3rdBlueWizard

joined 1 year ago
 

Hobbit Art

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I love everything about the Middle Earth legendarium. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have resulted in countless pieces of art for us all to enjoy. Please join me and the rest of the hobbits in celebrating the artwork of the best works of fiction ever created!

The above picture comes from Courtney Myers Art. (I am not affiliated with the artist.)

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Hobbit Games

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[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The real reason was that Gollum couldn't fly. If they flew there, Frodo would have claimed the ring and that would be that.

The explanation for why Gandalf chose not to fly is up for question, but ultimately irrelevant.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agree about the comparison with music. I wonder why we didn't see balkanization there like we do for video.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cable cost well over $100 a month many years ago when I cancelled it. And 1/3 of the content is commercials.

Pretty sure you could subscribe to every major streaming service for less than that. And as long as you avoid Hulu, you won't see commercials.

Things are WAY better now, even though it was better a little while ago when there was just Netflix.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you repair Curtas? I think there's a niche market demand for that. I'd certainly want it if mine ever broke.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The Connect app allows you to hide posts based on keywords. Maybe add "reddit" to that?

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Walkabout Golf in VR. Simple enough for family members, but challenging even for gamers.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Whoa there! This is a thread for naming bad games. Satisfactory is an amazing crafting game. I didn't get bored until level 8 when the amount of material required to finish just got insane. But it is the end of the game, so I understand why it's like that.

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I've tried Jerboa and Connect. They are ok, but there are features I'd like.

Biggest feature is account backup and transfer. If I switch Lemmy instances, I don't want to have to sub and block all the same channels and people. Heck, maybe keep two accounts always in sync, just in case my initial instance goes down.

Instance blocking. Basically individual defederation by hiding posts and users in the client.

Blocking all subs of a name regardless of instance. If I don't want to see a sub about Foo on one instance, I probably don't want it anywhere.

Keyword blocking. There are public figures I am tired of. Don't need to see any post about them. (Connect actually has this, although I haven't tested it yet).

Really easy channel blocking. Just swipe and it's blocked.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yes. I LOVE the Stormlight books.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books. By book 7 I hated the main characters and really hated the writing style. The repetition. The repetition. The repetition...

The Sanderson books were ok, but they couldn't rescue the series and I got no joy from finishing it. A lot of relief though to be done with it.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MineTest is better anyway. If you miss it, play that instead.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

BTW, of they ask why I'm in such a hurry, I'll say I have a Brewster's Millions situation and hope they'd seen the movie. We could relax after the deal was done.

[–] 3rdBlueWizard@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too many answers trying to game the system. Have fun with it!

If this was earlier in the day, I would drive to a pinball arcade that is maybe 40 minutes away, and offer them the entire million for every pinball machine they had. Hopefully the owner could be contacted and close the deal within the remaining 20 minutes.

I wish there would be time to buy a boat. I know nothing about sailing or maintaining a boat, but I would love to just drive to a marina and just get a 50 foot sailing boat.

 

I have found that painting fluffy white clouds or shadows or gradients is highly dependent on brush type, type of paint, how dry the paint on the brush is, how dry the paint on the canvas is, etc.

I am trying to figure out how to do this consistently. Is there a type of paint best for this? Maybe one that is chalkier somehow compared to most paints that are heavy bodied?

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