Posts made by Darren

The only problem seems to be with resizing the input window, which does something odd to the output window. Most of the time I can just /clear and everything is fine. Other times it crashes.

Love this client, but wish it was more stable with WINE

Not sure about Amazon but if you get a virtual private server from DigitalOcean or Linode, you'll have access to a private virtual Linux server, complete with root access, etc. It's indistinguishable from working on your Linux box at home.

Files can be transferred to and from the server quite easily via sftp/scp.

The cost is just for the server space. You'll have to install development tools (git, C compiler, make, etc) and the server that you want to run. You can generally do that with a simple command. i.e. to install RhostMUSH you'd do "git clone https://github.com/RhostMUSH/trunk.git". and that will fetch the source code for Rhost.

Edited to add: If you're looking to develop a MUSH (e.g. PennMUSH, Rhost, MUX) and want to experiment without comiting any $$, free hosts do exist. This won't be an option for Ares or Evennia games though due to significantly higher resource usage.

I once had a room mate that heard me playing this so he poked his head into my room and said "I didn't know you were religious!".

I don't think it's possible for them to get "stuck" but they can do weird things like fold over and get pushed to one side of your eyeball. The first time that happens, you'll probably panic, but it's easily fixed with a few hard blinks and maybe some eye drops. The first time that happened to me, I had come home after a few too many and had gone to bed without taking out my el-cheapo daily wear contacts. I woke up the following morning with my eyelids "glued" together and the contacts shoved to one side. I darned near called 911 but fortunately my room mate knew what to do,

The last pair I lost, they dried out sitting in a hot car for three days while I was away on a camping trip. It was shortly after that that I decided I really didn't like the hassle of dealing with contacts and went back to glasses. I still keep disposables on hand for special occasions like if I have to dress up for something, I generally prefer to wear contacts rather than glasses.

I had one experience with WoD LARP back in the late 90's when I was attending the University of Maryland. The couple that ran it, an older hippy couple from Baltimore, seemed to genuinely believe they were vampires. They drank blood. They staged elaborate rituals. And they groomed players for sexual encounters. Young, naive me wasn't totally sure of what was going on when they suggested that I come over one night after our second session so I went and shortly after dinner, while we were all in the family room, the lights went off and someone was kissing me and then, more things happened then the lights came back on and I discovered it was him and not her so it all ended rather badly. I didn't go back and I have avoided LARPs ever since.

Access to food really isn't a problem here. A person could-- in theory, and assuming they had $3 for a day bus pass-- eat 6 meals a day by hitting each of the three soup kitchens in the area for breakfast and lunch. This would be in addition to what they could scavenge from the dozen or so food panties and of course they would still have their EBT benefits to fall back on.

Just last week, I was walking out of Popeyes with my chicken sandwich and cajun fries and this guy approached me in the parking lot, said he hadn't eaten in a couple of days and did I have a few dollars he could have to get something to eat. I was like "Dude I don't have any cash on me but if you're starved I can buy you something to eat. What do you want?". Do you know what he said? He said "Naw, that's Ok."

I have never had anyone take me up on the offer to buy them food. Ever.

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

@Darren Yeah. Just think, if they'd up and die already, it'd do wonders for your commute.

...to be clear, that was sarcasm, you human excrement; you're the sort of person who makes me wish God was real just so there would be a lake of fire waiting for you.

Save it for someone who doesn't volunteer at the soup kitchen twice a week and the homeless shelter every other Sunday. I have nothing against homeless people, only panhandlers many of which are probably not even homeless. Also, you do not get to have an opinion about how I do/do not spend my own money.

@Taika said in RL Anger:

I'm curious, though. Are homeless people not allowed to have a $50 smartphone with a monthly activation card? (aka, cheap ass burner phone). Are they not allowed to have had a bank account they keep a few bucks in to keep it open?

Homeless people don't spring into existence in a homeless state. They presumably worked at some point and are as entitled as anyone else to have nice things.

For the record, he wouldn't have gotten a cent out of me even if he had not
had a brand new iPhone because I don't tolerate panhandlers.
Every time you give money to a beggar, you make the lives of everyone that
lives, works or otherwise frequents the area, a little bit worse by
validating their behavior.

I don't remember any sensation of warmth when they gave me morphine but a CT scan with contrast? That crap they inject you with burns all the way in and keeps on burning >.<

I dunno wth that thing is, but I wouldn't get it wet or feed it after midnight, if I were you.

They gave me morphine when I was in the hospital for a subarachnoid hemorrhage. I went from screaming in agony to feeling nothing within seconds. After the second day they gave me Oxycodone and Fiorcet, which took away most of the pain but left me feeling lethargic and drugged. I disliked it so much that I finally begged them to stop the Oxycodone. I would rather deal with a little pain than spend my entire day feeling stoned (not in the good way) and useless.

In 20 years of MUing I've only met 4 MU people IRL and each time it was awkward and weird. The worst was a person I met on the defunct B5MUX that I really had feelings for until I visited her IRL and discovered that she lived in a dilapidated mobile home with a dozen cats in a real hoarder situation. Disgusting is not even the word. I won't say that I won't ever meet another MU*er but if I do it will be strictly as friends and in a neutral place.

Man, even begging has gone high tech. On my way in to work this morning, I was approached by a homeless guy asking for money. When i gave him my usual "Sorry mate, I don't carry cash" (which is true enough), he whips out an iPhone 11 with a Square reader, at which point I laughed and walked off. This is worse than the woman that told me she took PayPal, and the other woman who 'helpfully' pointed me towards the closest ATM.

@Seamus said in Potent Potables:

I am old school.. Southern Comfort Black Label and Coke.

You could probably swap the Southern Comfort with Nyquil and no one would notice the difference

@LordObes said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra

Don't we have one of these? Or has it closed already?

It's amazing how perfectly edible and delicious food can turn into the stuff of nightmares when combined in ways no sane person would ever contemplate.