Posts made by Thenomain

@Arkandel said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@Thenomain said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

The closest I've come to interacting him from a staff level, not one of the four women who had problems with him would come forward, even anonymously and through a third party, for fear of his abuse. I felt terrible because I'd rather these four women than any one Custodius, yet I knew that we'd probably end up with the exact opposite.

I'm curious. Why was he allowed to stay if you were staff, there were complaints and felt that way about the players he was chasing away?

Because I believe in a shade more due process than "I heard you were scum via some third party." Sometimes I believe in too much, but at the time it wasn't enough.

@Misadventure said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

A person can be a pernicious catalyst of destruction.

They can be the ever renewing trigger of destruction. So no it's not all their masterful control of humanity, just their ability to see human weaknesses, and instead of shoring those up, they manipulate them to tear everything down.

I have heard of Custodius second-hand, but have heard of him so many times that I am willing to believe he's exactly what people say he is. The closest I've come to interacting him from a staff level, not one of the four women who had problems with him would come forward, even anonymously and through a third party, for fear of his abuse. I felt terrible because I'd rather these four women than any one Custodius, yet I knew that we'd probably end up with the exact opposite.

Surprising nobody, I am going to also remind people: VA Spider.

@Seamus said in DC Rebirth:

@Thenomain One might "Question" that quote. I made a funny...

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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(hah)

@Monogram said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

Funny the only person that I'd like to be able to romance, isn't(awesome Asari doctor).

And yet has some of the best romance dialogue in the game.

Hell, the fact that she has romance dialogue means that someone had a good day in the writer's pool. I think I'm going to blame most of the issues I have with Andromeda on whomever thought the interplanetary travel animations were a good idea. It rivals ME1's Slow-Ass Elevator Rides from Hell.

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Oh, sometimes when I try to boot ME:A, I get a black screen yet still get volume, especially when I have Skype active. The best clue I have is someone reporting an issue with the Corsair Utility Engine (headset, not keyboard; I have more sense than that), but as it reliably happens during a Skype call and almost never else, I was hoping that someone had an idea why.

My name is Renee Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

@Insomnia

I at first felt stuck with my romance option in Witcher 3, but later it became amazing. Watching a stuffy, bossy, manipulative witch casually paint a mustache on a painting? Worth it.

But multiple monogamous relationships? Yeah, like I said, the programmers dropped so many flags that you'd think it was first day for the color guard at band camp. I had someone both congratulate me for surviving taking down a base and warn me not to go try and take down the same base, in the same conversation.

I was attacked and killed when stuck in a conversation.

Now that's immersive.

@Sparks said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

Yeah, the economy in Andromeda is suuuuper broken, it seems to me.

That Andromeda can handle an economy is the coders cheating, as much as using what appears to be the same character models they've been using since ME1.

Still enjoying it, dammit.

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As a side-note, do not try the multiplayer maps without all 4 people. That is all.

@mietze

Being a Neil deGrasse Tyson-style atheist, I know quite a few christians who are kind and caring and as far as I can figure live the teachings of Jesus the Christ.

To keep on theme with this thread, they are RL things (people) I love.

@Monogram said in General Video Game Thread:

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

I was yelling at the screen last night on two occasions.

1. I could suddenly understand everyone of an alien race that I couldn't previously understand. This was addressed later, kind of, sort of.

Oh, so I wasn't the only one that had a 'wtf' moment when suddenly these races, who I've had barely any interaction with, can talk.

Well for one of them, only one speaks and it has been researching the Milky Way races and maybe they have a similar learning technique as the Protheans? They could've gotten away with that, had they bothered explaining it.

But they didn't.

Mind you, the situation that gets you there should have killed pretty much everyone, them included. At the very least it should have been entirely impossible. Did nobody think about speed of light physics? Does nobody care about internal setting consistency? Will nobody think of the children?!

... Incidentally, I want to make a Mu* with this setting. So far nothing about the writing has ruined it, they've just ignored it because what appears to be lazy writing. I find the situation quite compelling. Still having fun.

I was yelling at the screen last night on two occasions.

1. I could suddenly understand everyone of an alien race that I couldn't previously understand. This was addressed later, kind of, sort of.

2. The game was responding to me flipping some kind of conversation flag that I haven't flipped yet and I have no idea what they're talking about. I think I know, and am going toward the engagement that I believe triggers it, but this isn't the first time I had game-flag issues. The other was when I went to talk to an NPC I've visited before and had to go through the initial discussion with them again. Sigh.

Still enjoying it! (he says, though slightly clenched teeth)

@Roz

Tho we've gone from answering the original question directly (which I did try to do!) to theory, and when you get a bunch of people who are prone to disagree already now talking about theory then yeah, I'm not surprised this happened. Sometimes having a meta-discussion is needed to clarify which interpretation any one given person is having, because topic drift is a real thing. (I know you weren't talking about it, Roz, it just came to mind for what I see what happened.)

Also, there are very good extensions to stop spambots. There aren't very good methods to create a secure link between a Mu* account and a MediaWiki account. I sincerely do hope the two I linked to help with both.

@Arkandel

But sending passwords in the clear doesn't count as a best practice. It may be good enough for nonsense gaming, but that's a different answer in my book.

Oh for ...

Would somebody please move this part of the thread to Politics?

Wow.

Sorry for intruding on this discussion. Theatre indeed.

@Derp said in Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Thread:

• The animations are a little rough in some places. Characters walk through me frequently, and clip into a pose. It's distracting. Patch that shit.

Heehee, I finished a conversation with three scientists and they just stood there, unmoving and unanimated, for the rest of the time that area was loaded.

@Tinuviel said in Wiki best practices:

@Thenomain Is there a method by which one can control wiki account creation through MU*-based SQL fuckery?

For example when a character is flagged approved, the account is created or somesuch?

Since the entirety of MediaWiki can be messed around with through SQL fuckery, yes. This is not knowing which encoding method MW uses for passwords, but there are a number of standards and most of them are built into mySQL. I'd imagine that MW uses whatever method that database handler uses.

@ixokai said in Wiki best practices:

Type '+wiki/password' in game. Receive the word: 'transgoggle'.
Easy. And staff doesn't have to do anything ever again and no bot or spammer will ever get it.

Sending password over clear-text is never, ever a good idea.

edit: I should amend this, knowing that I took one bit of information from a wider discussion and jumped on it. I stand by this statement: Don't send passwords in the clear.

That's not to say that this system can't still be easy, but it should require a two-factor system such as email. Register and verify an email, and then when someone types '+wiki/password' it starts the process via the registered address. It still doesn't involve any third party, which is easier and is good.

There is also a fantastic wiki plugin called Extension:ConfirmAccount which also involves zero staff involvement.

Mind you, these still involve work and our hobby puts a lot of stress on the overhead of game creation to begin with. Until someone creates this for public consumption, it's more something that might be done sometime. For this reason I prefer Extension:InviteSignup, as while yes it involves staff it's quite minimal, can be handled by anyone with wiki-staff, and will give your coder time to come up with something better.

@Zz said in Podcasts:

@Auspice In this vein - LORE at lorepodcast.com! It's all about old lore, horror, and supernatural stories and mixes the history behind them with an examination of human fears and fascinations.

Listened to the first episode, vampires. It's quick, succinct, and encourages people to look into it further. A++.

@ixokai said in General Video Game Thread:

@Tinuviel said in General Video Game Thread:

And why, come to think of it, is it necessary for me to hold the button all the time? So much holding it's like Bioware is afraid that if I don't get 'interaction finger' (it's like tennis elbow) that I'll leave and stop loving them. Eesh.

I think this is console-itis again

There is a play setting to turn many of these into a toggle. Not the 'hold E to interact' which, yeah, is nonsense in any game. (I was in the middle of a mission and for no reason at all it became 'hold Enter' or 'hold F', I can't remember which, and I about spat.) Also the lack of being able to use the scroll wheel to change how close to the character's head also blows. Sure it's a setting, but hey guys, you can add options for keyboard/mouse users that are slower settings for controller users. Hey developers, you can develop for both without sacrificing either.