@Arkandel: I find that Vikings is a pretty good fill-in for my fantasy-historical needs. It's available on Amazon Prime, which also offers The Man in the High Castle.
Vikings is awesome. If you don't mind a modernish plague story, The Last Ship isn't bad either (Gotta love Jane being CO of the ship). Season 1 and 2 are out, though finding them may be problematic I don't know what kind of deal Hulu has with it.
@Vorpal There /is/ an energy field. It has been measured, it has been photographed, and all living things have one. It is a bio-electric energy field that surrounds each and every one of us constantly.
You're confusing, or conflating what I said to be something that it's not.
I'm talking science, you're talking fuzzy fringe idea.
Way to go.
@Seamus I can only say how I am doing San Francisco.
I am focusing on the important parts.
What important parts? You may ask...
The ones important to the theme and story of the game.
For me that's The Presidio, it's Golden Gate Park, it's Alcatraz, It's Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39, it's also Chinatown, the Aquarium, and a tiny bit of downtown.
Trying to map out an entire city is just silly, it's never going to all be used, so make what you're going to use.
That's why they call it the 'Practice' of Medicine, because they're all still just practicing, they haven't worked out all the kinks yet.
@Vorpal They can be real. Absolutely they can be. Just because we currently do not have the technology or the science to /prove/ that they are real doesn't mean they do not exist.
Every living human has an energy field, this is known, it's been hard proven with science and technology both. Since energy cannot truly be destroyed, that energy has to go /somewhere/ and we have no idea where that energy goes yet.
Just like until recently we didn't know that our RNA keeps turning different gene's on after we die to do... we have no idea what.
Maybe one day we'll discover a piece of tech that allows us to measure this energy, track it as it leaves the body, figure out what's going on there. Right now we don't have it, but that doesn't mean we just say: It cannot exist, and stop looking.
There's a quote something along the lines of: I did not ever once fail in creating a lightbulb, I succeeded in learning how /not/ to make one.
So yes, just because we cannot find the evidence now, does not mean the evidence does not exist. Just like we didn't really know about microbes until we saw them, or the planets, or dna, etc.
I am not going to get involved in the whole @wanderer thing because honestly... anyone can skeptic, anyone can true believer, anyone can be anything when it comes to our feelings on various subjects.
There's enough browbeating on both sides of that and I doubt my adding to it would help anything.
@Sunny Well I take the 'Didn't read the rules' answer right out of the available options. Yes, you don't /have/ to read the rules (Though I am working on a way to make it mandatory but even then someone could just not read and look for key things) as they scroll across your screen, but people are signing that they have read and understand the rules before they even make it past the new player room on my game.
I also agree that as I have gotten older, there's just more and more stuff I cannot and will not fuck around with anymore. Follow the rules, or be gone. It's really that simple.
I'm of the opinion that there is no single policy template that will work for everyone.
I have a few policies I feel are absolutely key, and if people break them I will point, then stomp.
I don't believe in three strikes, I believe people should be adult enough to step away when it is time to step away.
First offense /may/ be a warning, so you know you've crossed the line, but second will always be a boot in the face.
Sometimes the first will be a boot in the face if it's something like violating the 'no rape or you will be deleted' rule.
@Bobotron said in Retail "Horror" Stories:
@Cobaltasaurus
And this is why I hate the chips that they're putting into the CCs now. Really and truthfully. I was at one place and the lady in front of me had to swipe it, THEN put it in to the chip reader to have the chip do its thing. And I'm like 'Uh.... that's dumb.'
If you swipe a card with a chip, it will just tell you to use the chip reader. You don't need to swipe it first. At least not with our chip readers. That would be dumb.
@Ashen-Shugar Thanks for the information. I am guessing that it was something to do with a power fluctuation or something because there wasn't a lot of code on it at the time, and what code I had in place, I have already put in place again with zero issues.
I suppose I could have opened the wrong thing in cpanel while the game was up as well, so it could have been that too.
Interesting stuff, even if it is as you said, a necro and a non-issue currently 
@Arkandel Yes I do.
I was raised in an old gold rush town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, when I was walking to elementary school we had to be careful of the pit mines that were uncovered and open for thousands of foot drops of death that gold was taken out of at one point in the 19th century. Occasionally people, usually drunk adults, sometimes kids, would fall in them and die.
We had a lot of ghost stories, and I lived in a house that was literally as old as the town was. We had two ghost visitors that I still recall to this day with near perfect clarity:
An old lady who used to sit in my mothers rocking chair and talk to me while I colored, or drew, or played with my toys. I would talk to her and a family member, or a visiting friend would look into the room to see whom I was talking to, see the rocking chair rocking, and ask whom I was talking to. I would point to her and she would tell me that "They can't see me because they choose not to."
There was a rather lovely young black haired woman I used to catch watching my sister and I in the same house, she'd spy on us around corners and doorways but never really interacted with us. She /did/ however interact with my mother once. My mom worked two jobs at the time, one as a waitress at a restaurant during the day, and another as a bartender at night. She came home one night to refresh her make up for her second job and she was in the bathroom and when she looked up into the mirror to put on eyeliner she saw the black haired woman drowned the bathtub. My mother proceeded to flip out and we moved shortly thereafter.
Afterwards, we learned the black haired lady had a habit of scaring the piss out of young mothers, and behaving even more violently towards men who partied a bit to much. She would roam the whole neighborhood, not just our house.
I believe in Ghost's. I don't necessarily believe they are souls trapped on this earth, maybe just energy left over that can interact with those sensitive to it, maybe just EM fields that fuck with our brains (But that doesn't explain how the rocking chair would start and stop by itself).
I believe there's a lot of stuff that science has yet to explain, and maybe some things will always be beyond our understanding.
I do know that as I've gotten older I've experienced less of it, but... that doesn't make what happened when I was young less real.
We used to get lootcrate but lately it just has dropped in value and cool stuff (for us) that it hasn't been worth it so we cancelled it.
@Royal Dang. I'll do 10K miles on a solid synthetic but not 24K that's insane. Also yes, need to get an oil change to. It's approaching that 10K number.
Idiots who do not read.
Every entrance to our parking lots list the prices of entering the parking lot. We have 5 different parking lots, each of them with different costs.
So often we get people who come into the 'Under 4 Hours' lot, read 1$ and then assume anything under 4 hours is 1$ when it /clearly/ states: 1$ for the FIRST HOUR, and 1$ for each half an hour after the first.
So I get this stupid lady who comes in and she has a 4 dollar ticket, she has been here for 2 hours and 18 minutes. She expects it to be a dollar.
Stupid.
Then we get these idiots who don't understand that a ten minute grace period, is ten minutes. Not 11, not 19, and certainly not 48 minutes.
They proceed to flip out when they owe a dollar or two.
I don't know how these people even function in society sometimes...
@Chime I wouldn't discount the option of coding mux like commands into moo, it'd make it a lot easier for people who are used to that code to jump into the game and get involved. If the commands aren't what people are used to they tend to simply walk away.
Or make a really solid tutorial so that people can get the information on how to use the code upfront
@Chime I really need to dig into moo, it might be the codebase of choice for a project I have which is to do a Sword Art style of game, with autonomous bots without being so crazy fast paced as a diku mud is.
@Thenomain That was the point, people were calling it exclusionary, I am just calling it a theme and setting choice. It's not really exclusionary it's just the game setting and theme.
@cirim13 I am always amazed when you mention your Kushiel's characters, because I /know/ you little sister, and it is so out of character for you
I suppose for your sake I'll have to break down and code up my Dresden Files setting as a MU...
This is the same kind of exclusionary as not allowing someone to play SuperMan on a Dungeons & Dragons game.
Yes it is exclusionary, but almost all games are if they have a set theme they are aiming for (barring those multiverse games and talkers and such that allow anything and everything).
In fact, most games are exclusionary. Try to invent a .45 pistol on a Game of Thrones game. Try to be a sorcerer on the spaceship that contains the last vestiges of humanity as it runs from an alien menace.
It's kind of crazy that we've been saying forever that: Their game, their rules, their theme, but somehow that doesn't apply here and it has to be labelled in derogatory fashion.
I am gay, but not a guy. I only very rarely play guy characters, and have no interest in the game but the level of hypocrisy in some of these posts...
Just because a game is not for you doesn't make it 'icky' and there is absolutely no reason to slander it if they've done nothing to be deserving of it.
@Taika I don't know, when I code I set out and be like: I need this command, say a dice roller. Then I go through and figure out what the dice roller needs to do for that system, what attributes it needs to pull from (if any) etc. Once I know what it is I am making then I start coding, and I test it. If it doesn't look how I want, I tweak the code, test again, until I get it how I want and working without running into loops and whatnot.
When I am writing a piece of code, say Chargen, as I am writing I will sometimes realize I am being silly and making the code more complicated then it has to be, or inefficient, and end up re-writing it.
I have never once sat down and wrote a perfect line of code that was part of a complex system without it needing editing, tweaks, or even full re-writes upon occasion. I am just not that good so I try not to get hung up on what mistakes I make, or how many times I might need to start from scratch because each time I do, when I get it done and working, I've usually learned a lot.
It's probably different for the psycho-coders like Ashen and Theno and Chime etc.
@Ashen-Shugar I only use TinyMUX, I know you love Rhost but, it's what I use