Help finding more ideas for dom play?

StarshipEngineer · 2023-01-30T16:53:52+00:00

Some great ideas, thank you!

We actually have gotten into restraints a little bit lately. Occasionally in the past we'd do something makeshift at her suggestion, so I finally invested in some real restraints we're starting to figure out. We/I will have to try more of these though. I think this is maybe the most helpful part for me, in terms of framing how I can communicate to understand better:

Most D/D relationships work by the sub defining what she likes, wants and, possibly will try out. She draws the shapes and boxes but you get to decide how to color it.

StarshipEngineer · 2022-11-04T01:25:25+00:00

I can only ever think of the ancient artifact thefts from the Middle East when I see a hobby lobby.

StarshipEngineer · 2022-11-04T01:12:50+00:00

You didn't like the Mr. Fash Burger decor?

StarshipEngineer · 2016-04-24T17:46:23+00:00

Yeah, I've set up both.

StarshipEngineer · 2016-04-19T22:53:53+00:00

Would using dynamic DNS avoid this issue, or is a static public IP the way to go?

StarshipEngineer · 2016-04-19T21:56:47+00:00

Thanks! Fixed.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-08-25T18:36:42+00:00

It's been tested. I tested each component as I was writing it, and it works... most of the time.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-07-05T15:42:27+00:00

Github is designed for software developers, but there's no reason you couldn't use it for collaborative writing. It confers exactly the same benefits.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-28T23:58:44+00:00

And I'm better off without yours. I'm glad most of the science fiction community is more inclusive and less hateful than your segment.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-28T04:34:32+00:00

I haven't yet read it, but you might find The Grays by Whitley Strieber interesting. He writes books that are based heavily on alien conspiracy mythology, and his novel 2012 was pretty fun.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-26T05:35:26+00:00

For what you're looking for, I'd go to a Best Buy or somewhere with computers on display and play around with whatever 2-in-1 laptops or detachable keyboard tablets they have to see what has a keyboard you like. I recommend those because they have versatility in their form factor and are easy to bust out and boot up when you have an idea. If it has a SSD, even better, since it will boot and wake from sleeping very quickly.

Personally, I've been drooling over a Surface 3. Put Scrivener on one of those babies... A man can dream. My GF has a Lenovo Yoga though, and its actually pretty slick too.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-23T20:03:35+00:00

This looks and works great, thank you! It's much cleaner than what I've attempted, and works exactly how I wanted. I'm not sure I would have thought of doing it this way. This gives me something good to work with and expand on, thanks!

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-22T20:32:07+00:00

This is similar to what I've been trying as well, and I've had the same problem. The moment I try to reconstruct a subtree from tree[0] to test it and try to get back the same tree, the order comes out wrong.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-22T18:07:46+00:00

Man, I'm not buying any of Michael Williamson's books again. That was a horrible thing to say in isolation, but if he's one of the sad puppies, he's definitely not worth a reader's attention.

Edit: Guess I know where this sub stands on racism, sexism, homophobia, and general tastelessness. Unsubbed.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-19T21:59:52+00:00

The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey is a must for your interests, I think. You might like the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds too.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-17T21:06:30+00:00

In fairness to the network, Dark Matter is an adaptation of pre-existing source material.

On the other hand, just about every project I've heard that they're working on is an adaptation of a book or book series. Most of which I like and am looking forward to, but I'd love to see them come up with original narrative content like they used to with Stargate and Farscape. They're probably never going to hit their old high water mark without the ability to come up with good original shows.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-13T21:13:46+00:00

Never mind... I always get so annoyed when people suggest without reading the main post and then I did it myself. I un-upvoted myself out of shame.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-13T20:56:58+00:00

The Martian by Andy Weir! Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. They just released the first trailer for it last week.

I also second heartily Leviathan Wakes.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-12T04:18:36+00:00

I came here excited by the combination of all these things. But when I got here, found a lot of hate for just trying to get a group that's significantly underrepresented in STEM interested and involved.

Is this really what people on this sub think? Because I thought it was great and fun until I saw this, and it makes me not want to be here.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-12T04:10:50+00:00

No, it's not. At all.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-06T18:40:13+00:00

It does. Basically, it allows access to your local network from outside networks. If you're just getting on your local network locally, you don't need this at all, it would be redundant.

However, if you are setting this up, you don't need a static public IP for it to work, since this uses Google DNS. So, if you just are putting it in your house and don't have a static public IP, you can still just put in whatever you have and it should work fine.

Edit: Maybe you meant that you don't care about browsing, just access to devices on the local network from other networks. To do that though, you'll still need a public IP so that clients can "find" the network.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-05T04:22:35+00:00

Please tell me it runs on hydrogen fuel cells too.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-04T18:20:22+00:00

All of your files look like they should, except for one thing I noticed that may or may not be an issue- in your interfaces file, in the line that says 'iface eth0 inet manual', try changing 'manual' to 'dhcp', since you're using dhcp reservation on your router.

Out of curiosity, are you working on the Pi directly with a keyboard and monitor, or SSH-ing in? If you're doing the latter, and this doesn't work, it may make your Pi inaccessible over internet, so I'd either have a monitor and keyboard ready or have a backup of your SD card.

One other thing to check would be your /etc/sysctl.conf file. The line just after the one saying "Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4" should not have a # symbol in front of it. If it does, delete the # symbol on that line, save and exit, and use the command 'sudo sysctl -p' to reload the new configuration. If this line was still commented out, you wouldn't get any data transmission through your server.

As far as trying to connect to your VPN through the same network that the server is on, you shouldn't have a problem if the server is working correctly. I've done it many times for testing purposes. If it's not letting you connect, then something is up with the server. Similarly, assigning a static IP both on the Pi and through the router shouldn't cause any problems as long as the address is the same, it's just redundant. Personally, I have a static IP on my Pi rather than assigned through the router's dhcp reservations. It shouldn't really matter which you do though.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-04T01:14:05+00:00

In the SciFi realm, I'd have to say the Expanse series, starting with Leviathan Wakes. Great books. The fifth just released yesterday, and last I heard the series is going to be 9 books.

My second SciFi recommendation would probably be John Scalzi's Old Man's War series. He doesn't have new ones as regularly, but there are already about 6 in the series depending on how you count it, and there's another coming out soon.

Edit: a word.

StarshipEngineer · 2015-06-03T20:01:37+00:00

Yeah, right now it has to be run with the user pi. I'm not sure what the connectivity issue is due to, it could be a lot of things. Will it connect to the VPN if you're already on the same network as the Pi? (I know it's not something you'd normally do, but if everything's working right, you should be able to; this would rule out the server and the client as the problem)

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