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@derp said in Group Notes:

@auspice

I think the +lairs code has this?

To quote the coder: lair notes (goddamnit)

Before you is a woman effuse with a youthful vigor of the refined sort, delicate of mannerism yet delightfully unambiguous in her conversational tones. While her height may be short, curtailed by genetics and gravity, her build is is rather robust, perhaps even stout.

As she lingers before you her body always finds the most classical of poses, one hand cocked on her hip and the other with elbow bent, palm raised to the side. Should she be riled, however, you may hear her shout "Tip me over and pour me out!" in steamy, whistling rage.

Lest one get the wrong impression, she is also of the clever sort, the sort to show you what she can do! That handled pose is easily switched, inverted, that the entire process may begin again!

He helped @Avarice set up Fires of Hope and polished a few things there. I thought I had an email for Dahan, but haven't been able to find it.

If you were having issues connecting to Reno this morning, try again. DNS was down, but it should be resolved now (or will be shortly, once it populates out).

I think there's something wrong with your browser then, if you're using Twine's built-in debug feature. When I tried: (set: $operations to operations + 1) it actually gave me a very useful error output stating that "operations is not defined"

So I've actually started a Twine story up in Harlowe 2 and been playing with different code structures and permutations. Everything works fine and normally.

Instead if (if: $operations <= 0) you could also try:

(set: $isOperationsDone to ($operations <= 0))
(print: $isOperationsDone)

Instead of the if: statement (if you leave the if statement in, it'll trash your existing output when it jumps to the next storyboard). If the print value is correct and if you actually don't jump to the end without the apparently offending if statement, then try adding:

$isOperationsDone[(goto: "peregrine@end:~$ ^z")]

Freak Macaron Incident.

A macaron delivery truck will veer into my car to avoid hitting a mother duck and its ducklings. 9/10 okay with dying save the baby ducks.

Always late to the party...

When I noticed the game had fallen off the net I emailed Luthe's player to see what had happened, whether he needed some help, or if I could grab the database and server code to bring it up on another server. I never heard back from him. I contacted a number of people but never managed to find out what had happened.

On color adaptations, originally all were assigned. Brandy used to do it and training took it on after she mostly retired from the game. Later, much later, Vyana wrote code to auto assign adapt colors for singers. Black and white were never part of automatic assignments, players that had contributed a lot to the game usually got those adapts. There were few black adapts, Gyles and Kesya come to mind.

I had a bunch of characters... I vaguely remember also a tuner and sledtech, but I just can't remember the names.
Dreatha - Singer
Renata - Sorter

@thenomain said in RL Weirdness:

@auspice

Um...What?

I blame yesterday's fugue state.

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spear and magic helmet

I've only seen the GIF threads (this and GIF Uno) take a moment to load a page. Every other page seem to be loading without any issue.

@faraday Pretty much. I may just have spectacularly bad luck with dice, but that always struck me as - well, what you describe, a routine task for their job. It gets worse because they're a lot more heavy-handed on the roll penalties than they are on the roll bonuses, and every task from the 'this is the simplest thing you could ever possibly do' to 'this is actually really hard' all have the same difficulty; one more or less dare not walk and chew gum at the same time, pretty much. It all doesn't quite work out so well as it should in the end.

Quiche - that isn't really - but totally is

Pastry crust (I can give you a vegan recipe or you can buy one)
4 tablespoons olive oil (I like cold pressed)
1 pound of asparagus (get rid of the rough ends, cut 1/2 inch length)
(I use the tips of four of them for garnish)
2 shallots (peeled and coarse chopped)
3 cloves of garlic (I sometimes add more, but I have a garlic addiction)
1 cup of walnuts
1.5 cups cooked navy beans (you can sub a 15 oz can)
.5 cup loosely packed tarragon
2 tablespoons finely chopped tarragon
2 tablespoons of cornstarch
.75 (3/4 but I started the . stuff) teaspoon salt (I like pink Himalayan)
.25 (1/4) teaspoon ground nutmeg (buy it, it's annoying to ground yourself)
black pepper to your desired taste (I usually end up with a teaspoon)
.33 (1/3) cup of wheat bread crumbs (if you are avoiding this there are vegan alternatives to this too, like Ezekiel bread)
4 slices of beefsteak tomatoes (you can use Holland too - Use BIG ones)

Preheat a large skillet over medium-high heat.
Sauté asparagus in tablespoon of oil, stirring every now and then for 7 minutes (approximately)
Meanwhile grab a food processor and prepare to process!
Toss walnuts (I like to try to toss them in from across the room - not really), 1/4 c tarragon, nutmeg, salt, and pepper in that machinery. Turn it on and run it like a boss. Or until the walnuts are into crumbles (walnut meat)
Put the asparagus into a shallow bowl for a time out while you saute the shallots in a tablespoon of oil around 3 minutes.
Add in garlic for another 3 minutes (don't burn it - it makes it bitter and smells bad)
Put all these things (shallots and garlic) in with the asparagus. When they have chilled out (aka stopped steaming) add them to the food processor, pulse a few times.
Add beans and make a puree
Sift the cornstarch if it's lumpy to make it fine (soooo fine) and pulse (I find techno music helps with this)
Toss all this back into the time out bowl, cover and put in the fridge for 45 minutes.
Oh yeah, probably turn off the stove if you haven't.

Preheat oven to 350

Prepare the pastry dough. I use a 15 inch pie pan thing. I cover it with foil and bake it 15 minutes

Take the vegetable/walnut mixture from the fridge. Put it in the shell. Sprinkle the top with half the bread crumbs. and drizzle with a tablespoon of olive oil. Arrange the tomato slices on top (channel your inner Bob Ross - Happy tomatoes)
Put the rest of the bread crumbs on those happy tomatoes, a touch of salt, some fresh pepper, the chopped tarragon, drizzle with the remaining tablespoon of olive oil.
Bake 45 minutes
You should let it cool 20 minutes, but I never do. I get hungry.

@lithium
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Have to share this, and happy holidays...

I'm adding Carrie Coon to my list. Although it will be really hard to not just rehash her character from The Leftovers. So vulnerable, so broken, so barely keeping it together...

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I'm using two headsets.

One is an Mpow Cheetah; cheap as hell (something like $30? from amazon.ca, probably way cheaper for the USAians), the battery is decent for what it is... good for sports, light, feels secure behind the ears. I like I can easily put it away in my coat pocket and forget about it until I need it, too, the damn thing is so compact.

My other set was a Christmas present but Bose Soundlink II was a pretty decent low/midrange headset. Way more comfortable, the battery is amazing and it sounds way better. But it's not as secure for sportsy stuff - anything other than a brisk walk wouldn't be too great.