Posts made by ixokai

I voted no but I changed my mind for this one specific game because it is Original Theme and these ...things are part of the feeling of the setting which I am not naturally prone to consider.

But opt out please.

@magee101 said in San Francisco: Paris of the West:

@thatonedude can I make a request that people quit comparing 1e to 2e?

As an observer, what?

No I mean like, I'm gonna make a char on this game. Seven friends of mine are gonna join me in making a cabal.

I've read this thread?

And what? Folk are talking like there was some huge diversion and distraction on the 2e equipment method. There wasn't. Some guy just said a thing, made one little comment.

Relax.

God.

As for this ACTUAL GAME ITSELF, my feedback. The staff has a sense of humor and vision. The head mage wiz didn't let me have what I wanted and so he can burn in a -- no, actually, he said no in a reasonable way and left the door open down the road when what I wanted might be more appropriate in plotland.

The head Changeling wizard used her skills of testicle stabbing to make me consider making a 'ling alt, because ...well, let us gently say, despite violence to my junk that maybe was warranted because I was being a shit-disturber, still set there as I grilled her with question after question. Now yes, that's staff's job. But she does it with class. Okay, also a little deserved violence.

I might need to make a Sin-Eater too, largely because again, their SE wizard isn't an idiot. This might seem like a low bar but let me tell you its a challenge. I have been quoted international law by SE wizards defining 'torture'. This guy just expressed a reasonable POV and you know, listened and debated his point. I don't even know what to do with myself.

@haven I have two words for you.

Lawn chairs.

See, I grew up in San Francisco.

Here's what I'm thinking of, for a cabal.

I grew up in Miraloma Park, a fairly quiet residential neighborhood in the upper reaches of Mount Davidson. Don't take that 'mount' too seriously, its not a real mountain. BUT.

The top of Mount Davidson is a little park area, and if you go there, its a fun little hike up to the top. At the top is the famous giant concrete cross. This is the highest point in the city, and has an amazing view of the whole city.

But if, during this hike, you take a side path there is... a bunker.

Its cement with a steel door and I have no real idea what's in it (I suspect electrical systems to light up the cross but don't know for sure)

But what if the bunker was more then just that?

What if a cabal of mages claimed the highest point of the city, looking over the city, and that bunker was their base?

ETA:

The High Wardens, maybe? I'm not so good at names.

@cobaltasaurus I'd be interested in a cabal. One of the big reasons I haven't really played nwod lately is that I seriously hated this hybrid nonsense TR and Fallcoast did.

@tnp can join our cabal too!

Is this really 1e or is it one of those monstrosities of 1e + GMC merits?

@skew said in How to use Potato MU Client:

My dear (not actually a) stalker asked how to highlight names without highlighting words that contain that name. Ie, Mae but not Maelstrom.

Create a new event:

• Event Name: Name Highlight
• Pattern: (?:^|\W)Name(?:$|\W)
  ** Put your name there instead of 'name'
• Type: regexp
• Case: Checked
• Enabled?: Checked
• Continue?: Checked
• Match All?: Checked
• Run When: Always
• Change FG: Color of your choice

That should do it... Please note, like every time anyone ever uses of regexp I have no idea what I'm doing and just copied and pasted some code until I found the stuff that worked. So let me know if it's not working for you?

Skew, you're looking for \m and \M

\m matches beginning-of-word-boundary, and \M matches end-of-word-boundary.

So \m(Name|Nickname)\M will highlight 'Name' but not 'Nameson' or anything else like that.

@stabby If you have Chrome, there's http://duckclient.com/

@rizbunz said in Genosha (Interest Poll):

Sorry. Ended the poll and went ahead and removed the idea. Didn't mean to ruffle feathers, I was just curious what people thought.

You didn't ruffle feathers. One person had a silly tiffy of silliness.

Someone is always going to be that one person who is being dumb. We rotate for whose turn it is.

I, too, find this 'just after the bombs'... hard. It sounds a lot painful and depressing. Most Fallout games happen in a world which was horribly scarred, but life exists, survives. Just after the bombs? Not so much.

I know some people who play to certain types and I love their RP, but for me, no particular character is generally like any other I've done, or it becomes boring for me to actually play.

Right now? I have Billy, a slightly nerdy goofball with a heart of gold and who is ernest as hell; then Johnny who is so confident that 'cocky' is a better term, certain everyone wants to swing on his dick; then Josh, a thoughtful and somewhat quiet healer but who is focused and dedicated on helping people; Chance, a vigilante not afraid of violence but driven not by anger but regret; Peter an ernest genius who is a little like Chance but can't bring himself to kill people; Bradin a kid of privilege and wealth that is confident and at ease in the world yet kind to everyone; Case an epitome of a nerd's nerd who can get lost telling you about algorithms and his coding project, but is a horndog; to Nicolo who is a stern, calm, calculating figure who oversees a family empire with the long ambition; to another Chance (no comparison) who is almost the epitome of SJW made manifest and has never seen a cause he wouldn't take up.

Confidence is almost the only common trait. I almost never make self-conscious characters.

@sunny I could easily fit in another sister (who would likely be heir)

@cobaltasaurus said in Cobalt's Playlist:

Inglewood/Casablanca/Bellflower@Lamush (nnggggh)

Hey, what's with the nnggggh?!

We have three new staffers who will focus on the high school side so Showgirls can focus on developing the college side and encourage more adult RP!

The game is down temporarily, possibly for up to two hours. There was scheduled maintenance, I just posted about it to Announcements then promptly forgot and so didn't give more warning.

Aaand we're back.

@skew said in How to type `quit` and quit PennMUSH?:

@ixokai said in How to type `quit` and quit PennMUSH?:

I've never understood why people type quit/QUIT and don't just use their mouse to disconnect.

What? Really? On some clients, disconnecting from a connected world will give a warning message. Other times, simply disconnecting doesn't seem to send the appropriate "disconnect" information to the server, and so you'll still appear logged in. This results in something like someone paging you and you never receiving it.

Also who uses a mouse?

Yeah, seriously. I don't ever type quit. I just disconnect And never run into any issues.

Granted, I'm also one of those people who might be online weeks at a time.

I've never understood why people type quit/QUIT and don't just use their mouse to disconnect.

That said, the ALLCAPSCOMMANDS are special and are processed on a different layer then normal commands, so you can't @fo or queue them. I don't have any suggestions, sorry.

@faraday said in How did you discover your last three MU* ?:

I don't know what to tell you other than we've apparently had vastly different experiences.

People on games are incredibly helpful to people who already know MUSHing, yes. Trying out a BSG game but don't really know Battlestar? Sure, there's probably a theme file to give you the gist of it and people helpfully steering you towards YouTube clips or whatnot. First time on FS3? No problem - here's the tutorial about how the system works, and a slew of people on the Questions channel to help you out. Having trouble with the scene system code?
Absolutely someone will chime in to steer you in the right direction.

But going out of their way to actually hand-hold some stranger who wandered in off the street and wants to learn how to MUSH? No, I haven't seen that. What I have seen is a lot of eye-rolling and general impatience/intolerance/avoidance towards people who don't know what they're doing.

Yeah, we've had vastly different experiences. I've almost never seen anything I'd call "eye-rolling and general impatience/intolerance/avoidance towards people who don't know what they're doing." to such a degree I don't really know how to make sense of the difference. I've seen people go out of their way to help people who don't really know how to mush. It doesn't happen often only because the hobby doesn't get a lot of newcomers. But when I've seen a newcomer, I've seen both players and staff bend over backwards to help and explain.

Also, looking at the game wiki/help/etc., most games are centered around the assumption that the people coming to it already know how to MUSH and just need to know the specifics of how this particular MUSH operates. Even someplace like Arx, which someone mentioned as being particularly open to other online gaming styles, is still geared this way.

I'm going to put myself in the shoes of somebody who's never played a MUSH before and doesn't have a buddy who invited me and is showing me the ropes. I've googled "Pendragon Online RPG" and somehow stumbled onto Valorous Dominion's website.

OK umm... now what? It says it's an online roleplaying experience, which sounds cool, but I don't see any clue as to how to actually play. There's a cryptic IP address, which I don't know what to do with. There are some policies and world articles and characters pages but how do I play?! ... oh, wait, down at the bottom there's a cryptic link titled "What is MUSH", I wonder what that's all about. Okay that tells me about MU clients and connecting and whatnot, so I manage to find and install Atlantis, connect to the game and get a welcome screen. It says 'create <name> <password>' ... okay, easy enough. Woohoo I have a character. I get spammed with a Great Wall of Text including a room description (but I don't really know what rooms are), a MOTD with a list of BBS posts. It does say (+bbread) after it and I'm smart enough to guess that I'm supposed to type +bbread to read messages. But all that does is give me a list of subjects. Where are the posts? Now I see someone say <Newbie> RandomPerson says, "Hello Guest!" Are they talking to me? How do I talk back?

I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty overwhelmed at that point.

See that's an entirely different issue, IMHO. Are MUSHes hard to get into if you've never done something similar? Yes, no argument. But in my experience people are very supportive and helpful when the new folks show up.

FWIW, PyCharm is IMHO the best Python IDE, and GitKraken the best git GUI I've used. I already own both sooo this isn't for me, but I thought I'd share that I think this is a pretty good deal.