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@Thenomain said in Hosting and codebase recs:

@Sparks said in Hosting and codebase recs:

It is not how I would recommend building a live-updating MU* website, but it's doable in Penn or TinyMUX. It is sheer hell to code, but it is doable.

You know there's a codebase that could do it better and long before Penn, Mux, or Rhost? Muck. Or Moo.

There's just a lot more support for the Mux, Penn, Rhost set. At least since Nuku went off to be a successful Furry RPG Game Company.

Thank you for mentioning these. MOO gets a bad rap around here and is likened to 'just for MUDS,' but I began on MOO and every one I played was as RP focused as a MUSH/MUX.

MOO is an astoundingly capable codebase and could handle external connections twenty years ago. (I think fondly to our auto updating econ site for WNOHGB.... hell that game had a lot of code I'd still consider advanced. Programmable ship computers??).

But like many of the others: you gotta know how to code it. It's where teenage me learned any code beyond web shit, so I don't think it's too bad.

But if you want an out-of-the-box solution, @Alamias , like it sounds from your original post: Ares is the best option imo.

Fortunately, when I was at Whole Foods, the guy I worked with the most had just begun reading Dresden Files and upon finding I was a fan would talk to me about the chapter(s) he'd read the night before every day. It was like my very own refresher for the series. I did re-read Skin Game myself, though.

But since Peace Talks apparently has a cliffhanger, I miiiiiight hold off and just get the next Peter Grant book instead because oh man Broken Homes was so good.

1. What skin is everyone using?

2. What version of Android?

3. Try scrolling down a bit on the page when it disappears. I notice it does this sometimes on Chrome on iOS for me. It just won't show if I'm at the top of the page, but once I start scrolling down, it'll show back up, which might just be a stupid nodebb quirk.

(Unfortunately, this may fall in the category of things we here can't fix because it's a nodebb thing. We don't make the stuff and there's only so far that Ark or I could go in digging around in it.)

@gangofdolls said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Anyone have experience with this and have recommendations?

My experience is about 17 years old, but... I had to wear a knee brace after surgery on my knee. And part of the issue was the knee cap going out of place.

I have a lot of issues with wearing braces, bandages, etc... but the one that I was able to wear for the longest periods of time was a full 'sleeve' style that also had an inflatable section around the knee cap for added support. Being nearly 2 decades later, they probably have improved upon the design/style.

@Derp said in Digital Ocean for Ares:

@Bananerz said in Digital Ocean for Ares:

do you have that Discord chat? I'll send my account # over via PM. I'd like to chat about costs, what is available, what I need I think now and just general user experience with it

Ares can run fine on the $5/month DO droplet. Probably forever. It's got 25G of disk space, and there is a referral bonus where you can get your first month free.

this is what SGM has. Have had no issues. Do recommend.

I never liked the UI on the GoodReads site. I always wanted to like it because I liked it in theory but...it never became something I used.

So for me book discovery has always been word of mouth. But also.... I learn about a lot of books outside of sci-fi/fantasy through Ryan Holiday's email digest. He sends out an email every quarter with his favorite books from the past three months and why they're his favorites. They range from books on stoicism (which is what he writes himself so there's often at least one of those), philosophy in general, to history, and socio-politics.

I do a good enough job keeping up the fiction reading but his list really helps me flesh out the rest.

@Lotherio said in Favicon:

@Arkandel said in Favicon:

@Roz You guys live in the future now. You're welcome.

What, my tabs have little pictures on them, what magic is this?

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

@auspice said in RL things I love:

I'm not sure if it's just the mystery of pasta or growing up in a big family and never losing that tendency to cook in volume.

eyeroll

Look, do I have to freakin' go down and cook for you? I already have to get you hammered off of bourbon.

C'mon, woman.

Look, I'm a baker.

I can cook well in two instances:
a) if I have a recipe.
b) I'm the magical combination of drunk/high. For some reason, I become a kitchen savant whose only goal in life is to feed everyone around me.

Also: heehee, you said going down and referenced me in the same sentence.

Some of us hate writing descs (hi, me!) but I know some people love to write them.

So I figured... maybe there can be a thread where the former group can openly request help from the latter.

I'll start: I need someone willing to do... 4? descs, maybe? On NOLA, I'd like to have actual rooms for the St. Louis Cathedral. An interior is a MUST, but an exterior would be p. cool as well. I'd also like one (or more) of the Old Ursuline Convent, since it's due to be the Lance hangout.

If this is something that strikes your fancy, let me know? I've been unable to get the right words to do these descs for weeks now.

Ender's Game is high up there. Never really got into the rest of the series, but loved the first.

Also, I have been trying to remember The Blue Sword for years. XD Thank you guys!

Another that really stuck with me when I was young: Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Additional peeve:
the poll add-on sucks.

Why can't I put a poll in a reply?

Why can't I have more than one poll in a post?!

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THE ULTIMATE VS. FOOD BATTLE?!

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

God, I hate you people.

We love you.

sorry @Surasanji this is now Battle of the Bands: the Game.

I've been reading the Rivers of London books (https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Riot-Peter-Grant-Book-ebook/dp/B004C43F70/). They're a lot of fun. The primary quote used to describe them names them a sort of Harry Potter meets CSI.

@krmbm said in MSB Peeves:

@Thenomain At home, I have the CSS modifier thingie that just hides the images entirely. At work...

...I just get ragey and think hateful thoughts and then try to remember that I shouldn't be MSBing at work, anyway.

Don't gifshame me.
(in all honesty it WOULD be nice if browsers had a built in function to make gifs work on mouse over only or something.)

Have some EDM:

Like A Boss
Great Spirit
Punjabi

(I have found EDM to be the best music for me, personally, to walk to on my commute. Thus, I've been listening to a lot of it.)

4T

It isn't set modern day, which is a learning curve for many, but it is multi-universe. So while it leans mostly-DC (whereas I believe ESH leans mostly- Marvel), if you can make a good case for something outside DC or Marvel, I am pretty sure staff would consider it.

The game has had one of the most chill OOC atmospheres I've been in. I'm sad I haven't been able to be more active due to my RL of late, but there are people there looking for RP and people to run plot with / for.

To make it easy, here's an article that lists which games have pledged to remove RedShell and which are still using it.

@tinuviel said in RL things I love:

@surreality I was told that, when cooking spaghetti at least, one fistful of pasta per person. That never seems to work out right, though. So cook it all up, make a bomb-as-fuck sauce to go with it and boom. Dinner for tonight and lunch for the rest of the week.

This might be another part of why I do it. When my fibro was so bad that I needed a cane at times to walk, I would spend one of my days off cooking. One big batch of X for dinners and a batch of Y for lunches.

I mean this week I made enough of a chicken casserole for 4 meals. >.>