124320-morning-coffee-41-i-am-lopp-edition

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Combining everything that is awesome about today's thread!
 
I see that today we are all Lopp! Lopp love pancakes and funny jokes like wearing pancakes!
 
Also, Lopp love parties and stabbing things with Lopp-sticks!
 
Yay!
 
Lopp hope you all have great day!
 	
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Chua fear day would come!
LOPPOCALYPSE!
 	
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*snatches pancake, munching it to bits*
 
Lopp thinking about big RP change today. New villain, possible new character too. Shiny character of course.
As for Moska, will probably be spending time in shiny new place, seeing rest of family again. No feels!
 
As for breakfast, lopp eat shredded wheat cereal, this time with carrots!	
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			This is cute. :)	
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*Suddenly realizes that he now uses facial recognition on the forums, and now has no idea who is talking because he doesn't actually remember anyone's name.... just icons...*
 
Wait a minute, if we all look the same, no one can tell us apart!
 
Or not....
 
Anyway, yesterday was band practice and that went well.  I'm not much of an April Fool's guy, so I didn't know what to talk about.  However, I've got a 0-50 coming up!  Maybe I'll hide one in there!	
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*Suddenly realizes that he now uses facial recognition on the forums, and now has no idea who is talking because he doesn't actually remember anyone's name.... just icons...*
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*Suddenly realizes that (s)he now uses facial recognition on the forums, and now has no idea who is talking because (s)he doesn't actually remember anyone's name.... just icons...*
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*Suddenly realizes that he now uses facial recognition on the forums, and now has no idea who is talking because he doesn't actually remember anyone's name.... just icons...*
 
Wait a minute, if we all look the same, no one can tell us apart!
 
Or not....
 
Anyway, yesterday was band practice and that went well.  I'm not much of an April Fool's guy, so I didn't know what to talk about.  However, I've got a 0-50 coming up!  Maybe I'll hide one in the
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Vic you are going to love the last 10 minutes of 0-50. If you can, make a gif of it please :) You will know what I'm talking about when you see it.
 
I'm not much of a April Fool's girl, so like Vic, I have nothing to really say on that subject.
 
Have a good day all. Remember to keep the jokes safe. :)
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*Suddenly realizes that he now uses facial recognition on the forums, and now has no idea who is talking because he doesn't actually remember anyone's name.... just icons...*
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			To be honest, Lopp thought that April fools joke would be worse. Way worse, with nasty teeth. 	
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*Suddenly realizes that he now uses facial recognition on the forums, and now has no idea who is talking because he doesn't actually remember anyone's name.... just icons...*
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Reminds me of back in beta when they decided to remove all sigs and avatars.
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Oh that was a rough couple of days.
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			You Lopps are silly. All my avatars arw working as normal :) yay mobile version! So i dont have to be confused. Anyway, played aome yesterday and got a good bit done, got vet Wotw done with gold to get half way through vet adventures for my attunement. Then got on vexx and got him to 49, so i should be able.to tank or heal anything in the near future :) hoping to get on a lil today after i get off work before having to run errands. Though i do get to be on most of the morning tomorrow. so if anybody wants to.do anything early let me know :)	
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In-Game News:
 
I made a Draken Stalker last night, just to see the Dominion side a little closer and to practice my Stalker skills without embarrassing Tex in public.
 
So now Consuela finally lives! Sadly, she and her man can never be together unless it's out in the sands of Malgrave beach.
 
Which, now that I think on it, ain't so bad.	
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			I must have alerted them to the mobole avatars. everybody is now a lopp XD	
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In-Game News:
 
I made a Draken Stalker last night, just to see the Dominion side a little closer and to practice my Stalker skills without embarrassing Tex in public.
 
So now Consuela finally lives! Sadly, she and her man can never be together unless it's out in the sands of Malgrave beach.
 
Which, now that I think on it, ain't so bad.
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Does this mean we will be having draken beach parties? Because I am all for draken beach parties. 
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I loved those events.
 
Honestly, I need to wander over to the RP section. I haven't even checked in over there since coming home.
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a Lopp.
 
Nobody.	
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a Lopp.
 
Nobody.
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Still happens on Sundays, the people showing up are a lot less though. If you are over on Dominion you should get into the WSRP channel. Chef Nori makes really good food. 
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			OOOOOOOOOOOH! I was wondering about the LOPP thing, how did I not realize it was AFD goofiness ;) I caught all the jokes on FB, but totally fail here lol	
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As I have my ear to the ground on both sides, there seems to be a resurgence of cross faction RP being brewed. As we can't seem to bribe protostar into letting us bring whomever we want to our plot, all of that will be open world.
 
I think during this time of free trials that we should do what we can to be visible rather than cloistering ourselves in housing lots. 
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Well, now that more of us have banging night clubs, cabins, villages, spaceships, bars strip clubs, racetracks, et al, there's a lot less open world RP.  That might not be a good thing as we don't attract people new to the scene into RP that way, but it does help we can build our own scenes.
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The Claritin did the trick and I slept much better last night (except that I went to bed way too late).  Probably keep it up for another day or so but since it tends to mess me up probably not longer than a few days.
 
Last night was reset day.  Uhm.  Well I remembered to pick up the weekly.  I was a bit confused because I noticed it had 1% completion before I went to bed then I remembered that I did the data shard daily.  Heh.  Hit the Villa (RP) for the regular Tuesday thing (shenanigans an hilarity) but other than that was distracted by work on my addon.
 
I was able to reproduce the crash somebody reported.  My Addon depends on a few things on start up.  The UI must be loaded, the player object data must be readable, and the saved data must be loaded.  Knowing when the UI is done loading is pretty straightforward.  Player object validity not so much but you can use a timer to check it periodically until it does.  I've seen other addons blow up because they make assumptions about how long this takes. 
 
The crash I was investigating had to do with the restoration of saved data.  When an addon is installed there is no saved data.  Consequently the OnRestore events never fire.  I was depending on those events to initialize some other stuff.  Since they weren't I was trying to use something that didn't exist which causes the script interpreter to puke. 
 
Ideally I need an event that fires once the OnRestore stage is done.  For now I've added additional checks into my character validity polling method to see if the OnRestore method is done.  There is a timeout to make sure it's not waiting forever.  I need to refactor it.  Now there's too much startup delay.
 
Tonight is RL errand night so my night is going to be broken up into one hour chunks.  Maybe I'll do dailies but my motivation to do content is shot for some reason.	
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Is Wildstar-Roleplay.com still a thing or does most planning take place on the forums here?
 
I am, as always, stoked for some cross-faction RP or even some RP-PVP activity. I know a lot of the PVPers moved over here with their free transfers. Maybe we can give them a little taste of open world, story-line based fighting.
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No idea about other sites. 
RP-PVP is always going to be a little rare, what is the protocol for death? I would imagine that it is always assumed that the losing player is just unconscious, but I think stuff like that needs to be agreed on before combat. 
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It's one of the weirder things about RP in a game.  I mean, we die all the time, but there's some kind of weird "No, she's REALLY dead this time" that we're supposed to take seriously.  RP elements have always abutted necessary game mechanics without very clean joints.
 
I know EVE tried to explain it in more concrete terms than most, saying how resurrection is possible, but that changed the whole nature of RP into something kind of bland, at times.  Life as a capsuleer was actually kind of edgeless.
 
Wildstar seems to acknowledge that holo-crypt technology is keeping players from actually dying, but it does seem strange that we then have to assume that Sadie Brightland's really dead-dead.  Like, for real.  No holo-crypt for her.  And it's never really explained why.
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It's one of the weirder things about RP in a game.  I mean, we die all the time, but there's some kind of weird "No, she's REALLY dead this time" that we're supposed to take seriously.  RP elements have always abutted necessary game mechanics without very clean joints.
 
I know EVE tried to explain it in more concrete terms than most, saying how resurrection is possible, but that changed the whole nature of RP into something kind of bland, at times.  Life as a capsuleer was actually kind of edgeless.
 
Wildstar seems to acknowledge that holo-crypt technology is keeping players from actually dying, but it does seem strange that we then have to assume that Sadie Brightland's really dead-dead.  Like, for real.  No holo-crypt for her.  And it's never really explained why.
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Yeah, RP-PVP fights generally overlook the "you're dead" aspect and just rely on the story to drive the narrative, as opposed to the individuals. Which isn't to say you can't RP yourself out of the story if you just want to for some reason.
 
For example, say we're doing a Rescue Mission. One Exile flags up and is "captured" by the Dominion. The Dominion soldiers try and escort the captive (who is RPing being bound and can't escape) from Point A to Point B on the other side of the map.
 
Exile forces flag up and try to make it to the prisoner for (say) twenty seconds to "free" him. If the Exiles make it back to Point A before being killed, then they win the scenario. If the Dominion makes it to Point B with the captive in tow, they win.Really, large-scale RP-PVP battles are about the goals of the teams driving the narrative.	
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I think it has to do with that "The character, but not" that one deals with in RP. As far as the game story is concerned we are the protagonist, RP characters are not. RP characters are not the Champion of the Prime, ect. They are for the most part just colonists of Nexus, and as we go through the game we see a lot of those people die, and never get back up. 
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Wildstar seems to acknowledge that holo-crypt technology is keeping players from actually dying, but it does seem strange that we then have to assume that Sadie Brightland's really dead-dead.  Like, for real.  No holo-crypt for her.  And it's never really explained why.
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oh...my...gawd...
I nearly had a panic attack because I thoguht I broke the forums. I wasn't paying attention and i change my avatar pretty frequently...so thought I'd switch it to this thing I saw on the tech support page and after I did I see everyones avatars were changed. "omg no no nono no what did I do!? Carbines gonna be so pissed at me! ARGH!!!"
 
Alos Hello there Tex, long time no see. Hope you're having fun again! ^_^ *hug*
 
I haven't been able to play until last night as I got really sick and it's going to be a bit rough this month as I got a new freelance contract to do some rush work along with trying to keep on track with personal projects. I got  a couple of more levels chatted with people in-game, and did a small bit of RP with m friend.
 
However as much as I love my Aurin stalker I couldn't stay away form warriors so I created a mordesh warrior named Lorti Tombsong. I'll be helping a couple of people with her as well that I got interested in Wildstar too.
 
I also "finished" reviewing the Dominion guild list of Entity and cleaned it up a bit more and fixed some errors left over from the previous listing. I'm going to start the Exile side now as well and try to get that a bit more up to date. If you guys know any leaders or officers form other guilds please point them to this thread here if you have time. Thanks in advance <3
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oh...my...gawd...
I nearly had a panic attack because I thoguht I broke the forums. I wasn't paying attention and i change my avatar pretty frequently...so thought I'd switch it to this thing I saw on the tech support page and after I did I see everyones avatars were changed. "omg no no nono no what did I do!? Carbines gonna be so pissed at me! ARGH!!!"
 
Alos Hello there Tex, long time no see. Hope you're having fun again! ^_^ *hug*
 
I haven't been able to play until last night as I got really sick and it's going to be a bit rough this month as I got a new freelance contract to do some rush work along with trying to keep on track with personal projects. I got  a couple of more levels chatted with people in-game, and did a small bit of RP with m friend.
 
However as much as I love my Aurin stalker I couldn't stay away form warriors so I created a mordesh warrior named Lorti Tombsong. I'll be helping a couple of people with her as well that I got interested in Wildstar too.
 
I also "finished" reviewing the Dominion guild list of Entity and cleaned it up a bit more and fixed some errors left over from the previous listing. I'm going to start the Exile side now as well and try to get that a bit more up to date. If you guys know any leaders or officers form other guilds please point them to this thread here if you have time. Thanks in advance <3	
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			Okay, randomly, am I the only person who wonders if the Caretaker also used to call in my Ion Cannon strikes in Command And Conquer?	
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Ack! No more being sick. *Runs off to find chicken soup by the drum*
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lol I'm good now no worries *hug* However I think we solved the problem for Mordesh, but alas I don't think ginger ale and chicken soup exist in the Wildstar universe =[
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6 day easter break woooo!
 
I forgot it was April Fools. Then I broke my brain trying to figure out who was saying what on these forums. @.@	
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			OMG the lopps are completely blowing my mind. I can't keep track of who's saying what, so I don't know who to be mad at or who to give high 5's to. EVIL LOPPS!	
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