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X-Wing & Tie Fighter

It was super simple to get GUS midi music working. I'm disappointed I never looked into this before.

Download this:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/9gz1tm02zob/Gravis+ULTRASND+Files.rar

Make a folder ULTRASND in the root of the game folder. Copy either Ultrasnd411 or ultrasndPPL161 to that folder. 411 is the default sound sample and the 161 is pro patches.

Add
SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND
to the autoexec.bat file in the DOSBOX folder.

In the dosbox_xwing.conf file update
gus=false
to
gus=true


You'll need to do this for each game. Enjoy better than Adlib style music!

Glenn Greenwald knocks it out of the park on privacy and the people who "have nothing to hide".

http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters#t-13873

If you've got 90 minutes I highly suggest watching Frontline's Losing Iraq. A fun look back at the last decade plus of Iraq. The thing that always is shocking about Frontline to me is how they usually manage to get people who you wouldn't think would want to be interviewed about this on their programs.

Maybe it's because Frontline isn't really aggressive in finger pointing. They usually like to just lay out the facts and let peoples own statements bury them. That said, still a fascinating and damning portrait of the handling of Iraq. Neither Bush nor Obama escape unscathed. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/losing-iraq/

Diablo 3- Legendary Crafting Materials Guide.

http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/83094-guide-legendary-crafting-materials-drop-locations

I mentioned last night I would post this. I was able to get an angelic shard by running izuzal as they discussed. I cant confirm the rest but it might get you in the right direction.

What I'm having trouble finding now is a white drop cermimonal knife, tried to farm it going to weapon racks for like an hour last night. found all sorts of white weapons but the one I needed.

Have you guys seen this? The interactive video for Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone"?

http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html

DUDES! Particularly dudes on diets who like pasta.

Shiraki tofu noodles. I have only just discovered these! They are only 40 calories for a whole bowl and contain 0 carbs. They seriously taste like regular pasta. Yesterday I used a package of the spaghetti cut style to make Spaghetti carbonara. Today I used the wide-cut style to make pad thai. THEY ARE FUCKING AWESOME.

And the greatest part is that you don't have to cook them. They come in packages of liquid and are already soft, so you just drain/rinse and then toss them with the warm sauce and BAM, dinner. The liquid they come in has a weird fishy smell to it but DO NOT let that turn you off, just rinse them thoroughly. They do not taste fishy at all. My Chinese friend lol'd at me when she found out I'd just discovered them.

Pasta has just gone from being the most calorie-dense part of my meal to the least. I am seriously ecstatic. They're so much like regular pasta and so much faster/easier to make that I might just start using them at home instead of the Italian kind.

THANK YOU ASIA!

SimCity 4 Thread

It blows my mind that SC2K came out in 1993 so it has been two decades since my first experience with SimCity games (to be fair, I only played the Win95 version up until a few days ago when I got the DOSBOX version on GOG. Extra pointless trivia: whenever I saw screens for the Dos version in a strategy guide my father bought, I thought it was from the Mac version because I just could not figure out where that UI came from.)

Anyways, this thread isn't about SC2K (and SCURK!) nor is it about other SimCity iterations; this thread is about SimCity 4 and how you can get this up to modern gaming standards.

The Game: http://store.steampowered.com/app/24780/

The Fixes: IN REPLY

Shacknews what are some of your favorite, super easy recipes that you make? Give me one of your staples that you make all the time and everyone loves. But simple, besides seasonings I'm talking under like 5 ingredients total here lol.

I need more ideas to feed the family throughout the week. Could be baked, instapot, grilled, don't care.

I ate a cat.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
There is a long running (11 year-ish) podcast called "This Week in Virology" that is hosted by professors of virology and immunology with decades of experience. They pivoted the podcast to all SARS-COV-2 content in 2020, and have just recently started covering some other viruses again. They do 4.5 hours of content per week, and discuss essentially every important paper that gets published or pre-printed. I've said many times here that the media covers of COVID is pretty terrible, and lacking in deep understanding of the material they are reporting. These people are actual experts in the material, and they spend a long time discussing the results and how to interpret them. They are also aware that they have a lot of new, non-expert listeners, so they spend some time explaining things that they would have perhaps skipped before. They have guests who are leading scientists on (FDA advisory panel member, coronavirus experts, the people who actually went to Wuhan for the WHO investigation, etc). So, if you want to have a sort of covid journal club to hear the latest research discussed, this is a great podcast. The main host is Vincent Racaniello, a 68 year old prof of virology at Colombia. He's kind of grumpy and tired of all this shit with the anti-vaxxers, and anybody who didn't do their homework, but the other hosts are more congenial if that's your thing.

But, that's not what I'm specifically recommending to you, because it's a little technical, and they do two 2-hour episodes per week, which is hard for most people to keep up with I think.

I'm recommending their once weekly update from their guest Daniel Griffin, which is 30 minutes long. Daniel Griffin is an M.D. Ph.D., and infectious disease chief in the pro-health hospital network in New York City. His job is to read the scientific papers to maintain expertise in infectious disease, and travel to the NYC hospitals to advise and consult on their patients, as well as treating patients himself. To be a COVD-19 treatment expert, basically. Last year he started coming on TWIV to give a weekly update aimed at doctors to give them a brief synopsis of the latest scientific thinking about the pandemic, and treatment options. Early on he was calling in from the stairwells of hospitals, or his car in the parking lot. Now things are more calm and he's in his home or office. And doctors are busy people and complained to him when he rambled and now he keeps the updates shorter. He also answers listener questions (typically from doctors) at the end of his updates.

Here is his latest update: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-790/
He discusses, for example, the statement (not a paper) that "delta has 1000x more virus in the nose" and contrasts that to a paper out of Singapore measuring equal RNA copies early in infection, but which declines significantly in vaccinated individuals. A discussion of the latest data giving monoclonals to high risk people who have been exposed but not yet infected. The latest on remdesivir (it still doesn't work). Long-covid. He hits all of the major disease phases each week (exposure, viral, inflammatory, PASC).

You see links in the website to all papers discussed. This is not discussing news stories, but scientific papers. And he puts it in terms a doctor can understand (aka someone who is educated and interested, but not an expert in virology research). If you want to stay up to date with scientific thinking about COVID, with a particular focus on how medical treatment is evolving, his weekly updates are a better technical summary than I think anything else you will find to listen to. 30 minutes a week is worth it.

https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/the-100-best-science-fiction-films-of-all-time/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

This is a really great list. Top 100 sci fi movies of all time.

There are lots of foreign films here I've never heard of, specifically from Czech and Poland. Such an exciting way to discover some lost classics.