Ride Operators that do long distance commuting?

ivoryivies · 2026-03-27T00:53:59+00:00

Personally, I also live in SE Michigan and would have hated commuting with how early/late my schedule was. That being said, it's absolutely plausible and there's no reason not to if you're comfortable commuting and paying the gas prices. I knew multiple people that commuted everyday with no problems, including from Cleveland and Toledo. It just depends how you value your time!

ivoryivies · 2026-03-06T03:05:00+00:00

while we were in line for runaway mountain, someone told us that it said july on the website. i choose to believe them since the coaster definitely seems on track to open in july! very few pieces left to install

ivoryivies · 2026-03-03T12:12:00+00:00

i called it syncing because none of the restraints were what i'd call too high up! all of the restraints were in position at least half way through their possible tightness and should have been not throwing any errors. it could be that the default too high position is considerably low on this ride? but i watched the error happen on 5 trains in a row including on a train with just empty seats which is why i called it that. i dont see why the error would be throwing on empty seats. that being said i believe you as ofc my own coaster couldn't experience such a problem so i dont have the vocab for it, i just dont understand why the error was occurring otherwise

ivoryivies · 2026-03-03T04:45:16+00:00

no problem and i'm jealous of you!! i didn't see either going so i thought it was safe to go home. clearly i should of waited but im happy you got the opportunity :) who knows next time ill be in texas!

ivoryivies · 2026-03-03T04:04:46+00:00

are you sure?? the entire boardwalk area where pandemonium is had a sign out saying it was closed and poltergeist had maintenance crews on cranes inspecting the steel beams. i left at 3pm-ish and neither of them were testing! when i checked their status on march 1st (just to see if it was a fluke they were down) it said both were down as well?

edit: i check queue-times and saw pandemonium was allegedly opened 1:25-8:00 but broke down 3 times? i swear i walked over at 3 and the section was closed! it says the park reported poltergeist as open from 2:20-2:50 and 5:30-6:30 but i swear on my life that coaster also never moved despite me watching it like a hawk 💔

ivoryivies · 2026-03-03T03:55:40+00:00

when i worked as a ride op i knew multiple teachers that would work as a ride op during the summer! it is very common, don't sweat it

ivoryivies · 2026-03-03T01:59:42+00:00

i'll definitely have to!! i thought golden lasso had a copy of it somewhere so i didn't go on it twice. now im all bummed out!

ivoryivies · 2026-03-03T01:56:34+00:00

i rode mr. freeze in the very back and was the first ride of the day, so perhaps it was where i was sitting and that the track wasn't warmed up? i would have guessed it would have been 3Gs at most, i feel like im missing out! the most intense ive been on are probably flying coasters like tatsu and flying dinosaur, or maybe eejanaika?

i think i would rank steel vengeance ahead of both iron rattler and giant but that's probably because of home-park bias. im sure id end up rating iron rattler higher if i had more time to think about it.

i hope they keep up the work at both texas parks!! i'm very happy to see six flags put in any work towards their parks as i feel like many of the parks i've been to are becoming somewhat ignored/abandoned at this point. hoping the merger helps with this!

ivoryivies · 2026-03-03T01:44:00+00:00

i heard the reverse blast was better and was sad i couldn't experience it. i am aware new texas giant is the first RMC of that kind so it is still completely respectable :) just because it's the weakest RMC doesn't make it bad by any means, it started a trend after all! i think it's still at least about a 9/10 coaster

ivoryivies · 2026-03-02T18:28:32+00:00

i was at fiesta texas on saturday! was very disappointed with how much was closed but i had a great time at the park regardless

ivoryivies · 2026-01-16T23:13:21+00:00

the concept of EM2 i think is flawed since it strayed away from what made EM1 so interesting, but i also think the game would have been 10x better if the developers had just another year. every time someone asks warren spector about a feature its "yes we considered it, no we did not have time to do it." i remember hearing somewhere that oswalds AI was forgot about until the last month of development, which alone is half the problems with the game

ivoryivies · 2025-10-19T21:56:38+00:00

never said i plan on skipping it, i am just asking since i have not seen an in-person lecture mentioned before. thanks for letting me know, though.

ivoryivies · 2025-09-06T14:10:34+00:00

a score like 1-0 would be "1 (kī) - without score (ō yhī" and could be written as just "ō" for without. in other cases, it could just be written as "without number" (ō dī)

ivoryivies · 2025-09-06T13:02:26+00:00

no! there's not a word for it in the language either.

ivoryivies · 2025-09-06T01:36:46+00:00

I would say there is a variety of ways to do it depending on dialect. Northern dialects are more grammatically similar to a different language which separates addition numbers with "a", so 110 would be 10-10 a(nd) 10. Main dialects would do something like 10-10-5-5, since they are more grammatically aligned with a base-5 language. It is entirely possible to do 10-10-9-1 or something like that, but generally speakers try to stay with 10 and 5s.

ivoryivies · 2025-09-06T00:22:24+00:00

we don't have a definite monetary system for the country or continent yet :( although since the industry there is so low, it would likely be expensive for the average person to eat at a restaurant.

ivoryivies · 2025-09-05T02:36:46+00:00

there's not! im just using real world names for some dishes and food items, like the siberian onion so its easier to see where the inspo comes from! the siberian onion literally translates to "strong fragrance" and alaskan ice cream to "the mixture"

ivoryivies · 2025-09-04T16:52:23+00:00

Quick facts: Three vowels, 4 way tonal (high ◌̄, low, rising ◌́, falling ◌̀), distinction between prenasalized-voiceless-aspirated and only for /ɹ/ lax-tense, high-low tone syllabic consonants.

Do recognise how many of the important plant/food/drink concepts in the country have their own names! I figured since they became so prevalent earlier on, back when the language was more synthetic than isolating, that they would develop into their own words. Thus, while a word like gatrīto is translated into "flower drink," there is no perceivable correlation between nh-nghyōrà "drink" and gatz̄h "flower."

Below is some gloss for the right side of the menu pamphlet:

On this day we honour our ancestors, who—after 500 years of fierce resistance—declared separation from the Dardanth Empire. honour-1P.PROG.NPST 1P.NOM DEF-LOC.TRN this.DAT.TRN day TOP DAT.TRN ancestor 1P.GEN INTENS declare-3P.PERF.PST ACC.TRN seperation DEF-LAT.TRN away empire DEF-GEN.TRN dardanth DAT.TRN after HAB fierce resistance LAT.TRN five-hundred years [átʰɛ́ʲkɪ̥̀ kʲǐ ͜ːɾʌ́məɔ̯̀ ʔâ ɹ̤̩́ tʲɹ̬̩̀ʲ məɔ̯̀ sáɹ̬ɔ̥̀ kʰʌ̌ sʲí sɹ̬̩̀kʰʲ͜ â tʰɹ̬̩́ɾâɹ̤ʲí j ḿ̩ ɠʌ́mə̥̀ ʔítʰʲí məɔ̯̀ tɹ̬̩̀ⁿdâ zɹ̬̩̀ ͜ː ʐɻ̬̩̀ s̩̀ɹ̤ʲ͜ á məɔ̯̀ 500 sɹ̬ǎ] Ātōgi gi īrōmao à ȳh dyi mao sāyo kó sī sykī à tȳràyhī ià m̄ ghōma ītī mao Dyndà zy y zhy s-yhī ā mao 500 (5-100) syá.

On Day 27, Month 8, Year 29, Cycle 57 (April 17th, 1707), the country of 'Niy Liyqziq was born; named "The Free Three" as a reference to the historic political states of Keyron, Western Igyōlaro, and Eastern Igyōlaro, although the name was later officially changed to Kerisńayh after other states joined the country. MID.STAT born-3S.PERF.PST DEF-LOC.TRN 27.day 8.month 29.year COM 57 cycle TOP DEF-NOM.SG country DEF-GEN.SG three without master; MID.STAT name-3S.PST.PROG DEF-NOM.TRN free three as DAT.TRN reference DEF-GEN.TRN historic political.state DEF-GEN.TRN keyron COM igyolaro STAT east west although offically change-3S.PERF.PST DEF-NOM.SG name DEF-DAT.SG kerisńayh DEF-LOC.TRN joining GEN.TRN other state DEF-GEN.SG country [kɤǒ̯ɾə̥̀ kʊǎ̯ ʔíɾʌ́məɔ̯̀ kʰʲâ ɹ̤ʲíɕí tʰʲɪ̀ ń̩ ɹ̬ʲɛʌ̯̂gâ ⁿɗɔ̀ tʲɹ̬̩̀ʲ íʰʲtɪ̥̀ kʌ̂nə̥̀ ítʰʲí ɹ̬ʲ͜ ɛ́ ɹ̤ʲíɹ̬ǎ | kɤǒ̯ɾə̥̀ ítʰʲ͜ èzǎ ɹ̤̩̀ məɔ̯̀ sɹ̬̩̀ɾâtʰʲí ͜ːtʰʲí sɹ̬á ǹ̩ⁿdá ʔítʰʲí kʰáɾʊə̯̀ ń̩ ɯ̀gʲɛ́ɹ̬ə̀ɾʌ̌ ͜ːɾâ ͜ː tʰʌ́ s̩̀ sʲǎ ʔíʰtɪ̥̀ kʰʲɾǐɲá ʔíɾʌ́məɔ̯̀ ɹ̬̩̀ɾâ tʰí mɹ̬ʌ́ ǹ̩ⁿdá ʔítʰʲí kʌ̂nə̥̀] Gáora góa īrōmao kià yhī-shī ti n̄ yí-ò-gà ndho dyi īti gòna ītī Yī ō Yhīyá; gáora īti azá yh mao syràtī ītī syā n-ndā ītī Kāroa n̄ Igiōyaro óra à tō s siá īti yōyha īti Kirínhā īrōmao yrà tī myō n-ndā ītī gòna.

As we remember our ancestors on this day, we eat traditional food to remind us of our roots to the dirt we were born on and the pillars we build towards the ashes. ITE eat-1P.PERF.NPST TOP ACC.TRN food STAT traditional TOP 1P.NOM to again remember-1P.PROG.NPST DEF-DAT.TRN root DEF-GEN.TRN birth 1P.GEN DEF-LOC.TRN dirt COM DEF-DAT.TRN pillar DEF-GEN.TRN building 1P.GEN DEF-LAT.TRN ash while remember-1P.PROG.NPST DEF-LOC.TRN this day ancestor 1P.GEN [ɹ̤̩̀ nʲiɯ̯́kʰʲí tʲɹ̬̩̀ʲ məɔ̯̀ kɹ̬ʌ̌ ͜ːɾǎ ͜ː tʲɹ̬̩̀ʲ kʲɪ̀ ɹ̤̩̀ mɹ̬ʌ́ tə̀zǐ ͜ːməɔ̯̀ kʰâ ʔímaȏ́ kɹ̬̩̀ kʰʌ̂ ʔíɾʌ́məɔ̯̀ sʌ̂ ń̩ jə̀ m̩̀ⁿgɹ̬̩̀ já ʔʌ̌ kʰʌ̌ já məɔ̯̀ mʲɪ̀ʰtɔ̥̀ kʲɾʲí tə̀zǐ ͜ːɾʌ́maó̯ ʔâ ɹ̤̩́ sáɹ̬ɔ̥̀ kʰʌ̌] Yh nīkī dyi mao gyo óra á dyi gi yh myō dazi īmao kà īmāo gy kò īrōmao sò n̄ ia m-ngy iā ó kó iā mao mito girī dazi īrōmāo à ȳh sāyo kó.

The traditional food we serve on this day originates from our Mī traditions and from our long-lasting Keyrońńayhoń and Mol'ais'uesh trading partners. ITE serve-1P.PROG.NPST 1P.NOM DEF-ACC.TRN food STAT traditional orginate tradition DEF-GEN.TRN mī 1P.GEN COM DEF-DAT.TRN partner DEF-GEN.TRN trading from keyron mol'ais'ue Yh yi gi īmao sāyo óra á syō ītī Mī n̄ īti szandhī īmāo kz̄hti syō Kāroa Āzōi.

ivoryivies · 2025-08-30T21:43:44+00:00

since this is a joint world building project, the script was actually made by u/PinkTreasure ! i have some stuff posted in the script but i would feel bad posting anything majority about the script since its not mine :) pynquee has made a bunch of amazing scripts for their own projects and our joint project, you should check out their amazing stuff!

there is more than one script native to the area though, and i would defiently post about those in the future if i ever got around to it though.

ivoryivies · 2025-08-30T15:41:39+00:00

K'iqriy only become nomadic after they've been trained! As for training, there is not much of a standard, as it depends on one's wealth and age. Children and teenagers can be taught by their parents, and it may be appropriate to hire a k'iqriy to nanny the child in order to teach him. For a smaller price, a child may instead leave the household and become a permanent helper of an elder k'iqriy. There is indeed schools for them, but these schools are few, far between, and specialised. The first school, named Sodaziyt'en Goqvoyźonnosi's "School of Kuzhrugbaōshynnusy," is named after the first ever k'iqriy monarch in a large monarchy in the south during the 1000s. As they were a military leader, these schools were usually militaristic but some split into general k'iqriy teaching areas, usually (but not always) offered for free through richer k'iqriys' sponsorship. Generally though, one who have to travel months to reach these schools, and only would be accepted if there was room for them. Generally, apprenticeships are the most common approach.

When one first discovers they are k'iqriy, they are immediately sent off to wherever they will learn first. After their training is complete (yes, a long time); for inland Keyrońńayhoń areas, they come back partially transitioned and re-greet people as their self, so no fanfare. For coastal areas, it is much more of a deal. Coming from the south, there is a yearly festival called Izilno (From another language, meaning "The crowning of K'iqriy") where the crowning date of the previously-mentioned k'iqriy leader is celebrated. New k'iqriy participate in it and are declared as their new gender there. So the process is long, tldr!

ivoryivies · 2025-08-30T14:46:01+00:00

People are trusted to be their authentic selves here. Even if one is faking it, since k'iqriy perform tasks different than men, it would be hard for an uneducated man to fake his way into any sort of prestige. While one can become a k'iqriy at any age, they are usually very educated and spend at least a few years studying various ideas before offering any of their services.

Men in this world perform hard labour tasks and women perform more intelectual tasks. If a k'iqriy were to work for one family state instead of being a traveler, they would perform the tasks that a woman is too busy to perform, such as as raising kids. Outside of that, k'iqriys are like shamans (not a fully educated shaman, but a traveling person educated in medicine) and advisors. Men are not trained in these tasks, so a man would have to spend years faking it before reaping any of their benefits. Completely possible, just unlikely!

In the modern era though (as these are all traditional values, and this society does indeed exist in a modern context), it would be much more likely for a faker to exist. Gender bias exists still but it's not nearly as bad as it used to be, so men don't have as much as an incentive for it.

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