Posts made by Thenomain

I made an account on Rotten Tomatoes to give Last Jedi 5 Stars because I had to participate in this parade of butthurt.

@wildbaboons said in Good or New Movies Review:

@thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:

..but I understand that wasn’t his fault.

I think this is true for Matt Smith too. Can't really say that HE was the problem, but everything else going on with the show. I think I made it through 1.5 seasons with him as the doctor before I just lost the urge to watch anymore.

So you were happy through Fart Monsters and The Girl Who Turned Into A Face In the Asphalt (edit: and dear god, Peter Pan Jesus-Doctor), but had a problem with Talking To Babies?

People are weird.

@wildbaboons said in Good or New Movies Review:

@firansurvivor said in Good or New Movies Review:

@tnp said in Good or New Movies Review:
Matt Smith ruined Dr. Who for me.

None will be as good as him.

I can't even tell if you're being sarcastic.

Everyone has Their Doctor.

Mine is Tom Baker.

Don’t disrespect anyone else’s choice, because they are all good. Or at least they’re all okay. I hated Colin Baker’s Doctor, but I understand that wasn’t his fault.

I adored Matt Smith more than the other Modern Era Doctors, but respect to anyone who didn’t.

@emmahsue

Why yes, yes it is.

@misadventure said in Um...What?:

Or whatever it is posdessed him, and now is getting used to pretending it's him.

ThiS vesel is inOErporiate for OUR NEEds,

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THis wone diksoverd thA t hr paCKrsge froM ATLAS GMAES conztaindD kicSTART expanTon chraraters for Vast The Crystal Caverns Swecond Pr4nfting. My game group doesn't like just how outrageously asymmetrical it is, but I do. The idea is that with four players, one player is going after you, one player is running away from you, and the other is playing Kingmaker to your game while trying to prevent you from playing Kingmaker in their own.

Alas, being stuck in a High Strategy gaming group sometimes means I don't get to play the more esoteric kinds of games. They won't even play Gloom. What the hell, guys.

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I've also Kickstarted Root: A Woodland Game of Might and Right because I think I can convince my game group to play what is basically a fantasy version of a heavier wargame without realizing it. Also, look how adorable those ruthless and deadly animals are. So adorbs!

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Er, I mean, wE thinkwe are aGEtting that hang ov this Vessel. Tramble mortals and giv us moar fish and milk.

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aside:

@emmahsue said in Um...What?:

Theno, I really kind-sorta need to know what's in that package. Spill the beans, man!

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@redjellybean said in Um...What?:

@emmahsue I was just thinking the same thing. He mentions getting a mystery package, then doesn't update everyone on what it is!

Heh. Heheh. "Spill the beans?" Get it? Ah, puns.

Things that make us just kind of a little baffled. Nothing big, or earth-shattering, but things that bring light confusion into our day.

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Email title: Atlas Games has sent you a package.
Me: I...what? Did I Kickstart something and completely forget about it?
USPS Tracking Info: December 23, 2017 — 12:50 — IN TRANSIT TO DESTINATION
Me: I...what?

I can't wait to see what it is. Happy Christmas to me?

@ashen-shugar

Done by the same man who did this disturbing as fuck music video (warning for language as well as disturbing but well-executed cat-based brainscrew):

Run The Jewels - Meowpurrdy feat. Lil Bub, Maceo, Delonte

This man's disturbing YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/cyriak

And finally, the full video of the man's cat meowing mind-trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSMCRD35ch4

Enjoy.

...if you're slightly touched in the head.

(edit: yeah, @Auspice got to it first, but man, have you seen that first video? Dis. Tur. Bing. I watch it every few weeks.)

@rnmissionrun said in Questions About Evennia:

More documentation can only help.

Said someone who apparently hasn’t had to make sense of Arx’s files.

I kid. Well, I’m completely serious, but I kid that it’s just Arx which is bad at documentation or that Arx has such bad documentation that it’s in the realm of harmful, but it’s a good starting point. If you ever looked at a wall of text and your brain froze up, that’s bad documentation. If you ever tried to find something in a sea of nonsense, trying to cross refrerence information with no help from the writer, that’s bad documentation.

Evennia has incredibly good documentation, and I trust them to be aiming toward better documentation, toward better organization, etc., all the time.

@faraday said in Questions About Evennia:

that's veering off-topic for this thread anyway.

My fault entirely.

#sorrynotsorry

@auspice

Yeah, the arm of Apple that sets up and runs their stores have gone from super-friendly and as flexible as possible to pretty much dickmunch-levels of unhelpfulness. Apparently the reasoning was that they were losing money on them, and hired a new overseer about 4 years ago to turn that around.

The Apple Stores around here try to make space for people between appointments whenever possible, though, so just how draconian they're being is entirely up to the training your hipster or barely-college Apple associate is. (Note: That was a stereotype. I know that was a stereotype. Many jokes require incorrect statements. Sheesh.)

@auspice said in Random links:

but it's still something Apple should have been up front about.

This is the most common sentiment I'm getting from what I'm reading, yes.

But it sure as hell isn't "Apple Hates You, Wants Your Money". That's Business Insider devolving into clickbait media, which is what they've been doing for about four years now. I know reputable news outlets have been grabbing to hold onto the decline in paid news, but they have pretty much sold their souls. If I trip across the various articles I've seen about this starting around 2013, I'll link them here. It's pretty interesting to know how shitty they treat their bloggers.

The fact that they came out to explain themselves at all is a post-Steve Jobs/mid-Tim Cook era Apple phenomenon. Remember "antennagate", one of the biggest mountain-out-of-a-molehill "problems" with the iPhone 4? Steve Jobs' answer was: You're holding it wrong. Then he said: Fine, have a free bumper. And they ignored people complaining over this legitimate, free solution until they went away.

@auspice said in Random links:

you can get a replacement battery for "only" $79 rather than an entirely new phone.

Nice "scare quotes". Apple is the epitome of capitalism: If you want our services, you pay our fee, if you don't want our services then go somewhere else. The problem that they are solving is not theirs; rechargable batteries fail over time. This is chemistry and physics. You might as well complain to Ford that your car needs constant maintenance or complain to Sony that that your 20 year-old non-HD-ready TV needs a special adapter to get over-the-air programming.

And if that's not good enough, then there are a lot of non-Apple places that make and install the batteries for $30-$50. Caveat Emptor. If you don't want to pay Apple's prices, don't buy Apple's devices. If you don't think they bend over backwards and spend billions each year trying to make sure that their customers are content, then you haven't looked very far. Like, at all.

<Jurassic Park> This is Unix! I know this! </Jurassic Park>

@Lotherio said it better than I could, but apparently picking on fiction not yet having reverse-explained nonsense fantasy elements is the thing to do right now.

We all have different levels of suspension of disbelief. Sometimes it's hard for nerds to let people have their own.

@auspice said in Random links:

But the jist of it: it was proven (and thus Apple owned up to it) that Apple was purposefully throttling batteries to "encourage" people to upgrade.

I'm calling bullshit on this one.

Apple's explanation is that rather than let users' phones die because older batteries can't handle the peak performance, they would throttle the processor so that it doesn't over-stress the battery. Apple has long been a company that will do things that it believes are in its users' best interests even if those users would rather choose for themselves.

Even when Apple converted from Motorola-made PPC chips to the more popular Intel chips, they created code to allow people on the newer machines run code from the older architecture, and maintained it for four years, on a version of their OS that was supported via critical patches for another four.

I choose to invoke Occam's Razor for this and believe that Apple screwed up communicating iOS's behavior than forcing anyone to upgrade their phone. As John Gruber, someone at once an Apple critic and apologist, recently said:

And at the engineering level, I’ve heard from multiple Apple sources over the years that even if such a dictate were issued from on high, it would result in a revolt. If some shortsighted senior executive demanded that an iOS software update render older iPhone hardware artificially slow, the engineers tasked with the job would almost certainly object. Even if some unscrupulous engineer were willing to implement such a booby trap, how would they keep other engineers on the team from noticing it, fixing it, and figuring out who was responsible? Something along the lines of “if (deviceAgeInYears > 2) { [self _runFuckingSlow]; }” is going to stick out in code review after being checked into the iOS source code.

Business Insider has recently in tech circles been known for headline-grabbing and poorly researched tech articles. That they have a better reputation from Gawker makes the alarmist claptrap spouted in this article more believable. Apple is an easy target because Apple itself does tend to hold itself in quite high regard, but we don't even blink when Google sells our personal information, or how Microsoft defines double-speak.

No, this is Apple being Apple, and clickbait being clickbait.

@faraday said in Questions About Evennia:

@thenomain said in Questions About Evennia:

+finger, +who, +where, in that order. These are the base three Learning To Mush Code systems that everyone should do. As +where is a nightmare in Mu*, I think that it would be a good example of why not to learn Mushcode.

Yeah. What I meant was - what would you consider to be a good example of one of those in MUSHCode to use in contrasting the two? My +where or +finger are customizable and briared in with my global functions and install system, so they wouldn't really make a good example. And you didn't like the current Evennia example so... is there a good contrasting example?

Well it depends on the goal of the example. If the goal of the example is to provide a well-formed and readable bit of MU* code vs. the same code well-formed and readable in Evennia, then I'm going to nominate a moderately complex but not overwhelming +finger code. The one Cobalt writes and/or forces me to write where people can set their own finger attributes up to a certain number comes to mind. I'd have to dig around.

I could even fix the code presented from Mushcode to be more legible and better formed.

However.

I just looked for the "why you should use Evennia and not Mushlikes", the page with the cringe-worthy code, and couldn't find it. What I found instead were a series of fairly well-documented introductory documents. I admit I didn't look too hard, and my job all day puts me at odds with people who want to convince me that my preferred fill-in-blank (OS/Hardware Platform) is bad and that I should feel bad. I don't want to see that in my off time. It smacked me of system conceit which I know happens a lot in open source, even by accident (vis a vis @Ashen-Shugar's post, which assumes Rhost compatibility, because That's His Thing).

Structured programming languages are unarguably better, but I was surprised by what I read as a divisive, not bridging tone in that one, specific, particular document.

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tl;dr: Evennia and Ares are the right direction, period, no questions. Thenomain still doesn't like it when people misrepresent his favorite flavor of <fill in blank>.

@faraday said in Questions About Evennia:

@griatch said in Questions About Evennia:

it's not our intention to make misleading comparisons so if the example comes across as disingenuous we can remove it.

I think that a MUSHcode vs new code example is helpful. If the existing one isn't good, maybe @Thenomain could point do / provide a good tutorial-worthy example in MUSHcode and then someone can make an Evennia version.

+finger, +who, +where, in that order. These are the base three Learning To Mush Code systems that everyone should do. As +where is a nightmare in Mu*, I think that it would be a good example of why not to learn Mushcode.

@jennkryst said in World of Darkness -- Alternative Settings:

@thenomain Touche

<<Ce n'est pas un jeu de rôle.>>

(Jokes for nerds, jokes for nerds!)

@jennkryst

Two notes. One important, one frivolous.

First: Those are dice, not an RPG system. I can code dice, though, if that's what you want!

Second: Coin knows what swirls around in my head and he can probably recommend an RPG system that could feature Werewolf Space Marines that would pique my coder's brain.

I mentally subtitle this thread: Emmah Is Far Better At Writing Micro-Stories Than I Am.

@griatch said in Questions About Evennia:

We are not tired of people asking questions in the Evennia support channel

I can attest to this. The Evennia IRC channel is filled with non-stop helpfulness. Also, puppies and unicorns.

V...V...whatshisname is a PennMush to Evennia coder. He knows extremely well what non-coders are looking at and can help you transition where others on the channel are coders used to talking to other coders. There are others, but he's the one person who comes to mind. Not his name, mind you, but him as a person.

edit: Yes, @Volund. He's one-of-us from the WoD crowd.

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As an aside: @griatch, your code example of Why Evennia Is Better Than TinyMU* is kind of ass. Whomever coded the example that you're dissing should be lightly smacked. I can think of a million reasons why you should use a real programming language to code, but "because we have a poor example of Tiny coding" is not one. It reminds me of those PC-vs-Mac OS or Android-vs-Anyone Else wars that some people still think matters.

Not being harsh, but it's a bit disingenuous.

@zobi said in Good TV:

Have I ever mentioned I am seriously bad at binge watching? I am, but I've been able to do so here lately. Binged all of Riverdale s1 (did not expect to love that show...) and now The Good Place. What kind of monster am I becoming?!

Welcome to the 21st Century.

If you know someone with NBC on Cable, download the NBC app, use their login credentials, and binge episodes 1-8 of The Good Place season 2. Continues January 4th.

Just sayin'.