Since I realized I had pushed the previous thread over 300

Beware of Cloud (Beware of Chicken fanfic) again
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-104069257

Blossom Apartments, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
October 27th, 2016
4:00 pm ET


"Why is it snowing?"

Rob Donaldson was puzzled for a moment at Ruiko Saten's question. "Why wouldn't it be snowing?"

"It's October!"

Rob sighed. "This is Canada. For us, this is Thursday."

"I want to go home."

Kuroko Shirai followed Ruiko in, taking off her coat as soon as she was past the building's vestibule. "Ruiko-san, until that whole mess with the various universes is cleaned up, we are home."

Ruiko looked over at Kuroko. "That isn't helping, Kuroko-san."

"I'm sorry." She turned to Rob. "But I do have to agree about the snow. Is this some freak of nature?"

"I'm afraid not - this is the right time for the first snowfall of the year. But the ground won't be cold enough for snow to stay around for a couple of weeks yet. Before you ask: no, the air will probably not warm up again until next spring."

Kuroko frowned. "I'm going to freeze out there."

Rob remembered that Kuroko had bought the least of all the girls when they first went clothes shopping, nearly two months ago. "Didn't you buy any slacks when the five of you bought new wardrobes back in September?"

"Slacks are not ladylike." (Minako Aino nodded in agreement with Kuroko.)

"Perhaps. However, they help keep your body heat near your body when you're outdoors in the winter." Rob thought quickly. "Come to think of it, perhaps you all need some long underwear."

"Never!"

"Kuroko-san, 'never' is a long time ... and in a month or so, the daily high temperatures will be below freezing."

All of the girls looked horrified - excepting Ami Mizuno (who merely looked upset at that news) and Kazari Uiharu (who at first didn't seem to care, then put on a dismayed face).

Kuroko's only reply was, "Perhaps I was hasty with my words."

but it's a lot closer than anything else I've seen over the years.

Pateron: Apple’s requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon. Here’s what you need to know.

tl;dr: New Pateron subscriptions will be subject to a 30% fee increase starting in November. Windows and Linux pricing is unaffected.

So if you have an iPhone and a Windows PC, sign up to sponsor creators on the PC, and don't give Apple the additional money.

(Fair disclosure: I own stock in Microsoft, so I'm biased here.)

I guess it's a bad night for the internet -- the list of major sites that are down in the sidebar on downforeveryoneorjustme is ten or twelve items long. Not here, obviously and QQ is too minor to be included even though that's what I was checking, but Tiktok and Twitter and several MMOs big enough for me to recognize the names despite generally having negative fucks to give about MMOs.

CBC: New human rights commissioner resigns before starting role

I'm not going to atttempt a tl;dr on the article -- too many groups are telling only parts of the story, and nobody is telling the same parts of the story. It's a "he said, he said" situatiobn.

But what is clear is that the background check wasn't done by the groups that usually do background checks at this level of government.

Here, with photos.

So... how hard do you think it will be to get the Maga trolls to look stupid(er) by getting them to complain that the cast isn't 100% lily-white "like they ought to be"? <grin>

http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/s...53&page=11

Another time that my post has managed to break the forum's formatting.  Some of my sig above all of the other posts, and posts at the end in half-width.  I'm pretty sure this post is the problem:

http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/e...pid=163665

Do you want to report this upstream?  It looks like a problem with the table tags.

But if you're reading that, you can safely assume they're back. I noticed within minutes simply by chance, filed a ticket with my host, and the boards came back in about 90 minutes.