Best posts made by Roz

I apped a character and then promptly never played like an ASSHOLE. I'm one of the people who doesn't LOVE the trend towards reducing/erasing grids in favor of a bunch more flex/temp rooms. I find actual grids to be part of my immersion and how I get to know the game. T8S has what I'd call a reduced grid, which isn't as big an issue for me as it'd be with a 100% flex grid type of thing, but I felt a little more unsure about exploring, it felt harder to figure out geography etc. THAT SAID, that's not necessarily anything against the game as it is just how I personally like grids, and also I totally did not work that hard to dive in. I've gotten a bit spoiled playing on a much bigger game and I've gotten used to the methods of finding RP there and got super out of the habit of other methods.

So really it was me, not you.

@surreality You can use BBedit for free, it just keeps the premium features locked.

@glitch said in Mass Effect MU*?:

@roz As long as everyone consented to go, right?

Generally we didn't make anyone go on plots but we have a special Glitch exception for all future games.

@auspice said in Regarding administration on MSB:

@kanye-qwest said in Regarding administration on MSB:

she sarcastically labeled something MOD VOICE in another thread.

Factually incorrect.
I labeled something 'NOT MOD VOICE.'

This is also MSB. People are sarcastic at every turn.

It's really not surprising that people would expect mods to not be sarcastic or condescending about the actual modding part of their forum participation. I mean, I'm not sure what you expected to happen when people were expressing overt (and, yeah, aggressive) concern about the moderation changes and your response was to get sarcastic about it. I mean. The same negative response would happen on a MU* if a staffer did that.

@faraday said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:

@seraphim73 said in The Eighth Sea - Here There Be Monsters:

There's currently no doubling up

I think what @Roz meant is that the log is literally already there in the web portal, but you still have to copy/paste to the wiki. Ditto with character pages. You have to update your info in-game (even if you're not using the portal; for example with RP hooks) and then copy/paste to the wiki. While you may not be using the information in two places, it's still more work.

Yeah that's indeed what I meant!

@wizz I dunno, I didn't really read him as being less emotionally or intellectually capable than her. They were struggling past a language barrier and also wildly different life experiences.

@pixidusty Hey there! If you want to turn off autocorrect for your whole computer, so to the System Preferences app, select Keyboard, and go to the Text tab. There's a checkbox there for "Correct spelling automatically" you can uncheck. You might need to restart applications for it to stick for them.

The Terminal is in your main Applications folder in the Utilities subfolder, or just do a spotlight search for Terminal. It's Mac's native line command application.

@tat said in How much Code is too much Code?:

@faraday said in How much Code is too much Code?:

very little code is invisible. (Help being one example that is... but, well, it's not like you're going to do away with your help system even if nobody happens to be using it very often. I hope :))

No, but you might move it off game. I'd actually be super interested in how many people do help/detail on Ares to get the full file, for example, vs following the web link.

I've seen too many people on the forum express a preference for having all the information on the game versus having to look at the website for something. Given that, especially on a codebase like Ares where information is shared between the two, there seems to be little reason to make it inaccessible on the game.

@surreality Maybe I'm just mean, and maybe it's just words on a screen, but even if people are sweet and fluffy I still expect them to respect my wishes about not typing things at me that make me actively uncomfortable. I certainly react differently than if I thought someone was doing it on purpose, but I will still continue to ask them not to do it until they stop doing it.

Jane the Virgin's season finale, holy shit.

Holy shit!! I love this show.

@Sparks said:

@pixidusty — like @Roz said, if you want to turn autocorrection off for everything on your system, just do so in the System Preferences. If you just want it off in Atlantis (or any other application), then the trick I listed above will work for you.

I know I turned it off for my computer because I'M NOT ON A PHONE, APPLE, I HAVE A FULL KEYBOARD AND CAN TYPE FOR MYSELF THANKS.

@lithium Check out 'help nick' on the game.

@gamerngeek The thing I never get is, like. Don't other people also get annoyed when their friends are being obnoxiously, endlessly chatty? I mean. I still get annoyed when that is coming from my friends!

Alias Grace is really fantastic.

@Sparks said:

I actually know a lot of people who typed like "hi i m teh newbie who had questions for you", who admittedly benefit from the autocorrection. With that feature on, they end up with 'hi I am the newbie who had questions for you' which at least looks slightly less egregiously awful.

I admittedly turn it off myself globally, but still. There ARE people who benefit from it!

Honestly, I like to know when people type like that versus typing better when they're a new person on my game.

@Luna said:

Just because you're an awful speller doesn't mean you're an idiot. If you're a proficient speller, I can't see how it would get in the way of too much anyhow.

I think the example Sparks gave is pretty relevant just in terms of 'you should type at a certain level of proficiency when you're playing a text-based game.'

I'm a really good speller, but the autocorrect does get in the way. It's hard to continually add words all the time, and roleplaying has tons of words outside the normal dictionary that pop up.

We give a small XP bonus for players who run a plot. This is because running plots is difficult, requires a lot more work and time than regular RP, and have a significant benefit to the game. In my head I don't think of it as an incentive more as just a present for doing a nice thing for the game, but practically it's certainly an incentive.

Most of my MU* career I haven't actually seen or done much in the way of incentives just because I've been on consent games without stats or XP to, like. Give bumps on. But the people I've staffed with and I have always tried to be really welcoming and supportive to player GMs and grateful for the plots they've run, which I know from experience goes a long way.

For any of my fellow wiki admins who haven't tried it out, utilizing Semantic MediaWiki and then Semantic Forms to provide users a form to fill out for character pages, logs, etc. can be super powerful and fantastic.

@Ganymede said:

@VulgarKitten said:

Thank you for your brilliant observation and critique about how to fix my mental issues, and for your dismissive, superior attitude.

The converse: if you don't believe that my advice will help fix your issues, then please avoid telling me as I'm conditioned to suggest solutions when people bring problems.

The other converse: sometimes people are working on plenty of solutions on their own or are receiving advice elsewhere and are just venting a bit for the emotional relief it provides. I mean, if I were friends with you, I'd literally mark you mentally as "never vent to this friend because they can't not problem-solve." There's also a problem with not being able to listen to someone's venting without trying to solve it.

Yeah, I kind of love dumb meta where players are being self-aware about their own characters.

@fortydeuce said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

• Does the startup gear (I forget the command) include stuff you can have made from crafter PCs? If not, it should, as it would be a nice way to RP with them and get them some decent crafting tasks while new PCs have money to burn.

The startup gear command is startgear. The point of it is that you can use it to create stuff your character would already come in with, and it was also created when there was way fewer PC crafters with shops around. In any case, you can just startgear/refundremainder to cash it out and go straight to a crafter.

• I'm still not sure how journals work (not white vs black, but the thematic nature of them). I play a PC that probably wouldn't do much writing in journals, and I don't OOCly see the point, to be honest. But, from references made, they seem to be IC as much as OOC. Will I get penalized for not using them?

Check out the Vellichor helpfile if you haven't already. Journaling is basically a religious directive that is hugely commonplace for the society, so there's another layer beyond the instinctive "would my PC be a journaler in terms of my own sense of what journaling is." Most characters are going to have grown up with this being a part of their everyday lives from childhood.

They are IC in that White Reflections are housed in the Archives and accessible to anyone who wants to read them. Black Reflections are private forever and ever (unless you will them to be released upon your death and then -- die). But you can write whatever you want in your Whites, really, that you feel comfortable being public ICly.

There's also nothing wrong with mostly or entirely writing Black Reflections. You won't be penalized for not writing anything, though. You just won't get the XP.

• I have zero interest in pretty ANSI described clothing. Is there a functional bonus to wearing a fancy tiara? My PC is in the "wouldn't bother IC" camp, but if there is a functional reason (does it affect stats?) for him to have better clothes (I know steelsilk etc., but the rest of it?), let me know.

When there are social systems, there will be a bit of coded benefit for fashionable characters in terms of prestige and the like, but that specifically also won't just be a contest of "who has the prettiest ANSI/ASCII," it'll be about embracing thematic elements and the like.

So no, there's not a functional benefit to having super pretty ANSI.

Also, I'm Derovai (at least 2.0, maybe 3.0). Hi.

Hi!