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The Order Of The Stick

Stick drawing adventurers with tons of in jokes and gamer tropes.

Tolkien's annotated map of Middle-earth...

A recently discovered map of Middle-earth annotated by JRR Tolkien reveals The Lord of the Rings author’s observation that Hobbiton is on the same latitude as Oxford, and implies that the Italian city of Ravenna could be the inspiration behind the fictional city of Minas Tirith.

Jun 16 -

Appendix N Survey Complete - What Gygax read

With this piece on Tolkien going up, I’ve done forty-three posts on Appendix N now. I read every book Gygax mentioned by name, at least the first book of each series, and I picked out one representative work for each of the entries that consisted of an author’s name alone. I also wrote about two thousand words on each book.

Jun 16 -

2D animated character spritesheets

Use these characters in your project thanks to a CC Attribution license.

Jun 16 -

Vin Diesel pumped after playing Dungeons and...

Just watch it!

Jun 16 -

Lightworks: A Professional Video Editor

Lightworks is a professional video editor which is the fastest, most accessible and focused on Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software...

Many oscar won films were also edited on Lightworks Pro version, so basically there are two versions available: A free version which can only export video to MPEG-4 (720p resolution) which can be publish to YouTube, Web, Vimeo, or watch it on your device. On the other side Pro version unlock all features and export options for all broadcast formats...

Lightworks Free and Pro version is available for Linux in Deb and RPM packages (only 64bit architecture supported), there is no source available yet. So you can't install it in other distributions. The Deb package only support Ubuntu 15.10 Wily/Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.x and the RPM version supports Fedora 20+ versions.