@Geist: Oh, I hate those people as well. My neighbour has his volume set EXTREMELY loud, loud enough that I can hear it, in my house, in my room, while playing games, with the sounds on. If I'm using my headset to chat with people, I can BARELY hear his movies/shows/music still. Thankfully, he doesn't do it super late at night. He tends to stop it around 10pm, just as I'm settling down to read/watch a movie/few episodes of whatever anime I'm binging on at that time.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-26T12:13:11-04:00
Oh, you guys just don't realize that you're dealing with the most important people in the world. I see it all the time on the road, too; people there are so super important that laws don't apply to them. I wish I were that important.
Mike Kabala 2016-04-26T12:49:15-04:00
Wow, official ... I'm going to have to add that to the kittencorps website!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-26T13:17:24-04:00
#Confirmed!
Oh boy, now that the sucky part of the day is out of the way, just one more class and then bowling with my lab section! It's a tradition of my lab TA's.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-26T13:23:49-04:00
@LZ: but since we are official, doesn't that make GM a special person too? He should be able to play his game music loud enough for me to hear it in D.C.
Damn it, I hate when people freeze the game on their turn. I think I might know how they are doing it too...opening up the "Currently open apps" screen and leaving it there. That's the only way I can think of it happening. And it's always when someone knows they are going to lose too. -.-
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-26T14:38:31-04:00
@GM: I hate when people do that. Why the hell are people being trolls in a game? I also hate when people leave when they are getting attacked. Take it like a man ya wimp!
@Geist: I sometimes leave when being attacked because it's early in the game, and I can't defuse it. If they made it so we could click on the kitten to expedite the exploding, then it wouldn't be so much of a problem.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-26T15:32:46-04:00
But leaving before exploding causes an imbalance in the cards. Too many sploders, eh?
I always draw first, then if it's early and can't defuse, I jump out. I've won a game where I was first to draw, and got a kitten first thing.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-26T16:51:25-04:00
Yeah jumping out after the timer starts is fine. I've had people get saddled up with more turns than there are cards quit without taking a single turn, though.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-26T16:53:57-04:00
But leaving before exploding causes an imbalance in the cards.
This is true. If you look at the percentage meter before and after someone leaves a 5 person game, the percentage goes way down. You end up collecting a whole lot more cards especially if it's the beginning of the game.
I got saddled with 8 turns, and ended up using them all and not getting blown up once. Helped I had a lot of reverse and skips in there. Still ended up getting down to last card in the deck. Lost, but got there none the less.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-26T17:50:24-04:00
Just got back from bowling with my lab section to find out Chem Club is bowling friday as well! My wrist kinda hurts, and I got sequentially worse through the day, but hey, I started off with a 117, which is nice for someone who bowls once every two years or so!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-26T17:52:44-04:00
Also, that bottle opener/cap shooter thing got here! That'll be alot of fun!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-26T21:18:22-04:00
I remember when dead week was a time to relax and prepare. This semester, it's like 3 times as much work as I've had all semester.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-26T22:58:21-04:00
I'm looking at the numbers, and it looks like I'm going to have to charge $12 or so for a 16 oz bottle of Mad Cow.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-26T23:05:44-04:00
Eek. Wait, that's a full pint. Will that be the only size for a bottle?
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-26T23:17:20-04:00
Yes
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-26T23:18:25-04:00
Unless there's enough of an outcry in the next few days. I have to figure out what a minimum order would be, and each order can only have one size of bottle
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-26T23:39:19-04:00
Ok. I mean, it's not like I'll let it go to waste! Heck, if worse comes to worst, it just means more macaroni for everyone! So when do you expect to launch it?
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-27T00:10:15-04:00
Soon. The other flavors will be in 5 oz bottles. It's just the Mad Cow that I'm thinking of having in pint bottles.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-27T00:54:42-04:00
For $5 each
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T00:54:47-04:00
Oh really? Why's that?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T01:00:45-04:00
Why are they different, I mean?
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Ah, O-chem. Where you can spend an entire night frantically hurrying to catch up on labs only to finish 2. 3! Technically 3! One of them was a 2-parter I did as one.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-27T01:16:32-04:00
Because 5 oz of BBQ/steak sauce isn't enough, but 5 oz of regular hot sauce is.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-27T10:22:05-04:00
Morning kittens. It's rainy all week and over cast all week. I just want to curl up with a good book and some spiked hot chocolate.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-27T10:45:03-04:00
Morning kittens!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-27T10:58:25-04:00
Morning BaKhan. How is my puppy this morning?
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-27T10:58:40-04:00
Blarg! Geist, that sounds terrific to me, too. Unfortunately, I have too much going on this week, so I can't. It's looking like my original idea for a goal is only going to be enough to get the sauce and labels made and pay KS their portion. It won't cover freight or any incidentals, so it looks like I need to increase the funding goal.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-27T11:03:05-04:00
@Geist, he's doing good actually. He's been really fussy with eating lately, one day he'll eat something, the next he won't touch it. I tried a new kind of food last night and it went over well, and he ate it again this morning, so hopefully I've found something he likes? His energy level is still crazy so I know he's not suffering at least. He is such a crazy boy!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-27T11:03:18-04:00
@LZ, what about charging shipping after the campaign?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T11:07:05-04:00
I didn't totally just sleep through a very important class, you just slept through class! I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Geist, same here. Only one day from this past saturday until the coming monday that it wasn't forecasted to rain. On top of that, it's consistently in the mid-70s and never rains in the morning when I have to walk to classes! I love the weather this week!
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-27T11:10:27-04:00
BaKhan, I'm planning on charging shipping after the campaign. The freight charges I'm talking about are the costs associated with shipping the sauce from Florida to me.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-04-27T11:14:54-04:00
@LZ, ok, fine, make more sense... logical bastard... ;)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-27T11:37:10-04:00
Looking forward to the campaign LZ. BBQ sauce, did you say?
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-27T11:39:15-04:00
looks like I need to increase the funding goal.
By how much? I think you mentioned that a campaign would have to be $30,000 to start. Would that include a small recipe book?
You might still need some helpers to bottle all of that up. KC members to the rescue!
I'm listening to music that is designed to help you focus on the game(and it actually helps, I don't know how many times when I couldn't hear the music I died to the same thing...now I barely die to anything in there!). And the fact it's FFXIV music. >.>
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-27T12:36:38-04:00
Geist, yes, I have a BBQ/steak sauce called Mad Cow.
I was originally planning on $15k for a goal. Now I'm thinking around $17k or $18k
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-27T13:01:21-04:00
Sign me up for the Mad Cow. Now that the weather is warmer, it's time for some BBQ eating.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T13:34:01-04:00
That sounds like alot for a goal, LZ. I hope you have a plan to get the word out there so that enough people want it. If you didn't already have a fixed minimum for production and freight, I'd even suggest going to a site with a flexible funding option just to be on the safe side.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T13:37:24-04:00
I just can't focus with any music. Music of any form, even in the form of a song stuck in my head (which I've, as far as I've ever been able to find, literally always had a song stuck in my head!), will take my concentration from whatever I'm doing. Unless it's like the background music of a movie or very well done background music in a game, I'll focus at least a little on it. I can't do anything while listening to my favorite music except drive, do simple tasks, or play simple spatial-relations games like Flow or Candy Crush.
I hate it. I wish I could listen to music while working on things, but then I can't focus entirely on them and won't do a good job.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T13:38:10-04:00
Same goes for podcasts. I often listen to Welcome to Night Vale while playing Mount&Blade, but I always have to pause it if I get in a very intense battle or need to focus on what the characters are saying.
@Zem: Most of the FFXIV fighting, once you've pretty much learned your entire classes skill set, is all muscle memory of knowing when to use the next skill in the sequence. The only time you really "need"(yes, the quotations are supposed to be there) to pay attention is when you are the healer. Some healers don't pay much attention and they still heal perfectly. It's all about being in that rhythm. The rest of the fighting, is special relation to the AoE(area of effect) skills that enemies use, and being able to dance around them(literally dance in some cases where there are 10+ enemies with attacks that criss-cross leaving space just barely large enough for a character to stand in and not get hit).
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T13:53:57-04:00
Oh I know that when you play a game enough, you just know all the controls without thinking, but times when you actually have to think about what you're doing. Like when you're raiding a castle in M&B. I can listen to things during a normal field battle, but in a raid, there's just so much going on. Either you need to be focusing on your medieval sniper skills and head-shotting people dozens of meters away or you're in the middle of dozens of people with hardly enough space to swing a sword and need to focus on where every person is. The fighting itself is routine, but it's best to be able to think about it. Also, the times in those games when you just need to be thinking about what someone's saying, and that's hard to do with a podcast or music sometimes.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T16:34:59-04:00
Do you all get off work at like noon or something? Because you're never on here after it!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T17:08:17-04:00
Oh my God, that was the best playthrough of Fallout I've ever seen... He did a no weapons run and ended it by literally punching the entire institute to death single-handedly! Better than that, for everyone in the institute you kill, 2 synth seekers spawn in the teleportation room. There can literally be over 80 seekers! He killed them all and looted everything! He had almost 3,000 pounds of things in his pack!! Holy cow, that was one of the best things I've ever watched!
Michele Case Rideout 2016-04-27T18:23:29-04:00
I was a backer of the project and I never received my game at all. I thought perhaps somehow my payment rejected, but while doing taxes I went back through my account and can see that my pledge did go through. Anybody know how I can contact Elan or Kickstarter to have this solved? I've looked for a link or email channel, but so far I'm coming up w/o an answer.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-27T22:03:16-04:00
I mean that's been in like every update and is on the website.
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Still, kind of a slow day here. Which is probably a good thing seeing as I should be doing work now.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T01:35:22-04:00
2 more days... then only finals...
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-28T09:18:45-04:00
Morning kittens. Will the rain ever go away?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T10:12:44-04:00
Have you been listening to me, Geist? Yesterday was the one day in a 9 day period we weren't expecting rain at all, and today as well, really, but for around midnight. Just add a couple days to that since you always get the same weather after we're done with it.
Also, my secret: If you want a quick and good look at the weather for the week to come, just google "weather [location]" or the other way around. It's really handy.
Morning kittens. Another gloomy/rainy day here as well.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-28T10:44:56-04:00
It's been gloomy and rainy all week here, as well. This is when depending on a motorcycle sucks
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-28T12:25:36-04:00
Never understood the appeal of motorcycles. I can see riding one by yourself for short distances but cross country with another person doesn't appeal to me.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-28T12:45:14-04:00
I don't do long trips. I use it as a commuter vehicle. Anything longer than about 30 miles starts to get painful.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T13:07:02-04:00
My mom has friends who drove motorcycles all the way from I think LA to Juneau, Alaska. It took like a week straight both ways. I have no idea how you could do that. How you could keep your arms in that position for so long!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T15:34:44-04:00
53 degrees, overcast, going to rain in several hours, just closed up shop in lab, one day of classes left at all... Yup, it's most definitely a pound and a half of sugar and milk (and sure, maybe some coffee in there as well) kind of day! One of my favorite types of day!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T15:46:48-04:00
One of the best feelings is when a song tries to get stuck in your head but you can't think of it. All you can remember is a part of the tune and maybe 3 words of the lyrics and have to extrapolate from memory until you can find something to base it off of and then somehow actually remember the song in entirety! Then it's even better when you get to a computer before it goes away and can look it up and listen to it!
That just happened to me with You Can't Hide by Sanctus Real. Amazing band, one of my favorites, from what just possibly might by my most favorite album of all time, and nearly every song on it is just so amazing! I haven't listened to many albums cover to cover dozens of times, but of all of them, I would definitely recommend this one the most.
It's a christian rock band, but I know a few strong atheists who can't get enough of them. There are some who can get over what the songs are about and just enjoy the ride.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-28T16:15:09-04:00
I'd love to have a custom made motorcycle just to ride around in on very short trips. Otherwise, I'll stick with vehicles I can go shopping with.
Yeah, you definitely need a car. Motorcycles are good to have as a commuter. When I had to drive 16.5 miles to work, the 55 mpg motorcycle was sure nice to my bank account. It certainly isn't a be all end all vehicle, though. We do have my wife's minivan. I only say I'm relying on the bike right now because my car died last winter, and my friend and I are working on restoring an '84 CRX, which will be mine when we're done. We expect to be done August or September, so I didn't see the point in buying another car yet.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T17:14:52-04:00
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T17:57:53-04:00
Please tell me someone clicked that! It's asshats like me that have kept that going this whole time!
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-28T18:28:42-04:00
Zem, I haven't clicked one of your links in over a year. They're too dangerous.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T19:02:37-04:00
Oh come on, only like one in five is a rick roll, and that's only to punish you for not having read my entire comment detailing which song it was that was in my head this time! Also because nobody can resist the temptation to rick roll friends with a link to music.
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Come on... click it! You KNOW you WANT to!!!
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-28T19:50:25-04:00
I read it. Not interested in a Rick Roll though.
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-28T19:55:42-04:00
Damn you! Even talking about Rick rolling has gotten the song in my head!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T20:46:26-04:00
YES! I WIN!!
MUHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-28T22:35:05-04:00
Just one more day... then I have one day to feel normal.
Then just one more week... one more week until break... finally!
Mike Kabala 2016-04-29T09:21:45-04:00
Hello Kittens. Sorry I haven't been around. It's been a rough few days. I don't know how much of my personal life I want to burden you all with here, but I have experienced a life-changing event and I'm battling the flu on top of it all.
Mike Kabala 2016-04-29T09:25:34-04:00
I do have one item of Good news to report. I got an email from Bella saying that she will be sending "The Crate" to me. Better late than never.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-29T09:51:18-04:00
Hooray for playtesting! Hope that will help you out. Sorry for whatever else has happened.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-29T10:25:09-04:00
@CB: As a founding member of the Kitten Corps, you can unload your cares and worries here. Or in the litter box if you are more comfortable doing that.
Glad you got in The Create. I haven't emailed Bella yet.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-29T10:26:44-04:00
Also, there must be something going around. I was sick as a dog last week. Fever, chills, sore throat, aching bones. I went to work anyway and I passed some of it to a few co-workers (you're welcome guys!) but was able to get over it within 72 hours.
Mike Kabala 2016-04-29T12:27:52-04:00
@Geist, thanks. My wife passed on Wednesday after battling the flu and pneumonia. I'm fighting the same flu, taking Tamiflu. I only wish we had gotten her treatment in time.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-04-29T12:35:04-04:00
Oh Mike. I am so sorry. You have my condolences and I'll keep you in my prayers. I believe I speak for all of the KC members when I say that if there is anything I can do for you, just let me know.
Mike Kabala 2016-04-29T12:49:21-04:00
@Geist, thanks. Just be who you are and don't worry about me. If I need help, I have a lot of folks to turn to. KC has a special place in my life and I hope to continue that in the future.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-29T13:42:46-04:00
Oh. Wow, I'm sorry, CB. Just know that we're all here for you. We can keep company with the best of them
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-29T14:00:27-04:00
Sorry, CB. I can't imagine how hard that is.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-30T00:41:55-04:00
Keanu is as good as it looks. I'll leave it at that.
Nope, at this: if you like anything about Key&Peele, you'll love Keanu! Especially the action scenes with an adorable kitten!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-30T01:41:40-04:00
So they said they updated the game to have new chat comments, but I can't find them. What's up with that? Are they not actually on the full online android version yet or something?
Lord Zombitten 2016-04-30T11:34:50-04:00
I don't know. I'm still running the beta
Damion Meyer 2016-04-30T11:49:03-04:00
I'm using the updated Android version and it has the chat comments. There should be a little plus sign next to your avatar. What I want to know is when the battery and overheating issues will be fixed. Also, will Android users get the same freebies that the iOS people got?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-30T14:52:59-04:00
Damion, they said they're working on the free stuff (which I don't know why they had in-app purchases in the first place if they just wanted everything to be free), but Google Play isn't playing nicely with them or something like that. It's harder to have it set up like that for android, I guess.
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Also, I just checked yet again and still don't have the little button near my avatar like the update showed. How do you force it to update or something? I can't find out how to get it to work.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-04-30T17:14:19-04:00
Nevermind, I found it out. I had to turn off auto-updating to attempt to thwart my emulator from forcibly downloading apps for me (still not sure if it worked entirely, but it did help), so I have to manually update. Not a big deal, just didn't figure that out until now. Yay! Now I can chat!
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Anyone up for a game in the corps room later on? Just say a time and I'll be around.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-05-01T12:57:46-04:00
So, again, anyone up for a game today? We haven't had a corps game yet!
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I really like that chat thing! I've had pretty lively and funny games now!
"I am a brave tofu!"
Draw from the bottom like the scared little baby you are.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-05-01T19:33:02-04:00
The worst thing is when you put it on the bottom after exploding, then someone steals all your cards and sends it back to you and the next one happens to be a kitten as well, so they think they caught you, but really the game is just being stupid and they feel clever because of it. Especially when it's someone dumb enough to steal 2 from you, one from another person, and waste a see the future and attack in the first two or three rounds alone. I hate reinforcing them.
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Why is there no option to send your own message?! There are so many things you can't express through the game! Especially "That wasn't my kitten, so don't attack me in vengeance for something I didn't do."
Lord Zombitten 2016-05-01T21:37:46-04:00
Free chat isn't available because it would take too long.
Lord Zombitten 2016-05-01T22:26:56-04:00
I'm finishing up my campaign write-up at the moment
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-05-01T22:36:05-04:00
At least my first final will be easy. Just have to basically memorize the questions we were told by our freaking amazing recitation teaching assistant would... *hrmm* be NICE to STUDY! All from previous exams, leaning heavily on what the professor loves to go off on tangents talking about... then a full day of freedom.
Then on wednesday... two of them. I would've had 5 this week if not for the one we moved to last week. I would have had 3 on one day, 2 back-to-back! And because of the 2 wednesday anyways, I have to miss my mom's birthday at Outback Steakhouse!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-05-01T22:37:06-04:00
LZ, it wouldn't take too long for someone with a keyboard... Just sayin, there should be an option for a short message, maybe 16 characters max. Most devices have a good keyboard and people are used to texting with them.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-05-01T23:00:19-04:00
It's may; I should NOT have to wear a jacket to get food when I finally feel hungry at 10 pm! It's 49 out and will get down to 43! Come on, May! Get your act together!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-05-01T23:00:35-04:00
@Geist: Oh, I hate those people as well. My neighbour has his volume set EXTREMELY loud, loud enough that I can hear it, in my house, in my room, while playing games, with the sounds on. If I'm using my headset to chat with people, I can BARELY hear his movies/shows/music still. Thankfully, he doesn't do it super late at night. He tends to stop it around 10pm, just as I'm settling down to read/watch a movie/few episodes of whatever anime I'm binging on at that time.
Oh, you guys just don't realize that you're dealing with the most important people in the world. I see it all the time on the road, too; people there are so super important that laws don't apply to them. I wish I were that important.
Wow, official ... I'm going to have to add that to the kittencorps website!
#Confirmed!
Oh boy, now that the sucky part of the day is out of the way, just one more class and then bowling with my lab section! It's a tradition of my lab TA's.
@LZ: but since we are official, doesn't that make GM a special person too? He should be able to play his game music loud enough for me to hear it in D.C.
Damn it, I hate when people freeze the game on their turn. I think I might know how they are doing it too...opening up the "Currently open apps" screen and leaving it there. That's the only way I can think of it happening. And it's always when someone knows they are going to lose too. -.-
@GM: I hate when people do that. Why the hell are people being trolls in a game? I also hate when people leave when they are getting attacked. Take it like a man ya wimp!
@Geist: I sometimes leave when being attacked because it's early in the game, and I can't defuse it. If they made it so we could click on the kitten to expedite the exploding, then it wouldn't be so much of a problem.
But leaving before exploding causes an imbalance in the cards. Too many sploders, eh?
@LZ: I've never seen an imbalance due to that. Every time someone left while being exploded, and someone else drew, the percentage dropped slightly.
Oh, I thought we were talking about people who quit because they know they're about to explode, but haven't drawn the card yet.
I always draw first, then if it's early and can't defuse, I jump out. I've won a game where I was first to draw, and got a kitten first thing.
Yeah jumping out after the timer starts is fine. I've had people get saddled up with more turns than there are cards quit without taking a single turn, though.
But leaving before exploding causes an imbalance in the cards.
This is true. If you look at the percentage meter before and after someone leaves a 5 person game, the percentage goes way down. You end up collecting a whole lot more cards especially if it's the beginning of the game.
I got saddled with 8 turns, and ended up using them all and not getting blown up once. Helped I had a lot of reverse and skips in there. Still ended up getting down to last card in the deck. Lost, but got there none the less.
Just got back from bowling with my lab section to find out Chem Club is bowling friday as well! My wrist kinda hurts, and I got sequentially worse through the day, but hey, I started off with a 117, which is nice for someone who bowls once every two years or so!
Also, that bottle opener/cap shooter thing got here! That'll be alot of fun!
I remember when dead week was a time to relax and prepare. This semester, it's like 3 times as much work as I've had all semester.
I'm looking at the numbers, and it looks like I'm going to have to charge $12 or so for a 16 oz bottle of Mad Cow.
Eek. Wait, that's a full pint. Will that be the only size for a bottle?
Yes
Unless there's enough of an outcry in the next few days. I have to figure out what a minimum order would be, and each order can only have one size of bottle
Ok. I mean, it's not like I'll let it go to waste! Heck, if worse comes to worst, it just means more macaroni for everyone! So when do you expect to launch it?
Soon. The other flavors will be in 5 oz bottles. It's just the Mad Cow that I'm thinking of having in pint bottles.
For $5 each
Oh really? Why's that?
Why are they different, I mean?
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Ah, O-chem. Where you can spend an entire night frantically hurrying to catch up on labs only to finish 2. 3! Technically 3! One of them was a 2-parter I did as one.
Because 5 oz of BBQ/steak sauce isn't enough, but 5 oz of regular hot sauce is.
Morning kittens.
Morning kittens. It's rainy all week and over cast all week. I just want to curl up with a good book and some spiked hot chocolate.
Morning kittens!
Morning BaKhan. How is my puppy this morning?
Blarg! Geist, that sounds terrific to me, too. Unfortunately, I have too much going on this week, so I can't. It's looking like my original idea for a goal is only going to be enough to get the sauce and labels made and pay KS their portion. It won't cover freight or any incidentals, so it looks like I need to increase the funding goal.
@Geist, he's doing good actually. He's been really fussy with eating lately, one day he'll eat something, the next he won't touch it. I tried a new kind of food last night and it went over well, and he ate it again this morning, so hopefully I've found something he likes? His energy level is still crazy so I know he's not suffering at least. He is such a crazy boy!
@LZ, what about charging shipping after the campaign?
I didn't totally just sleep through a very important class, you just slept through class! I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Geist, same here. Only one day from this past saturday until the coming monday that it wasn't forecasted to rain. On top of that, it's consistently in the mid-70s and never rains in the morning when I have to walk to classes! I love the weather this week!
BaKhan, I'm planning on charging shipping after the campaign. The freight charges I'm talking about are the costs associated with shipping the sauce from Florida to me.
@LZ, ok, fine, make more sense... logical bastard... ;)
Looking forward to the campaign LZ. BBQ sauce, did you say?
looks like I need to increase the funding goal.
By how much? I think you mentioned that a campaign would have to be $30,000 to start. Would that include a small recipe book?
You might still need some helpers to bottle all of that up. KC members to the rescue!
I love when I find music that helps me focus...the fact it happens to be from a MMO...that's just a bonus.
Music helps me focus too, but only on the music... ;)
I'm listening to music that is designed to help you focus on the game(and it actually helps, I don't know how many times when I couldn't hear the music I died to the same thing...now I barely die to anything in there!). And the fact it's FFXIV music. >.>
Geist, yes, I have a BBQ/steak sauce called Mad Cow.
I was originally planning on $15k for a goal. Now I'm thinking around $17k or $18k
Sign me up for the Mad Cow. Now that the weather is warmer, it's time for some BBQ eating.
That sounds like alot for a goal, LZ. I hope you have a plan to get the word out there so that enough people want it. If you didn't already have a fixed minimum for production and freight, I'd even suggest going to a site with a flexible funding option just to be on the safe side.
I just can't focus with any music. Music of any form, even in the form of a song stuck in my head (which I've, as far as I've ever been able to find, literally always had a song stuck in my head!), will take my concentration from whatever I'm doing. Unless it's like the background music of a movie or very well done background music in a game, I'll focus at least a little on it. I can't do anything while listening to my favorite music except drive, do simple tasks, or play simple spatial-relations games like Flow or Candy Crush.
I hate it. I wish I could listen to music while working on things, but then I can't focus entirely on them and won't do a good job.
Same goes for podcasts. I often listen to Welcome to Night Vale while playing Mount&Blade, but I always have to pause it if I get in a very intense battle or need to focus on what the characters are saying.
@Zem: Most of the FFXIV fighting, once you've pretty much learned your entire classes skill set, is all muscle memory of knowing when to use the next skill in the sequence. The only time you really "need"(yes, the quotations are supposed to be there) to pay attention is when you are the healer. Some healers don't pay much attention and they still heal perfectly. It's all about being in that rhythm. The rest of the fighting, is special relation to the AoE(area of effect) skills that enemies use, and being able to dance around them(literally dance in some cases where there are 10+ enemies with attacks that criss-cross leaving space just barely large enough for a character to stand in and not get hit).
Oh I know that when you play a game enough, you just know all the controls without thinking, but times when you actually have to think about what you're doing. Like when you're raiding a castle in M&B. I can listen to things during a normal field battle, but in a raid, there's just so much going on. Either you need to be focusing on your medieval sniper skills and head-shotting people dozens of meters away or you're in the middle of dozens of people with hardly enough space to swing a sword and need to focus on where every person is. The fighting itself is routine, but it's best to be able to think about it. Also, the times in those games when you just need to be thinking about what someone's saying, and that's hard to do with a podcast or music sometimes.
Do you all get off work at like noon or something? Because you're never on here after it!
Oh my God, that was the best playthrough of Fallout I've ever seen... He did a no weapons run and ended it by literally punching the entire institute to death single-handedly! Better than that, for everyone in the institute you kill, 2 synth seekers spawn in the teleportation room. There can literally be over 80 seekers! He killed them all and looted everything! He had almost 3,000 pounds of things in his pack!! Holy cow, that was one of the best things I've ever watched!
I was a backer of the project and I never received my game at all. I thought perhaps somehow my payment rejected, but while doing taxes I went back through my account and can see that my pledge did go through. Anybody know how I can contact Elan or Kickstarter to have this solved? I've looked for a link or email channel, but so far I'm coming up w/o an answer.
Michele, email support@explodingkittens.com
I mean that's been in like every update and is on the website.
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Still, kind of a slow day here. Which is probably a good thing seeing as I should be doing work now.
2 more days... then only finals...
Morning kittens. Will the rain ever go away?
Have you been listening to me, Geist? Yesterday was the one day in a 9 day period we weren't expecting rain at all, and today as well, really, but for around midnight. Just add a couple days to that since you always get the same weather after we're done with it.
Also, my secret: If you want a quick and good look at the weather for the week to come, just google "weather [location]" or the other way around. It's really handy.
Morning kittens. Another gloomy/rainy day here as well.
It's been gloomy and rainy all week here, as well. This is when depending on a motorcycle sucks
Never understood the appeal of motorcycles. I can see riding one by yourself for short distances but cross country with another person doesn't appeal to me.
I don't do long trips. I use it as a commuter vehicle. Anything longer than about 30 miles starts to get painful.
My mom has friends who drove motorcycles all the way from I think LA to Juneau, Alaska. It took like a week straight both ways. I have no idea how you could do that. How you could keep your arms in that position for so long!
53 degrees, overcast, going to rain in several hours, just closed up shop in lab, one day of classes left at all... Yup, it's most definitely a pound and a half of sugar and milk (and sure, maybe some coffee in there as well) kind of day! One of my favorite types of day!
One of the best feelings is when a song tries to get stuck in your head but you can't think of it. All you can remember is a part of the tune and maybe 3 words of the lyrics and have to extrapolate from memory until you can find something to base it off of and then somehow actually remember the song in entirety! Then it's even better when you get to a computer before it goes away and can look it up and listen to it!
That just happened to me with You Can't Hide by Sanctus Real. Amazing band, one of my favorites, from what just possibly might by my most favorite album of all time, and nearly every song on it is just so amazing! I haven't listened to many albums cover to cover dozens of times, but of all of them, I would definitely recommend this one the most.
It's a christian rock band, but I know a few strong atheists who can't get enough of them. There are some who can get over what the songs are about and just enjoy the ride.
I'd love to have a custom made motorcycle just to ride around in on very short trips. Otherwise, I'll stick with vehicles I can go shopping with.
@Zem: It's not "The Song That Never Ends" is it?
Yeah, you definitely need a car. Motorcycles are good to have as a commuter. When I had to drive 16.5 miles to work, the 55 mpg motorcycle was sure nice to my bank account. It certainly isn't a be all end all vehicle, though. We do have my wife's minivan. I only say I'm relying on the bike right now because my car died last winter, and my friend and I are working on restoring an '84 CRX, which will be mine when we're done. We expect to be done August or September, so I didn't see the point in buying another car yet.
GM, no, it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Great song, you might like it!
Please tell me someone clicked that! It's asshats like me that have kept that going this whole time!
Zem, I haven't clicked one of your links in over a year. They're too dangerous.
Oh come on, only like one in five is a rick roll, and that's only to punish you for not having read my entire comment detailing which song it was that was in my head this time! Also because nobody can resist the temptation to rick roll friends with a link to music.
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Come on... click it! You KNOW you WANT to!!!
I read it. Not interested in a Rick Roll though.
Damn you! Even talking about Rick rolling has gotten the song in my head!
YES! I WIN!!
MUHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Just one more day... then I have one day to feel normal.
Then just one more week... one more week until break... finally!
Hello Kittens. Sorry I haven't been around. It's been a rough few days. I don't know how much of my personal life I want to burden you all with here, but I have experienced a life-changing event and I'm battling the flu on top of it all.
I do have one item of Good news to report. I got an email from Bella saying that she will be sending "The Crate" to me. Better late than never.
Hooray for playtesting! Hope that will help you out. Sorry for whatever else has happened.
@CB: As a founding member of the Kitten Corps, you can unload your cares and worries here. Or in the litter box if you are more comfortable doing that.
Glad you got in The Create. I haven't emailed Bella yet.
Also, there must be something going around. I was sick as a dog last week. Fever, chills, sore throat, aching bones. I went to work anyway and I passed some of it to a few co-workers (you're welcome guys!) but was able to get over it within 72 hours.
@Geist, thanks. My wife passed on Wednesday after battling the flu and pneumonia. I'm fighting the same flu, taking Tamiflu. I only wish we had gotten her treatment in time.
Oh Mike. I am so sorry. You have my condolences and I'll keep you in my prayers. I believe I speak for all of the KC members when I say that if there is anything I can do for you, just let me know.
@Geist, thanks. Just be who you are and don't worry about me. If I need help, I have a lot of folks to turn to. KC has a special place in my life and I hope to continue that in the future.
Oh. Wow, I'm sorry, CB. Just know that we're all here for you. We can keep company with the best of them
Sorry, CB. I can't imagine how hard that is.
Keanu is as good as it looks. I'll leave it at that.
Nope, at this: if you like anything about Key&Peele, you'll love Keanu! Especially the action scenes with an adorable kitten!
So they said they updated the game to have new chat comments, but I can't find them. What's up with that? Are they not actually on the full online android version yet or something?
I don't know. I'm still running the beta
I'm using the updated Android version and it has the chat comments. There should be a little plus sign next to your avatar. What I want to know is when the battery and overheating issues will be fixed. Also, will Android users get the same freebies that the iOS people got?
Damion, they said they're working on the free stuff (which I don't know why they had in-app purchases in the first place if they just wanted everything to be free), but Google Play isn't playing nicely with them or something like that. It's harder to have it set up like that for android, I guess.
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Also, I just checked yet again and still don't have the little button near my avatar like the update showed. How do you force it to update or something? I can't find out how to get it to work.
Nevermind, I found it out. I had to turn off auto-updating to attempt to thwart my emulator from forcibly downloading apps for me (still not sure if it worked entirely, but it did help), so I have to manually update. Not a big deal, just didn't figure that out until now. Yay! Now I can chat!
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Anyone up for a game in the corps room later on? Just say a time and I'll be around.
So, again, anyone up for a game today? We haven't had a corps game yet!
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I really like that chat thing! I've had pretty lively and funny games now!
"I am a brave tofu!"
Draw from the bottom like the scared little baby you are.
The worst thing is when you put it on the bottom after exploding, then someone steals all your cards and sends it back to you and the next one happens to be a kitten as well, so they think they caught you, but really the game is just being stupid and they feel clever because of it. Especially when it's someone dumb enough to steal 2 from you, one from another person, and waste a see the future and attack in the first two or three rounds alone. I hate reinforcing them.
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Why is there no option to send your own message?! There are so many things you can't express through the game! Especially "That wasn't my kitten, so don't attack me in vengeance for something I didn't do."
Free chat isn't available because it would take too long.
I'm finishing up my campaign write-up at the moment
At least my first final will be easy. Just have to basically memorize the questions we were told by our freaking amazing recitation teaching assistant would... *hrmm* be NICE to STUDY! All from previous exams, leaning heavily on what the professor loves to go off on tangents talking about... then a full day of freedom.
Then on wednesday... two of them. I would've had 5 this week if not for the one we moved to last week. I would have had 3 on one day, 2 back-to-back! And because of the 2 wednesday anyways, I have to miss my mom's birthday at Outback Steakhouse!
LZ, it wouldn't take too long for someone with a keyboard... Just sayin, there should be an option for a short message, maybe 16 characters max. Most devices have a good keyboard and people are used to texting with them.
It's may; I should NOT have to wear a jacket to get food when I finally feel hungry at 10 pm! It's 49 out and will get down to 43! Come on, May! Get your act together!
And this is ME of all people saying this!!!