What happened?
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- Judging__Eagle
- Prince
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What happened?
To the gaming den servers I mean?
Mostly just curious, and if there are ways to know what's going on when the servers are affected.
Mostly just curious, and if there are ways to know what's going on when the servers are affected.
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- Knight
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We're back up, thanks to Neil. The current heatwave in the Pacific Northwest caused some hardware failures which in turn affected the connectivity of TGD (and Nifty). The faulty hardware has been replaced, and hopefully no other heat-related crashes occur.
You can't fix stupid.
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." ~ Jackie Robinson
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." ~ Jackie Robinson
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- Knight-Baron
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I'm just glad it was only networking hardware, not the machine itself. Thankfully the box isn't registering too high on the utilization meter, so we should be safe through the rest of the week.
- Neil
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int getRandomInt() {
return 4; // obtained using roll of fair die
// guaranteed to be random
}
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- Invincible Overlord
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It's 97F where I am right now. It rarely breaks 85 degrees in the summer.
I'm fine right now since I have air conditioning, but the Salvation Army and the Fred Meyers has been passing out free bottles of water for whoever asks for it.
I'm fine right now since I have air conditioning, but the Salvation Army and the Fred Meyers has been passing out free bottles of water for whoever asks for it.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
- Judging__Eagle
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This summer has been.... wierd.
We're getting floods in some parts of Ontario that never flood due to almost non-stop rain.
Climate change baby, it's happening. Drought in one spot, floods in an other.
We're getting floods in some parts of Ontario that never flood due to almost non-stop rain.
Climate change baby, it's happening. Drought in one spot, floods in an other.
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While everyone's Philosophy is not in accord, that doesn't mean we're not on board.
We've been getting a lot of rain lately. Probably just because we've been worried about the droughts getting longer and longer, so the weather went "Hahaha, this'll confuse everyone!"
Granted, a few years ago we had our longest drought in history... with a flood 3/4 of the way through it (it was still the longest even if you count that as two separate droughts).
But no, do not worry, global warming isn't happening, nothing is changing, there is nothing to worry about, people!
Granted, a few years ago we had our longest drought in history... with a flood 3/4 of the way through it (it was still the longest even if you count that as two separate droughts).
But no, do not worry, global warming isn't happening, nothing is changing, there is nothing to worry about, people!
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It's been really wet here. But, then, that's par for the course. The city I live in has something like 59 rainy days a year on average.
But it can get 67 inches of rain a year. On average.
So, yeah, deep south Alabama, near the Gulf. At the end of July. Hot. Muggy. It rains and then it becomes muggier. And sometimes it rains so hard one might think it'd be easier to swim to work. Or to the top of a building. And this week, it's been raining like that at least once for nearly every day.
Also, the hurricane season's been quiet. Which is a bit worrying.
But it can get 67 inches of rain a year. On average.
So, yeah, deep south Alabama, near the Gulf. At the end of July. Hot. Muggy. It rains and then it becomes muggier. And sometimes it rains so hard one might think it'd be easier to swim to work. Or to the top of a building. And this week, it's been raining like that at least once for nearly every day.
Also, the hurricane season's been quiet. Which is a bit worrying.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
- Absentminded_Wizard
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Here in southern Ohio, we're waiting with bated breath to see if we're going to break the record for coolest July ever recorded. We've had several days where the high temperature didn't break 70. Normally, we're in the 80s most of the time with the occasional 90+ day.
The annual precipitation total is still below normal, but not as bad as last year, when most of the state had a pretty severe drought.
The annual precipitation total is still below normal, but not as bad as last year, when most of the state had a pretty severe drought.
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At-will: Martial, Weapon
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- Duke
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Thats some kind of crazy bizarro world hardware you're running. The failure should be the other way round.neilhuiz wrote:I'm just glad it was only networking hardware, not the machine itself. Thankfully the box isn't registering too high on the utilization meter, so we should be safe through the rest of the week.
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- Invincible Overlord
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It is now 57 degrees where I live and about 60 degrees in Seattle.
Crisis... averted.
Crisis... averted.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
For the hell of it...
I noticed it was raining and decided to take a couple of videos (and test the quality on the camera's video. It's been around here for months and hasn't been used for a video yet)
Here's what it looks like here when it's not raining:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqg6VV6VUPw
Here's it with a summer thunderstorm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZLETJPKX8I
I noticed it was raining and decided to take a couple of videos (and test the quality on the camera's video. It's been around here for months and hasn't been used for a video yet)
Here's what it looks like here when it's not raining:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqg6VV6VUPw
Here's it with a summer thunderstorm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZLETJPKX8I
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I must say that even though it's been hellaciously hot here, I'm very grateful that it actually cools down at night. There's at least a little time to recover before the next hot day. My tomatoes are looking pretty damned good after all the sun, too.
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- CatharzGodfoot
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Goddamit, we've got a drought in Minnesota. On the bright side it's been abnormally cool.
Anyway, thanks for keeping TGDMB alive!
Anyway, thanks for keeping TGDMB alive!
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-Josh Kablack
-Anatole France
Mount Flamethrower on rear
Drive in reverse
Win Game.
-Josh Kablack
- JonSetanta
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I know! It helped that all activity on the server basically ground to a halt when the intertubes failed, but still. It turns out the offending hardware was a power inverter that must have gone well outside its operating temp range.Draco_Argentum wrote:Thats some kind of crazy bizarro world hardware you're running. The failure should be the other way round.
- Neil
Code: Select all
int getRandomInt() {
return 4; // obtained using roll of fair die
// guaranteed to be random
}