Posts made by Thenomain

The new Fae Touched.

Oh that's okay. We know that MUDs are full of minmaxers and griefers who roll-play instead of role-playing.

Wait. I think I'm talking about WoD Mushes.

Uh, let me get back to you on this.

The world also didn't have a "MediaWiki". It had many CMS, but they were arcane and clunky and, well, most of them still are.

Your mom was pretty hot back then, too, in her sabertooth bikini.

The following mess of code is from Eldritch's parent room:

Main Room Parent
Type: ROOM Flags: FLOATING INHERIT MONITOR PARENT_OK SAFE
%r%tThis is an un-@desc'd room!%r
Owner: Code Wizard  Key: *UNLOCKED* Pennies: 0

NameFormat: wheader( name( %! ))

DescFormat: strcat( %0, if( cor( get( %!/placesmax ), places( list, %! )), strcat( %r, wrap( Places are active here. Use '%xhplaces%xn' and '%xhplace #%xn' to see descriptions., width( %# ), c ), %r )), )

ConFormat: strcat( if( 0, strcat( setq( u, setdiff( lcon( %!, connect ), iter( %qp, elements( %i0, 4, : ), | ))), if( t( %qu ), strcat( setq( c, 1 ), wdivider( Unplaced Characters ), %r, u( display.allchars, %qu ))), iter( %qp, if( setr( t, elements( %i0, 4, : )), strcat( if( t( %qu ), %r, setq( c, 1 )), wdivider( strcat( elements( %i0, 1, : ), .%b, capstr( elements( %i0, 2, : )))), %r, u( display.allchars, %qt ))), |, @@ ))), if( setr( 1, filter( fil.notdark, lcon( %!, player ))), strcat( setq( c, 1 ), wdivider( Characters ), %r, u( display.allchars, %q1 ))), if( setr( o, filter( fil.notdark, lcon( %!, object ))), strcat( if( %qc, %r, setq( c, 1 )), wdivider( Objects ), %r, u( .vtable, map( map_stuff, %qo, %b, | ), 0, | ))), if( 0, strcat( if(  %qc, %r ), wdivider( +Views in this location ), %r, u( .vtable, %qv, 0, | )) ))

ExitFormat: strcat( if( setr( 1, filter( fil.dir, filter( fil.notdark, lexits( %! )))), strcat( wdivider( v( directions_name )), %r, u( .vtable, map( map_exit, %q1, %b, | ), 0, | ), %r )), if( setr( 1, filter( fil.exit, filter( fil.notdark, lexits( %! )))), strcat( wdivider( Exits ), %r, u( .vtable, map( map_exit, %q1, %b, | ), 0, | ), %r )), wfooter( if( u( .isic, %! ), cat( IC Area -, get( %!/coord )), OOC Area)))

Some is missing, but you get the idea. We are using an edited version of @Chime's parent room code from The Reach. Both available upon request.

@HelloRaptor doesn't want a scrawny billygoat like @Coin. His brother is much bigger and tastier.

@Coin said:

I love this RL occurrence.

Alas, we can't have everything:

sources tell me sepp blatter is not among the fifa officials who are being arrested

Before the stat system was implemented, up until the original game god shut the game down because I said I wouldn't kiss his ring. The site admin, Treason and I made Dark Metal. Masquerade reopened. Life went on.

@Derp said:

@Eerie is pretty much pure awesome. Anyone who disagrees is just, you know. A commie or something.

He's talking about you, @Coin.

Interesting. I looked on their wiki, figuring I'd link to it, and yeah, it's not there.

Nor is Gil Tanamor, my Werewolf, on the 'retired PC' list.

@Sparks said:

I'll eventually get off my ass and finish 2.0. It's been sitting at a 60-70% done state for ages, but since nothing actually /breaks/ in Yosemite and there's been little pressure, I've admittedly been taking my sweet time about it and working on other things.

How dare you have a life.

It's like how I'm working on the documentation.

<.<

"One more question."

Do not ever say this to someone you respect. Do not ever say this to someone you don't know. Do not ever say this.

It is a lie. What this means is, "I have already monopolized your time and I am deflecting any guilt I have over it."

Or your name is Columbo and you are dropping the bomb.

For me, my favorite alts have always been those that I know that when I have time to log in, I can do something that the character is interested in. This may be related to the voice, but also to the activity of the game, the availability of players I can stand, and the kinds of things I like to play out which is invariably based on the character's personality.

The entirety of Game of Thrones that I have seen was some large guy melting gold then pouring it on some snotty young kid's head and we got to watch the kid writhe around in extreme agony until dead.

And so I am imagining that whatever y'all are talking about now is basically gore porn, a la Saw.

Drawing your own map is probably much easier than Campaign Cartographer.

@Thenomain said:

"It hurts no one" is not a reason to not do something,

More often than not, I kind of think it is.

Okay. No new code hurts no one, so I'll stop doing it. Not setting up a game hurts no one. Not logging in, more often than not, hurts no one. Not posting on a bboard, more often than not, hurts no one. Yet these are things we do anyway.

It doesn't take a slippery slope to see that "it hurts no one" is a horrible reason to not do something.

(n.b., If you can get to the server before the server upgrade is complete, please tell me what the cost is for your amazing demonic powers.)

@lordbelh said:

I don't know where you're from

This discussion is veering toward (or maybe already has broached) the question "it's okay for me, so why isn't it okay for you?" I don't have an answer for that, because the question is going to change from person to person, except for awareness of what's going on or likely to happen. Self-awareness sometimes being lax in this hobby, but this hobby is also about casual social interaction. "It hurts no one" is not a reason to not do something, just as some code that helps people's interactions is not "policing".

At least where I'm from.

If DPL can turn all links, to images or pages or otherwise into the name of the link with (NSFW) after it, I will be very impressed.

Jenga: The RPG.

I would dig it.

It would be a thing to make a plug-in to MediaWiki to scan for an 'NSFW' category and add it to any links to that page.

Y'all enjoy.