@thenomain said in How to use Potato MU Client:
No? Huh. It was when I last tried it. Which is when it was slower than dirt. I’ll check it again and edit this post when I’m at a computer, or more likely a Mac user will reply with more details.
As far as I know, Potato has always been built on Tcl/Tk?
Okay, who else is engaged in this particular insanity this year?
@wahoo said in Wahoo's Playlist:
Did I ever tell you about the time she social imp'd Ojitar into killing all the Gold Dragon clan's horses?!
@packrat said in General Video Game Thread:
So I watched a Twitch stream VOD for the Battletech campaign that included the intro sequence.
Holy shit, instant sale.
As one of the Kickstarter backers, thus having early access, it's a really, really good strategy game.
+mana/tap blue
+mana/spend blue/1=Time Walk
I remember the Seattle group being pretty good about three or four years ago, but I haven't really involved myself in the bigger NaNo community the past couple of years. I just haven't had the time or the energy for the bigger meetups. I'm sad that you had bad experiences with them.
It seemed to be run by a few bffs around college age. All write-ins / meetups were downtown and their opinion on non-downtown gatherings were 'you can plan it but we won't put it on our calendar or help you get the word out in any way because it's not OFFICIAL'.
Oh, yeah, no. A few years ago whoever was running it was making a point to have usually 3-4 write-ins going at a time, at different coffeeshops and such, all on the calendar. On the grounds that smaller neighborhood-focused write-ins were probably more manageable than single big ones. (The exception being the November 1 midnight write-in which was usually huge and done somewhere like Southcenter.)
That's super unfortunate.
My biggest piece of writing advice: stop in the middle of a sentence or paragraph. I've found it does wonders for me. I don't write until the 'thought' (as it were) is done but I stop while I still have ideas. It gives me a place to dive in the next day without hemming and hawing over 'what' to write. Once you're in the groove, it's easier to keep going.
I learned this from one of the classic authors. I forget which, tho.
But it totally works.
I do often try that. I've also been using some of what I picked up from Mary Robinette Kowal at SIWC this year, about how to deal with writer's block. So far it seems to have helped.
(Also, if you want my SIWC notes, btw, as a fellow writer, feel free to peruse them. Some of the workshops, the notes haven't been great, but for some of them they've been pretty useful. SIWC'17: Diagnosing Story Problems are my notes from Kowal's workshop on writer's block and editing.)
@testament said in General Video Game Thread:
And it's just so damn good, seems like the game that Destiny should've been.
ORDIS concurs, Operator.
@Auspice said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
I know I'm 'supposed' to be working on Magicians and I am (as my spare time allows) but I recently binged through The Expanse and I'm reading the books and I've got it all in my head how I'd run a game set on Ceres.
...I want it now
I find that an amusing back-to-the-beginning scenario, since the Expanse started as an online roleplaying group, which got turned into books.
@kanye-qwest said in RL Anger:
@sparks That's awful, I'm so sorry. I had to use a week's vacation to recover (ha) from my foot surgery, and I was salty about it.
I do at least accrue at a rate of 8 hours per pay period, so I'll have one day again on Friday, another in two weeks, etc. But still, it makes me sad.
I'm so sorry you had to burn through vacation too.
My best friend has never played an AC game and absolutely loves Odyssey, for whatever that's worth.
I should clarify that I mean my character is laser focused on one specific slice of metaplot. She does other stuff too, but she isn't going to go chasing after other metaplot threads just of her own accord unless people drag her in. She has a specific plot thread that she is engaged in.
My other character is presently very interrupt driven; someone brings her a thing from plot A, so she looks into plot A, but then a thing happens in plot B, and someone asks her help, but then someone comes with details of plot C and asks if she's heard anything... she doesn't end up contributing a lot to any of those individual plots right now, because she's not really engaged wholly in any of them.
@bobotron said in RL things I love:
@apu
Wait, Joe Manganiello RPGs? Wow.
I need to see this.
He's an avid D&D player, yes. He's played on several D&D streams, notably Matt Mercer's Critical Role (where he played a level 17 dragonborn paladin/barbarian named Arkhan the Cruel).
He's pretty fun to watch!
@Auspice said in Sparks' Playlist:
I've been waiting for a Hallie for a while.
Hey, you can never have too much ink. And I'm sure someone on the engineering crew has distilled something that'll be strong enough to act as an anesthetic!
@Rucket said in EPIC vs Steam:
I'm not a fan of epic or their launcher, I'd rather use Origin. So for me, anything going Epic exclusive is a hard pass.
Having experienced some of Origin's weirder quirks, this reads to me a little like "I'm not a fan of having a fork stuck in my eye, I'd rather have it stuck in my foot." I mean... yes, fair, but I'd prefer not being stuck with a sharp implement in the first place.
I'm curious whether it's significantly more useful than, say, keeping your campaign notes in Roll20 would be.
@cupcake said in Good or New Movies Review:
Everything about Valerian was beautiful...except the chemistry between the two main characters.
This.
Valerian in the comics is someone who, in his better moments, is supposedly one of the original inspirations for Han Solo, or so I've heard. (These comics have been around a long time.) And if that tale is apocryphal, it's still believable.
In the movie he was cardboard.
I enjoyed the movie but I found him very disappointing in the role.
@Auspice said in Auspice's Playlist:
@Sparks said in Auspice's Playlist:
Were you the Lou who was playing on Arx when I started there (late September of last year), or did you pre-date my time as Aislin?
I was! I was the first Lou. I had her from then until the end of December, when I had to finally step away because it was Just Too Much.
Aw! Well, I understand that. I was sad to see you go, though; I'd been looking forward to Adventure Ladies Exploration Time, when the exploration system is eventually live.
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
@Sparks A lot of good feelings?
Let's just say that right now, I'm emotionally invested in a particular part of the storyline.
Orianne