So, the fanfiction forum (thefanfictionforum.net) seems to have disappeared. I occasionally poke my head in there, but for the last couple weeks I've been getting a 404 error. Does anybody know what happened? I originally thought it was because of a borked conversion to XenForo (the same forum software SB, SV, and QQ*NSFW run on) due to the redirect when browsing to the site , but I would have thought if that was the case, the site would be back up by now (either in original form, or fixed install).

Previous thread is here..

(Edit:  Changed thread name slightly, as it turns out I did "The New Beginning" already a few installments ago.)

Since Bob found out too late last year, here's a month's lead time.

2018's "Burgers to Beat MS" event is Thursday, August 16. A&W Canada will donate $2 from every Teen Burger sold that day in Canada to the MS Society of Canada.

You can also donate online, at https://web.aw.ca/en/burgerstobeatms


(Yes, this is personal for my family.)


Oh, and A&W Canada is giving away free root beer on July 14. No purchase necessary, no coupon necessary, just walk into any Canadian A&W and ask for a root beer.

.... 6 years in Jail.

Fuck's sake.

These people Grenaded an entire country's economy. An entire fucking country. They are responsible for dozens of suicides. The ruination of thousands and what has been very nearly a lost fucking decade.

And it earns them six years. Oh, and that's before good behaviour and shit gets em out early. 

David Drumm jailed for six years
And another 15 months, suspended


I suggest you listen to these tapes. They will make your blood boil.


Bowe: "The strategy here is, to get them to write a big cheque and they have to support their money, y'know....... If they saw the enormity up front, they might decide they have a choice."

I am reminded of a French revolutionary cry...

Á la lanterne!

Right off the bat, you can probably assume at least one level dip in Bard for the musicality, but what classes otherwise? The whole speak with animals/animal companion thing most of them seem to have going strongly suggests Druid or Ranger to me (possibly full-Ranger otherwise for Merida,) and Mulan obviously gets a lot of some kind of martial levels, but how about it?

List of official Disney Princesses:
Classic: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, and Mulan
Recent: Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Anna, Elsa, and Moana
Neo/prospective: Anastasia, Gamora, and Shuri

Stage two: How do the stories change if the female characters are mid-to-high level badasses rather than Damsels in Distress? (Not so different for Mulan, Merida and Gamora, at least...)

It sounds like it's a blessing, unless you actually pay attention to the lyrics...



Cows Around, by Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans, written by Corb Lund, copyright 2012.

This is a live version from the Red Ants Pants Music Festival's first "Live from the Back Pasture" sessions. The studio version is on the album Cabin Fever (which made it to #1 on the Canadian album charts and #51 on the Billboard country chart), released by New West Records. Lyrics of the studio version.

At least to the Lesser Antilles.

My current hosting with NetCarrier is paid up until the end of the year, so I have six months to find and settle on a new host.  At the moment, I'm looking at GoDaddy's packages, because they're already my registrar for both this domain and the moribund warriors-alpha.net (which I haven't touched in like 15 years and really looks awful on modern monitors; I mainly use it to host my prereaders' mailing list).  Anyway, even GoDaddy's cheapest package is miles ahead of what NetCarrier is giving me, in terms of features, and I can add SSL to it.  The resulting cost will be a bit under twice what I pay NetCarrier, but I think that's acceptable.

So the question I have now is... Does anyone here on the forums have any experience with GoDaddy hosting, for good or bad?

Thanks.

Richard Spencer has learned what it feels like to be on the wrong side of a strong border.  Not that it'll make any difference to how he conducts himself, but still, the Schadenfreude....  

Quote:The announcement also follows the U.K.’s decision to bar a number of other white supremacists and far-right conspiracy theorists earlier this year....  All of them have advocated for stronger borders; all of them complained when British authorities took their advice.

... to spend $3000+ on a laptop.

Review of the Dell Precision 7530 and Precision 7730

An entry-level 7530 lists for $1200; upgrading to a 7730 and adding in all the bells and whistles bumps the price up above $3000.

I know the specs of Dell's current line of 1U rack-mounted servers, and a 7730 laptop with all the bells and whistles comes pretty darn close to them: six-core Xeon E-2176M CPU @ 2.70GHz, either 3-SSD RAID 5 array and 2TB HDD or 4-SSD RAID 5 array, 64 GB RAM (128GB if Dell starts shipping 32GB DIMMs). And with a NVIDIA GPU, this is a good gaming or 3D-rendering box, too. EDIT: Oh, and MIL-STD-810G ruggedization comes standard.

Does anyone know of any reason not to get one, other than the price?