https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/1271700/header.jpg?t=1664519811 Lately, [wizard] and I have been playing this Hot Wheels: UNLEASHED™ on Steam (steampowered.com) game together for the past couple of months. If you like to race real-to-life Hot Wheels cars, they did a pretty good jo...

Anyone else watching HotD (Hot D, as we call it in my house)? What are your thoughts, without giving away any spoilers here... At first, I found it really hard to keep the people's names straight, especially with the Targaryen custom of reusing historical names. And then trying to tie everything bac...

TXNWpKXfxpY I've been playing a lot of No Man's Sky with their most recent update and QoL changes, and only today, after 6 years and >500 hours into my first & only save-game I find out the soundtrack is available to listen to, and it doesn't have the voiceover or fast fade-in/out you get with ...

I did it y'all! I read and finished a book. But I'm not gonna talk about the contents of the book in this post, I'm gonna talk about the structure and why I was actually able to finish it. It's Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir . He's the same guy that did "The Martian" book the movie was bas...

It's that time again! Time for another birthday celebration! Happy birthday, lady!

Ever missed a post on the forums? Long-time members tsn know the feeling. The need to continually check the site for new posts since their last visit, wondering if anyone has replied to their latest remarks or pearls of wisdom. Sure it was made easier with the My Spot page, showing everything new s...

Anyone ever had Prepared Shredded Squid before? It's like jerky, but made from squid; has a sweet, slightly sour flavor, and a strong fishy smell, but is powdery to the touch. I find it delicious, and then I start to think about how sentient cephalopods likely are, and that I'm now eating something ...

Wishing a happy birthday to SaikoubiAkurei!

She also gets the honor of the first cross-post into our discord channel!

Welp, it looks like I won't be learning TypeScript this time. Instead it was just a change in how they construct user mentions where they removed an exclamation mark from the hidden text. Now Oracle is back up and running, and pulling events from the forums, and displaying them in discord. After a c...

Welp, it looks like Discord has decided to move Bots away from message processing and into slash-commands. Which means all message processing is disabled for their bots, and I'll be required to use slash-commands. This really feels like a step backward from what was a "natural language" bo...

Is still probably a very nice person, even though I haven't spoken to her in a long time.

Update for 2022 With the update to phpbb 3.3, a number of the visuals and features have been lost/changed/removed. Google Map links on profile locations is gone Some social fields have died away and been removed since the release the tsn8 theme is being rebuilt to tsn9, as well as nearly all facets...

Well, I finally pulled the plug, and drained out phpBB 3.2 to install phpBB 3.3. The two versions are completely incompatible with each other, which means an "opportunity" to recreate the tsn experience, but this time from modern code, and completely via extensions and themes...and hope th...

Well, hello there... Man is that deeply engrained. You may notice some things don't quite look or work right. I'm real sorry about that. For the most part, not much is going on in this version of the code. Instead, things were moving forward (before this whole pandemic got started) over at the tsn9 ...

Brief update here... the Oracle Assistant is available in the tsn Discord server, and I've started a Slack version, but I haven't gotten anywhere with it. Even some of the Discord functionality has broken because some of the APIs have changed, and I haven't bothered to develop against it. But we do ...