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It still hasn't arrived. I am slowly devolving into a nervous wreck thinking, "lol what if I'm just waiting for the cops to sting me"...

I can contact him, if you want to pass along your discord and maybe a name he'd recognize?

I posted something here on accident that had absolutely nothing to do with the topic which is why I deleted it!

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Here's another one.

Now, I love Durban. I went there on my honeymoon. If anyone out there has ever visited (or has plans to visit) South Africa, it's by far my #1 recommended tourist destination. The clubs there are amazing. The Indian Ocean is warm. The surfing is spectacular. The weather is perfect, hardly ever falling below 18° C /64° F. They have the 5th biggest aquarium in the world with a pool where the only thing separating you from their shark tank is a big ole piece of glass. The people there are fucking awesome. There are game reserves. They have mountains. They have cheaper prices on practically everything compared to Jo'burg or Cape Town. But what I remember the best is that the food is just... yes. We went out to eat every night - sea food on a boat in the harbor, Korean food (hard to find in SA), sushi, and Indian food.

Oh yes, the Indian food.

Durban is known for it's Indian population and its amazing Indian food. For a great reason. It's the most amazing stuff ever.

Now, being born and raised in North Carolina and Virginia USA, this was such a different experience. You can't get proper curry where I'm from - not that I had ever even had the bad curry. But, for noobs to curry like myself, I really recommend the samoosa. It's a little triangle piece of crispy pastry stuffed with savory filling. My favorite being the beef mince curry or mutton curry (there aren't a ton of vegetarian Hindu Indians here, they are mostly Muslim). They're cheap too, at about R5-10 each, they are less than a dollar.

I might have had upwards of about 40 of them during the last few days of my visit there.

Anyway, it was a long drive home. About 8 to 10 hours, depending on traffic.

I didn't even see it coming. I mean, in retrospect, maybe I should have.

Hour three of our drive, I sneezed.

"Oh shit, I shat."

Not only that, it had the distinct qualities of a samoosa. Oily and burny and with a distinct curry smell - expelled from my anus at the speed of sound. I think I might have discovered the real brown note, if you know what I mean.

Cue about 4 or 5 hours of my husband giggling, with our car windows down and him hanging out of the window as he drove.

We couldn't stop. We were out in the middle of the fucking African bush. Ain't no gas stations in the middle of the African bush. You know what's in the middle of the African bush? Hijackers, murderers, and fucking lions. And I surely didn't want to fucking die with shit in my pants.

And I didn't want my husband to die because I had shat my pants.

I couldn't reach my bag to do anything about it, either. I managed to get a towel to sit on to spare our car seat, but... it was the most disgusting ~4 hours of my LIFE and it was even more awks when we got home and had to greet family. He had to distract them while cackling like a hyena as I slipped in and made a direct path to the bathroom.

And that is definitely the reason why we are still together. For richer or poorer. In sickness and in health.

These days my youtube is mostly sciencetuber content.

Stand-up Maths is great at making weird mathematics interesting.

Veritasium is great at investigating all sorts of concepts.

Corridor Crew analyze and sometimes reproduce CGI and stunts in movies, often with special guests.

Viva La Dirt League just really great gaming themed comedy skits

SmarterEveryDay lots of good educational videos

Stuff Made Here what happens if you leave an engineer alone with an entire workshop

Technology Connections learn more about technology in your house you never thought about

ElectroBoom Everything you shouldn't do with electronics

Steve Mould Assorted science videos, usually with practical demonstrations

@Ganymede said in The Art of Lawyering:

Suppose there is a clear precedent that requires three operative facts. Suppose there is sufficient evidence to establish all three, but there is evidence to the contrary. This is what a jury shall decide: what the facts are.
And if they fit the mold, the case is made.

At which point it will winds its way up through the various courts of appeals until it gets to the Supreme Court, who will probably overturn it. Despite paying lip service to the idea that a set of facts doesn't need to match exactly a prior set in a decision, they will overturn decisions for petty differences, and do. All the time.

So it can make it to a jury but fat lot of good that will do you in the end, really.

@nyctophiliac The dude was a decent guy, but a really shitty leader for an org. I wouldn't mind if he came back, but not in charge of anything major.

@wildbaboons said in Nyct0's Playlist:

I'd suggest not snuggling with your hallucinogenic toad at bed time

I was RPing for something like 14 hours straight, it was a long Arxday.

Also stupid hallucinogenic toads. Baboons always hogging them.

@nyctophiliac said in Questions About Evennia:

Oh please don't misunderstand 🙂 I never thought you guys were /truly/ tired of answering my questions at all. As a matter of fact, whenever I have posed a question of any sort on the IRC/Discord channel, I've always gotten a response. Incredibly helpful community you have. And I'm glad you haven't tired of me just yet because I have 0 experience in coding and will likely be asking hundreds more. (Ok. Well I do CSS, PHP, Java, HTML but those are hardly relevant at the moment).

At least CSS and HTML are both very relevant if you want to get creative with your web experience!
But yes, don't be shy to ask questions. It's always hard to get into a new library, especially so if the language itself is unfamiliar. It can also be diffucult for us devs that already know the system well to perceive what is confusing, unclear or hard for a newcomer to grasp; so questions help us too in a way. 🙂
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Griatch

@tragedyjones Everything's still there, it's just not visible because of some issue that is exceedingly unlikely to get fixed (given that Mechanipus is dying). If you click on "view source" all the content is still there.

@TNP said:

@nyctophiliac said:

The average human body contains...what, 5 pints of blood? Each pint of blood is a single blood point. Take 1/5th of someones blood and you just fucked them up

Actually, it's 10 pints or so. When you give blood, they take a pint and there's little effect from it.

Yeah. That's why I forewent the "pint" measurement in my clarification above. 1 Vitae is an abstract amount of blood--enough that it's nourishing for a vampire, basically. The more Stamina you have and the bigger you are, the more Vitae their blood is worth. This is the same reason, as far as I can tell, that some vampires have more Vitae than others: the actual mystical power of the viae is concentrated the higher your Blood Potency (hence the term "blood potency") and each Vitae is less actual amount of physical blood.

I would be quite interested in either General Vampire ST, or Carthian ST!

I would love a Real-Time chat room.

@nyctophiliac said:

Youre amazing theno, thank you!

Wait for the praise until you try to install it. The best I can say at the moment is that it's available.