Gdybym chciał zbudować superprocę, łączącą bloczki od łuku i sprężyny skrętne typu balisty, To jaki byłby najlepszy materiał na owe sprężyny? Lity elastomer? Plecionka sznurów gumowych? Wiązka linek z jakiegoś rozciągliwego materiału? Źródła żeglarskie wskazują na nylon, ale może jest coś jeszcze lepszego?
Purchasing attire inspired by monks can be surprisingly difficult. Many products lack quality, comfort, or proper sizing. Buyers often encounter inconsistent fabrics, poor stitching, or stiff garments that fail to provide ease of movement.Authenticity is another key issue. Mass-produced robes rarely reflect true monastic design. ...
That's why I write #SpeculativeFiction things are always right if I'm making everything up 😜😂
Also, did you know to create a fictional world from scratch you have to start with creating the #Multiverse? At least that's what I've been told... 😅
What do you mean OR? 🤔
I can broil in existential dread and plot a fantasy series at the same time. 😂 Luckily I don't make mistakes, at least not any I'm willing to admit too 😜
Apparently some people go to bed and just...sleep???
They don't plot a 7-book epic fantasy series or softly broil in existential dread or replay every mistake they ever made???
And then they wake up [checks notes] REFRESHED? | just. It sounds a bit fake.
Europeans avoided the
southern hemisphere for
thousands of years because
the Catholic Church claimed
that crossing the Equator
could change your sexual
orientation.
Picture of a book where the map folds out so at to stay on the side of the text while you read.
Captioned: Every book should have its maps set up like this...
Elves in Tolkien's legendarium
From THE HOBBIT:
-Wine from warm lands
-Fire-roasted meat
-Likes dancing in the meadows and making flower wreaths
-Spends time singing and feasting
THE LORD OF THE RINGS:
-Minwvor, Lembas (mysterious and magical elven food)
-Ages-old wisdom in the eyes
-Totally mysterious
THE SILMARILLION:
-Blood of the slain kin
-Flesh of a Balrog killed with bare hands
-Starts each day with new war
-Covered in scars from fighting and being tortured by Orcs
-Killed at least 10 family members
abridged fairy tales by John Atkinson, Wrong Hands
Goldilocks: Home invader has ceral, breaks stuff, then falls asleep.
Hansel and Gretel: Some kids eat an old lady's house. Also cannibalism.
Beauty and the beast: Stockholm syndrome girl falls for ugly guy. Except he isn't.
Princess and the pea: Mattresses piled on a vegetable determine fitness to govern.
Cinderella: Wardrobe malfunction prompts strange footwear mating ritual.
Three little pigs: Ham-fisted construction keeps wolf at the door.
This GIF is from the new Section 31 film. The advert is the Paramount+ promotional clip released last week, which is a crossover between Star Trek and Spongbob: ...
Yes, I make these with Kdenlive! I have been putting off finishing the tutorial I have been working on creating, but in short:
Import video into Kdenlive
Use Title Clips to add text
Use various Effects (mainly Transform) to animate the text
Render as MP4
Use ffmpeg to convert the MP4 to WEBP or GIF
Use gifski and gifsicle to further compress the GIF (the WEBP is fine as-is)
Here is a bash script that I wrote to use ffmpeg/gifski/gifsicle to convert all MP4 files in the current directory:
bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#prerequisites:
# ffmpeg
# gifski
# gifsicle
# creates animated images out of all MP4 files
# in the working directory, as well as creating
# a thumbnail out of one frame
# if argument passed to script, the thumbnail
# will be created out of that frame, but none of
# the animated files will be created
# pass an argument to this script to specify
# which frame to use as the thumbnail
# if none passed, use default
if [[ $1 == "" ]]; then
frame=0.85
else
frame=$1
fi
# frame passed must be decimal < 1.0 and >= 0.0
if ! ([[ $frame =~ 0\.[0-9]+ ]]); then
echo frame passed: $frame
else
# loop through all MP4 files in directory
for file in *.mp4
do
# only proceed if file found
if [[ $file != *"*"* ]]; then
# create paths
input_path=$(pwd)/"$file"
output_path_animated=${input_path%.*}.webp
output_path_animated_low=${input_path%.*}-low.webp
output_path_gif=${input_path%.*}.gif
output_path_thumb=${input_path%.*}_thumb.webp
# determine the exact frame to use as thumbnail
frames_total=$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -count_packets -show_entries stream=nb_read_packets -of csv=p=0 "$input_path")
thumb_frame=$(awk -vnumber="$(awk -v var1=$frames_total 'BEGIN { print (var1 * '$frame') }')" -vdiv="1" 'function ceiling(x){return x%1 ? int(x)+1 : x} BEGIN{ print ceiling(number/div) }')
# if argument had been passed to script, skip creating
# animated images and ONLY create thumbnail
if [[ $1 == "" ]]; then
#full webp
ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$input_path" -vcodec libwebp -lossless 0 -loop 0 -preset default -an -fps_mode passthrough -vf "fps=25, scale=-1:500" -quality 80 "$output_path_animated"
#low webp
ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$input_path" -vcodec libwebp -lossless 0 -loop 0 -preset default -an -fps_mode passthrough -vf "fps=15, scale=-1:270" -quality 10 "$output_path_animated_low"
#low gif
ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$input_path" -f yuv4mpegpipe - | gifski --quiet --height=270 --fps 10 --quality=50 --lossy-quality 50 -o "$output_path_gif" -;gifsicle -O3 --lossy=200 --colors 256 -o "$output_path_gif" "$output_path_gif"
fi
#thumb
ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$input_path" -vf "select=eq(n\,$thumb_frame), scale=-1:270" -c:v libwebp -quality 50 "$output_path_thumb"
echo $input_path
else
echo MP4 not found
fi
done
fi
Tolkien vs. Lewis on allegories webcomic by reparrishcomics
Tolkien speaking to a student:
Student: Professor Tolkien! Is it true that you wrote your novels as an allegory for the first world war?
Tolkien: No. Never. Ask me that again adn I will call the police.
Lewis thinking to himself:
If even one person reading this does not understand that the big lion is jesus, I will set myself on fire.
Something that has not happened in a thousand years s happening.
You are going to the City. There is only one City. It is only said with a capital C. No one needs to bother saying the name of the City. It s the City.
Certain members of the Conneil are displeased with your family's recent actions.
A bard is providing occasional comic relief; no one hired or invited him and his method of earning a living is unclear.
The High Priestis not to be trusted.
Someone is eating an apple mockingly.
There is one body of water. It is called the Sea. The Great Sea, if you are feeling fancy.
You live in a region with no major exports, no centralized government, no banking system, a mysteriously ‘maintained network of roads, and litlte to no job training for anyone who is not farmer.
You're going to have to hurry, or you're going to miss the Fair — and you never miss the Fair.
There is trouble at the Citadel.
Your full name has at least one apostrophe iniit.
There are two religions in your entire universe. One is a thinly veiled version of Islam. It is only practiced by villains. The other is “being a Viking". You are a Viking.
There are new ways in the land that threaten the Old Way. Your grandmother secretly practices the Old Way, as do all of the people of the hills.
Science-fantasy: In the end as the pull the mask of the old man the plucky group of teenagers realise the lost art of Spellbangin' was just sexy math... 😂
Xweet by Sam Sykes
"Low" fantasy: Writing a sex scene.
"High" fantasy: Writing a magic system.
"Epic" fantasy: Involving the magic system in the sex scene in the lost art of Spellbangin’.
18+ Why Are Hooded Monk Robes Gaining Popularity Worldwide
Purchasing attire inspired by monks can be surprisingly difficult. Many products lack quality, comfort, or proper sizing. Buyers often encounter inconsistent fabrics, poor stitching, or stiff garments that fail to provide ease of movement.Authenticity is another key issue. Mass-produced robes rarely reflect true monastic design. ...
Sometimes, my computer is very slow and sometimes really fast. Fedora 43.
Hi everyone! ...
Thrilling conclusion to the 69th Eurovision
#low-effort-shitpost
When this community makes more shitposts out of a 60-second advert than a full-length feature film
This GIF is from the new Section 31 film. The advert is the Paramount+ promotional clip released last week, which is a crossover between Star Trek and Spongbob: ...
how to set up jellyfin with podman and selinux and an intel gpu (a380) for transcoding?
I try to follow the docs but somehow it doesn't work as expected. How does your compose file look and what to choose in the settings? ...