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So, toddling around Reddit this morning, I stumbled across this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/9iwarj/after_5_years_on_roll20_i_just_cancelled_and/
TLDR: Dude got banned from the Roll20 subreddit. Roll20 is an online virtual tabletop service for things like D&D and other RPGs. Main mod (who just so also happens to be the co-founder of the company) claims he was an alt account for a user that was banned a year prior because their usernames are similar and they're "erring on the side of caution" in banning him for ban evasion. He contests this, gets no response for 36 hours, then gets a response of "We checked with the reddit admins, you share no IPs or any other indicators that you're the other person, but since you got so up in arms about this we're maintaining the ban because we think you'll be toxic to the community."
So the dude posts the thread I linked above.
Said head moderator/co-founder posted a response in a separate thread, being an unapologetic dickbag:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Roll20/comments/9iwjwd/read_this/e6n4bgx/
So now the sub's all up in arms, trying to get him removed (as well as any other employees who happen to be moderating the subreddit) and get it back in community hands.
Looks like Atwood has a new disciple...(thanks @Weng for suggesting that)
https://i.imgur.com/60Fc90U.jpg
@Lorne-Kates Did some side work for Disney, did we? :D
Fucking hate how my brain works.
Decided this morning since there's likely gonna be a bunch of stuff going on at work that it would behoove me to actually eat a decent breakfast. Made eggs and toast. It was lovely.
Leave the house, get 1/3 of the way to work on the highway and my brain goes "And now for something completely different: You now can't remember if you turned your stove off this morning. Have fun with that."
So now I'm at the office trying to convince my brain that I'm not stupid enough to leave the stove on and wondering if this is going to get bad enough to where I go "I have to go home and check"
Looks like Chrome's experimenting with a "break all the SPAs that rely on constantly-running Javascript" mode for Chrome.
I imagine that our lovely forums (and 's...litterbox) won't respond too well to this.
Oh, even better: That sub's ENTIRE mod team is employees of the company. Which is in complete opposition to how Reddit's Mod-etiquette is supposed to work.
From the reddiquette list:
Please Don't:
Take moderation positions in a community where your profession, employment, or biases could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit.
@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
It can always be worse. For example, they could get Oracle involved.
Or Lotus Notes.
Lotus Notes: PHP Edition, powered by Oracle and Wordpress.
Status: Slept like crap, back is in fine form today because of it. The reasoning for this is likely that last night my sister texted me that she took our father to the hospital because of increased not-feeling-well-ness, including "room spinning" and such. They admitted him because it seems it was a form of heart failure, and I find out today that it was likely due to fluid buildup in the lungs which is likely due to him ALSO having the flu.
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t said in The Cooking Thread:
Unless one stirs it quite well. A flour+butter roux added to a pot of stock is typically the base I use for making any kind of gravy.
If you add cold stock to a hot roux you have less of a chance of getting lumps. By adding the liquid to the roux and whisking well you can more easily ensure that you break up all of the roux and don't cook any of it into dough balls.
FWIW, the more you cook your roux the less likely it is to make "gravy Jell-O", for reasons that I have forgotten but I'm pretty sure that it was on an episode of "Good Eats".
Oh, of course. I never use that roux cold, I melt the butter and mix the flour into it in another pot on the stove and then immediately put it into the stock pot slowly while rather vigorously mixing to avoid lumps.
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Alternatively you can make a roux and add that but it will be more prone to leaving your stew lumpy. Hot liquid added to a roux, or in this case a roux added to hot liquid, tends to turn out like lumpy gravy.
Unless one stirs it quite well. A flour+butter roux added to a pot of stock is typically the base I use for making any kind of gravy. Tends to turn out well, though it's not great for keeping since once you refrigerate it it tends to kind of gel up a bit. Still edible though.
@accalia Upvote for Feretta. I just reread AToT in its entirety the other day.
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra I've never looked at Eve closely, but it always felt a little lot like "having a day job: the game" to me.
I've played it before. Depending on what you're doing, it can be. If you just wanna get in a spaceship and shoot other spaceships, or fly around doing the occasional cloaky-sneaky research/extraction mission you can. If you want to take up a second job running a massive interstellar war engine with associated logistics, you can do that too.
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
The key is to know how casual you are, and if you'll let your testosterone guide your responses.
This. Always this.
@Zenith Oh, yeah, my electricity bills have gotten insane over the last couple years. I understand adding an additional roommate will make usage go up a bit, but I'm now paying $500/mo on the budget billing plan for 4 of us in the house. This is nuts.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: One generally has more success making tea when one remembers to put tea in the boiling water.
Nah, you've just made holistic tea, infused with the memory of tea in your kettle. Should have all the same properties, isn't that how that works?
@boomzilla said in Hydrogen Vehicles - Truly Beneficial?:
Except Pennsylvanians would tell you that BEVs are already unsuitable without the cold.
We would, but that's largely because just about ANY vehicle is unsuitable for our roads and how fast they fuggin disintegrate