Lets Doug dig 30 meters through Rock & stone, what ever. Clear, and supported tunnels, with improved chance of Drops (Gemstones and metal Nuggets according to the region).
Doug is Modded to Dwarf sizes for the duration of the song.
Includes beard (which may need to be trimmed afterwards.

An EVA in Hello Kitty livery:



Image from Wikimedia Commons. And here's the matching Wikipedia article.

... because David Morgan-Mar already did, over a decade ago. (Pre-Deathly Hallows, this is.)



Source

We used to have a stickied thread about who played what characters, but it's been a long time and it would take a lot of cleanup to match the new server(s) and all that jazz, so ... new thread!

I'll start.

Player: @Sofaspud
Characters: (all on Everlasting)

Emerald Blast: Emp/Rad defender.  "Go for the EYES, Mr. Whiskers!"

Ceasefire: Time/Dual Pistols defender. "Trust me when I say... you really don't want to do that."

Stormchild: Titan Weapons/Electric Armor brute.  "NORA SMASH!"

Mainstay: Shield/Psi Melee tanker.  "Oh, right.  'Chaaarrge'.  There.  I said it."

Executive: Mercs/Traps mastermind.  "You and I have very different takes on the phrase 'hostile negotiations'."

Nano Sabre: Rad/Dark Melee tanker.  "They're *not* tentacles!"

Staff Sabre: Staff Melee/Invulnerability brute.  "Did... did I just cosplay my way into a real job?"

Katy Kaboom: Mind/Electric dominator.  "Violate the warranty?  I'll show *you* violating the warranty!"

Ditzcharge: Elec/Regen brute.  "It's a TYPO!  A TYPO!  I SWEAR!"

Shadestep: Psi Melee/Regen stalker.  "Don't worry, this will only hurt for a moment."

Bloopers reel, and green room stuff here, also Spelling catches, and other silliness so as not to mess up the Story posts.

Because we know people want to.
Keep it to the current Arc please.

Yeah, yeah - three-and-a-half weeks, and that's the best title I could come up with? Sorry... This is set a few months past the current end of the main narrative, but, hey, it's a standalone piece.

The Register: Wow, talk about a Maine-wave: US state says ISPs need permission to flog netizens' personal data

The bill passed the Maine senate unanimously.

Quote:The bill covers a range of customer information, including contact details such as addresses and phone numbers, as well as their internet usage details: think browsing and app history, geolocation coordinates, MAC numbers, and IP addresses.

Additionally, the proposed law forbids ISPs from charging customers a penalty or offering them a discount on their service based on whether or not they opt in to having their data sold to advertisers.

I didn't seem to get much notice in the other thread, so let me start with a more explicit title.  Unless you are paying for Chrome Enterprise Edition, Google Chrome browser will be removing the ability for ad blockers to block more than 30,000 ads.  If you use uBlock Origin, it will stop working in a future update.  If you use the EasyList with any ad blocker, you will have to choose which half of the list gets blocked.  AdBlock Plus by eyeo, a trusted partner of Google, will not be affected.

One day soon, your copy of Chrome will be automatically updated, and the ad blocker will stop working.  This is not something Google is going to back off of.  Developers have asked technical questions, and gotten responses in marketing-speak.  They claim that they are not removing the extension API -- but not answering any questions about how they're removing the specific part of that API used to block advertising.  It's almost as if a massive advertising company doesn't want you to be able to block advertising and tracking.

This is enough to make me want to sever my ties with Google.  It's one thing to advertise, but it's another to use your market dominance to prevent people from opting out of advertising and tracking.  I've started a Fastmail account on a trial basis.  (If you're freaked about the Australian internet backdoor law, you can consider ProtonMail instead, but I'm honestly not that worried.)

The developer community is like, well, the top ranked story on Hacker News is this page: Switch from Chrome to Firefox -- and a good 1500 votes ahead of its nearest rival story.

nyuck nyuck nyuck.

This is the first Potter 'fic I've read in _years_.  It's astonishing how nice it was to be back in this universe, especially since Bob is apparently allergic to handing out the Idiot Ball..

Really enjoyed it, really liked that Doug is serving to maintain communications for poor Sirius.  Looking forward to more!

Lewis Carrol's The Hunting of the Snark came up in discussion here today, and there's just so much of it that fits all too well with contemporary political commentary. "What I tell you three times is true!" is practically memetic for anything Antipresident Cheeto says at this point, but it's easily the least of it. I mean, look at this from just a few lines further on:

Quote: While, for those who preferred a more forcible word,
He had different names from these:
His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends,"
And his enemies "Toasted-cheese."

"His form is ungainly—his intellect small—"
(So the Bellman would often remark)
"But his courage is perfect! And that, after all,
Is the thing that one needs with a Snark."

He would joke with hænas, returning their stare
With an impudent wag of the head:
And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear,
"Just to keep up its spirits," he said.

Quote:He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.

"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
"They are merely conventional signs!

"Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!
But we've got our brave Captain to thank
(So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best—
A perfect and absolute blank!"

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out
That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.

He was thoughtful and grave—but the orders he gave
Were enough to bewilder a crew.
When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!"
What on earth was the helmsman to do?

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked."

Quote: The indictment had never been clearly expressed,
And it seemed that the Snark had begun,
And had spoken three hours, before any one guessed
What the pig was supposed to have done.

The Jury had each formed a different view
(Long before the indictment was read),
And they all spoke at once, so that none of them knew
One word that the others had said.

"You must know—" said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed "Fudge!"
That statute is obsolete quite!
Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends
On an ancient manorial right.

"In the matter of Treason the pig would appear
To have aided, but scarcely abetted:
While the charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear,
If you grant the plea 'never indebted.'