For the next twenty-one days, Bundle of Holding is offering a bundle of GURPS 4e supplements plus the Basic Set (I don't know where my hardcovers of the Basic Set are hiding, so I'll take the pdfs). The supplements include guides for creating character templates and adapting your favorite setting to GURPS, and the add-on bundle contains various tech books and GURPS Mass Combat.

There are also a couple of (mostly) system-neutral bundles currently running, a map collection and a set of campaign planners.

Ten percent of the proceeds goes to Covid relief.

... the time for our annual week with family on Long Beach Island.  Between July 2 and July 9, we'll be staying at our usual beach house (this one).  This year, like most years, we'll be in the top two floors.  Last year, we were in the ground floor, thanks to a screwup with the reservations six months earlier.  (Amusingly, the Google Street View car came around while we were there last year -- if you go around the corner, you can see our car, Peg's brother's car, and her mother's car, left-to-right, in the ground floor parking area. EDIT: and if you go the other way, you can spot two of my brothers-in-law and my mother-in-law on the lower deck.)

Anyway, the place has high-speed internet, so you probably won't notice any difference in my presence online. But it's become habit/tradition for me to let folks know, even though the warning is unnecessary these days.

A thought: Once we get past the retconning and start posting stories here again, instead of naming stories here with the name format "[IC][Story][Arc #] Storyname", we name them with the name format "[IC][Story][YYYY-MM-DD] Storyname", with YYYY-MM-DD being the in-universe day that the story starts.

(For example, the retconned version of the existing "[IC][Story][Arc 1] House Call" would be called "[IC][Story][2016-10-11] House Call".)

That way, we can decide after the fact that Arc 2 starts on 201#-##-##, Arc 3 starts on 20##-##-##, Arc 4 starts on 20##-##-##, Arc 5 starts on 20##-##-##, Arc 6 (if we go that far) starts on 20##-##-##, and so on, and not need to worry ahead of time about which stories go in which arcs.

It would also make sorting the stories into reading order much easier.

On the other hand, it would require every story to have its own title - no more dumping the works into a single story thread - and sometimes I can't name a story to save my own life.

Do others like this idea, am I way off-base here, or do folks have another idea that's better than this one?

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/top...astermind/

A recap of a solo ITF for Dren dunno if there's a build included or not, but this is how you get to the guy who's doing the solos on every AT in the game

Also all 111 MM builds!

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/top...nd-builds/

/me ponders whether to start this in General or Politics, flips a coin

Italy follows the lead of Austria and France, rules that sending data to Google Analytics in the US is a violation of the GDPR.

Mainly because any data that crosses the USA border can be examined by the NSA.

Quote:It's almost as if sending the data of EU citizens out for processing in the US, where intelligence services can get their hands on it, is a bad thing.

Can be played here

The goal is to create a Solar System that survives for 1000 years. Good luck.

Seriously, I'm getting 500 or 522 errors or Cloudflare "problem connecting to the remote host" pages on everything except here, Google, and SB/SV/QQ

edit: Scratch that, now SB and SV are out too. Amazon is there though, which, yeah whatever, but that probably means AWS is functioning.

... and then I got in an auto accident just before 2:30 this afternoon. Got hit in the driver's side rear quarter panel by a guy going 40 mph as I turned at an intersection, which also half-tore off the rear bumper and seriously messed up the wheel there (it was visibly canted 30 degrees or so off vertical).

I'm completely unharmed -- no worries there. Shaky as hell for the last eight hours, but I'm fine. The other driver may have had a minor injury to one leg -- he was walking around fine, but when the police officer asked said he had some pain in his right shin and accepted the offer of an ambulance.

And may I just say how impressed I am with the automated online claim filing system my insurance company has implemented since I last needed to file one? Walked me through every step, and before I was finished reading the summary screen I'd been called by the local Enterprise car rental, who'd been alerted because my policy includes coverage for rental cars in these situations, and I'm expecting a call tomorrow from the shop that's already set up to repair the car. Damn, but that was a welcome bit of hand-holding while I was still in a half-panic.

... and you have a gmail account: Google is bouncing emails from the board with the following error:

Quote:Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550-5.7.26 This message fails to pass SPF checks for an SPF record with a hard
550-5.7.26 fail policy (-all). To best protect our users from spam and
550-5.7.26 phishing, the message has been blocked. Please visit
550-5.7.26 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8...entication for more
550 5.7.26 information. gv14-20020a056214262e00b0046b87b8d201si9399735qvb.441 - gsmtp

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