Best posts made by Thenomain

@Ganymede said:

If you're going to run a Vampire: the Requiem game, for instance, paranoia and power-mongering are essential to the theme and setting, and, very often, players have to bend over backwards to find a reason to be inclusive.

This is a problem of Vampire being forced into an online social game without fixing this issue. In a tabletop, it is usually assumed that the coterie is going to work together against or in spite of the political machinations going on around them. Online, the player-characters often are the political machinations.

That these games or players on these games don't think of ways to be inclusive to players (not necessarily the characters) is I think a major part of a larger issue, but I boil it down to "how these games are presented to be played need to be fundamentally changed to really work on-line".

@sparks said in Sockmonkey's Playlist:

(Yes, I say this despite being someone who willingly plays Traveller...)

But the big question is would you play it on a Mud? Would you play it with a HUD? Would you could you with some code? Would you should you on the road?

@Ganymede

I take the issue to be like complaining about people who do nothing but TS. They are undesirable but on a low priority.

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@Apos Still on phone didn't mean to miss your response. Like I said, I've never been on a game that eschewed the use of OOC and I likely never will be. I can't say anything about you feeling knocked out of immersion and that's too bad, but feeling unwanted for me is people walking out of RP.

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Others: From light skimming it looks like a pedantic discussion of the word "clique". Faraday gets it. Context is not rocket science.

@sparks said in Sockmonkey's Playlist:

@thenomain said in Sockmonkey's Playlist:

@sparks said in Sockmonkey's Playlist:

(Yes, I say this despite being someone who willingly plays Traveller...)

But the big question is would you play it on a Mud? Would you play it with a HUD? Would you could you with some code? Would you should you on the road?

I would not, could not, on a MUD, or on the road, or with a HUD. The game's a mess, I must admit, and players would all want to quit.

Would you with some streamlined rules? Could you without gaming fools? Focused theme or accessed plot? FS3 might hit the spot.

I played briefly in HM's "mortal sphere". The quotes are for sarcasm, as most mortal spheres are about as cohesive as your general metropolis. There is no social glue that all other game lines have, and I wince any time someone appoints a "mortal staffer". These people can do little more than be the important brain behind approvals, and I wince any time a player complains to them that there's nothing going on.

I feel that the "mortal sphere" is something that needs to stop. All characters need to belong to an established theme and setting, or they might as well be just taking up disk space.

@insomnia said in Hey you motherfuckers.:

@peverel I'm having giant black dildo flashbacks now. Thanks!

And not Cheese Log flashbacks? I'm jealous.

I used a spawn once but I can't remember why. Oth wise I don't use them, not even while staffing. I either can pay attention or I can't, and if I can't then I turn off the channels. If something critical happens when I'm off channel then people would either page or mail me.

For some reason, Skype is my best spawn window.

@cobaltasaurus said in Freelance NPC Offer:

@coin YOU NEVER ANSWER DISCORD SIR

He's a WhatsApp junkie. I mean, when you live in a country that is eating Capitalism with a chaser of the blood of the working class, I don't really blame him.

@Lithium said:

@Thenomain So essentially, we're sticking over semantics

I'm arguing over cultural expectations. I don't feel that's semantic. I feel that it's critical for the health of our hobby. If this means that we agree, so be it, but I don't feel my point deserves belittling by calling it semantics. I think how we see characters is pretty fucking important in learning how to not just accept but have fun with these puppets on a string that we call characters.

@seamus

That is a gorgeous sheet. Kudos.

@Coin said:

@Thenomain said:

@Coin, look up Clone High.

I don't need to. The tagline of the original game was "It's like Clone High on opium!"

Then I am insanely disappointed that I never played this game, and would love to see someone do it again.

Not to derail this thread too much, but some anonymous coward is going to have to explain to me a confusion: @Derp got a down vote for that why? Sincerely, Thenomain.

@Groth said:

Honestly I've always viewed softcode as a bug rather then a feature. Why would you ever want to insert code line by line through a chat client?

Those who publish, win.

If you're creating a new environment from scratch, why not <etc. etc. etc.>

That's something you should ask the Evennia guys. They have an IRC channel and I'm sure they'd appreciate the input. That's the impression I have gotten so far.

Me, I'm not here to imagine the perfect Mu* replacement. I just think that people who don't have access to the server code still need creation tools.

@tragedyjones said:

I mostly just downvote @Coin.

Jealous.

@Wretched

Your face has always been the meanest. Your mom said so.

@Ganymede said:

@Coin

I really hate the NBA and NHL drafts. I prefer the NFL draft.

Please explain for those of us Americans who follow sports less religiously than the release schedule of Korra? Thanks.

@Cobaltasaurus

Islandia, mutherfukka. The original TinyTIM. Winner winner chicken dinner.

@Chime

Nerd.

This is concerning the following post from The Reach:

=============================== Announcements ================================
Message: 1/92                      Posted        Author
+directory & +hangouts updates     Sat Jan 17    Arcadia
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       We should relatively soon be getting a swank new piece of code to 
replace these, so in order to avoid doubling up on data entry, please don't 
submit updates for the moment. :) The new code will be announced when it's 
ready, and then we'll announce when we're ready for updates.

        Thaaaaaaaank you!

==============================================================================

I am looking for the coder of this system. I am close to done with my own version of the same, I would like to compare notes and ideas and possibly code to make both my system and their potentially better.

I was thinking about not posting this because of who posted this month-old post, but I would rather work with people and benefit the community.

To whomever is coding this: I have no interest in anything but code on projects like this. Please respond or drop me a line. Directory + Hangouts is something that should have been done a long, long time ago, and I'd like to knock this out of the park if at all possible.

If anyone wants to see what I currently have done:

• Help Files
• Code

Suggestions desired and welcome. That is, I'm looking for people to comment too!