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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,057
    edited March 2021

    @LeatherGryphon 

    The Myst series was great... I read an article a while ago on ArsTechnica about the creator of Myst and Cyan Software.

    It's probably one of these two...

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/an-extended-interview-with-atrus-himself-myst-creator-rand-miller/


    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/video-how-mysts-designers-stuffed-an-entire-universe-onto-a-single-cd-rom/

    I bought Riven and Myst for the iPad to show my daughters... and even though Riven was pretty buggy (it twice bugged out and erased all progress and once dropped the player into the inescapable "Blue Hell" between levels), one of my daughters likes the games enough that she will often liken things we come across as being or sounding like Myst... "This has such a Myst vibe"... 

    Like this from earlier in the week... 

    Its a hundred foot long breaker barrier that we walked out onto to see if we could align the post at end with the lighthouse in the distance (if you look just beyond the post, you'll see a teeeny-tiny lighthouse in the distance) to make a submerged pathway to the lighthouse emerge from the water...  I'm positive the fork...

    ...That we found has something to do with it... we probably had to somehow use it with the compass we found screwed to the dock...



    Or this thing... whatever the hell it is, which emerged from the ground when we stuffed two seagulls into corresponding holes in a gazebo... 

    I honestly don't know if I want to find out what activating that thing does... it seems more Coraline than Myst, and I'm afraid the Other Mother's turtle people will try and get me...

    Still...

    The fork probably goes in one of the turtle's butts and and you then align it with the compass or something...

    Actually... There are several runes on the post, one of which looks like the shadow on this disc...

    So maybe we need to wait to see what other shadows show up on it and in what order...?

    Technically I could just drive across the Robert Moses causeway to the parking lot and walk the half mile to the lighthouse, but then I might miss whatever clues might be hidden on the submerged pathway...

    and I'm sure one of them will have something to do with the big anchor in front of the lighthouse.

    Yes... I'm living in a Myst sequel... and I'm okay with that.

     

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,136
    edited March 2021

    "There once was a man from Nantucket..." I've forgotten the rest. Page 100.

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,057

    One hundred pages now... my Myst story has made it easier for whomever will become the lucky thread-splitter who will have the honor of naming the new thread.

    I wasn't actually intended on making it easier, I would have written that regardless.

    Just think of me when you are rolling in all that sweet prize money and mushroom & escargot stuffed baseball caps you'll get for naming the new thread...

    I'm not even sure why they send you mushroom and escargot stuffed baseball caps, but I read that from a very trustworthy source and since it's on the internet, you know it has to be real.

    Or quite possibly I imagined the entire thing... That's completely uncharacteristic of me, but it's possible.

    Do you eat the mushrooms and escargot out of the cap, or are you supposed to wear it first?... are they souvenir caps like those plastic football helmets for cats that they sell at Dairy Queen?

    Does DAZ do merch?

    I don't actually care, I'm cheap and probably wouldn't ever buy anything unless the logo was discrete and tasteful... maybe something like this...

     

    Or...

    On a black t-shirt that would look great... or not incredibly horrible... it would definitely look great on an adult onesie or as a repeating pattern on a tie.

    You know what?... when I stop being lazy, I'm going to make one of those into a t-shirt (for personal use only and I'll burn it when I'm done with it... actually I'll probably end up burning it while I'm wearing it the way I do stuff...) (it wouldn't be the first time)... I say that just in case all the copyright lawyers got all excited... and to clarify, I'll print it out myself and burn the computer and printer when I'm done (ya' bloodsucking hyenas)... which also won't be the first time I've done that either... (well, deliberately)...

    Anyway, I'm bored and trying to avoid doing assorted things people in this house are hounding to do and if I don't do them or find a place to hide soon they are going to drive me crazy...

    Okay... crazier...

    Well, good luck to whoever or whatever* ends up splitting the thread... enjoy your escargot hat.

     

     

    *Robots or Androids I'm supposing, but I should add that while I do feel it's possible that robots (and androids) are people too, it's just that I'm still pissed off at the Roomba and won't acknowledge that at the moment.


     

     

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,777
    edited March 2021

    TJohn said:

    "There once was a man from Nantucket..." I've forgotten the rest. Page 100.

     

    This:

    There once was a man from Nantucket

    Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

    But his daughter, named Nan,

    Ran away with a man

    And as for the bucket, Nantucket

    But he followed the pair to Pawtucket,

    The man and the girl with the bucket;

    And he said to the man,

    He was welcome to Nan,

    But as for the bucket, Pawtucket

    Then the pair followed Pa to Manhasset,

    Where he still held the cash as an asset,

    But Nan and the man

    Stole the money and ran,

    And as for the bucket, Manhasset

    Of this story we hear from Nantucket,

    About the mysterious loss of a bucket,

    We are sorry for Nan,

    As well as the man—

    The cash and the bucket, Pawtucket

    There are also some less savory versions. 

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,057

    Wait... there is a bucket called Pawtucket, full of cash in Manhasset?... I'm like 40 miles away from Manhasset... I bet it's hidden in that little park with the pigeons and squirrels... 

    New Quest!

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited March 2021

    McGyver said:

    Complaint...

    Please, please don't let this be the beginning of pop-ups...

     

    Please can you take note of convo in this thread

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/478871/website-error-join-the-community-ad-won-t-go-anyway#latest

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    complainnnt  think i ate spoilt yogurt.  stomach been turning itself inside out all night.

    how do blind people not food  poison themselfs

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,057

    Chohole said:

    McGyver said:

    Please can you take note of convo in this thread

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/478871/website-error-join-the-community-ad-won-t-go-anyway#latest 

    I have now fully noted that a thread addressing the aforementioned complaint does in fact exist and is comprised of tangible photons that my eyeballs when aligned with said photons emanating from the photon projection device in front of me and the patterns they form have duly reached my retinas and registered within my brain (or whatever passes for a "brain") and have in fact allowed me to ascertain the fact that there was an existing thread that addressed what I was concerned about.

    I did look to see if there was a thread first, before I wrote that,  but I did not actually see a title or the title that I thought might mention this topic... kinda like when you are looking for a tub of synthetic butter substitute in the refrigerator and even though it's right there in front of you next to the squid paste, you just don't see it and you get frustrated and eat a whole stick or bunch of sticks of real cow butter instead.

    Which reminds me that I was a bit hungry at the moment and none of us are ever in our right minds when we are hungry... in fact, if you look into it, 32% of all supervillain's origin stories started out with rash decisions they made because they missed lunch or breakfast...

    So in short please accept my sincerest apologies (or as close to sincere as I'm capable of being, which is generally pretty sincere, but since I have been told numerous times that my apologies sometimes seem insincere from a legal standpoint, I must defer to the judgment of others and at least consider that I might not seem sincere), and know I will try my best to not let this happen again, until perhaps I let it happen again, probably due to hunger, or having eaten too many sticks of cow butter.

    At least this wasn't a turning point in my origin story where I became a supervillain... 

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    McGyver said:

    Chohole said:

    McGyver said:

    Please can you take note of convo in this thread

    https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/478871/website-error-join-the-community-ad-won-t-go-anyway#latest 

    I have now fully noted that a thread addressing the aforementioned complaint does in fact exist and is comprised of tangible photons that my eyeballs when aligned with said photons emanating from the photon projection device in front of me and the patterns they form have duly reached my retinas and registered within my brain (or whatever passes for a "brain") and have in fact allowed me to ascertain the fact that there was an existing thread that addressed what I was concerned about.

    I did look to see if there was a thread first, before I wrote that,  but I did not actually see a title or the title that I thought might mention this topic... kinda like when you are looking for a tub of synthetic butter substitute in the refrigerator and even though it's right there in front of you next to the squid paste, you just don't see it and you get frustrated and eat a whole stick or bunch of sticks of real cow butter instead.

    Which reminds me that I was a bit hungry at the moment and none of us are ever in our right minds when we are hungry... in fact, if you look into it, 32% of all supervillain's origin stories started out with rash decisions they made because they missed lunch or breakfast...

    So in short please accept my sincerest apologies (or as close to sincere as I'm capable of being, which is generally pretty sincere, but since I have been told numerous times that my apologies sometimes seem insincere from a legal standpoint, I must defer to the judgment of others and at least consider that I might not seem sincere), and know I will try my best to not let this happen again, until perhaps I let it happen again, probably due to hunger, or having eaten too many sticks of cow butter.

    At least this wasn't a turning point in my origin story where I became a supervillain... 

    Ooh   I am honoured,   I got a whole McGyver post all to myself.  And I didn't need any apologies   I just wanted you to know that other people were cursing the wretched advert thingummy as well.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,777
    edited March 2021

    McGyver said:

    Wait... there is a bucket called Pawtucket, full of cash in Manhasset?... I'm like 40 miles away from Manhasset... I bet it's hidden in that little park with the pigeons and squirrels... 

    New Quest!

    Sorry, but unless you just want the bucket without the money you are out of luck because Nan and the man stole the cash and ran. 

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    that reminds me to work on my bucket list.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    the render you think about rendering, but havent rendered yet.

    lol laugh

    for me it's the chaps.  ever time i see an outfit with chaps, i think about how i'm going to remder him in socks and wearing the chaps.  havent rendered it yet.  i bought chaps for g8m, but i dont think i have socks for him.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,549
    edited March 2021

    Mystiarra said:

    the render you think about rendering, but havent rendered yet.

    lol laugh

    for me it's the chaps.  ever time i see an outfit with chaps, i think about how i'm going to remder him in socks and wearing the chaps.  havent rendered it yet.  i bought chaps for g8m, but i dont think i have socks for him.

     Ooh, chaps!  I love chaps.  I've had several pair.  Wonderful for both work and play.devil

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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 12,777
    edited March 2021

    Mystiarra said:

    that reminds me to work on my bucket list.

    Well maybe work on the list but spare the bucket -- Don't kick it 

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited March 2021

    Complaint:  Revenge of the 50's

    No, not the 1950's, or even the Roaring 50's of Clau-Clau-Claudius, but that decade of life between when your drug money gets spent in pharmacies (or chemists) rather than in back alleys (or meth labs) (my wife assures me that all that chemistry she did at Harvard was on a computer, but her dad had a suspiciously large collection of brine shrimp, and there's an edition of Sherlock Holmes stories illustrated by his best friend in which he appears as a thoroughly seedy character who could well have been Holmes' laudanum pusher) and when you're old enough to get a Covid vaccination in New York at a pharmacy (although that just happened this past week).

    Anyway, as my 60th orbit of Sol was nearing completion, year 59 realized that it only had a few more weeks to deliver its going-away present.  Now, I have a hereditary peripheral neuropathy (from my father's side, not my mother's, whose father was a wanted man in Austria for selling black market bread in the 1920's, but that's another story), and my neurologist 15 years ago noted I had some muscle deterioration in my right knee and advised me to use a cane.  I kept it in my car (except when someone stole it from me at a subway (or underground) station to use as a weapon, but that's also another story), but I didn't need it inside the house.  So on February 12th, which was both Lincoln's birthday and Lunar New Year this year, old 59 yelled something which sounded like an expletive but was actually "buckle knee!" and pushed me backwards down the stairs.  Fortunately, no serious damage occurred, although I had various bumps and bruises, including two black eyes (which is the maximum number, even if people have been calling you "four-eyes" since you were two years old).

    Old 59 wasn't giving up yet, however.  I happened to have a doctor's appointment that day with my cardiovascular specialist, whom I first saw a few months ago about swelling in my left leg due to a leaky blood vessel (which aforesaid doctor described as "neither life nor limb-threatening") about a recent pain in my right leg (foreshadowing, apparently).  At this doctor's office my blood pressure was way higher than it had ever been, HBP being the ailment shared by my father and brother which I had thus far avoided.  And when I got home and found someone had parked in front of my house, and parked around the corner, 59 completed the trifecta by buckling my right knee again.

    ETA missing last two sentences

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  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,841

    So how would I know if everybody else transcended to the new thread and I was left behind?

  • SeraSera Posts: 1,675

    I'm sorry old age is such a B. I'm sending virtual hugs and you are all invited to have some of my nachos. They got a little burnt and soggy though, sorry. 

    I don't want to be responsible for naming the new thread. That's a lot of pressure! So I will go play some otome games and keep to the other threads until this is all sorted. 

    Good luck to everyone else though! I don't know why anyone would want escargot, but if that is your thing then, by all means, enjoy it! 

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,086
    edited March 2021

    ...one more beautiful day today tomorrow back to chilly and wet again. Can't wait until June.

    Yeah, completed 67 orbits so far and feeling every mile of it.

    Sure sign of spring, the protests in Portland have begun again.   

    ...The I Ate A Bucket Of Spoiled Squid Paste From Nantucket Complaint Thread.

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583

    NylonGirl said:

    So how would I know if everybody else transcended to the new thread and I was left behind?

    We will continue to observe you and Uplift you when we feel you are ready.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,223

    The I'm Always the Last One to Know Complaint Thread.

     

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,086
    edited March 2021

    ..hope eveyrone set hteir clocks forward.

    ...The We Lost An Hour Of Sleep Complaint Thread.

    Conga Rats to whoever wins the thread.  Need to turn in as it's now 02:00 here.

     

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,549
    edited March 2021

    Non-complaint:  Thanks for the time switch PSA.  Now that clock on the far side of my bed that is so frustratingly difficult to change the time on, is again in sync with the world if not all the other clocks in my house.  But being that I never go out, don't watch scheduled TV shows and don't need an alarm clock.  I've barely noticed.  

    Mana from the '60s.   Kudos and arthritis pills for those who remember the group and the title.

    "Time, time, time,
    See what's become of me

    While I looked around for my possibilities

    I was so hard to please.
    Look around,
    Leaves are brown,
    And the sky is a ____ _____ __ ______."

     

    Edited to add:

    Sorry, I'm going to spoil the old age memory test.indecision

    I found the YouTube and lost myself in it for a while.heart  Oh, what a wonderful experience to again hear understandable lyrics.  Dictionary words, no dialect heavy slang.  No quavering notes as if the singer is searching for the right one.  Clear pronunciation, proper enunciation, and lyrics that make sense.  It was a different time.  And those lyrics above are particularly poignant here in my waning years

    S&G, I had all their albums right in with my precious few classical LPs during college.smiley

    But not all lyrics at the time made sense.  Consider The Beatles' "The Walrus"surprise  Koo koo kachub????indecision

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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    kyoto kid said:

    ..hope eveyrone set hteir clocks forward.

    ...The We Lost An Hour Of Sleep Complaint Thread.

    Conga Rats to whoever wins the thread.  Need to turn in as it's now 02:00 here.

    Looking back at you from the future, it's 14:58 here 

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,136

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Thanks for the time switch PSA.  Now that clock on the far side of my bed that is so frustratingly difficult to change the time on, is again in sync with the world if not all the other clocks in my house.  But being that I never go out, don't watch scheduled TV shows and don't need an alarm clock.  I've barely noticed.  

    Mana from the '60s.   Kudos and arthritis pills for those who remember the group and the title.

    "Time, time, time,
    See what's become of me

    While I looked around for my possibilities

    I was so hard to please.
    Look around,
    Leaves are brown,
    And the sky is a ____ _____ __ ______."

     

    Edited to add:

    Sorry, I'm going to spoil the old age memory test.indecision

    I found the YouTube and lost myself in it for a while.heart  Oh, what a wonderful experience to again hear understandable lyrics.  Dictionary words, no dialect heavy slang.  No quavering notes as if the singer is searching for the right one.  Clear pronunciation, proper enunciation, and lyrics that make sense.  It was a different time.  And those lyrics above are particularly poignant here in my waning years

    S&G, I had all their albums right in with my precious few classical LPs during college.smiley

    But not all lyrics at the time made sense.  Consider The Beatles' "The Walrus"surprise  Koo koo kachub????indecision

    Goo goo g'joob I think it is in the lyric sheet. Yes.

    "

    I am he as you are he as you are me
    And we are all together
    See how they run like pigs from a gun
    See how they fly
    I'm crying

    Sitting on a corn flake
    Waiting for the van to come
    Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
    Man you've been a naughty boy
    You let your face grow long

    I am the egg man
    They are the egg men
    I am the walrus
    Goo goo g'joob

    Mister City policeman sitting
    Pretty little policemen in a row
    See how they fly like Lucy in the sky, see how they run
    I'm crying, I'm crying
    I'm crying, I'm crying

    Yellow matter custard
    Dripping from a dead dog's eye
    Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess
    Boy, you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down

    I am the egg man
    They are the egg men
    I am the walrus
    Goo goo g'joob

    Sitting in an English garden
    Waiting for the sun
    If the sun don't come you get a tan
    From standing in the English rain

    I am the egg man (now good sir)
    They are the egg men (a poor man, made tame to fortune's blows)
    I am the walrus
    Goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob (good pity)

    Expert, texpert choking smokers
    Don't you think the joker laughs at you (ho ho ho, hee hee hee, hah hah hah)
    See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snide
    I'm crying

    Semolina Pilchard
    Climbing up the Eiffel tower
    Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
    Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe

    I am the egg man
    They are the egg men
    I am the walrus
    Goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob
    Goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob, goo
    Joob, joob, jooba
    Jooba, jooba, jooba
    Joob, jooba
    Joob, jooba

    Umpa, umpa, stick it up your jumper (jooba, jooba)
    Umpa, umpa, stick it up your jumper
    Everybody's got one (umpa, umpa)
    Everybody's got one (stick it up your jumper)
    Everybody's got one (umpa, umpa)
    Everybody's got one (stick it up your jumper)
    Everybody's got one (umpa, umpa)
    Everybody's got one (stick it up your jumper)
    Everybody's got one (umpa, umpa)
    Everybody's got one (stick it up your jumper)
    Everybody's got one (umpa, umpa)
    Everybody's got one (stick it up your jumper)
    Everybody's got one (umpa, umpa)

    Slave
    Thou hast slain me
    Villain, take my purse
    If I ever
    Bury my body
    The letters which though find'st about me
    To Edmund Earl of Gloucester
    Seek him out upon the British Party
    O untimely death
    I know thee well
    A serviceable villain, as duteous to the vices of thy mistress
    As badness would desire
    What, is is he dead?
    Sit you down, Father, rest you"

    Source: LyricFind

    Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

    I Am the Walrus lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

    I think the last stuff is from Shakespeare's King Lear.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    clouds are flaring again

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Mystiarra said:

    the render you think about rendering, but havent rendered yet.

    lol laugh

    for me it's the chaps.  ever time i see an outfit with chaps, i think about how i'm going to remder him in socks and wearing the chaps.  havent rendered it yet.  i bought chaps for g8m, but i dont think i have socks for him.

     Ooh, chaps!  I love chaps.  I've had several pair.  Wonderful for both work and play.devil

    sweet.  yes

    what i was imagining would bust the tos  

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    et tu brute.  happy caesar day.  peezza peezza

    its a startling noise when a phone call comes.  all the beach photos puttin me in the mood for a trip to robert moses beach shops.  theres a small craft advisory and a brush fire alert.  so far no one wants to go to the beach.
    no beaches in south dakota.  my grand dad came from normandy.  i think i heard they has beaches there.

    i have to go out walking and start rebuilding my strength.  need to go out and cherish my freedom.

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,841

    Fixmypcmike said:

    NylonGirl said:

    So how would I know if everybody else transcended to the new thread and I was left behind?

    We will continue to observe you and Uplift you when we feel you are ready.

    In the meantime, I will continue to sit in a folding chair that is not fully rigged. 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,057
    edited March 2021

    Medicine commercial- "Tell your doctor if you've been somewhere fungal infections are common"...

    Like where? 
    Fungus Island? 
    Fun Gus' Fantasy Fungus Park?
    Where the hell are you vacationing that fungal infections are a thing that's included in the travel brochure? 

    "Come visit beautiful moldy Manituck County, experience colonial history and the nastiest fungal infections in New England!"

    Do they put that on the road signs?

    "Welcome To East Champignonville! Home Of The Most Highly Contagious Fungal Infections In The Tri-State Area! Please Drive Safely!"

    Just wondering...

     

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,057
    edited March 2021

    It was 65° on Friday, and it's going to snow today... #$&@%!?!₩£§!!!

     

    You need to go   HERE   now

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