I loved playing the end credits.
If Donut Country ever hits $5, folks, either buy it or beg a friend to gift it to you. Then just settle in under a blanket and enjoy.
I loved playing the end credits.
If Donut Country ever hits $5, folks, either buy it or beg a friend to gift it to you. Then just settle in under a blanket and enjoy.
@skew said in Echoes in the Mists - CoD 2e MU:
@scorn said in Echoes in the Mists - CoD 2e MU:
@skew - This is a Soft Open. It was stated clearly that some systems, including the wiki, were still under construction. People were interested in getting into the game, familiarizing themselves with the grid, starting to RP. Thus far, from what I've seen, the lack of a finished wiki has not impeded anyone in doing this.
Good! Really wasn't trying to be a jerk, just felt like a very strange choice. I think Thenomain's helping you all, but if you need any code help, please feel free to let me know! I'm very happy to see another CofD game!
Thenomain is there for the setup and tweaking for opening. I don't know who their coder is for long-term support, but don't let my presence stop you from coding!
And this has nothing to do with my complaint. There's only so many times I can say that you're right, in a method we call "aggressively agreeing".
But staff blew smoke up my ass in spite of my having calmed down. It was because they didn't want to deal with it even though it wasn't happening.
Putting this on me was unfair. If we're calling out spades, here's a spade.
@tinuviel said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:
@paris said in criticism not allowed in ad threads is only enforcing a false positive, prove me wrong:
If there are any important updates
If the updates are important enough, they can post a new ad.
I disagree on this one. Advertisements should absolutely include, "We're now including x!" This keeps the advertisement pure and the board clean.
This is a fair and measured assessment. I will own this as many times as it takes for people to think, "Hmm, that Thenomain, he seems to be owning this," but your summary is perhaps the most fair, certainly the one that gives space for discussion. I appreciate your skill.
My response to staff's private lecture was that I understand and would try, but I didn't appreciate them giving me the same lecture twice. I think that if you're asking for consideration and understanding that you also be able to give it. I will be far from the last person they have to deal with who freaks out, though I'd be surprised if they have to deal with someone who does so as much.
Also note that as some people were telling me to take a breather, others were dogpiling. I'm still owning that I should have the ability to chill the fuck out, but it goes both ways. It's too late now, but it ties strongly back into what's wrong with discussions on Soapbox in general, and gives a more even view of what was going on the channel.
I did ask for it. And I told them twice was too much for what they were asking of me, and to offer me some slack. They took this to mean that I didn’t want to work with them, which is the words that they put in my mouth that triggered this round of flailing.
I’m willing to own my flailing. I was willing to own it when you ridiculed me publicly on Arx. I am not going to let staff anywhere use that as an excuse to make me their bitch for ten seconds. No, if staff wants understanding and sincerity I’ll give it to them, but if they throw it in my face then I’m going to call them out for it.
Punish me for crimes I’ve committed, not those you think I might commit. It’s just that easy.
And yet, I’ve said multiple times how I’ve been flailing. I know you want to defend the game, kind of making my point, but here’s where I comment about reading, as much as I hate it when people do that.
I can be constructive about this, but I won’t guarantee that I would be nice, and as long as there are people who conflate “constructive” and “nice”, even Mildly Constructive tends to get derailed by hyperactive flailing. That and the trolls and those who want to derail it on purpose.
Anarchy just doesn’t work that way, and this board is a loose anarchy by design.
I don’t read Hog Pit. If that’s where admin wants to use it, sure, but I still feel that an advertisement thread that does not allow any negative feedback, but allows positive feedback, is not useful, just as any other one-sided discussion is not useful.
My use of terms like “weasel” maybe qualifies it for the Pit, but I was and still am pissed off at any staff group that has hidden rules for what constitutes what kind of response they will accept to a lecture.
I refuse to read the Hog Pit or participate because it was and I imagine still is something of a trial of monkeys, and I’m not interested in that kind of pointless time-sink. I can spend that time helping games or players avoid games or discuss whether or not games have sincere problems.
But since sometimes even I cannot avoid shouting into the ass of the community, let the chips fall where they may, but the Pit is not the place for discussion.
I'm going with inexperience, and to push my complaint a little in their favor I'm not easy to work with when I feel pushed into a corner.
Even when I'm the one who pushed myself there.
This is why I try to repeat the mantra: Understand and ... something I forgot, but it was really poignant and I say it a lot. These people have really pissed me off with what I read as hypocracy, but I hope for the sake of people who still have a chance that it was just for me.
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Update: I have talked to someone who was asked to leave the game because staff would not let them rework the character for a stat the player wanted to justify, and they tried to justify it with background updates.
I don’t know the details from staff’s side, but fighting over a stat in a game system where stats are said to not be that important does shake my confidence. I’m hoping for misunderstanding, but still one that denies a player access to the game is on shoulders of staff.
I would have taken it as just a vibe; I will say that I was extremely twitchy and overreacting on the public channel. This is a thing I do and I'm not proud of it and I'm owning it.
However, Creature lectured me about it not once but twice, and at the second one I asked for the same consideration that they were asking from me. This was not welcome (okay), but terms like "understand" and "not good for either of us" were used, which are typical weasel words for "I'm throwing you out but don't want to sound mean doing it", except it was presumptive and honestly kind of insulting.
I am not for a moment saying that I would've worked for the game, but I would liked to have had a chance to get away from Overbearing Staff Judgement in order to get my senses back. After staff started making decisions for me while asking for understanding, asking for a certain attitude but not affording the same, I decided that there's no sense in trying.
It seems like a great game for those who fit staff's expectations. For those who don't, good luck.
tl;dr: I didn't agree the way they wanted. Their game, their unwritten rules.
Well, I've been forced to give up my spot for my usual chargen panic attack, though I do warn people that the staff are not people to disagree with unless it's on their terms.
I can't say this is a negative thing for many games, but in this case the experience was sadly blunt, ugly, and short with no give-and-take.
@tyche said in Back in my day....:
Eating tide pods is pretty minor stuff.
You what?
I suppose it’s no more deadly than how much piss old people are taking these days.
The current fad of young people mutilating their bodies is beyond sad.
What kind of mutilation? There’s a pretty massive scale.
@prototart said in General Video Game Thread:
and donut county
Here is a game that is something you buy not for the game but for the charm. Donut County oozes personality and made me grin, and was over way, way too soon.
@skew is correct: I have very tetchy opinions on the best way to store data, but they are experienced best practices and “whatever works for you” is always the best way to get something done, if not always done best.
You will also need a second delimiter to go between records, for which I suggest ^
.
This means you will also have to scrub user input to either edit out pipe and carrot, or do the aJobs thing of replacing those characters with ::pipe::
or ::carrot::
on input and display properly on output. (Putting user text last makes pipe less critical, but your record delimiter must be accounted for.)
If you’re going for a rolling attribute list (a decent idea), I would check strlen()
of the attribute before appending to it to determine if you need to make a new attribute, not do a record count. You don’t know how long the user entered text will be, or if you alter the system later on.
If you’re using Rhost, you should even be able to get a check on the actual size instead of number of characters. Ansi and extended characters take up more space than the traditional English ascii set.
Otherwise, I’ll support Skew’s advice 100%.
I spent some time tonight both asking for information and asking for where the information is.
Sometimes it’s about the information, sometimes it’s about the context, and sometimes it’s about being able to jump off the information to find more.
Sorry, “wing it” seems like the only standard here. I do have a log system that deals with rolling attributes, and put XP on top of it, but it stores all xp records on a single attribute set on a single object and that’s horrific.
Hopefully someone will notice and come up with something better.
The portrayal of Good Place employees makes me smile.
No spoilers, but yeah, smiles.