FYI for any interested in game reviews - This was put together by an online friend from an MMO I used to play - a very good and cool person, and I would like to invite everybody to check it out! 🙂

Sunday yellows. The official colors of a happy Sunday. Have a great day! 🌞

Happy 40th birthday, Roger Wilco! Forty years ago this month, Sierra shipped a joke that turned into a series. Space Quest: Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter put you in the boots of Roger Wilco, a clueless janitor on the research ship Arcada, after the Sariens steal the Star Generator. Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, the “Two Guys from Andromeda,” built it in Sierra’s AGI engine after working on King’s Quest, and they ditched the fairy-tale tone. It sold over 100,000 copies and got a VGA remake in 1991 (call me old fashioned, but I still prefer the original version even now). Sierra games were quite notorious for the many ways in which you could die, and none did it quite as well as Space Quest I. Roger stumbled head first into many, many traps, lasers, and critters. Did the high degree of difficulty annoy you back then, or were you in the camp of ”bring it on?” Personally, I find when games are too easy they're less motivating, they feel a bit pointless and lacking a challenge. Tougher games that make you work for it feel more rewarding in the end.

Just a little bit more info here, as I've read about everything out there on the Chequers Ring here - There is no consensus on the ID of the second woman, but IMO there is no way that is Anne Boleyn. Two most likely candidates to me are Katherine Parr (beloved stepmother) and Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys (cousin she loved dearly and possibly her secret half-sister due to timing with her aunt's affair with Henry VIII). Would be a portrait in younger years if either, 1540's likely. Jewelry and the ring having a phoenix emblem make me think Katherine (she married Thomas Seymour after Henry VIII, Seymour emblem was a phoenix). Portrait, while tiny, shows red-gold hair that appears intentional and not the result of pigment fading. Anne had either dark brown or black hair. Likenesses supposedly of Anne show a face that doesn't resemble this one, but could easily be one of the other two. I think what is happening is people are grasping for straws of signs of affection for Anne by Elizabeth, but sadly, I've seen zero proven ones in everything I've read. And a few things going actively against it, like not having her mother's remains at least quietly reinterred in a proper tomb (Anne DID die a queen after all, that couldn't be taken from her). That would be seen as filial duty even by enemies, Margaret Roper was admired for retrieving the head of her father Thomas More, and James I/VI saw to it that his mother Mary Queen of Scots was moved into a grand tomb, better than Mary I's or Elizabeth's.

Yes this is a wonderful spot to sit with a friend and enjoy an Autumn day.

This is so gorgeous. ❤️😭 Sort of gives me vibes of the style and theme of Skimming Stones by @sleepthiefmusic, though this song in English, American composer (this is a tear-jerker - piped.video/g-f2zR7WovQ?is=zUYP…

Without a shred of doubt, we are at peak in the Adirondacks. The maples are just outrageous this year. #adirondacks #foliage

Ice station Beta.

6 years of aspen growth after the East Troublesome Fire

Dinner comes with a show at River’s End Restaurant at the Nantahala Outdoor Center! Perched right along the Nantahala River, River’s End is the perfect place to enjoy great food with a front-row seat to the action. Watch whitewater rafters and kayakers navigate the rushing river just outside as you dine, relax and take in the spectacular mountain scenery. brys.onl/RiversEnd It’s more than a meal—it’s an experience. Great food, great views, and a little Nantahala River excitement right at your table! 🏞️🛶 #ExploreBrysonCity #BrysonCity #RiversEnd #NantahalaRiver #NantahalaGorge #WhitewaterRafting #Kayaking #MountainDining #WesternNC #SmokyMountains

No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky. Temperate Moon, Paradise Planet.

falling for fall Acadia National Park, Maine

Fall colors in the West Virginia mountains today!! 🍁😍 Tucker County near Davis, WV. 10/3

Some tourmaline localities are nice to have. Pederneira is one you save up for, and this little piece shows why pretty well. It's a small cabinet specimen, 7 x 6 x 6 cm, from the Pederneira mine near São José da Safira in Minas Gerais. A fan of raspberry red elbaite prisms comes up off a bright white feldspar base, with purplish lepidolite mica packed in around the bottom of the crystals. Nearly every crystal ends in a dark green, almost black cap. That's the color change I care about here. Pink body, then a hard switch to green right at the top. Tourmaline keeps a running record of the fluid it grew from. For most of this growth the pocket fluid apparently gave the crystals the manganese heavy, low iron recipe that makes pink elbaite. Then near the end something changed, and the easy explanation is iron getting back into the system. That flips the color to green, and it's why those caps look like somebody dipped each crystal in ink. Every crystal on the piece stops at about the same point, which is a decent clue they were all sitting in the same pocket when the chemistry shifted. The prism faces have the long lengthwise striations tourmaline is known for, and in the photo you can see light running up the grooves. The pink sections are gemmy enough that you get depth instead of a flat opaque red. Pederneira luster is glassy and wet looking, and that's a big part of why people get a little reverent about the name. From what I've read, the mine got noticed after a small pocket at the end of 1999, later called Keké's Pocket, and it went on to be one of the few operations anywhere run mainly for collector specimens rather than gem rough or ore. You can tell from what reaches the market. Crystals still sitting on matrix like this are the goal, not a lucky accident. I've also always liked that the town's name, Safira, supposedly comes from blue tourmaline being mistaken for sapphire long ago. So the whole district started with a case of mistaken identity. I've never been down in a Safira pegmatite, and honestly the Pederneira mining write ups are about as close as I'm going to get. I still think about pockets like this more than any other geological setting. A cavity in a lithium rich pegmatite, sealed up and crystallizing slowly while the chemistry wanders around, and nobody knows what's in there until a miner breaks through. If one like that turns up, don't expect to pay for it with pocket change. What gets me most is how clean that pink to green boundary is. Lots of bicolor tourmaline fades gradually. This looks more like somebody flipped a switch. What's your favorite Brazilian tourmaline, or the one that got away? I'm especially curious whether anyone out there is loyal to Cruzeiro or Jonas over Pederneira. Link in 🧵

no other trail in NC is this colorful

An area of low pressure across the Gulf will interact with a lingering stationary front in the Southeast to produce copious rainfall with totals of 3-7+ inches possible over the next 5 days. This will bring a flash flooding risk as well, especially closer to the Gulf Coast.

timeline cleanse. wait for it. walking through a portal.

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below Reinhart Knob / 6106' at Caney Fork Overlook (9/24)