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D20 Dreidels. Potential Hanukkah gift for your favorite non-gentile gamer.

Follow-up.

Zork is important for two reasons...

1. It's pretty much t he progenitor "computer word choice game" and could arguably be considered the originating ancestor of MU'ing

2. The source code had been missing for years and was thought to be extinct

Link to article with the details

The Zork source code has been found and has been uploaded to GitHub

@Rinel Derp. Right.

@Bananerz I like how it seems you've prioritized players' ability to create things and explore. I totally wish you well on this.

@Rinel Good ole Nicea 2

Its so crazy coincidental that super important things happened to Jesus on days revered by Pagans of the Roman Empire, who Constantine wanted to convert.

socrazycoincidental

TMW you find out you may have been on the wrong side of something you were once neutral on, and that by remaining neutral you have been inadvertently allowing someone to get away with something horrid.

@Bananerz That's the wooorst.

A few weekends ago my Barb critted for like...8 damage

It was about as underwhelming as the Green Lantern movie

Fun headspace.

Technically, Halloween, Christmas, and Easter are all partaking in cultural appropriation.

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Ghost That's basically every single CW show. About 70% of the plot would be gone if only people with every reason to talk to each other spoke to each other.

I joke about Supernatural often:

On ODD numbered seasons, Dean is mad at Sam for sacrificing himself. On EVEN numbered seasons, Sam is mad at Dean for sacrificing himself. For the first 6 episodes of EVERY season they're angry at each other until the inevitable bro-hug moment.

@Sockmonkey said in Good TV:

@Wretched I kind of skimmed through Arrow out of necessity because I was drawing on an Arrow sketch card set once. I couldn't get into it; it really bugged me that that his facial scruff grew down his neck. Just .. shave, man. Shave that neck.

I liked that season of Arrow where all of his friends were angry at him for not sharing important information or making an executive decision without their consent.

Also known as: every season of Arrow

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Hallelujah is not a Christmas song, really, but fuck it--it's a good song, and I'll take the break from hearing Jingle Bell Rock as interpreted by every warm body that ever stumbled into a recording studio.

When you feel the need to replace the lyrics with some twee Nativity stuff I take issue.

THANK YOU.

Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) isn't a fucking Christmas song, nor is it even a song about Christianity. Just like Hozier's "Take Me to Church", God-squadders dont read or care about lyrics and just automatically assume everything with some kind of Abrahamic reference is their stuff.

@faraday While I generally agree, I think that's a bit of a game of chicken.

If you're going to vote with your feet you have to accept that this means you may not end up with a MU to play on. Voting with your feet in MU can literally mean limiting your play options to having multiple nights with no roleplay at all. Is voring with your feet enough to risk not participating in the hobby to stand your ground on your ethics?

I was able to answer that question, for myself, of course.

Which is why I think people threaten to vote with their feet, but ultimately end up letting it go and just dealing with the problem or trying to find some new place.

@Derp said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@Tinuviel said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

ending sentences with a preposition.

...has been acceptable for generations and the prohibition against such was prescriptivist bullshit from people that wanted to make English sound more like Latin, so nyah.

Is there some sort of grammar book that supports this? If it's not on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, then where?

@Tinuviel

@Tinuviel said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@Ghost said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@Tinuviel said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@Ghost said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@Tinuviel said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@peasoupling said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

Like, seriously, some people's writing throws red flags all over the place.

Surprising nobody, I am often made uncomfortable by the writing of others.
Unfortunately staff frown on my constant reports regarding the Oxford comma and ending sentences with a preposition.

What, are you on?

In that sentence, the comma has turned 'on' into an adjective so it isn't a preposition anymore. Fail.

So you're saying that you prefer the comma before, during, or after?

Fuck you.

@Tinuviel said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@Ghost said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@Tinuviel said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@peasoupling said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

Like, seriously, some people's writing throws red flags all over the place.

Surprising nobody, I am often made uncomfortable by the writing of others.
Unfortunately staff frown on my constant reports regarding the Oxford comma and ending sentences with a preposition.

What, are you on?

In that sentence, the comma has turned 'on' into an adjective so it isn't a preposition anymore. Fail.

So you're saying that you prefer the comma before, during, or after?

@Tinuviel said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

@peasoupling said in How to Approach (nor not) a Suspected Creep:

Like, seriously, some people's writing throws red flags all over the place.

Surprising nobody, I am often made uncomfortable by the writing of others.
Unfortunately staff frown on my constant reports regarding the Oxford comma and ending sentences with a preposition.

What, are you on?

@mietze Unfortunately it's been 3 years and I think this is spat #22.

Thanks for the warm fuzzies, tho. My SO and I are generally the "Heeeeey let's all have a bottle of wine and be friends!" people while we slowly watch what was once a huge group of friends halve, then halve, then halve, then halve, then have to consider "who hates who this week???" when putting together a party.

We are cursed, really. We will meet a married couple and think "Hey! A cool married couple to double date with!" and then 3 weeks later they file for divorce. We meet a group of 100+ people and within weeks the group splits in half with people choosing sides, and we're in the "Sniffle...why must we choose?" camp.

It's just a shame to watch so many good people fighting with each other (or, what I fear in this case) the realization that people you once thought were good people aren't so good anymore. It's sad to have to consider which is more noble? Ghosting people because you know that wanting to talk about their constant fighting with others will only result in joining the drama pool, or trying to be genuine and address the problem as a friend knowing full well it's about a 90% chance you'll just end up in the drama pool.

The more I think about this the more I realize these people are a problem and are not good people.

@Lotherio $10,000.00 a week on cocaine makes your "Convince Ghost to accept you as a sensei" pitch generally convincing.