T w e n t y S i d e d
This week I’m posting some amusing screencaps and photoshoppings while I recover from surgery. DMotR will resume next week.
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The Elven Hillbillies”
DMotR Special 3:
DMotR Special 2:
Do it While You Still Can
This week I’m posting some amusing screencaps and photoshoppings while I recover from surgery. DMotR will resume next week.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DMotR Special 2:
Do it While You Still Can”
Crass Merchandising
My wife has discovered Zazzle, a site along the lines of CafePress. You upload your stuff, and they put it onto a t-shirt or mug or whatnot for sale. Zazzle offers more options and a bigger cut of the proceeds. (Not that I’ve sold anything yet, I’m just going by what I see in the fine print.) She’s been filling her Zazzle account with her photographs and watercolor paintings. (I love this one.) Merchandising aside, she seems to enjoy the process of making this stuff for its own sake. Having exhausted her supply of material to merchandise, she’s decided to set up a DMotR store.
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DMotR Special 1:
A Pointed Editorial
This week I’m posting some amusing screencaps and photoshoppings while I recover from surgery. DMotR will resume next week.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “DMotR Special 1:
A Pointed Editorial”
NumOrgans−−
I got through surgery and had my gallbladder removed.
Wow. That was rough. I’m never doing that again.
Thanks so much for the well-wishes from my friends and fellow bloggers who wished me luck. Thanks also to the well-wishers in the comments. Over a hundred wishes for speedy recovery. This is the ‘net equivalent of waking up in a hospital room full of flowers. Thanks again.
I’m alive and semi-coherant. I’m not allowed to run or lift heavy things for a week, which will not impact my lifestyle in any way whatsoever. The doctor may just as well have forbidden me to do any alligator wrestling. Moving heavy objects? Running? Do I look like Gordon Freeman to you?
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DM of the Rings CXXVII:
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
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An Offer You Can’t Refuse”
Headline Spoilers
I keep seeing news stories here and there, musing about possible endings to the Harry Potter series. Everyone keeps wondering, WILL HARRY DIE?!?!?!
Now, I’ve only read the first book and seen a few of the movies, and I am far from an expert on Harry Potter, but this sounds ridiculous to me. I don’t believe for a minute the author would kill off the main character at the end of the series. This is nominally a series for teens and tweens. It is serious in points, but it has a lighthearted tone in many places. I think it would be out of character for her to kill off the beloved and heroic young orphan protagonist at the end of the series. I just can’t see her suddenly turning dark and edgy here at the end of the tale.
Although if he DOES die, I’m sure those same headlines will be more than happy to spoil it for me in large block letters.
grumblegrumble.
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Stolen Pixels
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Raytracing
Raytracing is coming. Slowly. Eventually. What is it and what will it mean for game development?