#ilok

[unteriors]

Ilok, Vukovar-Srijem County, Croatia.

[dijetemjeseca]

Svjetski dan hrane 🧀🍷

Ako volite jesti, volite živjeti!

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[dknuth]

On through the Balkans - Serbia & Croatia

We had more time in Serbia, a quick day stop, and a bus to Sremski Karlovci. This small town has a number of specialty high schools that kids come from around the country to attend and it's also a bishopric.

But we were there to visit a small family-owned winery and honey producer. We first tasted the honey. It was pretty typical honey. They had honey with ground sesame seeds in it. As a honey, it was not great, but I could see glazing roasted meats with it.

We visited their wine cellar. It was small and damp with mold growing on the walls and the wine barrels. I'm not sure that moldy wine barrels are a positive for making wine. I certainly have never seen it in other wine cellars.

Then we tasted about six to eight of the wines. Most of us were taking one sip of each and then dumping the rest. The dump bucket on the table was brim-full at the end of the tasting. They were pretty bad. So the consensus was that the trip was a waste of time.

Our next stop was Ilok Croatia. (That doesn't work well in this font, it's ILOK.)

There was a nice sunrise to start the day.

There was only a hotel/restaurant at the dock but we could see a church on the hill in the distance.

The briefing said that there wasn't much to see in Ilok and then the bus would go to Vukovar, which was the heaviest shelled city in the Balkans wars. Having seen that they tend to preserved the bombed out buildings to remember the war it didn't sound that interesting. A search of visitor comments noted it was "grim." So I skipped the tour.

But we walked over to town. The lower town was very uninteresting. But there was a stairway going up the hill. While Cathie walked back to the ship, I went up the stairs.

At the top was the old fortified town with a church and a number of substantial buildings within the old walls.

There was a nice view of the countryside from the top of the hill.

As I walked through the upper town, I found members of the tour group who were just finishing up their wine tasting. The reports were very good, so I went in and did one on my own. The tasting had been included in the tour, but I had to pay; a small price to avoid a bus ride and a bombed-out city.

I found that the winery made a whole range of sweetness in the wines from dry, to ice wine. The group had only tasted the dry wines, but I discussed the sweeter wines with the staff and tasted two. The first was in the range of too sweet to be a dry wine and not sweet enough for a dessert wine. But the sweet Trockenbeerenauslesen was very good. In the end, I bought a bottle of the dry and the Trockenbeerenauslesen. I tried to get two of that one, but they were down to their last bottle and were out of the ice wine.

Then a walk back through the upper town and down the stairs.

It was actually pleasant and didn't require a bus ride!

Based on my very limited sampling I would go for the Croatian wines NOT the Serbian.

[nyhti]

A quick sketch of my boys with beards

[absentmoon]

sampo:)...

[justcyrinne]

Attended a very important virtual meeting with a couple of our company’s operations managers last night. My supervisor briefed me before this meeting that one of them would be asking tough questions so I better come prepared. I got so anxious that my pits were sweating lol. Those photos were taken 4 minutes before the call started. (I used my laptop’s camera as a mirror while getting ready). The meeting went smoothly and I praise God that I was able to answer all their questions.

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

[notashrew]

AM johdateltuaan viisikon jääluolaan hakemaan ruokaa mutta persikat on purkeissa eikä anna niille työkaluja: Ei vittu ebin jeggu Make :--DDDD

[apple-coring]

ivlvoe my girlfnriend. lalala

[gamlieg]

I’ve been making languages of varying quality and complexity since I was a little kid but during lockdown i learnt about conlangs and when I had no internet access I used the notes feature on my e-reader to create dictionaries and grammar explainations and stuff, and looking back it wasn’t the best BUT i spent hundreds of hours on it so it’s still something I’m very proud of! So here’s a little piece of writing (this paragraph) translated into my very first “Proper” conlang Ilaveliaehn!

Y makyđ ilanguagyï voitha varyinj kuality•iliky aend kompleks•iliky sinsy y ysđ aehn ilitly kid suta voehnđ ilok•dowehn y’ilearehnđ aebouta konstructađ ilanguagyï aend vohen y havyđ ehnao ynterneta aekses y osyđ tay ehnotaë veatury aoehn y’aowehnđ ylectronik•iliky•sok tao kreaty diktioehn•sokö aend jramarr yksplaiehnŷ aend stuv aend ilokinj sak yta ysđ ehnota tay sesta suta y spend’đ many haourrä aon yta sao yta ys stil saomy•tainj y’aem many pridy vorr! Sao haery ys aen ilitly vority•iliky tainj (tais) taranslatyđ yehn tao y’aowehnđ aony•iliky “real” konstructađ ilanguagy ilaveliaehn!

Sorry for the lack of Gamlieg content! I’ve been away in germany meeting my boyfriend for the first time :) definitely more gamlieg stuff when i’m home to help me cope with all the sad loneliness haha

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[kendr1n]

Damn grabe naman exposure ng ill city... May show both ABS at GMA... Yung kay Anne at Joshua sa abs na korean remake eme at kay Jillian ward naman sa gma na My Ilonggo Girl... nays nays bilatsing ilok Iloilo!!! Wooh!!! Iloilo!!! Hahahaha

[brudiza-spudnik]

so i'm on linux, where if i want to load any windows audio plugin it has to go through a compatibility layer. and this compatibility layer is not perfect. i can get many things to run, perhaps even most things, but there are still some aspects that stop me dead.

one of these is drm. i crack most of my shit nowadays, which means i don't have to deal with drm for paid plugins, but if i didn't crack them and i tried to use, say, any izotope plugin, or anything that requires ilok, they would not function at all. (part of why i crack is because it's literally the only way to get these plugins to function)

now just because you can get a plugin free doesn't mean it doesn't have drm in it. and also, just because a plugin is free very much DOES mean that it won't be cracked. so sometimes if a plugin is free, the only available version of it will be the official one, which will never work on my system.

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[waeirfaahl]

Early version of Aku

In final show we got the supernatural creature with incredibly interesting biology and pretty tragic shades in backstory (I recommend to read my analyze of Aku for whole picture). How we found out, Aku’s backstory and nature in 1 season differs from what we finally saw in “Birth of Evil” dilogy. In 1 season various characters called Aku a wizard, even Aku called himself a wizard instead of demon. Talking about creating the story, Tartakovsky referred to Aku exactly as wizard, not demon or whatever. That means, originally Aku supposed to be a sorcerer, i.e. human, apparently corrupted with black magic. And looking at his early designs... that’s not surprising. Although having the ability of shapeshifter, he looks like a human in kimono and helmet. And here he is named after Loki, so there’s various anagrams of this name (Ilok, Ikol, Kilo, Kloi, Koli etc). I don’t know, how this early version would work in the show. At least, if we discuss about character design.

This one is the closest to the final animalistic design, and he’s pretty creepy. Some eeriness in this old man in black cloak and spiky helmet. And he reminds me a bit Grunwald the ice sorcerer from anime “Hors the sun prince” (1968).

In final 1 season 1 episode there’s still some easter eggs of this early design:

And if inside the classic seasons, since they had no finale yet, the  otherworldly demonic creature with an animalistic appearance, born from a particle of cosmic dark matter, looked intriguing, epic, tragic in its own way and with great potential for cool unconventional character development... then, with the existence of 5 season and its very banal plot and primitive ending, a reasonable question arises — what’s a point to make Aku a descendant of an ancient cosmic being, i.e. to make him a demonic being, if it is not revealed in any way and does not come up in any way and does not affect the character and the story? If they had left him a sorcerer from the time of 1 season or from earlier versions, nothing would have changed at all.