Basileus

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Basileus
in 502 Bad Gateway January 2016

Having slow loading and 502s in the last few minutes. I'm not editing or anything, just trying to browse folks' campaigns. @ Tau-Cetacean: Very well, arch-nemesis-dom it is! I'll pencil you in for fisticuffs at dawn on a date TBD.
Basileus
in 502 Bad Gateway January 2016 edited January 2016

But, I don't remember Tau being on my list... Tau, did we meet a long time ago? Maybe you killed my father and I swore revenge? Were you that guy that cut me off on the highway Tuesday morning?! I... I may have a problem with the number of peo…
Basileus
in Obsidian Portal has no Wikipedia page! January 2016

I like the use of Papyrus - AKA the Greatest Font Known to Mankind!
Basileus
in Tags are Broken January 2016 edited January 2016

bq. I feel like Killervp always gets the shortest end of the stick. :/ @ Lxcharon: Okay, I admit it... I've been paying for an anti-Ascendant subscription targeting killervp, introducing occasional errors to the user experience and disabling feat…
Basileus
in 502 Bad Gateway January 2016 edited January 2016

bq. literally would have spared me MONTHS AND MONTHS of agony trying to edit wiki pages only seeing two lines at a time… @ TauCetacean: Have you tried turning down your difficulty setting? Sounds like you are running OP in Nightmare mode... (p…
Basileus
in Obsidian Portal has no Wikipedia page! January 2016 edited January 2016

LOL, that earliest capture of OP Beta back in 2007 is priceless! I want to play in the Beertopia campaign.
Basileus
in Tags are Broken January 2016 edited January 2016

- facepalm - I can only imagine the cludgy mess that must be OP's codebase. I'm really glad I'm not the one who has to try to fix it. And my sympathies to those who do have to work on it. EDIT: I sort of have this image in my mind of the tech …
Basileus
in The People's COTM January 2016

I definitely appreciate the callout and kind words! :) But I must decline an Outremer nomination, as we did win COTM in 2014 (and we're not playing currently). Plus, I would totally vote for my own campaign if given the chance, and we can't have tha…
Basileus
in The People's COTM January 2016

I think its a great idea, would love to spread some of the love, and a great way to engage the community.
Basileus
in Server maintenance / OP going offline...for a bit. January 2016 edited January 2016

"total used / total available" makes the most sense intuitively when viewed without any context or explanation. When I look at it, that's what I assume is meant. If its going to be anything else, that's probably fine, just needs the notation chan…
Basileus
in Obsidian Portal - site update (Jan 2016) January 2016

Very good, much better than having to start back at your profile/landing page to navigate about the site.
Basileus
in Server maintenance / OP going offline...for a bit. January 2016

Speaking with absolutely no idea of how it was implemented, considering the tiny numbers I've seen so far, I wonder if its only aggregating storage *since* the featrue was applied (Monday)?
Basileus
in Obsidian Portal Launch Feedback January 2016

That's great to hear! Let him know the community misses him and wishes him the best. :)
Basileus
in What Inspires you? January 2016

Inspiration? I draw solely from the fountain of raw undimmed genius in the depths of my own psyche! That and copious amounts of hallucinogens...
Basileus
in FEEDBACK - Getting social January 2016

Same boat. These old forums on a separate platform do seem a little isolated from the main site; however, I've personally never had trouble finding profiles in the past, so while this might be convenient in the future, I don't think it would sav…
Basileus
in Sci-fi or Hi-fi? January 2016 edited January 2016

I think it would have made a great musical. I can just see a bunch of Martian aliens coming out of the background to join Matt Damon in a huge coordinated song and dance number: "I'm stuuck. Oooon. MAAAAAAARS!" - jazz hands -
Basileus
in Letting down a potential player gently January 2016 edited January 2016

The tried and true excuse is that you've got enough players and adding more wouldn't be feasible. Or focus on her availability for those long sessions. Any way you go, just focus on why it's a limitation of the current gaming situation and under no …
Basileus
in FEEDBACK - Textile help January 2016

This one seems pretty good: http://txstyle.org/
Basileus
in FEEDBACK - Textile help January 2016

In Textile its just the image URL surrounded by exclamation points. !https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/0e/ca/69/0eca695c7485adb9fad0c37581022987.jpg! ! http://www.host.com/image.png !
Basileus
in Sci-fi or Hi-fi? January 2016

LOL, that's what I was thinking too Maesenko! Somebody decided to watch this movie while on ALL the drugs... Apparently, you can submit movies in any category (such as submitting in a less competitive category like comedies), and I guess it depen…
Basileus
in My High Fantasy Theme (Custom CSS) January 2016

Looking good!
Basileus
in My High Fantasy Theme (Custom CSS) January 2016

If you run into difficulties with it (it can be a bit finicky getting it to work just right), let me know and I'll be glad to help.
Basileus
in Stellar Cartography January 2016 edited January 2016

Since you mention it, Astrobiology Magazine had a neat (short) article about Kepler and exoplanets yesterday: "NASA’s Kepler Marks 1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers More Small Worlds in Habitable Zones":http://www.astrobio.net/topic/deep-spac…
Basileus
in religion and player interaction January 2016

I really liked how Dresden Files handled the "White God" (as fairies and such referred to it) in the context of a setting where other "gods" exist but the nature and relationship of them all is unknown. You can interpret the "White God" as an abs…
Basileus
in What Obsidian Portal Means To Me January 2016

I've been active on Obsidian Portal for about 3 years now. Though I recall joining as a player under some old account for one campaign back in... 2009?! I only recently got back to OP after a hiatus, and honestly I haven't much touched the main p…
Basileus
in Levels of Magic vs Technology January 2016

RE: Arcanum Its definitely worth picking up on GOG if you can stand the old isometric RPG interface (and spare $5 or however much). An incredibly atmospheric, detailed, and well-written game, I still go back and play it periodically, though admit…
Basileus
in My High Fantasy Theme (Custom CSS) January 2016

You may be able to simplify the parchment background down to a single line of CSS (and no HTML on the pages themselves) by using the border-image property to slice an image and tile/stretch it appropriately in each direction. And some fantasy-esq…
Basileus
in Levels of Magic vs Technology January 2016 edited January 2016

My gut says that in a world with magic, it would be indistinguishable from science. Scientists or natural philosophers would measure, define, and exploit magic just like any force in the real world, so there wouldn't really be a sense of duality abo…
Basileus
in Stellar Cartography January 2016 edited January 2016

Yah, the results it generates are very much just recombinations of what we have in our own solar system. But, maybe useful for baselines - i.e. generate a set of system objects using that, then replace/modify one or two of those with the "cool stuff…
Basileus
in Stellar Cartography January 2016

Speaking of generating solar systems, there's a nice one here: http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/NerdCorner/StarGen/StarGen.html Now I can't speak to its accuracy directly, but the author seems to have spent a fair amount of time and attention to …

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Basileus

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