Posts made by ixokai

I'd be interested in Ancient Greek RP as long as it wasn't too literally Ancient Greece. Like, if it had the style but not worrying about historical accuracy too much.

@auspice Today I learned I have a super-power, the ability to be tortured by lights.

Fuck you evolution. -.-

Also, I am in no way surprised by Verizon's behavior you describe. Like not even vaguely.

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@sparks said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@sparks said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@auspice I feel you on the migraine complaint today. So much.

The HVAC and florescent lights make me want to cry today.

Florescent lights are the fucking worst.
How have we not gotten rid of the things?

Why do we have lights that make noise?

Most... most people don't hear them.

those lucky assholes.

Wait, are you serious? This isn't a joke? I always thought everyone suffered under TortureLights.

@seraphim73

On the one hand, I get what you're saying. I am usually the guy arguing against game dividing playerbase, where 'dividing' can be 'covering a so large a space that moving from spot to spot is an issue' or to faction level division where A and B can't reasonably RP.

BUT.

On the other hand, if I'm gonna play TOR, I want to play an Intelligence officer or a struggling-with-lightside Sith. Saying Repubs/Indies only just completely makes me not interested.

But that's me being entirely selfish in my interests, granted.

@seraphim73 said in A New Star Wars game? (Legends of The Old Republic (Name pending)):

I would also say that 4 alts is probably significantly more than is necessary, unless the game is very spread out. I mean, there are 3 groups max, right? Republic/Jedi, Mandalorians, and Indies. S

Wait, are you saying Sith/Empire are not possible? I find loyal Imperial subjects very compelling in the Old Republic setting!

@tnp said in Star Wars?:

@ixokai Character growth can happen independently of levels and XP.

Some can. A lot can't. "I get better at basketweaving" isn't really true if my basketweaving skill is 2 forever.

@tnp said in Star Wars?:

Or say fuck XP. Everyone starts at level 5 or 10 or 15 or whatever and they stay there. The game becomes about only RP and not leveling.

I'd be bored with a game with no charactre growth. The "game" part of RPGs is not all-important to me, but it is a factor of the fun.

I thought the whole point of A Shout in the Dark was connecting to people you lost connection to

Let me rephrase the question. Does anyone who played there a) remember who they played, b) want to reminisce over who we did and what we did?

@Lithium Who were you?

I was Belial as my main, had Rachael as a cherub angel, and Megiddo as my staff bit.

Not to be confused with the MUD. Any of you played on Taisch's Armageddon MUSH? Biblical world ended, last city of Babylon is all that's left, with angels and demons fighting over the last unchosen souls?

@ixokai said in I made a Python-with-Evennia tutorial (looking for feedback):

The purist in me balks at describing print as a function; its a statement in Python 2 without a future import. That you can call a statement with parens around its arguments is just an accident of the fact you can put parens about nearly anything in Python. Its a function of parens are grouping syntax, and they don't make tuples-- commas do.

Thanks for the feedback! This exception to print is mentioned in the immediately following paragraph but yes, calling it a 'function' is indeed technically incorrect. I didn't think this was something a complete newbie would gain much from learning out the door. I felt it better to learn calling print as a (sort-of) function from the get-go so that the concept of a function was introduced early and can be referenced later in the tutorial when a real function is created.

Honestly, I wonder if the first thing you'd teach is me.msg -- and only teach print in an advanced mode about debugging. Because what is the classical 'first thing' anyone learns in a programming language? How to print out a statement and see the result. In Evennia, that's not print, that's me.msg.

me.msg("Hello world!") is really Evennia's version of the first programming exercise for every language ever.

The purist in me balks at describing print as a function; its a statement in Python 2 without a future import. That you can call a statement with parens around its arguments is just an accident of the fact you can put parens about nearly anything in Python. Its a function of parens are grouping syntax, and they don't make tuples-- commas do.

Otherwise, looks good

@firepuff said in Travel Times - Enforced?:

Some of my best RP has been "enroute" somewhere. It's okay to RP being bored and throwing a ball at the wall. It's okay to RP that your rump hurts sitting on top of that horse and whine to someone that you want to rest for a bit. It's okay to get caught up by random bandits/pirates/whatnot enroute. It's okay to RP random gossip along the way.

Think Lord of the Rings. Can you imagine how short those books would have been with instant travel? How much adventure would have been lost along the way?

I don't think anyone is arguing that "enroute RP" is a problem or can't be fun.

The problem is that at any given time, if I say, "Anyone wanna RP?" its because I want to RP. In a game set in a city, my possible RP partners are for all intents and purposes everyone.

If I'm on a ship which is enroute to Mars then my possible RP partners are only those people on the ship. That's vastly smaller; unless we all have exactly the same predictable schedule there's a very good chance I'm not going to RP being bored, I'm going to just be bored and not RP. And on any decent sized game, there's a good chance someone else might have RP'd with me.

IMHO & IME, mushes just don't work unless they are set in a fairly localized space. You can do plots to run off in far distances, and for all that plots are important, the meat and potatoes of what happens on a mush is more casual, unplanned RP. That's not really viable with travel times in a large setting. The travel times actively mean you can't RP with a significant portion of your playerbase.

@tnp said in A Game of Thrones MUX Discussion:

@ixokai said in A Game of Thrones MUX Discussion:

This isn't entirely clear cut because this is America and anyone can sue anyone for anything, and so I can completely understand why an author might want to come out against fan fiction (or mushes) out of not wanting to deal with court headaches. But to say that this is necessary to protect their rights is what I object to.

This is, in fact, exactly what happened to Mercedes Lackey. I don't know if she gave permission to use her world or just didn't say no but she was sued by a fanfic writer who claimed that Lackey stole ideas from her. Now she expressly forbids any fanfic or Mu* based on her work.

You say, "in fact", yet in fact is more nuanced. You can not sue someone for copyright infringement for ideas. Flat, stop. You can't. You can, with a much harder burden of proof, sue someone for plagiarism That's a more complicated case that has nothing at all to do with copyright..