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5 days agoThey could do a base model where you supply your own RAM and storage…
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2·12 days agoI picked up the disc version of that cheap, I really should open it up some day.
2·13 days agoAnother good one that is similar in feel but not directly tied is Fairy Tale. Good read!
Keep on the lookout for the 3rd Talisman book this year as well. Talisman did not directly tie in, but the sequel, Black House, puts a Dark Tower shaped pin in the plotlines running from Insomnia and Hearts in Atlantis.
Yup! Think of it as a King Multiverse. All* of his books are connected to it.
"May not always be explicitly stated, but for practical purposes, “All”. 😉
I used to write a FAQ on this back in the 90s. The 3rd book came out in, oh, '92 or so, and ended in a huge cliffhanger. There was a 5 year gap before book 4 would come out, and I got tired of seeing “Hey, when does book 4 come out?” so I put together a FAQ.
It’s still out there in places. Hasn’t been updated in, oh, forever?
The metaphor in the Dark Tower books is imagine a clock face. If you draw a line between two opposing numbers, 12 to 6, 1 to 7, etc. they all cross in the center. That’s where the tower is.
Each line is a beam and each end of the beam has a guardian. The turtle in It is one of them. So was the bear in the 2nd Dark Tower book.
The Crimson King is trying to tear down the beams, if he succeeds, the Tower will fall.
Hearts in Atlantis is also one of the (many) works that ties in to the 8 book Dark Tower series.
Notably:
The Shining
Doctor Sleep
The Stand
Eyes of the Dragon
It
Rose Madder
Insomnia
The Black House (and through it, the Talisman and the 3rd book in the trilogy out this year.)
Salem’s Lot
Desperation
The Regulators
Seems more likely to be controllers, not actual consoles.
31·18 days agoI felt bad for Lost World, because Crighton went out of his way to write a novel that was a sequel to the first movie, not the first book, and then Spielberg just basically ignored it like it never happened.
I wanted to not see the chameleon dinosaurs, damn it!
So you could run it on an AMD based PC as well? 🤔
3rd party Steam Machines inbound!
Ever hear of Prince Randian, “The Human Caterpillar”? Born with no arms, no legs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Randian
Married, had 5 kids.
I run the 1tb SSD, a 1tb microsd and a 2tb USB-C SSD.
The internal SSD is all the normal Steam Deck stuff, the microsd is all emulation, and the external 2tb is a Windows 11 boot drive.
The head mount would be useful for Work Time Fun emulation:
13·22 days agoCollapse of Atlantic Ocean circulation? People have been talking about that for decades. It was even the subject of a big budget (but mostly terrible) movie called “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004 - 22 years ago).
Really only notable for the scene where people were debating if it was OK to burn books in a library to keep from freezing:
4·1 month agoShare the pain, make them hand-write everything. 😉
Never been a fan, but it’s basically a modern day RPG. Roll it to the future and you get Cyberpunk 2077.
6·1 month agoMy daughter in law worked at that facility for a year as a manager and noted multiple OSHA violations. Doesn’t sound like much changed…
I’ve read a lot of books, personally, professionally, and in education.
The worst public domain book I can recall is “The Art of War in the Middle Ages”. It is the epitome of “Some works should not be set aside lightly, they should be thrown with great force!”
A sample:
"The Teutonic nation of North-Western Europe did not–like the Goths and Lombards–owe their victories to the strength of their mail-clad cavalry. The Franks and Saxons of the sixth and seventh centuries were still infantry. It would appear that the moors of North Germany and Schleswig, and the heaths and marshes of Belgium, were less favourable to the growth of cavalry than the steppes of the Ukraine or the plains of the Danube valley. The Frank, as pictured to us by Sidonius Apollinaris, Procopius, and Agathias, still bore a considerable resemblance to his Sigambrian ancestors. Like them he was destitute of helmet and body-armour; his shield, however, had become a much more effective defence than the wicker framework of the first century: it was a solid oval with a large iron boss and rim. The ‘framea’ had now been superseded by the ‘angon’–‘a dart neither very long nor very short, which can be used against the enemy either by grasping it as a pike or hurling it16.’ The iron of its head extended far down the shaft; at its ‘neck’ were two barbs, which made its extraction from a wound or a pierced shield almost impossible. The ‘francisca,’ however, was the great weapon of the people from whom it derived its name. It was a single-bladed battle-axe17, with a heavy head composed of a long blade curved on its outer face and deeply hollowed in the interior. It was carefully weighted, so that it could be used, like an American tomahawk, for hurling at the enemy. The skill with which the Franks discharged this weapon, just before closing with the hostile line, was extraordinary, and its effectiveness made it their favourite arm. A sword and dagger (‘scramasax’) completed the normal equipment of the warrior; the last was a broad thrusting blade, 18 inches long, the former a two-edged cutting weapon of about 2½ feet in length.
Such was the equipment of the armies which Theodebert, Buccelin, and Lothair led down into Italy in the middle of the sixth century. Procopius informs us that the first-named prince brought with him some cavalry; their numbers, however, were insignificant, a few hundreds in an army of 90,000 men. They carried the lance and a small round buckler, and served as a body-guard round the person of the king. Their presence, though pointing to a new military departure among the Franks, only serves to show the continued predominance of infantry in their armies."
That is one loved knife! Good job!