@Derp said:
@Coin said:
Hm? The colors on those posts are from the code here on the forums, not on the game.
To be fair, we could probably put up posts in those colors, though that would raise a few questions about our intentions in doing so. And even more, given that some of it is in italics.
We could call the game a Mud, for starters.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Thenomain said:
We could call the game a Mud, for starters.
But I've never played one of those, so I have no point of reference!
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
@Derp said:
@Thenomain said:
We could call the game a Mud, for starters.
But I've never played one of those, so I have no point of reference!
You know The ANSI color vomit I complain about? Imagine a game where the way Soapbox treats plain text as code and colorizes it is an accepted thing, to the point where a game can advertise "partial coloring" in a personal description as a selling point. This is a Mud.
True story, by the way.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Thenomain said:
@Derp said:
@Thenomain said:
We could call the game a Mud, for starters.
But I've never played one of those, so I have no point of reference!
You know The ANSI color vomit I complain about? Imagine a game where the way Soapbox treats plain text as code and colorizes it is an accepted thing, to the point where a game can advertise "partial coloring" in a personal description as a selling point. This is a Mud.
True story, by the way.
That sounds godawful. 
And people actually play on this?
@Thenomain said:
You know The ANSI color vomit I complain about? Imagine a game where the way Soapbox treats plain text as code and colorizes it is an accepted thing, to the point where a game can advertise "partial coloring" in a personal description as a selling point. This is a Mud.
True story, by the way.
Yes, because similarly we can encapsulate what a "MUSH" is based on one particularly dump way someone somewhere wanted to do a thing. Yes?
So imagine a game where damage taken shows in red, healing done shows in green, names are color coded to their relative danger to you, and powers and weapons are coded so you'll know what was being used. That is usually used to help you spot important details in a massive combat text output.
Now for RP ... yeeesh.
I admittedly have done some... not often done things with ANSI. This may make me a terrible person, but I try to be relatively sane about it.
Hate ANSI in descs and OH GOD I HATE IT IN POSES DIE SCREAMING IF YOU DO THIS, but I did color code headers and footers for room parents by area/zone on a grid. It's not the text of the desc, but still, I can't claim total innocence in the ANSI wars.
Oh fucking well.
@surreality ANSI in poses is only a slightly smaller sin than wiki codes in poses... which many people here are guilty of, and should be ashamed of themselves for. 
@Arkandel What the? Wiki code in poses? I don't think I've ever seen that, but now I'm honest to god curious what that looks like.
some fucking idiot who people only like because he's good at taking credit for the work of everyone under him, just like every other fucking L&L headwiz.
@Arkandel To be fair, there is one circumstance I'm generally cool with it -- if someone is leading a meeting or giving a performance and there's some reason their poses need to stand out as a matter of convenience in a huge crowd of deathspam, for instance. It's actually helpful and useful, in that case.
It's things like going to the square in Shang and seeing someone posing pink, another cyan, and another yellow that makes my head spin and then there's frothing and wanting to kill things.
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@Apos It's usually the simple '' code for bold or italic. It's not much more invasive than the other random punctuation used to denote emphasis in text, but it gets especially annoying in the wiki code configuration because depending on your font, it's easy to mistake it for quote marks at times unless you're looking closely.
@Apos said:
@Arkandel What the? Wiki code in poses? I don't think I've ever seen that, but now I'm honest to god curious what that looks like.
@emit Some guy looks at Apos and chuckles, "You've ''never'' seen that? I see it all the time!"
I have been guilty of ANSI color when STing before. But I am well known as history's greatest monster.
You are. However, if you have savvy players, you can suggest they color code things for their own convenience.
That way they choose the colors etc.
@Arkandel said:
@Apos said:
@Arkandel What the? Wiki code in poses? I don't think I've ever seen that, but now I'm honest to god curious what that looks like.
@emit Some guy looks at Apos and chuckles, "You've ''never'' seen that? I see it all the time!"
...wut
REAL ROLEPLAYERS /SLASH FOR EMPHASIS/
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@Wizz said:
@Arkandel said:
@Apos said:
@Arkandel What the? Wiki code in poses? I don't think I've ever seen that, but now I'm honest to god curious what that looks like.
@emit Some guy looks at Apos and chuckles, "You've ''never'' seen that? I see it all the time!"
...wut
REAL ROLEPLAYERS /SLASH FOR EMPHASIS/
For starters, Mr All caps, REAL ROLEPLAYERS USE ASTERISKS FOR EMPHASIS but I can't use those here since apparently there's no way to escape them so they end up looking like italics.
Also, those don't show up extra super nice on wikis which is where the real logs are.
@Arkandel said:
@Thenomain said:
You know The ANSI color vomit I complain about? Imagine a game where the way Soapbox treats plain text as code and colorizes it is an accepted thing, to the point where a game can advertise "partial coloring" in a personal description as a selling point. This is a Mud.
True story, by the way.
Yes, because similarly we can encapsulate what a "MUSH" is based on one particularly dump way someone somewhere wanted to do a thing. Yes?
When one goes for comedic effect and tends to be hyperbolic, yes. You certainly sound like one of those Nancy-Pants "ROLE-Play Not ROLL-Play" Mushers who thinks that fairness is something that can be measured.
Well it's all balanced now. That's fair. Pardon me while I code this fairness into an automated Mush Then Mud Insult Machine, since any Mudder knows if it's not coded then it's not worthwhile.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Thenomain said:
When one goes for comedic effect and tends to be hyperbolic, yes. You certainly sound like one of those Nancy-Pants "ROLE-Play Not ROLL-Play" Mushers who thinks that faianess is something that can be measured.
Well it's all balanced now. That's fair. Pardon me while I code this fairness into an automated Mush Then Mud Insult Machine, since any Mudder knows if it's not coded then it's not worthwhile.
I've no idea what you are talking about. It sounds like you're projecting, though.
@Arkandel said:
For starters, Mr All caps, REAL ROLEPLAYERS USE ASTERISKS FOR EMPHASIS
DEATH TO THE ASTERISKERS :neckbeard:
I too have never seen the wiki code thing.
i don't know if I would find it annoying just confusing as I would have to derail things to ask what that odd mark meant.
Though I am also the sort of bastard that is I empathized a word I would so it like so:
Jim Bob says, "People suck." emphasizing the word suck as he says it.
I know it is retro but just seems easiest to me.
@ThatGuyThere Sure, but how would you emphasize a word that's not actually spoken IC?
@Derp said:
@Coin said:
Hm? The colors on those posts are from the code here on the forums, not on the game.
To be fair, we could probably put up posts in those colors, though that would raise a few questions about our intentions in doing so. And even more, given that some of it is in italics.
We could call the game a Mud, for starters.
