Posts made by Tyche

Arnold Palmer.

@mietze said in RL Anger:

@Sunny said in RL Anger:

And you have to decide.

Is this worth a family brawl? Is it?

Right there with you. Except for is is most of my extended family who has gone totally apeshit Jesus annointed Trump and Well I Thought Obama Was the Antichrist But No Really Hillary Is And They Both Are Going To Institute Sharia Law.

We need to trade extended family members. I'll trade you two feminist cousins who think Hillary will save Gaia and bring world peace for a couple of your deplorable irredeemable Trumpsters.

My favorite tea is coffee.

@SG said in RL things I love:

Oh white ppl...

Clearly this is a dastardly act of "cultural appropriation" according to Oberlin College students.

This is SuzieQ.
She is/was a feral cat that sort of attached herself to me.
She's mostly an outside cat, but acts like a dog.
That is she comes in at night, comes running when I whistle, follows me around wherever I go like she's on a leash, and scratches at the door to go outside to the bathroom.
I think she's about 7 years old.

RIP, American heroine.

I'm on the eight book of the Malazan series.
I'm not sure how I got this far.
I've developed a hatred for the author.
I can only conclude that I'm a masochist at heart.

@WTFE said in Arx- Gareth:

Right. Were I still in Canada I'd have been talking about the gin I bought.

You need to get some Balvenie DoubleWood 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
You will try it and you will like it. Even if I have to twist your arm.

#notallscotchdrinkers

@surreality said in RL things I love:

@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.

Well things didn't work out so well. We killed a few vampires, but we lost two of our party.
And the clan leader got away, but we now know who he is though.
It's David Hasselhoff!

We've been playing Hunter the Vigil for about 7 months and really enjoying it.
Last week we roasted a coven of witches. Basement gas leak. Very unfortunate.
We're traveling out to Hollywood tomorrow to investigate rumors of a troop of Toreador that have been producing really bad movies.

@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.

I still have to roll my eyes. Don't they realize how sexist it is to have different clothing for boys and girls?

@Ganymede said in Fanbase entitlement:

@SG said in Fanbase entitlement:

I think a diplomacy mush would be a hoot. Have each turn take a week, with RP focused around the negotiations.

My friend devised a program that allowed you to update the map quickly and place markers for where the units are, and which nation the units belonged to. We played via e-mail, with orders in on or before midnight on Saturday.

It worked exceptionally well, but I won. Of course.

I played extensively on DIplomacy judge email servers. I almost always lost.
I had great success in FTF play and at tournaments at Origins.
The environments leverage different talents.

@Insomnia Thanks for the heads up. I've been meaning to learn F# for awhile.

@Chime said in What Do You Collect?:

Most of the ITS machines (and other PDP-10's) were already TCP-aware; indeed many of them formed critical infrastructure of the early Internet. Grant you, the native net stuff was CHAOSnet, which is mostly useless these days, and all the internet connectivity was through an IMP.

IBM was very late in using TCP/IP since they had their own network architecture, SNA/VTAM. Even today many shops are running SNA/IP for local terminals. I don't recall being in a shop that used TCP until well into the mid 90's.

And while IBM did have a C compiler, it was a pain in the ass. Most publicly available C code was in ASCII, so you had to run it through a translator to EBCDIC. And then you had to make extensive use of trigraphs for all the missing braces and other punctuation that didn't exist in EBCDIC. IBM C does have one nice feature though, a native fixed decimal type!

Awkwardly, ITS was a largely pre-security OS. It supports memory protection and arbitrary users, but while you :LOGIN, the default infrastructure has no concept of password. Any random thing that connects can login as whatever it wants and do whatever it wants, including circumventing memory protection. Sure things were audited to line printers, but it was a kinder, gentler internet back then.

IBM OS's had minimal security. If you had a login you could do anything, except to disk files that were protected by the global system password. And there was no real encryption of passwords. Of course IBM sold a security product called RACF that was rock solid and did use encryption. You had to explicitly white list everything that a particular user or sub-system needed.

Anyway, the IBM stuff is especially interesting to me because of the 3270 terminal stuff-- those were brilliant, and I imagine MUD type games could do amazing stuff to take advantage of the form-like features there. ...not that many people here would play such a thing, sigh.

There was series of terminals... 3170G?, 3192G, 3274G which had incredible graphics for the early 1980's. It had text layer and graphics layer that were merged together. The programming of the graphics layer was very similar to SVG.

@HorrorHound said in RL things I love:

@Tyche. You. I like you. Except for golf.

I just remembered roller coasters. I'm going to have to bump vaginas down again.

@Insomnia said in RL things I love:

I just love that this is happening. NSFW, maybe? 3D printed clitoris to teach girls about sexuality in France.

Really? I mean it's not like giving a smart phone to a cave woman. Woman have had this equipment for thousands of years and billions of them have figured out how to use it without the 3d models or classes.

@Cupcake said in RL things I love:

Where men dealing with women's biology is concerned, perhaps they should take their cue from Jensen Ackles.

But hey, if he doesn't do it fo you, gents, here's Key & Peele's menstruation orientation.

I fondly remember this scene from Mr. Mom.

Vaginas are one of my top three favorite places to be, just after being on a bass boat and being on a golf course.

@Insomnia The first day I joined facebook, a friend shared this:
Goats in pajamas
Now I know why, when I told a coworker I joined facebook, he said, "You poor dumb bastard".

First woman to win a medal in 6 straight Olympics.
Only Olympian to win a medal on 5 different continents.