Best posts made by Cheesegrater

It's back up.

@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

I don't have to worry about ID theft on MUSHes, generally-speaking.

On the other hand, my copy of Stellaris has never asked me if I had to get naked during my school physical.

@Sparks said in Fallcoast Domain Expired:

I'm now really curious what used to be at that address back when that strip came out.

It was the IP address of the comics syndicate that handled Foxtrot.

@JinShei said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Homeopathic medicine (as in the practice) is not the same as homeopathic medicine (the not-a-drug), which I realise I phrased poorly

https://partnersinpediatrics.com/resources/holistic-vs-homeopathic-vs-integrative-care/

Quoting the site "Homeopathy is natural because its remedies are produced according to the U.S. FDA-recognized Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States from natural sources"

If they're referencing the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, they mean the water memory fake stuff.

The FDA approves it only in the sense that it has been shown not to harm people (of course not, it is just water), not in the sense that it does anything. The FDA only does that much because a homeopath got elected to the senate in the 30s and passed legislation that forces them to.

@Ghost A bunch of games on the MUD side of the things have gotten C&Ds. (TSR/Hasbro used to do this in particular). Ask on mudconnector, they could probably come up with a whole list.

To name one amusing incident, Farside MUD famously got a cease and desist from Gary Larson's people.

Linear algebra is a freshmen year college course and typically has no prereqs. As long as you remember your middle/high school algebra you know enough. Linear algebra is helpful for 3D graphics and/or solving large systems of linear equations (like you'd find in a physics engine), but it isn't super commonly used in computer science per se.

The mathematical topics that are really commonly used in Comp Sci are lumped together and called 'Discrete mathematics'. There's a book called 'Introductory Discrete Mathematics ' by Balakrishnan that we used to teach from in my TA days. It's a Dover book so it is one of the cheapest around, but it is a little densely written in places. If your basic math is shaky you might want to spend more on a book that elaborates a bit more. Just scan amazon for discrete math, there's lots of them.

@Quinn said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

But I'd love to see a Deadlands game.

I will open this game, but only if there is a rule that all character PBs are versions of either Will Smith, Kevin Kline, or Salma Hayek.

@Jim-Nanban said in HOW-TO: Reneg on a promise to write an AWS How-To:

Yeah, I recall @Cheesegrater mentioned it's not that expensive... That's awesome, but with the byzantine options provided at this point to me I can't see how he gets the price he pays, and so I can't in good conscience at all help people get embroiled into something I can't get them out of and can't be sure they won't get themselves into trouble with.

Here's my price breakdown for one instance, which is all you need for a MU*.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud running Linux/UNIX Reserved Instances
USD 0.006 per Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), t2.micro instance-hour (or partial hour) 744 Hrs $4.46

EBS
$0.05 per 1 million I/O requests - US West (Oregon) 885,105 IOs $0.04
$0.05 per GB-month of Magnetic provisioned storage - US West (Oregon) 23.000 GB-Mo $1.15
$0.095 per GB-Month of snapshot data stored - US West (Oregon) 10.837 GB-Mo $1.03
Total: $2.22

Total for instance $6.68.

I pay a little bit more (pennies) for bandwidth.

If you run on-demand instead of reserved it will cost you about double that, but reserved has a minimum contract term. Up to you.

@quinn said in Quinn's Playlist:

Someday @Cheesegrater will convince me to open a D&D game.

You don't even have to open the game. We can just open an OOC room and run off the newbies with the toxic atmosphere before they finish cgen.

@theonceler Conan the Barbarian as directed by Wes Anderson

If you like getting paid and don't like web development, Embedded systems are booming right now, what with every new product needing to be on the IoT or controllable via a smartphone app.

@Lotherio
Battletech MUX is a hardcode fork. You can get it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/btech/

SJG is fervently hoping that someday they'll hook another licensing deal as good as the one that fell apart with Interplay. They believe that they need to provide exclusive rights for that, and they also believe that giving permission to MUSH projects would mean that the rights couldn't be exclusive any more.

If anyone wants to start a new forum, I'll provide free hosting as long as we can agree to use something other than NodeBB, which I find to be just terrible.

@scissors said in Constructing a FAQ (and what ground to cover):

Does anyone know anything about the state of WebMu?

The hard drive hosting the database filled up. Should be all set now.

@Thenomain said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

Versatile how? Are there un-versatile bisexuals? Are there versatile straight women? What in the world does this mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top,_bottom_and_versatile#Versatile

Trademark is a red herring.

The reason none of these authors want to give permission is to protect licensing deals. If they want to license their IP for a TV show or an MMO or something, it is more lucrative to sell exclusive rights. If they gave permission to a MUSH, the rights wouldn't be exclusive.

Also, fictional characters are generally protected by copyright, not trademark. (Though some used extensively for corporate branding, like Mickey Mouse, are protected both ways). Reusing a distinctive character is automatically a derivative work, even if you don't copy any text or images verbatim.

@RDC

No, they understood what MUing was - Steve Jackson Games hosted/ran PyramidMOO back in the day, predating the US edition of In Nomine.

They've just always been very touchy about computer licensing of their products, ever since the deal to license GURPS for Fallout fell apart and they missed out on getting their name on one of the most beloved CRPG franchises ever made.