What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and making U-turns from wherever they feel like it.
Unless there is a posted law about it, u-turns are the required turning mechanism. You have to know that to get your drivers license in NY. Because they are the safest turning type, you are required to do them unless you are physically unable (not enough space) or in a specifically posted place not to.
They require you to know all the turns in their order of safety because if you do anything else a cop is allowed to ticket you for unsafe turning.
I don't understand... please provide more info.
What do you mean? When choosing a turn, you have to be as safe as possible. Obviously turning around is necessary when driving sometimes. So since u-turns are the safest type of turn, they are required to be used whenever possible, since "being safe" is the most important part of driving law.
what makes u-turns the safest type of turn? versus what? a right or left turn? I'm just lost.
Left and right are not "turning around". As opposed to two and three point turns.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and making U-turns from wherever they feel like it.
Unless there is a posted law about it, u-turns are the required turning mechanism. You have to know that to get your drivers license in NY. Because they are the safest turning type, you are required to do them unless you are physically unable (not enough space) or in a specifically posted place not to.
They require you to know all the turns in their order of safety because if you do anything else a cop is allowed to ticket you for unsafe turning.
I don't understand... please provide more info.
What do you mean? When choosing a turn, you have to be as safe as possible. Obviously turning around is necessary when driving sometimes. So since u-turns are the safest type of turn, they are required to be used whenever possible, since "being safe" is the most important part of driving law.
what makes u-turns the safest type of turn? versus what? a right or left turn? I'm just lost.
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I just saw an ad on YouTube for a telephony vendor advertising that they've onboarded over 1,000 users to their phone system.
Um, like nothing wrong with being small but, that's SO small, who would advertise that? And they talk about how that's their volume over three years.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just saw an ad on YouTube for a telephony vendor advertising that they've onboarded over 1,000 users to their phone system.
Um, like nothing wrong with being small but, that's SO small, who would advertise that? And they talk about how that's their volume over three years.
Maybe it was just one client?
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just saw an ad on YouTube for a telephony vendor advertising that they've onboarded over 1,000 users to their phone system.
Um, like nothing wrong with being small but, that's SO small, who would advertise that? And they talk about how that's their volume over three years.
Maybe it was just one client?
Easily!
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Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?
Call of Cthulhu if you like horror.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?
Not a fan of mysteries, so no idea. I would be surprised if something does not exist though.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?
Call of Cthulhu if you like horror.
Horror mysteries?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?
Call of Cthulhu if you like horror.
Horror mysteries?
No, just horror really, IMO.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?
Maybe Gabriel Knight - a Sierra point and click. Old stuff. Maybe on GOG.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?
Call of Cthulhu if you like horror.
Horror mysteries?
Yep there are some really good mysteries that are out there. They all generally have a "horror" slant to them though. It's a decent, if a bit complicated, game system based on percentile dice.
If you don't want the horror aspect, something like Bubblegumshoe may be good?
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@scottalanmiller are you looking to have pre-made scenarios to throw at players or just to have a system dedicated to mysteries (murder/horror/otherwise) that you make up yourself?
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo you should see how we drive in Texas... One of our toll roads is 85 mph / 137 kph (posted) and it is nothing to roll 90 to 95.
I've driven in Texas. Funny thing we found at the time, when we came up behind someone in the right hand lane, they'd move over off the road but continue driving.
A mate in Texas gave us advice on how to get onto the I35. Pick your spot and floor it.
SOOO much more traffic in the US than down here.
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo I don't have anything with 5 1/4 floppy drive anymore; was designed for I think the 286 generation of CPU. I just hold on to it for nostalgia
Bugger, oh well, good to see a 5 1/4 floppy again.
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drove into work today doing a relaxed 59 mph, that was fast enough for me.
not sure how believable doing 80mph in NYC metro is Scott? But I think the US definition of metro is quite different to the Aus definition.
There is no way you could do 80mph in any metropolitan area of Australia, nor would a sane person want to.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
drove into work today doing a relaxed 59 mph, that was fast enough for me.
not sure how believable doing 80mph in NYC metro is Scott? But I think the US definition of metro is quite different to the Aus definition.
There is no way you could do 80mph in any metropolitan area of Australia, nor would a sane person want to.
80 mph is the minimum allowable speed in all parts of Atlanta, highways and city streets alike. During the quarantine, "super speeder" tickets (something like 90+ mph) have gone through the roof.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
drove into work today doing a relaxed 59 mph, that was fast enough for me.
not sure how believable doing 80mph in NYC metro is Scott? But I think the US definition of metro is quite different to the Aus definition.
There is no way you could do 80mph in any metropolitan area of Australia, nor would a sane person want to.
80 mph is the minimum allowable speed in all parts of Atlanta, highways and city streets alike. During the quarantine, "super speeder" tickets (something like 90+ mph) have gone through the roof.
minimum allowable??? Does that mean you should be going faster???
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
drove into work today doing a relaxed 59 mph, that was fast enough for me.
not sure how believable doing 80mph in NYC metro is Scott? But I think the US definition of metro is quite different to the Aus definition.
There is no way you could do 80mph in any metropolitan area of Australia, nor would a sane person want to.
80 mph is the minimum allowable speed in all parts of Atlanta, highways and city streets alike. During the quarantine, "super speeder" tickets (something like 90+ mph) have gone through the roof.
minimum allowable??? Does that mean you should be going faster???
Pretty much... It's not the law but it's standard practice.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
drove into work today doing a relaxed 59 mph, that was fast enough for me.
not sure how believable doing 80mph in NYC metro is Scott? But I think the US definition of metro is quite different to the Aus definition.
There is no way you could do 80mph in any metropolitan area of Australia, nor would a sane person want to.
80 mph is the minimum allowable speed in all parts of Atlanta, highways and city streets alike. During the quarantine, "super speeder" tickets (something like 90+ mph) have gone through the roof.
minimum allowable??? Does that mean you should be going faster???
Yes, for safety. Being slower than traffic makes you an obstacle.
