@Roz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
RIP good sir. I will always remember you from Willow as Madmartigan, let alone Top Gun.
@Roz said in Celebrities We've Lost 2025:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
RIP good sir. I will always remember you from Willow as Madmartigan, let alone Top Gun.
@dvoraen said in General Video Game Thread:
Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Release Date Trailer
Well, I know what Iāll be doing on April 24th.
I donāt normally endorse these kinds of videos, butā¦
XBox Deep Dive into Expedition 33
(ETA)āThis team gets it.ā is basically where Iām at. I mean, even just talking about why thereās a world map I was like: snap point(/ETA)
Also, I would go gay for the Creative Director because of his accent.
@Meg said in Meg's Mu* Mist:
Updated. Trying to get back into this lil hobby, this quaint what did you call it? RP? Are you sure? Well, if you are sure you want to call it that. Sounds a little sexual tho.
meg I couldnāt decide whether to do a āone of usā GIF or the ācome play with usā creepy girls from the Shining to try and sound sinister. Please advise.
@Solstice said in General Video Game Thread:
@dvoraen Itās been quite some time since I saw a trailer, raised a brow, and immediately set a reminder for the launch date on my phone. That looks like it could be pretty damn rad.
Go back to my first post (in this thread) on the subject. This is how I feel about the score:
Does everyone remember, idk how long ago now, when āolestraā was the biggest thing to hit food and all over the news (and the various rumors about it)?
I feel like āpowered by AIā is along those lines, and Iām like, āok. In 2025 olestra is something I never hear about anymore, so when can we get past the excessive AI push that probably isnāt really AI or as revolutionary as they claim?ā
Folks Iām concerned. I think @Rucket may have been taken over by an AI.
ARE YOU OKAY? Use 1 for yes, and 0 for no. Matrix code will be confirmation of needing to run anti-virus on you.
Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 Release Date Trailer
Well, I know what Iāll be doing on April 24th.
@Tez said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
@dvoraen Thereās a place to put feedback related to the change. If you actually have feedback on things that are broken, they can go there. If you have any amount of searching to figure out how to fix it, thatās even better. Roz found the solution to the layout issue and posted it in that thread so I could implement it.
I do not get paid to do this. Iām not just an unpaid volunteer, I pay for the privilege of volunteering. I assumed you were joking and responded in that fashion, because the idea that you were being serious was too wild to contemplate. If I was wrong, and you were serious, then yeah, it was in piss poor taste.
To be clear, yes, I was trying to be completely facetious, because I could not for the life of me figure out what I was doing wrong for either one. The only reason I tagged you was because you probably would know the most and, tbh, I just did not have time to research it because I was posting right before my appointment for a surgery consult. (And to be fair, I did open the door to being whapped with a āgit gudā, but my reaction to it was to sigh in all caps in my chair, but again, I didnāt treat it as serious. I just didnāt laugh or find it humorous as far as āit was not funnyā was concerned.)
But yeah. I probably couldāve handled that better either way.
ETA:
@Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!
this isnāt funny
Neither is what youāre insinuating with this, particularly when you consider that the initial response to me was flippant ā and also not really funny from my perspective, but I didnāt take it as malicious or intended to be insulting (nor was my response to it meant as such either) ā especially since, as we clearly just saw with not knowing how to properly image link from imgur, it couldāve just been a simple matter of me simply forgetting how to do it correctly. Secondly, if I had any real issue with the forum upgrade, it would have been voiced by now and in a very different way.
That said, @Tez if that was in bad taste, I am sorry.
@Roz said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
@dvoraen said in Unspeakables: The Politics Thread 2024:
(@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)
Were you doing it with just the regular Imgur URL from the URL bar or did you right click on the image and get the actual direct image link?
I think it was the imgur-provided link instead of the direct one, yeah.
@Tez Same to you Miss Upgrader! Fix my spoiler block to redact properly!
Here is me, trying to summon @Apos to dive in on this subject, for reasons that should be obvious to many of us who were on Arx. (inb4thisisnotanArxthreadreee)
For myself, I consider metaplot to be āa story thatās going on that directly affects (or will affect) the state of the world and the players.ā Metaplot should not only be fluid, because of player involvement/actions, but multithreaded, because thereās no one story that meets the definition I gave, let alone the outcome(s) of that story which could spawn other metaplot(s).
Iām keeping it generalized, because I have not been a game runner, and I sure donāt make any claims to being a plotter/storyteller outside of my own head (i.e., my personal fiction that lives in there for non-MU* writing). But, that is how I see it as a player, and Arx had a great deal to do with arriving at that definition.
At risk of coming across as really callous towards, well, everyone in the United States, Iāve basically been forced to adopt this particular meme, because so many people in the US could not read the writing on the wall, amongst other potential problems* with our newā¦ āadministrationā, and note the air quotes.
But first, the meme:
(@Tez WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING WITH IMGUR LINKS REEEE)
Itās not that I donāt care what happens to people, itās that Iāve basically run out of tears to cry with, you could say. So at this point, my emotions have basically hit the computer science equivalent of an integer overflow and gone to the opposite side of the digital number line, so thatās why I read r/leopardsatemyface now. Iām still waiting for some of the diehards to realize they are going to get exactly what they voted for, just not what they think they voted for. (How about those egg and grocery price promises, errbody?)
* ||The fact that The Donald has alluded to election fraud by suggesting tampering (by Elon) with the voting machinesā¦ yeah. r/houstonwade on reddit went wild about this for a while.||
(@Tez WHY DID THE SPOILER BUTTON NOT WORK EITHER REEEE)
Kind of a stream of consciousness reply to @Faraday in her original post:
I think there should be ātiersā of blocking, but Iām not going to propose something consistent here:
No contact blocking.
Specific player and/or handle blocking.
Muting.
I didnāt realize I had this peeve until yakking with @Rucket on Discord tonight:
I have no idea what MU*s are out there anymore aside from Ares games, and the occasional peek at Evenniaās tracker.
The peeve: How am I supposed to know what else is out there?! Where are all the MU* trackers?! Iāve forgotten and/or theyāve poofed.
@kalakh said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:
@KarmaBum said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:
Really old drama.
I almost put this in the āGood Thingsā thread just as an example of things Iām so glad we decided as a group to stop doing.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040204025308/http://southern.silvertree.org/southerngoldapp.cgi
14 general questions, then 33 questions on the gold application and 26 for bronze.
Question 24 on the gold application is amazing.
- During your first hatching that youāre running as a Junior, you hear on the grapevine that your Weyrleader is flirting with prospective candidates and promising them search and/or impression on acceptance of TS. Your Weyrwoman is his RL wife, and has no idea any of this is going on, and in fact, you know, told him on a number of occasions not to TS. What do you do?
I donāt think Iāve ever seen vaguebooking in the form of an application question before.
ELI5. In a silly-drama way, to stay on topic.
@Tez said in Your Latest Batch of (Silly) Drama:
@dvoraen I sell it on Temu, run by my cat, Temu.
You should name your next cat Ekko, because of this ad.
@Tez I have questions about what your side jobs are:
YouTube ratted you out.
@Gashlycrumb lol. This is practically an IT story waiting to happen, for security reasons.
Encouraging employees to click links in emails that lead to (random?) websites is a security risk. Period.