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Not a video game, but a board version of one of my favorites: Crusader Kings The Board Game
Got to have it.

This is the original DikuMud updated for newer systems. The functionality is the
same and maybe even the bugs. Hopefully I didn't introduce any new ones.

This release was compiled and tested on the following platforms:

• Windows 10
  Embarcadero C++ 7.30 for Win32
  Microsoft Visual C/C++ v19.13.26131.1 for x86 (Visual C++ 2017 Community)
  CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.10.0 using gcc 7.3.0

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  gcc version 5.4.0

• Linux Mint 18.3
  gcc version 5.4.0

• OpenSuse 42.3
  gcc version 4.8.5

For those of those who just want to play it, I've included a stand alone Windows executable.
After unzipping it, just find and click on the diku.exe file to run it.
You will have to allow it through the Windows firewall, and you may get a security warning
message from Windows Defender depending on your settings.
Then run your favorite mud client and connect to 'localhost port 4000'.
The first player created will become the level 24 game Wizard.
Players after that will be a playable normal character.

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@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@SG I already watched it (crappy quality but I couldn't resist... plus that way I was immune to spoilers).

Holy shit.

Epic. I hope the GoT crew remakes 'Sparticus' except with dragons.

@arkandel I'm just leery about #5. I don't want anyone to know that I'm Jill.

It's news in Chechnya
Chechens complain on American game that depicts them as cruel vampires with Ramzan as their ‘Sultan’

@Chime

I have a bunch of old MOO stuff here:
ftp://ftp.sourcery.dyndns.org/archive/servers/tiny/moo/
The oldest code I could ever find was the 1.6.1 version from August 1992.
It has the RCS comments in it going back to 1990, but there is very little if any Tiny code in there or evidence of Stephen White's hand in it.

This site has a lot more recent/semi-active links:
http://www.lisdude.com/moo/

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

(Sidenote: This is a guy who is involving in fringe radical groups and got thrown out of my house once for trying to teach my 7 year old that he was born racist for being white to the point my kid got upset. He's one step removed from an evangelical radical, and I'm posting this as a venting point because it has become clear to me now that his self-fulfilling agenda-based leadership ego has clearly taken a front seat to a 14 year friendship)

I thought you had to wait until college and pay to have your children indoctrinated with that bullshit.

@surreality said in What's your identity worth to you?:

Similarly unsure regarding the wiki. (Since most games have both, it's worth looking at what the standard mediawiki install does with the same info.)

While Mediawiki (or other wikis) may produce their own logs, the web server hosting the wiki also produces logs and many installations are by default configured to log IPs forever.

@Jaunt said:

@Thenomain said:

@Jaunt said:

One of the biggest issues with older MU* Engines is their restrictive licensing.

... What?

Seriously. What?

Most older engines do not allow them to be used for the purpose of creating for-profit games. Evennia does not have that restriction.

That's not at all accurate. This restriction appears to be limited to only DikuMuds and some LPmuds. It certainly never affected Aber, Mush, Muck, MOO, or the 50+ other mud servers released (many of them Dikumud clones).
In fact, most of the older mud engines were created specifically for commercial use.

@Derp said in OWoD Humble Bundle:

I rarely find that the code is what makes a game a dumpster fire or not.

Actually, it's the code which allows the server to connect to the internet that does.

Taylor Swift Wins. Let this be a lesson. You leave my girl alone.

@Derp said:

Think of it like this:

@dig Kitchen=Kitchen;K,Out;O

Under your version:

dig

$ Name of the room you're digging?
...

This reminded of ColdCore which implements both.

   Syntax: @dig <place>
           @dig <leaving way>[|<arriving way>] to <place>

   Syntax: @build

  To use this command simply go to the place you wish to extend, and type @build. It will prompt you for all of the information to build another place connected to your current location.

Of course 'dig' without the sigil might be right out, because that could be an IC command used to dig holes, graves and what not. I don't think it's that big of a deal to provide multiple interfaces.

A few years ago we set aside the first week of the month to play a board game rather than our usual role-playing games. Puerto Rico, Mare Nostrum, Settlers of Catan, Kingdom Builder, and Munchkin have been the most repeatedly played to date.

@Thenomain said in RL things I love:

@Tyche said in RL things I love:

I'm a swiftie.

I heard that about you.

You know, from your wife-slash-girlfriend or husband-slash-boyfriend.

It's a bad joke.

On purpose.

... I think.

Your mother should be more discreet.

That was too easy.

P.s. Posting from Gencon 50... after 3 pitchers

@Anonymous said:

What is it with all this shit about rape RP? Who the fuck wants to roleplay that? I don't get it

@Jeshin said:

You would be very surprised. In a thread on the specific topic of rape roleplay, some claimed they'd rather RP out rape than torture or death because to them they were more bothered about being killed than the sexual assault.

@Tempest said:

@Bobotron Why does this cannibalism thing keep coming up? lol

Rape, torture, cannibalism... This needs to be automated like combat. Let the code determine your fate!

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

@Lisse24 said in RL Anger:

You seem like a nice person, so I'll be gentle on you and keep the really bad words I want to use out of the equation. For now.

Pats @WTFE on head. You seem like a gentle non-condescending soul.

You're talking to someone whose hobby (RPGs) was on the receiving end of hate campaigns you had to see to believe. They hunted us out in the school basement in my high school. (Luckily the principal had a backbone and told them to fuck off so they were left with only harassing us with pamphlets.) They (in this case the Campus Crusade for Christ) followed us from room to room in university until we found a place they couldn't reach us (a private attached college's meeting room) trying to get our club shut down.

Our Wargamming/D&D club met in the basement of St. Mary's Catholic church and the priest played with us. And yes, for some reason he always played a cleric. We'd all heard about the media frenzy over devil worship, but as far as I remember nobody's parents took it seriously.

Given all of this, you'll have to excuse me if I'm a bit gunshy whenever I meet someone who self-identifies as a Christian. Especially of the evangelical camp. (The tormentors in high school were Adventists.) And if you think you're oppressed because of people like us being gunshy and suspicious, perhaps it's time for you to reflect on how you (the collective, not you individually) have been treating people for centuries. Perhaps, then, you'll feel a bit of sympathy instead of whining about your oppression.

My German teacher in high school was a Russian orthodox nun who managed to escape the Soviet Union where over 250,000 priests and nuns were rounded up and murdered by atheists. Given the track record of atheists in the 20th century, well that ought to turn many a Christian white with fear.

@egg I never have a problem finding RP

1. I have a TTRPG group that plays once a week.
2. I have Roll20 and FantasyGrounds.. There is always an interesting game looking for players.

These are probably not the answers you're looking for, but there are very few Mushes that have settings that interest me personally.

Martin should ring up Brian Sanderson. He'll have the series finished in three months and be halfway through a prequel and sequel by the end of the year.