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[Kistilan]

Also, checked on Bekki the other day after Isaias and her tornados passed up the coast. He and fam are okay as well, just a bit damp.

Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time... That's good they're well too! A toast to the barkeep. *raises a flask filled with odd-blue liquid*

glad to hear she's still kickin'. do ask her about the tattoo ideas if you talk to her again.

any idea how missing and funny are?

I know Missing Minds, who is funny? I was not a frequenter of the Muskateer thread, but I believe Missing is a fellow Scholar of Adventure. And of course I peeked into this thread occasionally whilst up to no good on other sub forums.

[doomboyv2]

Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time... That's good they're well too! A toast to the barkeep. *raises a flask filled with odd-blue liquid*




I know Missing Minds, who is funny? I was not a frequenter of the Muskateer thread, but I believe Missing is a fellow Scholar of Adventure. And of course I peeked into this thread occasionally whilst up to no good on other sub forums.

FunnyCide would be Missing's wife, i believe

[Zorrbeania]

Why on earth did Standing Stone Games make Strahd sooooo tall? When I did the quest playing a human I only came to his waist! Is he half-giant or something? If anyone has an idea about why he's so large, I'd dearly like to know.

[doomboyv2]

Why on earth did Standing Stone Games make Strahd sooooo tall? When I did the quest playing a human I only came to his waist! Is he half-giant or something? If anyone has an idea about why he's so large, I'd dearly like to know.

why do you think he's had so many lovers ? ?° ?? ?° ?
edit: ugh, unicode doesn't work it seems

[Zorrbeania]

edit: ugh, unicode doesn't work it seems

What does that mean?

[Kistilan]

What does that mean?

It means he has really big feet.

[cdbd3rd]

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edit: ugh, unicode doesn't work it seems

What does that mean?

Unicode:




Google can explain it better than I.

[cdbd3rd]

Why on earth did Standing Stone Games make Strahd sooooo tall? ...

Well, around here we can only guess and surmise over a pint or three - but my guess would be that they wanted to portray his importance in the scene, make him "bigger than life", so to speak.

[doomboyv2]

What does that mean?

so when any program displays text, it reads data that is written in a specific manner, aka 'encoded'.
the type of encoding tells the program how to translate the data into letters.

for example, ASCII is an old and well known encoding.

unicode is the largest(to my knowledge) encoding library in use. it covers tons of scripts, symbols, emoji, whatever. so if you're playing a game and it only uses ASCII encoding, then you can't write/display letters from the japanese script. however with unicode, you can.

[Kistilan]

Unicode: ?????

Google can explain it better than I.

Was your attempt 1F9B6?

[Zorrbeania]

Well, around here we can only guess and surmise over a pint or three - but my guess would be that they wanted to portray his importance in the scene, make him "bigger than life", so to speak.

Yeah, I thought it might be something like that. I was just surprised since I didn't remember him being described as "bigger than normal" in pen and paper.

[Zorrbeania]

so when any program displays text, it reads data that is written in a specific manner, aka 'encoded'.
the type of encoding tells the program how to translate the data into letters.

for example, ASCII is an old and well known encoding.

unicode is the largest(to my knowledge) encoding library in use. it covers tons of scripts, symbols, emoji, whatever. so if you're playing a game and it only uses ASCII encoding, then you can't write/display letters from the japanese script. however with unicode, you can.

Thanks for the info guys!

[Zorrbeania]

Does anyone know when they're going to start up Crystal Cove again? Been enjoying all the free play, it's just that's one of my favorite things they do.
Thanks in advance!

[Aelonwy]

Does anyone know when they're going to start up Crystal Cove again? Been enjoying all the free play, it's just that's one of my favorite things they do.
Thanks in advance!

I'm with you, Crystal Cove is just so well done that except for the wait to open the quest itself its still one of if not my favorite DDO challenge style quest. I have a memory of my daughter sitting on my lap making selections from the Kobold Soundboard while we waited for Cove to open.

Kobold is dancer, kobold complain about posture to foreman! (her favorite)

[Kistilan]

So, in honor of Ceres' deep impact-formed underground ocean discovery (we now have three celestial oceans confirmed in our solar system, liquid frigg'n water baby!), I made a joke on Facebook. They discovered Ceres' oceans because the salt was percolating through the ice on top where it has been slowly freezing, but appears to have a 25 mile subsurface ocean several hundred miles wide. The percolating brine is what helped the satellite discover this plausible ocean.

But the Facebook police said it was uncool to mention exploring for percolating oceans caused by deep-impact meteorites on Uranus when talking about Ceres. Maybe they thought it was a Game of Thrones Reference? Cersei vs Ceres? Yeah I guess that MIGHT be inappropriate, but just a shout-out to Uranus? Come on.... it's Science! Here's the link regarding the Dawn satellite's discovery, meteorite impacts possibly super-heating ice below and enabling watery oceans to exist on this dwarf planet.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ot-hold-water/

And here's a gold star comment, I thought, but Facebook thought nope. It's highly relevant -- Uranus is an Ice planet, much like Ceres is an ice dwarf planet. I'll probably be censored for saying dwarf now instead of "little planet."

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JWD...ew?usp=sharing

It's just a vulcan joke after all.... lighten up, Zuck!



PS: The First Crystal Cove event was the last time I sincerely played DDO. I recall that being amazing. They brought it back as a repeatedly-visiting event?!?

[Zorrbeania]

PS: The First Crystal Cove event was the last time I sincerely played DDO. I recall that being amazing. They brought it back as a repeatedly-visiting event?!?

Yeah, it finished around the end June 2018.

[Kistilan]

Yeah, it finished around the end June 2018.

And they're considering bringing it back again?!? A little over two years sounds like the right time to bring it back! If I recall, it was a Spring 2011 release initially. I was going snowboarding in Utah with a cute Aussiee at the time, so I remember the timeline pretty accurately.

[Zorrbeania]

And they're considering bringing it back again?!?

I'm not sure if they're bringing it back this year (though I hope so, it's one of my favorite events they do).

If I recall, it was a Spring 2011 release initially. I was going snowboarding in Utah with a cute Aussiee at the time, so I remember the timeline pretty accurately.

How fun! Yep, I remember it coming back recently (two years ago) and was excited since it hadn't been brought back to the game for years. I don't remember how many, but it wasn't 2011, because I hadn't made my account yet! XD

[cdbd3rd]

.... I was going snowboarding in Utah with a cute Aussiee at the time, ....

So THAT's where Maz disappeared to.

[cdbd3rd]

News story I saw a little while ago. The upper federal executive (who shall go un-named for the sake of forum rules) is apparently trying to change the laws regarding how much water can be dispersed by our shower heads.


I kid you not. Google it, it's on the all the major feeds... *facedesk*