Best posts made by TiredEwok

@surreality

I shall!

@Tinuviel

Okay. So he's still guilty of racism and bigotry.

@Auspice

I love those shelves. And your collection!

@bored said in Things Coded in Firan:

There wasn't pee code. There was a pregnancy related ambience emit that talked about wanting to pee.

Other things people haven't seemingly mentioned:

• priests (and Ojitar) being able to buff stats
• The map in general, with its large coordinate grid system including a z axis for griffons.
• Other environmental features like a river current (that could fucking drown you pretty easily), and coded damage rooms in some areas
• Searching for hidden exits in rooms
• a crop/farming system, that was pretty underused
• a land income system based on noble ownership of actual grid squares on the above coordinate system
• the @Clan system, which is the closest thing to a discussed 'Domain system', and which handled large scale agricultural and industrial (such as it was) production for your clan's NPC population, including those in cities outside the main one. It also allowed for trading, and created a mini game where once a year or two we'd all go mad looking at spreadsheets and meeting in bars to trade dead birds for baskets, or occasionally go out and personally genocide the entire moose population of a grid square to manually fill food needs (hi)
• Speaking of that, hunting, which was basically the only place you had 'aggro' mobs in the game under normal circumstances
• Fishing, with poles or nets. My little Zin-rat commoner child made some sweet cash selling lobsters to a princess (lobster bisque was a favorite high-quality energy meal)
• messengers/mail delivery, including of objects, including objects that are technically creatures, like sending people a swarm of bees in the mail (same character)

There doesn't seem much mention of it but obviously there were also the big trademark things like crafting and combat. As a subset of this, staff could custom code magic equipment, and there were various magical weapons, divine trinkets, and so on floating around the playerbase. They could impart stat bonuses or do other things. Famously, there were also case-by-case coded powers for the demigod/Lanesh folks. These included everything from invisbility to summoning objects, spy code of different sorts, and combat powers that did damage or changed stats.

I thought there was something about having to go to the bathroom? Of course, I could be remembering incorrectly all together. It has been 17 years since I RPed there.

@Alamias

I think any kind of collection works for this thread. Anything we geek over, etc... yeah! Nice bar setup!

I always felt that the space code they used on Serenity Mush was overly complicated. I really liked the space code they used on SW1 was nice. Simple, easy to remember how to use, nothing complicated like having to get into orbit before landing and all that. I even wrote a help file thingy for it on SW1's wiki, if anyone's curious... of course, my love of this is probably going to mark me as a dinosaur with newer players, but oh well.!

elmo shrug

Been needing to replace the left joycon for my Switch for a while now. The price put me off getting a set of two, and I couldn't find a single one in a price that was fair thanks to third party sellers asking for double the price, if not more. Tonight, after getting my payout, I looked and lo and behold! I found an official Switch left joycon for under $40! It's Super Mario themed, too!

Downside is that it'll take a while for it to get here, but I can wait.

This has been around forever and is, from what I can remember, what people get pointed to when they ask what a Mary Sue/Gary Stu kind of character is. I think it really resonates with readers, because... c'mon. Let's be real here. Not only do we know people who make this kind of character but we've all been guilty about it ourselves at some point.

I am coping via almost 2000 hours in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (1965, to be exact) and a metric ass ton of UberEats/GrubHub/etc.

I caught a headline blurb saying the Gorilla Glue lady was considering suing the company that makes it. Like they're at fault for her utter lack of common sense.

@coin

Ah, glad to hear she isn't going to do that. Maybe she has more common sense than putting glue in her hair led me to believe.

Good on the plastic surgeon who was willing to help her out.

@pyrephox

In hindsight, the same can be said about me.

@cupcake

Autodale is freaking awesome! I love that series so much. Dead Sound is so talented it hurts!!

@arkandel

I don't think the streamers who have quit streaming their games did it to keep their own brands from being damaged. Not entirely, at least. I think a lot of them have quit streaming WoW and other Blizz games as a show of solidarity with those who have been victimized by them.

I love being able to say that everything is finally alright again after over a year of struggling.

@Sundown

Sure, it's one of those things that you say only to have things wind up going all tits-up again, but it's a risk I'll take if only for the joy being able to say it brings, temporary or otherwise.

The sad thing about Halloween is that my boys are too old to trick-or-treat now. If I want candy I have to buy it instead of just raid their loot.

@mietze said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Perimenopause fucking sucks, can I just be done with this already.

I've been dealing with this for the last year or so and I agree. It sucks. I am so ready for the end of all of this crap to be done so I can maybe not have hot flashes and other shit this part of life entails.

First off...

@hedgehog

I hope you get to feeling better soon!

And on the subject of my rant, I get that it's useful. It just... I dunno! It always winds up making me feel guilty, the serving suggestion does. Maybe that's what it's meant for, I dunno. It's the food people's way of saying 'gawd, you ate the ENTIRE BAG of chips when it has 10 servings in it? SHAME ON YOU!' subliminally.

Mine seems to be fine but that's always a good thing to be aware of, just in case. Thanks for the warning!