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Home sick and asking Alexa over and over again:

"What's black and white and red/read all over?"

Best answers so far:
"A honey badger in a fight with a tomato."
"A well-educated penguin."
"A panda in an Elmo costume."

When you do something nice for someone ICly on a whim and they express their appreciation; that warm, fuzzy feeling is amazing.

@Sparks That sucks, no one should have to wait days to find out their diagnosis, especially when the treatment for a sprain can make a fracture much worse.

@Sparks Is it sprained, dislocated, or fractured? Did you trip on a defect?

@Arkandel

***Thar be potential spoilers, maybe?***

@jibberthehut The Worst Witch! I watched that show when I was a little kid, did not know there was a re-make. That's amazing, thanks for the heads up.

@Cupcake I saw that, she's so talented, it's amazing. I hope she goes really far in her career and keeps that wide-eyed humbleness for as long as she can, it's totally endearing.

@bored said in Game of Thrones:

If as the viewer you think 'oh wow they're dead for sure' as the camera pans away, then the next appearance of those characters should confirm what happened, either reaffirming what you saw (someone discovers bodies, mourns their loss later) or explaining how they in fact managed to not be dead. Failing to do that is an error.

I believe the implication of 'Oh wow they're dead for sure' followed by their not being dead is that they managed to overcome the odds, deflecting a stab here, dodging a bite there, running away, etc. You know, kind of what they were doing when you thought they might die, and what they were doing the next time you saw them as well?

Like, I agree that we're all entitled to our opinions, don't get me wrong. But I definitely wanted to see all the many and varied situations and and moments of imperilment shown - which they would not have been able to do if they'd hand-held us through explanations of how famed swordsmen and women used their swords to not die.

THIS IS A SPOILER
***Spoiler tags suck and are not intuitive.***

You guys should just make a spoilers thread specifically for people who are completely current, so you can speak openly without fear of ruining things for other people. I wanna hear the speculations.

@Goblin

@BetterJudgment said in SerenityMUSH - Discussion:

@Pandora said in SerenityMUSH - Discussion:

@Alzie said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

@SerenityMush said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

...Most of the staff and players who were considered part of that, are no longer around on the game.

@SerenityMush said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

Fanty's in charge now.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, willful ignorance or a statement of the belief Fanty's specific type of corruption was A-Ok.

Tell us more.

I have the vaguest of recollections that there were accusations at some point of a staffer stealing the DB. I'm not sure why anyone would bother; SerenityMUSH is the only game I've ever seen that had a notice in the login room announcing you would get a minor OOC reward for finding and reporting the many typos the head wiz made while descing objects.

I'm confused; is this a bad thing? I like to consider myself a good writer with a professional-level grasp of spelling and grammar. But even with that said, I make typos just like most other people do from time to time. Some people are fantastic coders or story-runners, but might not be English majors, or may have dyslexia, or English as a second language.

The shitty thing to do would be to say 'I make a lot of typos, deal with it, lulz!' The polite thing to do would be to say 'I make a lot of typos, my apologies'. The above-and-beyond thing to do would be to actually reward people for helping you to rectify your mistakes.

Without further context, I fail to see how a headwiz acknowledging their shortcomings and reaching out to their community for help is anything worth scorning.

Either way though, someone stealing the DB or asking for help with typos doesn't smack of corruption, so can we get to the good stuff? Who was giving out plot in exchange for TS?? Who was giving out double-XP for PrPs to their besties? I want the tea.

@Taika Got it, thanks for the heads up. None of the scents I have are on any of the lists I've found online as possibly detrimental, but just to be on the safe side, I'll keep the window open while it's running from now on.

@Alzie said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

@SerenityMush said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

...Most of the staff and players who were considered part of that, are no longer around on the game.

@SerenityMush said in SerenityMUSH – Still Flyin':

Fanty's in charge now.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, willful ignorance or a statement of the belief Fanty's specific type of corruption was A-Ok.

Tell us more.

My new humidifier/aroma diffuser is life. I have two guinea pigs and they are adorable, but the smell of hay is strong and not entirely in keeping with the zen of my study where they live. Enter the diffuser. No more incense making my eyes water and having to light them throughout the day, ashes everywhere. No more candles with their open flame I can't leave burning when I'm not in the room. Add water and a few drops of essential oil, and it runs silently for 6 hours sending out a VISIBLE mist of calming loveliness. (As for the emphasis on visible, I'm one of those people that likes to be able to 'see' something is working.)

I don't know how or why I've been stuck on candles and incense all this time, technology is amazing.

@Taika WoD so I wouldn't touch it with someone else's finger, but kudos for setting it in Chicago instead of some backwater New England village, so when there are inevitably 4334645 strip clubs, biker bars, and B&Bs, it at least makes sense.

@Ganymede I need you to tell someone that attended that service how much it helped you. Bonus points if you can manage to say it earnestly.

Parental Unit: "Bedtime."
Willful Child: furiously clicking on keyboard "Just one moment, I have to win this round."
Impatient Parent: What's so special about this round?
Troll Child: grinning evilly "I just called everyone 'peasants', so I have to win this one."

I'm doing well at this parenting thing, clearly.

I've never seen a bra bigger than a DD, the site I buy my bras from goes D, DD, DDD and that's the highest they've got.

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

Knowing exactly what needs to be done to help a kiddo but being constrained by the law.

One of these days I'm just going to do the right thing and end up fired....

This makes me anxious. If a child needs help, please find some help. Social services, a news outlet, something. What's the thing that needs doing?

Filled toilet paper rolls with celery and strawberry chunks, then capped off the ends of the rolls with slices of cucumber. Watching my guinea pigs come out of hiding to gnaw through it all like 'WHAT IS THIS MAGIC?!' has been sheer, unadulterated delight. Would have paid upwards of 10 bucks for a single dry, stale 'guinea pig chewtoy' at a pet-store, these two cost me nothing but leftovers.