Sandbox Discussions

[MaggieoftheOwls]

I really like what this Bell did with the "short hair" social requirement.

[Alicorn]

I mean, it's more "what was available in the short haired Kristen Stewart department". The actual haircut Bella is wearing is lower maintenance than her more smoothly coiffed icons. E when she's just had a trim and B when she hasn't bothered in six months, not so much F or C.

[pedromvilar]

BDSM Sadde is now nicknamed "Mage"

[MaggieoftheOwls]

Lorica's shoulderbots are painfully adorable.

[DanielH]

From the Eclipse world:

The bus has kneeling pads on the floor.

Is there a reason this is not as much of a safety hazard as I’m imagining?

[Alicorn]

http://www.jefftk.com/p/make-buses-dangerous

(it also seems strictly better than standing, which is routine on buses, as long as in each case you have something to grab in case of lurch.)

[DanielH]

Even in light of that (and I doubt Eclipse has a Jeff who legislators actually listen to), the benefit seems to be far outweighed by the cost. A subset of subs are more comfortable and maybe a few more couples take the bus, but the added danger seems not worth it.

Maybe in cities where there are a lot of professional mages it works out, and it might not be as dangerous on the margin as I imagine given that many buses lack seatbelts.

[jalapeno_dude]

'Semiquarter' is not a term I'm familiar with for units of school and googling is not helping (I'm familiar with semesters, trimesters, quarters, and terms). Is it half of a quarter (i.e. 1/8th of the school year)? That's what the name suggests to me but this comment is then confusing to me.

[Adelene]

I think the idea is that they're using a system with unusually short subdivisions for extra flexibility, but the classes aren't actually shorter or anything - any given class might be one or two quarters long and might start at the beginning of a quarter or in the middle of one.

(Sometimes schools do Weird Shit like that. The junior high school I went to used a rolling six-day schedule, with some classes all six days, some three days out of six, and some two days out of six, for example.)

[pedromvilar]

^ Ade is correct, because sometimes you have four people that arrive from lockdown, and sometimes there were three total eclipses in a row two years ago and there's an influx of students. Classes start all the time.