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Yes, the forums were down again. |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 08-08-2024, 11:39 AM - Forum: Forums
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But if you're reading that, you can safely assume they're back. I noticed within minutes simply by chance, filed a ticket with my host, and the boards came back in about 90 minutes.
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YouTube borked? |
Posted by: classicdrogn - 08-07-2024, 11:42 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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Sometime between mid-day-ish EDT and maybe 10pm, opening any YT video freezes that page and starts writing a runaway browser cache file that I have to kill with System Monitor even after quitting Firefox. Anyone else having this problem? I did already update 'fox but it's still doing the same thing.
Edit to add: Note that that's a runaway cache file despite also keeping 'fox from sending or receiving any network data, at least according to System Monitor's IO graph.
It's the Ubuntu version specifically, since I am still running off a liveUSB, having failed to fix my previous system install but still not quite willing to nuke it and start from scratch, and still not having gotten around to clearing off the actual case and opening it up to replace the secondary SSD for experimental "taste testing" installs that failed while trying to find one that would work with the goddamn GeForce 3060 whose driver update started that whole problem to begin with.
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Media search - like fic search, but professional! |
Posted by: classicdrogn - 08-04-2024, 04:04 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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I'm pretty sure this was something I read as an actual anime or manga summary, but ehhh...
MC is a gamer girl who uses male characters and names to avoid getting hassled online, but has recently developed a lot of feelings for a guy she teams up with a lot, and and arranged to meet IRL with the plan of confessing as long as he's not some grimy troglodyte. Instead it turns out her net-friend is also a girl who does the same thing online.
Oh noes, wat do, yuri shipteasing, etc. I don't know if they actually get together or just remain friends; honestly I have no idea what happens beyond that at all, as apparently whatever led me to the summary it didn't grab me enough to look further let alone follow the actual media at the time.
Any ideas?
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utility: Mystery of the Lost Sock by "Everyday Warriors" (AI Tunes) |
Posted by: classicdrogn - 08-03-2024, 07:07 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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Effect: general buff and hastening of Laundry Day chores to complete them within the play time of the song, also repairing damage and restoring any partial pairs or sets with lost members. Everything comes out of Doug's laundry basket warm and just at that perfect point of broken in without actually getting worn and threadbare. He must have appropriate facilities and supplies (at the minimum, a bit of soap while beside a "clean enough" water source, and some kind of line or object to hang things up to dry on) but as far as can be told after finishing they have not actually been used, or consumables (detergent, bleach, etc.) depleted. The laundry area (within Doug's AoE at least) will even be a bit tidied up of any messes or minor issues of the sort that can be addressed with normal cleaning and hand tools while waiting for those parts of the process that don't need active effort with the available facilities.
It's not an earth shaking combat ability, but very handy when he arrives in a less developed world, and there are, as ever, possible situations where it becomes the exact tool he needs in a critical moment.
... actually, has Doug ever gotten the chance to play Fairy Godmother, like the literal bippity-boppity-boo "save the day with household magic" kind of deal? Seems like the kind of thing he'd be deeply amused by.
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Probability Manipulation: Throw My Bones by Deep Purple |
Posted by: classicdrogn - 07-24-2024, 08:24 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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[Verse 1]
I don't know what lies ahead
It's all a mystery man, I heard it said
You do your thing, you do your best
I take a guess at what happen next
[Chorus]
All I've got is what I need
And that's enough, as far as I can see
Why should I walk into the great unknown
When I can sit here, and throw my bones?
[Verse 2]
I hear the future is so divine
But I'll just wait until I get a sign
'Cause what I've got here, what I'm holding in my hand
Is better for me than some promised land
[Chorus]
All I've got is what I need
And that's enough, as far as I can see
Why should I walk into the great unknown
When I can sit here, and throw my bones?
[Guitar Solo]
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[Verse 3]
What's the rush? Who's to say?
You can't escape tomorrow, it's another day
I'm hanging here, I'm here on solid ground
'Cause heaven's full, or closing down
[Chorus]
All I've got is what I need
And that's enough, as far as I can see
Why should I walk into the great unknown
When I can sit here, and throw my bones?
Oh yeah
[Instrumental Outro]
effect: Doug holds a planned action in mind while the song plays. If it's something that can be completed within the remaining duration of the song, he'll know the exact moment to perform it to get maximized results from his point of view, or to at least avoid wrost-case results if time is more pressing. If it's something longer term, at the end of the song he'll have a feel for whether the plan in its current form would have a good or bad result, again from his point of view. Other probability manipulation effects not originating from Doug (his chaos field or song powers, and only song powers in the plan) are not accounted for, but will also have unpredictable results when used against him to try to affect the intended action or plan, even more than usual when trying to deal with Doug.
(Also, it's just a good song, and its generally non-disruptive effect means he can just listen to it for the sake of it if he wants to, and make some really good sandwiches or something.)
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Best TTRPG system for swords-and-rayguns classic sci fi? |
Posted by: classicdrogn - 07-12-2024, 02:38 AM - Forum: General Chatter
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Of course you can adapt whatever strikes your fancy, as can generics like BESM, GURPS, or HERO by definition, but I'm wondering what people think of for out-of-the-box. (GURPS Space combined with Lowtech/Dungeon Fantasy are not disqualified if you really think that's the best. I'm just looking for opinions.)
Spelljammer, well, neither 2e or 5e D&D really match the tone I'm looking for, falling far more into Tolkienesque high fantasy than even early science fiction, and it's the only one I'm really familiar with aside from WEG Star Wars and the genericized d6 Space, which is by default a bit too industrial/technological, predictably in both cases due to those being the source material they're based on.
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