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When I said I was working on a musical Moo, which is kind of an interactive storytelling platform, loads of you mentioned some prior art by somebody who did another text based novel with music.

I made a note of this . . . . somewhere.... (help?)

The date is official! 🎉🥳

After five years of building, dreaming, breaking, fixing, and re-dreaming again, Mystavaria will finally enter Open Alpha on August 7, 2025 — celebrating the five year anniversary since our #MUD project was born.

We are very excited (and also a little nervous) to share our world with you at last!

Full announcement details here: mystavaria.com/open_alpha/

www.mystavaria.comMystavaria | Open Alpha Release

Would you ever use the verb "be" in a Moo so that it was an action attached to an object?

(Asking because I'm writing an Esperanto parser as a demo and finding the direct object and indirect object (or the things that are pseudo direct objects etc) after "estu" can't just look for an -on ending and needs a special case of rules, probably including a list of every preposition in the language so as to differentiate the pseudo-indirect object if there is one.)

(Sorry for asking in English.)

Estu smurfo
Estu Ĉapelfungo

Estu smurfo kun paĉjo

("Be a smurf with daddy" is a totally normal thing to want to do in cyberspace.)

Happy Husky-eye view of part of the hike back from Union Spring two days ago.

There was some mud here, easily avoided if you wanted to (clearly the huskies DIDN'T) but not nearly as bad as on yesterday's hike.

The zeezeezee-zoo-ZEE song is the Black-throated Green warbler.

The teacher-teacher-teacher-teacher song is an Ovenbird.

#Huskies#Hiking#Mud

Martian Mud Volcanoes

Mars features mounds that resemble our terrestrial mud volcanoes, suggesting that a similar form of mudflow occurs on Mars. But Mars’ thin atmosphere and frigid temperatures mean that water — a prime ingredient of any mud — is almost always in either solid or gaseous form on the planet. So researchers explored whether salty muds could flow under Martian conditions. They tested a variety of salts, at different concentrations, in a low-pressure chamber calibrated to Mars-like temperatures and pressures. The salts lowered water’s freezing point, allowing the muds to remain fluid. Even a relatively small amount of sodium chloride — 2.5% by weight — allowed muds to flow far. The team also found that the salt content affected the shape the flowing mud took, with flows ranging from narrow, ropey patterns to broad, even sheets. (Image credit: P. Brož/Wikimedia Commons; research credit: O. Krýza et al.; via Eos)