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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on Jul 31, 2015 5:06:52 GMT
An update on the May to-do list: Viking outfit I'm sure Vikings wore horn-rimmed glasses, and your beard is a bit short, but apart from that: perfect. Actually, they're metal frame glasses  And the beard goes with the steampunk/Victorian stuff I was wearing three other days of the con. I also still need to get a good photo of the drinking horn I made to go with the outfit... (Steer horn, sanded it out, soaked the interior in boiling water, cured it with Guinness, and then did a wood salad bowl oil finish to the interior (let it cure a few weeks rather than a few days) and a coating of Envirotex Lite on the exterior to protect it). ....and since I had to do the hand-stitching on the trim, belt and pouch, I still have to finish what was to be my project at that con: hand-stitching a pair of deerskin gloves. Heh. Happily the customer liked them -- he wore them last weekend to a con he was one of the guests at (his wife wanted him to have "sci-fi shirts" for when he's doing sci-fi book signings), and apparently was telling folks who was responsible for them since I received a number of compliments while working security there. Also, already have another potential customer if I encounter similar fabrics in the future -- one of the con staff, who has also suggested I consider getting involved in doing a costuming panel there next year  |
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Post by goldenknots on Aug 3, 2015 2:36:07 GMT
Will you be at WorldCon, by any chance?
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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on Aug 3, 2015 3:02:05 GMT
Will you be at WorldCon, by any chance? Me? Alas, no. Other than local(-ish) cons, I'm typically only able to attend the ones I'm working. For me this schedule typically is: Attending: Cleveland ConCoction in Cleveland, OH Animarathon at Bowling Green State University Working: Motor City Fur Con (formerly Furry Connection North) in Novi, Michigan -- Security Marcon (Sci-fi/fantasy con which just celebrated its 50th anniversary this year) in Columbus, Ohio -- Art show security Anthrocon in Pittsburgh, PA -- Security Confluence (literary sci-fi/fantasy/horror con) in Mars, PA -- Security The Viking photo was taken in ops at AC; the Hawaiian shirts were for one of the regular authors at Confluence |
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Post by Rasselas on Aug 24, 2015 10:02:08 GMT
Now that I've made everyone hate me in threads about Tony, here's a video of my latest live performance. I hope not everyone hates me :I And hey I covered Bratja from FMA, someone might appreciate that. :/
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Post by lordofpotatoes on Aug 24, 2015 22:47:30 GMT
I came here to promote myself into a promoter of my own comics which can be found in my signature. Irrelevator has been on a long break and currently still is, however Streetnificant is ongoing and updating every other day. When it ends, Irrelevator will resume.
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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on Aug 27, 2015 17:43:18 GMT
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Aug 27, 2015 22:25:36 GMT
A drinking horn I made for the Viking costume I posted earlier: ...yes, I spent the day drinking out of this. Sadly, just water since I was on-duty for most of it. Drinking horns... You can't put them down until they are empty, because they will empty themselves if they aren't already empty. That would be alcohol abuse and we can't have that. |
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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on Aug 28, 2015 0:54:34 GMT
A drinking horn I made for the Viking costume I posted earlier: ...yes, I spent the day drinking out of this. Sadly, just water since I was on-duty for most of it. Drinking horns... You can't put them down until they are empty, because they will empty themselves if they aren't already empty. That would be alcohol abuse and we can't have that. I once came across an image of an interesting holder someone had made for one: A board with a small stop to place the tip of the horn against; and at the opposite end, a section of deer antler to hold the horn between the tines. |
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Aug 28, 2015 2:25:51 GMT
Drinking horns... You can't put them down until they are empty, because they will empty themselves if they aren't already empty. That would be alcohol abuse and we can't have that. I once came across an image of an interesting holder someone had made for one: A board with a small stop to place the tip of the horn against; and at the opposite end, a section of deer antler to hold the horn between the tines. That's cheating, and the punishment for cheating is another drink! |
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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on Aug 28, 2015 3:40:10 GMT
I once came across an image of an interesting holder someone had made for one: A board with a small stop to place the tip of the horn against; and at the opposite end, a section of deer antler to hold the horn between the tines. That's cheating, and the punishment for cheating is another drink! What's the reward for not cheating? |
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Post by hellohello on Aug 28, 2015 5:28:55 GMT
The reward is two drinks. It's a win/win/win!
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Post by TheClockworkCoyote on Aug 28, 2015 13:52:45 GMT
I seem to be noticing a pattern forming here.... |
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Post by KMar on Nov 23, 2015 9:02:42 GMT
Well, thank you, Google. 
Non, je ne regrette rien.
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Post by Aegis J. Hyena on Dec 27, 2015 1:35:32 GMT
It's been a long time since I was here, but I've lurked and followed along.
What I'd like to know is if anyone would be interested in me making a separate thread as a "forum game" --- a game of Civilization where you, the forumites would get to direct how a bacteria evolves, from deepest seas to land to sentience. I'm actually planning on doing this across a few forums and merge them into a single continent (so you'd be put up against the intelligent species that -other- forums design. I did this in the past with one forum, and we had a -great- deal of fun with it, but I don't see an "off topic" sub forum here and putting a "forum game" in the general discussion threads would just spam the board up (I think). Still, if I have interest here, I'll do it... would anyone be interested in such a game if I set one up come the new year?
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Post by Daedalus on Dec 27, 2015 5:18:13 GMT
It's been a long time since I was here, but I've lurked and followed along. What I'd like to know is if anyone would be interested in me making a separate thread as a "forum game" --- a game of Civilization where you, the forumites would get to direct how a bacteria evolves, from deepest seas to land to sentience. I'm actually planning on doing this across a few forums and merge them into a single continent (so you'd be put up against the intelligent species that -other- forums design. I did this in the past with one forum, and we had a -great- deal of fun with it, but I don't see an "off topic" sub forum here and putting a "forum game" in the general discussion threads would just spam the board up (I think). Still, if I have interest here, I'll do it... would anyone be interested in such a game if I set one up come the new year? When you say "a game of Civilization", to which do you refer? You have piqued my interest, however. Depending on how you want to run it, a PM might be more suited. |
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Post by Aegis J. Hyena on Dec 27, 2015 17:11:55 GMT
I'm not terribly thrilled with the idea of PMs; the idea is meant to be out in the open for everyone to see and vote on. By Civilization I basically say "Ok, here's E. Gunnerii Rey, a bacteria. Give me suggestions on how he evolves." I'd then have its rivals evolve to match, forcing more evolutions suggested by the forum, etc etc. Over time, those evolutions would give rise to sentience, etc, and a story would be born of the emerging civilization. The last time I did this in another forum, hyena-yena.deviantart.com/art/The-Katha-506747540 was what the forum collectively created as a civilization. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 27, 2015 19:47:55 GMT
I'm not terribly thrilled with the idea of PMs; the idea is meant to be out in the open for everyone to see and vote on. By Civilization I basically say "Ok, here's E. Gunnerii Rey, a bacteria. Give me suggestions on how he evolves." I'd then have its rivals evolve to match, forcing more evolutions suggested by the forum, etc etc. Over time, those evolutions would give rise to sentience, etc, and a story would be born of the emerging civilization. The last time I did this in another forum, hyena-yena.deviantart.com/art/The-Katha-506747540 was what the forum collectively created as a civilization. Year 1, day 7: E. Gunnerii Rey culture discovered and collected by Jones for examination. Her bamboo and sand-ground microscope uses wicked pitch for a light-source; there is insufficient time to evolve countermeasure for extreme heat. 100% fatalities. |
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Post by Daedalus on Dec 27, 2015 20:32:40 GMT
I'm not terribly thrilled with the idea of PMs; the idea is meant to be out in the open for everyone to see and vote on. By Civilization I basically say "Ok, here's E. Gunnerii Rey, a bacteria. Give me suggestions on how he evolves." I'd then have its rivals evolve to match, forcing more evolutions suggested by the forum, etc etc. Over time, those evolutions would give rise to sentience, etc, and a story would be born of the emerging civilization. The last time I did this in another forum, hyena-yena.deviantart.com/art/The-Katha-506747540 was what the forum collectively created as a civilization. Year 1, day 7: E. Gunnerii Rey culture discovered and collected by Jones for examination. Her bamboo and sand-ground microscope uses wicked pitch for a light-source; there is insufficient time to evolve countermeasure for extreme heat. 100% fatalities. Year 1, day 23: Second colony of E. Gunnerii Rey established; located in ocean to avoid unfortunate Jones-related incinerations. Entire colony is promptly ingested by a ancestor of the modern-day merostomatazon. 100% fatalities. |
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Post by Aegis J. Hyena on Dec 28, 2015 1:43:48 GMT
LAUGHING ON LINE. I don't think there will -quite- be a Jones analogue. I'll probably start the thread sometime around the 4th.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 28, 2015 5:13:20 GMT
Year 1, day 7: E. Gunnerii Rey culture discovered and collected by Jones for examination. Her bamboo and sand-ground microscope uses wicked pitch for a light-source; there is insufficient time to evolve countermeasure for extreme heat. 100% fatalities. Year 1, day 23: Second colony of E. Gunnerii Rey established; located in ocean to avoid unfortunate Jones-related incinerations. Entire colony is promptly ingested by a ancestor of the modern-day merostomatazon. 100% fatalities. mockery of science:
Year 1, day 39: Third colony of E. Gunnerii Rey established, located in nutrient rich and isolated tidal pool.
Year 1, day 41: You have a rival! A colony of S. Lipshine has been detected 3cm to the south!
Year 1, day 42: You have a rival! A colony of S. Lipshine has been detected 2cm to the east!
S. Lipshine excretes toxic goo! Goo concentration is at 3 parts per million. Your colony is in danger!
>abscond
E. Gunnerii Rey does not have legs!
Year 1, day 43: You have a rival! A colony of S. Lipshine has been detected 0cm to the west!
S. Lipshine excretes toxic goo! Goo concentration is at 25 parts per million. Your colony is in danger!
>eat s. lipshine
S. Lipshine is protected from your attack by toxic goo!
Year 1, day 44: You have a rival! A colony of S. Lipshine has been detected 0cm to the north! You have a rival! A colony of S. Lipshine has been detected 0cm to the south!
S. Lipshine excretes toxic goo! Goo concentration is at 130 parts per million. Your colonists are dying!
>eat goo
The toxic goo is toxic! 340 colonists perish!
Year 1, day 45: You have a rival! A colony of S. Lipshine has been detected 0cm to the east!
S. Lipshine excretes toxic goo! Goo concentration is at 1,250 parts per million.
E. Gunnerii Rey had insufficient time to evolve a countermeasure to S. Lipshine toxic goo. 100% fatalities.
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Post by l33tninja on Dec 28, 2015 19:59:51 GMT
Year 1, day 23: Second colony of E. Gunnerii Rey established; located in ocean to avoid unfortunate Jones-related incinerations. Entire colony is promptly ingested by a ancestor of the modern-day merostomatazon. 100% fatalities. Year 1, day 45: You have a rival! A colony of S. Lipshine has been detected 0cm to the east! S. Lipshine excretes toxic goo! Goo concentration is at 1,250 parts per million. E. Gunnerii Rey had insufficient time to evolve a countermeasure to S. Lipshine toxic goo. 100% fatalities. Year 1, day 53: a fourth colony of E. Gunnerii Rey established; again located in ocean to avoid Jones-related incinerations; also located in nutrient-rich tidal pool but a significant distance from known S. Lipshine colonies.
Lindsey arrives on beach to . . . ahem . . . lighten her load . . . exactly above the location of E. Gunnerrii Rey IV. E. Gunnerrii Rey IV ill-equipped to deal with crab excrement. 100% fatalities.
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Dec 28, 2015 21:46:38 GMT
Reads like my futile attempts to play Sim Life a long time ago. I could never establish a stable species, the only variable was how many generations each species took to die out.
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Dec 29, 2015 21:21:35 GMT
Year 1, day 45: You have a rival! A colony of S. Lipshine has been detected 0cm to the east! S. Lipshine excretes toxic goo! Goo concentration is at 1,250 parts per million. E. Gunnerii Rey had insufficient time to evolve a countermeasure to S. Lipshine toxic goo. 100% fatalities. Year 1, day 53: a fourth colony of E. Gunnerii Rey established; again located in ocean to avoid Jones-related incinerations; also located in nutrient-rich tidal pool but a significant distance from known S. Lipshine colonies.
Lindsey arrives on beach to . . . ahem . . . lighten her load . . . exactly above the location of E. Gunnerrii Rey IV. E. Gunnerrii Rey IV ill-equipped to deal with crab excrement. 100% fatalities.
Year 1, day 68: a fifth colony of E. Gunnerii Rey established by rather frustrated creators; specimen is located at an oasis in a desert to avoid further crab-related incidents. Oasis is preemptively cleansed of any possible competing E. Lipshine presence. A wild Coyote appears, asks E. Gunnerii Rey to tell Him stories. After two minutes without response (as colony has not yet developed vocal apparatus), sulking and pleading ensue. Three minutes later, Coyote becomes bored. Colony incinerated. 100% fatalities. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 29, 2015 23:04:54 GMT
Inaccurate taxa. It's S. Lipshine of Salinisphaeraceae. They live in the ocean. They love salt and pits. Get it?  |
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Post by Aegis J. Hyena on Dec 30, 2015 4:34:00 GMT
Heh. Interesting to see how you guys are thinking of things already. I was kind of nervous to try such an idea here since it doesn't have a subforum for "games".
After the first several "evolutions" (I'm doing this cross-forum, so you'll have other forums' creations to deal with!) what I usually do is leave a list of potential "things to do" --- you'd pick three out of the seven and I'd get to rolling on Random.org and then I "write to the whim of the dice". But later still I also allow forum-goers to direct control characters... not sure if I'm doing that this round of gaming though, given I have four (at this point) potential forums I'm going to launch this in. We'll see after the 4th.
EDIT 17 hours later: I've decided to go Full Internet with this thing instead, because keeping track of four forums will burn me completely out. No one likes the smell of burnt hyena.
So there's a link in my signature to the blog it'll take place on. Ones, Zeroes and Twos.
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 31, 2015 8:53:18 GMT
Heh. Interesting to see how you guys are thinking of things already. Don't listen to me. Mostly I'm thinking up ways to run things off a cliff for distance and create spectacular and/or comedic fails. I've divided the dangers into predation/failed attempt at predation, environmental: nutrient, gas, light, water and sometimes pressure (shortage/surplus, depending on type), and environment change gradual or catastrophic sudden. And I would absolutely have a Jones. A ex-nihilo appearing hyper-evolving organism would draw her interest like a magnet. As well as any other person who becomes aware, including the Court when it appears. But attempting to evade the tireless, superstrong and invulnerable Jones would be something of supreme importance to early life in the Gunnerverse. It may have even been the cause of human evolution, as primates mimicked her form to take advantage of the instinctual fear she inspired... Non-Jones related twisted mockery of science:
Year 1, day 76: E. Gunnerii Rey colony #6 established in primordial stew pool (similar to primordial soup but chunky) near hot spring to take advantage of geothermal heat.
>scatter
Disbanding the colony will allow you to gather resources more quickly and force predators to attack colonists individually, but will limit your ability to respond to resist some threats! Are you sure you want to disband the colony? Y/N?
>y
Year 1, day 79: You have a rival! A colony of Thaumarchaeotae Megatokyom has been detected!
Year 1, day 80: You have gathered 5 bio-energy points!
>divide
You have doubled your number of E. Gunnerii Rey!
Thaumarchaeotae Megatokyom evolves improved long-term dormancy survival!
Year 1, day 84: You have gathered 10 bio-energy points!
Thaumarchaeotae Megatokyom evolves full frontal mihotits mitosis (M-phase) promoting factor!
>eat megatokyom
Your attack was successful! The Thaumarchaeotae Megatokyom colony has been destroyed! You have gained 3 bio-energy points!
Year 1, day 88: You have gathered 10 bio-energy points!
>evolve type
You are now Voromonas Belloiudicia Surculus! You are 3 nanometers long and you have a flagella! You are omnivorous but prefer to prey on microbes smaller than yourself!
Year 1, day 94: You have gathered 1 bio-energy points!
>search and destroy
Year 1, day 95: You encounter a 0.8 centimeter dinoflagellate Retaria Paheal! Retaria Paheal has evolved the advantage: feeding flap.
Retaria Paheal opens its feeding flap to receive you!
>abscond
Your attempt to flee fails. You have been drawn into the feeding flap!
>strife
There was insufficient time for Voromonas Belloiudicia Surculus to evolve a countermeasure for the digestive action of Retaria Paheal. Casualty.
>nknjnjuilbTYVYTVYBbrcyy0giyuiguuoUIFWIEUPklBIUBPW EOFWPUFBIUPOEFWHBIUEWFipubiyv
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Post by Aegis J. Hyena on Dec 31, 2015 17:42:42 GMT
Something similar happened in the last game I ran. The forum goers evolved a bacteria over time into a sentient thing called The Katha hyena-yena.deviantart.com/art/The-Katha-506747540 --- one of the forumites constantly tried to push the envelope and cause a revolution between "castes" of the race (he failed, the dice were NOT kind to his attempts, and I write to the whim of the dice). I stopped that one right as they were about to enter the middle ages, mostly because 80% of the forumgoers had dropped off due to real life or forum drama elsewhere. I do hope I get a lot of players for this, once it starts on the 4th. I don't want it to die unknown. |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Jan 1, 2016 1:02:03 GMT
I do hope I get a lot of players for this, once it starts on the 4th. I don't want it to die unknown. I'd like to play but my time and brainpower is extremely limited. Especially if I have to appear at specific times. By the way how are you going to handle etheric retcon effects towards guided evolution/mutations? Generate random possibilities, seal them in envelopes, number them and roll so that even you don't know what's fated until the moment to evolve happens or something like that, or just decide ladder-like paths in advance and see which ones they fall into, or what? |
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Post by Aegis J. Hyena on Jan 1, 2016 1:58:25 GMT
You don't have to appear at specific times. I just update once a day, and you can tweet @drhervisjasper with a vote any time before I write the next post. The times I wrote down were just estimates to try to force me to keep a schedule, something I am notoriously bad at. Edit: An example post: goblinsforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1259&start=800#p162250 --- from my last game. |
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Post by Daedalus on Jan 7, 2016 17:54:54 GMT
...I guess this is promotion on behalf of our wonderful Author? I happened to learn, by complete accident, that www.gunnerkrigg.com is currently estimated to be the 5078th most popular website in the USA (and 19782nd in the world), though of course these values fluctuate over time. Not shabby, considering there are around a billion non-defunct sites on the internet, heh.  That puts your work in the 99.99998%th percentile, Tom Siddell |
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And the beard goes with the steampunk/Victorian stuff I was wearing three other days of the con. I also still need to get a good photo of the drinking horn I made to go with the outfit... (Steer horn, sanded it out, soaked the interior in boiling water, cured it with Guinness, and then did a wood salad bowl oil finish to the interior (let it cure a few weeks rather than a few days) and a coating of Envirotex Lite on the exterior to protect it).
