Best posts made by Thenomain

Some sample output:

dir:

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.  Directory  .:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 
      Name                             Type             Avlb  Owner         Pop
EI1   Secret Lair Test                                                       1 
OOC   OOC Rooms                                               Everyone       1 
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.  2 locations listed  .::

dir secret:

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.  Secret Lair Test  .:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
  Map Loc: EI1
  Description: <no &short-desc set>                                         
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  Room Name                                                             Pop
  Cacophony Beach                                       (#99)              
  Echo Island                                           (#102)             
  Ferry Terminal                                        (#253)           1 
...............................................................................
  View Lock: hasattr( %0, secret )
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dir/who secret:

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.  Secret Lair Test  .:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
  Map Loc: EI1
  Description: <no &short-desc set>                                         
................................................................................
  Room Name
  Cacophony Beach (#99)
  Echo Island (#102)
  Ferry Terminal (#253)
    Thenomain
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edit: The list headers (Room Name, Type, Pop, etc.) are underlined.

@ganymede said in Make MSB great again!:

That's why I think there should be a separate game review place. That's where the advertiser cannot control what's being said, good or bad. Create a new forum for them, even.
As for respect for others, that's something that cannot really be policed except by ourselves.

Except this is how I see this playing out:

1. I think this place is great! Let me post to the Advertisement Forum!
2. I think this place sucks! Let me post to the Review Forum!

I don't at all think that it's this black-and-white, but for the sake of illustration as to why I think the attempt would rise to more and not less biased channels of communication. Fracturing the discussion diminishes it.

If an advertiser wants to wipe an entire thread from their thread, let them. And if sycophants come to trumpet, so be it. I think it's reasonable for the average visitor to the Internet know that not all positive reviews are objective.

No review is objective; an objective review is called a "fact sheet", and even then....

Platonic ideals aside, I strongly believe that a discussion is always better than expecting everyone to be on the same page.

Both fallcoast.org and lightsoutrp.com are forwarded to thirdhosting. They probably live on the same machine but different ports. I bet if you tried to connect to lightsoutrp.com 2009 you would get Fallcoast.

edit: Yup, that happens. I doubt there is anything either of you can do without Third Hosting's help, but it is not malicious.

@ZombieGenesis said in 7th Sea Second Edition:

The problem with most people on MUs today

Wow, Grampa, tell us how people your age did it in back in the day, RPing uphill both ways in the snow.

More on topic, 7th Sea is no less a toolbox a setting as Star Wars, or World of Darkness, yet people seem to find things to RP about there without someone telling them which part of the setting to engage in. I've always seen 7s as being a "play the character you were thinking about when you made it" kind of game, in which you're always engaging with the environment.

@Insomnia said:

Is that all highlighted on your end, or has it become cool to have an explosion of colour in posts and stuff?

The hiliting is done by Soapbox's exciting code scripts. I'm sure I can turn it off, but having something less bland than mostly-white-on-mostly-black is fine.

@thatguythere said in Make MSB great again!:

So Yay we have a section with all the discussion value of holding hands and singing Kumbaya.

I was going to correct, but it turns out that you're currently right. From the Advertisement Thread's Rules of Engagement:

This is not the place to criticise [...] You may also post links to such criticisms on a game's advertisement thread, but please no more than that.

So yes, singing Kumbaya with occasionally someone allowed to put up a post-it note if they feel like it's worth it. Seeing how people don't use the forums made available already, I feel this is a move that at best doesn't understand its user-base.

RPG combat systems on-line can be a horrifying experience. It wasn't unusual to have a 8-person PvP scene in old WoD take more than a day, considering the vagueness of the rules and the tricky tricks that a lot of people like to do. Add all three of those things together and what you get is as much arguing as you do combat.

I was once harassed by a local cop in my upper-class neighborhood. Jealousy and cops don't mix. Man, cops, right?

Excessive poking fun at my First World Problems aside, I once had someone who was of the inner-city African American affectations once invite me to call him 'nigga'. I was extremely flattered, but there was no way in hell I was going to. I would just as likely walk into a lesbian biker bar and yell to my friend, "Yo, Dykebuster!"

It's nice to see that my accident of birth doesn't mean that other people of other minority groupings aren't just as stupidly cruel, I just wish my so called peers would cut it the fuck out and lead the change. Let stupid people be seen as being stupid, instead of it being cultural.

My name is Thenomain, and I am painfully, stereotypically self-aware.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Arx- Gareth:

Keeping him on the game would have ultimately been a waste of his time

Except that it's not your decision how others waste their time. You're not our parent, guardian, lawyer, or doctor. You're one person trying to make play-space for people to, in fact, waste their time in, hopefully in a way that they enjoy. Your only decision is to decide how to deal with how that goes for yourself and your game.

This is pretty much all I have to say on the topic, tho I may repeat myself from now until when people stop doing this.

Which does mean I may change my mind on some of the details as I re-evaluate situations and life and how Srs Bzns all this game-playing is.

Also, I can see you eyeballing me, @Ganymede.

So here is a good way to tie up superhero comic fans for hours, if not days:

"If you had any one super power, what would it be?"

Eventually the conversation would come around to: "What is 'one power'?"

The Flash has super-speed, but does he have a second power that increases his response time, and if so then does it also keep him from experiencing the world over 100x faster than anyone else?

What is it in super-strength that also keeps your bones from being crushed from the equal force pushing back against your body when you punch through a wall?

You get the idea.

I meant to post an update to Chime's code, but ran out of steam. Soon.

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

@Lisse24 It is easily explained by the maxim:

When you're accustomed to Privilege, Equality feels Like Oppression.

I think this is the more general issue that we as Americans are trying to deal with on a whole bunch of levels, not just that of belief. Race and gender are hitting hard here as well, lately.

The confusion of the discussion isn't helped that anger is becoming an expectation, if not the norm. As far as I'm concerned, Susan Fowler is this generation's best feminist.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Arx- Gareth:

Ok then, I amend my statement. We freed ourselves up. Thenomain is also now free to go fuck himself, as rigorously as he can manage.

I love how you can dish it out but can't take it. Proves my point beautifully, thank you.

(edit for others: no we're not getting a room, gross! if I have to watch us hate-fuck like this, so do you!)

@auspice said in Make MSB great again!:

@chet said in Make MSB great again!:

I want a merc board, where people can show interest in being recruited for work at games, instead of having to wait for someone to start up a project.

I'd say the MU Code board could prob. be used for that. Or maybe the Questions one. No need for a whole separate section.

Shout in the Dark has been used for more than a "missed connections" board. "Looking for people to X" has been there too.

A little talking out loud here:

think places( whichplace, %L, %# )
#-1 NOT AT ANY PLACE

So, for the room's desc:

@desc here=udefault( placedesc.[places( whichplace, %!, %# )], placedesc.none )
&placedesc.none here=this is the default description for the room
&placedesc.1 here=this is how the room looks like from place 1
&placedesc.2 here=this is how the room looks like from place 2

Good luck.

@WTFE

I register Republican so I can fuck with the primaries, but it is not illegal in my state to vote for anyone of any party. The Democratic party seems to know that I normally vote Dem, but I do get phone calls from both parties. I will say at least to me, the Republican phone calls are far more inflammatory and leading than the Democratic ones.

@Alzie said in LFS: Eclipse Phase MUX:

Egos and Morphs are a pain. They can be swapped out at various points, so you have to keep them ready in some way.

External sheet storing. Adds about 5 minutes to the overall coding as you'll be looking up the sheet as 'u( f.find-sheet, %# )' instead of '%#'. I have it stored as &_special.sheet_loc, and &f.find-sheet as 'default( %0/_special.sheet-loc, %0 )'

Done!

And start using a GUID for objects. Penn uses 'objid' which is: <dbref>.<creation timestamp in unix epoch secs>. This way, nobody can possibly use someone else's sheets.

That's not to say that Egos and Morphs don't have other hellish issues, but that there can be multiples is not one of them. Chargen for them would make me sigh.

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edit: derped on the 'default()' function. I have the wrong delimiter for 'objid()', but it gets the idea across.

@auspice

Because I'm not the slightest bit tired but should have been asleep two hours ago, I give you my breakdown of the boards, mostly by observation but partially by personal opinion:

• Announcements: Staff announcements, at the top. This miffs me on Mu*s because there are usually over 100 posts there, most of them out of date. With a web format it's not so much of a big deal, and I haven't seen anyone here yell at someone else for not reading each and every one and commit it to memory.

• Midly Consttuctive: The Mu*-Related Forum for Real Information. It's second on the list but first in our hearts, and if something is going to happen it's probably going to happen here or...

• Hog Pit: I don't know where this is because I've unsubscribed. I imagine this is what people want the Advertising boards to be: A place for tell-all and no-holds-barred.

• Adver-tis-ments: It was "Advert-is-ments", but a lot of browser-plugin adblockers were, well, blocking it. I think a lot of our problem here is that it's in neither Constructive nor Hog Pit, so there were no rules for it. What I've heard from people about what is allowed or not allowed there has been all over the spectrum (well, not that spec--actually, you know, including that spectrum). Nothing was not allowed therefore everything is allowed, as long as the Court of Public Opinion says it's okay on that particular day.

And this is where the comparisons between Soapbox and Wora are made. Wora was run almost 100% on Court of Public Opinion. Bans came for derailing threads to the point of pointlessness, but very little else.

• Tastes Less Game'y: The RL board. While we can surely click talking about games, I've been with circles of friends who talk about nothing but the games, and it can be hollow. I think here is where the board community comes together. There's almost nothing here that's so emotional that people will even want to shit-post. There is one thing, but it gets its own board.

• MU Code: 151 Topics? Really? I'm kind of impressed. Only one third of "Mildly Constructive", but that's still pretty neat.

• MU Questions & Requests: Kind of self-describing. I think people use this board when they don't want their thread to be lost in "Mildly Constructive".

• How-Tos: Specifically for tutorials on things that make our games good. Could go under "MU Code", perhaps, but it's a lot easier to find things when they're more broken down.

• A Shout in the Dark: Quick requests for information, both missed connections and searching for. Again, not something that is meant to be a drawn-out discussion. I think its sub-header is misinformative to how it has been and could be used.

From here on, I'm not sure what the purpose of the boards are, but I'm going to give it a guess.

• Suggestions & Questions: Soapbox-Specific Q&A. (Like this thread should be, perhaps.) I've seen many that could go here under "Mildly Constructive", but tomato, potato.

• Readers: Our love of books knows many bounds.

• Code: Code memes. Hi @Chime!

• Play-by-Post: Except for the board that convinced @HelloRaptor to leave because of how nice we were all trying to be to one another, I don't think this board has ever been used for its stated purpose. (Hm, I wonder with recent events if I could get him to post again? I bet not, but it's tempting to offer.)

• Politics: The RL version of the Hog Pit for the one topic that will get people shit-posting on a moment's notice. Serves the same purpose as something I can put on ignore.

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And that's my time-wasting babble for tonight. I did think it was a little topical, at least, to help diagram "just what is this board trying to do, anyway"? I think that people are here for four boards: Constructive, Hog Pit, Adverts, and RL. Everything else is either a nice touch or a...well, a touch, at least, of only slightly questionable purpose.

Sleep well, everyone. Unless you're just waking up, in which case "g'day, mate".

@Bobotron said:

@Pondscum
Do you know if this will work with the general SGP Places code (which is the only post-year 2000 version I can find out there)?

@surreality mentioned how to do it with the older places code. I may fold this trick into the base code that @Glitch mentioned.

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

@Thenomain A robot @Ganymede might be, but no one has ever accused it of being asexual.

Bolded emphasis mine.