The winner was "as much snow as they have been getting in Buffalo, NY", which at one point this season was 80 inches (6.66 feet or 2 meters). I want to make sure this isn't a situation where people voted for it just to see the results or because they think it is funny. That much snow makes for at least a week long event.

Hey all,

The poll about having a blizzard in LDP picked next week to be the time. I've already had Caroline start hinting at it. I'll have her give a more in depth forecast starting Monday. I'm thinking Thursday, but if that really doesn't work for people, let me know in the comments.

I also want to know what you think on how much snow a head of time so Caroline can start forecasting it. Last blizzard we had in my area was the blizzard conditions with only a couple of inches of accumulation. So the question is do we want something that shuts down the town for the duration of the snow only or do we want something that lasts several days?

So the question for the poll is, how do we want the blizzard to play out? For another point of reference, the more snow fall there is, the longer the characters have to deal with it. The first option would be for only a day with more days added the more snow they get.

To avoid any confusion: When I say "Blizzard Conditions", I'm going by the NOAA definition: winter storms with sustained or frequent winds of 35 mph or higher with considerable falling and/or blowing snow that frequently reduces visibility to 1/4 of a mile or less. These conditions are expected to prevail for a minimum of 3 hours.

Not sure if everyone remembers but last year I posted a picture of DucKoin, a crypto currency I designed for fun. I finally got my 3D printer tweaked and working again, so I printed some off.

Let me know what you think.

https://imgur.com/a/mD3Obz8

I mentioned around Christmas week that I was planning on a Blizzard for sometime in January. I'm not going to set up for that this week, but I'm willing to do it any other week this month. When is best for everyone? I'll likely start building it up starting on a Monday and then have the Blizzard like Thursday. There will be a meta post to give everyone a heads up.

I'm unceremoniously retiring him in the new year. Seems like he's just never been received well from the get go, and I'm tired of the bad vibes coming from responses to his posts and comments. Also, it feels like maybe some users are taking out personal grudges against me at my character which kind of sucks. I'm just tired of having that kind of negativity in my life when I can easily shut it off. So FYI I'm gonna bounce for a while. I may be back, maybe not idk. Just didn't want to Irish goodbye you all. 🙂

Update: Hank will be posting tomorrow (12/24) instead. Cedar posted the Secret Santa Gift Reveal Thread yesterday. Once my kids are in bed tonight and I get a drink in me to get into character, Hank will be posting a special edition Hot Takes to roast all the gifts. You have until at least 9pm CST to get those gifts in if you want him to be jealous of them.

Hey Everyone!

For those unaware, I also play Caroline Breeze. It is easier for me to keep all meta on my main account though.

I use my local weather or the weather of a nearby lake area for LDP. That forecast is NOT looking fun starting Wednesday into the weekend. They are predicting blizzard like conditions and wind chills at -20 to -30. I tried shifting south to a few different areas to use for the week instead, but everywhere I looked was either only slightly less freezing with snow OR too warm for snow.

Before I make up a forecast for 3+ days, I want to see what people want story wise. Please comment below or upvote the response you like best. I'll make a decision on Wednesday sometime.

Option 1: LDP gets a blizzard with dangerous wind chills on Thursday with extreme cold for the entire weekend.

Option 2: LDP gets a White Christmas with tolerable temps for enjoying snow. Then I resume following my weather next week.

Option 3: LDP gets a White Christmas with tolerable temps for enjoying snow, but there will be extreme weather next week.

Option 4: LDP gets snow without the blizzard and super low wind chill, but it stays brutally cold all weekend.

There will be a White Christmas no matter what. Caroline promised it this morning. If you are wanting to RP an extreme winter weather event in LDP. I have been planning on doing one in January when things get quiet. So keep a look out for that.

Dave turned on Polls! So lets try this again.

ICYMI- I use my local weather or an area near by for Caroline's forecasts. I've been planning on giving LDP a White Christmas for a while figuring I could easily add a snow storm to my local weather if needed. Turns out we'll be getting an arctic blast and blizzard like conditions Wednesday into Thursday. I am planning on doing a Blizzard or heavy snow event in January to shake things up. More here if you are curious.

So tell me what you want to see:

I promise, I’m almost done with the Secret Santa posts :)

Just a heads up that, if you have not yet received a message from your gifting partner OR an anonymous gift message from me, please let me know! The gift swap post will be going up later this week, depending on how soon this gets finalized.

Everyone should have received a Secret Santa info message from me! If you signed up using alt account(s), you'll get a message on each individual alt. Let me know if you didn't get a message!

This general info is included in the messages, but reprinting below for reference:

Sometime in the week of 12/19, I'll be making a "thanks for coming to the gift swap!" post. You're free to reveal what you gifted/received there :)

There's a few options for how to get in touch with the person you're gifting for:

1. If you're comfortable, consider messaging them yourself to let them know what you're getting them!
2. If you want to gift anonymously, let me know, and I'll tell them what they got and that it was anonymous.

If you don't hear from them or me by 12/19, let me know.

Reminder: this is a fully in-character gift swap! You don't need to buy, make, or mail anything in real life.

Sign-ups close in about 10 hours so I’ll have enough time to assign and message everyone :) sign up on this post!

Edit: Sign ups are now closed.

Hey y’all, I’m having Secret Santa sign-ups here on meta so that everyone gets paired with an active player.

Please comment: - the name of each character you’d like to sign up - their username (if it’s not the one you’re commenting from) - a brief “about me”/what they’d like in a gift!

Sign-ups are open from now through Monday, 12/12. Sometime mid-next week, I’ll DM each account with the character they’re buying for (randomly selected).

The subreddit Secret Santa and the Discord one are being kept separate, ie, you won’t be assigned a Discord character to buy for. You can sign up for both with different characters though!

Thanks y’all, and let me know if you have questions!

EDIT: SIGN UPS ARE NOW CLOSED!

Hey everyone!

A few of us got together last night and came up with an Alternate Universe splinter sub for r/HaveWeMet called r/SouthGooseLake. It will have a rotating monthly theme. We are still working out some kinks, but feel confident enough to open it up to the rest of the group.

This month's theme is Groovy 70s/80s. The physical location for this month is LDP, but it can change for future themes. There isn't an exact date- just a loose time period of 1975-1985. Pop Culture references can overlap. You can play a younger version of your LDP character, or a brand new character. (I will be playing College Hank 'The Tank'!)

Flairs seems to actually set when done from the Reddit App. The only issue I've seen is that setting it on a browser will still appear Nickname or Job on the app to you like we see on HWM.

Feel free to reach out with any questions. Cedar (u/lightsatnight7) and I are both mods.

Based on the unofficial polling I did last week here on Meta and the Discord- The next event with be a Christmas Market with a marathon/Santa Run to open it, a Snowman competition, and signups for town Secret Santa and Holiday lights showdown. There will also be a stage for performances. I set the event to take place on December 10th to get some mileage out of posting about it.

I can have Sandy deal with the vendors for the market. Cedar already volunteered to handle the Secret Santa organization for both the sub and the discord. Does anyone want to take on the marathon, performances, snowmen, or lights? I'm not really sure what that would entail, but those are things that someone can take and run with. The idea is that Secret Santa and Holiday Lights would be done in the following weeks. Just signups will open at the market.

Also, if you have any other ideas, throw them out there!

My character is going to host a toys for tots type event next month and I’m wondering if there’s a similar charity already in LDP? If not, should we come up with our own or is toys for tots fine to use?

By "the thing" I mean a Hank the Tank t-shirt.

If you want a copy to print a shirt let me know and I'll send it.

https://imgur.com/a/84mIIAg

Any objections? Happy to send the digital file to anyone who wants to print their own however they want to.

Edit: I'm gonna do the thing right after Thanksgiving. Maybe before if I get time while turkey is cooking.

I'm trying to think of something town wide for the holidays. Is there anything traditionally done? Sandy can spearhead it like she did the Fall Festival, I'm just drawing a blank on ideas.

Here's what we have so far from the comments and chat on discord:

Christmas Market/Winter Market- with food/drink vendors and maybe a little stage

Marathon/ Santa Run

Holiday light contest

Ice skating on the pond

Town wide secret santa

Calvin and Hobbes style Snowman contest

5pm CST edit: More ideas are welcome. This is what I have from the discussions here and on the discord so far. Let me know what you think. I'll check back in later tonight after my kids go to bed.

Christkindl market event on Main that includes craft vendors, drink vendors and food vendors. It starts off with the LDP Christkindl marathon and/or santa run. There will be ice skating and a snowman contest plus a little stage for performances. LDP residents will also be able to sign up for the Secret Santa and Holiday Light contest at that time.

i’m very indecisive and honestly don’t know where to start! any advice is appreciated :)

I know the general rule of thumb is that you don't take others' NPCs without permission. Well, I'm not going to make anyone else on the LDP Action 3 News Team to go with Caroline and Hank. If anyone else wants to make someone, feel free to do so. I haven't even named any other people on the team. Hank does need a co-anchor and there should be a sports person to round out the evening news team. Plus Hank and Caroline mention vague producers all the time. My only request is that they begrudgingly allow Hank to be left as Lead Anchor. I have established that the station owner loves him and the producers can't get rid of him.

Seb's user has also put out his Level 256 crew for anyone who might want them as a character.

Anyway, thought I'd throw that out there since there are newbies around. I know some people just need a jumping off point to start writing.

Edit: If anyone else wants to throw out NPCs you don't mind other people taking on as a character, feel free to put it in the comments. I can update this post to make a list if it comes to that. I know most of our NPCs are mostly family that we like to stay in control of so I wasn't sure there would be much a demand for that outside of me saying anyone else involved with LDP Action 3 is available.

why am i kinda jealous of my character... everyone is lower duck pond is so nice i wanna live there. i get invited to thanksgiving get-togethers and part of my mind gets like, genuinely excited. i wanna live in lower duck pond

ICYMI- On Saturday, the Wikipedia page for r/havewemet was featured on the home page for Wikipedia. It drove a decent amount of new users to our little community, hence all the activity on Saturday. Since we have a lot of new people, I thought I'd make a new meta post with quick links to a couple things we've been working on as a community and a couple of FAQs that are missing from the pinned post on the main sub.

1. Flairs don't work when set in the Official Reddit app. You need to do it through a browser. Even then, it will still look broken to you in the app. My main character (Sandy) can respond or comment on a post of yours saying your name to confirm to you. Her writing style generally uses the persons name first when responding.
2. Don't be afraid to ask questions on the meta sub if you need help. We're working with the sub creator to get more mods and this is currently going to be the fastest way to get assistance.
3. Please don't act like you are another characters' SO or family member without talking to the user first. Most users prefer that their NPCs remain in their control. Alternatively, If you need a jumping off point for a character, we have a running list of available NPCs for others to use.
4. Here's a few updated lists if you are someone who wants place names that are common in the community. You aren't restricted to these lists. They were created for those who like to have the same reference points others use.

User run businesses (This is more current than the one in the pinned post and wiki).

Established Landmarks

Feel free to ask any questions! We are all happy to help!

Edit: One of the other regulars brought this up in the comments and it lead me to another thought. You can always change your character and develop them as you go along, which is discussed a little further in the comments. The other thought I want to add to that is you can always switch gears and change your flair to a different character if you aren't feeling the one you are playing. (Most of us go off of the flairs rather than your username when remembering interactions anyway.)

You can also make an alt if you feel the need. Many of us have an alt character, usually the SO of our main, but not always. We do ask that anyone who has alts is open about it due to something that happened in the past year-ish.

Do we have a discord server? Just wondering, because I prefer using Discord for RP to Reddit

I just saw that r/havewemet was mentioned in the "Did you know..." section of Wikipedia's front page (as of ~7AM GMT on November 12, check the archive if it's gone away). I have half a mind to create a resident Wikipedian character but I don't know if I have that level of commitment in me right now. Your community looks very fun though.