MajorHavoc

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Today is the 11,067th day of Eternal September (en.wikipedia.org)

Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning around 1993 when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users. The flood of new users overwhelmed the existing culture for online forums and the ability to enforce existing norms. AOL followed with their Usenet...

MajorHavoc,

As part of the eternal September myself, we didn’t just use AOL disks as coasters, we used them for awesome pranks like filling eachother’s cars to the brim with them. It was truly astonishing how many of those disks were around.

MajorHavoc,

Underrated answer. Feels like we see a lot of price fixing under that guy’s watch.

Edit: I don’t mean to minimize the damage that guy does. But I think there’s value in remember that he’snobody’s allly.

MajorHavoc,

I like to roll a d4.

4 - Adlib an outcome that is favorable to them, beyond all reason. With my players, sometimes this just means nothing at all happens. In these cases I’ll use anything to make it work out for them, from divine favor, to a key NPC breaking rank “I always loved you guys!”

3 - They achieve what they hoped for, and as many weird (but reasonable) side effects as I can think of also happen.

2 - As little happens as is reasonably possible. Often, with my players, that means just 6d6 fire over a 20ft radius. Often after having whatever they tried misfire first, only to have them try again.

1 - I unpack a nice handful of d12 and roll for blast radius, save DC and damage.

Modified, of course, for the situation.

Specific damage on a 2 or 1 should - like anything they couldn’t reasonably prepare for - be attention grabbing, but unlikely to be lethal. A 2 should as anticlimactic as reasonably possible.

MajorHavoc,

Can we get an honorable mention for Spock’s brother?

MajorHavoc,

Nice. I didn’t realize there were do many awful Vulcans. This has been enlightening.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah, I was gonna say “there’s links to reddit?!”. I blocked those so long ago I had forgotten about it.

MajorHavoc, (edited )

If you’re interested in that level of control, it’s time to look hard at GrapheneOS. “Internet” is a permission you can grant or deny for each app, under GrapheneOS.

But I’m not aware of a way to selectively direct phone traffic through Proton VPN, at the phone. Even on GrapheneOS.

Enough skill with an expensive router could do it, but only on your home network, or only while routing all of your phone traffic back to your home network via yet another VPN.

Edit: TIL, Proton VPN supports split tunneling. Sweet! Look under Settings - Advanced - Split Tunneling - then pick your apps to include/exclude.

Edit 2: TIL DivestOS also supports “Internet” as a per app Permission. Very cool.

MajorHavoc,

Oh hey, thanks! I never particularly wanted any of my apps to route around the VPN, but there the option it is under Advanced, when split tunneling is enabled. Could be handy. Thanks!

MajorHavoc,

That’s such a beautiful moment in the Capaldi era.

MajorHavoc,

Spoiler tag would be welcome here. I understand that Last Ronin keeps the identity of the remaining turtle under wraps for awhile.

Edit: But that would have been my guess, anyway.

MajorHavoc,

You suck. I had no idea about Vader. What the fuck?! Fuck you.

How often to you bail on a half-written post or response?

I have had a tendency since my earliest days on social media where I will get halfway or more through a response, and end up just cancelling it. Sometimes I feel like I’m just being to over the top with snark or otherwise don’t want to be that kind of person, but a lot of the time I’ll decide I just really don’t care...

MajorHavoc,

I can’t think of a single time I’ve-

MajorHavoc,

12d1 is the way to go.

MajorHavoc,

Unit 2 of 20 Million of Rat of Borg (formerly Rizzo the Rat): “Thank you for making me a part or this.”

MajorHavoc,

“And he relied heavily on the advice of the ship’s cook, Long John Silver of Borg.”

“What’s that 1 of 10? Oh! I’ll tell them. He also says that resistance is futile, and you will all be assimilated.”

MajorHavoc,

“I’m pleased to see you still function, Mr Errol!”

MajorHavoc,

Smoking kills people.

MajorHavoc,

I’m all for companies participating in open source communities… but this is the company that routinely blocks me from viewing my aunt’s reposts of Russian state sponsored racist propeganda just because I don’t install the incredibly invasive mobile app.

I can imagine a few ways that this could go wrong…

MajorHavoc,

I’ve had players have this exchange, and then the Paladin decided to ignore the rogue’s critical miss, and just roll with it.

Paladin to the rest of the party “I forget what they said exactly, but it was a very convincing argument!”

MajorHavoc,

In epic scaled games, I work around this with a “reroll at -20”. So the rogue in this case would have had about a 25% chance to recover on a DC10 check.

I also always include an in-game explanation. In this case, I would have made it a huge flashy “boon of insight” from the Paladin’s deity.

Then it’s all the more fun if the rogue actually manages the re-roll. “Dude, I even tricked your god!”

I would also RP right into it. “A voice from on high intones ‘I dunno, seems legit, to me.’”

Similarly if the rogue actually fails:

“A voice from on high intones ‘Seriously, you need to stop falling for this crap. I’m going to send you an amulet of insight or something. What’s your next stop?’”

MajorHavoc,

I liked the crying alien. Trek is full of zany Q-like entities whose whims cause fallout for everyone else.

MajorHavoc,

Here’s a controversial opinion for y’all: The season of Discovery with the broken remnants of the Federation examining how and if to bring back the Federation is the best season of Trek ever made, to date.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah. Maybe too bold…I’m reconsidering my stance after some points were made about later seasons of DS9. Later DS9 seasons were fantastic.

MajorHavoc,

I liked the big reveal, but I can see how it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Partial SpoilerNormally when Trek is going to do a Trelane or Q story, it’s introduced early in the story. This was a weird left turn at the end, and leaves us wondering if any plotline later will also do so. I didn’t mind it in this season, because the season was so focused on about values and tradition, so I wasn’t expecting a hard scifi conclusion. Realizing they were ‘doing a Doctor Who’, wasn’t too shocking to me. But as much as I thought it fit here, it’s a weird way to resolve a Trek season, and I hope we don’t get that approach often.

MajorHavoc,

After careful thought…I’ll yield to season 7 of DS9. You pulled out the big guns. Haha.

MajorHavoc,

I blocked whoever you’re replying to a long time ago. So this thread was quite a roller coaster for me.

For context though, I block people for posting images with bright white backgrounds that blind me when I’m reading later at night than I should. So I have no way of knowing if what I’m missing is awful, or delightful.

(I mean, I could log out and check, but what fun would that be…)

MajorHavoc,

I couldn’t resist and checked it out. I can’t think of any reason I blocked them. Probably the white background image at night time thing. I’ve learned to double check for my Risa peeps, but I didn’t used to.

MajorHavoc,

muppets Statler and Waldorf as the ghosts of Marley and Marley

MajorHavoc,

“Only I didn’t say ‘Q’Pla’…”

MajorHavoc,

It was a triple-dog dare. Refusing it would have brought dishonor to his entire house.

MajorHavoc,

Have a look at the Onyx Boox line of devices.

They run Android under the hood, so various file sync apps just work (i.e. to move books wirelessly from your own Network Attached Storage.)

But beware that the tablet versions default to a much lower screnn refresh rate than a typical ebook, since they don’t need the refresh when you’re taking notes. There’s configuration options to make them act more like an ebook reader, at the cost of some of the battery life.

MajorHavoc,

It’s the year of the Linux desktop! /s

But seriously, I think I’m going to buy a SteamDeck.

MajorHavoc,

Awesome. Thanks!

MajorHavoc,

A Crazy Taxi 3/4 scale cabinet would be delightful.

MajorHavoc,

“It’s an entirely different kind of flying.”

MajorHavoc,

Incidentally, for anyone who hasn’t typed ‘import antigravity’ into an interactive Python terminal…you should - as Dr Seuss says, “These things are fun, and fun is good.”

MajorHavoc,

Besides the dual stream confirmation in Discovery, I believe it’s in Enterprise that we first learn that Klingons have two of every organ.

And I believe I recall a throw away line of confirmation (of the double organs) in Picard.

I’m honestly surprised if Lower Decks hasn’t dealt with the topic yet.

MajorHavoc,

Awesome. I figured Lower Decks would be all over this. Their creative team has amazingly strong knowledge of Trek lore.

MajorHavoc,

“Klingons are like onions.”

“You mean they smell bad?”

MajorHavoc,

That’s beacuse he just fixed a bug, and now there are 255 bugs.

MajorHavoc,

It wouldn’t be a perfect Nexus Christmas if his brother could be there - presumably to talk about the problems with how Romulans are taking over the planet…

MajorHavoc,

“… They were going to annouce it on Thursday.”

MajorHavoc,

For once he’s speachless!

MajorHavoc,

Somebody has hardcore skills to get all those old PCs emulated properly on the holosuite.

Seems likely to be a Sisko/Quark collaboration, with possible omnipotent assistance from Q.

I also note that only Q will sit next to Morn, beacuse only he can use his omnipotence to cause Morm to take a break from monopolizing the conversation.

MajorHavoc,

Teal’c, the door struck, again.

MajorHavoc,

O’Neill, his loops of fruit uncrisp.

MajorHavoc,

I figure, considering David Tennant’s age, and past willingness to reprise the role, and the age of the show, it’s a safe bet he shows up a few more times, even if they had killed him off.

MajorHavoc,

I love a Doctor Who script that understands that time travel screwiness aside, the thing that really works about Doctor Who is giving great actors a place to wax poetic and dramaticly chew the scenery. I felt that this episode did that nicely.

All four lead cast members rose to the occasion, and shared their energy.

I’m not sure I liked how the catch scene was done, but it’s also kind of perfect. That was never going to work without NPH, and I’m not sure anything less silly could have felt right.

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