Heroes III VCMI – New Year Magical Heroes

Pre-New Year's spirit. Holidays. And then my brother suggests playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3. The version with the VCMI engine. A greatly improved version. It has screen scaling using the middle mouse wheel. And a modern resolution

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On a rainy Sunday, I'm sharing this heart-warming documentary about public art in Scotland's post-war New Towns: Meet You At The Hippos, presented by Scottish actor Mark Bonnar. It's four years old, but I’ve watched it a number of times and it never fails to make me think and to produce a smile or five.

Here's the official blurb about the hour long documentary:

"Actor Mark Bonnar is on a mission to understand more about the Scottish new towns in which he grew up, exploring the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He discovers why the new towns are there and how they enticed people out of the bigger cities, and uncovers the surprising ways in which public art changed the new towns and the new towns changed public art. Mark's father, Stan, made sculptures that stand to this day on the streets of Glenrothes, East Kilbride and the Scottish new town that never was, Stonehouse. These new towns employed town artists to make artworks in the very housing precincts the new residents were moving into.”

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=epFuvRsoldY

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Promises are cheap. Until they actually make housing affordable and fix the system, I’m not buying it.

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Labour's Ambitious Plan to Build 12 New Towns Across England to Tackle Housing Crisis

Yeah, sounds like the same old gimmick. They promise new towns, but it'll probably just end up being a way to line pockets and raise taxes. They can talk all they want, but we know how this goes. No real change, just more distractions.

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Labour's Ambitious Plan to Build 12 New Towns Across England to Tackle Housing Crisis

They've promised big before and failed, so why would this time be any different? It's just another distraction.

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