Posts made by RnMissionRun

People will indeed watch anything. I have streamed Evennia hacking sessions where I had over a dozen folks watching me code. Fun stuff.

@thatguythere said in What's missing in MUSHdom?:

the thing with Anything Steve Jackson though is that he has expressly said MUSHes etc are not allowed to use his stuff.
The exception being the setting for In Nomine (likely because it is owned by a french company and licensed for English by Steve Jackson games.)

^^ This.

I once worked on a MOO that received a cease and desist letter from SJG over their use of GURPS. They're still hoping that some major game company will license the system for use with an online game and they're not going to let anyone else use it.

@jennkryst said in What's missing in MUSHdom?:

@ixokai [Place] with a proper HSpace-esque flight simulator. Spelljammer is at the top of my list, but others are potentially neat.

I'm still working on one of those but it's been slow going since it's a solo project and my free time has been very limited lately.

It started out being based on The Expanse but I've kinda lost interest in that setting and have been thinking about Starjammer, the new Star Trek, or maybe even doing something original.

@mr-johnson said in What's missing in MUSHdom?:

Shadowrun that's not 3rd edition. Seriously please can we have a Shadowrun game running something other then 3rd? There's gotta be someone out there willing to make it happen. Shadowrun is a great series but 3rd is just sooo terrible. I'd even settle for someone basically just porting the Shadowrun returns ruleset roughly and haphazardly to a mush. I mainly just want mah shadowrun world fix.

There is Deep Shadows, an Evennia based game using SR 5th ed.

@faraday said in AresMUSH Updates:

@rnmissionrun said in AresMUSH Updates:

I think I got as far as the "Coding for Ares" page, saw that it didn't really tell me anything, and stopped reading.

Hmm... was this awhile ago? Because yes, during the alpha stages the installation scripts had various issues and the tutorials were virtually non-existent. I wouldn't be surprised if someone got frustrated trying to figure it out - but it wasn't really ready for public consumption yet.

Since then, though, I've polished up the install scripts to be as hands-free as possible and spent considerable time trying to make the documentation as robust as I could as @tat and @krmbm mentioned (thanks!) It doesn't just cover Ruby but goes into the various components of the Ares code. It has two step-by-step tutorials (Quickstart and Creating a Plugin) that give an overview of how to use the basic building blocks. If you saw all that and still feel that it "doesn't really tell me anything" then please feel free to submit ideas for what sort of tutorials you would like to see.

It was the date of my last post in this thread prior to today, so Dec 7th.

I saw that before.

I think I got as far as the "Coding for Ares" page, saw that it didn't really tell me anything, and stopped reading.

@faraday said in AresMUSH Updates:

@rnmissionrun said in AresMUSH Updates:

I had pretty much the same experience. After spending most of the day just getting it running, I poked at it a bit before my eyes glazed over, I said "Uhhhh yeah..." and went running back to Evennia. I'll take another look when it gets an official release.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but without feedback there's no way for me to improve it.

What took a whole day to get running? Were there errors during the installation? Were the configuration tutorials unclear?

Did you try the coding tutorials? Did they suck?

Not trying to be difficult here, but without knowing where the stumbling blocks were, the official release will look 100% like the current release.

I eventually figured out that the fix for my installation woes was to use rvm to install a different version of Ruby (or libraries, or whatever it is that you use rvm to install) than what was already on my server (keep in mind that I had no prior experience with Ruby so I really had no idea of what I was doing).

I took a crash course on the Ruby language, but was unable to discover a coding tutorial on the Ares website (I most certainly did look for one), nor was I able to figure it out after poking at the code for a bit.

@ixokai said in AresMUSH Updates:

Suggestion:

While I really like FS3, I admit looking at Ares for anything that is not FS3 was fairly overwhelming.

I had pretty much the same experience. After spending most of the day just getting it running, I poked at it a bit before my eyes glazed over, I said "Uhhhh yeah..." and went running back to Evennia. I'll take another look when it gets an official release.

There is no moral dilemma.

It's mainly paranoia and distrust caused by past experiences with psycho staffers/players. It's also people wondering why they're being required to give an email address at all if any disposable email account will meet the requirement.

@arkandel said in What's your identity worth to you?:

@thenomain said in What's your identity worth to you?:

There is nothing you can ask for from us that we can't easily fake, unless you're asking for a mailing address or phone number in which case you're going to lose a lot of people.

I am far less concerned with people whose technical familiarity allows them to easily maneuver around trivial limitations without much trouble and more with those who are skeptical about participating in the community here in the first place, and for whom having that extra step of providing a 'real' e-mail account to register might be what decides it for them.

In other words I want to make life a little harder for trolls, but not at the expense of legitimate, casual newcomers.

The only flaw in this plan is the fact that any troll sufficiently practiced in the art to be a problem, will likely fall into the former group, not the latter.

1. In twenty years of MUing there have been 4 people who knew my RL name and one of those doesn't count because I knew her IRL before I started MUing. I don't care that people know that I live in VA but I'm not going to narrow it down any further than that.

2. My religion, sexual orientation, etc are no one's business but my own. It especially has no relevance on pretendy fun time games where I am only interacting with others vicariously through a made up character.

3. I don't do social media at all. I do not voice chat or share personal photos with people that I do not know.

4. The only email address you're going to get from me is my 20 year old AOL address that I use when I need a disposable email address. It has never been associated with the "real me" in any way. All incoming mail is automatically filtered to the trash.

5. I don't have any skeletons in my closet, so revealing who I am/was on other games is no big deal.

@auspice said in Pineapple on Pizza:

@rnmissionrun said in Pineapple on Pizza:

All this pizza talk has reminded me that I have 32 Papa Points just sitting there waiting for me to claim them for a free, large specialty pizza.

Send it my way.

You probably wouldn't like. The toppings are BBQ sauce, bacon, beef, canadian bacon, onions and jalapenos.

All this pizza talk has reminded me that I have 32 Papa Points just sitting there waiting for me to claim them for a free, large specialty pizza.

@ganymede said in Pineapple on Pizza:

But Papa John's? Fuck Papa John's.

Heresy!

If it ain't Papa Johns BBQ Chicken and Bacon pizza, it ain't good pizza!

@surreality said in Atlantis Client: How to autolog:

@rnmissionrun OK, that is the one I have -- I just wanted to double check since I'd heard repeated mention of 1.X here and, me being me, I can miss things like 'the very obvious place to get <thing> now'.

Bookmark this link for future reference.

@surreality said in Atlantis Client: How to autolog:

...can I ask where the most recent download is available, pretty please? I'm not sure I'm running even 1.0; I think I'm on a 0.X or thereabouts.

It may become relevant once The Great Migration occurs (aka 'over the course of this week') as I keep hearing High Sierra is a fussy bitch.

So far as I know, 0.9.9.4 beta is the latest.

@goldfish In ~/Library/Application Support/Atlantis/worlds. Note that the Finder hides your Library folder by default (open your home folder in the Finder, hit command-J then tick 'Show Library Folder').

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@insomniac7809 We also get a fair few mentions of the fifth amendment. As in "I plead the fifth"... that isn't a thing here. Sure, you can't be compelled to testify against yourself, but we don't call it that. Stop being American.

Whereas here in the US I hear stuff like 'I wish I lived in Australia, they only pay <#> per gallon for gas'

Okay first of all there's this thing called an exchange rate. Second of all, they go by liters...

We just need to swap all of these people, apparently.

I've actually heard this a lot from people who obviously have no idea just how difficult it is to immigrate to Australia.

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

The power is still out, with no ETA on restoration.

Look, fuckers, we are still in the zone of the super sekrit DuPont weather satellite you will never convince me doesn’t exist at this juncture because we have nothing but a magical sparkly frost coating on the landscape here and thar despite a blizzard pounding down on us yesterday. We were just outside without winter coats on to seek food. Power? Never on this half of the block.

P.S. I think my neighbor across the road is John McClane. Mid-ice blizzard, in 40-50mph winds, he was chainsawing his downed trees in half to get them out of the road. (No, this is not what took down the power lines.)

ETA: well, “maybe by 11pm Monday”. You GTFO with that.

That sucks!

We lost our power yesterday but it was only out for about 5 hours. Thank God for laptops with long battery life, cell phones and charger packs!