We got power back last night for a few hours, then lost it again.
Flushing with a bucket is somewhat effective, less so than for most people because of the particular toilets we have, but we can use it to stretch things a bit. A…
The blizzard knocked out power at my house late afternoon yesterday and it's still not back and they might not have it back tonight, which will force me to scramble to find a hotel with a room that'll let me bring my dog, at a time when a lot of oth…
SAYTO is nice for avoiding that situation, but it also avoids the opposite situation: you can't say "To go there..." if there's someone named Gorothul near you. You just can't.
It would be too easy to just have the family sit around the stage recording and then throwing away as many fake plays full of nonsense as you like to gain as much honor as you had time to grind if that was enough. But submitting it to the World Stag…
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That one is actually a great example of how it can be easier than it looks because it's really one great gimmick, built on. I actually almost didn't give her a background because I agonized for a long time trying to figure out an approach, …
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That's called the "click of death". Sometimes, not often but sometimes, if you have that and you can't get the drive to fire up and you want it to fire up just one last time so you can copy some stuff off of it, you can jolt it …
Even now the thought of some of the mistakes in a few of my plays rankles, but I think the rerecord option Daraius refers to is the best solution. I think a big part of the thrill of theater as a live performance is that very tension. And an even bi…
The problem is when you blow up the ship to get rid of the slivven, one of them ends up in the escape pod with you anyway, and you don't find out until you're already undressed.
It's a tough call. It can certainly be "gamed" but on the other hand it also feels kind of wrong when a two-hour long play comprising tens of thousands of words is up against a twelve-line poem. And your points about…
If the rule is meant to prevent copying off others (good thing), then all that's needed is a check to see if design1.Designer == design2.Designer and if so leave out the warning and allow the design. After all, you can copy off yourself.
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Are there any science fiction themed MMOs or MUDs that aren't, and that have a meaningful amount of activity? I've always wanted to find one, but every specific one I hear about has some fatal flaw like that.
Since all my characters are dormant it's moot, but my alt Tsianina should be pronounced "tsha-nee-na" with the accent on the first syllable, and that first "t" downplayed (if you're not paying attention you'd hear "sha-nee-na"). The name is actually…
a scuffed mandolin bearing the stories of the road
This mandolin must once have been proud and shining, its cherrywood body buffed and polished to a fine sheen, since in a few spots that gleam is still seen. However, most of the mandolin'…
At Serenwilde's there's a guild mob who chatters to people even during plays, on top of the ambients. I understand the reasons for putting her there, she was supposed to try to help drum up interest in the stage and she has a quest involving gatheri…
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That happens to me surprisingly often, actually. Sometimes I lose sleep from waking up and feeling I need to capture the idea, but the process gets my mind too far awake to drift back off. I mean, that happened both of the last …
I think it makes a lot less sense to elide the middle syllable when you consider the origin of the name Glomdoring from the refutation of "D'or glom" -- that middle syllable's an entire word. Not that that never happens in real languages, it just us…
It's because each reviewer can review a design only once, to prevent an exploit where a reviewer gets his pal to submit a flawed design, he reviews it, gets paid, repeat indefinitely. The unfortunate side effect is that the most active reviewers ge…
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Mine didn't limit learning to a single fight; it kept a database of individuals and updated it every time I debated them. I bet I still have frequency distributions in it for players who have been gone longer than I have!