Inconsistency in decision making. I HATE it.
-4 degrees outside with a -20 windchill. School closed, as expected really. My place of employment should be closed as well, when the school closes we're suppose to be closed + the last time that the temp got into the negatives we closed. Nope! We're gonna be open.
Yeah, that's great. Thanks boss.
How can I use basic commands, such as @desc here, without being in the room? @desc #dbref=Text here?
Presuming you are a player, you first need to find out the #dbref of the room you are wanting to change. If the room is @chowned to you, then you can do this with an @search of yourself - looking for the room name on your list of personally owned rooms.
With the #dbref you set the information the same way you set a room description while being inside the room, replacing <here> with the #dbref.
@desc #dbref=<What you would like this to look like.>
Exit descriptions and all exit information can be set the same way, replacing the exit alias or room alias with the #dbref.
Reading through this, I would like to submit to a couple of quick things (In one case, it was a thing that I spent years doing building work as staff and just never realized that this was a trick that could be done.). If it's more appropriate to drop this in another thread, I can move it. There was part of this under the section on linking rooms, but adding a part to it.
How can I quickly move a room from being attached to one to one place and to another?
Say, for the purpose of moving something finished from the Building Nexus of a game to the IC grid.
From the original linked-to room, pick up or take the exit.
take Blue House
Once you have picked up the exit, travel to the new room where the exit is to be linked. Once in that room, drop the exit.
drop Blue House
To finish you will need to have the #dbref of the room where the exit is to be linked, you can get that through the ways that were already suggested or you can examine the exit link that you just dropped and look for the #dbref that is listed as the source of the exit.
The source of the exit is what you need to link the exit coming out of the room you just drop to. From inside the room, it's a quick task of using the @link <exit>=<room #dbref> that was previously explained.
A small side note of warning with moving rooms around, they frequently get set to Halt when you do this. To clear the Halt on a room, from within that room:
@set here=!Halt
@Wizz said:
I have serious spider-movie fatigue. But holy crow, I'd watch Andrew Garfield toss quips at Hugh Jackman and Jackman call him an asshole for like 92 hours.
I'd take a ticket to that. And buy popcorn.
Lunch delivered to you at work. And it's the best grilled cheese sandwich (3 types of cheese, herbed tomato and bacon) ever. SO VERY GOOD.
And it's my birthday. I understand that's suppose to be a good thing. (In truth it tends to run hit or miss, but I'll fall on the "Optimistic" side this year.)
@Arkandel Except Whedon is very likely not going to be doing any Marvel movies past Avengers: Age of Ultron. So it'll have to be tapped into by someone else who can hopefully do it justice.
To provide a little additional information on this, the game needing code assistance is Safe Haven Harbor (SHH). Sandbox game, as has been explained on other threads, with Changeling, Immortal, M+, Mage and Werewolf. We've got code support for "tackling bugs" purposes, but our last "full time" code assistance didn't work out and that help is still very much needed. If there are questions, let me know, or message me if you'd be willing to help.
I'm looking for someone to provide code support for a game currently running, New World of Darkness/GMC. There is a sizable list of things that are needed, on top of code that is in place, and that people involved would like to see happen. We are willing to pay for time and work.
@Luna said:
I kind of love being blocked. It's amusing to watch people talk to themselves. Haha
I've been blocked by someone who moderates a FB group that I belong to (Hint: The Reach's FB group). If I was petty I suppose I could start talking shit on the FB group, but mostly it just looks childish.
@Miss-Demeanor said:
People like to be cute and/or witty with their Skype stuff but completely forget that maybe not everyone they talk to will recognize its them through their witticisms. I may change the picture every great once in awhile... but the name never changes.
You can manually change/set their name, so it doesn't change for what you see when they do that. I have most people on my Skype set that way, so I know who they are.
Ahh Facebook-people... I get it, you're pissed at me so you Unfriend me. Meh, whatever. But goodness - unprovoked blocking on Facebook, that'll show me! (Granted, this is as much a RL as it is a mushing-bitch. I'm gonna start keeping a tally of mushers who block me on Facebook. 
)
There is a snowstorm on my horizon. (Yes, yes, I know how much most people hate snow. I love it and I would like to be snowed in for a few days and that's not really something that has happened this year.) It won't be anything like hit part of the US recently, but I'll take what I can get!
And Monday I begin the first full time job I've had in 12 years. Full time librarian. At a library only a few blocks from my house. So I can give up the housekeeping work/combination of part time jobs I've done for other people for the last 10 years to make ends meet. It's a good thing.
@Luna said:
And to top it off, everyone knows who I am instantly. I'm the only one with blue (was pink) hair.
I'm "that mom", the one who they've come to know because I put every effort into being on top of whatever my kids are into and doing, especially at school. (Right now I've got one in 2nd grade and one in 8th grade.) When my oldest was in 3rd grade, one of my friends used to make fun of me for being the mom who made her kid do his homework the minute he came home ever afternoon, who wouldn't let him do things unless his grades were decent and who would show up at the school to speak to the teacher or an administrator whenever there was a problem. (And not in an OMG What are you doing to my poor kid - way.) To her mind I shouldn't try so hard & I should be letting the kid figure it out on his own. Then go figure 2 years later when one of her kids was failing his subjects in school (except for Gym) she was calling me for help.
I don't tend to blame teachers for my kids failure to do what they are quite capable of doing. I do, frequently, blame the administration of our school however for whatever annual "stunt" in the name of get good press that they pull that runs the risk of derailing parent's efforts and children's efforts.
This year's stunt? All of the students in grades 6-9 have been given Chrome Books. This is how they are to do/submit their homework. (It began at Christmas break, so this semester is the first.) Beginning next year it will be how they use textbooks, as those will all be in ebook form.
The problem they are already facing is that we're a largely rural community - and not all students even have internet at home, but the school expects those families to get it. (And in some of those cases the options for getting that is pretty much crap.) There are also issues with the way that they have set up the "security" of the Chrome Books, most of the adults at the school can't help the students with issues that come up and they have locked down the students doing anything from the school's wireless except to access the school's "Student Portal" page and their one assigned Gmail accounts that each student gets.
Outside of school, the kids can access more stuff - but anything they do access it keeps a record of and notifies the school. (They've already had 5 7th grade boys lose their Chromebooks for attempting to surf porn on them - and then they attempted to fine the parents, which has gone over about as well as you would expect.) They've also made it a requirement that the students maintain a social networking profile (Most are on FB.) in a lot of classes, but their Chromebooks are locked from accessing those sites at all.
And since half the assignments are expected to be emailed in to the teachers, they've already discovered that 2 enterprising students were taking home 2+ Chromebooks a night and doing homework/submitting it for their fellow students and getting paid to do that. But there is literally no way to tell who is actually doing/submitting the work because the teachers aren't being handed anything and not all of the parents are able to monitor it closely (because again, no internet at home in some cases). And in the other cases, some teachers still do want the homework printed off and handed in - but the Chromebooks aren't set up to print anything off at the schools, you have to put the homework on a USB and then take it to the library to print - where you are suppose to pay for the pages printed - so students are being made to pay for their homework printing and then turning it in.
The level of fucked up that the Administration of our school has created with this, just to "keep up with the times" because they realized this year that we are the last public school in the county to not have take-home tablets for the students, is awesome.
I guess I should be happy that I've got a Techno-Wiz kid, though it's frustrating as well. It was bad enough last year that I had teachers at the school sending their laptops home with my kid, for him to fix them. Now we get frequent calls/messages from his classmates wanting his help fixing problems - this is the age of nerd popularity I suppose, but it's a bit annoying.
Writing an application for a grant. For work. When you've never done it before, but your boss is sure you'll do great at it because "you're a good writer".
Getting right on that, no pressure! flail
I'd suggest adding an "Occult" category. I used the hell out of that as a category on TR.
We, meaning I, like a mix. I want the option to have other players running plots & to be able as a player to run plots for people. And I also want to have staff running plots that perhaps have a larger impact than what is done between players, perhaps even having a game-wide impact where it's appropriate - but at the very least those are the stories where the most significant risks should exist.
Things that are mostly "player run" plots weren't something that I really had heavy experience with until I started playing on Depraved Creations (where everything was player run, staff existed to support players but not to actual staff plot) and there were some extremely entertaining player run stories. (Crazy apartment buildings and oWoD mage adventures come to mind.)
But on the other end, games where staff were heavily involved in running plot, as with Denver's Mage sphere where there was a good deal run, or at least directly organized, by Thessaly & John Constantine, or on The Reach and nearly everything ever run by Lemuria.
I don't have a lot of fitbit friends, I don't know a lot of people with them - but happy to give people my email/fitbit id to add me. It's rather motivating to see how well other people you know are doing with it. (Example: My youngest brother is an ER doctor so he gets an insane # of steps in, I'm determined to at least match him on the weekly steps even if I can't match him on the daily.)
We got fitbits last year, winter is harder to keep up with the steps but all summer/fall since getting them I was managing the 10,000 steps a day walking. It took effort, I have to admit, but it felt good to be doing. I live in a small town where almost everything is within walking distance.