Posts made by Thenomain

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

Just to get a start on the hate spiraling and bitter feuding a little bit early, does anybody have any idea what they're planning on playing?

I'm planning on playing your mom. Coin's mom needs a break.

@Chime said:

Now if only we could find a good way to explain what this all means to the typical mush user...

"Zhu Li, do the thing!" (Korra humor.)

edit: Get the coders to go with it first. You know how we love to code in production.

@icanbeyourmuse said:

@Thenomain said:

@icanbeyourmuse said:

I wish I could do these things. I would just break my game if I tried.

That's why we do it and package the installer.

Will it break easily if I try by myself?

An interesting question. We will have to see.

@icanbeyourmuse said:

I wish I could do these things. I would just break my game if I tried.

That's why we do it and package the installer.

@Loki
That would be great, and interesting.

I'd also like to get Myrd's bboards off local objects and into the database, not to mention channel logging, and, and ...

What's interesting is that Peverel and his coder did a grotesque amount of this work over eight years ago, or whenever his San Fransisco game was around. All bboards were readable from a web page interface. Huh.

So Lolth shared me this lovely link earlier. I didn't have time to read it all the way through to the comments so I didn't understand it at first, but then I did, and I did, and holy smokes.

Stephanie Dray, recently of Firan, lols at slavery in the modern era.

Enjoy your daily dose of what-the-fuck.

(edit: She does apologize, but who here is nodding with, "yeah, that sounds like her"? The comments below her mea-culpa are also worth reading.)

I just learned that HBO Now will be $15/mo. I don't MMO, so ... well, yes.

Did You Know: Off-Site Backups

Did you know that you can use crontab to push your backups off-site? You'd need to first decide how. SFTP? Dropbox? Pigeons?

We here at Eldritch Industries are using Google Drive. (Because I was asked.) Thanks to @Glitch, here's the code we're using:

#!/bin/bash
# 
# takes the last two touched files and uses the google drive cli
# 
# the last two touched files will be the flatfile (*.tar.gz) and 
# the sql file (*.sql.gz)
# 
# this is pretty specific to eldritchmux
# 
BACKUPS="/home/mu/eldritch/game/backups"
BINLOC="__REDACTED__"
GDRIVEFOLDER="__REDACTED__"
# 
for DUMP in $(ls -Atr $BACKUPS/*.gz | tail -2)
do
  $BINLOC/drive-linux-amd64 upload -f $DUMP -p $GDRIVEFOLDER
done

Does it work? Boy howdy does it work. We have it running 10 minutes after the other two backups: One for Flatfile, one for SQL. (Are you using SQL and not backing it up? Why?) That is, the | tail -2 means it will back up the two most recently touched (usually created) files in the directory. Adjust this number for the number of files that count as "recent".

Likewise thanks to @Chime for her earlier work on Mu* server maintenance, for the SQL dump script this is also using.

Yup. That's the plan. First, though, it needs anything resembling a front end to the stored data.

CORRECTION: Werewolf, Demon, and Vampire are slated to open simultaneously.

Sorry for the confusion.

We will be doing several phases of opening, one of which will be called "soft open" for whatever reason. Humans (not mortals, humans) come first, then the Demon and Vampire game lines.

(edit: the rest of my frustration has been deleted, except for this:

Aspirations help file.
Aspirations code.

Thanks.)

For the Coder's sanity, New Werewolf v2 is not slated for an initial supernatural sphere.

Correction: New Werewolf v2 will be slated for an initial supernatural sphere.

Hey guys, we three kings (two kings and a queen, really, and I'll let you debate who's the queen) aren't comfortable talking about copyright infringement openly in the forums. I'm sure we could explain to any interested third parties that we're talking about the first-sale doctrine when we're talking about books we didn't buy, but I don't think anyone would reasonably believe us.

So please keep that part out of it. Thanks.

@TNP

Well, I would rule, then, that you can create an Aspect as you need it, as long as it's empty. (This is not my rule, really; it's Evil Hat's rule. This is in the optional chargen rules.) And I wouldn't police it. Why should I? They have to live with it, and if they can never use it again, then that's their minmaxing coming back to bite them. The ST gets to decide if it's appropriate, and here I presume it's the ST at the scene. Staff can, later, prod the player with, "This is way too general. Change it, please."

But yeah, I get why people don't get Aspects. Even explaining them to @Cobaltasaurus took four different people explaining them to her. And once you get them (yes, I know that you do), getting to the play-style where they click isn't always easy, and what you did, "I'll make the character then ignore the system," is what I'd do, too.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

Honestly, I get annoyed when games allow BSD/Nephandi/Pure/etc. Not only do I AUTOMATICALLY mistrust the motivations of anyone playing one, invariably they seem to wind up getting more staff support, where everyone else is left to founder.

Wow. This is usually the opposite of my experience, unless the sphere was founded at the request of a friend of staff, or a staffer themselves. Then what you're seeing is Staff-Friend Bias, and that's a problem on any game.

So. nWoD v 2.0. I hear it's continuing to come out.

In both books, there is a very large paragraph in character generation that essentially says this:

You can opt to create your character as you go, with game-master approval.

And in character advancement:

At the end of each chapter, you can swap out any one Aspect.

Would that fix your most major of issues?

Me, I find that I prefer structured storytelling games over free-for-all storytelling games, so I fit Fate very well. I hate D&D 3rd Ed and above because I don't understand the crunch and I just get people to tell me what to do. (I don't want to use my brain to consider the difference between a "step" and a "slide" and good fucking god can we just play and make up the unwritten rules as we go along? And fuck you, AoO. This categorizes what I consider the most soul-sucking rule in D&D. Sincerely, Thenomain.)

That is, I understand your pain, but this is the same pain that anyone who wants to play with friends in a game they don't really enjoy. I even run into this with tabletop games. It's why we don't play Red Dragon Inn anymore.

My comment was directed more to Paladin. Nothing's wrong with hating something, as long as you don't go out of your way to say just how much you hate it oh my god it is so terrible. I get enough of that in my day in Mac/PC/*NIX wars,

@TNP has always been thoughtful in his reasoning, from way back in the SWOFA days, so I'm wondering what his reasoning is with FAE. Then we can put up a "The More You Know" banner and feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

GOG is having their version of a Woot-Off. Two games up at a time at about 50% off, limited purchases, then they move on.

(edit: fixed link)

@TNP said:

I hate FATE/FAE so very very much. But it's the only Anita Blake game in town so I plowed through CGEN and now just ignore the horrible system in favor of RP which is the important part.

I have never seen such a polarizing system as Fate, but FAE? There's hardly anything in there to hate.