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For those who were with us on April 1st, you may remember that I hosted an eBBQ playing Nethack. There's been some talk on doing something like this again, perhaps in the form of an ongoing Dungeons and Dragons campaign or similar. While those still remain up in the air, given our relative stability at the moment, doing another livestreaming event seems like it would be a fair bit of fun both for the staff and the community.
I'd like to make this a semi-regular feature, and invite members of the community to both join on the stream (via Skype), or even in the game itself as either allies or opponents. As such, I'm going to be hosting the second SoylentNews eBBQ this Friday, and then try to repeat every few weeks or so.
As for the choice of game, I've been feeling an urge to play Europa Universalis IV . For those unfamiliar with the series, Europa Univeralis is a set of simulation games set from the late 1400s to the early 1800s, covering the vast majority of the age of sail. As for time, I'd proposed Friday at about 5PM EST, and continuing at least until 9, if not later (the first SN eBBQ was a 24 hour event, though that was more due to insanity). I'd love to hear from the community if anyone would be interested in listening in, or actively joining. The time isn't set in stone, and I can move it if the community feels later in the evening, or perhaps during the weekend is a better idea.
As always, feedback will be welcome!
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday July 23 2015, @08:14PM
Geograpichally, wouldn't the average location of us Soylents be somewhere in the north atlantic, just off of the US coastline? I think it would an interesting challange to take the geograpical location of each user's IP address and find the average latitude and longitude and hold a BBQ there.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @12:00PM
How would you work out the average geographical location though? If you calculated it in 3 dimensions then you would end up somewhere under the Earth's crust. If you just calculated it based on the 2D surface locations then how do you define the bounds since the surface is continuous? Any bounds you chose would be arbitrary and whatever you choose would heavily bias the resulting location.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Saturday July 25 2015, @03:40PM
I intend on the default arbitrary standards to be used: latitude, longitude, and altitude. So the international date line is the east-west dividing line and the third dimension to be the average height above sealevel.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base