Leading edge Gen X geek and nerd. SF, games, etc.
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I just couldn't figure out what was causing it. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button I've been thinking more of "Humiliation of Canossa" myself: npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button The one quality I noticed back in my USENET days was the assumed level of knowledge. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button I once had Traveller PCs insist on scanning a planet. When they found a flooded impact crater, they insisted on going back to an advanced planet to buy the best submarine that would fit in their starship cargo hold. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Friend @npub1trl…cgye will tell you that knowledge of the game books above your security clearance is Treason and will require you to Report For Termination. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button My guess is the "Lock" one prevents the elevator from moving and the other one opens the panel for maintenance. Or maybe the other way around. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button I'm not sure if this fits what you are talking about here, but I found a problem with groups is the level of knowledge assumed and desired. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Where to go to watch music videos on the Fediverse, or somewhere Fediverse-adjacent? npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button "Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it." - P. J. 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And he does carry a gun. Though in the story it is concealed under the kilt, not outside it. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button How do you actually see the posts in a group? npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button They decide that you are only authorized to discuss one of these two people with them, and require you to jump through bureaucratic hoops to prove you are authorized to speak for the other also. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Once when I was out on my bike, I once had one doing diversion behavior to get me away from their cute little chicks. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Clueless guy that I was back then, I assumed the Korolevs were sisters. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Great, now I have an earworm of "At The Cowwash." stuck in my head. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Did you remember to pay your parking fee? npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button When I moved the other year, I was required to get a new driver's license within 30 days. One of the valid forms of proof of address was a utility bill. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Robert Anton Wilson said "I'd be a libertarian except I don't hate poor people." npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Probably "Mother Of Demons" by Eric Flint in 1997. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Three years after leaving a state, I am still getting text messages and calls for "Issac" about how important it is for [people like us] to vote. They started 5-6 years before I moved. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button The word "intergalactic" doesn't seem to be in the page you linked. And is utterly nonsensical in scale terms unless the story is really really contrived. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button I used to see killdeer running around on the road when I was biking in Georgia. One time they started doing diversion behavior to keep me away from their cute chicks. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Two much lower quality photos of downy woodpeckers (I think) in my yard this month. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button The ground under my bird feeder is gradually turning white from all the sunflower seed husks. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button We get a lot of those around here in the summer. They always seem to be fluttering around aimlessly, but obviously their system works for them. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button That happened with "incel" also. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button "Lucifer's Hammer" is good if you can ignore the race and "virtuous country folk vs. inner city lowlifes" stuff. A big if, I'll grant you... npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button "The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein" by Farah Mendlesohn is a deep dive into Heinlein and addresses a lot of problematic things from his work. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank is a Cold War novel about surviving in central Florida after WWIII. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Cash in junk mail: Not a new trick, just a revived one. I used to get these 30-40 years ago. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button "FIRE LANCE" by David Mace npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Whitebeard is not ready for his closeup. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button The movie "World Gone Wild" had a post credits scene where the evil cult leader says 'Let Us Prey.' npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Maybe a prayer service, since they have a Cardinal there? npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button "Creatures of Light And Darkness" by Roger Zelazny. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button "... alleged that all the sex-mad stuff was the result of a brain hemmorage." npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button tl;dr: Lots of free love and polyamorous relationships. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Thanks. But how are hashtags with zero posts created? npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button That is, someone describes what they remember of some story that they don't know the title or author of, and ask if anyone recognizes it and knows the title. npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button [Let me know if I'm not doing this right, please] npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Is this some distant precursor to that weird manga/anime thing of re-imagining warships as cute anime girls? npub1y7cnew7nl0adw2vv6jjugz98lgh87dvrr5elj2wz30xxtt3ncn2q96e3vc Captain Button Fear of this sort of thing is why I never get around to selling off a lot of my obscure games and books. I don't need the money, but I worry that they'll just get thrown out when I die rather than go to weirdos like me who will appreciate them.
