Posts made by Thenomain
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RE: Usekh aka Branwen@Darkspires
He was a good guy who I really only knew through this site, and yet he was light hearted and humane. His passing diminishes us.
And to restate what has become a mantra to my life lately: Fuck Cancer.
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RE: Random links
@Jaded said in Random links:
For those who love interesting things about starwars:
I swear the poll might as well say things like, "Do you hate God?" and "When did you stop beating your wife?" I haven't seen this much slant since I last answered a political phone poll.
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RE: RL Anger
If it's me I will ruin it in like, 30 seconds. Don't worry.
If it's me, I'll disappoint you in less time than that.
iykwimaityd.
(It's not anyone on this forum. sorry bbs.)
whatever, give it time.
It’s true. Coin is totes my sempai now!
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RE: RL things I love
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
You will deal with the double-post because TARGET HAS LISA FRANK PJS.
Next thing you know, they'll start selling Trapper Keepers from the 70s, too.
(note: I looked on their website for a few minutes. I was so hoping they were.)
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RE: RL Anger
The discussion with my game group during Origins (where there were two less expensive game table companies there) was that something happened after Game Chic fell apart after succeeding on Shark Tank, suggesting a connection. Maybe they over-reached, maybe they were harassed by the investor(s), maybe a combination of both.
Sometimes it's hard as hell to scale under the force of your own popular idea. I hope that they learned something and will restructure and try again.
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RE: Things We Should Have Learned Sooner
@Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
@Faceless But at the same time, nearly everything we "collected" as children is worthless. That's another thing one should learn early.
We are forced to unlearn too much that we knew as children.
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RE: Things We Should Have Learned Sooner
@WTFE said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:
When you hit a new word reading, you need to check it in a dictionary before speaking it.
You don't want to know how many years I was saying "epitome" wrong before someone corrected me.
Or "risible" for that matter.
You know the singer Adele? Having ducked out of a lot of modern culture, and having never heard this name ever in my life, I spent a good year and a half calling her "Ah-dah-lay".
Which, coming to think about it, is far prettier and more interesting than "Ah-dell", but oh-well.
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RE: RL Anger
@Misadventure said in RL Anger:
What, no love for Galileo Galilei or Copernicus?
Yeah, but science wasn’t really a world-encompassing thing at that point. Science was the underdog, and people still believe that science and religion can’t coexist, but now that science has more sway, some religious people want it to fall so that their beliefs can get back to greatness.
The world doesn’t work like that, but good luck telling them that. Beuller. Beuller. Beuller.
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RE: Gamertags
@Thenomain said in Gamertags:
Thenomain.
Why did you think you had to ask?
edit: Except for Nvidia for automated driver downloads, where my gamer tag is: IHateForcedOptInSystems
I do.
Yeah, I really dislike the nVidia software for that. Still not as bad as Razer's software but it's getting there.
I had a pair of Corsair headphones with colors, and the tool to alter the pattern and colors and things was unbelievably bad, bloated, confusing, etc. I can, even with that, imagine that Razer is still worse. They had the curse of being the big name at the start of new age of gaming hardware, and I can imagine they were managed to death. Death by over eager management, a sad way to go.
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RE: Cobalt's Universal IC +Message System
Possibly look into the SQL-based logger I created for The Reach/Fallcoast, in order to see how I handled important timestamp issues.
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RE: nWoD2.0 Support Code?
@Tempest said in nWoD2.0 Support Code?:
IMO, if you're going to do this, include some sort of MAGIC TECH GURU NPC that secures everybody's phones, so they can actually talk about shit and not worry about 'omg the masquerade' or whatever.
Why are you not using Signal?!
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RE: Gamertags
Thenomain.
Why did you think you had to ask?
edit: Except for Nvidia for automated driver downloads, where my gamer tag is: IHateForcedOptInSystems
I do.
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RE: RL Anger
I blame the Scopes Monkey Trials. Someone has been trying to disprove science in attempt to salvage their belief system since.
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RE: nWoD2.0 Support Code?
@Arkandel said in nWoD2.0 Support Code?:
I'm talking about the exact opposite, in fact. The coder who says "hey, I wanna make it so users can color their own +txt" and people tell them it's not worth doing.
Maybe it's not worth doing. Maybe the game has incomplete systems that need stabilized. Maybe the staff is overworked and creating an in-depth phone system interjected with layers of mutter code (can you overhear the conversation better at a table than not at a table?) is going to do nothing to reduce their accelerated burnout. I wouldn't blame a staffer in that situation saying, "This is not worth doing." I would blame anyone for taking this to mean, "This is never worth doing."
I think the best we can do is express how we feel about the project, give some explanation and some justification, and do what we can to understand the decisions made.
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RE: nWoD2.0 Support Code?
@Arkandel said in nWoD2.0 Support Code?:
@Thenomain said in nWoD2.0 Support Code?:
Thinking too hard about it can be what kills it.
Speaking of, I think what kills innovation a lot of the time is people micro-analyzing it preemptively. "It won't work because $reasons". "I saw it tried once in 2003 and it didn't work then so it won't work now". Etc.
I will own this. I've been trying to say, "But try it anyway" to soften my pessimistic tone. A lot of people use 'pp' ("phone-page") and '+txt', regardless what I think about it. I mean, a lot of people, enough to overwhelm whatever I think.
And it's a coder's prerogative to name things silly or stupid things to fit their mood. Until now, nobody has done anything more but roll their eyes and tell me I'm wrong and code it anyway. And I sighed and said "fffiiiinnnnnnneeeee," because I'm harboring a cynical teenager in my psyche.
What @faraday and I have warned is extremely real. What we experienced was directed by users, not (just) coders. Coders don't usually have enough time to fight about this stuff.
Also, fuck naysayers. If they don't like it they don't need to play/use it. It's better to try 50 things and see 1 work out than never trying anything because oh-my-god it might fail.
Except that:
- Our time is limited.
- This is a forum wherein a lot of people speak without consideration toward the audience, which makes a lot of what you see here stated as or taken as hyperbole. (I'm getting deeply sick and tired of that. I'm truly sorry that not everyone says things in the way that you want to hear, but when they clarify themselves for you, you can at least respect the effort. Fuck's sake, people, we're only human.)
If I say, as coder, that I do not want to take the time to allow users to color their own +txt, then you're either going to have to live with that answer or find someone who has the time. Would this be cool? It turned out that it was extremely well-recieved! Am I a jackass for saying 'no'? I don't think so.
This might not be the kind of person you're talking about, Ark, but I do think that pointing out possible hurdles and issues with a plan is not being a "nay-sayer".
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RE: nWoD2.0 Support Code?
@Arkandel said in nWoD2.0 Support Code?:
Introducing new toys is usually harder once people's habits are set unless you're actually offering something shiny they didn't know they wanted until they had it.
@Cobaltasaurus' Events.
... I'm just saying this because it was a toy she coded for herself, thinking that people might like it, and now it seems to be a must-have at least on WoD games, and hopefully on every games.
This is a pure vanity post saying that awesome things come from everywhere. Thinking too hard about it can be what kills it.
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RE: nWoD2.0 Support Code?
@Sunny said in nWoD2.0 Support Code?:
The conversations I had tended to look a little like this:
Me: We need something that does X. Here's the design document.
Lead Coder: Oh, that's really cool. I'd love to do that. You know, since we're doing it anyway, we could make it do Y and Z too and people would really like--
Me: Er, maybe that's a little-
Lead Coder: OR THIS! WE COULD ALSO DO THIS! THERE ARE TWELVE THINGS WE FORGOT THAT IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE CODE TO DO!From my end it was:
Staffer: Hey, can we have this?
Me: Okay.
Staffer: Can you also make it do this?
Me: Okay.
Staffer: You know, since we're doing it anyway, we could make it do Y and Z too and people would really like--
Me: Er, okay, that will take longer to--
Staffer: OR THIS! WE COULD ALSO DO THIS! THERE ARE TWELVE THINGS WE FORGOT THAT IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE CODE TO DO!From my experience, I could also replace "Staffer" with "Player". Man, the things players ask for!
The thing about observed evidence is that we can only explain what we've observed, and that we should all be aware and understanding when someone else's perceptions are different, take that information into account as it comes up.