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@faraday said in The Work Thread:

There are workplaces that do this. Heck, there are entire countries that do this. It's not a revolutionary concept.

Here in the UK for example we don't have the concept of sick leave in the same way. If you're sick, you're sick, take the day off, there's no bucket of days to use up. You can self certify as unwell for an employer defined period, usually a week, anything more than that and you need to get signed off by a doctor. Your employer will pay you while you're off sick, usually full pay for a contractually defined period, most often 13 weeks, and then you are put onto statutory sick pay, a minimum amount that's mandated by the government.

This is specific to salaried workers, I don't know how it works for non-salaried workers without looking it up!

I read a really interesting series of articles recently that posited (with graphs!) that there may be a chemical component to obesity that is down to industrial processing introducing additional chemicals to our foodstuffs (one of the suggestions is lithium from lithium grease for example).

My problem is that I don't know enough about the science to figure out whether or not the argument is actually any good, or if it's one of those 'this all totally seems logical when you read it but if you do any follow up work around it the whole thing will fall apart' things. The series starts here, for anyone who's interested, but YMMV and it may be total garbage: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-part-i-mysteries/

@groth said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

It should probably be possible to convert any given Web infer face into an electron app for the benefit of both though.

While this is true, Electron comes with its own tradeoffs, one of the big ones being bloat. From memory an Electron app is around 120MB in size. You've also got the problem that every game will have its own customisations so you'd probably have to have one app per game rather than a single client that could connect to multiple games.

I guess you could do something with a web view such that a client is just a really thin wrapper around the website itself, but that probably comes with its own tradeoffs.

All of that said I still want to play with the project, certainly some of these would be surmountable issues with the right combination of technology.

I actually had a bit of fun a while back trying to see what a 'future' MU could look like - essentially going browser-only. I got fairly far in the interface before the Good Old ADHD kicked in and I got bored with the project. It still lives on my hard drive, in case I ever get bored.

It's a JS frontend with GraphQL backend, the idea being that anyone could write their own clients for it if they wanted but also that the built-in frontend should be customisable and persistent (as I basically wrote a JS window manager). Each window can have a character that's tied to your login associated to it and so on.

Of course one of the big 'failure' points for it for me is that as it's in browser you're restricted on how much flashy desktop notifications you could do which is a big thing for me as a player. While you could potentially run it in desktop mode with a technology like Electron it'd be game-locked most likely and so on.

Have a GIF to see Yet Another Project That I Started And Will Probably Never Finish.

@arkandel Neil Gaiman has blogged about this recently - he says that he and Terry planned out the entire sequel many years ago, they'd just not had the time to write it.

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2021/06/really-bloody-excellent-omens.html

@quinn Truth. I live in Cardiff and it's like 'oh I recognise that "alien street"'.

@wizz said in Good TV:

Speaking of time travel, Loki is pretty fun so far.

The latest episode gave me real Doctor Who vibes.

***=Spoiler for plot related things***

It feels a little like someone looked at Doctor Who and went 'what if with a budget?'

Olympia Dukakis

@jinshei The way the metaplot goes later (spoilers abound so I will say nothing more) could be very suited to that as well.

@goblin bawls

@RightMeow So I am on my second week of ADHD medication - I'm taking Xaggatin XL (which is cheaper brand of Concerta XL, a stimulant). We're upping the dose a little every week and I've had to cut all caffeine and alcohol intake during the titration period (and probably going forwards)

For me, the first week didn't seem a lot to write home about, there was a little more 'can' in doing things, but still no way of directing my focus onto anything useful. This week has been a gear shift. I've managed to complete work tasks that have been on my plate for more than a year, with a laser-sharp focus that I've honestly not felt for a very long time. My partner and my mother both say I'm more engaged in conversations with them, and my physical fidgetiness has dropped massively. My mood has been up as well.

They last 12 hours and so I take them in the morning, with the intent that they will be fully out of my system by the time it's bedtime, and so far I've not had any sleep problems. In terms of side-effects I've had the following: minor headaches in the morning for the first 2-3 days of upping a dose, raised heart rate and blood pressure - these should go back down as your body gets used to it, but I'm still in the initial period - reduced appetite (leading to some minor weight loss). I've had a little nausea at times, though taking the meds with food helps massively, and I've noticed I can get a little irritable, more so than usual.

A little bit of a downside is that I find I get hyperfocused on everything at the moment, even things I don't necessarily want to, and breaking that can be a bit difficult, but it's going to be learning new habits.

@Coin said in MU Things I Love:

@thesuntsar said in MU Things I Love:

@Coin said in MU Things I Love:

@thesuntsar said in MU Things I Love:

@SinCerely said in MU Things I Love:

Made the horrible mistake of starting the new Netflix series 'Haunting of Bly Manor', 

I THINK YOU MEAN GREAT MISTAKE

I mean if it's a mistake 'great' just intensifies the mistake-ness of it.

I'm just saying.

Don't run me over with a car @thesuntsar .

<.<

I'm getting the car

@Ifrit come be my shield

accidentally steers car towards you

Sooo does anyone else have the anti-routine problem? I was always told if you did things for more than 2 weeks they become a routine. For me I can maintain a new routine perfectly for 2 weeks and then I completely lose track of it and can't pick it up again.

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

Yeah, I think this is pure business. "People aren't gonna wanna watch a movie about a pandemic during the midst of COVID-19, so let's do something else, because what we are doing is making a movie to sell and make money."

This is actually one of my biggest problems with this idea of 'cancel culture'. Really, as far as I can tell, it's just capitalism in operation. If I don't like an author, I don't buy their books. If enough people do that, they become unprofitable. If a movie's themes don't interest me, or I have moral issues with some part of it, I don't go and see it. If a studio thinks that a certain theme won't make enough money, they just won't make the film.

No one's getting cancelled, they're just not making money.

Scenes that tear out your heart and put it back in again, resulting in an excellent mess to try and clear up the day after.

I think that's also the first time that particular character has ever espoused what he believes to be his true place in the world so completely.

@bear_necessities said in Web portals and scenes and grids oh my!:

@faraday the only thing I can say is that the "big complaint" I've heard about Ares is that it doesn't work for people who passively seek RP and that some people have honest difficulties with opening up a scene that might not get used, or asking on RP request. Which... I honestly don't know how to fix for those people and it might just be that Ares games are not for them and that's OK.

Absolutely, and this is the spirit I'm approaching this in. That I really like Ares and it works great for me, but I get that it doesn't work for everyone and that's okay! But maybe there's a way to marry the two together.

I mean, maybe there's not, either, but I still think it's a worthwhile endeavour. Plus, if it got more plug-and-play stuff into Evennia that'd be cool too.

So, first off, I love Ares. I love what it's doing for MUSHing, I love how it's made RP so much more accessible to me, a GMTer with occasionally shitty connections, with its web portal and so on.

However, for me, there is sometimes a lot more I want to do with custom stuff, things that would be better suited to Evennia and a more basic starting point. (The fact that I know Python like the back of my hand is part of that as well, of course)

One of the things that I've looked at would be implementing some sort of scene/web portal thing into Evennia, but also trying to keep that grid based feel - so that one can just go sit in an interesting place on grid and see who stumbles in. But also allowing you to have private RP in a temporary copy of a room if you just want a scene in a place without people coming in.

I know people on MSB have a wide variety of opinions on the subject, so really this is me throwing open the doors. Tell me, what would be the perfect system for you? Maybe the answer is 'Ares does everything I want and more', maybe it's 'All grid all the time, down with web portals'. But I'm curious, and should I ever actually go anywhere with this project (ha), it'd be awesome to get a sense of what it is that works for people.