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Edge of the Empire

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ntdoSK9CNV7lxRRM8HcvYSMXX1KCst9d7760Q1ZhWf0

What is Edge of the Empire? How is everybody? I MISS YOUR MUSKS(S). Dan 14:46, 21 October 2012 (EDT)

New Star Wars Table Top game being made by the company that distributed Anima. Might be pretty cool, but still in beta and we haven't been able to track down a pdf.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=218

Also: When this all gets sorted out, I think you and me should get an apartment together! --FyreFly 17:56, 21 October 2012 (EDT)

Take it easy, Champ. Also, that's pretty awesome. If nothing else, I'm hoping it results in some kick-ass Star Wars artwork. Also, if you haven't seen this, presented for your viewing pleasure:

[1]

If it's not apparent what this is immediately, make sure you watch until the end. It's in Japanese, but that never stopped us before.

Dan 08:50, 22 October 2012 (EDT)

Also, the future is now:

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v109/i16/e163903

Working implementation of a tractor beam. Just sayin'.

Labor Day

Buckeye game Saturday. Mother in town Sunday. RP Monday? Kirkland 15:22, 29 August 2012 (EDT)

Hmm... Maybe Monday. Possible cookout with Ellie's family. --FyreFly 20:48, 29 August 2012 (EDT)

There is no spoon

We can now harvest electricity physiologically produced by snails. Just sayin', that's how it starts.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja211714w

Dan 14:03, 24 July 2012 (EDT)

At least now we know we are not currently in the matrix. The robots would never let us get this close to discovering their secret. --FyreFly 16:16, 24 July 2012 (EDT)

Do you guys ever just sit there and click the refresh button over and over to read the random quote? That was the best decision ever. Every single one is awesome. Good times, gentlemen. Good times.

Dan 01:37, 2 August 2012 (EDT)

Yea, between random quote and random page I spend at least a few minutes almost everyday here. Good times indeed. --FyreFly 21:18, 2 August 2012 (EDT)

Pizza

As of 8/19: Dan owes Tony $2.00, Brian owes Tony $3.50

News

I love it when we take small steps toward our Shadowrun future. http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/09/1625259/anti-wifi-wallpaper-available-next-year Kirkland 13:37, 9 May 2012 (EDT)

Also, posted this at 13:37. Kirkland 13:37, 9 May 2012 (EDT)

This is awesome. This summer I'm going to attempt something sort of similar for visible light by attempting to fabricate a grating with nanometer sized holes made of a material which turns into a metal when heated up (this is rare). At room temperature, it's basically rubber, and the holes don't do anything - they just pass light through normally. When you heat the material up, it turns into a metal, and boom - suddenly those little holes act just like the silver particles in that article, except for visible EM radiation waves instead of WiFi wavelengths. Basically, it's an optical diffraction grating with a temperature switch. When you heat the material up, suddenly only certain wavelengths of light will be filtered/passed through. The main uses of it are actually in solar energy, though - unfortunately, you can only filter/transmit a few specific wavelengths. To implement a cloaking device one would need to simultaneously manipulate the entire visible spectrum in a continuous, controllable way. There are also people at NU trying to do that, but I'm not among them.

Also sorry my posting rate has declined - my qualifying exam (probably the biggest, although not final, official hurdle to getting a PhD - once you pass your QE it's just however long it takes you to finish a thesis, which is commonly 3 years, but the last real limit is this QE) is May 22 and I'm in Santa Fe for a conference the week before that, where I'm giving a talk. After that, I'll be back in business. Anyone gonna be in France in late June, early July? I know some of you are quite the world travellers.

Dan 18:43, 9 May 2012 (EDT)

Next Session

Alright. This is happening. Volleyball is done. My whole weekend is clear. Brian tell your family to stay in Akron. Dan, tell Hilary's family to stay out of Columbus. When can we play this weekend? (I'm good Friday night, all day saturday - though I'd prefer not during the Spring Game but will do it then if necessary, and all day Sunday.) --FyreFly 18:06, 16 April 2012 (EDT)

It is my understanding that we are clear Friday night and all day Saturday. I have soccer at 5 on Sunday. --Macabreengel 08:17, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

And shortly after reading this thread I am told I have family coming down this weekend. I think Friday night might be the only shot. Kirkland 17:10, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

Brian I hate you. Friday it is. Dinner and Rp at Dan's? Brian has to buy dew as punishment for having the worst schedule? --FyreFly 18:40, 17 April 2012 (EDT)

Mother is coming down on Sunday, so Saturday could also be open (after the spring game). Not sure if I'll have to play SWTOR Friday night or not. I'll know tonight. Kirkland 13:02, 19 April 2012 (EDT)

Database Backup

I backed up Seventh Legion today. Download it just so we have copies on as many hard drives as possible.

Can you guys believe all the content we've generated over the years? Just hit random page over and over again and marvel. It's awesome.

Dan 16:57, 14 April 2012 (EDT)

It really is amazing and I'm pretty glad it's lasted as long as it has and generated so much content. I would say the sitting here and clicking random page has gone from something I enjoy to being a full fledged hobby of mine. Also, this is a little late but did you guys realize that March 25th, 2012 was the 5th anniversary of this site being live?

Some pretty awesome stats to remind you how sweet this site is and how often we use it:

  • 575,000 Total Page Views
    • 115,000 per year
    • 9,500 per month
    • 2,200 per week
    • 375 page views per day!
    • We have 5 pages with over 10,000 views individually!
  • 10,000 Page Edits
    • 2,000 edits per year
    • 165 edits per month
    • 35 edits per week
    • 5 edits per day!
  • Over 500 content pages
    • 100 per year
    • 8 per month

Pretty awesome and continuing to grow as always. Keep up the good work gentlemen. --FyreFly 23:17, 14 April 2012 (EDT)

Eh, some of those statistics are skewed. Just remember that some sites link to our maps of the world... possibly mistaking them for reality? I really can't tell. Kirkland 05:35, 15 April 2012 (EDT)

Music

Not normally a big music guy but Lacuna Coil's cover of R.E.M.'s Losing my Religion is amazing.

Kirkland 03:50, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

Two awesome bands, one epic song. Good find. --FyreFly 10:28, 8 April 2012 (EDT)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

I hit random page and was taken here: DJ Spiinerz. Lovin' it.

Dan 10:52, 6 April 2012 (EDT)

Edit: What's awesome is that about 2 minutes after posting that I actually remember who this was.

Dan 10:53, 6 April 2012 (EDT)

DH you have this problem? http://xkcd.com/1039/

Kirkland 12:40, 6 April 2012 (EDT)

I needed the discussion page to remember. Epic.

--FyreFly 00:05, 7 April 2012 (EDT)

Shadowrun Video Game Done Right

http://kotaku.com/5898926/the-shadowrun-video-game-youve-always-wanted

Pretty awesome idea.

Daily Show

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-march-7-2012-cecile-richards jump to minute 7:30

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html

SORRY

To make up for my negligence in posting the past couple weeks, I give you this:

The Real Mitt Romney

It's probably one in top 10 funniest internet videos I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it yet, you have to watch it. Now.

Dan 10:49, 22 March 2012 (EDT)

I couldn't stop laughing Kirkland 16:53, 25 March 2012 (EDT)

Abyssal Storyline

Direction

What sort of SL do we want?

  • More in Creation or The Underworld?
  • Heavy in Combat? Politics? Spying? Occult? Religion?
  • Do we want characters who are well supported by their Deathlord? On their own? Rogue? Watched closely?

Location

Mostly if in Creation, but also if in Underworld is there a locale we prefer?

  • North? South? East? West?
  • Stygia? Labyrinth? Other?

Deathlord

  • Eye and Seven Despairs - Might be my favorite for an existing Deathlord, a bit outside the box as normal with some interesting potential.
  • Walker in Darkness -
  • First and Forsaken Lion -
  • Sijian - There is a passage in the Walker in Darkness section suggesting Walker may have given Sijian one or several Monstrances which would allow them to have abyssals possibly. Its very not clearly defined, but it could be interesting.
  • Create our own Deathlord - An endless amount of possibility here that I think would be intriquing and fun. Perfectly willing to help create the deathlord and his/her Empire.


Initial ideas: It sounded to me that we were leaning towards making our own deathlord and playing in the East. I have some ideas based on those assumptions. You would be serving the 13th Deathlord. She was a night caste in the First Age. She served in a secret police role. She was mad well before the Usurpation. By the time the Solars were overthrown, she had secretly started hunting solars, gods, and other powerful essence users for sport. She used the armor of the unseen assassin to avoid detection in her activities, which allowed her to avoid death for much longer than most Solars. She may have never been caught if she had been able to resist the temption to continue hunting powerful individuals. When she died, she couldnt accept the Neverborn's offer fast enough. She raged against those that had turned on her. The promise of revenge on her betrayers and the ability to hunt everything into extinction was more than she could ever hope for.

Unlike the other deathlords, she does not have plans for the direct destruction of creation. She instead works to remove obstacles from the other Deathlords' paths. She also works to police the Underworld. She has no desire to rule when the rest of creation crashed into the Underworld. Instead, she waits for the oppurtunity to hunt the other Deathlords and any remaining exalts, gods, elementals, yozi, primordials, and ghosts. Then, when there is nothing left to hunt, she will fade into Oblivion, at peace at last.

The deathlords primary manse would be in the east. The manse would not be in a shadowland, yet. The first story would either center around Chanta or Mt Megalopoulos (however you spell it), in Creation. I would guess 75% in creation and 25% in the underworld. How you accomplish your goals will mostly be determined by the kinds of characters you make. If we went with this, the only thing really left to decide is whether you are loyal, want to escape your deathlords control, or have the characters split in that regard. Obviously all three will have very different types of stories.

--Macabreengel 14:30, 22 March 2012 (EDT)

Star Wars Uncut

This is pretty awesome - Star Wars Uncut and yes Han shoots first!

Pizza

  • Tony: $
  • Brian: $
  • Dan & Hil: $

Left Frame

Anyone else having issues with the display of the left frame on the site? For some reason mine starts way down the page instead of at the top of the page like its supposed to. Not sure what, if anything has changed since before the new year and I'm not having the same thing with any other sites... --FyreFly 22:47, 1 January 2012 (EST)

Has your browser updated itself at all? I was playing around with my Linux installation today and I noticed that some versions of WebKit based browsers (which includes Chrome) display this exact issue. Is it like what I've shown below? (Notice how the sidebar doesn't start until after 'Archives' in the main window):

Dan 23:42, 1 January 2012 (EST)

Yep, that is what it looks like. I'm using FireFox atm, I can't remember for sure if it updated recently or not, but I think it might have... It actually looks okay on Chrome, though I haven't used Chrome for a while and it might need a update... --FyreFly 10:54, 2 January 2012 (EST)

I am having the issue too....not sure what is causing it Kirkland 20:06, 2 January 2012 (EST)

Mine is fixed. New version of Firefox recently came out. Brian did you change anything or did the Firefox update do it? --FyreFly 18:54, 4 February 2012 (EST)

It is fixed for me to. The wiki is self healing! Kirkland 11:45, 7 February 2012 (EST)

Linux v. Windows

I had to tell someone. I figured Kirk would appreciate this. Bluetooth quit working spontaneously on my Windows install, and I had been thinking of installing Linux on my work laptop for awhile (I was sick of X11 tunneling with PuTTY in Windows), so I decided to install it. I was feeling a little bit rusty on my *nix skills, so to get back in the game, I installed ArchLinux (I thought about installing FreeBSD, but that's a bridge too far), a notoriously bitchy distro that makes you do everything from the ground up.

Bluetooth worked out of the box. On a distro that prides itself on installing essentially nothing out of the box. I was slack-jawed.

Linux: 1
Windows: 0

Dan 15:27, 24 December 2011 (EST)

Scion Quick Reference

http://www.colugo.org/jmcmurra/generators/inc/dhtml-suite/scion/scionscreen.php

Legend

Just heard about this really cool sounding RPG on Slashdot/RPG.net. Its based on D20 but seems to have changed up quite a bit of stuff, RPG.net gives it a glowing review. [2]

Downloading the pdf is free (Pay whatever you like) and they are donating all proceeds to charity which is bonus. I downloaded the pdf and assuming it's not crap will probably give a bit of a donation.

Legends website is here: [3]

--FyreFly 00:03, 29 November 2011 (EST)

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