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  • in reply to: Random #1407
    DeVaultSetter
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      Lovely, bookmarked for a rainy day, (which at the moment unfortunately do not present too frequently here).
      Want to hear about a mystery? It centres around an area north of here by the name of, you guessed it, Mystery Bay. It’s regarding the disappearance of five men in 1880, details here. This is the area as it was in 1895:
      Mystery Bay 1895
      All very mysterious. Would like to get the WikiMedia link to that on the page, is that doable? Also added some old newspaper articles and letters to the talk pages e.g..

      in reply to: Spoilers #1404
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        In the meantime, why not add it as a extra feature in the forum stickie? Seems like a good home, as it is for those coming to grief with special characters such as less_than ampersands greater_thans. 😛

        in reply to: Sounds and Music #1399
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          We don’t need no ejaculation, no more retching in the classroom – yeah. And btw … School’s Out!

          And something for Halloween!

          in reply to: Random #1361
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            in reply to: Spoilers #1352
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              Pretty good, thanks!
              Along with the black box you could have the text “hover to reveal” or similar – depends how long the text is of course. Any chance it could it be placed on the menu?

              in reply to: Films & TV Shows #1347
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                Something that old to be still behind a paywall? Does it come through on IA?
                As a matter of interest, they screened the original Friday the 13th last night. The first 45 minutes came across as a thin, run of the mill chain of events, turned out to be the right formula for the bunch of shocks that ensued. 🙂

                in reply to: Spoilers #1346
                DeVaultSetter
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                  There’s quite a bit going with it, because obviously there has to be a button that triggers the event.
                  Here’s a recent thread where Milan has commented. There is still this fork of an early Tom Braider iteration, very old and now read-only. Tom Braider had the following code for WP 4.5:

                  `<?php
                  /*
                  Plugin Name: Tiny Spoiler
                  Plugin URI: http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/tiny-spoiler
                  Description: [spoiler name=”top secret”]shows/hides this text[/spoiler]
                  Version: 0.2
                  Author: Tom Braider
                  Author URI: http://www.tomsdimension.de
                  */

                  /**
                  * adds stylesheet
                  */
                  function insert_spoiler_css()
                  {
                  echo “<style type=’text/css’>
                  .spoiler { border: 1px #000 dashed; }
                  .spoiler legend { padding-right: 5px; background: white; }
                  .spoiler legend input { width: 30px; }
                  .spoiler div { margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; height: 0; }
                  </style>\n”;
                  }
                  add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘insert_spoiler_css’);

                  /**
                  * adds javascript
                  */
                  function insert_spoiler_js()
                  {
                  echo <<<ENDJS
                  <script type=’text/javascript’>
                  function tiny_spoiler( id )
                  {
                  var s = document.getElementById( id ).style;
                  var divs = document.getElementsByTagName(‘div’);

                  if ( s.height == ‘auto’ )
                  {
                  s.height = 0;
                  s.padding = 0;
                  document.getElementById( id + ‘_button’ ).value = ‘+’;
                  for ( var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++ )
                  {
                  if ( divs[i].parentNode.id == id )
                  divs[i].style.height = 0;
                  }

                  }
                  else
                  {
                  s.height = ‘auto’;
                  s.padding = ’10px’;
                  document.getElementById( id + ‘_button’ ).value = ‘-‘;
                  for ( var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++ )
                  {
                  if ( divs[i].parentNode.id == id )
                  divs[i].style.height = ‘auto’;
                  }
                  }
                  }
                  </script>
                  ENDJS;
                  }

                  add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘insert_spoiler_js’);

                  /**
                  * creates spoiler code
                  *
                  * @param string $content spoiler content
                  * @param string $name title
                  * @return string spoiler code
                  */
                  function replace_spoiler_tag( $content, $name )
                  {
                  $content = do_shortcode( $content );
                  $caracteres = array(‘a’,’b’,’c’,’d’,’e’,’f’,’g’,’h’,’i’,’j’,’k’,’l’,’m’,’n’,’o’,’p’,’q’,’r’,’s’,’t’,’u’,’v’,’w’,’x’,’y’,’z’);
                  $addition = ”;
                  for ( $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++ )
                  $addition .= $caracteres[rand(0,25)];
                  $id = str_replace(‘ ‘, ”, $name).$addition;
                  $s = ‘<fieldset class=”spoiler”>
                  <legend>
                  <input type=”button” onclick=”tiny_spoiler(\”.$id.’\’)” id=”‘.$id.’_button” value=”+” />
                  ‘.$name.’
                  </legend>
                  <div id=”‘.$id.’”>’
                  .$content.’
                  </div>
                  </fieldset>’;
                  return $s;
                  }

                  /**
                  * parses parameters
                  *
                  * @param string $atts parameters
                  * @param string $content spoiler content
                  * @return unknown
                  */
                  function spoiler_shortcode( $atts, $content )
                  {
                  extract(shortcode_atts(array(
                  ‘name’ => ‘Spoiler’
                  ), $atts));
                  return replace_spoiler_tag( $content, $name );
                  }
                  add_shortcode(‘spoiler’, ‘spoiler_shortcode’);
                  ?>`

                  Do you think we could zhuzh it up a bit for good effect?

                  in reply to: Random #1345
                  DeVaultSetter
                  Keymaster

                    How old is the dog btw? Probably enough years between us to get a pet thread up in any case. 🙂
                    Tried going into the app settings for Yu-Gi-Oh – could be something stuck in the content cache or something. Also other problems revealed here. 😛
                    Cool! What got you onto that – reviews are very positive, and Deviant has a page as well.

                    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #1342
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                      Did play The 7th Guest once, found it to be well presented and very playable, do remember consulting a hint sheet towards the culmination of the mystery. It’s still playable, of course, and if the rig has no CD drive, try an emulator for the Wayback version, or even the special ed on offer over there.
                      Do you use Chrome on there or the inbuilt browser. Not a frequent user of Chrome on the Android, so haven’t tested the limits enough for any helpful assessment. On the PC, the cache “self manages” on Chrome and Edge so that manual intervention hasn’t been required for years. As a consequence of intensive browsing episodes, cookies could do with some trimming after a while. 🙂

                      in reply to: Baldur’s Gate #1334
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                        Yeah, there’s still issues with EE even after all this time, a major improvement would be to adjust the angle of view in the interaction area. By how much, and too how much it would or should impact gameplay and quest progression is more a question for a dedicated patch team than some random modder. For no other reason than a complete decompilation, followed by considerable restructuring of the game engine code. 😛
                        Another little quirky thing bobbed up regarding Windows and DirectX immersion, if you run Disk Cleanup during an active game, the cleanup progress bar window will flash in and out of the game screen until Disk Cleanup is complete. Even when the cleanup progress is moved off screen, the game doesn’t quite run how it should.

                        in reply to: Films & TV Shows #1327
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                          If it is this one with Charlie Brown, the music hits the right spot. 🙂
                          Anything with Dustin Hoffman is worth a gander, and Rain Man is a super bonus in the event the Vegas itch ever gets the better of us and our card counting mates!
                          Streaming all the series of Departure, it’s great if you like quick plot development, crash porn, and well dressed people strutting around being very much up to speed in solving important cases. (Quite interesting as well.) 🙂
                          Right at the beginning Underwater gets straight into the slushy and squelchy D & D action with little fanfare, it takes the liberty of assuming one is already familiar with the layout of the vast water catacomb. Could not resist the desire to leave the movie halfway through, but not before hearing this joke. 😛

                          in reply to: Sounds and Music #1326
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                            This one isn’t Charlie Brown related, but it’s nice. 🙂

                            in reply to: The Long Hall of Hilarity #1325
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                            Keymaster

                              (Leaving that one bee-hind);
                              What did the fish say when it ran into a wall? Dam!

                              in reply to: Cooking #1314
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                                Oh, do forgive the lateness, oxtails of course – although folks are starting to call them beef tails. Does beef really have a tail, as is the original name wrong, though as it is oft said, better the devil you know. 😛 Nice with plenty of lentils, onion, sage and spice – and then anything you like. 🙂
                                Has the Bible arrived, and will Chapter 1 have the account of the genesis of all the ingredients used in the book, in seven days?
                                Hmmm, could it be cursed in some way, so that whoever consumes the bread is very speedily transformed into a mummy?

                                in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #1310
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                                  Played NWN long time ago, ground breaking graphical setup for the time, and fun to play, although a rather “linear” plotline.
                                  Could be they stage it so you can’t get past L1 unless there’s a Donation or other micro-transaction performed. And, for further discouragement for freeloading noobs, the language filters can be set to do stuff like translating a remote player’s “top of the morning to you, friend” into “get out of my face, scumbag.”
                                  Forgot all about <shift><Escape> bringing up the browser task manager for all the tabs in Edge. 🙂

                                  in reply to: Random #1309
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                                    Could it ever be that all our illustrious and industrious beekeepers become so, because all the bees in the hives bee-have?

                                    Solar Sails sound rather idyllic, there’s also a magnificent pdf article by S. Cowley on fusion.

                                    Cool, looking at the page source, there’s www.universetoday.com\/wp-includes, so something special about another wp site? (Won’t go as close as sister-site, more like a few parsecs removed) 😛

                                    in reply to: Sounds and Music #1301
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                                      Sorry, the first url somehow got barfed – fixed it. The other three urls are thanks to Believe SAS, Polydor and Universal. How odd it is for all these folks to have to get all copyrighteous over their regions though.
                                      Gotta get the mic out to record some fine snoring – in the meantime, there is a cat over at Freesounds. 🙂
                                      https://freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/77267/#

                                      in reply to: Sounds and Music #1280
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                                        Gotta include Henri Salvador here – one of a kind really when it comes to songs like Pauvre Jesus Christ.
                                        There are some cracking songs in that selection as well. This one from ~1958:

                                        And much earlier the classic Le Petit Indien, later, the old À la Claire de Fontaine:

                                        in reply to: Baldur’s Gate #1276
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                                          Could have been, the relevant reg keys are in the OP above, but now with Widescreen and HD Gui working well enough, there’s no need. 🙂
                                          Please forgive the above omission of GemRB for Linux and Windows, and yep, they have a forum up as well. 🙂

                                          in reply to: Films & TV Shows #1275
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                                            Funny, our houses of tomorrow never did ever get the technology to fool the IRS like that. Along with the extra hurdles of instantly converting the 500 hectares of manicured gardens into an impassable weedy wasteland, and back again!
                                            Never tire of any of the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons!
                                            What’s your favourite Scream movie?

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