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How to edit a 500’d page on Mediawiki
Putting this up on my site because I’d like not to have to research this again. Ad rem: If a page is throwing a 500 error, but other pages on the wiki are otherwise available, chances are something in the code is causing the MediaWiki to misbehave. So, API time: At least, that’s how it
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The Daughter of Malkav
Replaying the venerable Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines: Extremely Long Game Titles RPG made me wonder about which clan would I actually be? Vampire clans don’t map neatly to conventional divisions of our societies (thankfully), so it’s a question of philosophies. I rejected most of the clans out of hand. I’m definitely not an upper class
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Fallout, Bethesda, and Broken Lore
This will be a lengthy answer, as this question touches on several subjects. If you’re interested in a more nuanced look at the issue, rather than just Bethesda bashing, read on. The opening questions makes a number of assumptions, namely: Each of these assumptions warrants a separate answer. Just what is lore? If we look
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Lore Book: NCR Brotherhood War Manual
Lore books remain one of the most requested features in Fallout, ever since Bethesda acquired the IP. They are a staple of the Elder Scrolls series, whose library is full of little gems that expand on Tamriel’s setting. In some cases, they might be even more interesting than some parts of the game itself. However,
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How I Got Here
This was originally a long post in Polish, as I was Invited to tell my story (well, called to the fore, rather) and so I decided to ‘concisely’ summarize my trans lore. In the beginning… …was a child. Child of a conservative, rigid family. This had a huge and unfortunate negative impact on my life,