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It used to be more widespread - I know of other forums that had the same policy in the past. On some forums the moderator who closed a thread for length would create the next installment at the same time.

There's a Customizer button at the top next to Notifications and Messages that lets you change the background if you want something less wintery. You can see the exact number if you move the mouse over it, if that helps.

That's displaying correctly now!

Calling it "hostile" is going overboard, but there is a psychological barrier to starting a new thread compared to replying to an existing one, which can result in conversations getting cut off prematurely. And not being able to reply to posts from earlier installments can be a nuisance. My understanding is that the rule was originally due to software limitations that no longer apply, so maybe it is worth reconsidering whether or not it still makes sense? I'm currently seeing (or rather, failing to see) the active page number in white on a white background.

I managed to read at least some of every series, though not every installment, so I feel better about voting in that category this year. I'm intending to finish novelette and graphic story before voting closes; otherwise I've done all the categories I'm likely to do.

Is Invisible Kingdom vol 1 available as a PDF anywhere? I've left it too late to buy a physical copy. Failing that, is there a good summary of what you need to know before reading vol 2 anywhere?

Not something that needs an apology If it can be organised quickly and people aren't fussed about presents potentially arriving late, I don't think it's out of the question. Are you willing to run it? If so, I'd suggest posting an "anyone interested in doing Secret Santa?" thread in Gen Chat (even if it gets moved to Games, the "moved" notice will still be visible). Otherwise, just put a note in your diary to ask again at the beginning of next October! I think that's meant as an upper limit on what you're allowed to spend, not how much you have to spend.

I haven't done it before either. But given the issues with international postage at the moment, you might be pushing your luck to get people signed up, assigned giftees, acquiring and sending gifts, and have them arrive in time for Christmas...

Urgh, that's awful. Any chance of a strike over it?

It wasn't all that bad for me. I had the top ones out with just sedation and local anaesthetic, and the bottom ones a few years later under general anaesthetic. The latter wasn't exactly trivial, but I got to go home a few hours afterwards. Obviously I didn't experience any pain during, and the recovery period was no big deal. I guess there may be variations in how different dentists handle the procedure and how different people respond, but it's not necessarily something you need to be afraid of.

I haven't had any captchas for the last couple of days. Hopefully that's the end of the problem!

I'm stuck on hold waiting to talk to somebody. It's singing "I can't get through to you" at me.

I've been getting a lot of Cloudflare captchas trying to access the site recently, which is a bit of a nuisance. Is there anything that can be done about it on the server side?

We used to have an ant problem, but the poison they're supposed to carry back to the nest worked for us. Not quickly - we had to interrupt their route with the stuff quite a few times - but we haven't had any in years.

I may well not have mentioned it, but I'm in New Zealand. We got our first community case of Delta last Tuesday, so the whole country has been in total lockdown since then (for the first time since last April).

Yeah, peopling is hard Ah, the important question!

It's their commitment, so no, unfortunately staycations don't really work. Hopefully it won't be too long before they can reschedule. And we're lucky to be living in a country that's been so minimally affected by Covid so far.

Yep - total lockdown since Tuesday! My partner was supposed to be going on a holiday today, and that's obviously cancelled. A pity, because they really need a break and they're not capable of taking one without being physically separated from work. Sorry to hear that. I guess we're likely to be getting a lot more atypical weather in the coming years...

Yay! I just had my first vaccination.

Eeep! That certainly must be quite a relief. Having to wait a few days for a replacement fridge was bad enough.

Ditto. I'm concerned about staff turnover behind the scenes, particularly the loss of David Gaider, but still keen to see the next installment. I hope they move on to Dragon Age II for remastering next - I love the story and characters, but there's room for improvement with the gameplay and especially with the locations. Yeah, I've been mostly working from home for years, but on the occasions that I do go all the way in to town and back, it is surprisingly exhausting. I don't know how I'd cope if I hard to start commuting every day.

Yeah, I'm a BioWare fan. I played the Mass Effect series relatively recently (years after it was first released) though, so the remaster is a bit too soon for me and I don't have much time for gaming at the moment anyway. Are you finding it a big improvement?

The US editions of the Doctor Who novelisations changed "jelly babies" to "jelly beans". It's a pity they didn't publish The Face of Evil, which would have ended up with the line "They say the Evil One eats beans."

Can we get the thread title changed?