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[Frumple]

Don't think so -- thing's got some basic file protection wuzzit, I think. Checks to make sure stuff isn't tampered with (or at least if it's still the right stuff), and that would probably count.

On the other hand, the game really isn't hard on the system at all, so it's pretty trivial to just mute the in-game music and kick on your own.

[BlackFlyme]

You don't ride on it, you ride in it.

Alteration implemented.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thought I heard screaming. It was actually a whistling noise coming from my nose as I breathed.

[Sergarr]

Ass-sand is very bad.

Also, I just realized that I don't much enjoy DF modding anymore unless I'm doing something either really weird (I.E barely recognizable as DF modding) or making something that I'm confident others will get good use out of.

At least it's not an awful fate to be a creativity enabler. Why I got into DF modding in the first place.

That reminds me that I still haven't tested if interactions with [FREE_ACTION] can be performed multiple time in one tick...

[Spehss _]

Ridin' a snake would probably be a lot like riding a dragon, just with less reproductive innuendo. Maybe. Or perhaps more innuendo but less actual crossbreeds running around.

Wait, dragonriding has innuendo?

It damn sure does if McCaffrey is at the helm.

*googles McCaffrey*
*goes to Anne McCaffrey wikipedia page*
Holy shit that wikipedia page image. That's a hilariously bad snapshot of a person.

[acetech09]

*googles McCaffrey*
*goes to Anne McCaffrey wikipedia page*
Holy shit that wikipedia page image. That's a hilariously bad snapshot of a person.

Oh...

oh my.

[Xantalos]

Dat picture.

[Frumple]

You'd be looking specifically for the pern stuff if you were after the major thing FD n'me were warbling about, for what it's worth.

The tl;dr version is riders having a psychic bond with dragons and the dragons going into heat, with some, y'know, feedback. Lady built more or less uncontrollable fucking right into the setting. Never got as bad as, say, Piers Anthony's stuff, but she's long been someone I thought of within a few metaphorical steps of th'blighter on that particular sort of subject.

And when you're being considered roughly in the same breath as the dude that wrote Pornucopia (and a sequel), it says something. Also yes, that is an actual title of an actual book, published by an actual, notably prolific and well known, author. Who writes a series of what are usually popularly considered young adult/children's fantasy novels (Protip, as someone that's read probably better than half of them: They are not.).

[Tack]

[racism]Meanwhile Jurdad looks at his blinking telemarketing screen and thinks "that's it, I'm going back to 'Jonathan from Minnesota'".[/racism]

[Dutchling]

Spoiler: oh no (click to show/hide)

[Rose]

pfft, those are obviously cats.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: oh no (click to show/hide)

The aztecs had much the same reaction when they saw dogs and horses for the first time. Strange men arriving with strange jaguars and rodents indeed...

[Yoink]

Anyone watching this lunar eclipse that's apparently happening?

[Darvi]

Anyone watching this lunar eclipse that's apparently happening?

Alas, wrong hemisphere.

[Flying Dice]

You'd be looking specifically for the pern stuff if you were after the major thing FD n'me were warbling about, for what it's worth.

The tl;dr version is riders having a psychic bond with dragons and the dragons going into heat, with some, y'know, feedback. Lady built more or less uncontrollable fucking right into the setting. Never got as bad as, say, Piers Anthony's stuff, but she's long been someone I thought of within a few metaphorical steps of th'blighter on that particular sort of subject.

And when you're being considered roughly in the same breath as the dude that wrote Pornucopia (and a sequel), it says something. Also yes, that is an actual title of an actual book, published by an actual, notably prolific and well known, author. Who writes a series of what are usually popularly considered young adult/children's fantasy novels (Protip, as someone that's read probably better than half of them: They are not.).

And, lest you think we were only reading it for erotica, the setting is a post-fall (or post-Fall, hehehe) colony that failed, lost their tech base, and reverted to feudalism, but not before they genegineered the local flying lizards into fuckoffhuge psychic dragons that can travel through psychic hyperspace. Later in the series they do indeed into space.

*googles McCaffrey*
*goes to Anne McCaffrey wikipedia page*
Holy shit that wikipedia page image. That's a hilariously bad snapshot of a person.

Egads, that had to have been intentional. Absolutely brilliant, hoh.

[Frumple]

Ah. Yeah, the dragonriders of pern stuff isn't exactly without its merits (though there reached a point the writing style and pacing and whatnot started getting under my skin, and I mostly stopped reading it). S'just got that bit of odd lasciviousness going on. Kinda' like the Xanth series with its sex scene(s), y'know?

It's actually sort of a thing in general with her. Got my hands on some of the freedom books not too long ago, and one of them just has a sort of, "Ohey, main character just got boozed up and raped, let's spend two sentences talking about it and cheerfully move on" pop out of pretty much nowhere. I guess I'd call it almost a theme of a sort of oddly dissonant non-con (among other stuff) thread in her work. Generally not a major part of any particular bits of her work, but it's very much there.

In sudden retrospect, it's almost like certain sorts of shoujo manga... which might make sense, since she was noted as trying to target a similar demographic.