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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #122985 on: June 08, 2017, 06:10:01 pm »

The AC unit literally caught fire while I was at work.  According to the AC guy, apparently some moron bypassed the fuse at some point in time, and the AC inspector we had out 6 months ago didn't notice.

So now I'm inside, in summer, with no AC, and I can't open any windows because it's raining.  #FloridaProblems.

PS: NO real damage by the way, while it was indeed a fire, someone was home it supposedly made a loud bang making it clear something bad happened, and we have had a fire extinguisher.  Even the ac unit itself will largely survive barring the part that caught.
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« Reply #122986 on: June 08, 2017, 06:10:37 pm »

That is EVEN WORSE frumple. Even Worse.
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« Reply #122987 on: June 08, 2017, 06:13:44 pm »

... and yeah, desc or serg wasn't the only one.
That they weren't.
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« Reply #122988 on: June 08, 2017, 06:15:22 pm »

FFM preg > FF Mpref
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« Reply #122989 on: June 08, 2017, 06:17:22 pm »

only if you are straight and into polygamy.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #122990 on: June 08, 2017, 06:19:11 pm »

I won't attempt to influence preference, but I will note I'd give pretty good odds that so far as incidence and saturation goes that order is reversed. This is why you know your acronyms if you're going to be online, folks. They're what save you from walking into things you really didn't want to walk into.
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« Reply #122991 on: June 08, 2017, 06:22:08 pm »

only if you are straight and into polygamy.
1/2 aint bad
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« Reply #122992 on: June 08, 2017, 06:29:56 pm »

Two WTFs. First, for some reason my antivirus(Avast) keeps turning off its behavior shield every time I start my PC.

The other is that the Last Post part of the board index will show the subject heading of the last post rather than the subject heading of the first post, which is what is seen when browsing through that particular board. Didn't know it would do that.
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« Reply #122993 on: June 08, 2017, 06:42:13 pm »

... though yeah, PSA for those who don't know (probably no one, but it's not a bad thing to be sure), we were talking about common shorthand for internet-published content. It's easily most prevalent in fan and original fiction (and, by extension, similarly prevalent in written adult material, which is where wierd's comment about erotica came from), but it's used to some degree for just about everything floating around that can be so flagged. There's fandom or interest specific stuff, but there's also a number of acronyms and abbreviations that are pretty ubiquitous.

In the case of the current discussion, they're common ones: You'd be looking at two works (well... probably, it's not like there's a tag limit, very often), one with content that included a polygamous relationship with two female and one male characters, that had pregnancy as a main theme or supplemental aspect (FFM Preg), and another than involved a homosexual relationship between two women and had male pregnancy as a similar theme or supplement (FF Mpreg). As noted, something of a difference :V

There's no actual certainty either would involve anything explicit or even sexually oriented, but it is good to remember stories with this sort of shorthand are definitely more likely to; they indicate that, for whatever reason, the author (or person otherwise discussing the work) felt the need to inform potential consumers (in the non-monetary sense, usually) about certain aspects of the content in the work, either as forewarning or temptation (or both, of course). Some extent of lasciviousness is one of the most common reasons for that, but not nearly the only one.

In any case, it's not difficult to find lists explaining what is what if you're interested and previously unaware, though you'd probably be best off cross referencing a few to get a good feel of things and an idea of how mutations tend to manifest. It's good information to know if you're starting to make (serious) forays into the great webby wilderness, or find yourself becoming interested in the creative works found online.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #122994 on: June 08, 2017, 06:58:33 pm »

Addendum to the PSA:

The acronym convention originally started from Usenet newsgroups, where erotica and pornographic content was frequently exchanged in the VERY VERY early days of the internet, before the rise of HTTP, or search engines.

It was used to help categorize and sort user uploaded/submitted content to assure that for instance, something very much "not belonging" did not end up in the incorrect newsgroup.  The convention survived where the underlying technology did not-- Usenet newsgroups are a distant memory of only old people like me, but the description metadata format they gave rise to is still useful today, and widely used.
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« Reply #122995 on: June 08, 2017, 07:32:12 pm »

Going over D&D rulebooks, hunting up which ones I want to pull material from. I grudgingly pulled up savage species again, though I have a rather rocky relationship with it, and noticed that all of their examples for racial templates have a copy/pasta error in them.

Every one has an entry for a creature's 'Face/Reach' instead of 'Space/Reach'. Which means that all these monsters have 5-10 feet of face.

'Twas a rather fearsome mental image.
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« Reply #122996 on: June 08, 2017, 07:41:31 pm »

No no, they have curiously flexible faces that can deform and reach that far!!  Cthulu's mandibular tentacles have reach bro!!
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« Reply #122997 on: June 08, 2017, 07:43:33 pm »

No no, they have curiously flexible faces that can deform and reach that far!!  Cthulu's mandibular tentacles have reach bro!!

Right, except it's on the winged dog too.

And now I'm thinking of an excitable winged dog with a 5ft tongue reach.
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« Reply #122998 on: June 08, 2017, 09:05:42 pm »

Going over D&D rulebooks, hunting up which ones I want to pull material from. I grudgingly pulled up savage species again, though I have a rather rocky relationship with it, and noticed that all of their examples for racial templates have a copy/pasta error in them.

Every one has an entry for a creature's 'Face/Reach' instead of 'Space/Reach'. Which means that all these monsters have 5-10 feet of face.

'Twas a rather fearsome mental image.

That's because savage species is a 3rd edition book, and not a 3.5 book.

3rd allowed for critters taking up an oblong amount of space, so your critter there takes up a 1x2 square space. In 3.5 they just made every critter take up a perfect square of spaces (so 1x2 probably becomes 2x2).
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« Reply #122999 on: June 08, 2017, 09:39:57 pm »

I had just seen the reason for the most recent ban in the moderation log.  Where did something that would lead to that happen?
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