Sammy

Just to ask... if you want to say. Was it cancelled out of a general concern about Florida and covid? Or something related to WDW itself?

I suppose some script or another is blocked by an addon. Strange.

Of course a big part of that fragility is when people panic. Dealt with that every day when covid was bad with people pushing others around to buy shit they really didnt need. There were a large number of items that were perpetually out of stock because of it, as we all know. Thats the nature of such things of course and it always happens for one reason or another on a much smaller scale. However we never got even close to running out of food. Part of the panic is the entitled nature of people. If they cant get the specific things they want, down to specific brand names, they complain. In the middle of a pandemic. A great many understood that panic buying was a big part and while it sucked it wasnt the end of the world. Others expected everything to run just as smooth as they would otherwise anyway. Just an observation about greedy people that dont know how good they've got it compared to many other places in the world.

Broken link to the picture?

Who wrote that? The spelling is atrocious.

A NASA graphic showing the positions of all the shit orbiting our round Earth.

If the world is really flat, why hasnt all the water in the ocean poured out by now? As for the whole 'horizon' part? Well, now they say that the Earth is 'mostly' flat. You see, there is a difference between mostly flat and all flat.

Well there is dinner, and then there is dinner. One might expect a 5-star restaurant. Another might be good with a hot dog so long as it has the right kind of mustard.

Original Tasty Salty Balls?

I would think however that a clan member isnt required to actually play any games at all. Other than Pac-Man.

Do I see Darwin in the background taking notes?

Often 'home' sucks balls and many people are happy to only use it as a sleeping place, or to move out only to visit at Christmas every other year. But they dont get rid of the family name. Well, usually. One thing I do have to say about corporate servers and zero-tolerance of cheaters. They are actually very fair. They are deliberate and while players can make reports they need to see things for themselves. However a big difference from here is the absolute firewall between those that police the servers and the players. Or if they do somehow know a particular player in question they are required, under penalty of termination, to recuse themselves. Any appearance of impropriety is disallowed. The problem is when all the admins know all the long time players. Be it only in-game or otherwise. Every such admin in that situation recusing themselves would leave none left to actually do it. So while its not really a nice thing to say about anybody or how well they do the job there will always be a degree of mistrust when it comes to policing long time players.

Thats a common keybind.

One thing to keep in mind, for this place, is that there is a difference between different levels of cheating.... which happens a lot here and to a degree tolerated... vs outright glitching. Which is what happened in this case. As for admin processes, decisions and such, well I really cant offer much of an opinion. But I do agree Rugger is putting an inordinate amount of time trying to perform the role of the adult playground monitor among a large number of unruly kids in the hopes of making sure they play nice with one another. Or at least as nice as possible since these days you cant give unruly kids a spanking.

Twas just a general observation of the kind of thing I have seen in terms of cheaters and what they say. But I suppose I dont know a thing at all about cheaters. Also that South Park is a great show that shows how full of shit the people in society can be and those that will try and justify anything to get what they want or for self-righteous revenge. The history of what happened to Issac Hayes (aka Chef) for example shows what self-described good people (in this case the leaders in scientology) in our so-called 'enlightened' age will do to people if someone says something they dont like. Too much self-justification everywhere to try and make up excuses for actions that are purely designed to hurt other people for their own benefit. After all, isnt that what a cheater does? Winning is merely a byproduct.

Whats even worse is when the justification is 'since everybody can cheat equally its ok if I do it and too bad. And those that choose not to, and lose to those that do, well boo-hoo thats their own fault for not cheating." Its an attitude among young and old alike. There is a great South Park episode with a parody of Stand and Deliver where Cartman is the teacher (how do I teech deez keeeds?). However his solution is not to teach math. His solution is how to be effective cheaters and not get caught. His justification? White people cheat all the time and get away with it so why shouldn't they cheat also? Gotta admire the societal commentary Parker and Stone come up with.

If its a flat Earth, wouldnt that suggest there is a bottom? How far deep is it? Did we actually already dig to the bottom, made a hole though it, and then kept it hidden? Or is that also a conspiracy theory?

They seriously didnt get the pun on the very first glance? The lack of a second 't' and a split between the 'a' and the tack wasnt a clue? I guess it begs the question though. Did they ever, finally, get the pun?

What makes you think anyone that got away would want to come back here?

We all know if you had that kind of money you would want to take a space trip also.

Been looking at Etsy. There are US based patch makers that use copyrighted stuff in their display ads, If they arent simply selling copyrighted stuff they already made. Mickey baseball caps etc. So you never know. As for why they wont print something with XI, the first reason that comes to mind is 'Xi Jinping'. Chairman of the Chinese communist party. And maybe they think its related.

Thought about ordering a baseball cap with an embroidered logo from a tv show / movie (an SMS logo for those that know Macross) that few in America has even heard of or would recognize. Unless they did an internet search of it using the png/tiff/etc if any search engine actually did that kind of thing with an uploaded image.

Just curious if anyone has ordered a custom coffee mug, hat, shirt, or anything else that had an image from another source that wasnt theirs? Or tried to but were told no? They all have those little disclaimers about 'intellectual property' and such for legal reasons. My guess is that for easy to spot stuff, like Mickey Mouse or the Batman logo, it would be denied. But for more obscure stuff no idea. These days I am sure there is a service that will take an uploaded image and look for matches on the internet. Who knows if they would actually do it however.