archpaladin1

joined 1 year ago
[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nobility... Whatcha gonna do. 🤷‍♂️

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago

Shai-Hulud's dumber cousin.

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As an FYI to readers, port forwarding with ProtonVPN on Linux can be done, just with a little extra effort.

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Reload the page with Javascript turned off.

 

Figures. 🙄

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that's true; everybody borrows.

This seemed particularly plagiaristic though. Oddly placed yin-yangs? Allusions to the Roma people? An underworld looking distinctly hell-like?

At least make me work to find the source material.

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I agree the costuming was good.

 

Just putting this here for those who might miss it.

I saw season 1 and it was...okay? I gather that Wheel of Time diehards were upset about plot deviations. I never read the books so that didn't matter much to me. IMO the world setting seemed janky - it was as though Robert Jordan couldn't build an original world to save his life and borrowed bits and pieces of different Earth cultures and threw them in a blender. I could pass on the next season but I have too many people around me who will want to watch it so I feel somewhat compelled to.

What did you think of season 1? Will you be watching season 2?

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, this looks like the thing - thanks!

I haven't (yet) dipped toes in the *arr worlds yet, so it's great to know the feature's there.

 

Ahoy!

Once long ago I ripped some movies from DVD, and in ignorance, saved to a lossy format. (The DVDs have also long since gone.) This was fine for a time but now as TVs are getting bigger and quality is improving, I am seeing the compression artifacts.

Does anyone know of some software that will scan a directory for media, identify the codec used, and then find better quality rips present for download & replacement? I would rather not go through the process manually and I have to imagine I'm not the only one that's had this issue.

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

This is a neat idea I hadn't thought of.

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Complete Baguazhang Nine Dragon System, by John Painter

It's out of print and good copies are about $130+

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yes!

I hope part 2 lives up to part 1. If so, this could easily become a masterpiece trilogy.

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She said many rich people wanted to set up their own educational or health foundations without checking whether there was a need or an existing charity or government-funded programme working to address the issue.

When the rich only think about charity as a means to further their own name, it's no wonder nothing ever really gets fixed.

[–] archpaladin1@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

She said many rich people wanted to set up their own educational or health foundations without checking whether there was a need or an existing charity or government-funded programme working to address the issue.

When the rich only think about charity as a means to further their own name, it's no wonder nothing ever really gets fixed.

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