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The Best of The Week

  1. Acquire a bass. Ideally the bass should be either the acoustic variety, the upright variety, or the electric variety, but it should not be the aquatic variety. If you acquired your bass by pulling it out of a body of water, it is probably the wrong sort of bass, and you should take your searching farther inland.
  2. Acquire one or more string suitable for installation on a bass. These are found through vendors of musical instrument supplies, either as a single string or a matched set of four strings. If you've never done this before, or you are making the purchase on behalf of a child learner, go for something inexpensive.
  3. Acquire eye protection. If you already wear spectacles to correct your vision, get additional eye protection to layer over them. Bass strings are capable of inflicting remarkable damage to eyes and eyeglasses, with devastating suddenness, if you should happen to offend their sensibilities or

On Christmas Eve 2014, a Skype group of conlang enthusiasts from the /r/conlangs community on reddit - people who invent new languages for fun - devised an idea which had not previously been explored with any seriousness in conlanger communities online: a constructed pidgin, or "conpidgin," with language features emerging naturalistically through the usage of the group's participants, rather than by deliberate design.

Most conlangs are formed a priori, with the syntax,

Rabbit's All-Comers Mapping Project, or RAMP, is a Doom 1 & 2 mapping community project designed to let anyone submit a map, as long as it follows common decency rules. It is hosted by DavidxNewton.

There are very few restrictions; for all intents and purposes as long as it is in the UDMF format and runs in GZDoom (and doesn't replace anything or interfere with the rest of the project), etc etc. It sounds like a lot, but it's really

News for Noders

November 1: The IRON NODER CHALLENGE starts today and runs through December 1. It's never too late to sign up, and all writeups get rewards.

November 1: Happy Birthday Zephronias!

November 5: Bonfire Night in the UK.

November 11: Veterans Day in the US.

November 13: Everything2's Birthday.

November 27: Happy Birthday Estelore!

November 28: Thanksgiving in the US.

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October 1: Oh no! It's The Halloween Horrorquest!

October 17: Happy Birthday gnarl!

October 31: Something spooky will probably happen today. It usually does.

October 31: prepare yourselves for the XVIInd Iron Noder in November!



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September 8: Happy birthday svntax!

September 16: Feliz cumpleaños Ancientsnow!

September 18: Happy birthday Stuart!

September 25: Happy birthday Templeton!

September 26: Stanislav Petrov Day.

September 27: Happy birthday Uberbanana!


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August 1: Brevity Quest 2024 starts today!

August 4: Happy birthday avalyn!

August 6: 広島

August 9: 長崎

August 27: Happy birthday Bitriot!

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July 1: Canada Day.

July 4: America Day.

July 15: Side Quest 2024 ends.

July 25: Happy birthday TanisNikana!

July 26: Happy birthday teleny!


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