Holy shit, when did that happen? Huh...well I like it, always nice to have the last week plus to go back over instead of seeing a post and thinking 'isn't that a bit off...?' before finding the dice log refreshed that morning >.>

Ope, I've got to take a shower and be a real boy for the next couple hours.

Phew. This past weekend went by quickly. Shit.

We'll get back to it this evening.

I know I said we'd get rolling, but I keep getting drunk or having to do work or sleeping.

Sorry kids. I think about you all the time, I just don't do anything about it. You're like that girlfriend you don't really care about anymore, but don't want to break up with them because the sex is still good. Except for DAI. It was always bad, and probably always will be. Read a book on it or something.

This is my token 5-minute phone call to satisfy your attention needs even though we're not going to hang out today.

But seriously, we'll get this rolling late tonight or tomorrow.

Maybe I should try working on this for some of the people I know...it seems my friends like hanging out significantly more then I do, not sure if that's something to do with my glowing personality, or maybe I just hang out with a lot of interaction-dependent people.

No, you probably should not. That's what the more flamboyant gays do. Normal, straight men do not call each other to just say "hey".

I was talking about when you have a girlfriend. They demand attention. If you don't really like them, then it's annoying to give it to them. Some are more needy than others, of course.

Posting from laptop. My fucking desktop's onboard LAN ports just took a shit after a power blackout. I have no idea how just they could fail.

I don't like updating the game from the laptop unless forced to do so, not to mention I was midway through like three posts on Rpol when the power blinked. I think I'm going to call it a night.

I'll give someone 50 kajillion EXP and a dragon (color of your choice, age category at DM discretion) will come and give your character a handjob if you mail me a replacement PCI ethernet card. I can't believe I even need such a thing in this day and age...

If it wasn't just my character getting a hand job, I might give one to you.

Seriously that sucks though. While I'm in LEEE thread, my last day at my old job is today/tomorrow/Saturday. After that I work a normal 30-hour week, 3:30-9:30PM EST Tuesday-Saturday, so expect better communication from me in the future. Oh my god a stable work week sounds amazing.

Yeesh, sorry to hear that dude...does seem kind of off that that would just sort of happen from a blackout, but I guess severing the power to most complex electronics(computers, recent game systems etc) can seriously fuck shit up on like a 1/1 million chance, such as the 'wait until it's powered down to unplug it' sort of advice.

I do not know what that thing you need is, or where you live though...so I doubt I'd be able to mail ya one any time soon(real shame, DAI riding around on a dragon sounds awesome)

Actually, it's even worse as I just found out trying to listen to some Pandora while sleeping.

The speakers probably blanked the on-board audio, which I noticed was fried as well. That probably took the onboard ethernet ports in turn. Then, it hard locked just a few minutes ago, and would not reboot due to not finding the boot drive. Even getting it to POST took about 120 seconds, which is way not normal.

Chances are the motherboard is just donskies. At least I still have this crappy laptop.

And you ALWAYS power down a computer before you unplug it. Always. Many, many applications, especially linux-based stuff, will not write everything to the harddrive. They will keep it cached in memory, and only periodically write things to the harddrive as needed or when idle, and even then it may be incomplete.

If you unplug a computer while it's running, especially if it's in the middle of happily running windows or another OS, you could seriously fuck up your shit. The odds of this happening are about 1/5000 for modern windows and a little higher for linux/macOS (heavily depending on your distribution), but you roll that 1/5000 chance enough times and it becomes pretty likely.

Anything with moving parts being unplugged while in operation, like your harddrive spinning around at 120-250 rotations per second, should definitely be powered down or in an idle state before having the power cut abruptly.

TL;DR:
Computers are not appliances. Shut them off before yanking the cable.

Damn...when it rains it pours, right?

And yeah...I said that, not sure why you felt the need to elaborate, unless it was the details of stuff you were trying to fill me in on >.>

Yes, I was trying to impress upon you the importance of not hard-pulling a computer in operation. Most people don't know what it can sometimes do.

Magic internet boxes are magic.

Well the internet box is a moden/router setup, and while they have power sources as far as I know they don't have moving parts, and aren't as bad about the 'unplug while operating' thing, though still I tend to hold that practice for all electronics at all times...I got shocked a lot as a kid, wasn't much of a quick learner until my pre-teens.

Just now, my laptop charger went out. I can no longer charge this machine until I get another one. Jesus fucking christ...

See you kids on the flip side. Going to shut this down for now to save battery.

...dafuq man? Seriously, it's like the PC gods have turned their backs on you...

I got my laptop rebuilt correctly. Moreover, since my desktop is fucked, I just keep my super awesome keyboard with the laptop now. Let's get back to it.

/Cheer! Sorry to hear about your computer, but glad to have you back. I'll probably die when this laptop finally shits the bed.

"Cry havoc and let slip the hogs of war."

"Dogs of war."

"Chocobos of war!"

"Look, whatever farm animals of war! Shut up. Let's do this!"

I'll be home all day today, or at least have my laptop with me and be bored.

If a couple people post in this game, or any other game for that matter, and I haven't noticed within 30 minutes, send a text.

I got extremely drunk last night, and slept in until about just now, and now I'm going to my real-life D&D game.

Have fun at yer game, my group hasn't been able to meet up in about 3 weeks :/

Some plans I wasn't accounting for actually worked out. I need to clean my house up a bit and go out and buy a few things, but if I get time and can update the game I will before it gets too late.

Garus stabbed the body next to him, but it still seems alive. Now all of the things get to go.


Sorry to keep you kids hanging.

Things went well, to keep it short. I'm back, and we'll move on if I don't pass out after dinner.