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whatever drugs you are doing...

stop.

But I'm not taking any!

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I'm not the slightest bit arachnophobic, but that link still creeps me a bit.

Eesh, I don't think I'm going to look at dried/brown moss the same ever again. At the very least stuff that looks like that is now on my "Poke with stick before approaching" list.

... buggery hell, if that's the good news, what's the bad? Because "more responsibility" is almost always bad news, from what I've seen. It's when it's accompanied by good news (i.e. an appropriate increase in pay, in your case) that it's not a terrible day.

Seriously though, is there no way you can go, "Hey, this is getting a little silly. Bring help or scale stuff back plox."? Sounds like they're trying to drown you.

E: Though, thinking on it, I guess working you harder for the same pay is good news... for your employer

So the presidential round two seems to be going on. Anything interesting, yet?

Ugh. I've been pseudo-taking care of newly hatched chickens (as a proxy for their owner, more or less) for the last day or two, and after getting a little advice from someone and doing a little net checking, it seems like said owner has basically no goddamn idea what they're doing. Area wasn't prepared, the current container is poorly considered, using poorly chosen food, poorly chosen water, they're not warm enough and there's not really any goddamn thing I can do about it, because I've got no cash (and, in strict honesty, this wasn't my damned idea and I really don't want to have to clean up after the proverbial mess. I'd just as soon feed the bloody things to the cats and make it quicker) or means to jury-rig something sufficient.

Thought process going into this was apparently:

• Get incubator.
• Get eggs.
• Hatch eggs.
• Put chicks in plastic box with grits and tap water.
• Heat box by putting a blanket over the top.*
• 
• Profit They all fucking die.

So the net results is about 36 hours after hatching, we've got two dead and one dying slowly, with the rest of them insufficiently heated -- I stuck a desk lamp in there until I can berate the owner to get the actual freaking heat lamp they need to not functionally freeze to death, but there's problems with that and gods fuck is this a mixture of depressing, stressful, and enraging. I don't usually mind lack of forethought or consideration when there's nothing living involved or the effects are limited to the individual in question, but when it's astronomically skyrocketing the chance of living things dying, it starts tweaking all sorts of latent rage and frustration buttons.

Let it be a lesson. If you're going to try to breed something, or raise kittens, or kids, or fucking whatever, do some goddamn research first.

Anyway. Owner's maybe an hour away, on the way back. I'm done. Washing my hands of it. I'll print out some basic instructions, I think, and then if the owner wants a dozen dead baby chickens, well, owner's bloody prerogative.

*Not going to fucking work because it's a plastic box on a hardwood floor and until I came in, noticed shit was going wrong, and mostly wrapped the box in some other stuff, was leaking heat all over the bloody place.

Time zone would be utterly irrelevant, though. The forum adjusts the time whatever zone you set it. A post an hour and a half after a different post is still an hour and a half difference, regardless as to where the folks posting are.

Karne made the link at ~10 pm, GMT-6. Nadaka replied at 11:41 pm, GMT-6. Hour and forty minute difference. Little less. Technically something like 1:39:43. For Nadaka to have clicked the link forty-ish minutes before it was created takes more magic than time zones!

I wish to know the mechanics of this phenomena!

Nah, we actually seem to be pretty friendly and respectful of newcomers... when they meet certain pre-reqs. Capitalization approaching proper (or at least warning of ESL or somethin', yeah) and substantial posts placed in the right subforum, ah. Help. Just a titch

Especially to throw off the spambot accusations. Because I'm fairly sure I've seen four or five spambot posts near identical to the OP of this thread

Checking ZK's posts, though, looks more like someone with english as a second (third, whatev'.) language seeing if they can settle in. It'll come, providing product placement doesn't mysteriously appear in ZK's sig, heh.

Seems to be roughly what spelunky does, perhaps a lil'more sophisticated. Which... I'd call it boding well, so far as avoiding repetition is concerned.

Well often ways to make it less "repetitive" would be to allow more variety within the set patterns.

But given the game... my vote is that isn't going to happen.

Post, at least, did mention the generator's going to have the potential option of swapping around what goes where, at least occasionally. So it seems, at least, like it allows a good chunk of variety within the overall pattern, since the engine can swap around certain set pieces somewhat freely. At least conceptually, according to the blog post. Who knows how it works in practice

Interesting thing to me is that it looks like it'd be possible to create new rooms and such with flipping paint (the program, mind.), since the generator sounds like it's just parsing a specifically colored image. If adding that sort of material is as simple as making a little pixel stamp thing, that may be a pretty serious boon to ease of modding. Also could see stuff like adding in the mona lisa or whatev', by recoloring the thing. As a dungeon room.

Voting's not a one issue thing, unfortunately, and gods only know if I had a legitimate third option I wouldn't be voting for either of the bastards running right now, but the system's mostly broke and, welp. Lesser of evils is still evil, but only stupid is certainly the lesser of insults spat out by the pair, if you're using personal slights as your heuristic for voting. Which would be a fairly odd thing to be using as heuristic but whatev'.

I prefer stated and demonstrated policy and while it's still pretty terrible in both cases, the distribution of terrible is different. I'll be voting for the one that least bothers me, y'know? Which is unfortunately Obama, since th'Reps decided to proffer up what's basically a caricature of the worst of capitalism and the income divide in our country