Eccentric Flower:200907/Nothing in Particular

More Pandamonium

I should explain that when I linked the line from Walt Paulson in the "PvP" strip a short while back, that line really was the entire basis for the link. Paulson's particular breed of insanity (which he himself will summarize in the final panel of today's strip) is always striking in a fictional character (funny, but in a jaw-dropping way). In a real human, it's jaw-dropping and not very funny.

I don't really care much for the Panda Wars storyline as a whole (I've always felt the recurring psychotic-panda joke was one of PvP's lesser memes), but Paulson is keeping me reading it.

May or May Not Mean Anything

This is not a complaint (really - it isn't), but I'm a little surprised not to see any comments on the previous entry. I thought I might have been saying something contentious.

Fired From The Canon

I disagree with two (and only two) of the choices on this list. I'm not saying which two. I love canon games, especially since they are all so damned meaningless.

Administrivia

So, you will notice that I have taken apart the Heliotropisms page. I'm still not happy with what this will do for short links, unless I manage to consolidate several of them into one page as I am doing here, but on the whole it seemed like Heliotropism was a failed idea, defeating a lot of other things I had carefully set up.

I have begun marking entries as either open or closed - "open" meaning "not requiring a login to read," like this entry. A login is still required to comment, anywhere, no matter the status of whatever it is you're commenting on. I realize in this system people who don't have logins can see the existence of all the closed entries, but I'm not losing sleep over this. Note that I have only done this for July so far. I am still pondering how far back to apply policy retroactively. I'll surely do it for June; I don't know if I will go and open parts of the archives yet.

Also, the "latest stuff" listing is now on both the journal page and the main page (thanks to Magic Inclusions - go MediaWiki!), potentially saving a step for many folks; and the photo of the day, which is always a short lone link, has been moved back to that area.

People on the RSS feed saw notifications for several new entries and, accidentally, one old one. I had to split off a "private" portion of "Let's Have More Links," and in doing so I retitled the page. MediaWiki treats a page rename as "delete the old page and make a new page," and that sufficed to trigger a new RSS announcement. Normally each page triggers RSS once and only once in its lifetime. (The split-off page I made, which was inserted into the sequence as "Good News," didn't send an RSS announcement because I cleverly did not give it an RSS tag.)

Thanks for your patience, folks. This is an experiment in progress.

He Never Knew What Hit Him

My wife has this ability.

Well Then

I have commented on the utter excessiveness of Civony/Evony's banner ads before, with their incessant use of scantily clad wenches and their tagline "Start your journey now, my lord" (leaving some implication about exactly what sort of journey might take place), all to induce hormonal young men into playing a mediocre online clone of Civilization with buyins (and with nary a scantily clad woman in sight during actual gameplay, I might add).

Straight review of Evony here, in case you're curious.

Commentary on their increasingly ridiculous ads here, with samples.

But I will say this: I think it's good of them to make a progressive effort to hire the transgendered.

The airbrushing on the Adam's apple is mediocre, but someone paid top dollar for the silicone.