Posts made by surreality

@Cupcake That story is best story.

(There is a list of people I am pretty sure I would react that way to, exactly. It isn't a long list, but there's definitely a list of people around whom I am certain I would utterly and completely forget how to speak English.)

Edit: OH! I also, actually, knew a dude with aquarmarine eyes, back in art school. He could indeed stare at you and make you forget you had knees. It must be a secret superpower, seriously. That he was a total stoner and tended to stare aimlessly at people (on many of whom this magical power was demonstrated) made it funnier, somehow, but you'd see conversations just... trail right off from the female end with dazzling, hilarious frequency. It was kinda awesome.

@Vorpal said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

Can this year fucking stop already? We're running out of celebrities at this point.

We have plenty of Kardashians left. Can we nominate people? I suggest we sacrifice a member of the K-clan for each point of the pentagram, just in case.

@Kireek I figured you probably didn't, which is why I'm mentioning. It can come off badly, and it may help to keep it in mind if something like this starts to crop up again re: negativity/etc.

@Kireek: @Rucket is actually actually dead on, and you should seriously consider their advice.

You can be seriously off-putting sometimes, dude. The whole 'eh' 'hmmmmmm' 'peeeeeeeeers' stuff all over the channels from out of nowhere comes off creepy and/or condescending and/or like pointless, directionless negativity to some people, even if you may not intend it that way. (And I'm pretty sure you don't intend it that way, so it's probably worth mentioning if you weren't aware of this.)

Having been one of the staffers elsem* who had to hear complaints about it, it isn't just one person who has made them, and it hasn't just occurred on one game.

I always liked the Rinadescer, and it's up on MUSHcode.com if that helps at all?

http://mushcode.com/File/RinaDescer-v3-0

I've seen others, but always seem to come back to that one as the easiest/most handy.

@skew It's giving us some quirky timeouts, so once that's no longer an issue, I'll pass it over to ya.

@Tyche said in RL things I love:

We're traveling out to Hollywood tomorrow to investigate rumors of a troop of Toreador that have been producing really bad movies.

Bonus points if they work for the Syfy network? I would hope.

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Although sometimes I roll my eye at how little excuse people need to get offended about assorted issues, come on Old Navy. I mean there comes a point they had to be doing this shit on purpose.

...yet another reason to not shop there. And I say this as someone who spends most of their time wearing tees and thermals from the men's section at Target or similar. (What, they're typically prettier or funny and cheaper. Same, identical thermal in men's and women's... women's was $10 more. Not even kidding. Fuck that shit.)

@WTFE Find a friend who does frescoes. They need lime pits.

@Mercutio We've got it running, actually -- though I would love to see the SceneSys code as well. We do have Semantic Forms installed.

@Miss-Demeanor I'm trying really, really hard not to laugh. I'm failing even harder. Because... yeeeeeeeeeep.

@Arkandel We would all be fired. Promptly. Except the buildstaff; that wall won't build itself.

@Ganymede Pretty much, yup. (Edit: Though really it's worse, 'artist' and 'former ren faire actor'. They paid me! Sort of.)

@GangOfDolls Kinda that, yeah.

It comes of sounding like either it's designed to be a money-making effort -- which is a sticky wicket for the reasons already mentioned -- or that it's an ask for credibility based on business experience that isn't likely to be especially relevant.

I mean, I've run a business RL for years, and been paid to entertain people in the past, but I don't talk about my M* projects as being 'run by a long-time business owner and former professional entertainer'. I may have learned a few things from both, but nothing that I feel is going to make me especially suited to the task in a way that makes these things worth even a mention, let alone the lead for an intro.

@Ganymede I love that you have just managed to replace 'like riding a Sybian in the midst of rolling blackouts' with 'a show of penis-lightsaber swashbuckling' as my favorite @Ganymede quote. Most people don't even get one, dammit, but that's a thing of beauty.

@Miss-Demeanor

@Miss-Demeanor Thank you, you rock.

Send him this link to pass along to anyone who runs into this again, if you can?

Have tested, does work. Is fucking epic.

That moment that you finally find an actual, unexpected solution to something someone wanted! And it's actually awesome and you're super excited!

...and it's absolutely about five months too late for it to matter.

(Wherever you are, Steele@BITN, I finally found a way to re-order contacts super easily? ...yay?)

<sigh>

Magic has been made to happen on this front, but I'll let the magician announce themselves if they wish to do so.

So very, very much on this one.

@skew The tricky bit is the pipes, definitely. There are workarounds for that wiki-side -- but mediawiki uses pipes everywhere. I have the pipe template ({{!}}) in place already in some of them, since mediawiki's own code loves to barf all over them entirely on its own.

It may be a case of 'only some pages can get yanked' -- and ensuring the things that people would want to yank from those pages doesn't have pipes present. Problem being, I'm not 100% sure when it parses the pipe template, so even if it's swapped in so there's no pipe in the raw text, it may be swapping the pipe in when it gets yanked. That's what I'm not sure about.

I am not a coder, so even the events suggestion is beyond my abilities. (I just wiki weird things into being, pretty much.) Poke me if you are willing to look at it later on, though -- and if you want yarn/jewelry bribes?