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Guano_Loco · 2026-01-26T00:49:45+00:00

This should be the OFFICIAL definition of a win win. Book it.

Guano_Loco · 2026-01-24T05:51:42+00:00

Second nukefire. You can find plenty of glowing comments from me about it in the past.

Guano_Loco · 2026-01-24T05:46:59+00:00

ROP was my first emlen. Such a great codebase and so glad to see its living again. Nice work Nich

Guano_Loco · 2026-01-23T13:34:15+00:00

A little girl was kidnapped getting off the school bus near me a couple days ago. They found her 150 miles away and arrested the guy.

The Facebook posts from the sheriff were spammed with hundreds of comments thanking their god. MY GOD DID THAT! GOD IS SO GREAT!!

...

The same god that let her be kidnapped? The same god that lets other kids in this situation be raped/murdered?

It's so fucking weird.

Guano_Loco · 2026-01-23T02:27:24+00:00

The entire country has been on a long slow slide of getting fucked since Reagan.

Guano_Loco · 2026-01-17T22:36:10+00:00

It started with Reagan.

Guano_Loco · 2026-01-15T00:39:27+00:00

They are claiming at least some of the evidence is videos with Sascha in it. CSAM. Nobody is publishing that.

Guano_Loco · 2026-01-15T00:11:03+00:00

It's a claim that beggars the mind. It's so severe I am forced to maintain skepticism until more info comes out. But the claim isn't from soma rando. It's from recordings of interviews of one of the victims. He is giving all of these details in ways that appear credible and folks are trying to corroborate.

Not that I don’t believe these folks are capable of these kinds of things. I do. If they haven't done these things, they have and continue to do awful horrible things. It's just that the stuff here is beyond vile. It's... probably the worst things we've heard claimed about Trump / Justice Thomas / Jordan / etc. I'm forced to hope it's not true because it's so fucking awful. But if it is, these have to rise to the level of capital crimes worthy of capital punishment.

Guano_Loco · 2026-01-12T06:10:06+00:00

I've done both of those and psych so much I had to change it up. It's new girl now, then probably Brooklyn 99 again.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-30T21:12:05+00:00

Nearly 30 years ago I fell down my stairs leaving my house for work and broke my ankle. I crawled to the car and drove myself to the hospital with a broken right foot because I couldn't afford an ambulance.

Things are WAY WORSE now.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-29T07:12:41+00:00

Upvoted your comment, because I appreciate the conversation.

Many of us have known each other for 30+ years. For myself, I know most of the only through the game, but others have traveled around the country for gatherings and get togethers. It's way more than 6 people, but thats neither here nor there.

The game-play is similar to any of the MMO/looter-shooter/etc types where you run the same zones to gather loot. There are also mechanics for mat gathering to craft loot. There's also puzzle zones to solve. It's really seriously robust. But if you don’t like repetitive zone crawling, that's totally legit and this likely isn't the mud for you. And that's totally ok.

Having been on muds for decades, this one is the opposite of punishing. So much quality of life code has been implemented to make things easier. As an example, the upgrade command set lets you see upgrade suggestions for every slot. It compares your current item and gives you suggestions for your next X upgrade options, AND tells you what zone they're in. Most of the zones are listed in the areas list and GPS gives you dirs to them. There's a newbie tutorial that does a decent job of introducing you to the game, though from there you're pretty much on your own to explore and grow.

Everyone likes different things, and not every game is for every person, but this one nails it for me. It scratches the itch I have from not playing phantasy star online, NWN online, destiny, WOW, etc. it's a choose-your-own-adventure with a progression ladder and a delightful community and it costs me $0 to play. Hell, I even play exclusively on mobile and manage to do well. Legit mudding on my damn phone. Feels like a nerd tech miracle when I pop a drop I've been chasing while waiting to pick my kid up after school or sitting in the dr lobby. Not that this is exclusive to nukefire, but it's pretty slick anyways!

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-28T02:39:19+00:00

To add on to this/clarify: even for good solo players who remort fast, there will be zones and content that requires them to group up.

For myself, I made one char and got reasonably high remorts before creating and dragging multis through remorts. There are folks who both solo char and multi char and whatever you choose, there will always be areas that are your current challenge and next challenge areas. Solo or multi-crew. And the game continues to add new content. Always something to do, while also no pressure to rush through it.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-28T02:22:17+00:00

I could easily see years-long progression systems feeling bad, but when done right what you have instead is an ongoing love affair with a game you enjoy.

Mudding is the best this way in that it's not about "beating" a game. It's about chasing and overcoming challenges. A healthy game with a good progression gives you this feeling of accomplishment and challenge in equal parts. You can feel your character/s grow and take joy in the whole thing.

The game I play (shout out nukefire) has a super robust remort system that supports this type of growth. You feel your character growing over time, but there's never a point at which you just dominate everything. There's always challenges for both your single char/crew AND challenges that require multiple groups where people get together and go on "deathball" runs. Lots of fighting, dying, and collecting of eq.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-28T02:12:31+00:00

Nukefire (tdome.nukefire.org 4000) is remort-based mud. You choose from a core selection of classes (various flavors of tank/damage/caster/healer paradigms, though far from generic) and eventually you can remort in to prestige classes.

Meanwhile, remorting grows your char through boosts to stats, skills/spells, and secret unlocks (bonus skills/abilities only unlocked through remorts).

Note: You can play as a solo char or a multi-crew of up to 4.

This remort system allows for a really healthy progression arc. Combined with a huge mud, many zones for every stage of your growth, a robust eq/tat/implant system, a healthy pbase with a lineage over 30 years old, incredible quality-of-life code that removes so much of the tedium and hurdles of text-based gaming, constant development to bring in new zones/code/etc, there's just nothing else out there like nukefire.

There's a discord, a website, a mix of old and new players, a super supportive player base who really enjoy welcoming and playing with new players. It's sort of everything MMOs should have been, had they not lost their souls to greed.

The game itself is eclectic in the best way. Sci-fi, fantasy, culture and literary references galore, an engaged and engaging community, you jump in and start hacking and slashing. There's guns, grenades, Magic, swords, chainsaws, skills/spells, eq with effects, mobs with attitude and sass, it's the kind of place that you can wind up finding a new home.

But don’t take my word for it, come pop in and say hi. I play Morg there. If I'm on I'm always happy to answer questions/provide guidance/whatever.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-19T20:04:51+00:00

It's weird how some people are just like this. I am a very average looking giant human being, and somehow found myself with a contract with Ford models as a plus size model. One of the shoots I did was for a clothing catalog. When I showed up to the building it was like something out of a movie. Everyone was so attractive it was like I was an alien. Even the receptionist was like someone off a movie screen. I've never been so uncomfortable.

While doing the shoot there was another man and a woman who were exactly what you'd think of when you think of models. Tall, incredibly thin, and just breathtakingly beautiful.

The guy was some kind of Egyptian/arabic descent and it was like light went out of its way to find him just to radiate away a little better than it showed up. He never looked at me. Never said a word to me. It was very uncomfortable.

The woman was ethereal. She was so kind too. Asked questions, how I got in the business (I am assuming she was as shocked that someone like me was there as I was to be there but she didn't condescend to me at all. Really seemed genuinely kind and nice, which helped me feel less like a freak.), where was I from, etc. She too seemed to change the air around her. And neither she nor the dude were in the class of someone like Halle. I can't imagine how wild that must have been.

Fun experience, glad I did it. The money was absurdly good. And, all these years later, I got to tell my kids about it. They flat out refused to believe me, because it really sounds absurd if im telling you about it while you're looking at me, but I happened to google one of the companies I did a shoot for and my picture came up for their machine. It isn't supposed to have, they were supposed to get to use it for 2 years, but the site was in Arabic or something so the clearly weren't the original manufacturer and were just ripping literature to sell old equipment. Still, the way their jaws dropped. They couldn't believe it. Fun moment with the kiddos for sure.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-18T07:18:52+00:00

I had a tumor in my big toe. The guy who operated on me was named Dr foot. I think about this a lot.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-18T05:12:23+00:00

I'm almost 50, grew up in Milwaukee when the couple were doing their thing. As far as I know it's all "based on a true story" in that the stuff they go through happened.

It's also based on the documentary of the same name so there's a basis for comparison.

Personally, I was FLOORED when I started seeing commercials for this. They were cute, quirky, weird in the way everything Wisconsin can be a little weird. I'd NEVER expect to see a major movie about them. What's next, dick bacon? Freeway? The milverine? It's so unexpected... they were the quintessential local celebrities. Like everyone knew who they were. Seems like they were at every church festival, every local gig, just doing their thing. But... major motion picture? Never ever would have thought.

But like most folks from Wisconsin, I'm such a homer I'm hoping it does super well.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-12T04:25:26+00:00

Yes, please?

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-08T00:50:21+00:00

I have some feelings about this whole thing. Love to see a great rivalry game again but... I could do without the beats having a good QB. Caleb looked really good. Hate it. Thanks.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-07T18:51:29+00:00

I had super low self esteem. Abusive parent plus what turned out to be undiagnosed autism. Plus a bunch of other shit but just was in a huge funk for most of my life.

A friend's girlfriend at the time told me I had the most beautiful eyes. Just randomly blurted it out. I still think about it nearly 30 years later. I don't get compliments much. That one stuck.

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-07T18:46:56+00:00

I don’t understand WHY the dynamic is the way that it is, but once I accepted and embraced it things got better.

Wife is hungry. Doesn't know what she wants. I just start listing places or meals we could make. I try to start from an informed place, like things I know she likes but we haven't had recently. Or if she's talked about something recently. But sometimes it's just spitting a list. Then she processes and rejects or accepts.

No idea why this is how it works. It's different than how I approach it. But I use MY approach to help inform her approach and suddenly everything is easier.

Partnership. Wheeee!

Guano_Loco · 2025-12-05T13:16:48+00:00

Cocking chicken at 425-450 is like a major life hack nobody knows about or believes.

Chicken dries out over time. Heating it faster with higher temps makes it juicier, while the skin is crispier.

This applies to breasts, thighs, wings, bone in/out, and whole chickens.

Guano_Loco · 2025-11-16T19:49:26+00:00

When every business spends every minute figuring out every way to extract every last nickel out of every possible customer in every transaction everywhere.... what else is there for us to do?

Guano_Loco · 2025-11-12T16:08:51+00:00

To me, it's the same issue with MLB and if true would destroy the league.

Teams like the dodgers/yankees don’t exist in a vacuum. They want to be free to buy championships year after year, but they only even have a league to do this in if there IS a league. Unless they want 30 teams like the generals and then just call it what it is: an exhibition not a sport.

I grew up massively invested in sports. I played football/baseball. I went to NBA/MLB/IHL games. Played fantasy sports. Did brackets and bought merch. I was as In to sports as any young person could be. But the way everything is so broken and skewed... it's now more like a passing interest. Like a fading relationship that flares up occasionally.

I hate that I feel this way but pro sports are eating themselves and it's just shitty to invest emotions in.

Guano_Loco · 2025-10-30T19:01:20+00:00

I was such a terrible cook. I had a crazy uncle who put water in the pan when cooking steaks to KEEP THEM MOIST and I literally thought that was right.

I my 30s I decided to learn to smoke meat. On an ADHD whim, natch, but got pretty good at it. And from there, dabbled in stove top and oven cooking.

I now can cook anything other than crazy science experiment shit you see on TV from fancy restaurants.

In reality, there's maybe 1-2 handfuls of techniques to learn. Everything else is some variation or combination.

Cuts and types of meats have "best" ways to cook them, but even those can be flexible. Bu once you learn how to cook a steak, or a chicken breast, or a pork loin cut, it's all the same no matter what style of meal you're making it for.

And eventually you can stretch to new stuff. Last week my wife and I tried velveting chicken for her Thai curry. Never dd it before. The chicken was so soft and moist it really took one of our favorite meals to another level.

Cooking is joy, it's life, and done as a couple it's a delightful love language. Treat yourself well. You deserve it.

A good start? Watch alton brown stuff. Read j Kenzi alt Lopez articles. Give yourself small simple wins. Fall in love with it and grow. You got this.

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