#KB Chronicles

[greenteaforbreakfast]

2024-es lista

Folytatva a hagyományokat, megint elfelejtettem tegnap posztolni, pedig a szöveg már meg volt írva. Nem voltam igazán formában, de az látszik is. Mindegy, read more után minimál vélemény.

Robert Galbraith: The Running Grave - 4 és fél nap alatt olvastam el az 1200 oldalt, szóval nem volt baja. Mármint a könyvnek, nem az írónak, még mielőtt.

V. E. Schwab: The Fragile Threads of Power - Tök jó, hogy ez idén jelent meg, mert pont tavaly olvastam el végre a trilógiát, amihez kapcsolódik. Nagyon jó kis folytatás volt, találkoztunk régi szereplőkkel is, de nem éreztem erőltetettnek, jó volt velük újra együtt. Hozta az első könyvek szintjét.

Erlend Loe: Doppler - Minden évben olvasok Loe-t, a Dopplert most olvastam talán ötödjére.

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird - Régen el akarom olvasni, hiszen klasszikus, amiről ódákat szokás zengeni. Megérdemli. Nagyon intelligens könyv.

Margaret Atwood: The Edible Woman - Ez tőle az első könyvem. Olvasás közben is tetszett, de a végén visszagondolva az egészre még jobban. Durva, hogy mindezt a hatvanas években írta.

Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five - Tizensok éve olvastam utoljára Vonneguttól, olyat akartam, amit még nem. Az értékelések meg az ajánlók szeretik a megrázó, gusztustalan, megdöbbentő jelzőkkel illetni ezt a könyvet, de nekem annyira nem volt úgy kirívóan egyik sem, hogy a végén utánajártam, hogy nem-e valami cenzúrázott változatot sikerült-e olvasnom. (Nem.)

Émile Ajar: Előttem az élet - Újraolvasás. Szép és jó még mindig.

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go - Erről meg már annyi jót hallottam, hogy mondom akkor bepótolom gyorsan. Annyira azért nem mennék messzire, hogy azt mondjam, fölösleges időpocsékolás volt, de hogy semmit nem tett hozzá az életemhez ez a könyv, az is biztos. Nem jött meg a kedvem ehhez az íróhoz.

Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Elkezdtem angolul, bár Murakamit legtöbbször magyarul olvastam eddig. Annyira out of place volt az egésznek a hangulata, és annyi félrefordítás-szerű értelmetlenség volt benne, hogy muszáj volt utána járnom (redditen kurvajó beszélgetéseket találtam róla), meg magyarul is elkezdenem, hogy kiderüljön, mi folyik itt. Kiderült: borzalmasan szar az angol fordítása :D

Murakami Haruki: A Kurblimadár krónikája - Magyarul jobb volt :) Nem a legjobb könyve, de könnyen lecsúszott.

Ross Welford: The 1000 Year Old Boy - Ez nagyon aranyos sztori volt. Okos, érzelmekkel teli gyerekkönyv, szerethető karakterekkel. 10-12 éveseknek ajánlják, de szerintem a nagyobbaknak is élvezetes.

Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis - Egyike a rengeteg kötelezőnek, amit még sosem olvastam. Részleteket belőle talán, de azokra sem emlékeztem. Ez is a gusztustalan, gyomorforgató, borzalmas jelzőket szokta kapni, de én már soha többet nem hiszek másoknak. Mondjuk én bírom a bogarakat. Egyébként tetszett nagyon, biztosan el fogom még olvasni párszor.

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice - Na ha már olyan jól mentek idén a klasszikusok, próbáljunk rá erre - gondoltam én, balga módon. Kb 120 oldal után feladtam. Fuh te. Ennyi üres, semmitmondó, idegesítő beszélgetést én még sosem láttam egy helyen. Értem én, hogy a maga idejében ez volt A Könyv, és még a lövészárkokban is ezt olvasták, de hát a Fifty Shades of Grey is mekkorát ment már... :)

Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns - A Kite Runner jobban tetszett, ez sokkal kevésbé tűnt valósnak nekem, ami rontott az élvezeti értékén.

Louis Sachar: Holes - Ez magyarul a Stanley, a szerencse fia címet viseli, és az egyik legjobb ifjúsági regény evör. Nem először olvastam.

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale + The Testaments - Megmondom őszintén, én már ezt a két könyvet így 4 hónap távlatából sem tudom ketté választani, egyáltalán nem emlékszem, melyikben mi történt. Az Ehető Nő után, mivel ez kapta mindig a hype-ot, jobbat vártam, de ez legyen az én bajom.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Labyrinth of the Spirits - Azt kicsit megbántam, hogy nem a másik három után olvastam tavaly, így majdnem egy év kihagyás után már fogalmam nem volt, hogy a régi szereplők közül ki kicsoda. De így is nagyon élvezetes volt, pörgött a sztori, és a lezárás sem volt borzalmas. (Az utolsó fejezetet leszámítva, arra nem tudom, mi szükség volt.)

Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Nagyon ritkán mondom könyvekre, hogy ezt mindenkinek el kéne olvasnia. Na ezt mindenkinek el kéne olvasnia.

Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha - Már a Hosseinivel is az volt szerintem a bajom, hogy nagyon érezhetően a női közönségnek írták férfiak, ebből meg egyenesen üvöltött. De legalább nem az a fajta, aki teljesen hülyének néz :) Nem volt benne fölösleges, csöpögős romantika (plusz pont), viszont olyan túlzottan hihetőre sem sikerült (mínusz pont, ha már memoárként tálaljuk). Rossz mondjuk nem volt, de azért sokat nem veszít az ember, ha sose kerül a kezébe. 1001 könyves listák ide vagy oda.

Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary - Ezt az embert én nem tartom kifejezetten jó írónak, igazából nem tudom, mit vártam ettől a könyvtől, vagy hogy miért vettem a kezembe. A kis alien haver cuki volt benne, amúgy azért nem az év sci-fije, pedig szokás dicsérni.

Arto Paasilinna: Az akasztott rókák erdeje - Nagyon finn, nagyon sarkvidéki (fun fact: pont azon a szélességi körön játszódik, ahol élek), nagyon vicces kis abszurdum. Kicsit olyan, mint egy népmese, csak nem a legkisebb királyfiról, hanem egy bűnöző és egy alkoholista őrnagy kapcsolatáról szól a finn vadonban, ahol mindenféle váratlan és fura dolog történik velük. Fogok még a szerzőtől olvasni.

Octavia E. Butler: Xenogenesis trilogy - Így kell sci-fit írni. Apokalipszis, fura földönkívüli lények, hiteles emberi karakterek, jól felépített világ, értelmes, komoly, intelligens, váratlan sztori, de sosem wtf. Még csak pár órája tettem le, de már hiányoznak.

2023-as lista

[einsteinsugly]

Hey Megan, I have a question for you.

If you had written season 8 of T7S (and the entirety of That 90s Show), what would you have done?

Season 8:

Donna: Goes back to being a redhead. Applies to UW Milwaukee, but is in community college in the meantime. She starts interning for the Point Place Chronicle, while still doing WFPP sometimes. She deals with a nightmare boss. She and Eric are still together, obviously.

Eric: He's about the same, minus breaking up with Donna and he doesn't get shit on all the time. He gets kicked out of the program, after questioning apartheid. He and Donna now plan to go to UW Milwaukee together.

Fez: Laurie is his new roommate, and it's revealed they never really divorced. They both go to cosmetology school, and hijinks ensue. Fez, slowly but surely, returns to his season 4 self.

Hyde: He and Jackie reconcile, and at some point, they get engaged. Hyde wants to wait for a wedding. Jackie is impatient. He still lives with the Formans, but he's about to move out with Jackie. He and Jackie are going to move to Milwaukee together. Kitty suffers with imminent empty nest syndrome.

Jackie: Also applies to UW Milwaukee, and is in community college in the meantime. She and Donna are studying journalism together. She still has a disastrous internship (this time) with Christine St George, and she tries to come to terms with essentially wasting her semester. But she wants to continue, as someone who is way better than Christine St George.

Kelso: He's about the same, but he's a cop, and he and Brooke officially get together.

That 00s Show: With no irl constraints, obv.

It'll take place in the early-mid 00s, when the gang's gang are most likely to be teens. Y2k nostalgia is definitely more prominent, atm, anyway. Anywho.

Eric and Donna live next door to Jackie and Hyde, in Chicago. ED, JH, and the kids are the main focus, as well as KB's son Jay (16).

Eric is a history teacher, ala Mr Feeny, at the school where the kids attend. ED's eldest kid is constantly humiliated. Donna works for the Chicago Sun Times.

Eric and Donna have two daughters (16 and 12), one of which is a tween and is the Matt McGuire nuisance type. The tween crushes on the older Hyde boy. The older ED daughter has been best friends with JH's daughter for the longest time, but she doesn't like Jay, and they're beginning to drift apart.

*****

Jackie has her own TV show, and Hyde owns a Grooves. Grooves, like The Hub, is a default hang out spot for the kids. Hyde imparts his wisdom, sometimes.

Jackie and Hyde have a daughter (16) and a son (14). The daughter is interested in Jay, and Hyde is overprotective and annoyed.

So, the gang includes...

Jay Kelso. Jackie and Hyde's son and daughter, William "Will" and Sarah. Eric and Donna's older daughter Alexandra "Allie." Fez and Rhonda's LGBTQ son Julian (15), and his black boyfriend Tony (15). Plus, there's ED's daughter Lucy on the fringes.

It's not that far off from my verse, obviously. I just had to do some things to make it less drama-filled and more comedic. Aka, omit Laurie and her brood, and the seriously troubling behavior of my OC Leah (ED's younger daughter).

[mikubilliards]

I think these two have an uncanny similarity…

Mentally ill girl struggling to deal with the weight of expectations that is put on them by society and tries to cope with some art form only to end up…not coping with it…

(Link for the Shania art)

[mysageukinbio]

https://www.fightboks.com/forums/topic/three-flags-1992-turkce-altyazili-izle/

For those who speak Turkish, someone's fulled translated KBS' Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms (1992)! Enjoy!

[rohitpalan]

Expanding RFID Reader Industry Meeting Customer Needs in the Era of Modern Technology and Complex Supply Chains

“Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Readers Market: Global Industry Analysis (2012-2016) and Opportunity Assessment (2017-2027)” is the title of a recent research study released by Future Market Insights (FMI). According to the survey, customers are being encouraged to use RFID technology by the rising ubiquity of modern technology and the complexity of supply chains. As a result, companies in the RFID reader industry are constantly expanding their product lines to satisfy the needs of customers everywhere.

According to the report, the global RFID readers market is expected to witness a significant CAGR of 12.3% from 2017 to 2027. The market was worth US$ 5545.5 Mn in 2017 and is expected to rise to a valuation of US$ 17,758.8 Mn by the end of the forecast period.

Retail Sector to Intensify its Deployment of RFID Technology

Growing demand for efficient supply chain operations in the retail sector is leading to a rising demand for RFID technology. RFID tags and readers are installed by companies as a part of their security issues to prevent risk of theft and loss. Companies are intensifying the adoption of automated item identification systems for supply chain management in order to improve inventory allocation efficiencies. The growing need for efficient supply chain management is expected to support revenue growth of the RFID readers market during the forecast period. RFIDs store detailed information up to 2 KB related to the product on which it is tagged. Prices and details of the product with RFID tags are spontaneously chronicled when the customer approaches the counter, without scanning each and every product, which saves time of the customer. Furthermore, it permits cost tally in one scan, which saves time of the user as well as the product retailer.

Breech and Data Insecurity to Hinder Market Growth in the Long Run

RFID readers and tags do not have a locking system or for that matter, a secure password. As a result, the risk of information breach increases. The dearth of security systems is a restraining factor in the growth of the RFID readers market. Several companies in the healthcare and other industries avoid using these systems for asset tracking as there is a chance of information breach related to the usage of medicine.

With this factor restraining the growth of the market, it is yet to be seen where the global RFID readers market will stand in the next 10 years.

[emorat]

i know a lot of the mutuals i had back in the day and people i interacted with are no longer active BUT i still wanted to kind of make a little post about me coming back to tumblr fully again after so long!!! aaahhh

it'll still semi be a music central blog but i will be emphasizing more on the aesthetic and horror media related aspects of this blog. and the bands i talk about are largely gonna change because while i still listen to a lot of the stuff this blog use to be about (mcr, ptv, p!atd, etc.) I am much more into metalcore these days with a sprinkling of other stuff.

excited to see how this blog changes from when i was a teen. I don't think i'm going to delete anything. I just want to show an evolution of sorts to reflect. I think I am largely the same person I was.

I also want to make this an actual blog and post and share pics of myself and possibly my art! since i do draw. it might motivate me idk we'll see. I've always wanted to do look-books every month or chronicle my day to day outfits and i hate tik tok and don't like instagram so i feel like it would be nice here!

anyway the next couple of days i'm gonna clean out my follow list of inactive accounts and accounts that revolve around topics im no longer interested in. I'm also going to release a bunch of urls i've been hoarding from my bandom blog days when i use to change my name every other day. i'm pretty comfortable with emorat and don't plan on changing it.

no longer gonna tag my posts as personal and will start tagging them as "KB".

[mykpopwire]

media release: K-drama star Lee Joon Gi to meet fans in Malaysia for the first time at 2024 LEE JOON GI ASIA TOUR in Kuala Lumpur

Multitalented South Korean actor and singer Lee Joon Gi is set to hold his first ever fan meeting in Malaysia that also marks his debut appearance in the country!

Jointly organised by Lo-Fi Entertainment and Hit Maker Entertainment, with Sliding Doors Entertainment as Co-Organizer, 2024 LEE JOON GI ASIA TOUR in Kuala Lumpur will make 22 September a Sunday to remember at Mega Star Arena, KL from 6pm onwards.

Fans that have been watching the K-drama and movie star on screen finally have the chance to see him in person. Apart from memorable interactions, the crowd will get to enjoy exciting performances from Lee Joon Gi, who is also known for his impeccable dance moves and impressive vocals.

Lee Joon Gi started out as a model with only small acting roles before he rose to fame on his first leading role in the film “The King and the Clown”, followed by the romcom series “My Girl” that further boosted his name in the industry.

He has been named as the “King of Sageuk”, or “King of Historical Dramas”, having played the lead role of many such popular series, including “Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo” alongside “Scholar Who Walks the Night”, “Arang and the Magistrate” and “Iljimae”.

True to his reputation as a versatile actor, he has starred in K-dramas of various genres such as “Arthdal Chronicles”, “Again My Life”, “Flower of Evil” alongside Moon Chae Won, “Lawless Lawyer” with Seo Yea Ji, and more. He made his Hollywood debut in the film “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter”.

Throughout his acting career, Lee Joon Gi has won multiple awards, from South Korea’s Grand Bell Awards, SBS Drama Awards, KBS Drama Awards and more to the world stage at Hawaii International Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival, among others.

As a singer, Lee Joon Gi has released a number of songs that showcase different styles. He is also skilled in martial arts with a black belt in taekwondo, hapkido and taekkyeon.

Tickets with exclusive fan benefits will be available on www.ticketingtix.com from 12 noon, Friday, 26th July 2024!

For more information, follow Lo-Fi Entertainment on Instagram and Facebook.

*photos courtesy of Lo-Fi Entertainment

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[mykpoplovers]

K-DRAMA STAR LEE JOON GI TO MEET FANS IN MALAYSIA FOR THE FIRST TIME AT 2024 LEE JOON GI ASIA TOUR <JOONGI'S DAY: FESTIVAL> IN KUALA LUMPUR

Tickets on sale 26th July with exclusive fan benefits up for grabs !

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 July 2024 – Multitalented South Korean actor and singer Lee Joon Gi is set to hold his first ever fan meeting in Malaysia that also marks his debut appearance in the country!

Jointly organised by Lo-Fi Entertainment and Hit Maker Entertainment, with Sliding Doors Entertainment as Co-Organizer, 2024 LEE JOON GI ASIA TOUR in Kuala Lumpur will make 22 September a Sunday to remember at Mega Star Arena, KL from 6pm onwards.

Fans that have been watching the K-drama and movie star on screen finally have the chance to see him in person. Apart from memorable interactions, the crowd will get to enjoy exciting performances from Lee Joon Gi, who is also known for his impeccable dance moves and impressive vocals.

Lee Joon Gi started out as a model with only small acting roles before he rose to fame on his first leading role in the film “The King and the Clown”, followed by the romcom series “My Girl” that further boosted his name in the industry.

He has been named as the “King of Sageuk”, or “King of Historical Dramas”, having played the lead role of many such popular series, including “Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo” alongside “Scholar Who Walks the Night”, “Arang and the Magistrate” and “Iljimae”. True to his reputation as a versatile actor, he has starred in K-dramas of various genres such as “Arthdal Chronicles”, “Again My Life”, “Flower of Evil” alongside Moon Chae Won, “Lawless Lawyer” with Seo Yea Ji, and more.

He made his Hollywood debut in the film “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter”. Throughout his acting career, Lee Joon Gi has won multiple awards, from South Korea’s Grand Bell Awards, SBS Drama Awards, KBS Drama Awards and more to the world stage at Hawaii International Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival, among others.

As a singer, Lee Joon Gi has released a number of songs that showcase different styles. He is also skilled in martial arts with a black belt in taekwondo, hapkido and taekkyeon.

Fan benefits are up for grabs with a ticket purchase, available on www.ticketingtix.com from 12 noon, Friday, 26th July 2024 at the following prices, subject to RM4 processing fee:

VIP ZONE - RM798 (Fan Benefits: Personal Signed Poster for 23 fans; Signed Poster for 80 fans; Individual Photo (1:1) for 30 fans; Group Photo (20:1) for 280 Fans; Soundcheck and Goodbye Session for all.)

CAT 1 – RM668 (Fan Benefits: Signed Poster for 70 fans; Group Photo (20:1) for 20 fans; Goodbye Session for all.)

CAT 2 – RM538 (Fan Benefit: Goodbye Session for all.)

CAT 3 – RM358 (Fan Benefit: Goodbye Session for all.)

For more information, follow Lo-Fi Entertainment on Instagram (www.instagram.com/lofi.entertainment) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/lofi.entertainmentkl).

[kbnet]

I started that one, but quickly found myself unimpressed. It reads as if it went to the presses entirely unedited. The forward is pure 2020 astonishment that Trump has any more than a 2% approval rating transported not just over the sea to the UK, but bewilderingly, thence across time and space to a historian who must've been a rough contemporary of Luke and Leia. (Edit: you apparently got to this part while I was writing this lol) Dr. Kempshall's biographical approach to Palpatine is history – promising, in some ways – but somewhat banal and unedifying history. I didn't stick around to see if that promise was ever fulfilled. Given its fulsome recommendations both here and elsewhere, I suspect it must, and I am in error.

There's also the The Essential Guide to Galactic Warfare – pre-Didney, also co-written by a (pseudonymous) historian – which I've flipped through but haven't started. "Lore" people seem to cite it often for connective tissue when trying to make sense of political or military history in Star Wars. It covers tens of millennia with a chronicler's lens, which makes it poor history, but perhaps not poor literature – I simply don't know. In the Star Wars universe, I picture it being the sort of non-peer-reviewed pop mil history you read when you're twelve that generates highly entertaining essays for your teachers to grade, but only sets you up for a lifetime of redditing and youtube comments.

I can recommend you some Star Trek though!

>but KB I don't think Ash was ever really into St-

-shut up, it's my blog >:(

We Have Engaged the Borg is probably the best literary Star Trek ever written. This is admittedly not a high bar, but don't let that diminish the recommendation. It's an oral history of the Battle of Wolf 359 from the famous two-part TNG episode The Best of Both Worlds. In-universe, it's the more journalistic personal project of an author of a partly classified official history that he helped prepare for the inquiry following the incident. This gives it a proper historiographic frame for what is otherwise a less rigorous, more personal "history," and also lets the fictional author himself come forward as a clear character in the way the book itself itself is arranged. It feels firmly planted in the culture of the late 24th century Federation – the self-image and concerns of the Starfleet officer corps both during the battle and at the time of writing – and yet you can also faintly detect that it's partly the work of an Afghanistan vet working through some stuff. It's the best take I've read on Starfleet as an organization, in part because it doesn't try to "rationalize" them as a proper military, and in part because the authors both have some personal experience with the kind of people they write about.

I also recommend The Edge of Midnight, which is about the Federation-Klingon Cold War. I don't recommend it as highly: it's more dry, occasionally too analogical to the US-Soviet Cold War (I mean, fair), can sometimes lose itself playing with toy spaceships, and commits the truly unforgivable, mortal sin of suggesting that Starfleet has a bunch of dumb three-nacelle "battleships" somewhere offscreen. However, I adore its vision of the 23rd century Federation as a (distinctly British!) parliamentary democracy, and all its factional fighting. The way it tries to make sense of the Klingons as they swing wildly from depiction to depiction is also kinda brilliant. It's not nearly so analogical that the charming character of a strategic competition between such strange polities as the Federation and the Klingon Empire doesn't come through. There are excellent audio recordings which I think have caught up to where the text version is.

It also gives us some fun videos.

I haven't read it but you may be interested to know there's an official Star Wars book that came out last year called The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, which is an in-universe imitation of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, written by an actual historian

Oh that is actually kind of based - I will check it out, that sounds very fun. I love books like that because they very actively sit on a sort of "academia heirarchy", you can often very clearly see what "era" of academia the writer is coming from, who they owe their inspiration to, etc. "Did Baudrillard write this book, or did Rawls? Let's find out!"

(Though since it was published recently, I imagine they are going to at some point have to desperately try to squeeze the inanity that is the First Order stuff into the "aftermath" into a coherent whole. Not a project I envy them doing...)

[chants-de-rome]

Elegance de Muse

Name: Kim Ji Won (김지원) Birthday: October 19, 1992 Zodiac Sign: Libra Height: 164 cm (5’5″) Instagram: @geewonii Facebook: OfficialKimJiWon1

Kim Ji Won Facts: – She was born in Geumcheon District, South Korea. – She has an older sister. – Education: Dongguk University. – She is a former actress under Agent Lionmedia. – She is now currently under King Kong Entertainment. – Her nickname is “Little Kim Tae Hee” as she is alike to her. – She would like to shoot a household appliance commercial in the future. – She made her acting debut in Japan in 2012. – She is friends with actress Park Shin Hye. – She likes to listen to 70s and 80s music. – Kim Ji Won’s ideal type: Someone who makes sacrifices for their significant other.

Kim Ji Won Movies: Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead (조선명탐정: 흡혈괴마의 비밀) | 2018 – Wol YoungHorror Stories 2 (무서운 이야기 2) | 2013 – Sa Tan Hee Horror Stories (무서운 이야기) | 2012 – Herself Romantic Heaven (로맨틱 헤븐) | 2011 – Choi Mi Mi

Kim Ji Won Drama Series: Arthdal Chronicles (아스달 연대기) | tvN / 2019 – Tan Ya Mr. Sunshine (미스터 션샤인) | tvN / 2018 – Hui Jin (cameo ep. 1)Fight for My Way (쌈 마이웨이) | KBS2 / 2017 – Choi Ae Ra Descendants of the Sun (태양의 후예) | KBS2 / 2016 – Yoon Myung Ju Hidden Identity (신분을 숨겨라) | tvN / 2015 – Min Tae Hee (cameo) Gap-dong (갑동이) | tvN / 2014 – Ma Ji Wool The Heirs (상속자들) | SBS / 2013 – Rachel Yoo To The Beautiful You (아름다운 그대에게) | SBS / 2012 – Seol Han Na What’s Up? (왓츠업) | MBN / 2011-2012 – Park Tae Yi High Kick 3: Revenge of the Short Legged (하이킥: 짧은 다리의 역습) | MBC / 2011-2012 – Kim Ji Won

Kim Ji Won Awards: 2017 KBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries (“Fight for My Way”) 2017 KBS Drama Awards | Female Netizen Award (“Fight for My Way”) 2017 KBS Drama Awards | Best Couple Award with Park Seo Joon (“Fight for My Way”)2016 KBS Drama Awards | Excellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries (“Descendants of the Sun”) 2016 KBS Drama Awards | Best New Actress (“Descendants of the Sun”) 2016 KBS Drama Awards | Best Couple Award with Jin Goo (“Descendants of the Sun”) 2016 APAN Star Awards | Best Supporting Actress (“Descendants of the Sun”) 2013 SBS Drama Awards | New Star Award (“The Heirs”)

[kawaoneechan]

Why I don't like Unity

There's three reasons, basically, besides my personal inability to get any custom character assets into Unity, Unreal, or Godot.

Let me tell you below the readmore.

Reason #1: it managed to fucking bluescreen my system just trying to start.

How do you fuck that up? I download an installer and run it. This gives me a launcher. From there, I'm supposed to install the actual product I wanted to begin with. That's bad enough, to be honest. But then the fucking launcher managed to break so badly, I had my first BSOD in several months. With all I do to my poor laptops, I so very rarely got crashes like that it honestly threw me the fuck off.

If the launcher is gonna play like that, forget about installing the actual product.

Reason #2: CPU pegging up the ass.

On my previous laptop, attempting to run basically any Unity-based game would peg the CPU, all cores, until the poor thing ran so hot within mere minutes, it'd commit preventative sudoku. Maybe if I was lucky, I'd get a chance to set all the things to "lowest", and that might let me, I dunno, play long enough to get through the goddamn tutorial?

And I'm not even talking about state-of-the-art 3D games, but simple 2D games with low-resolution pixel art. Why would those run a dual-core at 200% until it fucking kills itself? Makes no sense.

Now, Phil Fortier of Icefall Games is an acquaintance of mine via SCI shenanigans, and when he released Snow Spirit (soon to be rereleased as part of Chronicles of Cascadia), I lamented to him about how his use of Unity would mean I couldn't run any of his stuff. So Phil looked into it and found a Big Fucking Thing to optimize. This basically makes Phil's SCI games the only things made in Unity that I can personally trust won't Do That.

Reason #3: About those 2D games...

I'm gonna dip into my Twitter archives for a bit and repost some stuff for this part.

*wavy flashback effect*

This is Angel Jump, a simple little arcade jumping game that's available on itch.io:

It's delightfully low resolution and has like four seconds of audio all added up. Can't be more than a few MB, depending on which sane development framework they used, right?

33 MB, actually. Because Unity. Let's see how it breaks down:

Unity main exe: 623 KB

Main game assets file: 1.19 MB together

A folder full of support DLLs like terrain and cloth: 7.17 MB, 90% or more of them never called because this is a 2D pixel-art game.

Unity's default resources: 3.41 MB. Mind that of these, only the splash logo is actually used because Angel Jump was made in the free edition.

Mono embedded runtime: 2.61 MB, and each game gets its own copy, much like how Electron apps each have their own copies of Chromium.

And another 17 MB for the Unity Player.

All in all, 33 MB of files for a game like that. Why? Because Unity is a bloated crapsack, I'd conclude from a cursory study like that. Let's compare that to some other games.

This is Elevator Girl, which is not on itch.io.

It has a lot of different animations and three fairly long background music tracks. It's only one file, 18.7 MB. I'm willing to bet most of that is the BGM, but I can't confirm it because it's just the one file.

And just for some historical perspective, the entire Crystal Caves trilogy is 1.31 MB, including some chaff. Commander Keen 4 on its own is 740 KB. Now, Keen and Elevator Girl both have OPL soundtracks, but the latter's is probably streamed.

Noxico is only 1.25 MB to download as a .7z file. Its only optimization that I myself actively apply is that I crunch the PNG files. The rest is text, and since the game uses a .zip file by another name as a game data source... yeah. That's a cheap win.

Now, back to Angel Jump. I went through the game's own resources to see what size it could conceivably have if it was not made in Unity. 54 textures, ten of them actually used. Tiny font stored in a weird way, possibly for distance field trickery which has no business in a 2D pixel game if you ask me. 921 KB of WAV files, high-quality bleepity-bloops, two of them jingles. 4.22 KB of PNG files, crunched like Noxico, for all but the creator's logo and the font. 973 KB for a copy of SDL, and I'd estimate at worst two MB for the main EXE.

The entire Angel Jump game could be no more than 4 MB and a half-dozen files, It's actually 33.2 MB, 92 files.

There's a more general computer programming issue that this reliance on Unity for even the simplest, smallest games seems to spring from: the bigger and better the computers get, the more lazy the developers get. Only have like four MHz, 640 KB of RAM and, what, 720 KB of diskette space, and no guarantee of an HDD? Better make the most of it, developers! But now the pressure's off and there's no more reason to exert any effort into keeping small games actually small.

*sigh*

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Napak Tilas Kdrama 2019 Versi Jepretpress

Napak Tilas Kdrama 2019 Versi Jepretpress

Hellooo everyone…. How have you been guys? I’m being busy lately. Not lately… but all day year, I’m being busy. My 2019 is such full days of my real life. Ingin bikin awardsuntuk drama-drama tahun 2019, tapi aku tidak sempat. Sayang banget sih, tahun 2018 kemaren enggak sempat buat, di tahun 2019 sekarang juga enggak sempat buat. Makanya aku ingin membahas yaaa, kilas balik, napak tilas drama…

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Mit olvastam a télen II.

Annyi mindent olvastam a télen, hogy inkább két részre bontottam. Szóval ezeket olvastam január második felétől kb. :

Matt Haig: Éjfél könyvtár

Karácsonyra kaptam, magamtól nem került volna a kezembe, de szórakoztató volt. Nem tudom, hogy jó könyvnek tartom e. Egyrészről olvasmányos volt és érdekes, csomó egész progresszív üzenettel. Másrészről ugyanaz a bajom vele, mint az Everything Everywhere All At Once filmmel, hogy egyrészt nagyon felszínes, másrészt hazugság, hogy csak a döntéseinken múlik, hogy mi lesz belőlünk. Csomó lehetőséghez nagyon jó helyre kell születni. Azt se hinném, hogy reális, hogy a főszereplőnő annyira tehetséges, hogy lehetett volna belőle olimpiai bajnok, világhírű énekes és sarkkutató is.

Ursula K. Le Guin: A megtalált és elveszett I.

Írtam róla korábban is, mert még az ősszel kezdtem el, de januárban fejeztem be. Nekem az első novellák, pl. a Buffalo lányai… is tetszettek, pedig sokan panaszkodnak rá, hogy nem erre számítottak a szerzőtől. Az I. kötet második felében a Haini ciklus novellái vannak, ez már megszokottabb stílus. A segrik ügyét emelném ki, mert az a legjobb és legreálisabb nőuralmas scifi amit valaha olvastam. Figyelembe veszi a biológiai különbségeket is és reálisan nyomasztó világot alkot.

Az első kötet utolsó történetei a Werel bolygón játszódó rabszolgafelszabadításos scifik és összefüggnek. Ezeket nagyon szerettem. Legjobban az Egy nő felszabadulása tetszett. Ez a kisregény kiválóan bemutatja, hogy mi történik a nőkkel a forradalomban, vagyis hogy ugyanannyit kockáztatnak, és ugyanúgy áldozatot hoznak, mint a férfiak, de kevesebbet nyernek vele, mert az új berendezkedés is el fogja nyomni őket. Ilyen szempontból nagyon jó tanmese is.

Ursula K. Le Guin: A megtalált és elveszett II.

Szintén novellák és egy kisregény. A novellákat igazából most nem olvastam el, mert már ismertem őket az Óceánföld meséiből.  Szóval ebből csak az Elveszett paradicsomok című kisregényt olvastam, ami egy baromi jó űrutazós scifi. Szerintem nagyon reálisan ábrázolta az évtizedekig tartó űrutazás társadalmi hatásait és a valláskritikával is tudtam azonosulni.

Ilona Andrews: Clean Sweep

Ilona Andrews: Sweep in Peace

Ilona Andrews: One Fell Sweep

Az Innkeeper Chronicles első három kötete. Minőségi urban fantasy vámpírokkal, vérfarkassokkal, alienekkel, fordulatos cselekménnyel. Imádom, nagyon olvastatja magát. Az One Fell Sweep végén egészen meghatódtam és bőgtem, pedig ezt pont nem várnám ettől a műfajtól.

Annie Erneux: Évek

Ez szintén egy baromi jó könyv, de valószínűszeg még jobban élveztem volna, ha jobban értenék a francia politikához. Még szerencse, hogy Jókain edződtem, mert így úgy is tudtam élvezni, hogy alig valamelyik politikusról vagy francia televíziós személyiségről tudtam, hogy kicsoda. Egy nő életét meséli el, úgy hogy közben a 40-estől az 2000-es évekig tartó időszak politikai eseményeiről és társadalmi változásairól is ír. Ilyen szempontból nekem Marilyn French: Nők (The Women’s Room)-ére hasonlít, csak ott külön fejezetben volt a korrajz és a cselekmény, itt meg egymásra úszik. Nagyon érdekes könyv, szerettem olvasni még úgy is, hogy néha nem volt egyszerű.

 A felénél tartok:

Ilona Andrews: Sweep of the Blade

Szintén Innkerper Chronicles, csak ebben a kötetben más a főszereplő és sokkal vámpírosabb, mint az eddigiek. Izgi, de már visszatérnék Dinához és az Inn-hez.

[zaruba-needslove]

Lol....

Was watching this scene before noticing something interesting. Knowing Park Jaebum dramas, I’m not gonna be surprised if there will be any hidden easter eggs he hidden discreetly in Vincenzo. And I wasn’t wrong...

Like the names given to the cacti all had a very uncanny naming system. They’re ALL the names of the characters that Song Joongki played in the past!

Poongho --> MBC’s Triple (2009) - Ji Poongho

Maru --> KBS’s Nice Guy/The Innocent Man (2012) - Kang Maru

Sijin --> KBS’s Descendant of the Sun (2016) - Yoo Sijin

Eunseom --> tvN’s Arthdal Chronicles (2019) - Eunseom

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Heroes 3 Wog Xxl Patch

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Description

HoMM 3 HD -a non-official fan made addon (multifunction patch) for Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Initially, the addon was created to change the original game resolution 800x600 to a bigger but now it has even more features. HoMM 3 HD does not affect the original gameplay and improves the interface functionality, makes it more comfortable to play and fixes a some original game bugs. All the tiny graphical improvements preserve the original game style. HoMM 3 HD does not affect the original game files. This means that you can launch the original version with no changes from the very folder where the HoMM 3 HD was installed.

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Documentation:

Graphics UI and game settings extended functionality HD+ (original gameplay fixes and other essential features for online multiplayer gaming)

Compatibility:

HotA - 100% The Shadow of Death, Complete - 100% WoG 3.58, TE, WT, ERA - not all features are avaliable; you will need to use tweaking!

HoMM3 HD is not compatible with The Restoration of Erathia, Armageddon's Blade, Heroes Chronicles!

Heroes of Might and Magic III, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Heroes of Might & Magic 3, the Shadow of Death, Complete, Horn of the Abyss, Heroes of Might & Magic III, Might and Magic: Heroes 3, Might and Magic: Heroes III, Might & Magic: Heroes 3, Might & Magic: Heroes III, In the Wake of Gods, HotA, WoG, SoD

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Heroes 3 Wog Mod

Wog refugee: posted December 13, 2014 11:02 PM. XXL patch for SoD 3.2 EN, beta 1. Place XXLheroes3.exe to%Heroes 3% folder 3. Place THIS rmg.txt. Heroes 3: Horn of the Abyss 1.6.1 = Download. Heroes 3: In the Wake of Gods. Download Section Heroes 3: In the Wake of Gods unofficial patch FOR 3.58. Unofficial patch Heroes 3: In the Wake of Gods which improves A LOT the editor and brings about 2400 new objects + various creatures in WOG. Documentation - English (txt) - 21 kB The patch's documentation - download if you want to get to know the patch before installing or the installation process itself. New Portraits - 412 kB For those who wish to have the new script enabled at all times: new creature portraits in front of their new backgrounds (f.e. The werewolf is now on an. XXL patch for Heroes 3 download - novinky zo sveta Heroes 3, Heroes 5 a Heroes 7. How to install Wake of Gods (ERA 3) with latest WoG sripts and HD mod. Heroes 3: Horn of the Abyss 1.6.1 = Download. Heroes 3: In the Wake of Gods. Download Section Heroes 3: In the Wake of Gods unofficial patch FOR 3.58. Unofficial patch Heroes 3: In the Wake of Gods which improves A LOT the editor and brings about 2400 new objects + various creatures in WOG.