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Is Romo Lampkin on Battlestar from Aerilon?

In s3e17, Gaius Baltar demonstrates his original Aerilon accent to Chief. It's a gravelly "back of the throat" accent that sounds a lot like Mark Sheppard. Next episode we meet Baltar's lawyer, played by...Mark Sheppard. His law career is obviously on Caprica, but are the accents just coincidence? Is Lampkin faking it because he read the book? He doesn't strike me as a manual labor-type, but his story could be similar.

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Editing comments has been near unusable since last update.

The draggable cursor has been getting stuck on the span mode, and refuses to go back to the single cursor no matter where you tap. Sometimes the end even gets stuck at the end of the whole comment text, and can't be moved to span a single character, unless it's the last one. Sometimes it works fine, but usually not. It does usually seem to go back to normal if you cancel, and re-edit.

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Display full scroll bar with arrow buttons in applications?

I'm not finding anything about this with searches, and the Google AI is like the dumbest kid on the short bus, so I'm turning here.

I have the OS Application Style set to 'Oxygen' which supposedly displays a full No Bullshit scrollbar. With arrows and everything, like in the old days, so I can just click the button, and the fucking page will scroll.

This setting is not changing any applications' scroll bars, nor is any other style. I'm using Libre Writer for something more than 2 pages, and if I have to grab the invisible scroll bar to drag it up and down manually any longer, I am going to lose my goddamn mind. This has possibly already happened.

I've looked at every possible setting. There's nothing about how the scroll bar is displayed, and again, it's every app. So please, for the love of God, someone tell me how to force full scrollbars on installed applications.

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[OC] A snippet from a Historical Fantasy story I'm writing about the Witch Trials.

My story is set in Salem, MA, during the infamous Witch Trials. This is some dialogue I just wrote today, so likely not final. It is a 100% fictional inquisition by the non-fictional Reverend Parris of Salem Village.

As you may gather, I like to have some fun with the dialogue here and there. Link is below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wPs0s5cTi-fqXq7Ql6jEGecHyvplj1yd/view?usp=sharing

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[OC] A snippet from a Historical Fantasy story I'm writing about the Witch Trials.

I hope original content is allowed here! The story takes place in Salem, MA, during the Witch Trials. This is some dialogue I just wrote today, so likely not final. It is a 100% fictional inquisition by the non-fictional Reverend Parris of Salem Village.

As you may gather, I like to have some fun with the dialogue here and there. Link is below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wPs0s5cTi-fqXq7Ql6jEGecHyvplj1yd/view?usp=sharing

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A snippet from a Historical Fantasy story I'm writing about the Witch Trials.

The story takes place in Salem, MA, during the Witch Trials. This is some dialogue I just wrote today, so likely not final. It is a 100% fictional inquisition by the non-fictional Reverend Parris of Salem Village.

As you may gather, I like to have some fun with the dialogue here and there. Link is below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wPs0s5cTi-fqXq7Ql6jEGecHyvplj1yd/view?usp=sharing

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[OC] A snippet from a Historical Scifi/Fantasy story I'm writing about the Witch Trials.

The story takes place in Salem, MA, during the Witch Trials. The scene is a 100% fictional inquisition by the non-fictional Reverend Parris of Salem Village.

As you may gather, I like to have some fun with the dialogue here and there. Link is below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wPs0s5cTi-fqXq7Ql6jEGecHyvplj1yd/view?usp=sharing

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Trials of a Weary Witch

This is the first two chapters (2 pages each) of a story or short story I'm working on. I am fairly new at this, but I am very much looking for some feedback.

It's a historical fiction story, taking place during the Salem Witch Trials, but these first two chapters don't reveal much of the plot yet. I hope you enjoy.

Filebin link for the PDF or a quick and dirty Audio Book-style narration.

https://speechify.app.link/e/0FuwHngwjXb

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[Superman 2025 Spoilers] Jimmy must know Clark is Superman

Aside from clearly being a smart investigative reporter, or intern at least, and no one questioning Clark's absence in the T-Craft. Clark says their first date was 3 months ago while cooking dinner breakfast (conveniently the only period skipped in the intro timeline), and presumably Lois is dating Clark, not having ice cream and seeing movies with Superman. AND then Jimmy straight-faced says at the end Lois and Superman have been hooking up for 3 months. Jimmy knew the entire time.

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Possible new variation of the Art Station/Freelance Cashier's Check scam?

I received an email, apparently about a month ago. The other day I noticed it in my Spam folder, and responded to it. It didn’t trigger any alarm bells at first, partly because it was so well targeted, the scammer asked for the exact services that I am literally preparing my portfolio to formally offer at this moment. These scams aren’t usually quite so Nail on the Head. However I should have noticed the little typos, and also questioned the fact that I had been contacted nearly a month earlier, but after responding, he proposed a job with a deadline at the end of this month. What exactly would his plan be if I hadn’t responded, because a month is already pushing it.

When the pictures of his “daughter and her dog” were about 30x30 pixels, I did a reverse image search just hoping to find a blog or something, and instead I found a lot more of his daughter’s photos with her dog, on various stock photo websites. Huh. And then Mr. Double First Name asked if a Cashier’s Check would be alright. I’m fully aware Cashier’s Check scams have been around about as long as Cashier’s Checks have been around, so I just started toying with him (after remembering 3 minutes later). He will never get one digit of my information.

I am posting the email exchange so people can be aware, and possibly get some suggestions on how best to fuck, or fuck with this asshole.

I figure as long as I string him along, that may be one less desperate kid or Grandma he scams. Thank you for attending my TED Talk. Emails are below. And if anyone also has a better community to post this to, I will.


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Possible new variation of the Art Station/Freelance Cashier's Check scam?

I received an email, apparently about a month ago. The other day I noticed it in my Spam folder, and responded to it. It didn't trigger any alarm bells at first, partly because it was so well targeted, the scammer asked for the exact services that I am literally preparing my portfolio to formally offer at this moment. These scams aren't usually quite so Nail on the Head. However I should have noticed the little typos, and also questioned the fact that I had been contacted nearly a month earlier, but after responding, he proposed a job with a deadline at the end of this month. What exactly would his plan be if I hadn't responded, because a month is already pushing it.

When the pictures of his "daughter and her dog" were about 30x30 pixels, I did a reverse image search just hoping to find a blog or something, and instead I found a lot more of his daughter's photos with her dog, on various stock photo websites. Huh. And then Mr. Double First Name asked if a Cashier's Check would be alright. I'm fully aware Cashier's Check scams have been around about as long as Cashier's Checks have been around, so I just started toying with him (after remembering 3 minutes later). He will never get one digit of my information.

I am posting the email exchange so people can be aware, and possibly get some suggestions on how best to fuck, or fuck with this asshole.

I figure as long as I string him along, that may be one less desperate kid or Grandma he scams. Thank you for attending my TED Talk. Emails are below. And if anyone also has a better community to post this to, I will.


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