a followup to the bitchin’ metal hurdy-gurdy solo

Courtesy dw:vatine, here’s Hedningarna, which is not metal, but which is, to quote vatine, “rock, but starting from 15th century Swedish trad music, instead of swing.” Here’s a playlist of their tunes, and here’s one to get you started:

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Enjoy!

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90s gaming revisited

I pulled out my ancient copy of Fallout 2 a while ago and found no sign of the manual, but decided, eh, I’ll figure it out. Which is how I got reminded of things like “90s games don’t autosave across levels” and “90s games don’t autosave when you level up.” SO LONG, PROGRESS!

The PDF of the manual was on the Fallout wiki, and that was fine for reading on a tablet. But no, I decided NO I WILL HAVE THE BOOK GODDAMMIT, even if the pages in the PDF are arranged impossibly for proper double-sided-pages book printing.

So I printed out everything, physically cut and reassembled it back into correct signatures, scanned and duplex-printed all those new signatures, recut all of them, and bound it using perfect-binding techniques with carpenter’s glue and fabric. Because I’m just that kind of obsessive.

I thought about trimming the excess glue but realised quickly that no, that’s really kind of thematically appropriate. As would be adding some radioactive material, but I’m only so much into thematic accuracy.

And then I mentioned this online and lj:flashfire demanded gifs or it didn’t happen. So see above, and below.

I’m unironically really pleased with the cloth binding

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final mst3k countdown

The new MST3K series Kickstarter is down to its final 57 hours - they've raised the money for nine new episodes, and still have a shot at 12. Here's the URL:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k

You have to look at the progress bar rather than the total on the right, because the total on the right doesn't include add-ons people purchased. But those do count towards the total goal.

There are also more bonuses left to unlock, so if you've been sitting on the fence, you're guaranteed nine episodes and there's a shot at 12, so go do the pledging now.