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Yeah, with the ADA they might install automatic doors, or more accurately a door, the minimum required by law, however I suspect they would be "push this button to open door" type of automatic doors I see at some commercial places (banks mainly), not one that opens when you hit a pressure plate or via an infrared device like most modern automatic door use.

Those could be regular door mats, or just differently colored floor sections.

Most automatic doors, not all, open side to side, not front to back. Plus I can't see a school shelling out the money to install automatic doors.

"Why is The Human waving his hand around?" - Explorer the Cat.

If I had any I would have opened one last Sunday, that being my birthday and by long tradition I was allowed to open one package under the tree on my birthday.

I have plenty of space heaters and electric blankets so even if it does go tango uniform I'm not in any real danger.

Thursday next week is forecast to suck. Forecast to get 2 inches of snow and have a low of -7 (Freedom units) [-22 rest of world]. Going find out if the furnace is really fixed. Crossing fingers!

I just made myself a pan seared steak. Oiled pan, 2 1/2 minutes first side, (covered), 2 minutes 2nd side also covered, with a dash of worcester sauce on it. Came out pretty close to perfect.

Who knows. Maybe Roddenberry knew something about space... Like there was a color...

This where I differ from you. I weep for our present.

"This is my spot. I let you use it to keep your tea mug sometimes. But it's my spot" - Explorer the Cat.

No kidding, some of them cause sanity checks every time they open their mouth. I'm avoiding real world politics as much as possible. Given that the game is set "in the far future" as a generic setting or early 22th century in the "Terran Campaign", that is fairly easy. On the other hand, I might want to look at "public figure" as a possible career. Need to think on this.

I've been working on this TTRPG rules for several years now. I stopped about a year ago due to hitting a wall on vehicle design rules. I looked into the Edge of Imperial Space rules files. I need to do a lot of work on it, beyond the vehicle rules. Need to fix the hot mess that is beast/monster/aliens creation rules. Need to decide on psionics. Need to create an character class for those characters that don't qualify for any other class. Need to create non combat "modern" classes. Need to write more/better examples of play. Need to decide if the "Terran Campaign" is the default or just one of the possible options. Hopefully in the next month or so I'll be ready for play testers/beta readers.

Wait. You are supposed to plan things out ahead of time. Whoa. This changes everything.

To make my life a little easier, I've decided that I'm not going to have aliens as such, just beasts and monsters. There are still several humanoid species as well as "human kin". Beasts and monsters differ only in that a monster will have some ability that a normal beast will not. Could be that it's undead, or has a breath weapon or other extra normal abilities.

I've decided that the "generic" class that has no qualification requirements will be called 'Every Soul". I've also decided that they deal well with "weirdness" and have pluses to their saves vs sanity draining attacks and events. This does mean that I need to make sure that sanity draining attacks and/or event as at least semi-common in the game.

/me adds a star and and an underline.

I haven't played Toon in ages. Like the 90's Had a semi active game then.

Yeah, that's why I didn't make here chance of coming back be higher. All things considered I think I'll lower her chance to 40% and raise the "left field" chance to 30%.

"So I'm in the way right now. Just chill and wait a few then I'll move to my corner of the desk. You know it's mine, I just let you put your tea mug there" - Explorer the Cat.

Because I keep a lot of smallish items on the butt warmer, she doesn't sit on it very often. When she does, items tend to fall off.

I'm currently saying that there is a 30% chance of the mystery helper being Noah, 60% chance of it being reborn Pandora, and 10% chance of it being someone from left field.

I've been off of working on it for almost exactly a year and I'm having a hard time remembering what I had in mind for some aspects. For example, I have no less than 3 creation systems for beasts/monster/aliens that I need to streamline into 1. Plus a hot mess of vehicle design stuff. And some major holes in some aspects of character design. I think I'm gonna work on the "core rules" before I dive off into design systems as that needs the least work. With any luck at all I should be looking for play testers/beta readers in 6-8 weeks. I have a complete beta subsector, complete with beast encounters for damn near every possible biome, plot hooks and general information about the system. I have no memory of creating this. This bothers me a lot. Cepheus engine, which is based on Mongoose Traveller, which is the more or less core set of rules for Edge has not one but 2 separate systems for designing vehicles. They both have issues with armored vehicles, which is what I was working on when I stopped.