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Re: [May 2016] - Well known fairy tales from a different POV - Submission Thread
The Emperor's 100% Cotton Clothes 1061 words Spoiler for Hiden: May 06, 2016, 09:06:59 PM |
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Re: Frustration
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Re: Frustration
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Re: Science for Science Fiction! (Articles and the Like)
Dropping this link here as well. I found an English article about the bio concrete I was talking about earlier on here as well. Adding links that talk about the other forms of concrete/building mats too. http://thefutureofthings.com/ bioconcrete http://thefutureofthings.com/4952-bioconcrete-self-healing-concrete/ Solar roadways http://www.solarroadways.com/ Green mossy walls http://www.psfk.com/2013/01/concrete-building-moss.html May 20, 2016, 08:06:09 AM |
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Re: What?? This article says flails never existed!
Only just logged on and not now comes to mind...I am going to try to sleep. I am then out til thursday. Original text is in latin on the one quoted. Try searching under fléau d'armes. Will dig it out as time allows was off the web in the first place. Short answer the expert is after publicity presumably he has a book due out. Lots of people are far too clever to say something didnt exist because its impossible to back up with evidence and someone will shoot you down. It also says I know everything on a subject and can make a diffinitive statement, which is rarely correct. Yes flails and even morning stars with spiky balls on chains existed. Were they common. No. The first one below is 1570's Below that is the Talhofer illistration about 1560 with both a spiked flail and a morning star. Context may be everything on the latter as Hans wrote a lot about judicial combat and its possible they are weapons given to settle a legal dispute not weapons of war. The German had (IDK they may still)a serious kinky thing about making divorce and inheritance law into an armed pit fight for public entertainment. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Arte_De_Athletica_2b.jpg/260px-Arte_De_Athletica_2b.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flails_%28warfare%29#/media/File:De_Alte_Armatur_und_Ringkunst_Talhofer_034.jpg May 25, 2016, 12:13:08 AM |
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Re: YA for young males?
![]() I'm always surprised when an old thread gets bumped, and I see multiple paragraph-length posts of mine on topics I have absolutely zero interest in. I'm starting to think I just like to argue. May 26, 2016, 02:21:59 PM |
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Re: HTC Vive Now Demoing in the UK
This article on Polygon claims the Playstation 4 has sold more than 40 million units. http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/26/11783776/sony-playstation-40-million-units The HTC Vive is amazing, and the Oculus Rift will start to approach its awesomeness when it releases it touch controllers, but as I've seen in several articles, I think Playstation Morpheus is what's going to take VR "mainstream". If even a fraction of the 40 million user install base buy Morpheus (which is even cheaper than the Oculus, including touch controllers) you're going to have a huge explosion in the popularity of VR. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens there. Latest VR recommendations: - Call of the Starseed is incredible, and the most polished and immersive VR experience I've played to date. It's absolutely worth the price. My jaw was literally hanging open for the last ten minutes. Get it! - Portal Stories: VR is short (maybe 30 minutes) but super fun. It really does feel like being in the Portal universe. It's absolutely free, though you do need to own a copy of Portal 2 to play it. At some point, maybe after Balticon this weekend, I'm going to sit down and write another blog post about how incredible the Vive is. I haven't done it yet because I've been too busy playing it. Also @m3mnoch, if you've gotten AltSpace and tried it out, let me know when you're up at the office and want to hop on. We'll play some frisbee golf. ![]() May 26, 2016, 02:59:39 PM |
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Re: HTC Vive Now Demoing in the UK
EDIT: I apologize for the ads at the start of the video, I forget about those since I use Adblock. :0 Since Audioshield uses existing music, Youtube automatically monetized the video for the rights holder. As I continue to evangelize VR (and the HTC Vive in particular) one thing I've found difficult is to describe the experiences available (which are awesome!). Since I have a FRAPS license from way back, I decided to download it to my Vive machine and start capturing videos from various experiences. The video below is from a game called Audioshield. You choose an MP3 in your home collection, then stand on a stage. Audioshield converts the song into a series of beats (represented by orange and blue balls) and then sends those beats flying at you at high velocity. You have two shields, a blue shield (held in your left hand) and an orange shield (held in your right hand). To destroy the beats, you have to punch them with the matching shield (blue shield for blue beats, etc). The end result is incredibly fun, and while the algorithm that creates the order in which the notes come at you works better with some songs than others, it's still fun to be able to punch any song you own. In this video, the song I'm punching is "Above" by The Blue Man Group. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqGEl-PUjQ[/youtube] I'll continue to capture various experiences (I'm going to be using them for blog posts) but I'll post them here, because I really do want people to understand how powerful and awesome virtual reality now is, even at this super early stage. June 07, 2016, 04:57:13 AM |
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Re: [May 2016] - Well known fairy tales from a different POV - Discussion Thread
Whoa. Just found that illustration while browsing pinterest and sad I can't pin it to my story, as it would be a most perfect cover picture for it. I think m3m started the trend of having pictures before the title, and while I don't generally feel like I need one, this is another exception! ![]() June 07, 2016, 12:51:40 PM |
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Secrets of Great British Castles
![]() Just been given this DVD and it is packed with information about six British castles, Dover, Tower of London, Warwick, Caernarfon, Stirling and Carrickfergus. It may be interesting to anyone writing about castles, battles or seiges. Facts about the buildings, interesting snippets of history, secrets of the fortifications and you see more than a tourist would, it had me enthralled and watched first disc right through in one giant history hit ![]() Also thought that any of our US readers going to England on holiday, @Jmack @m3mnoch with you particularly in mind, may like to check out if any of these would be near where they are headed. I know Saraband and Eurog have their own local castle which Nora will be able to share soon, but not everyone else is so lucky. ![]() Once lived near Warwick Castle and it is definitely magnificent. The last Duke who inherited this castle couldn't afford to upkeep it, costs are astronomical. He tried hard by getting bit parts in Hollywood, even in an Erroll Flynn film, but had to sell off to the present owners, the Tussaud Group, who run it as a tourist attraction, but ensure it is preserved. I always imagined an oubliette would be pretty bad, but the real thing in Warwick is horrendous. In Dover Castle there is a very clever tower that runs through all of certain levels but it has three different spiral staircases,running top to bottom,so soldiers could all get down to the bottom for defence, much more quickly from wherever they were and faster than with only one. Brilliant. ![]() It is available on Amazon or BBC shop in UK, and advertised in US, but warns only for playback Region 4. This seemed to work for me, but the other choice for US would be netflix. http://movies.netflixable.com/Netflix-USA/446026/secrets-of-great-british-castles-season-1 June 08, 2016, 03:55:41 AM |
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