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In Ares' web portal, the scene pose output isn't customized per character, and you could conceivably have multiple characters in the same scene browser. This makes filtering output very challenging.

So I was thinking about this before. Let me preface this by saying: I don't actually like the Places system. None of them that I've ever seen. I don't really use them and I think that they ultimately end up with a lot of lost information because it just never makes it into the main scene, and people don't think about that or don't care.

That out of the way -- I think that a system like this could be conceivable for Ares. It could use a similar sort of system to the way Scenes is set up, for the web portal -- a series of tabs, maybe along the top of a scene, one for each of the available places, in the same way that scenes are available on the side.

I don't know how much heavy lifting it would take code-wise to make it feasible, but you could just pose in the place-tab the same way that you do the scene-tab to have it go to the one that it needs to go to.

My two bits. I'll leave the actual feasibility of implementation up to the people who have a clue what they are talking about and know what it would take.

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@mietze said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

And if the ACA detonates before December 1st im well and truly fucked for life.

Listening to the oral arguments at SCOTUS, I don't think there's any real chance of that. The justices seemed rather unimpressed at the argument.

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@kk

I've always tended to think of appearance and striking looks and stuff as an average. Like the vast majority of the world will respond this way.

Doesn't necessarily mean that you will. It just gives them more dice for certain things.

YMMV.

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@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I have the emotional capacity to care for about a hundred people, anything more and it's abstract.

Dunbar's Number dude. That shit is real.

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@Devrex said in Highlights of Ares?:

@Hella Just being able to leave a scene and come back to it.

It's a double-edged sword though...because a lot of times players are like "oh hey it's cool if this scene takes three months, right?" whether you set it as "async" or not, thus slowing down the whole game and sucking the energy right out of it. It's like the culture of Ares has shifted from MUSH to forum-based RP...which is awful, because forum-based RP is universally too friggin' slow to get anywhere.

It's not like there on every Ares game, but the phenomenon has killed a few of them.

Being able to come back to a scene after taking a break and having everything right there.

Being able to be in more than one scene at once. This is the absolute game-changer for me. I have very limited spoons and time to RP nowadays, but being able to dedicate one day to just doing ALL the things I would need to get done? Fan-effing-tastic. This is the #1 top appeal of Ares to me. If this were available in other formats, I'd be all over it.

The aesthetic appeal. Ares just -- well. With proper CSS formatting, it just looks damn nice. For the traditionalists you still have the old command-line system but that web portal is just kind of a game changer for me being able to properly visualize everyone in the scene.

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@hedgehog said in Favorite Youtubers?:

Max Miller's Tasting History. Has even gotten my son interested in cooking.

This one is soooo goooood.

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I kind of think it's nice that none of us are hanging on every dramatic instance that happens on some game somewhere, or rehashing decades-old grudges. Is it slower than some other places? Sure. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, either. We still get plenty of traffic to the site, and we normally just post about less stressful things.

For those looking for a little more drama and fire, there are always other options.

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@silverfox said in Crafting Thread Part ?:

It isn't cats but look at what my older sister made me!!

I can't wait for the sun to go around the other side so I can see it back-lit directly.

Want one!

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I don’t have much of a dog in this fight, but two things strike me:

If you don’t like PBs, don’t use them. You can’t really force people to accommodate your personal tastes, and it does kinda feel a little shame-y.
Tangentially, but: People keep calling this a writing hobby. But it isn’t. I think that’s where a lot of heartburn comes from. It’s a storytelling hobby, which is something distinct. A writing hobby focused on producing increasingly good writing. We don’t really do that. We just focus on entertaining people. It doesn’t matter if some of us suck at character descs. That isn’t the point of the exercise or what we’re investing our time in. (Most of us. Some Arx descs I’ve seen read like a thesis on weaving and embroidery, so it’s certainly not universally true.)

Point being, calling it a writing hobby and getting mad that people lack the skill to wordsmith something to give you a perfect picture in your head really misses the mark of what skills are actually important for the end result of “being entertained with a collaborative story,” especially when there are literal pictures to help you get a picture in your head.

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@faraday said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

Just once I would like to be able to make a grilled cheese sandwich on the first try.

Inevitably it takes forever to heat up, so I get bored and distracted, and then ZOMG EXPONENTIAL HEAT RISE = charred bread. Sigh.

Invest in an electric skillet. No, seriously. They are your friend. Completely controlled heat rise with lights that tell you when it's ready.

Yus.

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@Ghost

To answer your question -- yes, the people with the admin tags are held to the same standards as everyone else. Naturally.

To that point -- you started a thread with a charged topic, got out of line yourself, got people riled up, and were given some grace. It's not the first time, and we generally make that judgment based on frequency and severity. It's a gut check.

Given that this is a charged topic and tempers are running hot, and we've strayed well outside the bounds of the original thesis? I think it's fair to say that we're extended some equal grace all around.

So, yes. Our admins are held to the same standards that we hold everyone else to.

You're welcome.

That said, the temperature of this entire thread should probably come down a bit. I don't think that we're anywhere near 'mildly constructive' right now.

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@silverfox said in RL Anger:

Having a doctor who knows how to code shit into the system is so important too.

The other issue is that there are several different systems, all of them proprietary and using their own code.

This would go so much smoother if we could just get rid of proprietary coding and records systems and just have a standard.

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@reimesu said in Bring back the Hog Pit:

No.

Not only no, hell no.

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@eye8urcake

Fuck 'em.

I mean, really. That day, for you, is about your son fulfilling a life goal. If they don't approve of the dress or the beliefs or the whatever-else, that doesn't affect you in the slightest. A few hours later, you will be back living your life the way you choose and your son will be off with his new wife and that's all you went there to do anyway.

Everything else is just details, and if those don't go exactly right, then whatever. Life happens.

Don't sweat it.

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@faraday

It was something considered way back in the day when everything was breaking all the time and we were trying to figure out what to do about that. Realistically, though, it mostly exists because we promised that it would continue to exist for as long as we could maintain it.

Moving it over to an HTML archive is probably more work than what any of the current administration is willing to put into it, especially for something that is as-of-yet Not Broke.

Might be a thing for the future, though. It's a good thought.

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