Rick Nightingale

Shush, you're giving away my grooming secrets!

I'm pretty sure Billy Bones (Tom Hopper) in Black Sails modelled himself on me... (or was it the other way around)

Blimey, I see what you mean. I just read it! :looks down to check what colour his belt is and if it matches his hooves...

Don't know... don't care

I'd better do something about that then...

Yarrr me Hearties!

Been there, done that

I change my name (and my wife changed hers) a few months back... there were no problems with friends lists, group memberships, store redelivery systems or anything else like that. Not so far anyway. Everything worked as before, just showing our new names instead. The only minor issue we had was having to request access to the beta grid* again for the new accounts. If you don't use the beta grid, that doesn't matter to you anyway. (It's another 'world' where we can log in for testing things we build, stuff like that, but we have to ask for access to it.)

Fair point. Personally I always took the Scotty approach when quoting people a time.

You're optimistic. This is LL we're talking about.

The difference is of course that this place is owned and operated by "the company", so they get to censor anything they don't like. Also, to be fair, they do have some legal liability for what is posted although it's more about limiting negativity about the company. I would not expect anything else to be honest. Free speech doesn't apply even to those who live in places that have such laws. This isn't the only place I've experienced such; a popular electronics magazine was known for simply deleting any post that was negative to them on their company-owned forum. We had a fun race once with the mods, when they decided to start charging extra for essential diagrams that accompanied the magazine to be downloaded. Made them play whack-a-mole until they brought the ban hammer out but we were all cancelling our magazine subs anyway. Most forums are run by some random person who decided to start a forum, so you get to do whatever (or not) at their whim. We're all free to discuss stuff elsewhere. My favourite forum (an informal outdoors/hiking type place) has just one rule: "Don't be a d*ck".

No way I'm using anything tied to google (or apple, or microsoft more than I absolutely have to), and I'm resisting being forced to 'need' a mobile phone by companies with very vested interests in selling them and the tracking and personal data they glean from them all. Edit: It should be said though that there are passkey solutions not tied to google, although I've not had chance to check them out yet.

My wife likes the mesh Alpha Panties from Belzebubble, they fit under things quite well and have a lot of 'alpha' cuts in them (hence the name) so you can hide bits that poke through. Edit: she just said she has the "Lace II" version.

The only times I've used a 'privacy' screen (really a forest screen simply to continue the look of my landscaping), it's been transparent from the outside. What we really need, is a way to restrict the viewer to rendering only objects in our own parcel or the parcel we are currently in, other than the terrain itself. That would obviate the need for lowering camera distance (which is useless if you stand nearer the issue), needing privacy screens, seeing other people's privacy screens, visual griefing, seeing all the mainland crap and just make our viewers work much less hard and only need to render what we want to see. I can dream.

Spoilsport! That takes all the fun out of hanging around TP points at events.

Why not? Black powder is a self-contained mixture of fuel (carbon, sulphur) and oxidiser (nitrate). It doesn't rely on atmospheric O2.

Hmm... old fashioned black powder (often incorrectly referred to as 'gunpowder' which really means the more modern nitrocellulose based propellants) should also work in the absence of air. In fact I don't know of any useful propellant or low or high explosive that needs atmospheric oxygen (apart from FAE/Atomised Fuel/accidents in custard mills which are special cases). The lack of gravity might make loading/keeping the black powder in the flash pan or barrel of my flintlock problematic, but a nipple/cap gun with preloaded powder cartridges would be fine. Oh oh... you found one of my 'areas of interest', lol. 'Energetic materials', a.k.a. stuff that goes bang. Much more interesting than sitting in a casino making the owners rich.

AOL is still around??? Wow - not heard of them for a long time. I think Carphone Warehouse bought out their UK ops. I remember, back in the days when a new computer magazine would be launched almost weekly, the AOL CDs that frequented them. I used AOL briefly, with their homegrown content and limited/filtered version of the internet, before moving to a real ISP. Can't recall what I had against AOL but I know I always called it AOHell. Oh, the wonderful days of dial-up. Just checked... I joined my email provider a year after the company was founded in 1996. At first they were my ISP but they also sold the email service alone, and when I left them as an ISP I kept the email service.

Me too - had the same email provider (not proton) for so long I can't recall - over twenty years certainly. Plus my own domains which allow wildcard delivery. I just tried to create an account to see if I could reuse them (again), but... LL fell at the first hurdle, lol. Never even got past the first screen. As to knowing who sold your address though... I'm pretty certain that someone at my email service company was selling them from there. I had ones I created to test just that, that had been given to no-one and only used to send a test to myself, from myself. Guess what... they got spammed a few weeks later. A letter to the CEO never got an answer but I noticed that the spam to newly created addresses seemed to stop within a month or so. Can't trust anyone!

According to the NC that the blackjack tables give, it's followed except that there is no splitting. Bit of a poor do that, I think, and I've no idea how it affects the odds. The NC does say a six-deck shoe but nothing about when that is replaced.

I wondered that too, although I've no real interest in the place. Perhaps we should have a get-together there when we all have enough to play on the high stakes table? I'll start collecting. Poker's more my game (well actually it's Pirate Fluxx) but I can handle blackjack. Gambling never was my thing though; my trips to the casino really were to take advantage of the complementary food and drinks, and enjoy watching the local Chinatown restaurant owners gamble away the stacks of money they piled up on the tables. I played roulette once, lost £20, and that was that. My employer at the time had company membership for entertaining clients so we got free access. Personally I preferred the health club though with its underground, Roman-style swimming pool, steam room, etc. Working there had its perks.

My wife had a glitch in her animations for ages that occasionally stopped whatever she was doing, even making her stand up from a seat, and played a quick, odd little pose. We eventually figured out where it was coming from... it was in the head's facial animations! Although I'm with @Ayashe Ninetails - that's actually not bad.

I would love a non-tiled AO layer! Could have done with that on the thing I just finished building last night, and was actually wishing we could have it at the time.

Submitted, for what it's worth. [checks the sky for flying porkers...]