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Stephen King: The Writer's Voice

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It's scary to think how far Stephen King has managed to insinuate his work into my life.  The Shining was the first of his books that I read and I still can't visit the Chateau Montebello without imagining the Overlook Hotel.

A few of his characters have taken up residence with me as "old friends" and so I re-read their stories to get back in touch with them.  I'm always delighted when they make cameos, however brief, in other tales giving me some sense of what they've been up to since I saw them last.

That's not to say I appreciate all of his work (apparently he doesn't either) but among my favourites are It , The Stand , and The Dark Tower series.  I'll admit that I was one of those "constant readers" that was scared he was actually going to die before finishing with The Dark Tower and as it turns out that wasn't just paranoia as he almost didn't make it.

This summer a number of TV and movie adaptations are rolling out and I'm excited to see how they fair.  So far I haven't been impressed with previous versions of The Shining (hated Jack Nicholson in it), The Stand (TV mini-series) or It (TV mini-series) but I still have hope because of The Green Mile , Shawshank Redemption , Stand By Me and Haven (TV).

How about you?  Do you have any old SK favourites?  Are you looking forward to the new releases?

Stephen King: The Writer's Voice

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Stephen King: The Writer's Voice

Across a long and prolific career, Stephen King’s works can be shown to evolve alongside the author. This special feature discusses how a writer’s voice in their work is tied to the writer’s personal experience and explores the risk of literary influence by examining specific entries in King’s canon...

Seems that I've had Stephen King on the brain lately so I was delighted to come across this article.  TV & movie-wise, it looks to be a summer filled with adaptations of his books so I thought his work would make for an interesting discussion.

Winemaking Challenges

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Looking good, Ardrhys!  Congratulations

I'll forward your award inworld.

Finding and Defeating Texture Lag?

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Two things I keep meaning to mention.

One - IMHO not all 1024 textures are evil.  Whenever I can I merge 4 x 512s into one 1024 I do it under the assumption that they take the same amount of space with fewer server calls.

Two - Full perm mesh creators have a habit of making every texture for every face (max 8) on their meshes a 1024x1024 - ugh - that's a lot of large textures on one mesh unit.  Add in textures for materials and things really get crazy.  I end up redoing all those textures/faces, combining when I can and downsizing if at all possible.  It takes me ages but well worth it.

The Governors Cup ~ Memorial Tournament. (In Memory of Antiquity Past)

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Sounds like a whole lot of fun!

Game of Thrones ~ A Song of Ice and Fire

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I started reading the books before I knew it was going to be turned into a TV series.  I have to say that I enjoyed them BUT GRRM really could have used a lot more editing.  Now that the TV timeline has overtaken the books I don't know if I will actually read the last two? installments.  On the other hand, I'm not sure if GRRM will actually live to finish them.  I get the feeling that he ended up biting off more than he can chew.

His penchant for killing off main characters got a little old for me and I became one of those people that was threatening to quit if my remaining favourites (Arya & Jon) were snuffed.  I'll see how I feel when the time comes.

To get the ball rolling on the TV side here's a recap of Seasons 1-6 since it's been awhile:

Game of Thrones ~ A Song of Ice and Fire

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Game of Thrones, the HBO Series based on G.R.R, Martin's book series A Song of Ice and Fire, is heading into its final two (shortened) seasons.  Love it or hate it, you have to admit the scope of both the television series and the novels is impressive.

  

Now that things are started to wind down a bit I thought I'd start a discussion where we could talk about all things GoT related, spoilers included.

One of my favourite GoT references is the website  History Behind the Game of Thrones  edited by Jamie Adair as it's a great way to explore history and I encourage you to check it out.

QH Fresh Food Market Days? What do you think?

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I'm wondering if people would be interested in having Fresh Food Market Days where we sell perishable items for coins?

I'm looking for ideas that are both fun & easy and I thought a weekly? market event might help with that.

Lots of people like to fish but not everyone wants to go through the bother of packing their catches and you can only cook so much seafood for yourself.  I also miss selling fresh milk but have been having a hard time figuring out the logistics.

Off the top of my head I was thinking that we could designate Saturday & Sunday for "fresh" food sales.  My current definition of "fresh" is anything that has at least 2 days before expiration but I can probably be convinced otherwise.

The easiest way to sell for coins is through vendors - though if people wanted to announce times that they were actually at the market that might work as well.

The Co-op would be interested in buying seafood and could sell fresh milk and verr meat (on occasion depending on when the poor verr crosses the rainbow bridge).

What do you think?  I'm open to all kinds of ideas

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 11 Aug 2020 03:57:44AM

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Finding and Defeating Texture Lag?

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Region performance is always a fascinating subject (to me anyway) though I'm afraid that I've forgotten a lot of the particulars over the years.

I don't believe that I've ever actually had a lot of lag caused by textures.  For the most part they sometimes just grey-out for a bit without effecting overall performance.  It sounds like you've been keeping a pretty close eye on them, res-using etc. so I'm wondering if it might be something else.

There use to be a problem when a region ended up sharing a server with other "over consuming" regions.  Don't know if that is still a problem but it was sometimes fixed by doing a restart that subsequently bumped it to another server.

I'm also wondering about the complexity of objects you have - you wouldn't be using a lot of sculpties or tortured prims would you?  Sculpties are/were wicked in some cases because they only counted as "one prim" even if they had a ton of vertices.

Just some thoughts off the top of my head.  Looking forward to seeing other suggestions.

Good luck!