okami – (2006 game) on my PlayStation 2 again. My old monitor had an S-Video input, but newer ones do not.
There are little adapters and adapter-cables, but those will not work on most monitors. They are a sort of “straight through” adapter which rely on the monitor understanding the signal a certain way. I bought a “HDV-G3000 PS2 to HDMI Video Audio Converter Adapter 1080P” which did not work.
Solution: Most people have RCA connectors, but what you really want is to have the highest-quality output from the PS2 and convert it using a device. So you take the high-quality cable for a PS2, which gives you S-Video output, and plug that into a converter box. The plus side is you can do upscaling and probably video switchboxing.
I ended up getting:
An two-source audio mixer, so I can use one set of speakers for my computer and the PS2 is another project I only briefly looked at and haven’t started yet.
