Desiderius Price

Feeding trolls is a no-win scenario, IMO, and I’d rather spend my time tormenting my characters. So yeah, good luck and starve the trolls.

While I wanted to reply at work, I figured I ought to be working at work…. (not to mention, replying on the tablet is painful). Several different ways, depending on whether you’ve got a receiver pad, or not, and whether it’s got to be permanent or just temporary. Obviously, with a permanent receiver pad/device on Earth, it could be moved, defaced, destroyed by us, or be used as a chamber pot by some soul who doesn’t realize what it is. Now you could go with electromagnetic interference because that has changed in 2017 years, choosing your favorite gadget for causing this, on the “specific frequency” needed for the beaming to work. (ie, microwave, or wifi blaming our porn habits, or, if you need night time only, the sodium vapor common in street lights) Another possibility is pollution in the atmosphere, blocking the frequencies needed for the beam in/out to work. A non-human possibility is a geomagnetic storm (ie, a solar flare) from the sun. Several ideas, hope it helps!

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Report and ignore it, that's about the only option that won't drag you down with the trolls. Plus this documents the issue in case it comes back up. (Assuming this other sites mods care as much as AFF's do... Anything to the trolls will just bait them further. IMO.

As my mother’s said, it’s better to be over the hill than under it.

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It’s that time of the year. Happy Birthday Dirty Angel!!!

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You know you’re an author when you’re cursing Google for insisting on finding links for fixing diarrhea when you're trying to give it to your character (in a plausible fashion, of course).

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Just keep 14 on hand, use the one matching the year .

At a certain point, you just need a word processor, the software doesn’t have to be fancy. The user interface doesn’t really need to get an annual makeover, misplacing all the icons/menus so you have to relearn it all. Generally, I’ve found LibreOffice to be quiet stable and consistent. It might be a bit outdated/obsolete in certain areas, but that’s fine, it just has to work.

A good resolution would be to finish one of the stories I’ve already started. (Though I’m not sure, my mind’s already diving into the sequel to my holiday fic.)

Fallout shelter? It’s an okay game, great for the price (free).

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BW, convert your money to British, then you can most definitely lose 25 pounds! (Likely the cheaper way to keep the resolution too )

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