Posts made by Thenomain

@hedgehog said in Date Thenomain:

@Thenomain

I am married, but I feel compelled to ask what your opinion is on the Giant Butter Jesus (2.0)?

There's always a butter something, so why not a butter Jesus? The State Fair is always a great place to see how the world used to work fifty years ago.

@Jennkryst said in Date Thenomain:

@Thenomain ... I didn't mention sports. The Hatfield/McCoy blood feud over a pig, and something about the civil war? I could tell you which side I'm on if I watch the history channel special on it again. But I am lazy.

Ohio's "Hatfield & McCoy" is, or rather was, a football rivalry between "THE Ohio State University", a huge Big 10 college, and "University of Michigan". Really, Ohio (and Columbus in particular) cared far more about this than Michigan (Ann Arbor) did. There was a time where you couldn't wear anything of the UMich colors in Columbus around the autumn to early winter season without someone giving you shit and maybe even keying your car.

Now it's been gentrified. If you can ever imagine Hatfield/McCoy getting a marketing team behind it and therefore everyone losing that true bile of hate because they're so excited to buy their Hatfield and/or McCoy sweatshirts, doggie jackets, mugs, flags, etc., then you get the idea.

@HelloProject said in UX: It's time for The Talk:

@Thenomain said in UX: It's time for The Talk:

@HelloProject said in UX: It's time for The Talk:

What in the world is shift-ins?

Shift + Insert. They're keys. On the keyboard. Which is a board. With keys on it.

Why would someone go through all the trouble of typing shift + insert when they can ctrl + c?

I would explain in great detail, but as my "explain in great detail" was going to be a link to the very same web page you could look for, you'll have to: a) wait until someone answers, b) download the free and cross-platform Potato Client and find out yourself, or c) Who the heck cares!

I absolutely love how everyone, I mean everyone hates Liam.

@HelloProject said in UX: It's time for The Talk:

What in the world is shift-ins?

Shift + Insert. They're keys. On the keyboard. Which is a board. With keys on it.

@Jennkryst said in Date Thenomain:

I can't go to Ohio, because I am on one side of the Hatfield/McCoy blood feud, but I don't know WHICH side, so I'll get stabbed for no good reason.

It's gotten to the point where if you are from Michigan or like UMich or MichSt., you won't be drawn and quartered out of turn. Really, since ESPN tried to make money on our football rivalry, people have eased up on it. Oh, and since the current policy of the Ohio State University is that if you are involved in any kind of riot or property destruction after a football game you will be suspended and probably expelled.

It's about fucking time.

@golgoth said in Date Thenomain:

I should date Theno because I would take him from Ohio, thus saving him from the Children of the Corn.

I live in effing Columbus. Would you like to see our corn statues? Our field of cows within throwing distance of downtown? How about Origins, the Gen-Con Wannabe?

I'm going to Origins tomorrow.

On the one hand, @Meg is smart and insightful.

On the other hand, @Catsmeow is innocently funny in a kind of stunned-kitten bemusing way.

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Meg said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Catsmeow

@Thenomain

Oh man, are we watching a MSB romance unfold here?

I think we're watching an MSB stalker be born.

<.<

I've only had one proto-stalker before, and I shut him down when I told him that he had no right to my last name.

@RnMissionRun said in UX: It's time for The Talk:

@Thenomain said in UX: It's time for The Talk:

@RnMissionRun

Crow about Pueblo or MXP as much as you want, it never made it into Mush-user-style clients because nobody convinced us why we'd want it, and to do that someone has to use it.

The biggest problem with things like MXP is, people would have to switch clients to use it, and trying to get people to use a different client is like trying to sell ice to Eskimos.

It took me about 5 minutes to switch from whatever client I was using to Atlantis. Find me a Mac user who isn't using Atlantis and is waiting impatiently for Atlantis 2: Undersea Boogaloo, and I'll show you someone using the shell.

People have been asking about a newer Windows client for years. Even in this very thread! I bet most of them don't even know what else is out there and relatively modern. Except Potato. Potato is fine, but it's not good.

I'd estimate that two thirds of Potato complaints are about logging, and one third about spawns.

So it's not that people don't want to switch to something new, but why switch to something new when it's worse at your most-used features? Who in the world wants that? (Cough cough Windows 8 cough cough.)

This leads to wondering why you're bothering with it in the first place, with so little return on the huge investment of time and energy that went into it.

I already mentioned this, yes. Why code something that won't be used? There are reasons, and the biggest reason for coders is, "What? Who are you? Yes, yes, whatever, now let me get back to playing with code, BANG ZOOM look at what I can do!"

Let us not forget that this is a hobby.

You can also ask: Why is anyone responding to this thread knowing that what they say will have little effect?

I will leave this one as an exercise for the reader.

@Catsmeow said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Sex

Psshh, I wish.

Re: Bikes: I would bike more if it was more of a joy, it a good new bike starts around$500, which is not currently in my budget. I live I the part of the Midwest that goes from 90 degrees in the summer to 27 in the winter, with rain, sleet, humidity, rain, ice, heat waves, and rain.

I wouldn't mind biking all times for all reasons, either, but there's something about showing up to work stinking like a rat or looking like a drowned rat that I'm going to have to pass on.

Otherwise, yes. I'm going to have to get over myself and make do.

Edit: Rule #1 of any project? Start.

This one doesn't come from me, but a comment in 'Things I Love' reminded me.

Manager of an engineer: "I completely agree with you technically, but I can't go against the direction of my peers so I'm going to have to tell you not to do it."

Manager of that manager: "This isn't important enough for me. Do what he says."

Manager of that manager (a senior VP): "You're probably right, but do what he says."

The bigger the company, the more likely this is going to happen. This happened in an extremely big company.

@RnMissionRun

MXP is the other one I was trying to remember.

With all due apologies to those who developed it, Pueblo was not a great idea. The complexity of building a parser around an SGML standard (aka HTML) was too much too soon. I mean, who remembers VML? It wasn't the solution that we needed.

Of course, knowing is only half the battle. The other half is "right place, right time". The clunky RSS Feed, which did not age well, is recently being replaced by JSONFeed. This process took forever, not because nobody was interested but because the spark wasn't there. Lord knows that XML->JSON and visa-versa translation recipes have been out since—I'm guessing—JSON gained any popularity. And since JSON is so much easier to both encode and parse than XML, coders have been picking up JSONFeed as an RSS replacement at an amazing rate.

So sure, there are potential replacements, but we're sitting here saying that if only someone would do something to improve it. Myself included. Either eventually someone will (Faraday in Ares, Ashen-Shugar in Rhost, anyone in Evennia), or they won't.

I will say that one of the things I consider if I'm even going to try to code something is: Who will use this? Crow about Pueblo or MXP as much as you want, it never made it into Mush-user-style clients because nobody convinced us why we'd want it, and to do that someone has to use it.

The point? Something can't just be good, it has to be used.

For those too young to remember, Betamax was far superior than VHS in so many ways, yet VHS won because VHS was used.

Okay, done rambling.

@Groth

I would give my left...I don't know, sock...to get MCP, or even GMCP. I had completely forgotten about it. Let people build their own clients on a metadata standard.

@ThatOneDude said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Body weight exercises = WIN.

Not likely to happen.

I am 6'1".

I used to weigh 145 lbs.

I was thankful when I rose to 170 lbs.

I'm now 180 lbs.

I need this to stop. Without weights. I do not want to lift, run, do sit-ups or push-ups. I could change my eating habits, but that goes back to "not eating", which as a nerd is where I started.

My bike is old and hard to pedal. A lot of people have questioned me for purposefully riding a heavy bike. I tell them that this is the point.

Now I just need to use it.

What @Lithium talks about is buy-in. People may remember the thread where we take @Griatch to task (fairly? unfairly? peanut brittle?) for not making Evennia friendly to non-coders. @Faraday is making Ares far simpler and easier to learn by looking at examples, while there is a coder who is writing a gigantic system for Evennia to allow more familiar in-game scripting. This is how most non-coders learn to code, via example and lead.

Bringing this back to the UX discussion, leading by example is fantastic. Building on what has come before to improve. I'm currently agonizing over a MUX command that I need to expand in a way I didn't plan, and I would rather spend a day or two agonizing and a day or two re-writing some code from scratch rather than do the easy thing, because the easy thing makes it more complex in a way that I don't think is intuitive or easy to remember.

To expand on @Jim-Nanban's game-design quote, there's another popular design quote, "Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away."

Also, in complex design, remember that a little redundancy means that people can decide how they want to approach it, and therefore will make it more approachable.

Mac: BBEdit
Windows: Notepad++
Anywhere: Atom

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very late edit: I don't at all know what you're expecting, but you can open hundreds of files at once with these two. Atom even has a way to multi-file-edit fairly easily, and BBEdit's is a bit harder but still quite possible.

@Rook said in UX: It's time for The Talk:

I scrolled through over two dozen posts just to say that, given that this has devolved into insults, I've lost interest in reading.

Then you stopped too soon.

@Lithium

CLI. Command-Line Interface. That is, how you interface, how you give the system commands. It's a very specific technical term. You did not use a CLI to type your reply. So yes, he did say that he did not believe a CLI is necessary. He's almost certainly right.

@Lithium

He said "for the more advanced features". For instance, working with a grid map in a text-only environment is a pain in the tush. I doubt anyone here wants to stop using text for the storytelling.

@Lotherio

Your answer is far more calm and logical (and more awesome) than mine, but I think we should both admit that we're saying this not to change his mind, but to educate others on @WTFE's flaws. He is shit-posting. He has said the hobby is dying for over ten years. Even as Wora and Soapbox have changed around him, he hasn't. The irony.

So my post was an Open Letter to Everyone: Read these posts, file away the information, ignore WTFE's cretin persona, smile politely and nod, continue with being constructive.