- Couple of Chopper Games ✶
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👆 Thunder Helix, out in early access.
👉 Cleared Hot, coming soon.
I remember being out with friends in Bournemouth during my uni days, only thinking about heading back home to play Longbow 2 until sunrise 😄 Best helicopter game whose focus is not helicopters? Arma 3.
Thursday, 16 May 2024
- ♫ Chevrolet ✶
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Looking forward to finally seeing Neil Young perform live.
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
- Low←Tech Magazine ✶
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Solar-powered website with articles like how to build a small solar power system.
Via Jeremy Keith.
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
HyperTextHero Lego Camera Holder
The HyperTextHero Net Scape Raft Videocam Support System is a custom design to help steer through hardware and user interface noise and pollution using itself as raw materials.
It was manufactured for the HyperTextHero stream with cutting edge technologies including Legolass plastics and faux-leather.
The Videocam Support System features advanced maciOS iFon AI-powered adjustable shield balance control, a Cardboard Heavy Paper Technologies hull for optimal screen-top positioning, and a mementomori standard streamer flag for IFF.
Jumping through space, radio controlling vehicles in atmospheres, or legging it with heavy boots or 1980s All-Stars while needing to look at mutiple multi-function displays simultaneously? The Net Scape Raft will help you and your avatars.
Love it? Hate it? So-so? Comment away, and see the results of the fully-functional HyperTextHero Net Scape Raft Videocam Support System cam holder live on Twitch.
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Sunday, 12 May 2024
- Echoes Part II ✶
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A song that makes me think of whales trying to talk to us.
Friday, 10 May 2024
- How to Get Unstuck from Terrain in Generation Zero ✶
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In video games like Generation Zero it sometimes often happens that one’s avatar gets stuck to objects in the 3D landscape. The video linked above shows one of the techniques to get unstuck.
Thursday, 9 May 2024
- Robert McCall’s Paintings ✶
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One of the joys of being an artist is the freedom to create one’s own world, and through the use of brushes and paints, to explore that world and participate in adventures of the mind that the real world could not possibly provide. Like the real world, these excursions of the imagination are fraught with inaccuracies of perception — it is rare that one glimpses through the veil of time even a hint of tomorrow’s reality nor does it seem important to me, whether one’s perceptions are right or wrong — the pleasure is in making the predictions and doing the work.
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Hanging Light Parts
Like hanging lights and want to make your own?
In the spirit of learning to do things by yourself, here are the names of the parts needed to make a hanging light.
Canopy, Hook
The canopy is the decorative plate that is mounted on the ceiling and covers the electrical box. If you are using an extension cord plugged into a wall socket you might screw a hook into the ceiling.
Cord, Chain, Downrod
Lengths of cord, chain, or downrod suspend the light from the ceiling. Light lights, like beautiful bamboo and rice paper lampshades, can have the electrical wire cord itself holding the light.
Heavier light fixtures need chains or metal downrods to prevent the whole thing from crashing down on your head or floor.
Shade
The lamp shade is the part that diffuses the light. It can be made from many materials, like paper, fabric, glass, and metal. My favorites are made from paper and wood, usually bambo. Light, simple, beautiful.
Sockets, Harps, Shade Rings, Strain Relief
The socket is where the light bulb is attached, usually via a screw thread.
Lamp harps are harp-shaped pieces of metal that hold some types of lampshade in place. They’re usually found on standing lamps with trapezoid lamp shades, but can also be used in hanging lights, though I’m not sure whether they are called harps =todo: find out.
There is often a plastic threaded washer to fasten the socket to the lamp shade via a shade ring.
A strain relief is important to hold the weight of heavier shades and protect cord and socket connections from being pulled out.
Finial
The finial is a decorative piece attached to the bottom of the fixture. Chandeliers and other over-designed lights have lots of these. I prefer simpler lights, unless I am directing a film or managing a hotel trying to attract snobby customers.
Bulbs and Diodes
Bulbs and diodes are the things that emit the light. Previously incandescent light bulbs were the most common. Currently light-emitting diodes (LEDs) inside transparent or semi-transparent bulb-shaped enclosures are the norm.
=todo:
- Illustrate each hanging light part
- Instructions for a simple hanging light, with photos of the process
- Talk about dimmers
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- Relisten ✶
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Listen to live shows of various bands that have agreed to allow people to tape and distribute their concerts for free, like The War on Drugs.
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
- Turbo Encabulator ✶
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The turbo encabulator has become a humorous example of obfuscation by excessive jargon in the fields of science and engineering. The term has also been used as a classic example of technobabble.
Monday, 6 May 2024
3 Reasons To Pass on PC Game Pass
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Here are three reasons I’m not renewing my PC Game Pass subscription, which was kindly given to me by a friend.
Time is Expensive
Needs, like electricity, internet, food, and taxes to keep civilization going, are where money goes regularly, subscription-like, in recurring payments.
Wants, like video games and other situations don’t merit monthly moneys, because given the amount of time we have, choosing is very important.
Too many choices without having to think about spending money for each one is very expensive when the currency is time.
But Hyper, how about subscriptions to your channel?
Those are certainly worth your money, of course.
I’m joking.
Twitch subs, too, probably aren’t worth it, unless you have so much money that you don’t know what else to do with it but use it to buy a streamer you like a beer, coffee, or gummy bear every month. I do appreciate it.
Bloody Difficult To Take Screenshots
I need to press two keys to make a “Game Bar” appear, then click on an icon, to take a picture of the video game on my screen. And:
- It doesn’t seem to work as there is no visual or aural indication of a screenshot being taken.
- I can’t find where the screenshots are saved, if they were indeed taken.
- There’s seemingly no way to configure which key I need to press to take a screenshot.
On Steam I hit F12 to take an instant screen photograph, which gets saved in a path_to_game_you_are_playing/Screenshots directory, and I can choose the key I prefer to press in preferences.
Video Games Aren’t Microsoft’s Main Business
Microsoft is a gigantonormous company focussed on profits for its shareholders, and video games are not their primary business, even with bright spots like Flight Simulator and expensive aquisitions that include Starfields in the clouds.
The Xbox app user interface is messy, as is the user login flow, and you are limited to 12 letters for your PC Game Pass username.
Valve is a private company focussed on video games, customers who like video games, and developers who make video games. This is why Steam is so much better than Xbox/PC Game Pass.
I hope Microsoft, Epic, Ubisoft, Good Old Games, and others get even better, since healthy competition is good for us video game players. And I pray Valve doesn’t sell out.
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Saturday, 4 May 2024
- Longitudinal Stability and Center of Gravity ✶
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It’s KitHack Model Club’s fault that today I learned the following:
In order to achieve a good longitudinal stability, the center of gravity (CG) should be ahead of the Neutral Point (NP), which is the Aerodynamic Center of the whole aircraft.
NP is the position through which all the net lift increments act for a change in angle of attack. The major contributors are the main wing, stabilizer surfaces and fuselage.
The bigger the stabilizer area in relationship to the wing area and the longer the tail moment arm relative to the wing chord, the farther aft the NP will be and the farther aft the CG may be, provided it’s kept ahead of the NP for stability.
Friday, 3 May 2024
- Interesting Gameplay Mechanics: Fulton Surface-to-Air Recovery System in MGSV ✶
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In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain you can sneak up to and “recruit” enemy camp guards by attaching balloons to their belts that inflate and fly them away to work on better kit for you back at Motherbase.
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
- Calm Cool, Silver Grey ✶
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Rightly traced and well ordered; what of that?
Speak as they please, what does the mountain care?
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for? All is silver-grey
- Beneath The Tree ✶
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Sound recorded with a hydrophone in contact with the roots of a forest of aspens, one of the largest living organisms in this world.
See also: Pando Suite: Soundscape.
Monday, 29 April 2024
- Zoom Into the Horsehead Nebula ✶
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This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to reveal a new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, the Horsehead Nebula.
- Jarrariums ✶
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Your own mini ecosystem in a jar.
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