Not a bar, but plays one on TV

@Adeptus Pretty great, as is a dependable quality. It was missing some things that I enjoyed a lot last year and was hoping for more of this year, but still good. Next time I'll head over as an enforcer. (Whenever next time is, given I'll be in Europe before the next PAX Aus and Europe doesn't have a PAX.)

@BESW I'll be available. Hopefully I won't also be ill!

BESW

I'll want to work with you to settle down on a PC ahead of time so we can get playing faster on the day.

Adeptus

@doppelgreener A friend of mine went - he's a minecraft modder & (various games) livestreamer, among other things. He's actually got enough subscribers that he can make a living at it.

doppelgreener

@BESW Sounds good. I'll be free tonight.

@Adeptus Is there more I should say, like about what I did there, what is there, what I go for, etc?

Or are you already across all the biz and just checking how I found it? :)

Adeptus

Share if you want to :) I know in general what's there, but haven't delved into specifics

(going for lunch now, so will be afk a bit)

Shalvenay

3:37 AM

@BESW would you say that fantasy is generally about people-problems, or are there worldbuilding-problem fantasy arcs I should be looking at? (and cross-chatroom replies are not a thing :/ )

BESW

Fantasy is more commonly used for people stories, but not exclusively.

It's harder to write worldbuilding problems in a fantasy setting because of the "made-up rules" problem.

Shalvenay

@BESW yeah, I suppose it explains why I have an easier time with RP in say EVE Online

BESW

And the best stories are a blend of them.

The Seventh Bride, for example, is at its heart a people-problems story. But a major challenge is that because of her people-problems, the heroine doesn't think to ask important worldbuilding "how things work" questions until it's too late.

Shalvenay

@BESW ...heheh. one of those people.

BESW

Not really.

doppelgreener

3:42 AM

[confused about what kind of people is being referred to]

BESW

She's under a lot of stress, in a brand-new situation, and it doesn't occur to her that a) there are totally different rules here, and b) she won't be able to ask about them later.

Shalvenay

aaah.

I was more thinking "someone not predisposed to try to figure out how systems work to begin with"

@BESW one of the funnier "worlds collide" mashups that goes on in my head is some of the Dilbert comics have left me wanting to toss a couple of my D&D chars into CubeCo :P

BESW

So a lot of the book is about figuring out what the rules are when getting it wrong could be lethal--and asking is definitely lethal.

Shalvenay

@BESW yeah -- basically, the poor bloke who didn't know to ask about the rules until the point where asking will take too long

BESW

Or, in this case, where the evil Lord of the Manor has come home and is Listening To Everything In The House.

Suddenly the cook who wants to tell you everything while the Lord was away... can't under pain of death. But you didn't know that he'd be able to Listen To Everything until he already was.

doppelgreener

3:49 AM

I have played an intrigue game like this.

(Spyfall: there are 30-ish locations. all players know the location they're in, except for the spy, who does not. the players take turns asking each other questions, not knowing who's who. the people in the know have to figure out who the spy is, the spy has to figure out what location they're in.)

BESW

The heroine just sort of assumes that certain things are true, like "Roads work equally well going both directions," and "If you stab someone in the neck he'll probably die," and "The friendly person who answers my questions will continue to do so."

Shalvenay

@BESW I was thinking about a much simpler case -- you don't want to be asking "what the heck does that signal mean anyway?" when you're zipping by it at 70MPH with 10,000tons behind you!

@BESW but yeah -- there's definitely story fodder in that theme

doppelgreener

4:08 AM

Testing something.

Oct 30 at 12:36, by Derpy

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 2 days ago, by Derpy

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A: How can I quickly cool a water bottle?

Get some dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) or liquid nitrogen if you're cool. Dunk your water bottle into one of those for about 30 seconds for dry ice, 5 for liquid nitrogen. This will cool your bottle super-fast and even turn some of the water into ice. To increase the rate of heat transfer away f...

(i am oneboxing a onebox of a onebox)

BESW

@doppelgreener Oneboxing a onebox of a onebox of a onebox got flagged in another room last week.

doppelgreener

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Q: In chat, a oneboxed question/answer link that is, itself, oneboxed, goofs out with a bad link

With apologies for the confusing title, but I had fun writing it. The matter itself is a little confusing. Let's take this chat message. Someone posted a link to an answer in the Tavern, and that link got oneboxed: This works fine. There's nothing wrong here. Then that chat message was, ...

@BESW Nice. This time it was legitimate bug testing though.

BESW

Yeah.

Somebody was recursing their own onebox.

doppelgreener

@BESW That's dangerous! This one time I saw someone fall into one of those from the sheer gravitational force it was amassing. We had a hard time getting them back out.

Such messages must definitely be flagged for the citizen's own good, and also for spamminess and such.

doppelgreener

7:22 AM

Do y'all remember that 'Shub' magic ping?