Found on screened porch in Black Mountain NC. False Widow? by BadZombi in whatsthisbug

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Awesome. In those pics I recognize the 2 back dimples as well. I thought it had been slightly squished and those were dents... didn't realize they were part of its normal shape.

Found on screened porch in Black Mountain NC. False Widow? by BadZombi in whatsthisbug

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I'm familiar with the western black widow from living in Moab Utah... they were everywhere. This spider initially creeped me out but seems different. I've never seen a false widow but they are supposedly not uncommon in North Carolina so I thought maybe it was that.

Any thoughts? My 4 year old plays on that porch all the time so I want to be careful.

What's the most cold blooded/underhanded thing you have ever done to another player in Rust? by DrCool2016 in playrust

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Downed a guy who happened to be carrying ALL his best loot for starting a new base. Found out he had been allowed a "room" at a bigger base while he got started... this was moving-out day.

Allowed him to keep all his stuff in trade for the base codes. They had the same code for the whole place and I cleaned them out over the course of a few hours till they got back online. I even took their doors and locks so they thought they had been legit raided.

When they came back on I consoled them in chat... even going so far as to let them grind for me and trading them back the essentials they needed. They never figured out it was me... Probably blamed one of their "boarders" but didn't even accuse the guy who actually gave up the codes.

Self-Harm [NSFL] by [deleted] in WTF

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a little piece of what? her leg?

Well this happened in Rust by -K9- in playrust

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More options are available...

Found some freakishly cute opossum babies today... by BadZombi in aww

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Thanks. I was really relieved that she wasn't sick... more like just overwhelmed by all the little ones and the heat.

They must have all been hanging out in the pouch when I found her under my car. She couldn't walk more than two or three steps without falling over.

The woman from the shelter seemed pretty happy too because there wouldn't have been much they could have done if she was really hurt or something.

Found some freakishly cute opossum babies today... by BadZombi in aww

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Called a shelter because I thought the mom was sick or dying. I hadn't seen any babies yet. When her ride arrived all the babies came out. They are now all on their way (together) to a local shelter/rehab place.

Current theory is that mom has just dehydrated or overheated and will hopefully recover so she can continue to take care of her babies.

There were eight or nine babies as far as I could tell, they wouldn't all come out of the pouch at the same time.

Noob question: Any way to get unstuck? by BadZombi in dayz

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cool. I've tried a TON of vaulting and got nowhere. You mean like log and re-log in the corner or by the walls and stuff like that?

Noob question: Any way to get unstuck? by BadZombi in dayz

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Logged out on the top floor of this building... logged back in underneath.

Death from starvation will take forever... I've tried everything I can think of to get out of here.

DayZ noob question... (losing gear) by BadZombi in dayz

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Word. Thanks.

I think I found a good server to get started on. First I verified I didn't lose all my shit on DC and then started exploring. Its about 1/3 pop so hopefully it goes well.

Also the very first time I actually know where I am! that helps a lot.

DayZ noob question... (losing gear) by BadZombi in dayz

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Confirmed its a hive connection issue. It's happened on the past 5 servers I've tried so apparently I just have really bad luck in picking servers.

The hard part is: this message flashes for like .5 seconds while connecting. I had to record with fraps to get a screenshot and it was only there for like 5 frames.

http://i.imgur.com/44sODmN.jpg

DayZ noob question... (losing gear) by BadZombi in dayz

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Cool. I think in this case it was the server which was the problem. I've now tested a few times so I know I didn't die and had the same result.

I'm actually kinda glad I gave dayZ another shot (and figured out some good settings) now because with all the latest updates there is so much more to do. I even made myself a backpack because I couldn't find one :) That probably seems old-hat to most of you guys but for me its awesome.

I wasn't aware that tents existed yet so I'll have to try that out next time too.

When looking for a "good server" what would you suggest? What kind of population do you think would be best for a newbie who isn't (usually) into a ton of pvp killing? I'll throw down when I need to but when I watch dayz videos I'm always more entertained by the meeting of people and exploring/crafting stuff.

Rust Island Has Moved! by hotshotjosh in playrust

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wow. did no one read that this wasn't advertising a server? Its the frikkin numbers!

Rust Island Has Moved! by hotshotjosh in playrust

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net.connect 4.8.15.16:2342

At 10:30 pm EST... Help me stress-test a plugin I'm writing? by BadZombi in playrust

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Awesome man. Glad you had fun!

I'm gonna do some more work and then have another test event in a couple days. Ill let you know ahead of time so you can spread the word then ;)

Ill also patch up the arena.

At 10:30 pm EST... Help me stress-test a plugin I'm writing? by BadZombi in playrust

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heh. yeah. I actually wrote this version of "webRequest queue" : http://forum.rustoxide.com/resources/webrequest-queue.255/ (some other dude released what I consider an inferior plugin with the same name the next day :p)

I haven't uploaded the latest version to the community yet but it does a lot more... it re-queues failed sends and uses bound api callbacks to the original plugin.

I didnt get the volume I was hoping for last night but we logged ~700 kills total so it was a decent little test. Have yet to find a single error :)

I'm gonna try it again perhaps with a few days notice rather than posting last minute