If anyone hasn't read King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry, it's an oldie but a goodie. I picked up my copy back in the early 80s when Scholastic Book Services book purchase flyers were being regularly distributed in elementary schools. I think it's the only book I acquired that way.
@Rook said:
@Shebakoby Only on income EARNED in the US. I know because I filed US taxes at $0 for 6 years when living in Canada.
oh yeah, that's right, because Canada and US have a tax treaty. You still have to file the damn returns though, which are a pain in the butt. IMO way worse than Canadian Income tax forms.
@WTFE said:
Dumb shits (on either side of the two-tone US political "spectrum") who say they'll "move to Canada" when something doesn't go their way in US politics.
First, fuck you! Like we want your dangerously toxic politics imported into our country any more than they already have been. Stay in your own little cesspool, nicely sequestered from the rest of the world.
Second, could you do just a little research before spewing your tripe? Wanna move to Canada because the SCOTUS legalized gay marriages nationally? Guess what, Einstein!? We've had legalized gay marriages nation-wide since 2005…
So just stay in your little Hellhole. Don't bother us.
another interesting tidbit: Wherever they go, they may as well stay put, because they have to pay US income taxes wherever they live, regardless.
@Gingerlily said:
I have actually been on a game where a player had so much beef with me that she would literally page half the people who played in rooms alone with my character with 'why are you playing with HER." and other passive aggressive comments that weren't 'quite' harassment and yet made it so people would either always want their unfindable flags on when they were alone with me, or just avoided playing with me because her grief was so intense. That said I am STILL in favor of no unfindable flag in public places. If those players didn't feel like telling her to buzz off but wanted to hide instead, we'd just have to go hide together somewhere alone instead of having a perfectly reasonable sensible conversation in a public place.
And yeah eventually she got booted for harassment. Would have been sooner except I am also staff, and so I felt like I should tolerate more than I would for my players, but eventually enough is enough for anyone. You can write up long, elaborate rules for what 'harassment' is, but ultimately if you systematically are incapable of treating others how you wish to be treated yourself, you need a less social hobby.
That person you're talking about sounds like a huge narcissist.
I have taken peanut butter, and mixed it with "peanut butter cheese" (Norwegian Gjetost whey cheese which looks and kinda tastes almost like peanut butter). IT IS AMAZING.
I think the other factor in this mess about niceness and punishing mean-ness is the fact that tone isn't always well-conveyed in text without such things as [/sarcasm] tags or smilies. You could be completely joking, and someone somewhere will take it absolutely seriously/at face value/literally, and don't even have the thought in their head that there's more interpretations to what was typed than the one that came to them in their head. Not to mention, sometimes the person that typed it in the first place doesn't always realize that the statement could be interpreted differently/literally/etc.
I like Memory Entertainment Television! It's all the old shows from the past that were halfway decent!
remembers sitting in front of Perry Mason back when i was in elementary school on days when it was either a holiday/summer vacation, or I was sick
@Silver said:
@Shebakoby said:
No, because dark is like a staff only thing. I think the thing was, some people were having trouble keeping OOC and IC knowledge separate, so they were set "unfindable" so you couldn't immediately go to their location, and do something dumb like pose that you found them. They were visible in the room OOCly, but if you wanted to find them, you'd have to actually talk to the player and OOCly coordinate a scene. There was IC code for "stealth", where you knew the person was in the room but ICly you didn't know unless you had E-senses or Radar.
Well I have seen a few games that made dark available to everybody, but yeah for the most part that gets restricted to royal flags. Which is cool. I don't really see a good reason for general players to have it.
Still all unfindable does is make your location masked from +where, and since +where is an OOC command for OOC purposes, I don't see how that relates to IC anything.
the short answer is some people either can't or won't distinguish OOC info from IC info.
@Silver said:
@Shebakoby said:
I always thought 'Unfindable' was for IC, not OOC reasons. On most of the MUs I have been on, "Unfindable" usually applied to characters who could become stealthed or outright invisible. Mostly characters whose job description was basically spying or infiltrating.
That wouldn't make sense as your character has no good way of knowing where someone else is on the other side of the city unless they're using scrying magic or similar, or GPS bugs or whatever, and even then much RP happens in slightly disjointed timeframes to where "before next and after" matters much more than "3:45pm".
You may be thinking about dark instead of unfindable.
No, because dark is like a staff only thing, and makes them completely invisible unless you do @sweep. I think the thing was, some people were having trouble keeping OOC and IC knowledge separate, so they were set "unfindable" so you couldn't immediately go to their location, and do something dumb like pose that you found them, because the reason they were Unfindable, is ICly they often didn't want CoC to find them for varied reasons. They were visible in the room OOCly, but if you wanted to find them, you'd have to actually talk to the player and OOCly coordinate a scene. There was IC code for "stealth", where you knew the person was in the room but ICly you didn't know unless you had E-senses or Radar.
(some people also were said to have set "unfindable" if they were TSing and didn't want to be caught, in MUs where TS is not allowed because it is not Themely).
I always thought 'Unfindable' was for IC, not OOC reasons. On most of the MUs I have been on, "Unfindable" usually applied to characters who could become stealthed or outright invisible. Mostly characters whose job description was basically spying or infiltrating.
As for ooc use, I've noticed a lot of people are conflict-avoidant for whatever reason and while I can understand this sentiment, passive aggression is the plague in our time (because it fosters and perpetuates what might otherwise have been an honest, easily resolved misunderstanding).
@BetterJudgment said:
@Shebakoby said:
@BetterJudgment said:
I had never had Swad amba haldi pickle (fresh turmeric pickle) before buying a jar as an experiment a few days ago. It is great.
Is it whole pickled turmeric root?
It is pickled slices of turmeric root, which is like very crisp carrot but more flavorful.
oooh i think i can get my hands on some of that!
@BetterJudgment said:
I had never had Swad amba haldi pickle (fresh turmeric pickle) before buying a jar as an experiment a few days ago. It is great.
Is it whole pickled turmeric root?
@Silver said:
http://www.tickld.com/x/something-indiana-jones-and-darth-vader-have-kept-secret-this-whole-time
OMG that actually makes SO MUCH SENSE! 
most places that I've started at have had +oocfinger (for the email/alts/etc options) and +finger/+icfinger for the IC info (profile, quote, rank, etc).
cheating chopsticks
(Disposable chopsticks made of bamboo that are not separated)
It's a lot easier to eat some foods with them than a fork.
@Corruption said:
An ode to cheese. Smoked Cheddar and Smoked Gouda...OMG, yes please. Preferably with Ritz crackers. And I've been really hungry for fruit and vegetables lately, and especially big salads.
Next year I will either container garden or have raised beds for veggies.
And on top of that I'll take smoked Gruyere, and Gjetost (Ski Queen brand), and Roquefort (Cantorel or Societe), or Castello (Canada's answer to) Gorgonzola (that actually more closely resembles and tastes like Roquefort than Gorgonzola).
I've been eating whole pea pods (gotta love sugar snap peas lol). Extra fiber! 
Finding a Thai food restaurant in town (new) and finding out it's GOOOOOD 
Trying all the different sushis of the main 3 sushi places (and the spring rolls!)
When frozen tuna tataki loin is buy one get one free! 
Not enough peanut-butter cheese!
(no, it's not really peanut butter, it's Gjetost whey cheese, but it tastes like what cheese would be if it had peanut butter in it lol)
