@Roz The original e-mail mentioned for it was due to "Spam, Scams, or Other Malicious Content" and it seemed ludicrous because I had literally never messaged anyone through Twitch. I had no footprint socially on that network, all I ever did was update my addons (since the Curse client, which I used to use instead, was bought out by them).
I guess I need a new, harder password even for my throwaways just in case they grow up to be real accounts one day. 
Not that it's something to be pissed off on its own, but I got my Twitch account back. What I am annoyed about though:
It had gotten banned for violating the terms of agreement because (as it turns out) the account got compromised. That's quite likely due to the bad, easy password I had set in the first place, which is on me. In my own feeble defense I had that set before Amazon Prime gave you a freebie Premium Twitch subscription since... I didn't care. Twitch was a throwaway for me, I could just make another. But losing Premium meant certain benefits to updating WoW addons plus cascading secondary benefits like free games on Switch.
It took forever to get it back. Even figuring out the recovery process required some in-depth searching (since they will ignore any other means of contacting them other than a very specific one), and then two more weeks of asking the same questions again and again until they finally reset my account.
At least now I have 2FA enabled so hopefully that's done.
@Selerik Of course, humor, some fava beans and a nice chianti make such dinners a marvelous experience.
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
@Arkandel said in RL things I love:
Sunday evening includes:
- Eating out with friends
- Avengers: Endgame
- Game of Thrones Episode 3
Yeah. YEAH.
Lies.
You don't have friends.
I have people I eat and watch movies with, and that's good enough.
@Auspice I am not sure how i feel about this.
Well the web site gives a 404 so... I wouldn't feel any way about this, since this is beyond vaperware. 
Edit: I'm moving this to a different forum category until there's something to advertise.
Sunday evening includes:
Yeah. YEAH.
That name is the non-nerd equivalent of people dubbing their kid "Daenerys Stevens".
@Caryatid You made me google "sunriders ice and fire" just now thinking I was missing some kind of Old Valyria reference. Shame on you!
@TiredEwok said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I was unfortunately not as lucky with GoT (am waiting for the last season to conclude so I can binge watch the whole series since I fell behind by a couple) thanks to the title of a Yahoo article on it's main page, however. FFS.
The clickbait articles on Yahoo! are merciless. Those motherfuckers haven't ran into a spoiler they wouldn't use to grab attention yet and they do it right in their titles. "Six Reasons Why Thanos Just Killed Half The Universe".
@Roz said in Game of Thrones:
I'm really enjoying the season but WHY does the show insist on trying to get me to find Tormund's behavior towards Brienne endearing or comedic???
I think it's 90% fan service. My guess is they didn't expect the relationship (?) to blow up in memes or the actor playing Tormund to become so popular on the internet - otherwise he really isn't that interesting a character. Brienne is literally the only plotline he has left, else I'd expect him to have been killed or not get a lot of screen time by now.
But yeah, he's totally creeping on her.
This might contain some spoilers. I think the entire thread might be spoiler-y in general so my only request here is to keep them out of it for at least a day after the latest episode airs to give people a chance to watch it.
... But damn the series, which at times has had its faults, is starting to spend the capital it's been building for years, and it's a glorious thing. Game of Thrones always succeeded on the strengths of its secondary characters; sure, there was some undead army in the north constantly ready to kill everyone and there were some badass Big Names clearly meant to be the protagonists (or villains) but the rest of the cast was where most people seem to be picking favorites from.
And the series has done an incredible job developing them. Jaime Lannister - a guy who in the show's first thirty minutes was caught fucking his married sister by an underage kid and threw said kid out of a window, crippling him. A guy who even later on threatened a baby's father to catapult the baby over a besieged fort if it meant he could get back to that same sister. On every other show he'd have been just a mustache-twirling villain and somehow eight years later he's a tragic, heroic figure, the kind who in this cynical, dark setting that laughs at noble deeds (and he had himself, often) picks up a lance from the ground and charges at a full grown dragon mounted on a steed.
Then that scene from last week's episode. Everyone pretty much acknowledges openly they are about to die, it's generally understood it's the last time all these supporting characters will ever have a drink together... yet the most cliche trope of bestowing honor brings them all to their feet. It's the kind of thing a few seasons ago would have been done to subvert it and now it lent emotional weight to the entire episode which ended up revolving around it.
This is pretty special. I'll miss this damn show when it's over.
Good thing George Martin is putting all those books out soon!
Holy shit, now we have to wait a week for the next episode?!
<hype intensifies>
@Sparks Yes, in retrospect this would fit better on-demand logging than being the default for everyday PMs.
The other advantage of logging this sort of thing server-side in general though is it takes the he-said she-said question out of the equation. No one can forge logs any more.
@faraday said in Saving Pages to the Database:
If MUers value their privacy that much, they can do without the feature. These are chat messages, not state secrets.
Then that's the question you are asking - 'how much do players value their privacy?' - rather than how to best safeguard it since otherwise staff will always have access to full records of pages.
I'd say in that case it's a net positive. Sure, malevolent staff will go through people's transcripts and read their private communication, but that's just one way these things can happen. On the other hand it could be helpful in handling disputes or prying into harassment, etc.
@faraday Encrypt pages with public keys possessed by all parties who want this feature enabled.
Then if any one of them wants to release their contents they can, if not staff can't look at them anyway.
I am a huge Garth Ennis fan, and this is making me preeetty hyped.
The Boys trailer.
What I love about Game of Thrones (and shows like it - Westworld comes to mind) is how much every episode is broken down and analyzed, speculated upon and discussed afterwards.
I've listened to three podcasts this week so far about Episode 1, each dissecting it to its smallest details. The Coffee Klatch Crew one for example spent over twenty minutes going over the opening animation breaking it down pretty much frame by frame.
I dunno. I just like super nerdy things like these.