Posts made by Thenomain

Dibs on "Vampiledriver", the newest entry in the Werewolf Wrestling Federation.

@WTFE,

They do link the article to the discussion forum for it, but the articles I've read have been very Mud-centric "and this is how you do things" kind of way. I must be old, because when The New York Times posts an article on facts I don't jump into the comments to give my opinion. Reporting is to report. The commons are the commons. I'm kind of surprised that people have been posting reactions, which knocks a little wind out of my sails on that front, but I still don't think it's very inviting.

So. Meta.

And I feel fine.

@crayon said:

In summary, I don't really expect that Optional Realities is going to appeal to every person in this community. That's okay.

Okay, putting on my blunt hat.

There, it's on.

Please do not offer us crap pudding like this. We do not need placated or pandered; we are adults even if we don't act like it some, most, or all of the time. I know the irony of basically saying the same to Jeshin just one post ago, but it sounds to me like he's trying to negotiate a mutual understanding and I know how it is to fight your own moral code. I don't think he needs to fight it, and would probably be better for our perception of him if he doesn't and hopefully he'd be happier too.

@crayon said:

Effectively, there's a difference between offering feedback and criticism and trying to debate while predicating your entire argument on telling us you disagree with our preferences

What? You (Jeshin, really, but your site) are the one who wants to bridge text communities, and when given a pretty clear example of how our consideration of "quality RP/game" did not mesh yours, you said, "Mm, no." This is not one of those matter-of-opinion things, you said our entire community was wrong.

You don't get to do that and say you want to build bridges at the same time.

This is why I berate you two. You don't get to be the arbiter of anything but your own community unless you are truly willing to explore common ground.

You are not.

I'm not talking about the articles, here, I'm talking about page one of your web site. I'm talking about how you present your community. It's not honest, and I can see the value in it if only you were honest.

We here at MU Soapbox are very keen on calling out bullshit; it's practically our charter, and as Surreality mentioned we each have our bugaboos, our triggers, and our amusements. You guys could be pretty damn sweet, but you are undermining yourselves at best, two-faced at worst, and that is pissing me off.

Either be your own community with your own rules and your own focus, or seek a greater understanding of quality gaming.

One of these options allows you to ignore our ranting as opinions. The other allows you to build bridges.

For fuck's sake, pick one.

I'd like to add to what @surreality said:

@Jeshin said:

I think that one of the issues we're having is that we (I) am not comfortable directing people to Optional Realities for specific content.

But you want to engage in conversation. There is a conflict of your own interests when you want conversation but your ethics are stopping you from encouraging it. There is an adage about beating a dead horse to water, or something.

(That is, here we beat a dead horse. There, you want to lead a horse to water and expect it to drink.)

I don't think anyone here expects you to post here as your primary form of conversation, since you do have this web site of your own, but it still mildly baffles me that Crayon responded to essentially me, essentially from here, and didn't say, "Hey, Theno, here's my response over there. It might help."

And if that's not your or his goal to placate me or anyone here, that's fine, but something you're doing or saying is coming across as insincere. If it's as simple as your moral dilemma, then consider it a good thing that it's a simple solution. You don't have to try as hard as we're demanding.

We are, after all, kind of jerks.

@Jeshin said:

I actually put hey at the beginning of my posts because it makes me feel more comfortable posting.

I think we can agree that even @Lithium knows she's being silly, as she starts with "I don't know why."

This is bizarre. Rather than responding to the naysayers with "wink wink come and find out", wouldn't a response of accepting the views of others, or even saying nothing, be better? But I'm more confused because I thought, eh, let's see what happened lately in this thread.

• Building an Elastic Game World (Crayon)

My response here: There is no content here.
Crayon's response there: (Practically a whole new article.)

This was the first link I clicked because it's one I knew I had read and had an opinion on. Here? We see nothing of this. Not even, "I think you guys are crazy but I started to think about it and came up with <link>".

This is not really aimed toward Crayon, since he does respond here between once-a-week trips, but I see this kind of thing enticing people who are on the fence because of things like unanswered criticism. It's something we know to well, here, is that the loudest wins far too often.

The answer, of course, isn't to be louder, but I think you guys have "being conversational" as an advantage that you're really not using.

And that's bizarre.

I had to stop for a moment and watch this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

Okay.

@Glitch said:

For everything else, I use Atom.

Atom seems to be yet someone else's version of TextMate/Sublime. All those features that I say I rely upon for Mu* coding? They act in exactly the opposite way. (Bracket Matcher does not select the brackets themselves, the anchor of the selection is at the end and not expanding from both ends.)

I love this kind of editor, mind; it has advantages over TextWrangler, but not enough. Maybe I shall learn how to hack it, for why not. Because why not.

@Chime said:

Most of Theno's concerns are sorta hilariously irrelevant to me; I control editors with a keyboard, and mouse just gets in the way.

Just what do you think you're talking about!

• Alt-Arrows: Get to a word inside the function (or be sloppy and use the mouse pointer vaguely).
• Shift-Cmd-B: 'Balance' the parens with a selection that includes the parens.
• Shift-Alt-Backarrow: Select the previous word from the beginning paren, therefore giving me the function name and its entire contents.
• Typically Cmd-X: Cut out selection, go from there.

No mouse.

I altered TextWrangler's appearance and while I like it, I'm going to have to tweak the colors until it's a bit less subtle. "Hack" is thicker than "Monaco", that's for damned sure.

TextWrangler is written by coders as a coding tool for Macs since long before their Intel/*NIX transition. Comparatively, TextMate (and its kin) is a wreck.

I'd rather chew broken glass than code in VI, tho.

@ixokai,

If you don't have feeding, and if you don't have feeding be possibly dangerous or problematic, then you aren't playing Vampire, IMHO.

You're not playing one game of Vampire, certainly, but while you're playing that game of Vampire there are other games of Vampire that you're not playing.

I read "Narcissist" first and because of that prefer the game world (rather, the same world's different perspective) to Continuum. Mind you, Continuum is hard to read because short of finding a print copy, I have only found really bad scans of it, so maybe I'm biased toward a game I can actually read.

Narcissist is more about crashing out of the Universe, learning how to hop parallel timelines while avoiding the Continuum time-cops.

@Chime said:

Well there is your problem. Use a light-text-on-dark-background color scheme in your text editor.

If you can't, get a real editor.

I do every time I try Sublime (or Sublime 2 or Sublime 3), I cannot make it do the one single thing I must have in a Mu* text editor: When selecting the contents of matched parens, also select the parens.

So I continue to use TextWrangler, which additionally extends the selection in both directions, in this instance, instead of assuming the selection anchor is always at the end. This is how I select all of function( nested( other( functions ))). If I can't select like this, then forget it.

(edit!) Oh yeah, I forgot: Yes, TextWrangler allows for color schemes, but the text rendering engine it uses has been written in-house since before MacOS was an 'X', so it's usually better on my eyes to go black-text-on-white. I will try it again, mind.

@Arkandel said:

If it's not vim it's not a real editor anyway.

:fu: :neckbeard:

(because I didn't quickly see a "vomit" emoji.)

@Chime was Coventry on The Reach, so unless we're looking for the coder I believe we're talking about different people.

@Jeshin, one of the points I've been trying to make here is that the articles themselves do not seem to me to invite conversation, and until recently I had not seen one create any. This is not meant as an insult, or a negative thing; I was surprised when you (or @crayon, I can't remember which now) said that the articles were for creating discussion. It feels like opening up a PC Magazine article on how to set parental controls in Windows 10 and later hearing the author say the article was written to spur discussion.

Buh?

Anyhow, I understand and appreciate that there are only so many hours in a day, and so you can't spend time both here and yonder getting into this level of discussion, but understand and appreciate that you're asking us (me) to do the same; to go there and engage in the level of conversation that we enjoy here.

A great deal of why I haven't bothered to post like this over there is because it is blunt and crude, and boy if you haven't made me want to throw up my arms and yell, "What the hell are you talking about?!" And have. I don't want to do that to you guys in your own backyard. I've also been scared off by the harshness of the few Mudder-centric discussions being the kind of harsh and crude that I get enough of from here.

There are other reasons, but this is enough creative criticism/harshing for one post.

@Chime
I do prefer it to DejaVu, and it's far cleaner than Vera. (We both know how dirty Vera can be when trying to communicate simple things.) Really for me, this font has already hit my "works at 11 pt with a Mu*" test that I normally reserve for Monaco. The line-height is a bit taller than I'm used to, but not distractingly.

Note: These two programs I have white text on black. I react very differently to the same font in the black-on-white of a text editor. edit: I was using Andale Mono for telnet.

OPEN SOURCE FONT!
FIXED-WIDTH!

HACK!

http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

I've already taken a liking to this in my telnet client. We'll see how I deal with it in my code editor.

@Arkandel said:

What I was saying is that you beautified someone's post in your head to defend them but in doing so you took out the parts I was objecting to.

That she was being firm and frustrated in in the face of people openly laughing at the thread? Being antagonistic about someone being antagonistic never works. I should know. Beautifying what she said turns a slap-fight into a conversation. I am an optimist.

Contrast:

@JDCorley said:

It's all good, if you've got it all figured out, you don't need anyone's help. I promise you your staff will burn out and with no other means to introduce content your playerbase will devolve into just drinking and fucking - nothing wrong with that, of course - but if you don't believe my promise, you can definitely get right to proving me a fool. I hope that you do. :bowtie:

+1.

@Arkandel said:

Hint: I wasn't commenting on the censored version but the actual one.

If she censored her post, then clarify that, jeeze.

Cool, because attempts at discussion with you guys here have been cold at best. I really do think you guys don't want to talk about things you think are right.