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@L-B-Heuschkel

ANGRY FORUM POST!

How DARE you run things that people might enjoy. Back in your box!

October 1707. The coast of Cornwall is a windswept, exposed place, and a huge, unprecedented storm coming in off the Atlantic could mean danger, it could mean battening down the hatches, or for the entrepreneurs of Penmarth, it could mean profit.

Trelawney Cove is officially switching to open beta from the beginning of November, and we’re launching with a slow-safe week of action from 24th October around one of the greatest storms in British history, for those who want to be involved.

We are above all a collaborative sandbox game, deliberately aimed at those of us with less time or ability to play constantly, whether through illness, family, children, work, or just 2020 on the whole. Staff do not run plots out all the time - instead we provide the buckets and spades, the tools for RP, support and ideas, and we improvise together to build a beautiful sandcastle.

Now is a good time to get a character on the grid if you’d like to help build our story. You don’t need to be a historian to play - if you can smell the salt air and the whiff of gunpowder on the breeze, if you can feel the resentment in this small town for the threat of the authorities, or the oppression of the outside world for our safe haven of Penmarth, drop by and find your place with us.

• http://trelawneycove.aresmush.com
• More info on our theme and setting
• Wanted concepts

@Caggles said in The Work Thread:

Got two separate formal grievances lodged against me by one of my academics. One for the tone of voice used when telling her to please stop asking the same question again and again when we've already answered it, and please to also stop threatening us. And this latest one where apparently I, along with my head of school, head of faculty, head of HR, head of ITS, and the vice chancellor of the university have all been conspiring to read her emails, send her spam mail, and arrange cold callers from India to phone her about a road accident/PPI/a virus on her computer.

On the one hand it's laughable, on the other, she clearly needs help. Either way it's many many man hours of official investigations and due process (and because she's accused everyone who would otherwise be involved in the investigation, we've had to go to external investigators at £400 per day) for a paranoid fantasist who is so far removed from reality it's frightening. If she were in the real world, not a university, she'd have been sacked by now for vexatious litigation.

And although I know I'm well and truly in the clear - I cleared my phrasing with my head of school before sending that first email out, to be sure I wasn't being overly sensitive, and I physically don't have the ability or access to read this woman's emails - it's fucking with my stress levels and my sleep.

I do adore my job, but this woman makes me want to go out at night with a shovel, a tarp and a bath full of bleach.

DING DONG THE WITCH IS... fired? SHE IS GONE!! 9 MONTHS OF HELL OVER!

@L-B-Heuschkel
You're such a liar. I came up to you camping on grid just yesterday! And then, admittedly, started an open scene there, but still!

I'm just saying that the ideal sexual partner is one who turns into a nice cup of tea and a pizza afterwards.

I wasn't allowed to use the 'If you're looking for high octane action and plot at breakneck speed, jog on, this ain't the game for you' line. Got vetoed. Much sadness.

Welcome to Penmarth; a wind-swept little town in Queen Anne's England. The 18th century has just begun, the winds off the Atlantic are harsh, the excisemen and tax collectors never rest, and the press gangs of the Royal Navy lurk in the taverns. Life is not easy, but it’s rarely boring.

Smugglers, harlots, seadogs; tradesmen, artisans, fishermen, and the occasional penniless gentryfolk. This is Penmarth, a struggling hamlet in Trelawney Cove, in the far south of England. A motley community just trying to survive and make tomorrow a little better than yesterday. A small town like any other small Cornish town, except --

Except it's not unusual here to find men and women, and some either or none, living, working and even marrying outside of traditional gender roles. You could ask over a pint at the Red Lion, but ask politely -- the people of Penmarth defend their ways fiercely, and are quite ready to go toe to toe with any outsider thinking they know what’s best.

Trelawney Cove is a relaxed sandbox game. We favour PVE over PVP, telling a story about a community, where the social experience outweighs chasing fast plot and high drama. You create your story, at the pace that suits you. We are an alternate history game in which daily life is often grungy, smells of seaweed, but unusually tolerant. A game not about winning or conquering, but about being human.

Will you be a fisherman running cargo past the noses of the queen’s excisemen? A daring pirate retiring from the South Seas? A trader profiting from the sale of salvaged goods? A wrecker, directing ships to dangerous reefs so that there will be something to salvage in the first place? A merchant, a midwife, an artisan, a farmer, a shepherd, a miner?

Trelawney Cove is still in alpha development but we now take applications. We're a pretty laid back, slow paced place to suit 2020, a year where everyone is exhausted, and where staff is happy to take feedback and suggestions. Come make your mark on the coast of Cornwall today!

Good opportunity for Europe based players, and those on slower schedules through work, timezones or illness.

http://trelawneycove.aresmush.com/
or trelawneycove.aresmush.com port 1707

I got eggs. After 9 weeks of trying, I have 6 fresh eggs in my kitchen right now. I am so happy I could squeal.

@Ganymede I don't know what that means, but if it's not the feminine version of a dictator I'm going to be horribly disappointed.

@Macha Got ones like this. For the G&T afterwards, right?

Got two separate formal grievances lodged against me by one of my academics. One for the tone of voice used when telling her to please stop asking the same question again and again when we've already answered it, and please to also stop threatening us. And this latest one where apparently I, along with my head of school, head of faculty, head of HR, head of ITS, and the vice chancellor of the university have all been conspiring to read her emails, send her spam mail, and arrange cold callers from India to phone her about a road accident/PPI/a virus on her computer.

On the one hand it's laughable, on the other, she clearly needs help. Either way it's many many man hours of official investigations and due process (and because she's accused everyone who would otherwise be involved in the investigation, we've had to go to external investigators at £400 per day) for a paranoid fantasist who is so far removed from reality it's frightening. If she were in the real world, not a university, she'd have been sacked by now for vexatious litigation.

And although I know I'm well and truly in the clear - I cleared my phrasing with my head of school before sending that first email out, to be sure I wasn't being overly sensitive, and I physically don't have the ability or access to read this woman's emails - it's fucking with my stress levels and my sleep.

I do adore my job, but this woman makes me want to go out at night with a shovel, a tarp and a bath full of bleach.

@Auspice

Depends on the cut. Old favourite would be to smear them in approx equal quantities of honey and mustard and roast them in the oven - I do this when I'm catering as I can stack about 60 pork loin chops in a gastro, fat side up, pour on the sauce, then cover and shove in the oven and it just makes its own marinade as it cooks, 0 effort, and you get delicious caramelised, crispy, salty fat. Mmm.

Else the classic onion, garlic, apples with the chops in a pan, chops out when they're cooked, then add cream to deglaze and pour that lumpy apply/oniony/creamy mix over the piggy?

@krmbm said in Faraday Appreciation Thread:

I honestly can't even tell you how many times I've been like "can you pls help me, i don't know what i did :(" and Faraday was like "yep, here is what you did and here is how you fix it." She never even was like "omg just stop touching things, you are obviously not competent." Which I deserve many times over.

But actually... this, though.

And when I am somewhat less than patient with people, she's awfy good at getting me to STFU.

Faraday is flawless.

I hear her code's insured for $10,000.

I hear she does MU* commercials... in Japan.

One time she punched me in the face... it was awesome.

@Apos

If it's running on a wiki you can do that with judicious use of css classes. Set your template to have an invisible (birth-death) strip across it, pulling from the data already listed, and... well, I'd probably just run a brief script to say anything with a death-date, set as class 'dead', which would then add the overlaid strip and css filter to sepia.

tl;dr - doable, only takes a few lines of script.

@silverfox said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Last weekend I spent hours looking at alternate careers for teachers because I'm burning out badly right now. (I don't think I'll ever really leave - I'm terrified of losing the stability that comes with teaching. It would take a lot for me to lose this job, but my husband has gone through the private sector fire-hire roller coaster enough for me to want to engage in it.)

This is why the UCU (University and College Union) over here went on strike last year, and it looks like we're back on strike again end of February.

These workloads are not sustainable. It's not good for us, and it's definitely not good for our students. How can we give our best to them when we're working 60, 70, 80 hour weeks on a regular basis?

Fuck your 'wellbeing' and tai-chi and painting a fucking rock for self help.

@JinShei

Or case names.

@JinShei

Please can I have your students? I just had to flag one with 89% plagiarism from 4 easily googled websites. This is a 3rd year LLB student.

@GreenFlashlight

Do you think this separation is more difficult with writing than eg. with music?

If I enjoy a Wagner symphony, am I tacitly expressing a fondness for fascism? As music is a more abstract form, does it become easier to split artist from art, whereas with writing there are assumptions from the artist which form a baseline for everything written?

To further muddy it, is this different for fiction vs non-fiction? Does a paper on covalent bonds lose validity if written by a TERF? How about different disciplines? Social sciences vs physics?

Am interested in the debate - not sure which side I fall on the argument. Keep talking, this interests me.

@faraday said in Well, this sums up why I RP:

The story thread on BSG:Pacifica was pretty cool, IMHO

Yeah, but some of it was still just about Roan's precious hair - the big story is great, but the little stories can be the things that make the game for you.