Trogland X: The Trog Tribe Turns Ten

[Lex-Kat]

Logan is now Iris? I hope I didn't infect her with my trans-cooties!

[Krade]

Logan is now Iris? I hope I didn't infect her with my trans-cooties!

I certainly wouldn't think so. I've spent a lot of time with you (at least, a lot more than Logan/Iris) and I'm still quite comfortably cis. At least I was last I checked, which honestly isn't that often.

[Lex-Kat]

Well, we have shared a room too many times for me to remember. Perhaps you've developed an immunity.

[RabbitHoleLost]

Logan is now Iris? I hope I didn't infect her with my trans-cooties!

Lmao doubtful
She had mentioned something about it before I brought her along and then it was never brought up again until long after our messy-bad breakup
And now she's one of my best girlfriends

I think a big part of it was her branching out from her dudebro friends
And getting into the Jem comics
That definitely has something to do with her coming out, I think

[Gryffon]

Lmao doubtful
She had mentioned something about it before I brought her along and then it was never brought up again until long after our messy-bad breakup
And now she's one of my best girlfriends

I think a big part of it was her branching out from her dudebro friends
And getting into the Jem comics
That definitely has something to do with her coming out, I think

That's truly outrageous!

[Gryffon]

Super sad. It's been a day and not a snicker about my Jem reference.

[Krade]

Super sad. It's been a day and not a snicker about my Jem reference.

There, there, buddy. If it makes you feel any better, it's been over 2 weeks since my horrible joke post in that roadtripping thread and no one's even acknowledged it. I spent like, 3 whole minutes putting it together, too.

[KuReshtin]

I thought about posting something about me remembering watching the Jem cartoons when I was a kid, but then either forgot, or decided it wasn't interesting enough to post.
Don't remember a whole lot of them, though. I think they went into space to do a concert, and then when they returned, they had travelled back in time to the 60s or soemthing.
I dunno...

[Penguinsushi]

TWO MONTHS!

Count 'em: 2.

Remember, in order to cover everything, we really need registrations in by 5/31 - just over ONE MONTH away.

This year is flying by. Can't wait to see everyone.

~PS

[KuReshtin]

*PANICS*
I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY A TICKET TO THE US!!!!
Ok. The plan: I need to win the lottery.
Backup plan: I need to find find some benevolent millionaire to give me lots of money.
Tertiary plan: Stop panicing and not buy a ticket to the US.

[mangosta71]

*PANICS*
I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY A TICKET TO THE US!!!!
Ok. The plan: I need to win the lottery.
Backup plan: I need to find find some benevolent millionaire to give me lots of money.
Tertiary plan: Stop panicing and not buy a ticket to the US.

I think we can go ahead and just discard the tertiary plan now. It will save time later.

[Penguinsushi]

Alright, everybody

This thing is sneaking up on us. It's now May. You've got the rest of this month - til May 31st - to get registered for Trogland 10 so we can make sure we have enough of everything. This year, specifically, this applies to the T-Shirts we're ordering - those are being ordered June 1. If you're not registered by then, you'll miss out!

Also, if/when you book your room at the hotel, make sure to tell them you're with the Trogland Meetup!

This has been your monthly badgering PSA.

~PS

[Mauve Shirt]

I try to type my password in so I can log in, it freaks out and adds approximately all of the characters to my password so of course the password is wrong.

[Penguinsushi]

I try to type my password in so I can log in, it freaks out and adds approximately all of the characters to my password so of course the password is wrong.

This behavior is actually by design. It has always done this. It's not making your password wrong. Here's the explanation:

SSL certificates are kind of expensive, so, as stated, I don't have one for my domain(s).

Because the site does not use SSL/TLS, all communications are sent in clear-text - i.e., all POST/GET requests sent to the web server are unencrypted. This isn't really a problem because the site itself does not handle any truly sensitive information (all the transaction stuff is handled on encrypted pages hosted by Paypal).

That said, since the site does have a login - even if that login isn't protecting anything truly sensitive - it would be nice if the passwords were not submitted to the site in clear text on login since that would mean anyone packet sniffing your connection could see your password and log in as you... ...and do such nefarious things as...paying for your registration?...or signing you up for events you don't want to attend...?

Anyway, because I didn't want the site to submit passwords in clear text if I could help it, it doesn't. The site uses javascript to encrypt the password on the client side (i.e., in your browser) before it's sent to the web server - so what's sent over the unencrypted connection is a hash of your password. Your password itself is never transmitted to or from the site.

Which brings us to the field where you're seeing all of the extra characters: when you hit submit, your browser creates a hash of your password (combined with a server-generated token) and *replaces* what you typed with said hash for submission - that way, your unencrypted password is not submitted, and the hash that I actually need to compare for login purposes is sent in the proper field. What you're seeing is that replacement.

I guess when I get a chance, I'll change it around so people stop getting confused by this - you're not at all the first, and it is totally understandable. Most sites either use SSL/TLS, or they don't care about password sensitivity. I'm occupying a rather atypical middle ground.

I could make it so the encrypted hash is placed into a hidden field, and your password input box is simply blanked out.... ...of course, then i'll get people telling me the site won't let them login because it's removing their password after they type it. But, at least that's progress?

...I suppose I *could* have the script replace their password with a number of arbitrary characters equal to the string length of their password, but honestly, all of this is just extra work to keep people from being confused and doesn't matter at all for functionality (which is why I didn't pursue this sort of thing in the first place). We'll see what I'm feeling up to.

Sorry for the confusion, but yes, the site is functioning exactly as intended.

There is a password-reset function if you don't remember what your password was. People *have* had issues with that in the past, so let me know if it's not working for you.

Also, in case you're wondering, I can't tell you what your password is - I don't know it. The system only keeps the password hash and not the text itself. I was just talking with Haruki about this very thing.

~PS

[ZombieRockStar]

Oh, hey people I haven't seen for years except through Facebook stalking. I haven't been able to come down for the past three years because of '13/'14) not enough money, or '15) having a full-time job I couldn't get away from.

However, the situation this year is this: I currently live in one part of Canada (Ontario). I just got a job on the other side of the country (BC) and will move out there for July. What my husband and I thought might be awesome is if we gave our stuff to a shipping company and just took off in our car and made a road trip out of it, first down to JC, then back up through all them states (gas price differences making this almost certainly cheaper than going by the ONE ROAD WITH A BROKEN BRIDGE that goes across Canada).

So, in conclusion, I + 1 would like to come.

[Mauve Shirt]

This behavior is actually by design. It has always done this. It's not making your password wrong. Here's the explanation:
[etc]

~PS

Yeah well ur a nerd

(registered)

[KuReshtin]

OK, time for some good news/bad news.

Good news: I bought a lottery ticket for this past Friday's Lottery draw. On Friday night, I got an email from the National Lottery, telling me they had news about my lottery ticket.
And I WON!! Plan A as mentioned above looks good!



Bad news: My winning lottery ticket gave me a win of £2.60. That's like $3.80. That's not enough to buy a ticket to the US. It's just a little more than the price of another ticket.
guess I'll have to buy another ticket for next week's draw.

[Penguinsushi]

Yeah well ur a nerd

(registered)

Yeah... ...but somebody has to do the thing.

Glad to see you got it sorted!

~PS

[Archonic Energy]

OK, time for some good news/bad news.

Good news: I bought a lottery ticket for this past Friday's Lottery draw. On Friday night, I got an email from the National Lottery, telling me they had news about my lottery ticket.
And I WON!! Plan A as mentioned above looks good!



Bad news: My winning lottery ticket gave me a win of £2.60. That's like $3.80. That's not enough to buy a ticket to the US. It's just a little more than the price of another ticket.
guess I'll have to buy another ticket for next week's draw.

I could buy you a ticket... just sign here and don't read the micro dot hidden in the "i"

Wish I could make it this year.

[mangosta71]

No Brits at all this year? But who will bring us fresh Harry Potter erotica?

[KuReshtin]

No Brits at all this year? But who will bring us fresh Harry Potter erotica?

We could always arrange to send a care package to De and Gryff for them to bring along to the meet.

[Archonic Energy]

How much would it be to hire a dramatic reader in JC... I'm asking for a friend.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

So due to popular demand, Munchkins of the Multiverse part 2: More Multiverses will happen on Saturday night! There will be Prizes!! There will be backstabbing! There will be randomness and 2 different varient styles of play!

Spoiler: Synopsis

Show

MUNCHKINS OF THE MULTIVERSE!

The Multiverse is in peril!! A deranged wizard has foolishly used the Munchkinomicon to unleash a spell that is destroying the Multiverse and the Good Fairy has decided to intervene! They are holding a challenge to determine the greatest hero from across all the planes and YOU have been chosen as the greatest warrior on your plane of existance. You must prove that you are capable of stopping the wizard by slaying monsters in your plane until you reach level 10. However there are many others worlds and many other heros who are also attempting to prove themselves in much the same fashion! To make things worse, the barriers between these realities are starting to break down and bleed into each other. This may affect them all in strange ways!

I stole this idea from RichNCrispy from Boardgamegeek.com

Basically, everyone will have their own version of Munchkin in front of them and will draw from the door and treasure piles of their own version. So if you choose Star Munchkin, you will draw from solely from the Star Munchkin version. However, if you play monster enhancers on other players and they defeat the monster, they get to draw "X" treasures from your stack where "X" is equal to the number of treasures your enhancers added to the fight.

You may trade items as normal between players and may help as normal.

There will be prizes.

The following planes of existence are currently being threatened and you may choose which one you wish to be from. (I.E. pick the version of Munchkin you want to play)

A world of heros, villians, sidekicks and capes.....so many capes!! (Super Munchkin: Comic Book Themed)
A world of highly advanced technology where cyborgs, mutants, and cat people live in peace.....with lasers! (Star Munchkin: Sci-Fi themed)
A world as wild and a west as you've ever seen. 10 to 20 gallon hats are in fashion. (The Good, the Bad, and the Munchkin; Western themed)
A world filled with Ninja, Oni, Wire-fu and Hong Kong everything!! (Munchkin Fu: Kung Fu movie themed)
A world filled with espianage, spies, and many useful gadgets (Munchkin Impossible: spy movie themed)
A world soaked in the seven seas where pirates battle for treasure with crazy accents (Munchkin Booty: Pirate Themed)
A world in which being from beyond time and space roam freely to trouble mankind (Munchkin Cthulhu: ...you can guess the theme)
A world of legend in origin where myths are reality (Munchkin Legends: themed from many mythologies)
The Land of Ooo (Adventure Time Munchkin: its.......well.....hard to explain unless you've seen the show)
A world the is already on the verge of destruction as the seven seals of the apocalpyse threaten to open (Munchkin Apocalypse: End of the World Themed)
A world in which darkness runs rampant and vampires, werewolves, and mummy's roam free (Munchkin Bites: Goth/horror themed)
and last but not least
A world of high fantasy, filled with elves, dragons, dwarves, centaurs and much much more (Munchkin: based on high fantasy genre's Warning: I have ALL the major and most minor expansions for this game, this version is not for newbies!)
A legendary world in which scarecrows sing, monkeys fly, and houses fall. (Munchkin Oz: Fantasy in the Land of Oz)
A steamy world filled with bizarre gadgets and everything looks like it was drawn by Phil Foglio (Steampunk Munchkin: Steampunk themed, I assume. I haven't played it yet.)

We'll be shooting for Saturday night, but may shift things around depending on scheduling with other events. Also, if you have your own version of Munchkin and want to play that version, go right ahead.

[Lex-Kat]

So just for a head count... I got myself and Mystic Muse a room. We will be there. Barring any problems from Krade, of course.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

So just for a head count... I got myself and Mystic Muse a room. We will be there. Barring any problems from Krade, of course.

Can't wait to see you two again!!

Also, I've officially added Munchkins of the Multiverse to the event calendar. Go over there and sign up, if you're interested.

[KuReshtin]

Can't wait to see you two again!!

Also, I've officially added Munchkins of the Multiverse to the event calendar. Go over there and sign up, if you're interested.

What's the official ruling on playing Munchkins of the Multiverse over Skype link?

[Krade]

So just for a head count... I got myself and Mystic Muse a room. We will be there. Barring any problems from Krade, of course.

*GASP*

I am just scandalized that you would even suggest that I could be a problem.

I finally officially registered on the site.

I propose a group of some kind where we bring games that we've bought but haven't gotten around to playing yet. I know I have a bunch of them and I'm willing to bet others do, too.

Games I Own but Haven't Played:
Inkognito: Clue-like spy game where the goal is to identify your partner/enemies then work with your partner to complete your objectives.
Chaosmos: The Universe is ending. Four champions clash to control the Macguffin that allows them to play god in the next universe. Holding onto it only matters at the end of the game. Until then, it's best to hide it behind traps and locks on the board.
Spells of DOOOOOM (extra O's added for effect, not actually in the title): I honestly don't know a whole lot about this one right now. I kickstarted it because it reminded me of Wrath Unleashed. Not sure how much it lives up to that expectation.
Dark Age Z: A portal in time dumped modern day zombies and technology into medieval Europe. What's left of the previously warring nations must band together to beat back the horde.

There're others, but those are the ones that are probably the best. The rest were backed on a whim a while back when I went through my kickstarter phase (I'm mostly over it now).

[The Valiant Turtle]

One video/party game I think might be a lot of fun with this group is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. I don't have it yet but it's not too expensive, although you need to print off bomb disposal manuals to go with it. Linky: http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/

[KuReshtin]

One video/party game I think might be a lot of fun with this group is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. I don't have it yet but it's not too expensive, although you need to print off bomb disposal manuals to go with it. Linky: http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/

Oooohh.. I've heard of that. I think Archie talked about it the other week. Because of course Archie would have a game of explosive destruction in his arsenal of games.
He said, though, that he would likely not bring that to a Trogland meetup f he were going beause he'd be too nervous to go through customs and immigrations in the US with 'Bomb Disposal Manuals' in his bags

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

That would be a fun one for the event, though!