Posts made by Derp

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

@too-old-for-this My usual issue is with the sides. Meat is easy - you buy it from a butcher or in a box and it's just... it. You buy a package containing 552 grams of chicken breast, well, that's what you get.

But I really don't like chopping and mixing veggies. Making sure some of it doesn't go bad before others do. Mixing it up and portioning it out. I'm happy to pay a premium to get a sensible salad out of a bag, I just want to know what the hell is in it.

Frozen veggies, bruh. You just weigh and mix or eyeball and mix or just throw the whole bag in a skillet. Whatev.

@tinuviel said in Paying for a MU*?:

@derp said in Paying for a MU*?:

@tinuviel said in Paying for a MU*?:

and then there's going to be people that try to get the law involved because real financial exchange has happened and that always leads to lawyers eventually.

This.

And lawyers ruin everything.

@tinuviel said in Paying for a MU*?:

and then there's going to be people that try to get the law involved because real financial exchange has happened and that always leads to lawyers eventually.

This.

@arkandel

Didn't I link that same thing earlier, lol?

I mean, it looks like just following basic instructions, so. I mean, if you just need someone to do it, then I can do that.

@tnp said in General MSB announcements:

Well, the line decides it. Let's migrate to new software. Without a line.

Seems like if we're going to try to preserve/archive things and not lose any data, figuring out a way to migrate the DB from Redis to Mongo is the way to go. If we're gonna set up funds to do that, I'm relatively sure that the people here would pitch in and put that together relatively quickly.

@arkandel said in Paying for a MU*?:

@testament You can't trust anything a lawyer says, duh.

@mietze said in Paying for a MU*?:

@thhppbbbt there are a few people in the community that you could offer me $500 to run a scene for and unless I had a bill to pay absolutely no way in fucking hell.

@ominous said in Recipes and Shit:

Yes, please share the slow cooker awesomeness! I would totally do slow cooker meals if I owned a slow cooker. It's on the list of appliances to purchase.

I have a slow cooker recipe somewhere for an awesome "Mexican" chicken dip that my deceased aunt used to make for every family gathering. When I dig it up, I'll throw it on here too.

I have a $20 crock pot from Walmart that gets used at least twice a week. It has lasted for years. Very much recommend.

@macha said in Recipes and Shit:

A lot of my favorite recipes are for slow cookers, and well, reading these, I wanna slink away in shame.

Same. Big same.

@il-volpe said in Paying for a MU*?:

I was once invited/hired to TS people on a game where you paid like $5 to join and then could hire certain characters to TS and pay them for the session, and the game owners took a percentage. This seemed feasible but I don't think it lasted long.

I used to ask players to give to certain charities in response to certain events. But I also always made it clear that it wasn't mandatory and that I wouldn't know if you did it or not.

You better be real good at TS if I'm paying for it.

I can't go into details, but I will say that someone much higher up than my boss asked me to do a thing, and I disagreed so firmly with doing this thing that I refused to put my name on it. I made my boss put his on it. We had an hour meeting debating it.

Fun times.

Making it voluntary is fine. You'd always have a few people willing to pitch in. The rub comes when people start expecting things in return, or when staff wants to make it mandatory.

MU's exist in great numbers. There is always a free version of whatever you are offering. Basic capitalism says that this will go poorly. If you implement a pay-to-win strategy and give people extra perks, you're going to go against some pretty longstanding views about how players and their characters should be positioned.

It's generally not a bad idea to go 'here is a Patreon if you want to kick in a few bucks, and it is not required', making sure to show gratitude without showing favoritism.

But I don't think you're ever gonna get a play-to-play game off the ground. if people are gonna pay for a game they're likely to do it on an MMO or something with better graphics and more immediate returns.

MU's just aren't the model for profit.

@tinuviel said in Forum wonk:

So long as the Hog Pit isn't quietly misplaced in the move, I don't care which option you lot choose.

That's kind of the thing about the Hog Pit. People keep talking about it like it's gonna go away.

It's never gonna go away.

Even if you make it explicitly against the rules, it's never going to go away. Its creation was the result of the way we, the board members, chose to interact. It's how we express ourselves based on decades of interpersonal relationships.

It didn't create the dynamic. That dynamic created it. And you can't just exercise it right out.

Shit, you can't even get people to stay on topic for the thread titles.

Like this.

Thank you!

I'm still old, but now I am wiser.

@solstice said in Good TV:

accuse of me of feeding

I'm old.

What's this mean?

@arkandel said in General MSB announcements:

I upgraded nodeBB to v1.18.5.

Please report any issues to your local cat-authorities.

THERE'S A NEW LINE ON THE LEFT AND I DON'T LIKE NEW THINGS RAR.

(Kidding obvi)

@sixregrets said in Forum wonk:

FWIW, I have a deep loathing for Discourse due to the way it does away with the notion of individual pages for forum threads, and in support of that, breaks browser-based ctrl-f in favor of using their terrible built in search. Might not be that big of a deal for here, but it's a huge pain in the ass when you're trying to track down something on a technical oriented forum that uses Discourse.

You tried using the search here?

Just saying...

@arkandel

Are you running it on one of your own VMs, or like a DO droplet? DO is a good option for stuff like this. It's relatively cheap. You'd probably end up paying about ten bucks a month? Maybe twelve if you want backups. A number of us are doing that already for Ares stuff, and so far it works very nicely.

Or, not even necessarily you. Just anyone ya'll end up trusting to keep the lights on I guess.

@tinuviel said in Forum wonk:

@derp There does also seem to be some utility available to import a nodeBB board over to Discourse. Probably for the tech crew than us schmucks, though.

There are step by step instructions for that here. It doesn't look that complicated. Likely doable.