Posts made by Highfalutin

Hmm. I'm not sure. There's this:
https://github.com/thenomain/GMCCG

And there's this:
https://github.com/skewskewskew/VtM-V5

The second looks more in line with what you're after, but I'm not positive that it's finished. It looks like it is!

@dev That last one amazed even me. It was like I could feel the sigh from across the internet.

I actually keep a list of these. I tend to be more of a MUDder, so the bloopers are less mischans and more just fucking everything up for everyone around me all the time forever.

List of Staff Accomplishments:

• Tried to teleport a raven mob into an air room. Instead teleported a player with "raven" in their short desc who fell from the sky and broke both her legs (fixed her but that's not the point)
• Infected like 8-9 players with a then-incurable disease by creating and then handing out a badly designed piece of candy (fixed it but that's not the point)
• Forgot to unlink a one-way exit into a very dangerous test area, trapped two players who got diseased, couldn't get out, and died (restored them but that's not the point)
• Left a massively OP staff toy on the ground that a player then picked up, didn't report, and used to kill like his entire guild (we can assume "fixed it but that's not the point" is after all of these)
• Teleported a handcuffed player into a water room where he promptly drowned because he couldn't move to save himself
• Forgot to remove bashproof on a door and seriously injured 2 players who went to bash it down in tandem some months later
• Scenes ruined by failing to look before goto-ing a room: 27
• Entire sheets ruined by trying to change my own with an inspecific keyword: 4
• Accidentally banned the game owner

I don't know why anyone lets me Staff anywhere.

@skew Arrrghh...

Well, I abandoned ship and fled to PennMUSH. Installed perfectly the very first attempt. Note to self: Listen the first time.

Sadly a no-go. It looked like it was super neat, but I don't think a port (or the wide changes I needed to do it to make it d10, so on and so forth) to MUX is smart.

@rnmissionrun It seems to, for the most part. You can set objects to wizard in MUX, but I'm not sure exactly what that does yet.

I do keep running into little issues as I go, like +sinfo <thing> acting like none of the helps on the DB_HELP exist, or this little gem (which I think it's caused by left()):

-----------------------------( LIST ATTRIBUTES )------------------------------
| Coordination: #-1 INVALID JUSTIFICATION SPECIFIED                          | 
| Endurance: #-1 INVALID JUSTIFICATION SPECIFIED                             | 
| Intellect: #-1 INVALID JUSTIFICATION SPECIFIED                             | 
| Knowledge: #-1 INVALID JUSTIFICATION SPECIFIED                             | 
| Perception: #-1 INVALID JUSTIFICATION SPECIFIED                            | 
| Reflexes: #-1 INVALID JUSTIFICATION SPECIFIED                              | 
| Strength: #-1 INVALID JUSTIFICATION SPECIFIED                              |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

But for the most part things seem fairly okay. I'm able to set stats and use attack, wield things and what not.

It required so little change it's probably silly to post, but here's the mux-friendly edition on the off chance anyone else has the urge to use or experiment with it: https://pastebin.com/9QRxAvLv

So far so good testing-wise. Only thing I'm noticing is the +nom command uses timefmt with an incompatible number of arguments. That's super easy to delve into.

@thenomain Fantastic! Okay, I'm going to give this a solid try. Fingers crossed, and thanks!

After some serious browsing and experimenting, I think Dahan's D6 System is a decent fit for me. The compatibility is listed as PennMUSH and CobraMUSH, however, which makes me nervous. I'm very much a "learn by doing and tearing this apart," but if there's compatibility issues I don't have the knowledge to recognize I have a feeling there'll be problems I can't surmount.

If there's someone with a better and more educated eye that wouldn't mind giving the code a skim to see what functions aren't supported in TinyMUX (or even cite TinyMUX alternatives to them) I would be extremely grateful. I'm 100% willing to edit and modify myself, but I think I need that experienced eye to point out the obvious translation issues that I won't be able to spot.

If it's an impossible translation, it is what it is. Just really hoping it's not.

@skew I think they might mean the +request thing with SGP. It's been little awhile so I don't remember exactly what it did, but I think it was more of a 'reminders' style system than jobs.

@aria said in Good TV:

@highfalutin said in Good TV:

You on Netflix was kind of excellent. Super uncomfortable in the best way to be uncomfortable.

I just finished it. Having read the novel when it was released, I.... have complicated feelings about the show. I mean, I loved it. I really loved it. But the book made me deeply uncomfortable with its fascinating portrayal of the narrator and how truly disturbed and delusional he was. The show made me deeply uncomfortable with myself, because despite knowing from the very beginning -- even without being familiar with the book, so no spoilers -- that he's a fucking psycho stalker, I actually really liked him and was kind of rooting for him at the end?

I'm not sure whether that says more about the incredibly fucked up idea of 'romance' we have portrayed in media or about me, but either way, I'm sitting here pretty skeeved out by having thought to myself, "Aww, Joe. You'd be such a great guy if you weren't a violent lunatic." And this is from someone who reacts with an instinctive, visceral anger to the slightest hint of Nice Guy (tm) bullshit after horrible real life experiences growing up.

Man, exactly this. All of it. When I got a pleasant stomach flutter as Joe was running at a full pelt for Beck's place (accompanied by a straight up grin when he tried to do that romantic "stone tapping on the window" and it broke instead) I was so sickened by my own reactions I almost turned it off.

I found myself rooting for him consistently, and that's insane. I don't know if the credit goes to the actor who portrayed him or the story - probably a combination of the two - but they did a hell of a job. I deeply enjoyed the show. I just don't know what to think about how I responded to the "protagonist."

You on Netflix was kind of excellent. Super uncomfortable in the best way to be uncomfortable.

Seconding @Thenomain on Maniac. Insanely atmospheric and surreal.

@thenomain Thank you! Certainly SEEMED the same, but you never know. MU*s are tricky beasts.

@faraday

(Thank you. I'd have wasted time trying and failing to fix that.)

Oookay, quoted to client with a 1000 millisecond delay (apparently that's a second, neat).

It doesn't create the objects, which makes the rest of the file non-functional - ended up with about 6 minutes of "I don't see that here" spam. I'm suspecting the problem is that the first switch, the one that is supposed to generate the objects I need, just isn't working the way it should be.

Edit: It's too complex for me to make much sense of, but at a glance... it looks like it checks for version and then processes the object creation based on which version you have. The only versions in the command, though, are PennMUSH and RhostMUSH. There's nothing there for Mux. Could that be it?

@tinuviel Thank you.

@Bobotron - Ooh, that was a good thought. Good on money; after some testing it looks like the Wizard bit doesn't consume money/has infinite pennies. I'm going to make a note of it as a possibility for future things regardless. I don't always code on the Wizard.

@skew - Yes ma'am! Muxify has become my very best friend.

@Tinuviel - I recall seeing that in the installation notes and having no idea what that meant. I'm gathering it doesn't mean copypaste into Muxify then drop into MUSHclient. What is quoting to a client? How does one go about that?

I noticed it also said to quote in with a 1 second delay. As I don't know what quoting in is, I also don't know what the delay means. Oh god this could be the whole problem.

More thorough testing (a few days' worth!) revealed they're pretty much non-functional. Blah.

In related news, does anyone know of a non-Anomaly-jobs system that handles requests somewhat similarly? Anything works, honestly, even something much simpler. I think the simpler it is the more likely I'll be to understand it (and be able to modify if needed - the simpler the better in that department). I scoured Gwen Morse's softcode wiki without success.