okay yes looking at old devstreams, the robots are definitely not bots, they're characters that hop empires. Which helps the queue problem. Being in an underpopulated faction is annoying, being in an overpopulated faction is worse, because then you're sitting in faction balance queues. Playing as the NS robot mercenary skips any queue - since you're going to the one with the least players online - and thus brings the population balance closer to equal, making the queues better for everyone else as well.
I more often see people ripping each others' tails off so that they can eat them. I've seen so many totally whole animals, except clearly they have been killed and eaten for their tail meat, with the rest left to rot. Crayfish are the European bison hunters of the animal kingdom.
one of my oldest mates went "bois, I need your addresses"
"here it is and I of course have no idea why you need it and when whatever you are sending me arrives I will be completely surprised"
it kind of seems pointless to send an invite, and it doesn't serve as an actual invitation really, but still it would be unthinkable not to get one
Wait, are wedding invitations meant to be a surprise? I just straight up said to my friends "Give me your current address so I can invite you to my wedding, you fucks"
one of my oldest mates went "bois, I need your addresses"
"here it is and I of course have no idea why you need it and when whatever you are sending me arrives I will be completely surprised"
it kind of seems pointless to send an invite, and it doesn't serve as an actual invitation really, but still it would be unthinkable not to get one
Wait, are wedding invitations meant to be a surprise? I just straight up said to my friends "Give me your current address so I can invite you to my wedding, you fucks"
well no, but I am slightly amused by the extra steps taken
since obviously we could just, in that initial communication, invite people there, like you invite people to birthday parties or a pub quiz. But also, obviously you can't do that, one must observe the proper form as befits the event.
Bear is like Riker's Beard. The show got SO much better after Bear showed up, for completely different reasons. But I still like to think that his very presence is the catalyst.
don't need the RSVP from me either really because it is understood that I'll flake on whatever else I may have going on that weekend to be at this wedding. My attendance is just a given. Been friends with the man for twenty of my twenty seven years on this earth, I've got nothing more important that weekend, even if I don't remember which weekend it is.
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Man, I really need to read some of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman's work.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
one of my oldest mates went "bois, I need your addresses"
"here it is and I of course have no idea why you need it and when whatever you are sending me arrives I will be completely surprised"
it kind of seems pointless to send an invite, and it doesn't serve as an actual invitation really, but still it would be unthinkable not to get one
Wait, are wedding invitations meant to be a surprise? I just straight up said to my friends "Give me your current address so I can invite you to my wedding, you fucks"
well no, but I am slightly amused by the extra steps taken
since obviously we could just, in that initial communication, invite people there, like you invite people to birthday parties or a pub quiz. But also, obviously you can't do that, one must observe the proper form as befits the event.
My fiance and I are doing emails! Why make it more difficult and expensive to put on an event that's supposed to be fun?
I guess some people find the fanciness fun, but eh
Man, I really need to read some of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman's work.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
Their collaboration on Good Omens was pretty legendary. They literally handed floppy disks back and forth, while talking daily on the phone in long brainstorming sessions.
We were both living in England when we wrote it. At an educated guess, although neither of us ever counted, Terry probably wrote around 60,000 "raw" and I wrote 45,000 "raw" words of Good Omens, with, on the whole, Terry taking more of the plot with Adam and the Them in, and me doing more of the stuff that was slightly more tangential to the story, except that broke down pretty quickly and when we got towards the end we swapped characters so that we'd both written everyone by the time it was done, but then we also rewrote and footnoted each other's bits as we went along, and rolled up our sleeves to take the first draft to the second (quite a lot of words), and, by the end of it, neither of us was entirely certain who had written what. It was indeed plotted in long daily phone calls, and we would post floppy disks (and this was back in 1988 when floppy disks really were pretty darn floppy) back and forth.[6]
Terry Pratchett said:
I think this is an honest account of the process of writing Good Omens. It was fairly easy to keep track of because of the way we sent discs to one another, and because I was Keeper of the Official Master Copy I can say that I wrote a bit over two thirds of Good Omens. However, we were on the phone to each other every day, at least once. If you have an idea during a brainstorming session with another guy, whose idea is it? One guy goes and writes 2,000 words after thirty minutes on the phone, what exactly is the process that's happening? I did most of the physical writing because:
I had to. Neil had to keep Sandman going – I could take time off from the DW;
One person has to be overall editor, and do all the stitching and filling and slicing and, as I've said before, it was me by agreement – if it had been a graphic novel, it would have been Neil taking the chair for exactly the same reasons it was me for a novel;
I'm a selfish bastard and tried to write ahead to get to the good bits before Neil.
Initially, I did most of Adam and the Them and Neil did most of the Four Horsemen, and everything else kind of got done by whoever – by the end, large sections were being done by a composite creature called Terryandneil, whoever was actually hitting the keys. By agreement, I am allowed to say that Agnes Nutter, her life and death, was completely and utterly mine. And Neil proudly claims responsibility for the maggots. Neil's had a major influence on the opening scenes, me on the ending. In the end, it was this book done by two guys, who shared the money equally and did it for fun and wouldn't do it again for a big clock.[4]
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I more often see people ripping each others' tails off so that they can eat them. I've seen so many totally whole animals, except clearly they have been killed and eaten for their tail meat, with the rest left to rot. Crayfish are the European bison hunters of the animal kingdom.
@Arch what is going on here
Are their vegetarian mantids, or is that not a mantid, or is it trying to find WHO DID THIS SO I CAN EAT THEM
I think this means you’re an influencer now
I think you might need a vacation
Duckduckgo tried to fill in tentaclerape.net for me when I typed that in. So uh. Be careful with autocomplete.
I'm going to Vancouver in a month, assuming the government is still working :rotate:
Up to this point I was still wondering if this was talking about Metal Gear
He must now be shipped to the furthest Fyre Festival
one of my oldest mates went "bois, I need your addresses"
"here it is and I of course have no idea why you need it and when whatever you are sending me arrives I will be completely surprised"
it kind of seems pointless to send an invite, and it doesn't serve as an actual invitation really, but still it would be unthinkable not to get one
It’s a good idea to convey specific information about a wedding in a written document so you don’t give wrong info out
If you’re a forgetful vague boi like me it’s nice to have a slip of paper with the relevant details
Wait, are wedding invitations meant to be a surprise? I just straight up said to my friends "Give me your current address so I can invite you to my wedding, you fucks"
Because people are fucking awful.
Bear.
all the relevant details will be available in a more modern format
and I'll put them into either my calendar on my phone or in another of my hundreds of notes, probably the last one
but it is a nice slip of paper to have
invitations are more than mere invitations, that's why we still do them
Been expecting this for a while, to be honest. Activision seems in a bad place these days, and it was only so long before they hurt their cash cow.
well no, but I am slightly amused by the extra steps taken
since obviously we could just, in that initial communication, invite people there, like you invite people to birthday parties or a pub quiz. But also, obviously you can't do that, one must observe the proper form as befits the event.
I thought having an unopened bag would discourage my boss from giving me more gummies. I was mistaken.
WHY DOES HE KEEP DOING THIS?!
Crunch Crunch! Munch Munch! Chomp Chomp! Gulp!
It's PROUD MARY that keeps on burnin'.
Rollin'.
Rollin'.
I just saw the trailer for the Good Omens TV show, thought it had a Pratchett like feel from everything I've heard, checked out the wiki, and immediately realized this is something I'd be interested in.
He randomly brings me a bag about 1/week, and he ONLY brings them to me.
There are several other people here who LOVE gummies.
I genuinely do not understand, it's like some kind of psychological warfare.
Crunch Crunch! Munch Munch! Chomp Chomp! Gulp!
My fiance and I are doing emails! Why make it more difficult and expensive to put on an event that's supposed to be fun?
I guess some people find the fanciness fun, but eh
Next time bring in the special type of gummies
that poop ones
Look at the top right of the packaging. Now you know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens