Paul Gadzikowski

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A MOO is a text-based MMORPG system, where MOO stands for MUD (Object-Oriented) (where MUD stands for Multi-User Dungeon). LambdaMOO was the first and the biggest, and may still be the biggest though graphics-based ones are bigger nowadays of course. I've been a member for fourteen years, but I (and the people I know there) use it for chatting rather than gaming; sort of like sitting around a con in hall costumes cosplay.

I still like text-based RPG for the capability it affords to adopt a persona, any persona without regard to game-provided options, with a sentence or two of verbal description; and for the capability it affords of dressing up as more than one person at once. One of the ways to do the latter is a "puppet", an object that appears to be another player but in fact is controlled by another player. One of the first things I did when I became a member (there was a waiting list in those days; dunno about now) was get myself the ability to morph and a puppet that could also morph, and set us up respectively as all the Doctor's incarnations and all the Doctor's companions. I also built a TARDIS to travel around in. And I have several non-Doctor Who morphs.

I decided I'd better edit the companions' descriptions when someone reacted to the word "girl" in one as if it meant she was prepubescent.

Liveblogging my insomnia. Rarely have I known NyQuil to fail to put me out but tonight, when I needed it most this week (so far), it fails me. Perhaps I'm developing a tolerance.

qtrhorserider noted the other day that PETA people would consider our keeping cats "slavery". "I know no form of slavery," I said, or words to this effect, "in which it falls to the masters to carry the shit away."

O flist, thou let me down.

Turning the tv on. Unfortunately, when qtrhorserider is trying to sleep, I feel obliged to keep the sound off. Fortunately, it's Doctor Who.

Hey, the Get Smart movie is on at 1 am. I hope to be asleep by then, but I've set the DVR. Which reminds me, I want to set the DVR for the movies scarfmom has asked me to tape this week, particularly since at least one is one that qtrhorserider and I will want to see ourselves.

I don't think I've ever seen a real animal rear up and roar the way puppet, stop-motion and CGI animals and monsters do.

New installment on my flist of a Doctor Six story I decided to follow. Which reminds me: I half-promised my flist a third installment of Doctor/Peri 'shipping, having admitted to having composed most of it already. Haven't looked at it again since. Really must.

Was typing, missed Francine Jones slapping the Doctor.

Poked the third 'ship story a bit. Didn't tackle any of the scenes that are unwritten though. Here are the first two segments, if you've missed them.

Tried to chat per suggestion of kiri_l below in comments, but haven't had mIRC up in ages and couldn't remember which server on my Recent Servers list is #dwc's. Pretty sure it was Anime-Chat but that server wouldn't let me connect. Gonna try LambdaMOO.

LambdaMOO session log to come.

LambdaMOO session log may contain language not ordinarily appearing in this blog. LambdaMOO session log edited for clarity( and cut for length. )

Good night.