Shit happens. Lusternia ranks well behind dealing with friends, family, and coworkers, as well as one's own health and well-being. If it ever gets to the point where this game becomes a priority before th…
I adore visiting the Bay Area, though I could never see living here again. So many friends old and new, such peaceful surroundings. There's a quince tree blossoming off the back deck of this old Spanish Revival wreck, and so many memories in this an…
There's an element of 30-40% of symbolism, plot, metaphor, etc, that I throw in as stuff for folks to elaborate on or not, and if folks don't latch onto it, I don't run with it. Sometimes, people notice and use it later, or catch on to it. Sometimes…
Taking a small break from Lusternia, about a week or so. Need to take care of some stuff in real life. Will be checking messages and such in the interim.
Ground-up redoing of code can take years, and requires a lot of dedicated code effort. It also requires a good knowledge of compilers, data structures, save structures, which formats ar…
It's much better to have support through dysphoria than to not have that support. One of my friends identifies as genderqueer, with a preference for she pronouns. At the time she transitioned, she was isolated in rural Maryland. There was no communi…
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Yeah, I'm not sure who hardcoded in the gender set in the code itself, but I'm not surprised by it. Smacks of old, bad code from way back when.
IIRC, Rapture is at least a decade old. The older MUD code get…
Still watching and rewatching Spark: A Burning Man Story. Closest thing I've seen to describing how it is out there and what the entire thing is about. Of course, it doesn't get the entire picture, but nothing ever quite does.
I keep reading and re-reading Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword. Glorious, glorious problematic space empire utopias with neurotic AIs, scarily unfathomable aliens, and a strong tradition of tea.
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Mainly, I wouldn't worry about it unless someone asks you to change your use of pronouns or you're dealing with Mysrai directly (in which case you can ask Them). See above, re: jumping down people's throat when they simply don't…
For the record, the approach I chose with Mysrai when it comes to the gender stuff is to politely correct once, and ask my Order to do the same. Generally trying to be directly in someone's face about what the deit…
When I think Isune, I think of a race of tall, very composed star-shaped beings with crests in the color of the bird of paradise flower and sharp, sharp talons. Elegant. A bit aloof. Might cut a bitch.
I'm going to the desert to camp, watch things be set on fire, and consume art and dreams. Which is to say, after a long month or six of frenetic preparations, I'm going to Burning Man. Don't expect to see me back until 9/3.