@Jennkryst Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I’m kind of annoyed that I now have two forums in which I lurk, though. Also I’m kind of sad that the community got split so thoroughly. I’ve seen it happen in hobbies before, and it just reduces the whole community.

But there’s no doubt that the entire situation was handled horribly. The call for silence was never going to work, seeing as it went against the entire history and culture of the forum (and its predecessors), which was always a soap box to rail against perceieved injustices and wrongs (and also to share thoughts, ideas, joys and friendly banter, but you know, lots of wrongs). Threatening to ban people for speaking out against things they find objectable was always going to result in a whole lot of people saying ‘fuck you, ban me then’.

Whales pass through the sound between my island and the mainland. I barely caught one on film from my terrace. Checked it afterwards, so pleased with myself, and it’s basically a black blotch briefly breaking the water.

Made it into a lil gif

@Kestrel said in Bannings:

Hopefully someone starts posturing soon, because comparing the activity levels on both boards, it’s clearly a truly necessary component for a healthy, thriving community.

I don’t think MSB has the critical mass of engaged users necessary to function as an active board long term. You need enough people posting to make checking regular updates a thing, so that they’re in turn likely to make a post and continue the cycle. With the majority of active users having moved on to BMD, I think it’s going to be a death spiral into irrelevance. All but a handful of diehards are going to migrate here to post whatever strikes their fancy, or to just read what the community’s up to.

Unless of course the mysterious Silent Majority who totally would’ve loved hanging out on MSB if it weren’t for those people being all toxic and thank goodness they’re gone, actually show up now to make tons of new civilized content. Great debates. Lots of engagement!

I mean, it could happen?

I’ve researched how to launder money pretty deeply, including company registration and accounting laws in various locations around the world. I built up an organizational chart of the various companies, and how the money flow worked, all for a part of my character’s life that never actually came up in play.

Oh yeah, lots of bombs, chemicals, weapons, and murder and mayhem related stuff, too. But y’know. Everybody researches that for rp, right?

I have a hedgehog that plods around in my garden in the evenings. It’s friggin’ adorable.

@Jennkryst said in Bannings:

Getting everyone banned was actually about hurting others, whether by expulsion from the community, or having no push back when it comes to hurting new people after making a clever name change disguise.

While I don’t think this is correct, I can certainly see why you feel that way. I’m more inclined to blame incompetence than malice. They mistook their role as community enforcers rather than community stewards, and rather than acknowledge their mistake they doubled down on it. In response to a stressful situation they escalated in panic when they should’ve taken a moment to reflect. That’s when the community contract was broken.

It’s an easy pitfall. You see it all over society, to sometimes (often?) tragic results. People have authority, and start believing their job is to enforce that authority, rather than act in accorance to the underlying purpose for which they were given authority to start with. Sometimes it’s malicious, but often its just a mindset people fall into after a while. That doesn’t lessen the damage it can do to their community, and it doesn’t absolve them either, mind.

But I don’t think they were out to hurt people.

At this point there’s not much to do but accept the split and move on. Was it unnecessary? Yes. Badly handled by MSB mod team? I think so. But ultimately they don’t, and have made that clear. All the arguments have already been made, and rebuffed. When you get to that stage, there’s nothing left to do but move on. Rehashing it there, or even here, will only bring you (generic you, and even me) frustration and disappointment.

@sao It’s the opposite with me. My grandma’s leg of lamb is to die for, and I remember every big family gathering it was what she’d make. Those memories meant lamb is my favorite meat.

A leg of lamb with salt, pepper and rosemary, in a pan in the oven with some water at the bottom. She’d slow roast that thing for 4-5 hours, turning it every 30 min and ‘watering’ it with the increasingly greasy and flavored water. She’d start real low on temperature, then incrase it every time she’d water the lamb. Halfway through she’d sliced up carrots, and drop them in the pan water to slow cook with the lamb. God those carrot slices became infused with all kinds fantastic flavors.

In the end, the lamb just falls off the bone, so tender and delicious.

Since then I’ve just been a fan of all kinds of lamb. Though I’m from Western Norway. Not a lot of beef here, traditionally, just tons and tons of sheep. So it became traditionally the standard meat.

Norwegian (Scandi) Pancakes.

Simple as hell, but I couldn’t be bothered to do more today.

3dl of flour
5dl of milk
1/2tbs of salt
5 eggs
Some butter (or equivalent, but real butter makes all the difference).

Mix flour/salt, whisk together with half the milk to prevent clots, then whisk in the second half of the milk. Whisk in the eggs. Allow to rest for 30min/1h.

Get a nice big pan, medium heat, and put some butter on it. Pour a ladel of mix in. You want it thin. When it starts to bubble properly (turn golden on the downside), flip and do the other side, which only takes a minute at most. Fold in half, set aside in something that’ll keep it warm. Keep fryin’ the bastards up.

Now its quite common to just have the pancakes with a sprinkle of sugar or a bit of jam. But I prefer mine savory, so it feels like a proper dinner.

Use some kind of meat (or veggie substitute), whatever sauce, some onions or what’s left in the fridge, fry it all up. I really like bacon myself. Anyway, put it on the pancake and roll it up. Eat it like a tortilla. (Edit: Sorta, they’re pretty thin and come apart easily, so best is to spread whatever filling you want in a layer over the whole thing, then roll 'em up so it ends up layered.)

@GF said in Recipes!:

Question: does a fried egg work on a BLT or does the L kinda ruin it? I mean, I’m gonna try anyway because I bought a whole head of L so there’s no reason not to spare a leaf for an experiment sandwich but I’m just asking.

It totally works!

Also I’m with @Tez : Over easy. Not sunny-side, not hard! That perfect over easy is how it’s supposed to be done!

I don’t see there being any issue with WotC taking a cut for what is their IP. The 50K and 750K tresholds are also pretty generous as far as I can tell. The part that’s actually bullshit and a real concern is the perpetual licence they’re giving themselves. If that hadn’t been part of it, I’d have called the outrage a nothing burger.

Space is just so darn beautiful.

And mindnumbingly vast when you think about it.

@BloodAngel Seen up until 24/7 so far. I like it so far. I don’t know if I love it, but I definetly like it.

Right now I’m playing mostly Surviving Mars, which is not the best basebuilder game in the world. But I find it relaxing. It also reinforces my belief that I don’t wanna live on Mars.

I’m also playing Star Traders: Frontiers. It’s a pretty good game. You fly around, trade, fight, do missions, and try not to die. At anything but the lowest difficulties, the last part is a real big ask.

For me it’s time and a willingness to commit on an extended timescale. I’ve written up game ideas in the past, with pages and pages of theme and system documentation. But anytime I’ve gotten close to pulling the trigger and bringing in others to make it a reality, I’ve paused to ask myself if I’m seriously going to follow through.

And the answer’s always been either: no, or I don’t know.

I’m happy to waste my own time worldbuildings, but not so much other people’s time.

@Jennkryst I picked up that book a few days ago, actually. I haven’t started it yet, but been looking forward to reading it!

@KarmaBum That’s awesome.

@sao Serial killers in action.

@sao Mine was always an outdoor cat, I inherited him. Never got another once he passed. If I did, it’d have to be some indoor cats, though.

@BloodAngel I haven’t gotten around to it yet, but it’s on my to-watch list soon as I have some time to spare. Good to hear positive things, tho’.

@Wizz said in Anime:

this deeply fucking unsettling fictional wiki article

I love it, also hate it.