Posts made by Rook

Rhost. But you knew my answer.

Would be interested in helping in any number of ways, be it coding, building, writing or organizing plots and running them (daytime US, weekdays).

Yup. I've used Synergy to link 3 machines AND a set of 16 55" plasmas on a single NOC setup. It's highly recommended.

Needing 3 mice on your desk to operate all systems that you use, like, quite regularly. And yes, the constant turning has aggravated me enough that now I link the desktops and just use one keyboard+mouse. But, before then, ANGER. Yes, it was silly. BUT ANGER.

Sometime recently, my little lozenge/gravatar/whatever/face disappeared and I see no way to re-establish it. Any thoughts? It doesn't seem to be available to edit in Profile.

I'm talking about the 'R' (for me) circle.

You've pinched your sciatica nerve, and that can take time to heal. Hurt mine doing P90X3 last year and it is still troubled after physical therapy tried applying acupuncture, traction, laser and ultrasound treatments.

Potato is written by a MUSHer, and was modeled after SimpleMU, which was modeled after TF.

Maybe 'half' was too generalized, and I didn't put much thought into the percentage implied there. Research would establish a more realistic number, I am sure, but I don't have the sources in front of me just now.

So what you're saying is that we boil everything into a snippet and then bandy that snippet around as standpoint and understanding? That, in itself is a generalization (har har) but I want to ensure I understand what you are saying there. I agree with it. I, too, hate that we are so 'modern' that we cannot have meaningful commentary about this or that, we just throw out the proverbial one-liners and move on with our day.

There are theories about the 'tribal size' that the average human can accept and genuinely care for. With the issues going on right here at home, most people only care that these global issues are not cropping up here in our country. They don't care that the US's meddling in the Middle East at the behest of corporations with interests has helped create the situation. They don't care that there are such things as 'innocent and godly Muslims' that are not radicalized. They don't care that there is anything going on anywhere until it is thrown 'in their face' by their favorite brain-sink of choice.

Back to the original statement about 'why isnt X being talked about' -- there are tons of events that have happened alongside, soon before/after other like events that never got any attention. It has been that way for a while, and it is skewing our conversations, greatly. Those that see, and comment, are put down by the other political group as trying to 'grand stand, blow up, capitalize' on something, as the popular commentary of the country moves on to the next pop star's breakup or TV show's finale.

@Arkandel said:

... but where was the outrage when a plane carrying 224 people was brought down by ISIS only a few days ago? Or when we catch the news on TV where someone suicide-bombed the shit out of entire crowds of non-combatants - a quick search yielded 134 people dying in just one of them?

Sorry, if it isn't on Facebook, MSNBC or Fox News, half of America won't see it. The following of journalistic news outlets has dropped significantly in the wake of the deregulation of news in the US (research Telecommunications Act of 96), allowing for commercially-driven interests to put up their own news outlets. This differs greatly in the news of old, where Congressional mandate dictated that each network provide one free hour of news reporting to the American populace. Now, viewership matters, so 'news' comprises of talking heads, arguments, inflammatory accusations and political bickering to draw eyes. If it won't draw views, it doesn't matter.

This extends into the separation of political views (perhaps this is just me getting older and 'wiser' to the political scene). Popular media is much more pervasive, much more 24/7 than the newspaper and 1-2 hours a night of fact-based journalism that the country had back before the 70s. Popular media ranges from blogs to faux news sites heavily slanted to this agenda or that (lots seemingly put in place SPECIFICALLY to drive social media commentary), all the way to the 'real' news sites having clearly delineated political viewpoints and agendas.

They are all guilty of getting us where this country is today. It is a ripple effect that continues to spread outward, and the ripples are getting stronger, not weaker.

If the average American understood the difference between 'Muslim' and 'radical Muslim', the commentary and conversation in this country would be different. But, agendas have colored understanding of those who spend ten minutes of their day educating themselves to the issues we are faced with, who take the lazy way out by adopting some loudmouthed 'news source' and their take on the matter.

We all have our opinions and standpoints. But, in the large, we have gotten to those standpoints by being heavily influenced by people with agendas. So, when asked why I despise 'conversations' about politics, this is the answer that is given, and I am looked at like I'm some cane-waving recluse shouting about how things were different in the 20s. I am sick of watching Democratic people and Republican people do nothing but hurl insults and untruths about each other's ideas. I am sick of listening to people (not just politicians, but voters too) being lumped into these huge buckets of stereotype, when we all know that we know people who don't subscribe to either viewpoint, diverge from their professed party's stand on various issues. We do it to each other. A populace is /never/ reduced to two opinions on any complex matter, so why are we painting each other with 'red' and 'blue' brushes that are negative no matter which party you subscribe to?

Sorry for the rant.

Me and another are looking for a place, and are waiting for this one. In addition, I am still offering help, as a Rhost coder if nothing else. I could learn the system to help out in other ways, too.

Logged in and made myself an object, posted to the forum. Let me know if I can help in light ways.

#FuckPBs

I am skeptical. Extremely rare are the benevolent buys of brands to 'fix it' without some alternative agenda afoot.

Yes, it too is added to the Code Resources page. Thanks, Theno.

This was the crux of my answer to the person, Bobo. Thanks for the round-out!

Added to the Rhost github 'Coding Resources' page.

Added to the Rhost MUSH git repo pages.

Found it and passed it on, thank you. Adding Faraday's to the Rhost github page.

I have seen discussion of code that enforces/injects a line return into global says/poses(/emits)? Can someone point me to that? I cannot seem to find it for someone on the Rhost dev site asking for such functionality.

As a related note, @Thenomain, do you have a git repo of your code that I can point people to? I am going to add some 'Helpful Resources' links to the Rhost git site, and plan to include Volund's suite.

Does anyone have non-gamewide channel code that players can set up and use privately? I have been asked about this and do not have any, myself, but know that I've seen it out in the wild. The idea is to have object-based 'channel' functionality (speak/pose, history nice to have) that uses a member list off of an object. No master room, no wizard powers, so if players have to be part of a zone, so be it.