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Introducing: Willow, third of her name.

She will be joining me in mid June.

MUSoapbox; Where we argue over apologies.

Aah, reset password works now!

Thank you everyone so much! You're amazing and wonderful.

In 12 days I move into my shiny new apartment! I have two roommates that I have a pretty active social life with so far. The apartment is nice and the area we're moving to is pretty cool.

(It is RIGHT NEXT to a Rolled Ice Cream and Boba place!! Also tacos.)

Update on me: I'm not in nearly as much pain as I was yesterday. The ache is now a little bit less than it was last Saturday. I have more energy (but not a whole lot), I'm still coughing but it doesn't hurt as much to cough, and still no more blood coming up. So Id say I'm improving.

I'm off to surgery now. Time to get this offensive organ out.

ermghad, this one is so damned amazing. And the anatomical hearts. aaaauuuugggh.

I ended up not getting the above puppy for various reasons and yesterday a friend surprised me, letting me know Coconut's mom had had another litter and she had a puppy for me... So:

@macha Yeah, I'm dumb. She's named after both a friend's dog and a great Pyrenees from a fb group. So she IS third of her name. My brain is just.... Dumb.

She's so snuggly

I'm so in love with this dog. She hops about and barks at the cats, and when she runs she wobbles. :sigh:

You stayed up too late human, I am going to bed without you.

This might have been the cats' toy, but it's mine now.

@cobalt said in The Dog Thread:

@kanye-qwest She's four months old man, and already SO BIG. We're going to the vet Monday and I will be surprised if she is under 30lbs.

I was dead on. She weighed in at 29.8 pounds!

@Miss-Demeanor I actually have had zero problems from people with WIC or SNAP acting entitled. The closest was a woman getting the wrong kind of bread and wanting to know why the wic sticker was under it, if it was the wrong kind of bread. I get way more entitled attitudes from people buying alcohol. I had a woman demand to know why I was asking for her ID all of the sudden, since they hadn't asked for her ID here for a long time. I'm just like: I'm a bad judge of age and if you're under 40 I HAVE to put your birthdate into the machine.

I'm really sympathetic to those who come through my line with either SNAP or WIC because I understand there is a huge stigma attached to it, and a certain level of shame. I don't think anyone wants to be on foodstamps or WIC. Its embarrassing. The number of women who come through the line and whisper as quietly as they can "I'm on WIC" when they get to the register just breaks my heart. Like they expect me or the people in line behind them to ridicule them.

My parents were off and on foodstamps when I was a child. An important difference is that back then you got paper foodstamps and everyone in line behind you got to see your business. I remember how embarrassed they were about it.

so, yeah. I tend to feel for WIC/SNAP.

A basic "how to" of how to build for Tinymux (potentially tinymux). Rhost / Penn may have different commands, but Tinymux/tinymush are pretty similar.

Contributors: @Cobaltasaurus, @2mspris, @Glitch, @Sponge

Starting: How do I make a room?

Starting: How do I connect rooms?

Starting: How do I link a room?

Starting: How do I describe a room?

Starting: How do I describe an exit?

Starting: What else do exits need?

Starting: How do I move rooms?

Starting: How do I parent a room?

Room Parent: How do I create a room parent?

Room Parent: How do I set up a stock room desc?

Room Parent: How do I format a player list?

Room Parent: How do I format an object list?

Room Parent: How do I format an exit list?

Advanced: How do I find a list of all rooms on the game?

Advanced: How do I find a list of rooms with a specific parent?

Advanced: How do I find a list of rooms missing a specific attribute?

It's honestly just going to be:

Birth control is available to all, works on both genders. It's 100% effective until the two players involved don't want it to be. OOC consent must be had by both parties for pregnancy to start.

Not really trying to encourage this particular apology or the trend of apology posts but... When you're vague like this unless people recognize your user name they probably have no idea who you're apologizing to...

If you watch your delivery driver slip and fall on your fucking /muddy and slippery as fuck/ driveway, and have to hold onto her car to not /fall to her fucking death/. And just sit there and stare and don't even bother to ask if they are okay, and then don't tip, you are a garbage person.

WELCOME TO THE EUPHORIA!

It's scrawled across the front of your pod when you open your eyes. Done in neon bright yellow and outlined in orange. It should be cheery but there's something a little unnerving about it. Still it gives you something to focus on. Welcome to The Euphoria. The timeless darkness of before is shredded by those words. You hear them now, too. A bright, chipper-- mechanical ---voice comes through the coms in your pod, "Welcome to the United Planetary Ship Euphoria, Crewmember!"

You roll your eyes up toward the source of the voice, and try to turn your head but you can't move. You try to flex your fingers, and toes, but neither obey your commands. Your heart starts to race, your pulse starts to quicken. You can feel it thumbing away in your throat underneath your chin. But that chipper, mechanized voice comes from above again, "Oh, no, calm down Crewmember! You'll be released in just a moment! You will feel a warmth in three... two.... one!"

It wasn't a warmth you felt at first. Instead it was a prick on your left wrist-- a sharp sting --and then suddenly a burning throughout your veins. Then pins and needles all over your body, as every part of you comes to screaming life after being asleep for ... you have no idea how long you've been asleep. That's what this was, right? Some sort of ... sleep? Indeed that mechanized voice comes over the coms once, all chipper and bright, "Congratulations, Crewmember! You have survived the process of waking up from Cryogenic Sleep! We will release the door of your pod now, and you will be greeted by medical staff!"

Your veins are on fire and your limbs are being stabbed by pins and needles, but the door of your pod opens with a hydraulic hiss and you're falling forward. You catch yourself with rubbery arms and noodly legs, and stagger a few steps forward. You're greeted by a person in a white lab coat, one hand holding a tablet. "Ah, right. You're awake. Good. Welcome to the Euphoria. You have questions, I have some answers."

They tell you your name, your age, your work designation, your species, and where you come from. It all seems kind of distance and fuzzy. Is that person you? It sounds like it could be. The darkness of the before is all you really know. Still, they say it with such certainty that you begin to believe it. It settles into your skin. You're who they say you are. They get you clean clothing. They get you food. They get you into a set of quarters. And they get you assigned to a work position on the roster. You see, everyone's a crewmember here on Euphoria! You're a crewmember here. They told you so. And it'll be your job to do your part, too.

Welcome to The Euphoria!

Connect at: euphoriamush.com:2020 (these goes nowhere right now)

Welcome to The Euphoria is a MU* set in a Sci-Fi world.

You will play a character who wakes up inside of a cryo-pod. The first things they will see is "Welcome to the Euphoria!". From there they will be greeted by the ship's AI. Once they survive the full revivification process they will be greeted by a member of the med staff. They are told what their name, age, rank, designation, and background are by this medical personnel. They might feel a fissure of disassociation at first, but the doctor is so certain and forceful that they start to believe it. They are who they were told they are. Still, everyone has some glitches from time to time when coming out of cryo-sleep. Right?

The U.P.S. Euphoria is a colony ship on a long term mission to the Andromeda Galaxy, to a planet that deep-space scans reported to be able to support humanoid life. The Euphoria is a happy, chipper place, where everyone has a place and everyone is content in that place. Everyone has a role, and everyone is happy with that role.

On this game people will explore the vastness of space, new worlds, and how the crew will solve problems when they are the only resources they have available to them.

What can you play?

Species:

• Human
• Espers - Psychics Human Offshoots
• Drekin - Scalybois
• Yllians - Glowing Ones
• Zllians - Darkling Ones

Branches:

• Command - Large & In Charge
• Security - Keepin' things SECURE
• Sciences - Poke the thing, does it do a thing? Poke it again.
• Engineers - Build Things, Repair Things, Try Not To Blow Up The Euphoria
• Diplomats - Lets All Get Along
• Medics - Stopping you from dying since 3340

I haven't decided on a system, I'm leaning toward Ares and FS3 because it seems pretty easy to set up and run with. But I also really love what little I've poked at Python so Evannia could be fun...

ETA: Note, I changed wording around to remove the term 'colonist' because I don't like the suggestion that RP will be about colonizing planets and new worlds, when the focus of RP will be about space exploration and ship based problems. There will be some planetside RP at times, but it won't be the main focus.

@Thenomain I'm going with emotions because when I think LA -- and specifically Hollywood where the changelings will hold power -- I think of several different emotions.

I've got some other suggestions and am looking at 3-5 emotional based but not seasonal based courts.

• The Hungry Court: The Court of Greed, always hungry for more. They will do whatever they can to consume and amass more. Be it wealth; material or otherwise, friends, fame, anything-- they are always hungry.

• The Quixotic Court: The Court of Hope, always optimistic that things will turn around. The Hopeful Courtiers believe in hope for the sake of hope, it doesn't really matter the outcome in the end-- spend all your money on a pyramid scheme, it'll be okay! You'll get rich!

• The Romantic Court: The Court of Wonder, always striving for some new advancement. They push for advancements in human and supernatural society. They seek to push boundaries and break records.

• The Jealous Court: The Court of Envy, always angry about what others have. They believe that others do not deserve the things they have. Assassins, enforcers, and bullies.

• The Inquisitive Court: The Court of Curiosity, always seeking something they don't know already. Always seeking some new experience, new feeling, new knowledge. Whether others know it already or not-- if it's new to them it must be good.