Baddogma's Other Meta Cafe- Polite Discussions About Scientific Mysticism and General Weirdness

a reply to: Peeple

Are you coding new files or are you replacing reference files like stats numbers pictures?

If you are coding thats why I gave up haha. one character off and you break the last 45 lines.. Or if you have everything perfect the way you think it should do the right thing and the game just goes black... And all the characters are right, just my logic wasnt right. I was doing C++. And I was editing in notepad lol.

but before that I learned how to edit the files the program looks for to bring up a unit or spell or whatever. I started importing my own files. I made a tower defence inside a real time strategy game. but getting the animation timing right with the effect and damage and getting things to not be buggy as hell... wasnt any fun. and then C++ and I was done. Not for me

Its better I make people amazing pizzas.

originally posted by: Peeple
I found the conflict, all good.

Did you see ATS is closing probably this year? I don't know what to think about this. I'm surprised it lasted that long, personally feel like it's the beginning of the end.
The end of all freedoms.
1984 is finally here.

This is the second time by the way.
Remember all the DDOS attacks a few years ago.
Skeptic asked how we felt about a paid subscription.
They took donations unless Im crazy haha.

This is my only social media.
Would be very sad for me.
One more part of life swept away by the new way.

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

We have the same idea about banishing the darkness by bringing it to light. It just can't operate in the light. Figuratively, but literally.

That's why I joined the "thing."

And its also why Ive shown my own darknesses on ATS just by talking, and its not a super bright light here, but Its helped me see me. And Much darkness has lost to the sharing and caring. Speaking for me and how ats has affected my life. How you guys are here. I'm less dark. Bright even. For fighting demons.

And bringing things into light isnt painfree. Which is why darkness has its place.. under the rug swept places..
comfy. but not true. We are seeing lights now shined ha.
I think it will be good.

a reply to: Reverbs

C++ engine C# scripting
But I suck and still feel like I have to learn a lot, but... cheatsheets other people's stuff...

It's a conflict, right? I like ATS because it's the dark hidden corner of the internet, at the same time I acknowledge that's what's killing it. "I love you for the way you die"

And personally I believe this 230 legal remake is not going to help bastions of free speech, like our digital home. I wouldn't want to go to jail because some paranoid nut has wild phantasies about killing Gates... or whoever.

"
It's a conflict, right? I like ATS because it's the dark hidden corner of the internet, at the same time I acknowledge that's what's killing it. "I love you for the way you die"
"
-peeps


Live to die another day.
Yes you are right.


I dont have a backup dark corner where i can talk to people about art and coding and aliens and everything.

I would really miss you guys as my only internet friends.

a reply to: Reverbs

As long as it's still up it's alive. I'm pretty sure we'd find a way to stay in touch. But right now I refuse to call it over.

a reply to: Peeple

Your stubborn is powerful.

a reply to: Reverbs

That's one of my defining personality traits. Thanks for noticing.

a reply to: Cravens

I'm so sorry, I was making a joke, not a very good one admittedly - you know, Skinwalker...but you used it in absolutely the right context, to buy the farm is to bite the bullet, kick the bucket or to take the long walk...

I don't really read the political threads, have barely read anything on the main page since before the last US election, it has been all very samey for a while. I've always assumed that that was how the site wanted it because there was no moderation to remove it. I remember way back in the day, that if it didn't have a conspiracy angle, it got binned or moved. I posted a thread asking who was more responsible for the planning of the holocaust, Hitler or Himmler, something like that, and this was at a time when there were a lot of holocaust denial threads. They were always popping up, and passed the 'conspiracy' standard...mine didn't. I had to argue the toss on that one with the mods. At some point that 'standard' was just dropped and politics took over leading to this bipartisanship...so yeah, I personally think that has been a moderating issue from the start. If that standard had been maintained...and after we lost Masque, the slippery slide really gained momentum - from my perspective.

Either way, I get the very clear impression that Skeptic is done with it and just doesn't have it in him to want to put in the time. There's no arguing with that really and I don't make $25,000 a year, let alone a month, so I can't help financially. And perhaps I should just let it go, it's not easy though, there are people I love buried in here.

Thanks for the kind words. I have never felt so at home as I have here. I joined within five minutes of finding the site and it, and all of you, changed me because I wanted you to. And my eyes are going to start leaking again...

You take care too, Cravens.

And, whatever else, whatever the outcome, I think I'm going to go down with the ship fighting. Take inspiration from The Peeps, put my best foot forward.

Once I've pulled myself together that is.

a reply to: Reverbs

I can't play your song in my country (evidently).

I really do need to pull myself together. I can't do this right now, gonna go do some gardening and get my game on.



Love you guys.

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

"Gardening game on" gives you plus 2 environmental awareness. You started as a seer which has plus 1 as the base. so you are at 3 garden stat.

all flowers are your allies. and any blue or purple or red flowers grant plus one enjoyment.

Those are crazy stats entering a gardening phase.

love you too.

a reply to: Reverbs

You're great, you know that?

Have I mentioned that my 'garden' is a graveyard? Long disused, the last internment was about 1850ish. The ground was raised in the 1740s to make room for another layer. It's pretty jam packed in there. Just after it has rained you can still get a faint whiff of them and they're still giving up their nutrients. I'm always digging up bones (and burying them again).

Does that get me a necromancer stat as well?

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

Have you been to Vienna? They got one of the most beautiful graveyards.
A little bit south of me there's one that's also pretty nice, with a statue of mother and child, I assume it's Mary & Jesus, so fantastic it makes you feel like she's watching you and will start a conversation any second.

So that's what you do? Pretty cool

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

Necromancer doesnt rebury the bones.
You could have Historian, He who control the past controls the future. Replay any two cards from your graveyard played at least 5 turns in the past on a future turn.

a reply to: Peeple

No, sadly I haven't - yet! It is somewhere I'd like to visit.

When I was in Georgia last year, it was their Easter and on Good Friday night the vigil is carried out in the cemetaries. The whole family goes down to the graves with a picnic, lights candles and just hangs out, present and passed members, to share a meal. It's a form of veneration much older than civilization, probably as old as burials themselves, perhaps we picked it up from the Neanderthals. I don't think the Western Orthodoxy retains quite the same spirit.

It's not what I do for money, just for fun and in my own time, which is why I can carry on doing it while on furlough. It's not in my job description. It's my job to look after the church that the grave yard is attached to. It is what remains of a monastery founded in the 11th century but much reduced by the Dissolution and the Reformation. The sacredness of the site is even older, an Anglo-Saxon basilica stood there before until the middle of the 8th century and before that it is believed that there was a Roman temple dedicated to Minerva. It's seen some life in it's time, and it is a shadow of its former self but it is a very special place, and I love looking after it, and the people who use it.

a reply to: Reverbs

I appreciate that you went to all the trouble of finding a track titled so perfectly to suit the topic but I can't listen to that, sorry, maybe later, it's possibly a little early for me.

Ah, the Historian doesn't control the past, the Tyrant does. The Historian unlocks the past, sets the future free.



How is everyone finding things? Covid-wise. Lockdown is easing off here but people seem to be expressing their pent-up frustrations, or possibly just releasing them out onto the street for a wider audience. I'm right in the town centre, we're all on top of each other, so an argument however private can become a public event. But there seems to be a lot of stress in the air coming out in good and bad ways. People passing in the street and stopping to have really intense conversations. I was sat at my desk typing up notes the other day and a couple of people were having a chat right outside my window. It started innocent enough but ended in talking about the US having sites in Poland for water boarding and how the US took the Nazi rocket programme as booty which was exactly what I was typing about. The latter not the former. I know nothing of contemporary torture facilities.

My point being, that there's a potency about things, is anyone else getting that? Like sparks flying.

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

That's even cooler.
I always felt drawn to ancient places of worship, churches were often built on those places and I like to think I can feel that. Imagination maybe. But sometimes if you look closely something that was before got integrated into the "new" house of worship. That's just ... I don't know a feeling of consistency? Persistence?
I immediately got images of a soul guarding those places.
Beautiful.

a reply to: Peeple

I don't know what it is, but most people feel it when they walk in. I think it is part of our conditioning to some extent. We are taught reverence equals silence, it creates a kind of tension. Little children who come in, hear the sound their voices make and want to hear it again - louder! I think that they have the right idea though, I think sound is a big part of what is sacred about such spaces, something to do with the power of the Word heard. But also, for me, it's that the building itself is alive. It breathes and shifts, it is very, very, very slowly in an almost imperceivable way, transforming. And as such, it has a tendency to moan and creak, as do we all eventually. I like it best when I am locked in and have it all to myself, but I do agree with you, I think that in some way buildings do have a 'soul' of some kind even if it just because we sometimes infuse our own into them.

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

You seem more together than me!

Not sure if that is a joke or the naked truth. Yup, Yuge tale to tell... here... I say we figure out how to keep our own company.

At least online.

Authority! Bull Sh#!
Authority! Bull Sh#!!
Authority! Bull Sh#!!!
We don’t want it!
We don’t need it!!
Authority! Bull Sh#!!!

-Black Flag (da 80s)

That is, has, and will be, my opinion and personal passion.

I just wonder how many of the nonPoli threadsters we can shed?? How do we moderate? IDK. But tech is cheap.

No need for goodbyes yet!



Happy Solstice All!!

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

There are blacksites in Europe. Probably in poland. CIA enhanced interrogation places.. so yea.

my town is chill.
people say hi more probably lonely. We are more spread out and hippyish

You dont have to listen haha, I enjoyed it, but it was just a visual.