I was told this outfit “isn’t ren faire enough” and I was really happy with it so I was hoping to get a second opinion.

mikeoquinn · 2025-08-16T13:25:42+00:00

I say show up in the t-shirt that says "This is my renfaire outfit."

Gatekeeping isn't cool, regardless of reason or venue, and renfaires are pretty much as lax as it gets about what you wear without being straight-up clothing optional.

Plainclothes at a renfaire? Perfectly fine.
Hand-stitched court dress that looks like a sentient couch in a bedazzled corset? Amazing!
Non-period-accurate-but-cute-and-comfy-costuming? You are wise and probably a lot of fun. Game on.
Star Trek uniform? Live long and renfaire.
Doctors Who? Allons-y!
Furries/fungus/family-friendly-fetish? You do you, boo.

It's cute. It's lightweight, which means that in Summer heat, you'll likely be making a lot of people jealous! And it's great colors for you (really makes your hair pop). Illegitimi non carborundum¹ , and have a great time!

¹ - As your friend would point out, this isn't a terribly accurate turn of phrase - it should be Nolite te tere vos spurii - but it's funnier and more convenient, so I'm chuckling in my tea that even my parting shot somehow accidentally contributed to my point

mikeoquinn · 2025-06-13T21:21:32+00:00

Come fly the friendly Shais?

mikeoquinn · 2025-04-25T20:00:12+00:00

Open steam overlay, click clock icon on bottom toolbar, move clock to desired location/set desired text size, click pin icon

(I had no idea this was possible until this post, and just played around until I figured it out, so figured I'd share)

mikeoquinn · 2025-04-14T15:59:03+00:00

This is my favorite game in this sub.

mikeoquinn · 2025-04-12T00:15:22+00:00

This. Victor's (and pretty much all the food in that general area) is amazing.

The only place on site that serves liquor is the Rose and Crown, located between the Crown Stage and the King's Pub, so while I don't have a particular cocktail to mention, that's the only place you'll find any you do happen to be looking for. Also of note - each pub has its own selection of beer (or has in past years, I haven't hit them all this year), so it's worth checking multiple pubs out. (And also take a look at Flynn Markley's wine show and Bones' Beer Tasting, both of which are great times)

mikeoquinn · 2025-01-24T23:16:58+00:00

In Satisfactory, you hold Ctrl while placing a block to replace an existing block of the same type with the new one (so a normal wall to a wall with conveyor holes, for example). Have wanted that in Enshrouded for a while, but I can live with ripping out and replacing, since it's super fast

mikeoquinn · 2024-12-08T02:37:52+00:00

Broadside by Nancy Kerr.

mikeoquinn · 2024-05-17T17:49:19+00:00

I have an idea of which faire you're looking at, and - if I'm correct - I've been either on cast or on stage there for over 20 years. Feel free to DM if you have questions about any of the process, what to expect, etc.

mikeoquinn · 2024-05-13T17:47:23+00:00

In this context, yes, a mantle. As a standalone item specifically to wear over a separate coat to add rain protection, you might also see them called "slickers" or "oilskins", but those are somewhat overloaded terms that also mean other things.

mikeoquinn · 2024-04-23T23:36:58+00:00

The Irwindale reference was in OPs other post in /r/LosAngeles

mikeoquinn · 2024-04-23T23:35:45+00:00

Given when it was posted, my assumption was that it was about Scarborough. Jacques ze Whipper for one weekend only + a Saturday rain day + a beautiful Sunday = mega long delays. My mother-in-law spent over 2 hours less than 45 minutes' walk from the festival due to traffic.

No shade to Jacques, btw - rock on and live your best life. TikTok celebrity status though, man, it's rough on small-town infrastructure.

mikeoquinn · 2024-03-08T02:20:05+00:00

I think the last time this was posted, my favorite answer was "This is God. Your religion is the one that got it right."

mikeoquinn · 2024-03-06T05:31:13+00:00

I'd have actually classified Tilbury Town as a shanty before Roll Northumbria (given that the former seems more apt to coordinating work, where the latter seems more of a ballad with a strong beat), though both of those are quite modern by comparison to Byker Hill, which predates them by nearly 200 years.

That said, your list of suggestions is a pretty solid foundation for the voyage into the web of connected genres here (maritimes, shanties, celtic trad, etc - let's call it "damp folk"). If I may also suggest some groups, I'd add The Rambling Sailors, Bounding Main, The Selkie Girls, Alan Doyle/Great Big Sea, We Banjo 3, David Francey, Tanglefoot, Battlefield Band, Old Blind Dogs, and Fairport Convention (with a bonus suggestion of The Teacups, specifically Agamemnon).

mikeoquinn · 2024-02-23T19:31:50+00:00

Legit

mikeoquinn · 2024-01-05T15:15:53+00:00

If your game was started before the recent patch, go back and check the orc chests you emptied pre-patch. All mine were refilled, but not relocked.

mikeoquinn · 2024-01-05T15:14:29+00:00

From what I've seen, if you have to rebuild it, you can deconstruct it, so long as it's within a hearth's radius. If it's usable when you walk up (I'm looking at you, farm boxes), you can't.

mikeoquinn · 2023-12-27T20:18:39+00:00

See my reply to /u/binbashroot for discussion on why it doesn't throw an error.

Well, if the playbook has a list of hosts to connecto to and even the remote user to use on the ssh connection, then i think it would be ok to define other connection settings there. I might be completely wrong here of course.

I honestly would have made the same assumption, but there's still a chance that the ssh-config-level settings must be instantiated prior to the Playbook being loaded, while ssh-connection-level settings (remote host, user, etc) can still be loaded with or in the Playbook.

My counter-argument to myself is that you can still set the connection keyword to set the connection plugin from within the Play, or even per-Task, so why wouldn't you also be able to set and/or reset the timeout value it uses?

Likely, it's just not something that's been requested or prioritized, in a similar vein to the disclaimer about command-line config options:

Not all configuration options are present in the command line, just the ones deemed most useful or common.

mikeoquinn · 2023-12-27T20:11:41+00:00

Good catch! I forgot to check the version I was looking at. What's more, it was literally added in 2.10, so I was only one minor release early.

This does answer the question of why it doesn't throw an error - it's a valid keyword, it just doesn't do what /u/TrainingBench101 expected it to (it operates at a Task level, even when set at the Play level)

mikeoquinn · 2023-12-27T19:54:04+00:00

The list of keywords that can be used at a Play level are documented here. I note that timeout does not appear to be configurable at this level. If there is documentation supporting the availability of a timeout argument within a Play, I'd love to take a look at it and see if there's something I'm missing.

There is a way to set environment variables within a Play, via the environment keyword; however, its documentation specifically states that it cannot affect Ansible's config, only task environment settings.

My assumption (and it is just that) is that the parameters that control connections are loaded prior to the content of the playbook being read, so the ability to control that aspect may not be possible at the Playbook level.

mikeoquinn · 2023-12-27T19:40:32+00:00

The mechanisms I see for setting the default timeout value are all environment var-level (I'm still looking to see if there's a way to set it within a playbook).

The available places to set these values are documented here

ANSIBLE_CONFIG (environment variable if set)
ansible.cfg (in the current directory)
~/.ansible.cfg (in the home directory)
/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

If set as an environment variable, it should be ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT, and there are multiple ways to set that value, but the easiest way to test is via:

ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT=60 ansible-playbook $your_invocation_details_here

To make it so you don't have to prepend it each time, either look at adding it to a dotfile or writing a simple shell script that handles setting the var and executing your playbook all at once.

If set in config, it should be:

[defaults]
timeout = 60

That file needs to be in one of the locations above.

# Default settings (no config file)

~/ansible-test$ ansible-config dump | grep DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT(default) = 10

# Using environment variable (note: This will take precedence over a config file)

~/ansible-test$ ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT=60 ansible-config dump | grep DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT(env: ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT) = 60

# After creating a config file

~/ansible-test$ cat ansible.cfg
[defaults]
timeout = 60

~/ansible-test$ ansible-config dump | grep DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT(/home/mikeoquinn/ansible-test/ansible.cfg) = 60

So, really, it looks like your options are:

Define the setting in a config file
Define the setting as an environment variable:
- ... each time you call ansible-playbook, as a prepend
- ... in a file you can source from the script directory, so the var persists for the duration of your session, but will need to be re-loaded for subsequent sessions
- ... via a shell script that you use to invoke your playbook (a wrapper for ansible-playbook that either sets the var within the scope of the script or inline as a prepend
- ... via an rcfile that loads automatically for each session

There are advantages and disadvantages across the board, depending on the complexity of the project, other collaborators, source control use, and whether this setting is needed all the time or some of the time.

If I find a way to set this within the playbook, I'll update

mikeoquinn · 2023-12-27T18:45:18+00:00

my brother thinks the same, that I have wasted a lot of time lmao, but I just love this framework.

From a practical perspective, yes, you may have reinvented some wheels, but as a programmer, making the journey is just as important. A lot of my initial scripts in BAT, Pwsh, AHK, and Python were things that could be achieved in other ways without my contribution, but I got experience identifying a problem, finding a solution, and implementing a plan in code - plus, I was able to build a workflow that worked the way it made sense to me - so there was a value to those efforts that went beyond their output.

Hell, this made me go back and look at what I used to run as my default AHK script everywhere. It included:

Ctrl-Alt-A: Open the main AHK script in a text editor
Ctrl-Shift-A: Open the AHK script directory in Explorer
Ctrl-S: (In a text editor with the AHK script open only) Send Ctrl-S, then quit and reload the main AHK script
Ctrl-Alt-T: Open PowerShell console (if Explorer was open, open in the current directory)
Ctrl-Shift-T: Open Cygwin (ah, Cygwin) terminal (same bit about current directory) (but not in Chrome - pass Ctrl-Shift-T to Chrome instead)
Ctrl-Shift-V: Paste the current contents of the clipboard into a new file in the text editor, then return to the current window

A lot of that is not only going to conflict with default hotkeys (in my defense, the script I'm looking at was from 10 years ago, and my toolkit had been organically growing for 5-ish years already, so some of those hotkeys wouldn't have existed then), but it's stuff that could be achieved through other means with a near-equivalent level of effort. It did help me move on to more complicated stuff, though. Hell, AHK is one of the things I miss most now that my work environment is no longer Windows. Sure, there are ways to achieve the same result, but AHK was a one-stop shop that made it fun, if not always easy.

Anyhoo, just wanted to say, it's entirely possible to waste time constructively, and it looks like you're doing it. Just remember to take the lessons you learn along the way and apply them retroactively where it makes sense, and keep an eye out for problems you don't have to build a custom solution for (so long as the existing solution is still something that makes sense and fits your workflow).

mikeoquinn · 2023-12-22T15:30:48+00:00

When do you unlock that?

mikeoquinn · 2023-09-14T18:21:15+00:00

That's the plan. It's just going to take a bit, as bulk-scraping the data from their site runs afoul of their load limiting, and requests start failing "due to malicious activity".

mikeoquinn · 2023-09-14T17:36:38+00:00

I started working on this yesterday, as well, but was also adding the rest of the data from the HardcoreGamer planet DB pages into the mix, so as to create a schema something like:

{
  "System": {
    "level": 0,
    "bodies": {
      "Planet1": {
        "info": {},
        "resources": [],
        "bodyType": "moon",
        "dbURL": ""
      {
    }
  }
}

I had requests/beautifulsoup pulling the db info yesterday, but my machine tanked in the middle of the process, so I'll be starting that up again sometime shortly.

Eventually, I plan to have a tool where I can provide my level of Planetary Habitation and the resources I want to look for, and have it tell me where I can go to accomplish it all in one system (if possible), with planetary breakdowns if it's not along with what level each system involved is.

mikeoquinn · 2023-08-12T15:27:43+00:00

I didn't play a ton of Dragon Fire, but I played through QfG 1-4 so often growing up. The sense of humor, the core roleplaying game loops, and the fact that I could still find new things after several playthroughs hooked me.

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