Fuck this writer's block. Hey Self-from-a-year-ago! Remember how you have this dream of having a writing career? Guess what! It doesn't ever happen if you don't write. Jesus, I feel like someone put a Ban vs Creative Writing on me or something. Oh, hey. Remember how I was going to take ~a year and write a 90k paranormal romance to submit to silhouette contest? Yeeeeeah. Half that year is gone already and we've got maybe 5k words written.
bashes her head into a wall
@silentsophia If you pop by FallCoast, I can tell him you're looking, SS.
@ThatGuyThere said:
@TNP
I have not checked nor will I; but I would bet my house payment there is Zombie porn out there. ... Please no one prove me right.
There is.
There's a movie about a group of guys that keep a female zombie tied down ... I wish I didn't know this information. 
@Misadventure wins the thread.
A thought brought about ye olde joke of "vampires aren't actually repelled by garlic":
One of the main thing that comes up pretty much any time I read something about vampires says things like: "Oh, crosses, garlic, running water, etc all of that is bullshit." So if you found yourself believing you had a vampire problem what would you do? Would you think garlic works? Crosses? (What if you thought you had a werewolf problem? Would you think they were stuck to changing on the moon? Or no?)
I'm interested less in any theorycraft about what would actually be truth about these myths and pop culture ideas if monsters were real, because obviously they aren't real. I'm interested in what a modern person might think about these monsters, how the change in "myth" and "legend" has altered the human belief.
Myths and legends were based on things we didn't understand, couldn't explain, or were afraid, etc. Now we've sexualized many of the things we were previously afraid of. (What does that say about the human race?) I'm kind of rambling at this point. But let me put it this way:
You're making a character who is a modern person who believes they are hunting vampires/werewolves/etc and learned what they know from pop culture-- what would they do?
@HorrorHound said:
@ThatGuyThere said:
the great thing about a conspiracy theorist in WoD of any flavor is they can be exactly right about the conspiracies existing but completely wrong about the particulars at the same time.
Uses garlic on vampires, only learns when his arms are ripped off that, that is bullshit information.
This is such a trope in basically any urban fantasy EVER, that I wonder if any modern person would actually think: "Vampires are real! I'll ward them off with garlic!"
ETA Actually that's an interesting thought...
@Pyrephox said:
If the full Changeling 2.0 rules ever, ever come out, and I like them as much as I think I will, I would be open to trying something, although I suspect its appeal would be limited.
You are welcome to the darkwater DB, and any code that is salvageable when/if it comes to pass.
that being said...
I have never neither time nor inclination to be involved in a CofD game. All my homework is coding. All the time. Coding. I swap between C, Java, and SQL. I really don't want to throw mux code for /CofD/ into the mix. If I were to lose my mind and run another game it'd be an easy system like Risus: the Anything, or FAE.
The first two things that come to mind:
One your build staff typed: "take #1234", but typoing the number of the player starting room.
Two your build staff was carrying something that got nuked, and then the player starting room was created afterward and took that old #dbref.
did 'drop #1234' not work to put the room back down rather than be in their inventory?
A good rule of thumb is: If you don't have defense, you can't do something that would make you lose your defense.
Do you have an active WoW account? Are you willing to do me a favor? XD (Make a character just long enough to invite my alts to my two-person guild where the other person is never on when I am anymore?)
I started with frozen fruit, so I think that I basically just didn't cook it down enough to get rid of all the water. :x But it seemed to be cooking FOREVER.
So! A friend (ahem) got me a yogurt maker as a christmas present. So I've tried two batches. The first batch was really sour (needed more sugar and more fruit), and the second batch the fruit i wanted to put in had too much liquid still so it didn't ... really become yogurt. As more like this liquidy half yogurt thing (which was super sad because the yogurt base was freaking delicious -- it was whole milk & coconut milk boiled and infused together).
Anyone got any suggestions on different recipes? Approaches? I was thinking next time I try it, I'd put the fruit base on the bottom of the jars, and the yogurt base ontop to try and help keep them from mixing and the fruit interrupting the yogurt process. Or maybe I should put the base in for like four or five hours, and then put the fruit on top for the rest of the time?
I'd really like homemade strawberry yogurt, but so far it hasn't worked out for me. :<
Anyone else watch Schitt's Creek on Amazon? Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cringe.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said:
Make sure you've got the "Spawn To" box checked to actually send it somewhere. If you just Omit From Display, stuff will just disappear without going anywhere (which would be one way to ignore someone I guess, heh).
This is a giant peeve of mine -- giving advice to do something I have already done. As you can see by the screen shot that I took, the "Spawn To" box is actually clicked.
Okay, not sure what I did to get it working but it's started to work now. I went and made a macro window, but it doesn't seem to be connected ... but its kind of working now.
