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What are some good ambient artists/albums that would be worth checking out for someone just getting into ambient music?

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30 Days Timelapse at Sea | 4K | Through Thunderstorms, Torrential Rain & Busy Traffic (& amazing stars!)

This is seriously amazing. Crank up that resolution if you have the ability. May be the best time lapse I've seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrCI9eSJGQ

Someone made a documentary about...Polybus? How do you make a documentary about a game that never existed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X6Yeydgyg

Holy shit, this is some Woodward and Bernstein level investigation. Amusingly/intentionally a little over the top in it's presentation but goddamn, dude does some actual investigation into this story and it's fascinating.

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RPG People

If you haven't gotten a chance to check out Enderal for Skyrim. Please do, it's a total conversion mod of Skyrim, but it's better than most games. It's that good.

Here's a overlook video that sums it up perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajp3OcVInrk

The link: https://enderal.com/

Hey Chatty,

I wanted to share some exciting news with you. Last Friday, I published Doom: To Hell and Back, a novel-sized (40k words!) deep dive into the making of "Doom 2016," and the original Doom's community, level design, and weapons. That was four days ago. In that short span of time, the feature cracked 10,000 views and is still going strong.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for engaging with this feature. The team and I are tremendously proud of how it turned out, and on a personal level, I feel vindicated by the response. I'm usually the last person in the world to give a hoot about page views and that sort of statistic; I'm of the "if you build it, they will come" mentality when it comes to writing. I was happy with it before it went live, but secretly, I was terrified.

I've long believed that there's a vacuum on the Internet for long-form, well-written (he said humbly) content. Every trend says other ways. In a world where logic lists and other fluff features dominate YouTube and Buzzfeed, and many other websites rolled in popular culture coverage because writing about games wasn't enough to keep the lights on, this feature left a sizable footprint. Best of all, I had the full support of Asif, Steve, and the rest of the team. It would have been easy to carve it up. In fact I suggested doing just that at one point because I was exhausted and worried that the book-sized behemoth would come and go without so much as a click.

It's so gratifying--and such a relief--to know the long, long hours were worth it. Thanks for reading it, and thanks for sharing it. If you somehow missed it, here's a link. http://www.shacknews.com/article/99662/doom-to-hell-and-back

If you're interested in how floating point numbers are handled in computers, Super Mario 64 to the rescue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hdFG2GcNuA

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

Stolen from Krebs recent article on selecting a VPN service provider.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/post-fcc-privacy-rules-should-you-vpn/

For those looking, there's quite a few providers in that list and Krebs has some good thoughts too.