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@derp said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

@thenomain said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

@goldfish said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

I don't believe it's even coded in yet.

While it hasn't been extensively tested, nWoD Mage 2e is coded. I think. I'm pretty sure. I've had some reasonable requests from other people about it, but haven't managed to do anything with it.

makes grabbyhands at

https://github.com/thenomain/GMCCG/tree/master/Z - Game Lines/Mage the Awakening

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@skew said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

Yes, it's coded. Yes, it works. Unless you broke it in the interim!

I mean, this is me we're talking about, and even then I'm having trouble remembering myself today.

I want to say there's something incomplete about Proximus, but I can't remember what.

@goldfish said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

I don't believe it's even coded in yet.

While it hasn't been extensively tested, nWoD Mage 2e is coded. I think. I'm pretty sure. I've had some reasonable requests from other people about it, but haven't managed to do anything with it.

I know this is very narrow, but there are few old WoD games out there, and nWoD games with Mage have their own problems, though some of them overlap.

So we're talking about Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition and other 2nd Edition games.

The big question: How should Mage 2e be presented, changed, or run to work on a Mu* with other 2e games?

The easiest way to install aJobs on a Mux is to install the SGP flatfile. SGP is a good-enough starting package and it comes with BB, aJobs, and MyrdCron installed.

@auspice said in Echoes in the Mists - Discussion:

Let people enjoy things ffs.

Filtering out the people who ruin it for everyone else is not a trivial task. Sometimes the easiest way is to not invite the bad with the good until you're ready for it, then setting up a very clear set of parameters and dealing with the jerkwads who don't want to follow it.

It's no longer in the ad thread so hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa...waffles.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/ten-threats-to-global-health-in-2019

Let the Flat-Earthers work with Creationists/Intelligent Design to undermine the good work of the scientific method if we can only get anti-vaxxing off the bloody World Health Organization's top-ten list of threats to global health.

@too-old-for-this said in What's your favorite MU* client?:

@arkandel +1, would Kickstart

I would nominate @Sparks , but I think I know her enough that if she was motivated she wouldn't need to be paid. I'm the same way most of the time.

Yes.

Nothing else to say here. Just "yes, this is what you're looking for unless you want the padding".

@derp

It means any more than one space gets compressed down to one, like if you typed:

think this     is     a           test.

Would return ‘this is a test.’ That is space compression. So a room description containing:

center( Welcome to Night Vale, 80 )

Would, no matter what you wanted from it, return:

 Welcome to Night Vale

No centering, just one leading space. The same thing happens with space() and %b but not, for some reason, %t, which must be passing the ASCII tab character to the client.

@auspice said in Random links:

"I'm so sorry but my friend is joining us last minute"
becomes
"Thank you for letting me bring my friend." and yet all before anyone had even heard of this addition to the party.

I don't think that was the idea. The idea is that you ask first instead of put yourself on others. The conversation I think she was alluding to was:

"I know it's last minute, but do you mind if I invite my friend?"

Then the group has a choice, instead of none. Then you thank them for their consideration, no matter how it turns out.

Summary: When you use @descformat on an object you're @parenting to, TinyMUX runs the space-compression algorithm.

After years of frustration on this, @Chime overhears my complaining and comes up with the solution that works:

&fn_roomcenter #5=[repeat( %%b, floor( fdiv( sub( %1, strlen( %0 )), 2 )))]%0
&fn_roomspace #5=repeat( %%b, %0 )

You're going to encounter this because you have a room parent that you want the game to look nice and pretty on, but sometimes you want to center things.

Thanks to her, now you can!

If you installed with SGP, your function object is #5. Throw the above two lines on it, @restart, and use those on rooms connected to a room parent and only those.

I do not know what would happen if you pass the description through more than one parent.

Explanation:

@descformat renders the code and passes it to the %0 for the special formatting. Apparently @parent is rendering it again. So if the space is escaped once, it will render on the second and come out properly.

Tab (%t) still processes correctly, for some reason. It's just multiple spaces that get crunched down to one.

@auspice said in Good TV:

The only real problem w/The Good Place is that either:
a) It will have to end at some point, which, boo: no more Good Place

I did not catch the recent twist. They need to end it, yes, because this is clearly a story about four...no, six...well a lot of people, but specifically one. I believe that their challenge is how to end it in a way that's satisfactory, that's not so saccharine and maybe not too clean. I don't think I have to worry about the second one; if anything The Good Place does over and over is how complex even simple things are.

But in the meantime: Let it continue this streak.

I have updated the installer to be more like my other Mushcode installers. (i.e., the dbref is on your personage.

Right now vtable() is here:

https://github.com/thenomain/Mu--Support-Systems/blob/master/START MUSH FUNCTIONS.txt#L260

We Just Got Lab-Made Evidence of Stephen Hawking's Greatest Prediction About Black Holes

Hawking Radiation wooooOOOOOO!

@auspice said in What's your favorite MU* client?:

POTATO Y U BREAK IN OSX?!?!

Because it wants you to use Atlantis like a proper client.

@highfalutin said in Charging for MU* Code?:

Is this still a thing you're willing/able to do for random folks, @thenomain?

Yes, but I have two games already who've been waiting for me to brain. Now that The Season is over, I really need to focus on them.

@kay said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@ganymede I upvote not because it's a good thing but because I know that feeling.

Really? Because I upvoted to laugh. Muahaha!

No, just kidding, I hit the up button because it’s rare that the lawyerbot reminds us that she’s human.

And empathy.

@sockmonkey said in Good TV:

TIME KNIFE!
CLASSY MARTINI!
PENIS BEES!

I came up with that. That was a thing that I invented.

They installed a tenth dimension.

Aaaaaaaaaaah! How does the Good Place keep getting better and better?!

If I say too many things they can be tracked to spoilers but I think the first half of the season was a bit too meandering, but otherwise YES, YES, YES.

If Eleanor doesn’t end up in charge next episode I will throw something. It is such a beautiful setup, but I trust these writers.