#WheelOfTheYear #Samhain #magick

Прошлогодняя, но не теряющая актуальности статья Асгет про то, на что имеет смысл обратить внимание до самого дня и часа Х (она, кстати, теперь и в телеге есть; ежели кто пропустил, то вот канал — @asgeth_l):

https://asgeth.livejournal.com/199881.html?format=light

#gif #Samhain

#Lviv #sex #study

Зненацька вже завтра пара лекцій від @Greenochre (сам, на жаль, не потрапляю на):

https://www.facebook.com/events/294032814773189/

#13 #Netflix #ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina

О, уже релизнулось! 😎

https://www.netflix.com/ua/title/80223989

Актёрский состав старой «Сабрины» (но без кота) обратился вчера к звёздам новой с напутствием и пожелал «наилучших ведьм»:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpXD4mJDX1r/?taken-by=netflix

#video #scifi #China #LiuCixin

Сюжет Лю Цысиня рассказывает о будущем, где учёные понимают, что Солнце скоро погаснет, из-за чего Земля и всё человечество обречены на гибель. Выходом из этой ситуации становится проект с кодовым названием «Блуждающая Земля» (это и название книги, и фильма). Для его осуществления люди превращают нашу планету в космический корабль и отправляются на поиски новой звёздной системы.

Первый тизер: https://youtu.be/MLcghUzzQCg

#games #way

Рами Исмаил запостил у себя неплохой пост о том, из чего состоит магия игр:

Games aren't magical because people don't know how they're made. They're magical because of talented people doing complex work to make sure the illusion doesn't break.

Games are magical because of the worlds painstakingly crafted by people, with attention to every detail and every location that you come across, whether it’s a dreary skyscraper, a bustling space station, or a beautiful forest.

Games are magical because of the characters that we fall in love with, drawn and modeled, textured and mapped, rigged and animated, written and voiced by people who care about bringing you a character that will matter to you.

Games are magical because of the music that kicks in at just the right moment, composed and recorded, scripted and coded based on an audio design that took many weeks to get right, and many weeks to implement properly.

Games are magical because of the mathematics that someone stared at on a whiteboard, talking to a colleague after lunch, trying to figure out how to get the algorithm just right so that your ammo drops feel natural and fair.

Games are magical because of the days of testing and quality assurance that someone put it, playing the same sequence over and over, with different permutations of circumstances, reporting every bug they could find so that the magic doesn’t break for you.

Games are magical because of the designers that dreamt up the game, and worked tirelessly to translate their ideas into something create that could be programmed – giving up on features they cared for, bolstering problems they didn’t anticipate, so that you can eventually play their dreams.

Games are magical because of the writers who spent months writing and re-writing, checking for contradictions or problems that might stop you from believing that the game has a world worth caring for, motivations worth fighting for, characters worth loving, and a story worth following.

Games are magical because of the level designer that noticed players might get lost with how the level flow makes players approach that street corner, and adjusted the scenery in such a way that players could find their way through easily.

A game is magical because -for a moment- it makes you believe the worlds and people on the screen are real, the scores you try to beat are important, the level you’ve just cleared matters.

They’re magic because they can make you believe, care, laugh, cry, win, lose, regret, be proud, retry over and over.

If you don’t know how a magic trick works, you know you’re being tricked, and that somehow, somewhere, you could catch it. If you do know how the trick works, you’re watching someone be extraordinarily skillful at executing it. Either way, there’s magic to be found.

I’ve been a game developer for a decade, and I still find magic in many games, knowing exactly how it’s done, or why it’s done, or what choices or work went into creating it.

Games are magic. Not because of elves, but because of the passionate work, care, and love that humans put into trying to make sure that the spell of your experience never breaks.

https://www.facebook.com/tha.rami/posts/10156323844627107

#crossover #MiB #HarryPotter

#IBM #RedHat

ВНЕЗАПНО (это был долгий путь, да):

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-hybrid-cloud-provider

#gif #maps #Earth

#video #Kurzgesagt #calendar #12019

О, анонс голоценского календаря на следующий год:

https://youtu.be/FaB41TtgS54

#astronomy #NASA #Kepler

Кеплер всё, судя по всему:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7272

#comix #Dagsson #anarchy in the #UK

Последняя серия Доктора напомнила про клип 'Sex Pistols' и один комикс Дагссона:

https://hugleikurdagsson.tumblr.com/post/8778818671/anarchy-in-the-uk

#NASA #Kepler #history

8 апреля 2009 года Кеплер впервые взглянул на звёздное небо. Вчера его миссия официально завершилась. Немного истории его открытий (от канала Альфа Кентавра):

https://thealphacentauri.net/kepler-retirement/

#tech #AI #China #USA

Про новый виток гонки вооружений между Китаем и Штатами (текущими геополитическими полюсами):

Поражение человека перед Alpha Go. Акцент в госпланах на искусственный интеллект. Девяностые и свобный интернет. Революция в Египте, Арабская весна. Свобода мнений и социальные сети во вред демократии. Китай и Россия. Меньше гражданский прав — больше данных — лидерство в машинном обучении. Техно-авторитаризм, геополитика, холодная война за информацию. Сумбур? — Нет. Это главные тезисы в шедевральном чтиве от Wired. Аплодирую авторам за их труд и попытку порассуждать о происходящее в мире, скозь призму технологического прогресса.

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-cold-war-china-could-doom-us-all/ #созидание

#story #crossover #HarryPotter #Valley #BurglarsTrip #English

О, наткнулся тут в сети на попытку перевода на английский язык одного ииз лучших (среди законченных) фанфиков по ГП — “Burglars’ trip”:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16338707/chapters/38226023 (from)

В своё время оказал на меня достаточно серьёзное влияние, да и сейчас периодически перечитываю и нахожу много пользительного:

“Burglars' Trip by Valley, is one of the best Harry Potter fanfics, not to say, one of the best stories written in 21 century. Anyone familiar with it will confirm. It is in Russian originally, and now I started translating it into English because I believe than it would be a crime not to make it available for more readers all around the world.
The author so masterfully turned the boy-who-lived into a boy-who-doesn't-matters-at-all and fantasy for kids into the novel for adults, answering all existential questions, without changing a single bit of canon.”

Небольшое отступление от канона там, впрочем, есть. В остальном же — в лучших традициях крипто-истории, когда фактаж такой же, но подоплёка событий совершенно иная.

#video #Overwatch #lore

Ещё немного к миру Овервотча:

https://youtu.be/PKYVvPNhRR0

The Fifth of November

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England's overthrow.
But, by God's providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James's sake!
If you won't give me one,
I'll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!