CW Show Formula:
Character A keeps a secret for a good reason.
Character B finally finds out.
Character B: OMG HOW DARE YOU LIE TO ME.
Character A: I had good reason but I'll never do it again.
M. Night Shamalama-style plot-twist: CHARACTER B IS ALSO KEEPING A SECRET, STAY TUNED NEXT WEEK WHEN CHARACTER A FEELS BETRAYED.
It gets old, fast.
@rnmissionrun said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:
@faraday said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:
@bored said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:
Glad to see another Ares game!
Full disclosure: Ares is still under development and has not yet been released. It's pretty stable - BSGU has been running without major issues for a long time -
but it's still a work in progress. Kraken and the 8th Sea staff have been working with me on sort of a "private beta" basis to help shake out configuration/customization and admin issues. (I'm not directly involved in the game though.)If I had known that you were open to people running "private beta" games with AriesMUSH, I would have hit you up ages ago!
I've been waiting for her to release it to me for a while. If you knew all the times I'd nudged @faraday if she was ready for me to play with Ares... 
Super fucking depressed right now.
Over the last few years, I've been developing vitiligo. It started around my eyes, with a loss of color (and before you go 'well hey at least you don't have dark circles!' it's actually much harder to balance out skintone this way: most products are made for dark circles), then began showing up in places on my hands.
As of today, I'm seeing it around one side of my mouth.
I already have enough self-esteem issues when it comes to my appearance. This is just... solidly in the camp of 'not fair.'
@three-eyed-crow said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:
@auspice said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:
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I have gotten report of a supposed "MSB plot" to take down this game. I don't know if there is any truth, whatsoever, to this. I don't know if it was a joke, if it was a few people trolling and when they got found out they decided to point fingers this way to try to cover their own ass, or what.WTF?
Are there details available to offer about this? My tendency is to side-eye these claims heavily and roll-northernly-eye the 'MSB rule' and such that staff has shown tendency to do thus far, but I'd hate to be rolling my eyes northward unfairly.
(I am not plotting against this game, personally. I do not play there and do not care, apart from the motion of my eyes.)
I don't have any details, no, but I just want to put my foot down before any rumors start or get out of control.
Someone came to me, upset, because they had been implicated (despite not being involved, true or false). Like I said: I don't know if it's even true. But I just wanted to speak up before anyone tried to get anything out there.
It's entirely possible someone saw the recent discussion in which there had been some chatter about 'MSB takes down games' and thought they could use it in their favor. MSB doesn't take down games. MSB won't take down games. If specific individuals want to be assholes, that's on them, but we (the board) don't have any part in it.
@Rinel The second half of book one really really picks up. Book 2 is awesome, I wish my dad would hurry up with book 3, I want to read it!
I just settled in to read book 2 this week. Bobbie and Chrisjen forever. 
@rucket said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
@auspice said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
@surreality said in Visit Fallcoast, sponsored by the Fallcoast Chamber of Commerce:
I know this won't be an 80s game. But all of this is why I still want one some day.
I think at the rate we're all going, it'll be an 80s game regardless.
It should definitely be an 80s game. And a part of me wants to play Vice City again, lol.
Vice City is amazing.
I don't have an official "ad," but as most of you know: Reno moved when mechanipus shut down. This time was used to overhaul the wiki, update the code, etc.
The game is not a full reboot, but it began being called "Reno 3" anyway. The same stories are intact, the same characters are. It's technically more like Reno 2.5 if we want to get technical.
Anyway.
It can be found at reno.kydance.net:2018
The wiki is at http://reno.kydance.net, but it is incomplete at this time as it is going through a complete overhaul. Most things are there, but not everything.
We also have a Discord server at https://discord.gg/XbTnHgP.
Come, hang out, unfreeze a character if you had one previously. We've got a couple plots up and running already.
ETA: I typo'd the port # and didn't notice until now. Apologies!
Insurance kicks in on the 1st.
I just scheduled a dental appt.
We'll see if I manage to keep it. :X
Personally, I am all for that high CON.
But that's just me! I am also not playing a combat character. I just wanna survive any possible illness rolls. >.>
@Sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I can completely understand that. Imposter syndrome is rough. I still deal with it on the regular. So does my team's database admin. So does my boss, who is the CIO. Regularly. I know this cos we talk about it. Part of me suspects it has something to do with being women in tech for so long, but idk.
All that aside, lady, I would send my kid to you. You have a huge heart. That is (to me at least) the most important thing. I have mad respect for all the teachers around here, y'all give me hope. You got this.
For Darc's sake, let's keep the thread focused and not go wildly off-topic, please.
I wish I could play more multiplayer games.
Overwatch, Rocket League, etc.
I usually have to be drunk to play them (so as to shut up parts of my brain). Otherwise I end up wanting to alt-tab to this or look at that or do other things. Focusing on ONE THING for an ENTIRE MATCH (or consecutive matches ala Rocket League) is just beyond me. It's frustrating because I wanna play shit with my friends, but doing just one... single... thing... for hour(hours) on end is just beyond me.
I played League of Legends for a while and as the game environment evolved into these 45 minute, hour long matches I had to stop because I would end up so fidgety I'd get agitated and upset. It was a game I was pretty good at, too!
I haven't gone back to Elite Dangerous, either, even though I fucking love that game. I'm limited, really, to games with really short matches (maybe part of why I love Mario Kart so much?) or single-player pausable games because I just...... can't do things that require I focus on one thing for too long.
I hate my brain.
I will also point out that Udemy has sales all the time. Courses are almost always available at roughly $12.
I just haven't delved into any of the Ruby ones 'cause I've been busy on other stuff.
I just thought I'd give a quick update for folks.
Things in SG Dev Land were a bit quiet this past week since both @Paradox and I were hella busy IRL. However, it was a busy that was accounted for and we're still on target.
I am really excited for getting to reveal this project in its entirety to everyone soon. 
(if ever this gif was relevant...)
Threads died off for a good while because of Staff business and a lot of players (myself included) being RL-occupied. HOWEVER, the Staff has returned and decided they want to get things up and going again.
There will be a Search cycle soon to help kick off this new activity, so it’s a good time to get in and get acclimated. I will warn that these crazy folks have asked me to step up as Senior (mostly because I’m the only gold rider still around- bonus! means there will prob be a gold egg!). I have a lot of experience as SCo (I love writing dragons, y’all), but not so much in running things and I will likely try to find a WL who can handle most of the OOC leadership (tbh I kind of dislike how Pern games traditionally make the IC leadership also the OOC).
But if that doesn’t scare you away, please check it out: http://threadsofpern.wikidot.com/
(For those potentially curious: http://threadsofpern.wikidot.com/news-gender - women are fully equal to men on ToP and while women impress gold and men impress bronze as normal, there’s no sexuality restrictions and trans* are welcome. The only caveat is that while it’s been decided that there are herbs available for hormone treatment type things, the level of medicine does not allow for surgery. So be a gay bronzerider, a bi gold rider (my char is!), or feel more than welcome to play a trans char.)
