Posts made by Arkandel

@three-eyed-crow I kinda wish someone I could throw money at someone who made a fully featured modern client.

But there are too few of us to make it worth their while, I guess.

@roz said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

Is this person's ad thread really the place to hash out the eternal Mage sphere arguments?

I apologize, I hadn't noticed. I thought it was the existing discussion thread - all the subsequent posts have been moved now.

(We've be locking the Ad threads but then not even the OPs can edit or add replies to them if we did that)

@skew said in Echoes in the Mists - CoD 2e MU:

Even with low level magic (people starter at 3-4 in their arcanum), it was still a lot of "hand wave and the problem is fixed". Then at higher levels it was trying to continually reshape the entire world... while 20 mages do it all at once. It got crazy and hard and

See that's obviously a real issue too, but what I think is worse is how Mage... takes over when more spheres are involved. At least in a single-sphere game there's some parity yet once you mix it up it gets tricky - like you're playing an Uratha shaman when this Thyrsus kid walks over and can do stuff you can't even imagine with Spirit.

That sort of thing bums people out since it relies on folks sharing the plot and letting others have their moment to shine, too, which... let's just say doesn't always happen. And in turn it creates a different disparity too - numbers. You start seeing folks flocking to Mage because of what it can do, skewing the demographic as other spheres become less frequented and then it's that classic catch-22 where newcomers don't join because of it, perpetuating the situation.

Frankly I think it depends on what you're looking for.

For example I don't tend to care about 'quality' restaurants. I look for cleanness, ease of access (street parking in Toronto tends to get adventurous), decent service and that one plate I really like. I don't often go for variety; if I find something I rate 8/10 it's going to be my go-to from that point forward.

Oh, and music. If it exists it has to not get on my nerves; for example there's a pretty decent Indian place near my house that plays this hellish new-age music on repeat and argh.

Other stuff matter, too. For example put a large screen with an NBA game on somewhere in my line of sight and you got my interest.

Very few of those are factors that win awards but the stomach wants what the stomach wants.

Holy shit that guy shouldn't be alive.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-46882917

@zaroot No horse in the race, but as much as I like Mage the moment you put it in the mix, the mix becomes 80% about Mage.

There's also the illusion of an apology - which in itself is supposed to signal regret. "I didn't mean to inconvenience you" doesn't mean anything when you bring a friend knowing it will cause an issue.

Not only did you deprive your social group from choice in the matter but on top of it you created a new choice for them; do they get to be assholes ("sorry, she can't sit with us") or face a consequence that wouldn't otherwise exist ("I guess I'll go sit by myself").

https://www.manrepeller.com/2019/01/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-sorry-people-and-thank-you-people.html

@sockmonkey said in Good or New Movies Review:

Also late to the party: OMG SPIDERVERSE WAS SO AMAZING AAAAAAAAAAAAAH I AM DYING

IMHO it's as-good or better than any other comic book movie ever, including stuff like Infinity War, Thor 3, Winter Soldier or The Dark Knight.

In case you were wondering...

Well, Boogie is back so now the Warriors are running 5 All-Stars.

I guess that's that for this season.

@tinuviel I also used a timer as a keepalive on some MU* so they wouldn't kick me out once I was idle.

@admiral The first few weeks in a season are addictive as hell. The game fires on all cylinders from the point you're 70 and just start gearing up until your character is more or less optimized and improvements (at that point) merely trickle in.

But until then, holy shit it's good.

Using my vast administrative necromantic powers I bring you... a new season of Diablo 3!

There's actually new stuff happening, check it out!

@altair That's new. I've never heard of it before. I'll need to give it a try, thanks!

@ninjakitten said in What's your favorite MU* client?:

I hate coloured text in my MUing, so I'm very happy to stick with SimpleMU since I already have everything set to black on white, always black on white, only black on white. The only thing I wish I could do that I can't is drag and drop the order of my tabs, and I've used it long enough that I really don't ever need to -- I just put things in order to start with. So I'm probably going to end up sticking with SimpleMU until it won't run, I guess.

Text-highlighting triggers are life savers in large scenes for me, just so I don't miss mentions of my character's name in walls of scrolling text. But I don't think I've seen a client yet that doesn't support them.

@sab Is zMud even still being developed? I remember they started working on cMud (but needed a new, more expensive license) which gave super duper scripting capabilities.

@faraday said in What's your favorite MU* client?:

I think a lot depends on what features you use and how picky (I don't mean that in a bad way) you are about how those features work. I used SimpleMU for over a decade but then I got a Mac and switched to Atlantis. I've also used Potato. I don't really care. They all have the same basic features for the most part.

Obviously this whole 'preference' business is inherently subjective so take the following with a few grains of salt, since it only reflects my experiences.

I'm not at all picky about the UI itself in terms of say, shortcuts, tab placement or anything like that. I had to adjust going from zMud to SimpleMU and use ctrl+P instead of the up-arrow to find previous commands, for instance, and that was no big deal.

My asks are that I don't miss any information I want, everything I don't want is out of sight, and certain features I do use are present. So for example when I used Ares' web portal recently everything was different - of course - but the above criteria were still met; I had dynamic spellchecking from Chrome, channel or job spam wasn't in my face, so it all worked. However when I used Potato (I think?) I didn't have spellchecking and that was a downgrade in terms of features that having more colors didn't make up for.

The same thing happened with Kildclient. It was otherwise damn solid but the plugin it used for windows spawns wasn't reliable and I missed things sometimes because it didn't indicate (as of a year ago) 'new content' in any way for those tabs, or give me a way to separate inputs between stuff I sent to the spawned tabs and my main one.

@paris said in What's your favorite MU* client?:

I prefer simpleMU* after struggling with potato, and IIRC finally did figure out how spawns worked in potato, but I still prefer simpleMU*. It took me a long time to switch out of tinyfugue, too, though. I get really rigid about my client preferences.

I am the same way but here's a thing; it might be that we're simply used to one interface - after all it's the one we've been using for what, 10-15 years now? - so it's hard to give any other a fair chance if it's different at all.