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• Announcements

  This is for board maintenance and such. Don't post here if you don't have to.
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  The only cure for that headache is to just join all the WoD games and

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  for mummies and/or sky pirates.

• Other Games

  Games other than MU* ! Video games, table-top, TCG, etc.

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  An aside, premade content helps people who don't use it make content that fits.

• The Hog Pit

  A place to talk about MU nonsense in the dirt. To participate, join the "Pitcrew" group, but fair warning: It's gonna get messy. No crying.

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  @mietze I really wanna do like, a clicker-training workshop for GMs so they learn that this not only matters for serious, but also how to not do it in the first place, and fix it some.

• Tastes Less Game'y

  For discussions unrelated to MU. Anything else goes.
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  @derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

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  The company that botched two interviews is now no longer considering you?

  Like -- a'ight.

  That happened to me with Nvidia. They really fucked the interview process up. I ended up letting the guy's manager know and waving as I sped off into the distance.

• Adver-tis-ments

  Tell everyone about your New Games, Old Games and New Old Games. Hurrah!
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  From Monday, October 25th through Sunday, October 31st, HorrorMu* will be running a one-shot event called The Deadman's Party, open to anyone and everyone to come and try the game. Character creation guidelines for this event can be found at https://horrormu.com/forum/10/206. It takes less than 15 minutes to make a character, and you need only know what's in this ad and that post to make one.

  Each RL day will be 3 IC hours, starting at 9am on October 31st, 1992. Set at the Eager Beaver lodge in Oregon, a Fraternity (Nu Mu Beta) and Sorority (Zeta Eta Pi) from OSU (go Beavers!) are throwing an epic Halloween event called The Deadman's Party, where everyone dresses up as their favorite dead person (historical or fictional). New player PCs will be Fraternity or Sorority members. This is NOT connected to or based on the HM 1.0 season Slasher! I'm just reusing the convenient setting.

  That's it! If you want a week of horror movie fun for Halloween and feel like giving our game a try, you can find us at horrormu.com 4201.

• Game Development

  For the discussion of development and betterment of MU*s at large.

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  I'm reskinning the names of Hermetic Magic and Wild Magic to 'Lesser Works' and 'Wishes' and changing some of the thematic ideas behind them. To re-eninforce the idea that this isn't Mage: the Awakening but Second Sight. :P

• MU Code

  Making it happen. 01000011 01101111 01100100 01100101
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  What's going on all! Your coding bear here with an update! The API for Mush-Format has been stable for a few months now. So... drumroll ... It's time for 1.0 release! I've had some great help getting the core formatted up to snuff. Thank you all for your feedback!

  mush format
  https://github.com/digibear-io/mush-format

  And a live demo editor: https://format.ursamu.io.

  Any testing and feedback are welcome!

• MU Questions & Requests

  For general MU-related questions and How-To Requests.
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  I say, tell players, if you like to chargen and are bored af, make a roster character. If nobody does, don't worry about it. If someone does, you approve them onto the roster if approvable. If someone takes the character but doesn't RP them more than n-amount before dropping them, they go back on the roster. If they get played enough for it to matter, the character is gone same as 'original' characters and it's handled the same way. You also limit the number of times a character can change hands even if it's only one scene per player.

• How-Tos

  Tutorials and advice on how to get things done on your game.
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  This time I am on time! :D New version, quick because a crashing bug was found, but also a feature I've always kind of wished was possible...

  4.00.308 - 2021-5-24

  Added 'Input Window - Autocomplete Whole Line' Added YouTube link previews -- (to inline images, as thumbnails with titles!) Added tooltips to inline images (shows the full video title for youtube previews) Fixed a bug with accessibility, can cause a crash if over a line just deleted Fixed a hang when inline images/image viewer is on and the URL is not valid

  Grab it from the Microsoft Store (ideally), or alternatively from the github, and then go to the Discord and tell Bennet you're as happy not to have to play Youtube link roulette anymore as I am! (I mean, if you are, obviously. But why wouldn't you be?)

  Previews!

• Mildly Constructive

  Something besides the equivalent of "NO YOU". That shouldn't be hard, right?
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  @kumakun a-maz-ing. You're really capturing the essence of hipster Portland here, and as a native, I love it.

• Suggestions & Questions

  Ideas for improving the forum or questions about how things work.
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  @WildBaboons said in Pro Wrestling MU?:

  @chibichibi John cena

  Playing a character that is playing a character seems too many levels deep.

  Having a blast doing it on The Network.

• Admin
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  @iamsome

  This is all true. What isn't being said is that Az managed to fool iamsome(Trinket) and just about everyone else in his society for months and months and months. They ruled the mud as the largest society, she defended him heavily in discord all the time. He was never the problem 'he changed' he was good. He treated his new squeeze 'well' etc.

  I was apart of the pair that ended up killing Kurt ended the reign of terror but iamsome did continue to run the society for a while, everyone sought revenge for him. The fact he got as bad as he did (AGAIN) is that people are constantly fooled by him and simped for him.

  iamsome (AKA Trinket) simped HARD for Az and let it get to this point with her failure to convince her friend to drop him like a bad habit.

  Trinket — 06/17/2021
  I don't think there's any manipulation going on. I think they went through some pretty intense hell together with Nyssa and Kestrel being horrific, and they came out the other side closer.
  pof Gen was the only one who didn't ostracize him, out him, or gang up on him in public because he dared to dump Sua in a game.
  Sua was fucking around with HPs
  Sean dumped her. It came out that Sean was Az and Nyssa had been covering for him, and dating him, and then all hell broke loose because she was also dating AQG.

  Trinket — 06/24/2021
  and as much trash as you throw at Az? He hasn't cheated.

  There is more, there is months of fighting for him IC, There is months of defending his past actions OOCly. I just felt I wanted to speak up because while it is hella vindicating that this whole situation is outed. The situation should never have happened given everyone knows Az's history but ENABLERS like Trinket and every other member of his society made it possible for him to accumulate power and use that power to control his prey.

  I'm not proud of how we killed Kurt (offline pk) but I'm infinitely proud we ended that mother fucker after all this dirty laundry has been aired.

• Readers

  All things reading.
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• TV & Movies
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  @derp I cannot wait. It might improve my feels after the watch.

• Creative
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  @23quarius said in Drawin' Characters:

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  Some random character designs for some women for a comic I never finish

  No, you don't. You just fucking tease the images and watching you make it and there's never a chance to SEE IT ALL. Ahhhhh!

• Code
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  @Sparks said in Alexa Skill Idea: MU* Client:

  @Kumakun said in Alexa Skill Idea: MU* Client:

  I just did a quick search on Alex and WebSockets, and looks like they're actively supported by Alexa/AWS services now. I'll have to look into the limits on data chunk size limits, but I doubt a text pose is going to be greater than what it can handle. Alexa Skills Kit has come a long way in the past few years!

  AWS has supported WebSockets in the AWS API Gateway service and similar stuff since... I wanna say December of last year? But I didn't remember anything about Alexa in that particular announcement. If Alexa skills have now got a way to use persistent WebSockets to maintain a connection from request to request, that definitely makes it somewhat easier; it used to be you had to use a proxy server for Alexa to do anything with WebSockets.

  (Though every MU* that supports websockets uses a different protocol over that socket; the skills would have to be specific to the server family—like one for PennMUSH, etc.—or else you'd end up using a proxy backend to connect to games anyway. Even if that proxy server used websockets rather than being polled, which makes it marginally less horrible, albeit still a privacy concern for some players since that proxy server could log everything going through it: passwords in the connect command, pages to people, the @mail you read, etc.)

  And yeah, I assumed the UX would be utterance based; you would definitely not want to leave the context of the MU* client skill while using it. But even maintaining context, you have that request/response UX cycle to deal with, which is the bigger issue.

  And transcription seems the worst bit of all. Leaving aside the 10-second limit on audio transcription, there's the matter of syntax on the average MUSH. Pose and page and look and movement are probably easy enough, but many standard MUSH commands could be absolutely wretched for an interface like this. Imagine trying to tell it how to transcribe +bboard commands to write a post, or to dictate the sort of commands that many WoD games use in their chargen systems.

  And I don't even want to think about stuff like Arx's plots or goals system, where the syntax can get particularly convoluted: something like goals/rfp <goal>,<story-beat>=<IC description of goal achivement>/<OOC note to staff about goal achievement> (...which I may even have gotten wrong, because I'm not on the game to check the helpfile right now!) is not the most friendly single-line command syntax to remember even when typing. Trying to dictate that to Alexa could end up being an infuriating experience.

  That said, despite all these hassles, it's an interesting project to tackle! If you choose to go forward with it, I wish you luck; it'd be an interesting result to see, and might well be useful to folks out there!

  I'm really going to have to look into the time limit and connectivity. It's worth researching now though if there's interest. Now to see if the tech can handle it, and the UX isn't a nightmare. I'm going to have to experiment soon. I have a feeling that I'd have to write some custom backend to make it work.. if it will work. That and not being able to recognize 'original' names might be a breaking problem. We'll see!

• Play-by-Post

  A place to find Play-by-Post games
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  Rolegate. It is a good place for play by post

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  I am locking this thread because of personal attacks and violation of the rules of engagement. Gany and I will review to see if any temp or perm bans need to happen. I'm at work and cannot attend to it with full attention right now.

• A Shout in the Dark

  Looking for Someone? Look no further.
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