COLORS CHAT #21

[skybuns]

It's time to sit back, relax, and pour yourself an ice cold glass of... milk. All these games are so great and fun but everyone needs a chance to just unwind and talk. So welcome to Colors Chat!

Here, you will get a topic and you can talk about it all you want. Just listen to your heart and write what you feel like. For your six sentences, you'll get 5 cards. And you should always go around and talk to people, see if you can make new friends or old friends with new light on them or you know, just talk with everyone! It is a chat after all.

Today's topic:
TCG woes. Tell us about the little problems you face while doing anything TCG! Has ETCG ever screwed up while you were updating? Maybe you missed an end tag in your coding and all of a sudden your post is an intelligible mess. What little things pull your chain?

To encourage discussions between players, there's a bonus - for every conversation that is at least 5 comments long all participants will receive two random cards. This is not limited, so talk to as many people as you wish!

Please keep all comments civil and polite. You might disagree with someone, but please do not start a flame war. Especially for this topic, please try not to talk poorly of specific players if you've had a bad experience with them. THANK YOU and enjoy your weeks!

This round closes on Monday, August 25th, but the next Colors Chat will go up on the 24th if I remember. CLOSED

Comments

[murkrows]

Let me talk to you about setdomsess.

Okay. So as some of you may know, I keep track of my Colours logs through editing Dreamwidth posts. To do this, I have to log in to my account and edit the comment -- quite normal. What isn't normal is the fact that my old school (I just finished my last year there) has an extremely weird filter that blocks anything related to "livejournal.com". I had thought this wouldn't be a problem, because... well... Dreamwidth.

Unfortunately, I was wrong! Dreamwidth was built off of old LiveJournal source code, so whenever you try to log in, it sends you through a LJ process called 'setdomsess'. I can only assume that it's the thing that tells the site you're logged in, or something. Either way, my school's filter blocked that, which basically means that whenever I am logged in, if I try to load any user page (murkrows.dreamwidth.org, etc) I will get a feedback loop for a few cycles as the filter repeatedly blocks setdomsess, and eventually get a "Page couldn't be loaded" error.

So, yeah, this meant that I couldn't choose my icons when responding to RP tags, but I also couldn't log in to edit comments. I found a way around editing the entries, so I was able to update my actual post. But comments... nope. Nothing. So I had to leave already-processed Colours emails in my inbox until I could log them, and because I was and still am a lazy bum, they ended up being logged much less frequently than they absolutely should have been.

And that's my TCG woe.

[skybuns]

Thank you!