Posts made by Derp

GenCon is cancelled.

I mean, not a peeve, or a gripe. More of a … sad?

I so look forward to it every year. ;(

@A-B said in Spirit Lake - Discussion:

Ominous - Well, I didn't want to do it publicly, only Tat seems to insist on talking to me here rather than in the private chat I sent to begin with.

Oooh. No Not a good way to start.

Owning your actions is pretty big in this hobby. Nobody is obligated to excuse your bad behavior. And most certainly nobody forced you to come here and write a post with a gun to your head.

That was your choice. As was the other thing that got you banned, that you now wanna fight about?

Not a good look. And definitely not a winning strategy. You're doing yourself no favors here really.

I would just let it go. You basically just used the mu-equivalent of the 'Well she was asking for it by wearing that skirt' defense for your (ongoing) bad behavior. Not a way to win friends or influence people, man.

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

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

@Aria Make them a mix tape and send it to them anonymously: Music to Fuck To.

Make double damned sure it includes this.

Bonus points: Write a note with the mixtape explaining that the shitty R&B is no longer bearable and there is better music to bone to. Deliver it in person. Say something like "This was left on my door but I think it's for you."

Male them feel like everyone knows.

Mary Pratt

Now I have to go watch A League of their Own.

@Auspice said in General Video Game Thread:

Sometimes mods are okay

SkyUI taught me this.

Darker fantasy has been really appealing to me lately. A Land Fit for Heroes, The Broken Empire , Cain's Law. I have been growing increasingly tired of games where everyone is the good guy and somehow manages to go from zero to murder at the drop of a hat.

Those books show that evil (or at best a very jaded and selfish Chaotic Neutral) is a perfectly viable playstyle, and that you can make them deep, interesting characters that people want to work with rather than mustache twirling idiots that cackle all their mad plans.

I will make a game for this. Someday. When I can reclaim my RL.

@Ninjakitten said in How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows:

What it will NOT do is automatically paste C:\Users<your user>\Documents\Mush Logs%server%%character%%date%.txt into the Log File box when you make a new character (not everyone wants all their characters to have the same log file format), or create the folder C:\Users<your user>\Documents\Mush Logs\Newserver\Newcharacter.for you, if either of those are what you mean by starting a new one. You need to make that folder yourself, but from there it'll save the files there perfectly happily.

Yeah, talked to Bennet some earlier. I don't think he knew that this was a thing that was being looked for, but we chatted it out some. I think we're on the same page now.

@Cupcake said in Good or New Movies Review:

Watched Midsommar last night. There is a lot to unpack about that movie.

Despite the fact that there are definitely gory moments, it doesn't really feel like a horror movie to me, per se.

Hereditary didn't really feel like one until the very very end, either.

@Alamias said in How to BeipMU: The best MU Client for Windows:

@Derp I'm pretty sure it has done this for a while?

Edited to add: Well, maybe not set everything up automagically for you. But the starting of a log once you log in after you set up the auto logging I am pretty sure it has had for a while.

Yeah, see, Potato lets me set up this global macro:

/log -stop

/log -append 1 -leave 1 -buffer _none -- /home/user/Documents/Mush Logs/[/get _name]/[/get _char]/%m-%Y.txt

/at tomorrow 00:00:01=/run logroll

This is pretty much a one-and-done type deal. All I have to do is set up /run logroll as auto-send text on connection when creating a new world and it handles the rest of it for me.

If there is some way to do something similar in Beip, I'd switch over, but so far I have not seen anything about it. So I check in every once in awhile to see if it's a thing yet.

To be clear, logs end up looking like:

Game 1

• Char 1
  -- 01-2020
  -- 02-2020

• Char2
  -- 01-2020
  -- 02-2020

etc.

Just checking in:

Are we to the point in Beip yet where I can set up auto-logging like I have in Potato, currently? Where it separates the logs by Game and Character, and starts a new log every month, and starts a new one when I create a new game with new characters?

ETA: Genuinely curious. Sorry if that sounds weird on paper.

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Good news:

Bad news:
I dunno what's been making me so sick the past week.

Allergies? Non-COVID flu?

@Testament said in General Video Game Thread:

While knowing a game's plot has never been a deal-breaker for me, I won't deny that I enjoy being surprised by whatever plot twists there might.

Unless you're ME3. Then fuck you.

Especially since The Last of Us was so very good at keeping you guessing about what might happen, never letting you feel entirely safe.

@Kestrel said in Covid-19 Gallows Humor:

genius

very stable genius.

@Ganymede said in General Video Game Thread:

@TNP

Well, if you are okay with shooters, there’s the Uncharted series and The Last of Us.

Uncharted. 12/10. DO play. And The Last of Us will kick you right in the feels. So good.

@GreenFlashlight said in General Video Game Thread:

@egg said in General Video Game Thread:

@Derp Man, people are beating this game so fast! I got it on release day and I'm still only about halfway through. Is it absurd to be worried about spoilers for a game I have played countless times since 1998? Lol.

Uh, if you're talking about FF7R, then let's just say yes, be very worried about spoilers.

That.

You may have noticed by now that the story has been expanded upon.

@Auspice said in How to use Potato MU Client:

MUD prompts?

What is a MUD prompt?

@Jaded said in General Video Game Thread:

@Derp said in General Video Game Thread:

Ok, so, just beat FF7 part 1. Man. All the feels. I am totally 1000% stoked to see where this goes from here. Shut up and take my money.

Hey Derp, now that you've finished Part 1, how do you feel about them splitting the game into multiple parts that you'll have to pay additional for? This seems to be the most common gripe about the game that is circulating among the people I know.

Honestly? I'm fine with it. Given the quality of what they put out, how much the expanded it, how much it drew me in? I'd end up paying almost as much for crap DLC in other games. I'll totally pay them to not fuck it up and put out a quality second part, especially if they did as well as on the first part.

Ok, so, just beat FF7 part 1. Man. All the feels. I am totally 1000% stoked to see where this goes from here. Shut up and take my money.

@Aria said in Covid-19 Gallows Humor:

Uh, it's bat country, thank you very much.

I'll see myself out.

@Selira said in General Video Game Thread:

@KDraygo The game is utterly fantastic. The emotional notes hit harder, but at the same time, they mean so much more. The successes and failures and wins and betrayals, they all MEAN something.

I'm trying to keep relatively spoiler-free in my reviews of it, for those who haven't played it yet (and there are a lot these days!) but as someone for whom the original was a formative media experience... get it.

+1 all of that.

Also, they took the time to expand things in just, all the best ways. If you enjoyed the original, the remake will make you fall in love with it all over again.

My only complaint so far is a very minor bug in that early section (in the original game, in this one it is easily 40 hours in...) where you are spying on Those People from Those Vents (fans, you already know). The option to back out seems to not work on the other grates.