Carneades!

[espigeonage]

Pigeons have been falling ill with Carneades, the bird uplift virus, since October. That is still happening, though there are fewer dead and obviously ailing ones around than at first. It'll keep happening through the winter, at the least. Some of the birds that survive this illness are changing.

Some will have corvid-level intelligence starting around the new year, though this generation won't get smarter than that, and many will be slower to get there if they reach that level at all. Corvids are devastatingly bright animals, not unreasonably compared to dolphins. None of the affected pigeons are there yet, but despite popular belief, pigeons are already pretty smart. They're very social, adaptive animals with ancestors domesticated ten thousand years ago.

( On behavior )

Missing Notifs

[siesinddasessen]

As some of you might have noticed, after the begin of the last code push in a lot of cases no notifs were sent for a while, and those notifs will not be sent in the future, either so they are effectively lost. I think the time of no notifs is roughly 10:30 pm on the 24th to noon of the 25th, in UTC.

Edit: by Derek-mun
"Just thought i'd point out that people could alternatively look at their recent comments page, specifically under the 'latest posted' link.
If there's an asterisk next to the link then it's been responded to.

Not the cleanest method of tracking but it's there in case this problem comes up again."



I thought it would be useful to have a central post that everyone can gather links to potentially notifless tags in. So that the tags don't stay unresponded to because the tagged person does not realize that they were tagged. In case you'd like to do that for people not on your plurk/who don't use plurk much/etc, here is a template that can be used
<a href=LINK HERE>NAME OF CHARACTER WHO WAS TAGGED HERE</a>

+1 newbie?

[phoenix_temple]

Hello folks, I am new to this game and I am absolutely terrified of people so forgive me if I sound really dumb right now. My name is Eren, sort of, though a ton of people call me by a ton of different names at this point. Eren is just the easiest to spell.

And more importantly I am bringing this blonde doofus here. Old school CLAMP fans might recognize her as Fuu Hououji from the now 20 year old series Magic Knight Rayearth. Except here, her name will be Anais Temple which is a lot of silly references that no one but me cares about. She's 16, her dad teaches one math class or another, and she plays clarinet in the band at the high school. Here is more stuff. Anais is not nearly as doofy as her canon counterpart. But that is not hard. Fuu is incredibly doofy.

If you want to chat or anything, I am most easily accessed at moveslikejaeger due to having a seriously insane schedule for the next few weeks because ahahaha retail Christmas. Now I have to add some icons to this account and figure out an IC intro.

NICE TO MEET YOU ALL I HOPE WE HAVE FUN

A request!

[tenaciousc]

Evening, STE! (Unless it's not evening in your timezone in which case, good morning!)

This is a little embarrassing, but I have a request: could everybody make sure depictions of body horror (especially if it involves eyes or internal organs) are under a cut/warned for, please? It would be a big help.

Thanks!