🏰 Heroes of Might and Magic II
Realistic graphics will fade, but a good style is eternal.
HoMM2 was released 30 years ago in 1996. Don't be fooled by it's age. The aesthetics of the game, including the music and the UI are magical.
It looks beautiful, plays very well, and will provide years of strategic joy. Even Mods and Remasters are still being made for the series especially II and III, after three decades.
If you're a PC gamer and want exploration and discovery, challenge and tactical/strategic depth, visual apeal, functional UI, great ambience, music and sound effects, I suggest you to grab a copy of HoMM2: Gold Edition, download Fheroes2 and then you're good to go.
#game #homm
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Realistic graphics will fade, but a good style is eternal.
HoMM2 was released 30 years ago in 1996. Don't be fooled by it's age. The aesthetics of the game, including the music and the UI are magical.
It looks beautiful, plays very well, and will provide years of strategic joy. Even Mods and Remasters are still being made for the series especially II and III, after three decades.
If you're a PC gamer and want exploration and discovery, challenge and tactical/strategic depth, visual apeal, functional UI, great ambience, music and sound effects, I suggest you to grab a copy of HoMM2: Gold Edition, download Fheroes2 and then you're good to go.
#game #homm
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Heroes Of Might & Magic II OST: Magnificent Field (Grassland Theme)
How they nailed the ambience with just a few simple looping sound files.
There are games with budgets in 100s of millions today that struggle to create an atmosphere with dolby/3D or whatever sound engines.
Those guys did it 30 years ago and it still holds up.
#music #soundtrack #homm
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There are games with budgets in 100s of millions today that struggle to create an atmosphere with dolby/3D or whatever sound engines.
Those guys did it 30 years ago and it still holds up.
#music #soundtrack #homm
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🤚🏻 Black & White 2
B&W2 looked incredible back when it was released (2005). It has aged like fine wine and still looks beautiful despite being in 3D. It's also playable on modern systems. All that is needed is a fan patch to prevent the game from crashing.
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B&W2 looked incredible back when it was released (2005). It has aged like fine wine and still looks beautiful despite being in 3D. It's also playable on modern systems. All that is needed is a fan patch to prevent the game from crashing.
In Black & White 2 You take the role of a god called from the void (nothingness) to help the villagers who invoked them.
You must help develop their nature according to their good or evil desires. The player is physically represented in the world as an avatar-like creature, which takes the form of a giant anthropomorphic ape, lion, wolf, turtle, cow, or tiger.
The creature can grow to an immense size, and adopt a good or evil persona based on how the player rewards or punishes their actions.
In addition to the god simulation and city-building elements introduced in the original Black & White, Black & White 2 also features elements of real-time strategy gameplay, with the addition of controllable warfare and fighting units.
#game
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All About Warhammer 40000.torrent
599.4 KB
Everything #Warhammer
Catalogues and collector's guides, collectibles, books, mags, paintings, army list, codex, datasheet, expansions, rulebooks, ... . #torrent
~124 GB
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Catalogues and collector's guides, collectibles, books, mags, paintings, army list, codex, datasheet, expansions, rulebooks, ... . #torrent
~124 GB
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The Timeless Beauty of Pre Rendered Graphics
Some PC games in the late 90s and early 2000s had a particular look that stands the test of time.
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Some PC games in the late 90s and early 2000s had a particular look that stands the test of time.
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"We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in it's proper place."
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Joseph de Maistre
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🎬 T2: Behind The Scenes
The awesome magic of Terminator 2 came from blending practical effects by Stan Winston Studio with early CGI by ILM.
Cameron used full CGI sparingly because it was extremely expensive in 1991, saving it for those "Impossible" scenes.
#terminator #cinema
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The awesome magic of Terminator 2 came from blending practical effects by Stan Winston Studio with early CGI by ILM.
Cameron used full CGI sparingly because it was extremely expensive in 1991, saving it for those "Impossible" scenes.
#terminator #cinema
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🛸 UFO whistleblower Jake Barber would '100% testify' under oath to Congress - Interview
Barber said he flew helicopters during secret government missions to retrieve what may have been alien technology.
In one instance, he said, he transported a white, egg-shaped object the size of an SUV. On another occasion, he observed a flying disc with eight discernible edges, something he referred to as an “Eightgon.”
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Barber said he flew helicopters during secret government missions to retrieve what may have been alien technology.
In one instance, he said, he transported a white, egg-shaped object the size of an SUV. On another occasion, he observed a flying disc with eight discernible edges, something he referred to as an “Eightgon.”
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✝ The Silent Witness (1978)
Documentary Film - 480P
British atheist filmmaker David Rolfe, who set out to make a documentary on the Shroud of Turin (believed to be the cloth in which Jesus was wrapped) to disprove Jesus, left atheism and became a Christian following his study of the shroud.
#documentary
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British atheist filmmaker David Rolfe, who set out to make a documentary on the Shroud of Turin (believed to be the cloth in which Jesus was wrapped) to disprove Jesus, left atheism and became a Christian following his study of the shroud.
The Silent Witness is a documentary based on scientific investigations of the Shroud of Turin. Noted medical examiners, theologians, physicists and historians use modern science to trace the probable history of the cloth.
#documentary
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🧠 Free Will vs Determinism Free Will vs Determinism has always been one of the great Philosophical debates. There are strong arguments for and against each one, and also paradoxes. As an example of paradoxes that debases 'Determinsm' is the existence of…
Determinism is a Precursor to Dictatorship
If one seeks to enslave men, one has to destroy their reliance on the validity of their own judgments and choices.
If one believes that reason and volition are impotent, one has to accept the rule of force.
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If one seeks to enslave men, one has to destroy their reliance on the validity of their own judgments and choices.
If one believes that reason and volition are impotent, one has to accept the rule of force.
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Sixty voices sustain the piece inside a Cathedral that is 700 years old. No stage microphones; just natural acoustics and gothic reverberation. The sound takes it's time to die. each note carries the shadow of the last.
It rises in slow waves like something building with no turning back. Barber later arranged it for orchestra and it became known as Adagio for Strings. Decades later he requested it be played at his own funeral.
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It rises in slow waves like something building with no turning back. Barber later arranged it for orchestra and it became known as Adagio for Strings. Decades later he requested it be played at his own funeral.
#music
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Strange Times!
Want irreligion? Go to the priests or the mystics!
Want ignorance? Go to the academic crowd!
Want bankruptcy and economic collapse? Go to the economists!
Want totalitarianism? Go to the self-proclaimed champions of freedom!
Want sickness? Consult a doctor!
Want to evade the law? Go to a lawyer!
Want an ugly, soulless, and misshapen building? Go to architecture graduates!
Want theft? The police!
Want foolishness? The intellectual and the philosopher!
Want nonsensical, undisciplined chatter? The poet and the orator!
Injustice? The judge!
Tyranny? The will of the majority!
Mental illness? The psychologist!
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Want irreligion? Go to the priests or the mystics!
Want ignorance? Go to the academic crowd!
Want bankruptcy and economic collapse? Go to the economists!
Want totalitarianism? Go to the self-proclaimed champions of freedom!
Want sickness? Consult a doctor!
Want to evade the law? Go to a lawyer!
Want an ugly, soulless, and misshapen building? Go to architecture graduates!
Want theft? The police!
Want foolishness? The intellectual and the philosopher!
Want nonsensical, undisciplined chatter? The poet and the orator!
Injustice? The judge!
Tyranny? The will of the majority!
Mental illness? The psychologist!
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Forwarded from Aesthetica Aeterna (Andrew Scott)
Older homes mature in their own character. They don’t bend to the latest fads of architecture and decor.
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🎥 Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978)
480P - English - No Subtitles
An incredible Oscar-nominated nature documentary directed by Joan and Alan Root (There is a second version narrated by Orson Welles).
As far as I know, a Termite colony is the only living society besides that of the humans that gather around a King and her Queen.
Albeit they act a lot smarter than the French🇫🇷 in protecting the Monarch. Termites know if the King and the Queen get hurt or removed, they're doomed.
#cinema #documentary
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480P - English - No Subtitles
An incredible Oscar-nominated nature documentary directed by Joan and Alan Root (There is a second version narrated by Orson Welles).
As far as I know, a Termite colony is the only living society besides that of the humans that gather around a King and her Queen.
Albeit they act a lot smarter than the French🇫🇷 in protecting the Monarch. Termites know if the King and the Queen get hurt or removed, they're doomed.
#cinema #documentary
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[Modern] vs [Golden Age] Cartoons
Basically everything is reduced to numbers, Humans included. They see us as flesh and bone outside, chemical reactions inside.
The focus changed from letting passionate writers and artists do their thing to letting focus groups and analytics decide what gets the best numbers and engagement. They went from art to imposed formula, then chasing trends to maximize numbers.
They also have check-boxes of racial and so-called gender diversity to add, dumbing down plots and making characters ugly. There were diverse characters in the Classics (different animals for instance), but they weren't check-boxes. Each character was their own person, not mouth pieces and tokens.
#cinema #cartoon #animation
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Basically everything is reduced to numbers, Humans included. They see us as flesh and bone outside, chemical reactions inside.
The focus changed from letting passionate writers and artists do their thing to letting focus groups and analytics decide what gets the best numbers and engagement. They went from art to imposed formula, then chasing trends to maximize numbers.
They also have check-boxes of racial and so-called gender diversity to add, dumbing down plots and making characters ugly. There were diverse characters in the Classics (different animals for instance), but they weren't check-boxes. Each character was their own person, not mouth pieces and tokens.
#cinema #cartoon #animation
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