Regular Joe

Good old! That was one fun shift till they summoned Lag'sie.

Neat! Plasmaman on vacation, see that happy grin. Hilarious and lively!

So I met a poor clown that hadn't nothing on them but a baseball bat and his mask. Gave him my jacket and he started to tell his story. I could imagine an old school song with these lines. Tragic clown man blues.

Good stuff, agreeing. More precision for command to control with more precise alert level SOP, so that just simply changing them according to the situation works (better) as standing orders for sec and crew, that's quite the idea of alert levels in general. As well at it would seem to suit the RP/game/station's general atmosphere so that the antag-sec situation would materialize a bit more to the other crew too. The point of efficiency is a good one aswell. Now that I read this and thought it over again, I'd say that this kind of edit might be a good idea. Maybe four levels that can get used on regular basis including a 'suspected' and 'confirmed threat' in two varieties, plus the gamma and others, as of I thought first on, would be too much for the fast timeframe we got, I don't know.

Good note! I got to listen to his tracks before - neat stuff! - but didn't spot that before. The sweet lead tune of Sector 11/Thunderdome's refrains is indeed there, and the track's composition idea is just about it. It's fun indeed. Finishing a song might take years sometimes, even if the main idea was clear from the beginning. Then sometimes you can do it almost from the top of your head. Well and Thunderdome's story, it's interesting to listen its author's music as it is indeed so fitting to theme. And we knew nothing of that!

Thanks man! Well, that happens when I lock myself to the bandhouse again. People do cheerful art and stuff here so that I wanted to bring something of my own. Taking the drums and the solo in was here a major honk, due that being a rhytm guitar/bass player I don't really play drums and solo guitar, I just beat them taking funny faces in the process. But you know, give a monkey enough time, pizza and drumsticks so he'll finish it eventually, maybe a bassist too!

Due to the general lockdown, I had some time to spend alone at the band garage. Thought then to record one for you, fellow spaceman friendlies! This time, a cover shot of "We will be strong", by Thin Lizzy, year 1980 at album "Chinatown". As it says, keep up the spirit, and toolboxing, out there. I dig various kinds of music, yet Thin Lizzy has always been the personal favourite. Rough sounds, rough lyrics, that kind of stuff I mind to sing too. This arrangement and all sounds played by me.

It works okay in my opinion - usually it just happens that people are bit cautious on lowering the alert level from red. Not a perfect system, though. Many, if not most shifts, go with red and that is why the code red SOP for departments other than sec doesn’t materialize a lot. Personally I’d think there could, maybe, be one more alert level, to distinct confirmed and expected lethal action from confirmed threat with a possibility of escalating to largely lethal threat. Green blue red black, or so. There’s the difference of agents and changelings and some maddened Henk loose, as both kind of threats are capable to lethal, but the latter is using it on large; the needed action against those, and the need of the crew to take cover, differs too. Gamma’s there but the armory is a sec buff, I’m thinking of just enabling more strict SOP for largely dangerous situations by having a more restricting code available that is not activated so often as red is. RP and more tools for command to handle the crew. But that’s just a thought, as the present system flows quite okay and if situations in which forcing the red SOP seems usable happens, command can do that on will. On the original question, yeah blue is the ’maybe’ code and for it to stay simple it’s better to be as is. I understand the idea anyway, yet I think it’s so-so can anything be done to improve the usage of the levels from the present.

Out of the multitude of different threats that has been confronted by the space security, about this no-one knew nothing where it was from, what were its hideous objectives, what it was actually able to do - the DTX (as a class of being). Imagine seeing this from your cameras as the local HoS. Coffee spilled to the camera monitor console? Probably. Too bad I didn't snip the first scene the DTX entity was spotted around, it was something else. What would, in all probability, happen as very next, is less surprising, though. Great to see DTX around!

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As I habit to as the virologist, created a bioweapon for security called 'Xenohonker', which never had get used. In the end of this shift though, the xenos made two mistakes - first, they chose to appear to the virology, second, they decided to capture the virologist unharmed as their test subject, or French stray animal, or something... well, that for, I actually feel bad of doing this. Hilarious sight it was either way, luckily the end of the shift too.

This is... superb. Damn I missed alot with that shift (a chance to find oneself to be upside down with a clownmask in head, with most probability).

Two clowns from the HONKsquad arrive here to amuse you via intense slipping for uttering such hopeless words.

That's an interesting topic, as well is the advancement of technology in general - whatever it could bring us in the future. Will life change? Will people change, affected by many things improving like they never were improving before? Brace yourselves, essay coming because I love typing, honk. Personally I believe that not much will change for the most of the people. By all means I could imagine of, basic things of life will be the same - as long as it lasts the way it has been going on, and that has been going as long we can know history. Basic things, namely, growing, occupying oneself with "work", ageing, dying - it does matter, how these will go, it's better to be in a Western country enjoying all the good things in life we have, than to be, say, in wartorn mideast living in tents made of rubbish. Those things have been improving worldwide for long and we should strive to improve them - our lives - more, for ourself, our nationals and as an international community for the world as whole. That's kind of an imperative for what to do with oneself, doesn't matter much how one would argue it - there's many ways for it, philosophical and-or religious. Question was about death and the effect of preservation and prolonging life, instead of simply ageing and dying. To answer that, I'd say, it is needed to take a look to life itself. That for, the previous. It's not only a question of technology and funding I'd say. But: will life - human biology, psychology, society, nature - make it possible to live it "eternally" or at least longer? I'd say answer is no. Not because of it's an utopy - by the moment it is, but indeed it can become true just as a fun spess game which we have time to play, truely unbelievable thing for people that wrote their things hundred of years ago (or even at the times of 90's before our brilliant platform of Build Your Own Network Dream had seen the light). Yeah, maybe long preservation could happen, given that technological advance will permit it. Maybe long for sizeable group of people, if things develop in the society along with tech so that preservation could be funded extensively. But I wouldn't believe, that anything like that, would change the basic elements of life (death an stuff) and be a reasonable hope, a thing to strive for, for many. Some arguments, in order of dependency: 1) Life runs in the cycle of borning, ageing and dying. It runs in this cycle quite monolitchically I'd say. It's really hard to change anything in life. It just can't afford many things. You know, even personally, just as well as life as all the life, from an hypothetical viewpoint of observing it all - people, society, nature - from a distance. Maybe some people could be kept up but not everyone. 2) That so because of the questions, that would appear when the thing starts to be possible for not only the super rich. Not only ethical questions, but political as well. Questions that can't be answered reliably, namely, you can't know will you exist or not. Or if you do, will it be well, existing, thinking what Bryan wrote. Some arguments for arguments: Currently people do absolutely crazy things to each others due their life as it is now - crazy things, instead of helping each other in life the most optimal way and funding things like cryopreservation and other good studies. Wars are waged, in small personal just as well as in grand international frameworks, and why? Seems like just because of how people happen to see the life, how they happen to think who they are, what is right and something to strive for - and above all just because nobody knows what is happening and how things will work out. That will end up to precautious acts that are completely reasonable in a sense of the "real politics", but are often bad and wicked otherwise, or will become partly known as bad later when things have passed, and something can be said on what has happened. Knowing things, to know how to do the good (doesn't matter how would you state what good is - here, let's say it's about emphasizing the preservation of life, DNA study an stuff) instead of bad (hindering the previous) is incredibly hard. In small scale, which derives to the big scale. I'll draw a caricature. I've been a peacekeeper officer in a zone of conflict, a conflict that was and is wicked, twisted and complex to the heart and calm as it was calm in the trenches when doing anything were considered too costly by the parties involved. Unforgiveness, rage, military confrontation against other people just for some dry land, different religious and political beliefs, languages, social networks - as well as indifference, good, unharming faith and will to live in peace. I drove through tents made of rubbish from the Western countries, billboards and stuff, next to them standing refugee children, smiling and waving to us happier than I could have smiled as a patrol commander driving though that area. I led a footpatrol through an open waste dump, because of if somebody not-a peacekeeper would happen to go in the nearhood of the fence next to the dump, he could be shot from the other side of the fence, and after that, the combatants would start shooting each others and so the place would back up another couple of years of peace and rebuilding process, or worse. This all, for reasons I couldn't really understand - even if, as a part of a society made to obstruct the possible bad processes at the zone, I could have done some actions against the bad process, for the good of life. Also I had the will to do whatever I could, but it was unknown to me whether and in what extent I would have been able to do, that is, whether our organization would have been able to do, what it was supposed to do, in time of shit and the fan - or whether I would have been just bitting the first bullets or been rendered unable by fear in a critical moment. And then again personally, me, a foreign, green-nose 2LT at the time, ended up doing that - along with wondering the big questions of life and eating hamburgers - due that I wanted to go the hell out of my own life, as I couldn't stand it and couldn't change myself and the people concerned, due things that would sound silly if I'd utter them aloud. Though, it's not that romantically black-and-white. That's a caricature of the scene. The people on the said place really just wanted to live their lifes in peace, but still many of them would start to do the pew pew if a situation prompting it would come. Just as well as I was there because of I love soldiering. So you won't even know yourself what you're doing and why. You believe things instead. To know is a big word, and I'd need to know, that I exist forever to lay the hope for that and thus forget the other things to be content with life and death. Such knowledge, I'd say, is irrational, impossible. So I need to get, well, content with the memento mori an stuff somehow. And well, with life too - the fact, that so little is possible, even if in theory, it would be just up for people to do it. Theory is always a hypothetical thing if the subject is human, probably even if it's just something that needs to be observed, or so my astro physics nerd friend kept saying back in the day. Why you couldn't keep order as space security anytime, anyplace, or even often? Why I can't be what I want to, concerning ideals and the less ideal things that I would so like to have? So the key here, what I'm trying to say: complexity. Life is too complex to be preserved, I'd say. It's not just biology. 1) Wouldn't believe the complex stuff, natural to life, would not happen and hinder a scenario in which life of many could be preserved for ages, just as in the conflictzone example complex odd stuff hinders people's present short life to be even more short. I've read Harari's recent books, though, on the subject. What he says, is that maybe an idol-god human society, a small club of medium elite role play like the Paradise mentors, would be possible at some point. Fair enough - even if theories are hypothetical, it can't stop us making them. We try to do the good, we do theories that are rational and useful and practise them the best way we're able to - but whatever is done, it can't reach the God's word level of to know. That's wording of Hawkings in his old book about time, by the way. As well of Aristotle's, though he moves God, the hypothetical class of "God", out of this world completely because of moral questions, and hence takes it as given there is no God and no knowledge in a Platonic sense, but only practical and irredeemably incomplete. So the knowledge to make things well for all won't be "perfect", and thus basic things of life wouldn't change and most wouldn't make it to be a Harari's idolhuman. 2) That's why I'd do, instead, that blind and simple faith. Or actually - not instead, but along. A religious belief would be kind of above the question, in my opinion. One could believe in say, Christian resurrection and still buy oneself a place at some cryo institute. For the former is, by its nature, a belief in a thing that certainly happens (as irrational it is, due a divine promise), and the latter would consider complexity of everything and it would be just another investment in life, which maybe gets fulfilled or perhaps it doesn't. Personally, if I had really a choice to do the latter, I'd refuse it just as firm as I'd refuse giving up or doing some other things due what I consider holy. Or so I would think now, with the "know"ledge of society I have now, just as I've thought as a soldier that I'd give whatever I could for the mission. Not saying that studying life preservation is bad or such, or wouldn't be happy to tax fund universities doing that - it's a good thing. The question is real aswell. This kind of viewpoint isn't either the only way to inspect the matter. Hawkins, for example, was ambivalent to the question about knowledge, in which I think the issue lies; he thought, at least in that book, that maybe it would be possible at some point to know stuff. Or then the thing could be apprehended completely otherwise. I'm very interested on what and how people think and word their thoughts on the matter and subjects like this.

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Thank you so much! This is the one doc that I always have open in the browser while ingame. Very good disposition.

Well that’s just the perfect setup to hand out free heart attacks to the men in red, great!

Space chess. Challenge me!

Three plasmamen are already a mafia.

Originally was about to post this to the screenshot thread, but since it became long, I'll head this here as its own! Year is a-changing, which means it's the time for me to unload screenshots from past time. I'll advance in order of topics. Starting with the most relevant and important phenomenon in space, that is goats, of course. For second, one clown and one greytider, the heroes that the station needs each shift. As third, assorted shots about the most thing I like to do at the station, life at security. That was quite my year in space. Fun times. Prematurely, general thanks and happy new year to you lot making these fun moments happen!

EDIT: Since it became quite massive dump of pictures and text, moved it to have its own thread at the stories-category.

Can’t stop the nerdbus! e^0

Here we go! 2

Actually I post this bit later, harmless but gosh I was tired - it might be still ongoing.

You'll need a fresh copy of paracode for it. Open paradise.dme, this will bring up the dreammaker. Compile, and then look for "map_files". The gateway missions are at "randomzlevels". Opening the .dmm files will pop up the mapeditor. I've never tried to seriously do anything with the mapeditor, so I don't know what-everything you have to keep in mind while tinkering with the maps, but it sure is fun to play around with them, at least.