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MushCode: Teaching people modern programming paradigms via the 'have you seen the alternative?' method.

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Ganymede

if the kid was kicking somebody in the head,

Dude, I didn't say anything, man.

That said, I concur with the point that parents ought to manage their kids when they are in public. I concur with @Cobaltasaurus that special-needs kids should get more of a pass on bad behavior, but also agree that there were ways to accommodate that child, if he had special needs, that the parent should have explored.

Like a babysitter. If mom and dad need to get out that damn badly, this is the perfect option. No kid, fun times, nobody suffers.

@misterboring said in Hog Pit as read only:

You might have to wait for someone else to fork his repository and update it on your their own since I don't think he's doing anything with nodebb anymore.

FIFY.

I'm frankly not committed enough to that particular plugin to go in and try to reverse engineer it and figure out where it's broken. Block User still works just fine, and that's native nodebb. I don't have to worry about that one breaking unless it breaks for everyone, everywhere, and then the node team can work on fixing it. If someone else comes along and fixes it, or someone makes something different, we can give that a shot.

@mietze said in Roster Characters & WoD?:

I think we need to get away from the idea that a game in a beloved genre must cater to all people, past and present.

Literally nobody said this though.

What we've said is 'it did not work in the past and comes with an attendant host of problems that create issues for the players involved, so it is likely not worth the headache'.

This has absolutely nothing to do with who a game caters to, and everything to do with a generalized logistical issue that has absolutely nothing to do with taste.

For the most part, though, I agree with the statement. Not every game can, or should, try to cater to all people. But there is a certain core of gamerunning logistics that are going to be fairly universal for whatever genre you want to play in, and there's no escaping that.

I think in any system for Magicians, you need to take into account how the magic they do actually tends to work.

When they're starting out, they can do relatively little on their own. They rely on pre-formulated spells and such, and it takes them a long time to acquire knowledge.

But as they advance, they tend to be able to improvise within their discipline more than they could as a beginner. They can eschew words, gestures, can make shit up on the fly (see: pretty much the entire point of studying at Brakebills South).

So you'll still need a system that can eventually account for that. You could modify mage's system for this. Your Physical Kids can study Physical stuff and eventually be able to improvise in that system, but outside of that they are going to be able to improvise very little, and will need to rely on the tried-and-true spells that other people have formulated. But they should be able to freeform some of their stuff, even if they take a significant penalty for it (the study at BBS was not exactly easygoing, after all).

But improvisation can lead to really cool stuff. Like this.

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

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

LRH isn’t even as interesting as Jim Jones or any of the LDS church fathers or branch offs

You gotta give him credit though. Anyone who looks so much like a fraudster, and had openly talked about starting a religion to avoid taxes and then pulls it off is doing something right.

Don't give folks more ideas on batshit ways to become President.

@runescryer said in Hog Pit as read only:

Most users . . .don't bother to learn extra functions unless it's pointed out to them that they exist.

Yeah, but like... isn't your whole argument for opt-in that users are savvy enough to figure out they're there all on their own, despite them being far less in-your-face and obvious than the buttons you're saying people won't notice or use because nobody explicitly points them out?

@Artemis said in Searching for Star Wars RPI:

@Ganymede said in [Searching for Star Wars RPI]

Anyhow, I concur. Finding a game where the people on top aren't sacks of shit isn't easy.

I feel like this isn't fair to a bunch of the new MUs coming out now or recently as a result of Ares. That's unfailingly a great crowd in my experience.

I am glad that this has been your experience, but it hasn’t been the experience of quite a few others. I think that is a more than fair statement.

@mietze said in To OOC Room or Not to OOC Room (and Other Artifacts):

a bunch of game stat wangwaving

This is the worst part of them for me. All the dick-measuring. I am so tempted to create an ePeen channel for that. Maybe call it something more tame, like 'Swagger' or something. I know it's a huge turnoff not just for me, but for other players, and on at least one game I play there are a handful of players that just do this non-stop. It's so irritating.

Many have moved to Aresmush, which has its own directory. https://arescentral.aresmush.com/

Others have moved to Evennia, a python-based MUD engine that I am much less familiar with, other than to say that several very large games have used it now, including Arx.

Rhost and Tiny are still around but increasingly rare as newer and objectively better platforms are coded in modern coding languages.

@sibermaus said in To OOC Room or Not to OOC Room (and Other Artifacts):

My only request as an old fashioned MUXer is: Make sure all the help files are somewhere on the MU. I don't always want to have to open a PDF or a web browser to remind me how to use the game's CharGen.

Faraday makes that pretty easy on Ares. The process of creating the help file is part of the process of creating the plugin, which harbors the commands. So unless you're just being super lazy and skip it there's no reason that it wouldn't be on the game itself.

@Corruption said:

GRAH! I'm angry, I thought the house was paid off and done, and after years of sending just under half our monthly income to pay the Land Contract were over. I was looking forwards to groceries, the occasional McDonalds run, a little spending money even.

Nope. The person holding the contract now insists that we owe her for June. Also, she says that the Land Contract deal over-rides us starting as tenants, so we don't get our security deposit (1 month's payment) back either,

This sucks.

Lawyering up at the free legal clinic, Filing a claim's going to cost about $180.00.

If this costs me the cats I was adopting because we can no longer pay the adoption fee, I am going to be beyond angry.

I'm in Indianapolis, Corruption. You can also go to McKinney Law School. You will usually find people -more than happy- to talk to you about all sorts of legal issues. Talk to some of the contract law professors there. They might not act as your attorney, but they can at least point you in the direction you need to look for legal resources. Most of them are more than happy to talk to the pubic.

@Seraphim73 said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

As for needing popular friends to speak up, I'm certainly not anyone's idea of a popular figurehead among any group here, but right there in my example, folks defended me.

...really? I mean, you only ran what, two? Three? Wildly popular games, and staffed a few others, and happen to be probably the most FS3-savvy combat coder in the hobby right now.

I think you underestimate how much support that can bring with it.

In this fictional universe, they all watch a movie series about a famous Earthbender and his trials and tribulations: Stoney.

@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

My mother, a fierce Chinese woman of 5 feet and 100 pounds, is more than happy to tell me how much weight I need to lose every damn time we meet. And then she makes dinner for my family that includes macaroni and cheese and other stuff that is very much not conducive to weight loss.
Bitch.
I love her to bits.

My personal favorite version of this is when my grandmother would gripe about my weight when I was younger, and then insist I eat all the leftovers because she cooked enough to feed twenty people when there were four of us there.

I fucking wonder how that happened, grams.

@Seraphim73 said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

If there's a place where you can't shame actual crypto-fascists for being crypto-fascists, I don't want to be a member of that community.

You can here, so long as you provide some kind of evidence for the accusation and aren't just engaging in the current generation's equivalent of a Commie Hunt.

And your continued use of "some of these personalities" and "they" is complete bullshit.

I disagree, personally, but I want to point out that this is an acceptable statement for reviews and debates, because it's about a behavior or an idea. Not about a person.

you were one of those most vitriolic members of the Hog Pit, you just couched things in terms you thought were nice (sometimes). @Kestrel previously called you out with receipts for some of the many times you've done this. You were/are part of the problem, and you were/are part of normalizing it.

This is less acceptable. What is the point of this? You aren't trying to say here, "some of the things you did contributed to the problems that we're currently facing, and you should consider how you're going to handle that going forward." This is just meant to browbeat and shame a person based on personal dislike for no other reason than to vent your spleen in an argument. And frankly, you're intelligent enough to already know this. I know you are, I've seen it firsthand when we've talked.

Don't do this. You're better than that.

For everyone, at large: We really, truly aren't fucking around when we tell people to lay off the personal attacks. STOP IT. Debate ideas all you want to. You can even call out behaviors that you find problematic with evidence, but just trying to browbeat someone to win some kind of internet points is not gonna fly.

and now you're trying to shove that all on people who have been split (some by their own choice, some not) from this community and are in no position to correct your gaslighting.

Alright. I want to make a few things clear here, since this keeps coming up.

1. The people who aren't here are all not here of their own choice. They were explicitly warned multiple times to stop engaging in the behavior that they were engaging in, and then continued to do so even after they were made aware of what the consequences would be, so can we please stop repeating this line like it's somehow going to become truer based on volume of appearances? It's not. They all knew precisely what they were doing, and there is documented evidence in visible parts of the thread for this already. They weren't innocent bystanders. They made a choice, each and every one of them, and while I might not agree with the overall outcome in all cases, pretending that they were somehow swept up in a flood of bannings like some kind of tidal wave they had no way to get clear of is about as revisionist as you can get when there is actual, verifiable evidence to the contrary.

2. There were some mentions made awhile back that some of the bannings were due to inappropriate PMs. To be clear, there was one due to DMs, Farfalla, as was announced on the forum at the time, and one banning based on reported predatory behavior. Those were not reconsidered at all, and anything attributed to those should not be lumped in with the rest of the bans.The rest of them were about continuing to engage in a behavior they were repeatedly told to stop engaging in. I want to get that out there, for the record.

ETA: I am mistaken, we did in fact reverse Farfalla. My brain is an imperfect meat sponge.

Alright, so this is a topic that we've touched on a couple of times before, but I wanted to open a formal thread on it so that we can engage in a discussion -- self-servingly because I'm thinking about this stuff for a game and want some opinions.

We all know that in a game where xp is given out based on things you do versus just being there, someone is going to try to game that system to its maximum effect, just going full-bore all-the-time with scene-running and whatnot.

That isn't necessarily a bad thing. That kind of energy and enthusiam tend to fill in great big holes where the game staff can't meet the needs of demand for plot or whatever. But it can have some negative consequences in that one-or-a-group-of players can easily just balloon out of proportion, power-wise, to the rest of the game. Additionally, some players will just buy the most beneficial thing over-and-over again, stat-wise, and just RP that they have all the other things that they should be buying, if they can freely buy whatever.

So sometimes it's necessary to put some brakes on that.

What do you think the preferred method of slowing character growth is? (Whether or not is should be is another topic entirely -- consider this a pick-your-poison topic.)

Do you think you should have weekly/overall xp caps?
Do you think that certain stats should only be able to be raised in given time intervals (the classic "you can only buy X every ninety days.")
Do you think that the buying of stats should be justified by actual plot activity that supports those buys (i.e. the 'show me the logs / justification' approach.)

Out of the methods that you've tried before, what do you think is the best?

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

I have to assemble a copy deck* for class. It was due by Sunday night. I can't even really begin on it until I get feedback on my 'planning' document from last week.

I haven't received this feedback yet. Our professor extended our deadline until Monday. Which is probably awesome for the people who have gotten their feedback, but sucks ass for anyone like me who hasn't.

I'm in two classes this month. One has an awesome professor. This prof is... I mean, he's not bad, but this current issue has me pretty upset. And I don't want to ask for a further deadline. I don't want to be on this big a crunch at all, because next week I have to put everything in said document to action as it were for my final project.

*A copy deck is basically the document that has everything in it needed for a copywriting project. I'm looking at about 20+ pages for mine. And... it's Friday night and I haven't started. I can't start.

Say something. Really. If he has not given you the necessary feedback to complete your project in a reasonable time, you should at least tell him that you don't think the delay will allow reasonable time for completion.

If he refuses to move the deadline, that is when you do things like appeal to the dean.

I have had irresponsible professors like this in the past. I learned quickly that you have to approach these kinds of things directly. Preferably through channels that leave a record.

@GreenFlashlight said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

We are only disagreeing about who are the default bad actors: the reporters, or the reported.

That's not at all what we're disagreeing about. Nobody is saying that those who report bad behavior are by default bad actors. The debate is where the standards of proof lie for those accusations, and at what point it is appropriate to take action based on that.