Posts made by A. Meowley

I’m on the latest Mojave now & I’ve noticed some things that broke: no more notification for pages when the window isn’t active (ever after I requested a Beep in events), MUSH text editor doesn’t accept text anymore (so no fancy automatically colourful/formatted text!), & for whatever reason I can no longer delete spawns under world or game preferences. There may be other issues, but it’s all I’ve noticed during basic use.

It’s juuust about still useable, but I can sense time running out. @wahoo what issues were you having? I’m keen to know how to avoid them myself!

@kanye-qwest said in Mu* Clients for new iPad Pro?:

atlantis is not an app, sadly I have an ipad pro i've been wondering about a client for. I think people have mentioned mudrammer

I've got mudrammer on my phone; it's so very clunky and doesn't support spawns AFAIK. It's terribly inelegant, really.

@sparks said in Mu* Clients for new iPad Pro?:

Atlantis does not run on iOS, no. (Assuming I ever finish the complete 2.0 rewrite, that is written to run on both macOS and iOS.)

I truly, truly hope Atlantis 2.0 does manifest one day, as the first iteration is an absolute pleasure to use and I want to keep at it in the future, on all this fancy tech that is temping me to spend my savings.

Yeah that's right.

I'm considering getting an iPad pro for writing/expensive note taking, and because I love to procrastinate I wanted to see if I can run a Mu* client on it as well.

Has anyone had any success with finding something that works?

@Sparks, will Atlantis run on the new iPad? (Please say yes...)

Should I just stick to my laptop like a sensible person, and not live the fantasy of having to only carry around 1lbs worth of tech to do all my banal cyberpunk future tasks like play games and get depressed reading the news?

@morewinepls @Jonah42175:

@jenny I am so hungry for this game. I'm incapable of hiding my interest.

I think anyone who doesn't read the rulebooks can fuck off.

This is probably due to hand-holding assholes who refuse to read the rule books.

Read them. Read the rules. This is a text-based hobby. If we're using a specific system to run a game, there will be rules to the system. Read the rules. Bend them, change them, decide some of the theme or mechanics aren't right for you and make it known, but know what the original rules fucking are.

Jesus. I hate when people refuse to read the rules. It's rude, it's boring, it's lame. You're not going to retain everything, or even fully understand it - but that doesn't matter. Make the token effort to try.

Look, what I really want to know is are we going to have pre-established stats for Everglades alligators and Floridian panthers, so I can hit the grid with a swamp-pad full of animal retainers? Something's got to be protecting my attic full of bath salts, soul jars, meth and Changeling blood, and a little birdy told me gun laws are gonna be crazy restrictive on grid.

So let's see a preview of those security HRs, please.

@ziggurat said in Miami, Blood in the Water:

I just wanted 1E code that had automated spends.

Speak to Annapurna @ FH. Her +xps is lush.

As tempting as it is to lay into Darc for being a real grade-a shitheel (seriously...), let's go back to code instead.

The debate about @desc's has raged on elsewhere, and I personally hate (hate hate) PBs and the weird assumptions players make about other players/PCs based on them (or odd, unasked for comments), and while I don't think any code will fix people from being an asshole...

Can Miami ask for the updated +glance that FH had, too? It listed important info, including Wyrd (if you can sense it), and it's much more helpful than the wall-o-desc during a busy scene.

@wretched said in Miami, Blood in the Water:

The good news is is that the chargen that is being built is being built by Annapurna from Fates Harvest.

This is very good news. From what I remember the GC at Fate's Harvest is a breeze to use, and had good documentation throughout. FH's automated XP spending system is great. Also their +sheet colour coding and formatting/wrapping is great. And +ref, and +hedgefruit, and +repose, and +posebreak, and +poseorder, those are great too.

The last three (plus colour/text wrap!) make a huge difference to the flow and readability, which is in essence the playability, of the game. Massive kudos to Annapurna and skew (and whoever else was involved!) for the code on FH. Excited to see how their work manifests on Miami.

Dibs on playing a morally ambiguous ally-friendly crossroads demon.

I promise my PB won't be Snooki. I mean, I'm upset about it, but I still promise.

Raising the topic from the dead to ask:

• Is there any way of adding a custom word wrap to new worlds without changing the actual size of the client window?

I've got some MU*s that have super elegant in game word wrapping, and some which have decided that +sheet and other misc info should equal the entire width of the client window no matter what. The (un)readability is driving me bonkers and slowing me down. Is there a way of changing this without resizing the window? (I like to keep things full screen, and have a lot of blank client space to the side.)

Hearing more and more about 2nd Ed. Changeling:

@killer-klown said in oWoD - Is there such thing as a good one?:

@sunnyj said in oWoD - Is there such thing as a good one?:

No staff should ever have to handle this sort of crap.

It's not just staff; well back in the day I ended up in the Summer King position in the Changeling Sphere - and, among a slew of other things, I got drug into an blurred line IC/OOC rape argument between a couple of other players. Basically some IC kerfuffle spilled into OOC and I was... I dunno, expected to adjudicate it all or something?

YIKES.

That sounds needlessly messy and uncomfortable on all fronts.

@wildbaboons said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:

Or maybe people want to know if there are already 15 people waiting to pounce on the 5 mage spots that may open up in the future?

@Derp and @Bobotron: What @WildBaboons said. You obviously have a popular Sphere going and that's great. As a result people want to get involved. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask, so expectations are managed and hopes don't get dashed.

@darc said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:

@derp said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:

Yeah, if you had made any sort of substantial progress on the character, then you probably got an @mail informing you that you were still good to apply.
Yes, I'm Gabriel (I mention that I'm the Mage TL earlier in this thread, but it's easy to miss). 20 mages are approved. 16 mages are in the approval queue, and made it into the cap. So, not quite 40, but quite a few more than the 25 I was hoping for. Once I have a Mage Admin at my side and we're in a good rhythm, we'll re-set the cap at something loftier.

Cool, that's good to know. To clarify for people who will apply in the future after the reset: how many mages were in the queue who didn't make the first cap?

Didn't didn't SF close Mage and Changeling while some people were still in the last stages of CG?

Fair enough for having caps on sphere numbers, but it seems like there was no real plan in terms of how they were going to handle new players. While it's a nice idea to think the closure is to ensure players get attention and plot, why wouldn't they have publically said 'we are allowing X amount of PCs in these spheres!' straight off the bat and been transparent?

Giving little to no warning while people are spending time developing their PC concepts and statting up, only to be told 'we're closed!' at the final gate seems really unkind.

@Tinuviel Jeezs, serves me right for getting on a high horse before morning coffee. My bad!

@Catsmeow see? I can't even read right.

I'll ring my own shame bell.

@Tinuviel: Oh pfft, it's not tremendously long (& how is exploring the flight duration helpful?).

@Catsmeow, it's awesome that you're able to not dish all your fears onto your kid, & she gets to go on an adventure with friends. Such a great way for her to navigate growing up. Best of luck for her, & you during the trip!

@golgoth said in Date Thenomain:

I don't miss Ohio. My wife lived there for a very short period of time (2 months? It was weird). My dad lived in that strange Children of the Corn area outside of Toledo and straddling Ohio and Michigan. Shit got scary. His most immediate neighbor had a daughter who was 3 forever. She would always be outside riding her little tricycle when we would come to town. There was also a cemetery nearby, so my wife and I theorized she was actually from there.

Fleas. Every hotel had fleas. There would somehow be a Dog Show no matter where we were. Random hotel in the cornfields? Dog Show. Stopping in Cincinnati for the night? Dog Show.

Things I like about Ohio:
The food.
Random artsy coffee shops in the middle of cornfield land. These places were like The Field of Dreams but for coffee enthusiasts.
The long stretches of straight road. Because I have a fast car and my wife and I sometimes like to go fast.

Okay, so aside from the fleas? I've never wanted to go to Ohio more than after reading this. It sounds like a trip.