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@Thenomain said in Images Scrolling Threads:

Probably only tangentally related: There are some minor image size calculation fixes in 1.13

I can't wait until the full version upgrade causes a bunch of template glitches until the templates themselves are updated as well. I give it a couple of weeks each time but...

@Ghost said in Staff’s Job?:

Head staff states what they're looking for from staff, then posts what staff IS and ISNT to the players. Everyone is on the same page. Boom.

This is actually something that we came up with too. I think it's a good idea to define what Staff believes Staff's responsibilities are, because then players know what to expect. They can define how much metaplot they'll be providing, how much theme-custodianship they'll be enforcing, etc. Players can see how PrP-dependent the game will be, how theme-strict it will be, and whether they want to play there.

@ominous

Bought this and I love the line.

Reminds me a bit of classic RPG Bureau 13. You should read it for inspiration if you haven't come across it already/

@mietze Oh! Oh, one more thing.

As a player ST I feel I get to choose who I run things for. Is it my own friends that I enjoy playing with? Although the funny thing is it never turns out like that because soon enough I'm running one-on-one scenes for people I've never met before, at least I still have the liberty to say no and not have to explain myself.

As staff I'd feel really awkward and probably for a reason - after all it's my job to spread plot around. If two people come to ask me to run a plot and one sounds way more fun than the other I'd feel inclined to run both or neither. I can't play favorites.

@WildBaboons Well that's to be expected. If they're trying to get people in/back, it's because it's empty.

I would be glad if it was a case of 'a handful of times in the life of a game' vs. the more typical 'about once a month or so', with the especially messed up environments being 'a handful of times a month'. (Which is way, way better than a dozen years or so ago, when the problems would crop up multiple times per week with nary a hint of resolution in sight.)

'This shit is not OK' seems to be making positive headway in the ways that count: staff being a lot more likely to get rid of these people, people being willing to say something, and a more public understanding that this kind of thing is gross to try to force on people in the first place.

After New Dawn I've been in a post-apoc mood so will check this out asap.

@BobGoblin They released the "player's guide" for KS backers the other day. I haven't looked through it yet but I was planning to tomorrow while at work.

@tinuviel

happy wolf

Oh that! Ok. Thanks! 🙂

Happy 2019, don't forget to get your really high back-collared fur coat!

I have decoy accounts for twitter...

Already did'd.

I've blathered about this to Theno on Discord, but figured I'd catalog here.

Soma — Today at 9:16 AM
Okay, so! The LAMP route didn't matter and I was able to get my non-root user to work with it. After digging through some stack exchange posts, it looks like SQL no longer uses the my_bool function, it's just bool. I adjusted the reconnect function to just connect and it processed through which is interesting because usually connect can't be declared in scope. So, it processed through with warnings but didn't error out. However, it didn't create the game folder. I'm wondering if this has something to do with the size issue. I'm not sure if you're still in contact with Chime, but this might be some feedback for her about the directions in her distro -- at least some feedback on the directions for getting ChimeMUX working on a LAMP stack in Digital Ocean.

Soma — Today at 10:03 AM
All right, found mux-start but it says it can't open the script.conf file, which is pretty weird. Permissions are fine. For some reason the mux server got installed in the root directory, so I wonder if that has something to do with it. Maybe the mux-start command doesn't have root access.

Edit: It got figured out. For posterity's sake, you have to run the command from ~/game:

cd cd game bin/mux-start

Thenomain explained that the reason for this was because Chime intended for there to be the option to run multiple instances of TMux from the same server.

@thenomain Not so much around Cybergen, but definately around v3, yeah. Remember at that time he wasn't just trying to keep RTG afloat during a downturn in the RPG industry, he was paying the bills by coding for Microsoft (ironically, his big project was the Crimson Skies game for X-Box, adapted from the FASA game). So, the time around v3 was really stressful and burning the candle at both ends for him.

Ungrateful welps!

I tried to vote but my vote isn't showing up. We heard you like bugs so put a bug with your bug.

@waller

Of course he has.

Because he’s pretty baller.