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Post by Chuck on Dec 31, 2018 14:13:08 GMT -5
Just wanted to be the first to wish everyone a happy, prosperous, and healthy new year!
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 2, 2019 22:40:10 GMT -5
Just wanted to be the first to wish everyone a happy, prosperous, and healthy new year! I second this!  |
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 2, 2019 23:09:35 GMT -5
Re: "Earth's Preferred"
I'm about halfway through listening to "Galaxy Outlaws: The Complete Black Ocean Missions" by J.S. Morin (~80 hours total). In Morin's setting, "Earth's Preferred" is a bland, bottom-rate beer manufactured exclusively for export from humanity's homeworld, with sales strictly dependent upon popularity among homesick expatriate posiers. Very few people actually born on Earth have ever tasted it . . . and if they did would probably spit it out with alacrity and vociferous imprecations against their relevant patron deity for allowing them to imbibe it. But apparently the taste grows upon you and the price is certainly right.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jan 3, 2019 22:37:05 GMT -5
Just wanted to be the first to wish everyone a happy, prosperous, and healthy new year! I second this! From me as well. Also welcome to Matt!
Sorry I have been so long getting back here guys. I will try to be on twice a week, every week.
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 4, 2019 0:28:28 GMT -5
I second this! From me as well. Also welcome to Matt !
Sorry I have been so long getting back here guys. I will try to be on twice a week, every week.
No worries! Real life ALWAYS takes precendence. And even when one has the time, the energy [e.g. creative juices] may be at low ebb. |
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Post by erisred on Jan 7, 2019 14:59:55 GMT -5
Just wanted to be the first to wish everyone a happy, prosperous, and healthy new year! Hey! Same to you, yours and everyone else. Eris |
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Post by erisred on Jan 7, 2019 15:01:19 GMT -5
I second this! From me as well. Also welcome to Matt !
Sorry I have been so long getting back here guys. I will try to be on twice a week, every week.
I've been just as bad, so you don't need forgiveness from me. Sorry, everyone. |
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 8, 2019 23:15:45 GMT -5
Re: Food Processor I imagine this as a 3D printer, except for food. You load it with basic components (proteins, carbs, minerals, etc) and then it combines these in various ways to produce an edible end product. There are already crude versions of these in real world use. Of course, Aslan probably find the "meat" products thus created less than fully satisfactory. But then it's not like the "Clear Sails" is a luxury yacht, with freeze lockers full of slabs of real beef or pens of live goats. |
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 16, 2019 20:19:09 GMT -5
Just a note:
Peng is going to chew and swallow a couple of bites, then - if nobody's said anything by that time - he'll venture a question or comment.
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 20, 2019 20:38:54 GMT -5
While I'm fine with just meandering along, I'm wondering if anyone's heard anything from our esteemed GM? It's coming up on two weeks since his last post here.
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Post by joertexas on Jan 20, 2019 21:38:34 GMT -5
While I'm find with just meandering along, I'm wondering if anyone's heard anything from our esteemed GM? It's coming up on two weeks since his last post here. Eris has posted on a couple of the other games he runs. So, he is around... |
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 22, 2019 2:12:00 GMT -5
While I'm find with just meandering along, I'm wondering if anyone's heard anything from our esteemed GM? It's coming up on two weeks since his last post here. Eris has posted on a couple of the other games he runs. So, he is around... His profile says his last post was here (on 1/7) and that he was last on-line on 1/10. |
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Post by erisred on Jan 23, 2019 14:34:33 GMT -5
Re: Food Processor I imagine this as a 3D printer, except for food. You load it with basic components (proteins, carbs, minerals, etc) and then it combines these in various ways to produce an edible end product. There are already crude versions of these in real world use. Of course, Aslan probably find the "meat" products thus created less than fully satisfactory. But then it's not like the "Clear Sails" is a luxury yacht, with freeze lockers full of slabs of real beef or pens of live goats. Yep, that's about how I see it, too. You buy basic components as part of "Life Support" and use the ship's Food Processor to make food items. There are programs for varieties of foods, and a "talented" programmer/operator can produce foods with enhanced flavor/aroma. High Passengers get higher quality foods, including "real" meat and vegetables, at least, some of the time. As a backup, you'd also buy ReadiMeals (basically MRE's) for emergency use. These aren't bad, but they aren't great either, so really are mostly for emergency use. Many spices and some drinks (Kaff, Coffee, Teas, etc) are considered extra hard to synthesize. These items are generally stocked rather than made aboard ship. |
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 23, 2019 16:10:42 GMT -5
Yay! The GM is back!
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 23, 2019 16:44:14 GMT -5
Just wondering: What day/time is it, in-game? I ask, because the formerly-seriously-wounded Blackjack is now awake and walking around under his own power, yet (unless I've missed something) it's only been an hour or so since the ambush. That's one really impressive autodoc! |
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Post by erisred on Jan 24, 2019 1:21:53 GMT -5
Just wondering: What day/time is it, in-game? I ask, because the formerly-seriously-wounded Blackjack is now awake and walking around under his own power, yet (unless I've missed something) it's only been an hour or so since the ambush. That's one really impressive autodoc! It's actually the evening of the next day. Y'all got back from the "ambush" yesterday evening and Blackjack went into the Autodoc. The next morning Gil went looking for crew and news. That afternoon there was the second dust up at Leroy's and then y'all gathered back at the ship. So, it's been a good 24 hours since Blackjack was stuffed into the hardware. Yeah, that's fast, but maybe he's a *really* quick healer.  And yeah, Emilia has been cooling her heels on the ship waiting to get hired for at least one sleep cycle, but maybe she just likes y'all and being good hosts, you can't just toss her overboard.  |
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Post by Chuck on Jan 24, 2019 10:51:06 GMT -5
Oy, another distraction. In addition to painting a couple of hundred Ogre/GEV minis, I just got notified that the reissue of The Fantasy Trip will be here next month. <sigh>
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 24, 2019 21:05:44 GMT -5
Y'all got back from the "ambush" yesterday evening and Blackjack went into the Autodoc. The next morning Gil went looking for crew and news. That afternoon there was the second dust up at Leroy's and then y'all gathered back at the ship. So, it's been a good 24 hours since Blackjack was stuffed into the hardware. Yeah, that's fast, but maybe he's a *really* quick healer. And yeah, Emilia has been cooling her heels on the ship waiting to get hired for at least one sleep cycle, but maybe she just likes y'all and being good hosts, you can't just toss her overboard. Or maybe she's just freeloading off some nice strangers, since there aren't any better prospects in port just now. |
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Post by raikenclw on Jan 26, 2019 16:35:00 GMT -5
I didn't have Peng put in his two centicreds because - after his uncharacteristic burst of [reluctant as it was] helpfulness - he has sagged back into his habitual Laziness. |
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Mar 17, 2019 16:07:53 GMT -5
I am back. The cord for my lap top died & I have yet to get a new one. Been busy so I haven't been able to login when I've gotten to the library. I'll try to post twice to three times a week if I can. I'll catch up on posts & reply asap.
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Post by raikenclw on Mar 26, 2019 0:29:38 GMT -5
No worries. Not sure what sort of cord it was that died, but I remember driving several miles with my laptop's power cord (unbeknownest to me) hanging outside my car, dragging on the pavement. I had to buy a generic replacement and I'm pretty sure said expedient contributed to the eventual demise of said device. I'm willing to contribute funds via Paypal for a new cord, if that would be acceptable. |
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Post by joertexas on Apr 5, 2019 13:58:17 GMT -5
Is there anything else we need to cover before we jump?
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Post by Chuck on Apr 7, 2019 18:27:45 GMT -5
Definition of a tragedy:
Being in Hawaii with the family on Spring Break and having to work 8AM - 8PM every day of it. :-(
<sigh>
I get to see the ocean in the evening through the window of my hotel room.... :-P
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger!" --- F. Nietzsche
"Except for bears. And lions. And tigers. They'll kill you..." --- T. Essman
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Post by raikenclw on Apr 12, 2019 1:10:38 GMT -5
Is there anything else we need to cover before we jump? Not that I'm aware of. NOTE: Peng has made certain that the ship is fully stocked with beer prior to liftoff. |
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Post by raikenclw on May 17, 2019 17:35:55 GMT -5
[tap] . . . [tap] . . . Hello? Is this thing on?
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Post by joertexas on May 17, 2019 21:47:32 GMT -5
[tap] . . . [tap] . . . Hello? Is this thing on? Yep. |
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Post by Mighty Darci on May 18, 2019 0:27:10 GMT -5
I'm back, please don't let me hold up things, if I don't chime in in a reasonable time it is OK if the SM (Space Master) moves the game along.
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Post by raikenclw on May 18, 2019 0:57:59 GMT -5
So that's three of us . . . Anyone "seen" a GM/SM lately?
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Post by Chuck on May 21, 2019 0:10:29 GMT -5
Four of us. :-D
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Post by Mighty Darci on May 24, 2019 18:23:04 GMT -5
I have lost track, how many players are there in this game? If we are all active now, then we erisred looks in maybe we can get back on a regular schedule somewhat. |
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And yeah, Emilia has been cooling her heels on the ship waiting to get hired for at least one sleep cycle, but maybe she just likes y'all and being good hosts, you can't just toss her overboard. 
