Posts made by Lotherio

My dignity, RIP. I actually participated in yuletide work activities by wearing holiday socks on holiday socks day. You'll be missed.

@derp said in Yet Another Ares Question:

@macha

There are a bunch of them!

https://aresmush.com/tutorials

Also, check the links on the right. Specifically the discord, a lot of folks there who can readily answer questions.

I like slow cookers and instant pot, so here is a quick sheet pan bake that doesn't take long to make. I got it a few years back on one of those ad-heavy recipe sights, not sure if this is how they recommended it for measurements, this is about what I do. Sorry I don't exactly measure while cooking, I wing it.

Chicken thighs and cabbage

1 cabbage roll/head/thing
1 bunch carrots
a few tablespoons of oil, and some salt

Cut cabbage into wedges ~1" at the widest, spread on the sheet pan. Cut the carrots into quarter strips, sprinkle on cabbage. Sprinkle oil (I use olive, but use your fav), then salt on the cabbage and carrots.

a few pounds of boneless chicken thighs (8+ is what I cook up).

Marinade thighs:

1/4 cup oil
1-2 table spoons soy sauce
1 table spoon honey
3 tsp garlic (powder, a few cloves of fresh if you like)
2-3 table spoons five-spice powder

Whirl the marinade together, toss the thighs in it, throw the chicken atop the cabbage and carrots, pour the rest of the marinade over the thighs and veggies.

Cook for 35'ish minutes at like 375'ish. The cabbage and chicken will brown on the top, chicken will brown from the marinade, but wait for the cabbage to start going too.

The longest part is wedging the cabbage and cutting the carrots, about 10 minutes prep.

Shenanigans!

https://youtu.be/laNRPAjKQsM

Apparently villagers still get upset when I hit them with the net.

@aria said in Dune:

@lotherio said in Dune:

@aria That would be better. In fact at least 2 seasons per book. With at least three panels of info, one for inner voice as subtitle, one for information, a large one for main sequences/ action.

Now I'm just confused.

It probably only makes sense in my head. Any my trying to explain is probably going to make it more confusing.

It needs to run like a modern major news network.

On you TV device, it shows the main sequence and has a feed or pop up. It either feeds information or you can select the popup for more info - like mentat feeds during mentat computational sequences, or explanation of things that aren't on the screen. Such as Butlerian Jihad References, explanations on how Bene Gesseret operate, informational things. Like old Pop-up Videos on VH1.

It needs another panel for inner dialoque and other references.

It made sense when I pondered this longer sequence series in the 90s and i figured most people are multi-media competent enough these days to get it a little more. Like right now, I'm typing in a window over the main thread of info while watching a series on netflix. I figure these days a smart device (iPad/Surface/Whatever) can link with the video medium (flat screen, lcd monitor playing the movie) so that folks could get info on one while watching on the other, but like appendices in a books, there needs to be another reference so that doesn't take away from main sequence action.

Just some place the viewer could find out Maud Dib is a desert mouse, one of the figures on the moons over Arrakis, and other info on what Maud Dib means without one character needing to explain it to the other in the main sequence.

ETA: And even with another panel or two of info, each book needs to be at least two good seasons on some streaming platform. By good season I mean 20-30 episodes not 10 episodes. Even with two+ panels (main sequence and information or internal dialogues and such) it needs enough 4D space or things are just lost.

@aria That would be better. In fact at least 2 seasons per book. With at least three panels of info, one for inner voice as subtitle, one for information, a large one for main sequences/ action.

Dune is love/ hate. You're going to like it or not.

Then if you like it, it's either Dune (1st book) or God Emperor (4th) book is your favorite.

I like them all. I like God Emperor the best, with Chapterhouse (6th) up there. I like Duncan Idaho and Miles Teg.

Supposedly the books by his son give more meaning to the ending in Chapterhouse but I've not given them a chance.

@hedgehog said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@lotherio

He is, in fact, back with FLA. And I blame Al Jourgenson for ruining our going out to lunch on the 24th. Because he had to run off and deal with the fact that his phone was blowing up because FLA and Helmet had just unceremoniously (and without warning or discussion) gotten chucked off the tour they were supposed to be doing with Ministry.

I really fucking hate Uncle Al.

You can hate. The rest of us can imagine being jealous or something. I enjoy some good industrial. Somehow still enjoy the synth pop sort in the end. Glad you shared the Rhys track.

@hedgehog said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@lotherio

I've got the perfect soundtrack:

https://rhysfulber.bandcamp.com/album/your-dystopia-my-utopia

Oh, that was a good song and very fitting to the concept even without lyrics heh. Usually I don't vibe with other folks music they recommend. That was both good and spot on, then saw he was with old Front Line Assembly which brought up some memories. That was great.

Utopia: the Dystopian

I think a game that starts out futuristic utopian. People live good lives, take pills regularly, slice of life, socialites. But with some aspect like blood sport that happens every couple of week, like Rollerball or something similar. Mingle in some Logan's Run, there is age control of some sort. Or elements of the more modern ones, like divergent or hunger games. Just some folks do the dangerous things, others live content drug induced lives under the ever mindful care of We Watching You Corporation or Energy Corp or whatever.

The focus for a few months is on just being in this world but discovering some weird tyrannical truth of who/what's in control.

But then going through the breakdown of overthrowing that and leaving the peaceful world and going out into the dysptopia. Playing a few months like that, rouging it, crazy mutant gangs out in the wilds. Slice of Life folks can stay in utopia, dice combat folks can be out in the wilds as the trailer park crazy suburbia folk gang (Cherry 2K).

It'd be something of post apocalypse where there is a Utopia set up and going and seems nice on surface aside from whatever they do for population control (blood sport and reaping the elderly), dystopia beyond the barrier but unseen until PCs break out of the utopia and go in to the cruel reality of the rest of the world. Slice of Life folks can stay in utopia and do their socialite parties, dicey folks can do their fighting the next random threat big gang coming to take their things.

@ominous said in Good TV:

@arkandel

I kind of want someone to make a parody of LOTR that is that.

What's old is new, like most stories borrowing from past material. I'd read that as a serious story if someone made it serious. Stoner friends, lawn guys, gastropubs. A future retelling of a journey to destroy an artifact, some diesel punk apocalyptic adventure would be just as well as a parody.

@silverfox said in Talking 'Bout Ares:

@rnmissionrun

yes, but on like... all games. I've been Muing for almost twenty years and on my original game I STILL cannot remember when commands start with a + or a @.

Its back when more commands where used not just for RP purposes. Like a game allowing quota and using some extra commands to help build with auto exits being added if folks forgot to add that in. Its so when they go to the next game and they're asking, 'hey how come we don't +digger enabled here' and folks could point out '+ commands are game specific'.

It made more sense when folks had an expectation to help contribute to building and coding the games. Players weren't relegated to just RP'ing there.

I'm offended by the phrasing of this topic and the content.

It implies it should be easy to program/code.

It implies if my dyslexic brain takes years and years to learn something, I'm not so intelligent because its actually easy.

I started to learn Mu-Code way back on Star Trek MUSE: Tos. They had coding school as part of joining your race, this is early 90s when everyone was expected to learn some code and to contribute to the environment of the Muse.

I still don't know everything, I still ask questions on MUSH, the PennMUSH Social MU where the developers hang out.

The fundamental difference for my brain and going to Python or Ruby is model/class/etc.

In MU softcode, if I look at an object that uses another object for code (the +attack uses the inherent dice code to roll dice by example), I can find the attack code (maybe its on the combat code object) because I learned grep or something. I can see in there it pulls a function from RNG object and in there I can see how the dice are rolling and storing in registers to go back to combat. I can slowly piece it together.

In Ruby, if I look at one file that adds to a model created by other objects, I have no clue how to find it all. NPC model maker gives it some attributes, but the Combat checker does something else with NPC model to help for combat. But I have no clue where to look or search to know what all is building the complete NPC model.

So what i learned since coding in PennMUSH since the 90s (thirty years for my dumb ass) is turned on its head in my brain. Hell, I can't go to TinyMux and expect to do what limited stuff my dumb brain can do in Penn.

So, I guess thanks for the snobbery about what's so hard and making me feel dumb today.

And probably all the people that think coding is hard in general. Thanks for them too. There is a reason not everyone is coding. And this 'its easy' isn't helping as much as you think it might be.

Know what's easy for me? I'm not gonna say, cause it will sound like I'm bragging and in the end, doesn't matter what I like to do or find entertaining.

Archive came out last year I think, I finally saw it.

I like this movie for the aesthetics. But I really like it for the five minute scene where he does into town and interacts with basically a fixer/street samurai type. For everyone who's gone wired up street samurai with about as much essence as you can give away before being no longer human, this is what you should look like (skin looks mostly dead, a few flashing lights like a walking hard drive). This scene and its aesthetics where the best part for me in what is a good film already in my view.

Ending is good too.

@ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

It's not that I just don't know anything about them from the comics (I barely knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were after all before the first movie came out) but dropping a bunch of characters on us in one movie sounds like it won't work.

Well, it worked for Shang-Chi, right?

Or, Guardians of the Galaxy?

I liked the initial Avengers movies, but I think Guardians brought in more by being unfamiliar to more folks. The humor seemed to work. My worry is, its a much larger cast than five misfits.

@eye8urcake

You take care of yourself and your family, you know how best to do that. You've been appreciated here as much as you appreciate the community. I know I'll miss you around these parts, but you'll be in my thoughts. Definitely focus on you/you're family and I'll be one of those here if you ever decide to come back, I'll be here if you find something better that's not here just the same. But focus on you and yours. Best of luck to you, been close to similar a few years ago, you do what you need to do.

@tinuviel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

@lotherio said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

@tinuviel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

@lotherio said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

I can say tonight there were three on grid scene where I was tonight

That's not at all what I said.

You said days of grid wandering are done, I kindly disagreed.

Then you are wrong in more cases than you are right.

I don't care to play disagree all night. You wanting to be right doesn't make you right.

@tinuviel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

@lotherio said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

I can say tonight there were three on grid scene where I was tonight

That's not at all what I said.

You said days of grid wandering are done, I kindly disagreed.

@tinuviel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

@l-b-heuschkel said in Attachment to old-school MU* clients:

You could walk around the grid for days and never meet a soul.

I'm fairly confident that the days of wandering the grid and confidently finding random RP are over. And have been for a while.

I can say tonight there were three on grid scene where I was tonight, one was not random/advertised at all, two were spontaneous from RP requests. This doesn't include the 3 open scenes in temp rooms or private scenes. 6 or 7 other people were idle on grid at various locations. All were open on grid for anyone wandering the grid though. It is, however, uncommon compared to all other places I've been the last few years.