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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 13-09-2018

Sep 13, 2018 12:00

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mlknchz September 13 2018, 15:48:48 UTC

I always, ALWAYS, load music I buy onto my computer and leave it there. No cloud storage. First I convert it to a different format, then I D/L it directly to my device bypassing iTunes. Apple can't touch it.
It sucks you have to do that, but, to my mind, "buy" means you own it.

andrewducker September 13 2018, 15:54:37 UTC

Thankfully this is fairly easy for books and music.

Much much harder for video, sadly.

fub September 14 2018, 09:34:16 UTC

For me, the iconic Middle-Earth maps are the maps that Pete Fenlon made for the Middle-Earth Roleplaying game and it's many, many modules that were published by Iron Crown Enterprises. He developed his own, distinct style, and there is always something going on in those maps: there is always a ruin or watchtower to explore off in the distance.
With ICE losing the license (somewhere around the release of the movies, totally not a planned move to grant the license to someone else...) all those modules are now out of print and can only be found in the second-hand market -- sometimes for ridiculous prices. All that information not being available anymore is one of the drivers of my decision to get every module for the current iteration of the Middle-Earth RPG, The One Ring.

Back to the maps. ProFantasy, makers of the map-making software Campaign Cartographer, even made a style pack to create those Pete Fenlon maps.
And things like "fill this polygon with random symbols from this set" is a single command in that software!