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In two weeks, the PPC Board will be shutting down. Delta, Tomash and Thoth have built us a new home, and the community will continue there, but this old place - the one I've been coming back to day in, day out for over sixteen years - will be gone.

I have so many memories of the Board; there are so many people I met here, made friends with here, and ultimately said goodbye to here. And their names, and the memories that go with them, deserve to be spoken one last time.

The next round of reviews includes Thunderbird 2.

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hS

You are cruel, so cruel.

A very spikey Tyrannosaurus rex, Pteranodon longiceps, and what's labelled as Triceratops horridus but is clearly a Torosaurus (look at the frill!); I guess the creator subscribes to the 2010 theory that Torosaurus is just a mature Triceratops.

Oh, and Lego sapiens, because Lego is exactly the right kind of geeky.

But so cruel.

(Seriously, the Lego Ideas sets have been spectacular ever since they began. We have... I think three? Minecraft, Research Institute, and Women of NASA. I really want to want the Saturn V, but the cost and the size - yikes.)

hS

This one works fine on Internet Explorer (version 11), but Aurora's does not.

hS

I believe we're planning on taking a final snapshot of the Board here when we're down to hours before shutdown, so we shouldn't lose much of anything - except the Board itself, of course.

I ran two sessions, so I gave two prompts. Here are my contributions!

Date Night - in which I completely ran out of time. The last two paragraphs happened in thirty seconds - and I'm still pretty happy with the results.

Date Nightmares - a follow-on, for the second prompt. I didn't go into the obvious topic of conversation, but it didn't feel like I needed to - the obvious, gay conclusion was very gay.

(Sam and Kate have previously appeared In Michigan for the Last time, and I really need to write more with them - I rather like the two.)

But I'm still waiting for the as-of-yet-unfinished punchline. ^_^.

I also accidentally a slight horror piece, according to Granz and Mikel.

So that'll be merged if you guys wanna.

After this, ^_^ should Just Work nine times out of ten.

But you may have to put a \ before the underscore if you use two in a single paragraph.

Forgot to do it before going to bed last night but here you go.

The image of some past veteran agent gently helping a new agent understand the nature of the Wordseas, out on a tiny ship somewhere that's nowhere at all, and everywhere at once, and also somehow always Tuesdays and July, and also sometimes never. The new recruit is so eager to learn; it's all so big and new, this part. There's a sense of wonder to it, in this homebuilt pioneer age of the PPC...

Would it be going overboard to imagine an earlier PPC using these for navigating plotholes? Stick charts require you to learn to read the waves and swells of the sea; perhaps a PPC-analogue around the time of Robinson Crusoe could adapt them to work with ripples in the fabric of reality. You map the known plotholes(/portals), but also use your understanding of the way they affect the world to find new ones.

hS

In my defence...

(Manual underlining, for my own sanity.)

hS

It's on this line right here

Here's "Comms". It didn't get finished because I ran out of time, but it'll be nice to see people's thoughts.

See? ^_^

Much like Houdini, however, it takes some escaping.

Okay, I'll stop joking and actually explain. You can tell T-board things aren't formatting and are just literal text by prefixing them with a backslash. So to get "^_^", you actually need to type "\^\_\^". And to get a \, you type \\.

This is pretty standard on a lot of online forum-ey places, which is likely why T-board currently does it (and it's also a lot easier to make secure than HTML...), but given how common ^_^ is here, we may need to modify the rules a bit so ^ and _ aren't used maybe? I dunno. I also dunno if we'd be able to do that completely without just ripping stuff out—we're using someone else's code for that part, I think, and I don't know how easy it is to customize.

Here I am, back on my bullfuvg

(cw: references to past suicidal thoughts, also Falloren swears a lot)

This is only about halfway done, but it's a good halfway done, I think.

I'm the first one up posting my bit to the board tonight, I guess. So here we go!. It's Ferrux! It's Ialthos! It's my crippling overambition clashing with a very tight timeframe! It's all of that and more!

Yeah, it also might be too many exclamation points.

I've submitted a change to fix this and am waiting for Delta to approve it (because we're trying to have something resembling good engineering practices here).

I use Firefox, and the post you linked isn't broken there (at first, see clarification at the end) although the one I linked is; it seems like there might be browser details, a distinction between original posts and thread replies, posts from the archives versus new posts, or multiple related things here. In any case, image handling appears to be miscalculating the size, and consequently formatting posts improperly, under some unspecified circumstances.

(Edit: after further testing, intermittently reproducible would probably be the best term here. Clicking your link leads to a page which works the first time in Firefox; if the page is reloaded with F5, attempting to expand the post again demonstrates the bug. The link I provided, oddly, breaks immediately; I'm not really sure what the difference is, but it's there.)

I intend to keep hanging around here until the bitter end, myself, but it's great knowing we have somewhere to go when YourWebApps shuts down for good.

Also, the console discussion over there looks fun. ^_^

~Neshomeh

This is a thing over on T-Board, too: the hat ( ^ ) character appears to cause whatever immediately follows it without a space to be written ^superscript , which is cool, but not a thing we need as often as we need an anime smiley face. There's always HTML for superscripts if we really want them. {= )

Also, speaking of T-Board, since this is up and running now, you might want to rename it to something other than PPC Posting Board if we're going to keep it as a separate RP location.

If not, how are RPs going to be handled here? Will threads with the RP tag and their replies not display in the main feed by default, perhaps?

~Neshomeh

It's that Tuesday again - we'll be joining up on The Discord in an hour and twenty minutes (from the time of this posting - 7pm Pacific Time, 10pm Eastern Daylight Time, 3am London time) for writing and commentary! I'm also going to run one tomorrow at 7PM London time, with a different prompt- you are welcome to join for either or both!