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I haven't updated to iOS11 yet, but with the number of apps having issues still, I'm holding off doing so.

@Rinel said in Recommendations: Neo-noir book theme.:

@Auspice

Until you realize that every third page you come across the phrase "and it was the easiest thing in the world."

It's been a LONG TIME since I read them, but

authors do get hung up on certain words/terms it is true.

I've used the word 'quibble' in like, five conversations today.
I NEVER USE THAT WORD.

@sparks said in Alternative Formats to MU:

Arx's logging of scheduled events is awesome, but only works if there's already an event scheduled. Ares' scene system is great, but I think all scenes are all public, and on some games—anything involving secrets, PvP, etc.—you don't want every scene publicly readable.

So scenes set =private are not public/posted unless you choose to do so. They do expire down the road, but it'd at least hold onto it until you (or someone else in the scene) can grab it from scene/log to save somewhere.

But any scene on AresMUSH set private can only be viewed by people in that scene (so it is an option).

@aria The trials and tribulations of finding a good stylist.

My favorite was one I found (sadly) just months before I left SC. She not only grokked (and did) exactly what I wanted, but she began with: 'Do you mind if we don't chat? I like to just get into the groove.'

It was like the hallelujah chorus. The small talk is the worst part of the engagement (also the stylist I'd tried before her had spent the entire time fussing at me for wanting short hair and 'Men hate short hair you know.').

I need a hair cut, but I'm anxious for this exact reason, like you and @Cupcake have described. Asking for one thing and getting the entirely wrong outcome. You can't put hair back.

@thenomain said in Mac OS Sierra Client:

That's like being stuck with ten million dollars cash, untaxed, that you can spend however you want, no strings attached.

Potato was the perfect client for me. The dual-input windows. The nested spawns (so they only showed the 'tab' when on that particular world). The fact that I could have an always-running auto-log, but then kick up a second log on top of it to capture something specific.

I've been using Atlantis a couple years and I still miss those things.

The Frontlines series by Marko Kloos might scratch your itch.

@faraday

I don't think I've ever seen any of those handle combat. I've only seen those do social roleplay. I do GDoc RP myself and it's only ever social. And even then, sometimes scenes get dropped because 'Well, it's been a week since the last pose and we've lost the thread of this scene.'

I think moving MU*ing to such would be the killing blow for that very reason. More and more scenes taking not hours, but days for a scene. Who wants that to become the average? I don't mind it every so often during busy RL times, but I don't want my norm for RP to be 'it takes 2 weeks per scene.'

@sparks said in Writing Feedback:

@auspice is this the one you sent me that I've been horrible about actually reading, or a different one? If the former, I'm so sorry; work ate me alive and I forgot.

Different one. The other one is that which will be published by the end of this month!

This one was written just a few weeks ago.

@packrat said in Original Sci-Fi?:

Yes, complaining about how the costumes were from wildly varying periods and should not be next to each other.

Did... did she not realize that was the point?

I got this book at her book signing stop here in Austin because, hey, I love her other stuff (I want a Grishaverse MU so bad). It's her foray into adult fiction and oh man. I love it. I love it so much.

I wasn't sure what to expect because the blurb I initially read seemed sort of meh to me and I wanna fire whoever wrote it (since it's usually marketing people that do that!).

It is an amazing book for the 'low magic' urban fantasy genre. I've been swapping between it and the second Expanse novel and I've all but forgotten about the Expanse book for the moment. Ninth House is just so good and it draws you in more and more and I think it'd be an amazing setting for a MU.

It also has a TV show in the works (on Amazon Prime). The deal was cut before the book was even released and I imagine it'd hit in the same way Magicians does.

Anyway. If you like Bardugo and/or low magic urban fantasy mystery, def. give it a read.

@faraday

See, I think it'd cause more BarRP, not less. And likely less if not cancel out combat altogether. Who wants to engage in combat when it might be days before you get an answer to a question from your ST before you can take your action?

@sparks said in Writing Feedback:

@auspice said in Writing Feedback:

@sparks said in Writing Feedback:

@auspice is this the one you sent me that I've been horrible about actually reading, or a different one? If the former, I'm so sorry; work ate me alive and I forgot.

Different one. The other one is that which will be published by the end of this month!

This one was written just a few weeks ago.

Yay! I will still read the first one, but I'll happily read the second one this weekend too. I just need to dig out from under writing documentation at work this week.

Link sent! Sooner is better if you can. Deadline is the 15th and I'd like to get it packed up and off by Monday at the latest.
(But, if RL keeps ya busy, all good :D)

Personally, I wish more games would just ask people to keep to a character limit on comtitles. I don't mind the succinct ones. But when they're really long like that, they drive me bonkers, too.

But agreed, more com systems need ways to gag them on your end. I don't know a way on Penn personally.

@Groth said in The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo:

I remember reading Six of Crows and quite enjoying it up until the point I realized that the author set it up to make sure that literally every single one of the main characters got paired up and it started feeling really really weird.

It is a Young Adult novel and that sort of thing is generally required. I didn't mind: at least she avoided the all-too-common love triangle.

My argument is that you are not going to win over college kids with 'Look! We made a slick and cool iPhone app that's just like an MMO to roleplay on!'

By and far, college kids aren't reading and writing like they used to. This is fact.

It's not a matter of 'Kids are reading and writing, we just need to put on cool sunglasses and win them over, guys!'

We're standing around trying to design a new logo for an outdated product when they don't want the product to begin with. This is Marketing 101 and we are failing. If they want our product, they will find it, regardless.

Improve the product for the people already using it, not a userbase that doesn't exist. And don't give the middle finger to that userbase. I hate using a mouse. I do and structure everything I can to avoid using one; I always have. It sets off cubital tunnel issues that have only gotten worse over the years. So yes, I am going to rail hard against people going (more or less) 'I want this button and that button and to click this and to click that and to have to click things for everything except my poses.'

Phone screens are big, but the idea of swiping this way and that doesn't seem like it'll save much territory on top of scrolling by typing exit names? It's just 'new for the sake of new.'

The core of MU is roleplay. None of this enhances or speaks to that core. What would bring people in for roleplay? What are barriers to roleplay? It was brought up earlier, a few things:

• Difficult CGs (a web form only gives this a new interface; it doesn't make the core of CG easier)
• Long wait times for approval (this is on individual staff)

Those are just a couple that have been brought up in this thread. Once people get past the 'shiny and new,' what's going to keep them around? It's not the bevel on the buttons. It's the roleplay and the people on the game.

Instructor is still an ass. An assssssss and listening to his treatment of a classmate on the recording of Tuesday's lecture is gross.

But I managed to learn his 'wants' enough to have gotten a 90 on last week's script draft.

I'm gonna be able to pass this class and be done with him (one of my fears was failing an having to re-take it).

I'm a fan of 'space sims,' myself, hearkening back to days of being unable to sleep and Gettin Shit Done. Awesome merchant times on WNOHGB. I enjoyed HSpace on Serenity before, well, Inara made me hate Serenity (my 'How to Fly' guide apparently survived from when I played up through being reposted/modified when the game had a website... oh how it grew from its days as a .txt I emailed to people).

I loved the system to fly around and find 'claims' on both CrystalMUSH and Crystal Dreams MUSH.

It is a mini-game. If done well, I think it won't prevent RP but can maybe enhance it. With smaller games now... yeah, it can be harder, but I also sometimes feel an itch on sci-fi games where everyone is completely stuck on a single planet. It just sort of breaks immersion for me.

@Tyche said in MSBBC: Jan - Jurassic Park:

It's a great novel and worth every penny.
Seriously buy it, don't steal it off some pirate site.

I share it for the sake of finances. Books are cheap, but the cost of a book is also (depending on if you buy used or new) a quarter or half a tank of gas. And I've been in places when that makes a difference.

nodebb is an asshole. (Ark or myself can try to poke it with a stick and hopefully not break the world sometime this week probably.)

@aria said in RL Anger:

often encouraged to 'be the bigger person' and 'find healing through forgiveness'.

Pretty much my entire childhood right here.
And that may be a large part of it.

I ended up letting my ex-husband back in my life for a while. He felt bad, wanted to mend bridges, wanted to play nice for sake of mutual friends, etc... (Supposedly) and against all feelings to the contrary, I agreed.

...only to find he was pretty much using it as means to get 'intel' to badmouth me and use me as a scapegoat for numerous things.

I just want people to be happy and copacetic, damnit. And this guy it's just... yeah, @ShelBeast, it's still hard sometimes. Because of how close we were. Because of how important he (and his family) were for me.

But no, I shouldn't reconnect. I don't really want to. Because it'd never be the same and that would be painful, too.