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Quote from: My Name is Immaterial on January 11, 2017, 06:04:22 pm

Quote from: Antioch on January 11, 2017, 05:49:34 pm

I somehow have the nagging feeling that things are going to get nasty really fast.


Smitty getting stabbed in a place place where previously Jane was held by shooting her lover is something that gives me a VERY bad feeling

But that was the court-tech arrow, wasn't it?

Yeah but we don't know what happens when she kills someone, especially since didn't even the fairies stay away from her when they wanted to die?

HES NOT DEAD YET LALALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU

Magnus is written like such a pussy. Can you seriously think of another primarch, daemon-primarch or not, that got beaten by a Space Marine?

Do you think it's him being written as a pussy, or Wolves fanboying?

"I was a cop...as for jumpy, I've seen scarier. You struck me as a man who knew how to handle himself. I was half a breath from taking a swing at you, just because you seemed like you'd give me a good fight. Glad things worked out the other way around." She said, tapping her glass against his. Katrine seems to favor drinking a nectarine stairway in the fashion of a shot-quickly downing one 'stairwell' of the drink, in a single swallow at a time.

"I'll drink to that!" This time, he followed Hall's example, 'walking' down the 'stairs'. A much more pleasant experience, once he got over his ego, that is. A bit sweet for his taste, but hell, it was cold, unlike that beer he had got.

She chuckled as Alban tried to down the whole thing at once...the alcohol got progressively stronger as you got to the bottom of the glass.

"...They call that falling down the stairs for a reason." She said, patting him on the back chummily, as he coughed.

"Merde, it feels like it, too."

"And for the eyes, I figured it wasn't wise to ask. A man who'd get a new set of lookers, without going to the cost of making them look real, or doing a bit of reconstruction to go along with it? Well, he might not have gotten them entirely by choice. Just a guess. And, you'd be surprised what we consider odd out here. The stuff you get from the Pentapods make everything seem normal..." She commented idly.

"That's a good guess. It's not right, but it's a good guess. The armed forces have a great benefits package." He falls a little stoney faced, as if he had just settled a topic, yet not settling anything.

"Anyway. To the point at hand.
I noticed earlier, that you looked the same as I did. Bored, restless, like you were waiting for something to happen. Like me. I just then figured that if we sat in this bar waiting for something to happen, we'd end up as old as that guy who just left right now, before anything did." She said.

"I admit, I don't have much of a plan. All I know is that it starts with a partner. Someone I can work with, someone to watch my back, and vice versa. I'm not used to working alone. It gets me...well, stuck on a dirtball dipshit little bar in the middle of nowhere, looking to start a fight with everybody, drinking to oblivion. That doesn't get me anywhere I want to go...I stick around here, I'll get killed in a barfight, or drink myself to death...or, I could work local security, sure...end up marrying a farmer, why not? ...not entirely a bad idea, considering the usual choices I've made in my life, but it'd be boring. I could take boring, but it's not my first choice. I sort of feel I have a debt to pay before I settle down...or maybe I feel I'm not worthy to. Truth eludes us.

So, I figured, that we might work together. Maybe you have a better plan than I do-barfights, drinking, and uh, you know-and, you might not mind me coming along. Or maybe neither of us know what to do, and we'll just be two strangers staggering together through the universe looking for trouble and righting wrongs, like in one of those hokey old scifi stories I like to read. The true space adventures of Couloir and Écosse!

So, what do you think about all that?"

Alban nods while Hall makes her proposition, but he seems to drift off, lost in thought. At the end, he puts his glass down, finished, and taps his fingers on the glass a few times before responding. "You know, I came out here, looking for boredom, or at least something a little slower than what things had gotten. I sure as merde found it. Turns out I hate it." He pauses for a moment, and scans the drink menu distractedly. "I didn't have much of a plan; drive around the planet, see some sights, hop on a ship to another colony, rinse and repeat. Improvising on that with you sounds like a great time to me, Madame Hall. Let's drink to ou partnership! Barkeep, another drink for me and my friend; a proper ale, something local and strong!"

I believe it might have something to do with the rise in Discord use for idle chatter in FG&RP.

That's an interesting hypothesis. I'll have to look into it.

I'm happy to find this tread, I have been doing the same stats about the data for something like 2 years
It has more sense when you add a 365-day trend (less "accidents" like new versions or special events).


Perhaps you should add the donation data (published, each month, by Toady), that's (I think) really interesting, too.
There is a quite strong correlation between donations and activity (in general) until patreon came. After that, activity fell, and donations progressed.

That's awesome! Can I look at your data, to compare our methodologies?
I'll look into including that too! Thank you!

Hahaha I wonder if you can correlate ban streaks with world events

Almost certainly. I just don't really want to go there, ya know? That gets me a little too close to the action, which I like to stay far away from.

Updated!

2016 in review: Since the release of DF2014 0.42.01 in December 2015, activity has generally been slowing down. Certain metrics have been slowing much more than others:

• This year set second and third places for fewest New Topics per month. October '15 holds the #1 slot.
• New Members per month has been holding remarkably steady for the last three years.
• Most Members Online per month has also been holding very steady on the last year.
• Posts per month have been in a dangerous decline. January had 75547 posts, but only 31276 posts were made in December, 41% of the beginning. An average of of 4000 fewer posts were made each month this year.

I'm most concerned about Posts per Month, because most of the other metrics return to a floor, one set by activity on the lower boards, after the rush of DF discussion posts after updates. I don't know what the floor is here, so I'm getting worried as to how low the floor is for Posts per month.

In other news, Toady is on a 7 month ban-streak. C-c-c-combo!

Alban's brow creases for a moment with a frown, before switching to a smile. Tossing 11 lv to Hall, he exclaims "That was worth 1lv just to see that shot! Bartender! Get my friend a drink, on me! Anything she wants!" and congenially slaps Hall on the back like an old friend.

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AYY LMAO I HATE THESE SORT OF THINGS
I ALWAYS LOOK LIKE A STUPID SHIT
Sincerely,
You

Jesus Christ, wow, I was fucking spot on. I do look like a stupid shit.