@faraday said in UX: It's time for The Talk:
You need the slash and equals in
mail HelloProject Rook=Some Subject/This is a message.in order to tell the difference between the recipients, subject and body of the message. Do MUDs just not have these things?
Technically, you could go for MOO mail...
@mail <name>
| prompt for subject
| then get dumped into a mail editor
Honestly, that was one of my favorite things about MOO. editors for mail, descs, even coding.
@Rook said in UX: It's time for The Talk:
I'm stealing @Auspice for my project. BACK OFF, SHE'S MINE!
I have my own project!
So, alright, speaking from real world experience here.
Coders shouldn't generally write documentation. It's often a mess. Sorry, coding folks. It is.
That's why you have tech writers. Like me. Mind, it's a shit job market because a lot of the higher ups think it's "useless," but that's for a whole other board.
But that's why you end up with those 4-page deep things because the coder is writing it from his brain. To a coder, those 4 page manuals make total sense. If you, the player, went to the coder and said 'Uh, this is confusing,' he'd probably be annoyed and wonder wtf was wrong with you. He wrote it! It makes sense! He knows the exact line you need!
But to the average person, it's convoluted.
You need that bridge person to write the documentation.
Unfortunately, in a hobby environment, that adds yet another task. It's basically adding another Staffer role/task onto the pile of stuff that needs doing. It's saying: we need someone who can learn every part of our code, what it does, and then write simple documentation for the players and rest of Staff.
As someone who has done this as a career, it's not easy work. A game would have to be a labor of love project for me to go from top to bottom to do so.
So while I wholeheartedly agree that it's a problem, it's not one that's a purposeful one. If you look at the help files for hard-code functions in Penn or Tiny... I can usually make sense of it in the right mindset (like my documentation writing days), but it's just a matter of being in that headspace. Which most people aren't. It's not a malicious thing.
@HelloProject said in MSB MU*?:
I already know I will regret asking, but...
Homie Bear Slices?
Well, apparently only hours before I met her, she was trying to think of a name for fans of her stream. Someone suggested Homie G Slices, and someone explained that the G was for gangster.
She thought it sounded too violent and scary, so she decided against what I can assume was literally everyone's better judgment, that her fans are now called Homie Bear Slices, because she likes bears.
That is... not as terrifying as I feared, but still pretty terrifying.
@HelloProject said in MSB MU*?:
People keep telling me to get Discord.
A Japanese woman who I thought was my soul mate but is actually middle-aged and married with children wants me to get Discord for her Homie Bear Slices, so I might do that.
I already know I will regret asking, but...
Homie Bear Slices?
The OneLogin hack caused my job to demand we update all our passwords.
I did.
One of my Project Managers contacts me today.
'I can't access your credentials for <tool>. I'm supposed to have them on file. I need you to change your password to something generic for me.'
...this comes from over her head, apparently.
...Mind, I woke up really sick, so maybe this is just a fever dream.
...maybe... hopefully...
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
If you're a casual gym-goer, you may want to consider your local Y. Especially if it has other amenities, like a pool or racquetball courts. Plus, you'd be giving your money to a charitable organization that gives free classes (probably) to underprivileged kids.
Casual best describes how I'd use it. The Y is a little out of the way, but we're talking a 10-minute drive as opposed to 5, so it ain't exactly a hardship.
Jesus fuck arbitrated gym disputes. I'm curious how the industry became so mired in contractual horror, but I suspect the answer is just "people are making money and customers don't know any better."
I learned the hard way that their 'if you move outside of X range' distances are calculated as the crow flies, not as it would take you to drive.
But I second the Y. I loved having a Y membership, last I did.
@hedgehog said in Magicians Game:
Wasn't Brakebills supposed to be in kind of generic upstate New York? So maybe setting it outside of Albany or Rochester or something would work? At least that way you would have a real world map to work with?
It's the grounds directly around and the building of the school itself that I'm trying to get laid out, so sadly that doesn't really help either. But I appreciate the idea! 
@Coin said in Magicians Game:
@Auspice said in Magicians Game:
@Lithium said in Magicians Game:
I am good with desc'ing, but, I've never read the books. Only watched the series. I can also code at work, because nobody cares if I code at work... but if I was writing descriptions and it came up on QA it'd be different.
Visually, I'll probably be going off the show, so that might help.
But I get it, re: QA.
But I'm trying to remember how the school was described/laid out in the books to use that as a basis, since... well, shows aren't always consistent with stuff like that. And I know the book gave specifics on the different locations for like, the Nature kids, etc.
I just googled it and there's no map of Brakebills online, sadly. That would have helped.
Yeah, that's why I'm hoping someone has recently read the books. I don't want to re-read 'em just to refresh my memory of locations, y'know?
@Lithium said in Magicians Game:
I am good with desc'ing, but, I've never read the books. Only watched the series. I can also code at work, because nobody cares if I code at work... but if I was writing descriptions and it came up on QA it'd be different.
Visually, I'll probably be going off the show, so that might help. But I get it, re: QA. 
But I'm trying to remember how the school was described/laid out in the books to use that as a basis, since... well, shows aren't always consistent with stuff like that. And I know the book gave specifics on the different locations for like, the Nature kids, etc.
@Lithium said in Magicians Game:
@Auspice Ahh well can't help with that one, don't know the language yet. Wish I could help.
How are you with descing? >.>
This doesn't just go for Lithium- I could use some help with the grid. Specifically if anyone's read the books more recently than I (it's been over two years) and recalls layouts/locations around Brakebills that could help me put the grid, descs, etc. together.
@Lithium said in Magicians Game:
@Auspice What code base are you using? I can help with some code possibly to help make this happen.
Gonna go with AresMUSH once @faraday is ready for me to play with her baby.
As my other post re: wiki may have hinted, I am slowly starting to make this happen. I am picking away at things as I have inspiration. There's obviously no set timeframe.
However, I had a spark of inspiration and got my initial metaplot outlined today. I'm pretty excited about it.
@HelloProject said in Angelic Layer MOO Staff:
@Auspice Pretty sure there's only been one!
Shiiiiit. It's been so long I couldn't even begin to remember my character's name and all, but I remember it being fun. Fluff (I mean, obvs, Angelic Layer) and all, but fun.
So much of it is fucking useless.
I did actually, on the last one, answer 'This has absolutely no bearing on this story.' to a few of the questions. I still got 100 on the bio, so I'm wondering if the instructor even read through the whole thing or just skimmed it. Like so long as you wrote more than 'No' or 'N/A' and it appeared to be a complete sentence...
A lot of the questions are also redundant. You get asked, at least twice, about things like their physical appearance and the like. Just rephrased.
Oh man, I remember this game. Barely. Or at least an Angelic Layer game.
@Ganymede said in The Worst Character Bio:
What the fuck course is this for in school?
Writing short films.
Yes, those ridiculous long bios... for characters in short films. 
Like, we're talking screenplays less than 15 pages long.
I fucking hate this shit.
The urge to start filling in incredibly snarky responses gets pretty fucking intense.
We've all had to write character bios / fill out questionnaires on games over the years that just... made no goddamn sense at times.
I want to present to you this one that keeps cropping up for school that drives me up the fucking wall. This one angers me to the extent that the last time I had to do it (last month), I literally began hitting my keyboard at one point.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o1otut0iihwdsul/CharBio - 1608.docx?dl=0
Enjoy. Or don't. I'm not the boss of you.
My "favorite" question is this one:
20. What were the most deeply impressive political or social, national or international, events that they experienced?
@Auspice I usually don't like disappointing people I enjoy talking to. That's why I keep turning you down.
At least you're honest.