@Thenomain said in Good TV:
The question arises in my mind, tho: Who is going to become YouTube?
Twitch.
Getting to recorded streams in Twitch is a pain in the ass. Maybe they'll make it better. We can only hope.
@Thenomain said in Good TV:
The question arises in my mind, tho: Who is going to become YouTube?
Twitch.
Getting to recorded streams in Twitch is a pain in the ass. Maybe they'll make it better. We can only hope.
You mean as DirectTV Now and SlingTV smile and welcome everyone into their arms? (edit: Apple and Amazon's buy/rent TV seasons is established and also will probably continue to do well.)
Disney can probably pull it off, for the same reason that HBO could, but they are exceptions to the hellscape that streaming media is about to become. YouTube could continue to try and figure out how to become Netflix, chasing off their content creators in droves. They may figure it out about the time that Netflix has finished their transition to becoming HBO.
The question arises in my mind, tho: Who is going to become YouTube?
With the struggles Netflix has had this year
Major content providers making their own splinter content-viewing systems, shooting themselves in the foot but at least they're also shooting the competition in the foot, right?
I thought about it when I read the article and I'd have to get paid more than a bit to decide that going to a sweat-box full of strangers and unfamiliar politics is worth it. Get me a new bike and I'll tear it up.
@Tempest said in Sin City Chronicles:
They basically have 'temporary' powersets (you actually lose your Transmutations and Alembics upon changing Refinement, unless you pay the 'Special' XP to keep them) which results in busywork +jobs for staff
All staff will have to do, when I'm done, is change the Refinement.
Staff will have to tweak things a bit when someone 'unlocks' an Alembic, but automating that would be stupidly easy. (Move the stat from the sub-sheet to the main sheet.)
Many times I'm disappointed that I didn't think of making, e.g., xp spends able to trigger other code. Only so many ponies in the day, you know.
the whole 'milestone' thing will either not really get used on MU or get abused by somebody with a friend willing to run them scenes specifically tailored to completing all of them, prometheans /have/ to change their refinements regularly, there's the 'wasteland' mechanic, etc etc...
Now you're just looking for reasons to fail. I'm with you on this one, but look at the brainpower of everyone involved. It's not slight.
I can think of one situation I can guarantee it won't be used: If we don't even try.
@Arkandel said in Sin City Chronicles:
@Thenomain Sub-sheets?
In Demon: Covers.
In Promethean: Refinements.
In Demon, your Covers have a set of stats (mostly social merits, but also the Cover trait) which exist alongside your Demonic sheet.
In Promethean, your Refinement says which Transmutations you can take, but different Refinements can retain access to different Transmutations.
In both cases, there are contextual 'sheets' that exist alongside your primary sheet. Your Ferrum instance of Corporeum is different than your Aes instance of Corporteum. Two Demonic Covers may have Allies, but they're differently purchased and maintained traits.
I'm having to go back to the basis of my code system—how traits are stored and accessed—to solve this new, completely annoying issue. I was going to make a "Cover" system, but seeing how Promethean does it, it's good to come up with a more generic system. Thus "sub-sheets".
"You must like cats."
While I think there is quite a lot in this which is just for the lulz, this is the line that for me was the wink to the reader.
@Paris said in Hiring a Storyteller:
@Ominous said in Hiring a Storyteller:
Never heard of builders being offered pay, since the supply of builders if much larger than coders.
Damn, and I built our grid for free.
This, this right here, what I'm giving you right now, it my glaring face. I just completely re-coded +shift for you for free. Okay, I'm mostly kidding in my glare. Mostly.
I really should charge for the data entry, tho. I love to code, but data entry for some strange reason makes me tense, which over time makes me nauseous. I think it's because I don't focus my eyes as tightly as others can (c.f. my war against ansi), but any time I have to turn a large amount of numbers from an RPG book (say, feral forms or something), I know that I want to do almost anything else. Insert something funny but also kind of disturbing here.
Tangent: Fuck sub-sheets fuck sub-sheets arrrrrgghhhh sub-sheets fuck fuck fuck!
I don't know how other coders don't yell at the top of their lungs about the things they have to code, but I feeling this explains why XKCD is so popular.
@Coin said in RL things I love:
Kissing.
Kissing is super neat, you guys.
That's what your--
Naaahhh, I can't do it this time. Kissing is super awesome.
@faraday said in MU Flowchart:
@Ashen-Shugar When I have some spare ponies I should look at that.
It always comes back to ponies, doesn't it.
Like I agreed, some permissions knowledge can be important.
As far as things like setting everything wizard, there is a benefit to learning things the hard way. It is far less dangerous to make this mistake now than you used to. My goal is more similar to @faraday or @Ashen-Shugar; get people willing to make the damn game.
Because people should be able to make the damn game without waiting around for one of us.
People, learn just enough code to make huge mistakes.
Then make your damn game
@faraday said in MU Flowchart:
(It also does a multi-pager for some dumb reason that made sense, like, twelve years ago :P)
Because people wanted to be able to respond to a multi-page without having to type out the entire list. Knowing how to fake say/pose/emit is not bad knowledge to have, either, but I can't imagine most people needing it.
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@Mercutio said in MU Flowchart:
And then you get to Regular Expressions, the ins-and-outs of Command-style vs Functional-style (and their hybrid conventions) and what the pros and cons are for both, inheritance, controls / permissions, SQL interactivity, and the true test... fold()
With luck, someone can go their entire Mu* code career without any of this but inheritance and some limited permissions, which is just a subset of "grab an attribute".
I would rather someone learn how to abstract repetitive code blocks via function calls. And the ins and outs of flags. And come to think of it, a competent coder should be prepared to be a halfway competent builder which means a basic understanding of the various object types and how they interact.
Fine fine. Repeatedly code "who", "finger", and "where" until you are sick of it. Actually, you know what: Code "finger" first. Alternatively, any other code along these levels that will familiarize you with:
These are the basics. This is what "finger" and "who" will teach you, with "where" stretching your ability to apply these things. If you can understand these concepts, then you can be your own coder, or at least keep any volunteer coders in check.
How to learn how to code.
Step 1: Ambryl's Mush Manual.
Step 2: Code 'who'. (find existing who code and take it apart, asks questions about how it works, then code it three different ways)
Step 3: Code 'where'. (find existing where code and take it apart, asks questions about how it works, then code it three different ways)
You are now a coder.
@Ashen-Shugar said in MU Flowchart:
@Bubasti said in MU Flowchart:
I love you guys.
Now I can stare at it for long hours, sipping brandy, and contemplating how I'll never be able to have my own MU.
The key, of course, is to design a mush based on a theme that appeals enough to existing coders to draw them in so they can help you
7th Sea.
Fallout.
The Strange.
Anything @Coin mentions is vaguely interesting. (And a Your Mom joke here, because it’s Coin.)
What are yours, Ashen?
@ixokai said in @scan and search tools for MUX:
As someone with the memory of a gecko, I can't code without @scan.
I'm just saying.
In the Mux world, it's @whence. As it isn't mine, I didn't post the softcode anywhere, but same thing different @Chime.
@Mercutio said in MU Flowchart:
@Thenomain
I just visited the website with AdBlock on (Chrome).
I should say that I did too, but I didn't think about the firewall of the public network I'm on might be making all of that hellishly bad. Anyway, thank you; I posted the link to let others try.
So anyhow, yeah: Learn to code or get a coder. The end.