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Keith Levene, founding member of the Clash and guitarist of Public Image Limited.

@derp

Clearing cookies, no. I'll try the hard reset, though now the pretty red box is all gone.

@lotherio

I've got the perfect soundtrack:

https://rhysfulber.bandcamp.com/album/your-dystopia-my-utopia

I just booked the Gothsicles to play for my kid's birthday.

And Brian seemed delighted to be asked about it. Like, genuinely so.

So...the Gothsicles. GenCon. DragonCon. Terminus. Kinetik. Ridgeville Park District.

But, really, a roomful of little kids all doing the otter dance and saving dat mermaid? Kind of awesome.

@HorrorHound

I really don't like Vampire. I like you, though.

Chiming in late to the conversation, but I am that person who has a wiki, +finger set, +info set and a shortdesc.

I figure information overload is better than a blank slate and nothing to go off of or create interest.

@Bad-at-Lurking said in City of Shadows:

Hey! We don't have that many strip clubs. Mostly because cellulite is a lifestyle here.

Maybe not within city limits, perhaps. But, really, why bother with mere voyeurism when you have Galleria Domain 2 and Kinky Kollege? Or the basement at Jackhammer, whose clientele seem to think it's still 1980 whilst the ownership tries to drag them kicking and screaming into inclusivity?

@auspice

Show the 'zine queen this:

https://boingboing.net/2014/01/30/creatingafont.html

Back in the day, my PC's Pooka boyfriend and he went around handing out shiny new dictionaries to people on Yule. It was meant to be commentary, but I reckon they took it as a prank.

@DarkDeleria

I always thought a clever device for a Chicago based game would be to just have the grid be a truncated version of the Red Line's route. I mean, we really don't need Edison Park or Bucktown or Pilsen, right?

My rockstar boyfriend (he is not really my boyfriend) put out a thing. I think it's better than most of the Delerium or Conjure One stuff he's done, and was a long time coming:

https://sonicgroove.bandcamp.com/album/your-dystopia-my-utopia

@twinprince

Yes, but using solely descriptors to indicate yourself in a pose is pointless when people neither check @descs nor set @shortdescs for themselves. And if there are six people in the room I have zero desire to spam myself with all of their giant, florid @descs to figure out who 'the dark-haired man' might be. I never, ever use @emit unless posing a puppet or using sphere-specific posing and haven't gotten any complaints for my old-school PC Name-prefixed poses.

@DarkDeleria said in City of Shadows:

@Bad-at-Lurking said in City of Shadows:

Trust me, ain't nobody pouring margaritas on the Blue Line.

You make a fair point. It's also the only place one can take a legit nap during their commute w/o the worry of muggings or worse.

sighs I miss the Metra.

Meh. I would take the Red Line from Morse/Loyola to 35th every day when I worked at Invisible Records and the ONLY problems I ever had came from pre-gaming Cubs fans coming in from the north shore. Yes, there was the 'I meeean you no haaaaarm' whiny guy, but he'd make his rounds and head to the next car. Cubs fans have no train etiquette and vomit everywhere while also disparaging the poors as the train trucks through the backside of Uptown on its way to Wrigley.

@ganymede

It's definitely a YMMV thing. We went through similar issues with our son at our shul-run preschool that both you and @mietze have experienced in public preschool. We would watch our son be sweet and socially ept and navigating the different groups of kids at our local park, but then get told how horribly unsocialized he was by his preschool teachers, who insisted we go and have him evaluated at the Erikson Institute (like, insisted so hard that it was like they were getting a cut of the fees from them or something). Why was he so unsocialized, according to them? He played by himself and 'allowed himself' to be bullied by a group of boys (who, not so coincidentally were all the children of members of the shul (synagogue) - we were not). How was he 'allowing himself' to be bullied? He stopped and counted to ten before returning the aggro those kids were dealing. Yes, his cooldown technique was 'a delay'. Why they didn't, I don't know, punish the bullying kids is beyond me.

Suffice to say, we were baffled by their assessment (they also basically danced around calling him out as being on the spectrum, because, of course, if they opined as such they could open themselves up to lawsuits as they aren't psychologists or truly qualified to assess as such), but we went ahead and spent thousands of dollars to have him assessed by Erikson. Guess what their final conclusion was?

'He's perfectly socialized, if maybe a little neurotic.' Yes, they were also dumbfounded as to why the preschool pushed for the assessment. Yes, there are some definite core strength and fine motor skills issues that they caught, and we are putting him through OT for, but the psychological side was completely unnecessary.

Whenever we take the bus past the shul his preschool was at, my son scowls out the window and talks about how terrible it was; how there were so many bullies and the teachers played favorites.

@roz

Exactly. I have no inherent problems reading a @desc. I don't care for having to play a guessing game of who's who in a large scene, and will therefore attempt to use +glance to get at least a general idea. Inevitably, the person refusing to use their name in their emitted poses will also not have a @shortdesc set. Often they won't have a +finger, +info, or a wiki done, either.

These are also often the same players who won't read the desc of the room that they're in and therefore pose inappropriately for the space. Or use tabletalk. Because everything is all about paying attention to them, and their shenanigans. They will also complain that they didn't know about an +event, in spite of there being three separate locations where the information for said +event is listed. They only want you to read their shit, they don't care about having to work at anything themselves.

@bear_necessities

I personally feel that Danceteria and the Mudd Club, Fiorucci, Bleecker Bob's, Nelson Sullivan, Immaculate Consumptive, Swans, pre-Guilani Manhattan and Tish and Snooky (no, not that one) don't get nearly enough love.

An early-mid '80s WoD game would be amazing. Especially as there'd be no cell phones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIRIiz6DudA

@Cupcake

Being Boiled - Human League

@ganymede

Nope. Breakfast Club. Like, when Bender crawls under the table and breathes (? might have actually involved more, but it cuts away) on Claire's mons/pubis through her underpants and skirt?

https://youtu.be/7OFROViP0J0

@Macha

Lead Into Gold - Faster Than Light

The hedgehog is small and prickly and spiky with a delicate underbelly and is easily frightened and disturbed. Like me.

Also the pixie drawings were my favorite in the Froud/Lee Faeries book.