William

I remember this chat used to be fairly active. Did people move somewhere else or did it just dwindle down? It used to be that I could never join without @BESW also being here.

Afternoon :)

He's my main source of salty treats currently. :D

@kviiri I actually work with a Finnish guy where I am now.

Actually, I'm making homemade toffees soon ... maybe I should try a small cinnamon batch.

Like, I could imagine maybe something like a cinnamon toffee could be decent.

You might be right. It's not the cinnamon taste I dislike. It's mostly the spiciness. If I could get a mild flavored cinnamon snack, it might be nice.

Yeah. It wasn't until I started traveling I realized how confined it is to the northern Europe.

These will give you chemical burns if you eat too many.

These aren't even the worst ones, they're pretty tame.

It's just salty licorice :P

They questioned our entire country's health as if we ate that for fun, what did a bad day look like?

When I brought candy to the office in Irvine it was described as soulless and willful self harm.

Well, considering what candy we eat in the Nordic countries, I can't judge.

Cue Sir Cinnamon joining :|

Cinnamon is pretty prevalent in Danish cakes and baked goods, so might be why that makes sense to me.

Horrible stuff.

But I don't like cinnamon candy or cinnamon gum.

I like cinnamon in cakes.

Slightly disappointed

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Ah yeah, that's true. So it's like a premium plan, but it's likely not their main business.

Yeah, that was pretty much much of their business too.

Before visiting, I never thought a private company could specialize in that. Seems like such a rarely used thing. I thought that was just something governments did.

Very very expensive service, but also used when it really mattered.

Related, I actually visited an interesting company once. They were experts in setting up camps in emergencies. They could setup a camp with water, electricity, rooms, etc for I think 30 people, pretty much anywhere on the globe in less than 24 hours. And within 48 hours, they could scale it up to 300 people or something.

Ready to liberate anywhere on the planet in less than 12 hours

Now I'm imagining some sort of "Oil Response Team" in the military. :D

Haha

I also give my players a lot of power over the story. It's rare that they need to clear anything with me. If your character lost his parents in some tragic back story, then the guy responsible will exist somewhere. Or maybe they're searching for this and that artifact and I'll play into that as well.

@BESW, that's exactly how I did it with my players. They were very good at driving the story, so I often just manage the overarching stuff and then they make sure everything moves along.

I've been considering making an actual prepared adventure for my players. So when I'm home next time, we could find a weekend to play through it. But I just know my players well enough, that preparing too much is dangerous. :D

Yeah, it's been a long time since I've had a proper long session. Before I moved, we met up every other week. But with everything going on in our lives, a lot of time would be spent just talking and catching up. We'd probably have a total of 2-3 hours of play time.

I work for a game studio now, so finding a group shouldn't be a problem. Just have to do it.

Hehe, I don't think I'm skilled enough for that. Not really a writer.

I definitely feel like running games was a good creative outlet for me. Feels like I'm overflowing with ideas lately.

Not a ton. Just flowing through life. Moved a while back, so haven't had a proper RP session in a while which I miss.

This is not an answer, but at least in Denmark, it's legal. It was being used to skirt some rules about Uber style services, so instead people paid to have their bag moved from their home to their office and they got to ride along.

Well ... thanks for being my rubber ducks for a bit. :P

Embarrassingly the cable was loose. I guess it was connected briefly, resulting in Windows knowing what display was there, but not then got loose.

Ohh, I got it working!

But the fact that I get supported resolutions, model information, correct refresh rate, etc, just makes it weird that all I'm missing is the picture.

Yeah. It's kinda weird that it does detect everything. If it just didn't work at all, I'd chuck it down to a broken or bad adaptor.

Best guess, based on a bit of info I found, is that there might be some HDCP going on, that the old display or HDMI-DVI adaptor doesn't support. But I don't know if that's a thing when it's PC to screen. Might be a thing if it was game console to screen.

I tried googling around and searching here, but couldn't find a description that matches my issue exactly. Most were related to people not understanding what adaptors to use.

It just doesn't show any picture on the display. Everything else seems in order, just no picture.

Now, my computer does detect the display model and the correct supported resolutions.

I have a quick conundrum for anyone interested. I have an old display, normally, I hook it up via a DVI cable. Today, I tried hooking it up via an HDMI cable and a DVI adaptor. So computer -> HDMI cable -> HDMI-DVI adaptor -> old display.