Posts made by Lithium

When I see a critic site, like Rotten Tomatoes come up with a 56% you know what that means to me? I will either like it, or I won't.

Funny enough, that's every movie I've ever seen. I liked it, or I didn't.

Critics didn't help me come to that decision. Another person's review didn't help me come to that decision.

People need to make up their own minds.

It is absolutely ok to like or not like a movie, it is ok to express those opinions, it is not ok to expect anyone else to value your opinion over their ability to make up their own mind.

CrackMUX was a pretty interesting take on oWoD. Government found out about supernaturals, decided to import everyone they could find into this one city, as sort of a powder keg, just to see what happened when high concentrations of supernatural enemies were all in one place, ostensibly to 'learn what they did and could do'.

So you had all the oWoD sphere's (and a few home brew one like Immortals from Highlander) crammed into this city, everyone /knew/ they were crammed into that city, that they couldn't leave, but still tried to make a go of it.

Was crazy fun, a lot of fun that people now would say was 'wrongfun' but fuck it, was fun.

Weird

@cobaltasaurus I believe you can set the parent itself as wiz and get around that.

@sockmonkey That's the way I took that particular story arc/timeline to be too.

I liked the movie well enough, but, the plot holes were kind of garingly huge.

***=Plot Hole Spoilers***

@cobaltasaurus Delivery work can get you by, I've done it before as well. You might want to see if Amazon Flex is open in your area, if you can get in it's an easy 75$ a day with a normal 4 door sedan style car for about 4 hours work.

@arkandel It does take away something though, it takes away the value of the product from the creator. Even if it is just a digital copy, a file, that takes up very little tangible space (just that little bit on a hard drive or other media) it's still a product that should be paid for, else, the creator gains no compensation for the creation of the thing. It's why I /always/ buy stuff I am going to use.

@roz Thanks!

Is there a way for a player to set a custom alias? I am curious if I could alias @@ to IDLE or whatever version of built in timer that ARX has as I use it (stupidly) as a global but do not have it in me right now to go set up individual timers for every site.

The real challenge to a /good/ X-Com game would be morale and panic. That one would be tough to get people to relinquish 'control' of their character on. Muton's wouldn't be that hard, Sectoids maybe, cuz of the psionics, but when people get mind controlled, or just panic and lose their marbles, dropping their gun or firing at random scenery for a turn or three... that'd annoy the hell out of most MU'ers.

As a coder, what I would do is just add a separate health track called Shield/Barrier which was controlled either by a biotic barrier skill, or a piece of equipment. Then I would tweak the combat code to hit that /first/ before affecting health. They would have a recharge time in rounds, etc.

All of this is moot, because I do not know Ruby, but that is how I would attack Shields and Barriers.

I have to listen to holiday music, aka, Christmas Songs all night at work, and I've heard about thirty seven different artists do Rudolph the red nosed reindeer now...

I got to thinking, that song, the lessons it gives you... man.

1. If you're a mutant/abnormal/strange, expect to be belittled and mocked and nobody wants to play with you.
2. You will be sad your whole life until...
3. A figure of 'authority' or 'power' decides that holy shit, this thing happened and now your abnormality/mutation is absolutely needed to not fuck up /my/ day.
4. Once you are useful, you are liked and wanted.
5. Your value is entirely subjective based on others' opinions of you, let's hope your abnormality can be profited off of.
6. Santa was a dick, for not taking a stand and going to Rudolph's defense long before that foggy Christmas eve...

@lotherio It's kind of a catch 22, if we code it using different commands, then people will complain about it being new syntax and not what they're used to. If we don't, then we are not being welcoming to new players

@faraday This is why I like the idea of a full web integration, no needing a secondary client. It's absolutely true we need to get rid of the old syntax and just go with new syntax that is more intuitive. Even the nomenclature of what a 'pose' is can be disconcerting, @emit, @what?

@faraday I never said they were lazy, I said they couldn't be /bothered/ to.

There is a huge difference there.

A bother indicates it's a hassle, which indicates work, which indicates barriers getting in the way of pretendy fun times.

That's it.

@lotherio I honestly think the barrier to entry, for this day and age, is that it's not point and click. I know in this country at least, technology is making people less intelligent, not more intelligent, if they're not spoon fed with a few clicks then they can't be bothered. I've even seen this when it comes to some gamers, where console is better for them because all they have to learn is the controller, there's no real customization, or changing response rates of the mouse, mapping macro's or key strokes, etc.

Facebook, Instagram, etc, these all provide simple point and click interfaces, same with messengers, and reddit, and everything else.

For those who /wouldn't/ find a telnet client such as potato, or whatever, a barrier to entry it's probably just lack of exposure.

In the early 90's when MU*'s were exploding, there was a wild west feel of the internet, you never knew what you could find, people were explorer's... now, everything is just handed to them and the explorer is a rare thing.

I personally prefer to have two maybe 3 games open depending on the speed of the RP going on in the windows, sometimes I don't have anything else going. I typically listen to music while I am MU*'ing, or I will maybe code in between poses.

@bobotron said in PBs You Haven't Had a Chance to Use:

@lithium

Man, I can't look at him without thinking of a bunch of local people I really don't get on with. Also, be careful with him on games that have policies about NSFW stuff...

No idea what would be 'not safe for work' about the first picture, even the second is not exactly... uh... revealing? It's a shirtless guy, which is completely acceptable in most cultures even if it's not acceptable for shirtless women (FREE THE NIPPLE!). As for you not getting on with someone because of sheer appearance... uh.. kay?

@roz said in Alternative Formats to MU:

If someone doesn't want to tinker with a modern programming language, they're certainly not going to tinker with the mess that is MUSH code.

I have to point out that this is not entirely true. I learned MUCode for free, at a time when trying to learn Python for free was less possible. The coding boot camps and such were all several hundred dollars, and I did not /have/ several hundred dollars to learn a coding language for what was, in essence, a hobby.

If someone has a brain that is code-capable they don't need much more than the built in help and mushcode.com, at least (and I cannot stress this enough) IN MY OPINION. I learned by looking at code I knew to function and seeing what they did, when I saw a piece of code I didn't recognize? Help in a bare bones server I had up taught me what it did.

I am by no means experienced a coder as say @Thenomain or @Ashen-Shugar or @faraday or @Griatch or any of the other coders who can code rings around me, but, it is entirely possible for someone new to jump into mush code without wanting to tinker with a modern language.

Do I wish I had invested that time into Python or Ruby or something else that could make me actual money now? Maybe. But then I'd also maybe start thinking of coding as work instead of fun.