Posts made by Ghost

@Rinel said in Good TV:

It's true that most of those series are very, very white (WoT has a pretty diverse cast, though not really in the main characters). Which is fine in and of itself, but it's sort of a Bechdel-y systemic issue.

The problem of course is that if you change someone's race (e.g. black Siuan Sanche instead of vaguely Mediterranean) you'll have an explosion of angry nerds screaming about the SJW menace.

There's a whole thought process on this topic thats probably better for the Politics board. FYI I'm in the camp that says "if racial identity is important, then replacing one ethnicity for the other is the same social crime regardless of ethnicity".

I think once you get away from the typical blah blah conservative vs sjw dogma, philosophically it's a worthy discussion over coffee/tea.

I want this series to kick ass; I do.

I worry that (like so many things these days) fanbase entitlement is going to take a hardcore Montezuma's Revenge shit all over it: "blah blah dont like Cahill blah blah wig blah blah too many white males blah blah put the color red on a sign that was blue in the video games blag blah someone's twitter account said a thing blah blah ratio of x to y demographic blah blah doesnt use two swords blah blah Siri doesnt look like she does in Witcher 3"

Luckily, some fan-loved shows didn't get entitlement wrecked, like the Expanse, Deadly Class, etc, but every nerd-loved setting coming to tv/movies I always brace for it. Amazon's Expanse is coming, Wheel of Time, LotR, etc.

tl;dr I'm gonna watch the Hell out of Witcher. Very excited. Hope entitlement doesn't fuck up me getting a full show run.

Damn it I was just saying I wanted more single theme anime games.

I finally beat Final Fantasy 15. All in all I think it's my favorite FF setting. The ending about damn near broke me.

Noctis and Luna, yo.

@Auspice Empty milk jugs. Empty

@Auspice In my defense, when your SO is tugging at you or traipsing around in some manner of "come hither" clothing saying "Come get this..."

1. There are penalties either way, but "Sorry babe, in the middle of an IC wedding" is not a suggested thing to say in that situation.
2. My SO is a tattooed, ghetto-raised barbarian sword-swinging tavern wench of a woman who would probably unplug the computer and be like "Nook. Now." anyway.

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

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

-Don't take no shit.
• Do a thing
• Get laid

How's that going for you, boo?

Better than I'd care to expound on. Won't get into that here. Life is good.

Here's a simple, yet vital, bujo template...

-Don't take no shit.
• Do a thing
• Get laid

When I heard that Danny Devito is in the next Jumanji, I got excited.

When I saw the trailer and it was revealed that the "Rock" will be channling Danny Devito for the whole movie, I got really, really, really excited.

Firefighting in reverse is evil (YouTube)

@Jennkryst I pictured Evee and Squirtle piloting a Jaeger.

I giggled.

@Thenomain said in What to do when your mush is attacked:

@Ghost

How about a link to a HowTo, then? A lot of game runners don’t know where to start and mucking around in iptables could be dangerous.

Yea, you're right. IPTables is basically a firewall setup where you better control which services, ports, and incoming/outgoing connections are used. Like I said, it would require some analysis and checking which ports you're using.

I'm assuming a mush is getting attacked right now?

As much as I jabber about using ssh these days I've wondered if there is a better way to handle MU connections. SSH is more secure but doesn't answer risks of DoS.

One thing you can do is check with your MU Hosting to see if they have any software in place that can be applied to the VM to protect it more from TCP/UDP flood attacks.

Genesis uses CentOS5.9, so I'm going to assume the base console is CentOS6 or older. There's no really quick way of setting iptables up (in an "emergency") because it requires some analysis. To note, this wouldn't be something configured inside od the mush code, but on the CENTOS Linux VM that the game runs on. From what I see, the rented server space looks like a cloud VM instance, and it depends on the user agreement with the host how much you can modify that virtual machine.

IPTables Essentials

IP tables for newbies

Some vids...
https://youtu.be/1PsTYAd6MiI

A playlist here...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0BxxFpI26FCRiFSGDvVfNyNLFiN6xiLw

@surreality for using iptables? I'm sure there are online resources already existing that game owners can pick at.

Kingsglaive was badass.

@Rinel Yeah, she would still get a consultation from her own lawyer, I was just wondering if there was any known precedent or standard, so thank you and @faraday for your responses.

As for my mom, she's 68 and a good amount of bone was removed last time. So the jury is still out as to whether or not the current implant could be removed and replaced with a plastic-type alternative without taking too much of her natural body material. So I think she's questioning right now her age vs quality of life. Personally, I hope they can fix it; she shouldn't be taking as much pain medication as she is for so prolonged amount of time.

She'd also be willing to try medicinal marijuana, but won't (right decision) because her pain management doctors would shun her for it.

Question for legal/medical people:

My mom had a knee replacement surgery, and while it fixed the joint issues she says it hurts constantly. Turns out she is allergic to the metal that was used. Fucking yikes, right? She is allergic to an implant stuck inside of her body.

Anyway, does anyone know if allergy tests are supposed to be performed before replacement surgery? It seems logical to me that you'd test that first (because most allergies come in the form of "surprise, you're allergic to shrimp, now!")

I gather she signed the typical pre-operation waiver so she's on her own, but figured I'd ask if anyone knew about this stuff.

Holy shit, Neon Genesis Evangelion. I now understand more why people were telling me that I'd missed out.

@Auspice Nah, my hate ain't that powerful. My hate is powerful in the way that when you get a box of curly fries from Jack in the Box and there's ONE regular fry in the Box. You think "Fuckin Really? One regular fry?"

My hate put that one out of place French fry there.

@Aria Ack, I'm sorry for the awkward during such an awesome show. I'm jealous as Hell and wanna see the Queens. Also, I swear on everything that I was involved in zero voodoo at the time that would have broken an ankle. Hiss. That sounds painful.

Alas, the past is past and I think you're cool people.

As far as Homme as a PB goes? I was all kinds of dorky proud of myself about that. I wanted to fill the following requirements:

• Not a super well known public figure
• Looks like a Marine who fits that "video games, beer, and barbecues to loud rock music" vibe.

I wanted him to be that guy who signed on for 4 years expecting free college with no plan whatsoever to go career, and then war broke out.