Posts made by TiredEwok

I've claimed a couple characters there in the past and they're usually much quicker to get people approved, like within minutes of my having submitted my request. So not sure what's up with that.

@gremlinsarevil

Thanks! I'll give it a look and peek my head in on the game as soon as I can.

Asking as one who has always wanted to play on a Pern mu* but never read the books, how welcoming is your game to people who are new to the theme?

@cupcake

I haven't watched his BTS videos yet. I should rectify that.

@cupcake

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

I had the Chickendales pointed out to me yesterday. It is a FKC/Chippendales crossover ad campaign that FKC did for Mother's Day in 2019. I owe the friend who showed them to me a life debt of gratitude.

(If y'all decide to look them up don't do it for work as the ad is not... well, I wouldn't say that they are a pornographic level of NSFW, but they are a bit risque, so consider this a warning - do not look them up at work!)

@pyrephox

In hindsight, the same can be said about me.

@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.

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.

@aria said in Random "this might be useful" stuff:

@jinshei said in Random "this might be useful" stuff:

I saw this post on how you might get cheaper medication in the US and thought it might be useful to someone here? And then realised we might need a thread for collectively "this feels like it might be useful to someone here" stuff.

I highly recommend GoodRx. And Costco. Especially since GoodRx coupons often also work at Costco and the few times they haven't, it was because Costco was cheaper than the listed coupons, anyway.

Note: In most states, even if you don't have a Costco membership? They're required to let you in to use the pharmacy and the pharmacy alone because of drug regulations.

I agree fully with GoodRx. My oldest's Respiderone would cost over $100 a month, perhaps twice that considering he has to take it twice a day. With the GoodRx card we get his medicine for $8 at Walmart.

@cobaltasaurus

Uh-huh!

@theznar

Let me know if I can help with anything like building or whatever.

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 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

I'm down!

I recommend WEG's d6 system for Star Wars. It's easier to get the hang of than d20 is, which should make it easier for someone to get their character made and out of CG.

@surreality

Think you mean HellMOO. It was an interesting game.

@RightMeow said in Things Coded in Firan:

@TiredEwok said in Things Coded in Firan:

It has been 17 years since I RPed there.

Why? Why did you have to go and throw that out there? We were all getting along and now I feel attacked.... and old. Old and attacked.

Hey now! I don't feel young myself for having admitted that!

@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.

The only things I remember from Firan is the pee code.