Posts made by Cheesegrater

There are converters in both directions between NodeBB and Discourse. One could convert to Discourse and then back to a fresh NodeBB set up on mongo.

It's back up.

@Runescryer said in Interest in Cyberpunk MU*?:

@Jennkryst Cyberpsychosis has always been a staple of the Cyberpunk genre, from Neuromancer onwards.

Has it, though? Molly has a flat affect and is cybered, sure, but we're supposed to think that the mental issues come from her traumatic backstory. It's not really a thing in other books from those years at all.

Cyberpsychosis was an invention of the tabletop RPG.

@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.

Reminds me a bit of classic RPG Bureau 13. You should read it for inspiration if you haven't come across it already/

@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.

@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.

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.

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

I am genuinely surprised there hasn't been an Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra style game yet.

https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Avatar_MUSH

Gone now though, I think.

@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.

@Hexagon said in Elegant method to add two lists?:

Is there an elegant method in MUX to add the contents of two lists together at each indexed position?

That's the example given in help mix()

@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.

@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.

@nemesis said in Anyone familiar with Twine?:

Just programming advice in general: if (x < 6) only requires testing the first 4 bits at runtime, while if (x <= 5) may start with the first 4 bits and any time you're actually equal to 5 it requires testing all 32 or 64 bits in the underlying value, depending on the platform's CPU mode.

That hasn't been true since the early 90s. Every processor on the market these days will do either version in a single clock cycle.

A valuable tip if Auspice decides to switch from Twine to Atari 2600 homebrew, though.

@theonceler Conan the Barbarian as directed by Wes Anderson

@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.

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.

@Ashen-Shugar said in Information Storage Question:

Some systems cap TCP buffers at 32K which can cause a retry and a retransmit on packets over that 32K, which depending on your network latency and reliability could potentially mean lost packets (seemingly information being cut off).

That's not how TCP works. Packets will be retransmitted more or less forever. The connection would drop completely if a packet was undeliverable or reached a hard timeout. The worst thing that repeated retransmits would cause is some lag.

Message sizes don't matter because the OS's underlying implementation is responsible for splitting oversize packets anyway.