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@Farlander said in Games that didn't make it:

Firefly Online. The Cortex on steam was supposed to prepare players for the game. Sadly the game died with no explanation to anyone

You have no idea how sad Firefly Online not being a thing made me.

@Xzait said in Developer Forum Access?:

It is possible u have access to it already and just don't realise it. If u click on the "fractured Forum' text up top left of the page, it should be in the 'English Forums' section, second from the bottom with an icon of a star.

If you can't find it, then i would simply say, exercise patience you will get access at some point

Oh I know where to find it. I click on the forum (the one with the star next to it) and I get

Access Denied
You seem to have stumbled upon a page that you do not have access to.

That's why I posted that I don't have access, but I paid for it a few days ago.

This is the gratuitous bump because I figured I'd remind people that joining = +250 points!

But for some reason, reading the latest news, I was reminded of Pop Tart botes [sic] at the Jungle Cruise, where I worked for 5 years. California Disneyland, for clarification. In the hippo pool, that's where you shoot the gun. But when I was first told about Pop Tart botes, my friend told me what he would do. Pop Tart botes are when none of the guests speak English. Usually, it's because it's a group of 40 or so Japanese tourists and they don't speak English either very well, or at all. Start of the cruise, you would ask how many of you understand English? No hands go up. At that point, you can say anything you like, and then laugh at your own jokes, and they will all laugh, because they think they are supposed to.

So my friend said he would just say the most random of things for Pop Tart botes. In the hippo pool, he would say These are hippos. That's short for hippopotamus. Hippos like cheese HA HA HA HA HA. Then the bote would all laugh.

So when my wife and I went to Hong Kong Disneyland (I lived with her in Hong Kong for about a year, almost all of 2017 and the beginning of 2018), the Jungle Cruise there has 3 lines. Cantonese (what Chinese in Hong Kong speak), Mandarin (what mainland Chinese people speak), and English (what random leftover Brits and people like me speak). The English line was the shortest and the longest at the same time. They would only usually have one English bote on the river at a time, so even though the line didn't have many actual people, it took the longest because the longer lines would fill 2 or 3 times faster since the other (5) botes would be Cantonese and Mandarin. 3/2 I'm assuming. My wife is Indonesian, and English is her 4th language, so it's not perfect. But she speaks fluent Cantonese. So one day, I decided that I would be the Pop Tart. We stood in line in the Cantonese line, knowing that she would understand all of it and I would understand zero of it. Here is my chance.

I did all the things that the Pop Tarts used to do. I would stand up to take pictures. The Skipper would yell at me to sit down and I would then NOT sit down, because I could just claim I didn't know what the Skipper was saying. I stood up. I leaned out of the bote. I more or less tormented the Skipper who didn't speak much English who was spieling in Cantonese. That was the plan.

The Skipper spoke passable English, so switched to English to tell me to sit down. I still acted like I was a Pop Tart, but it wasn't as much fun as I had hoped, because instead of yelling at me to sit down in Cantonese, it was in English, so I understood it.

Anyway, don't ask me why I thought of all this.

@Xzoviac You're more than welcome. It's like I tell people, I used to get paid to tell jokes. True story! (and then the usual response is, "So you starved?")

I'm excited for the forum Nazis to see you're trying to draw attention from this game and ban you. No offense.

@Jimbolini said in Daily Message posting:

corona post

I started calling it Heinekenvirus a long time ago....