Posts made by WTFE

The 2016 Song.

@Tyche There is only "Americanized" General Tso's chicken. It's an American-Chinese dish. It has never been seen in China until there was a vain attempt to introduce it here in Hunan.

@Tyche More accurately, one of the people credited with inventing the dish. The story of that dish is pretty murky. About the only thing we know for certain is that General T'so never ate it.

@Tinuviel Truth be told, I'm sorta glad he passed on. His later years were a fucking nightmare for him. If the nightmare can't be lifted, death is better.

Rest in Peace, Manuel.

I'm calling Buzz Aldrin for 2016 too.

@Tinuviel Whoa! Another expat in China! Cool!

@Sunny said in RL Anger:

@WTFE

Nope. My anger is pretty specific. Thanks for playing, though.

My pet peeve: humourless cunts.

@Sunny said in RL Anger:

Motherfucking people bitching about their bloody Freedom of Speech when private companies censor speech in private areas.

This is punctuated incorrectly.

Motherfucking people bitching about their bloody Freedom of Speech.

Better…

Motherfucking people bitching.

Oh, this is much closer!

Motherfucking people.

And here we have the bingo point.

@Meg said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

But-- the-- email-- isn't required--. As Apos has said. Yes, the system is designed for an email, but individually, that can be waived and done by hand, as Apos has said.

That is quibbling over semantics. Email is required unless you happen to be on when Apos is on so he can manually override the code.

"Stopping at a red light isn't required because a cop can just wave you through."

There's no right/wrong in code. Only wrong. And tears.

I hear this. Mostly the tears.

@Sunny said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@WTFE

Did...you not read any of @Apos's posts? For serious? It seems like you didn't read any of his posts besides the one you quoted.

I read the excuses for why they want email and I reject them. (I reject them, incidentally, not as J. Random Clueless Fuckwad. I reject them as, you know, a programmer who does this shit for a living again.) The issues they have for emails are issues that are based on their choices. They chose to construct things that required email instead of going without email registration. And I'm saying that requiring an email is an automatic "nope, time to walk away".

That @Kanye-Qwest got his nose out of joint over it is just pudding with the roast beef. That @Apos disagrees is just him disagreeing (and being bad at his "job"--for want of a better term--but that's neither here nor there: most people are bad at their jobs).

But no amount of repeating the mantra "just use a temp email" is going to change the fact (and yes, it is actually a fact) that requiring email for a pretendy fun-time game is an idiotic decision from the get-go. Especially given, again, the history that is paired with such requirements.

I'm sure it made life easier for the coder at one point or another. Know what? I honestly don't give a flying fuck how easy or difficult life is for the coder. (Know what else? My employer's users don't give a flying fuck how easy or difficult it is for me to program the shit I program.) In the end code is for the benefit of the user, not the coder.

Arx looks like a really cool project. No, really it does. But the email requirement is an insta-Nope.

@Apos said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@WTFE said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@Apos said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Yes, arguing with players can be a huge red flag. But let's also not forget how many games croak run by super sweet and nice people.

Bro you are literally the person that posted saying requiring email validation is moronic on a forum that requires email validation to register to post.

You're really quite bad at this aren't you.

Pretendy fun-time game =/= internet forum.

Requiring email validation to play a pretendy fun-time game is moronic, especially given the well-documented history of game owners being utter fuckwads who abuse said communications media. You have no history that I'm aware of. You suddenly demanding email contact is, given, as I said, previous history with it, highly suspicious. This is doubly suspicious given that there is no technical grounds (barring incompetence) requiring emails to get things done in software.

Incidentally, you are now also falling into the pattern of "dumbass game runners who get into public spats with people who disagree with them". This is another pattern that repels anybody who's ever MU*ed for longer than, oh, say, about five minutes.

@Apos said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Yes, arguing with players can be a huge red flag. But let's also not forget how many games croak run by super sweet and nice people.

@bladesurfer said in The Lost Dominion MUX:

Welcome to The Lost Dominion, a Rifts inspired game powered by Fate Core.

Wow! Talk about mixed emotions to a single sentence!

@GentlemanJack said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@WTFE

I don't think Custodius destroyed that Fading Suns game... it was more about bad staffers. Like the main staffer Paulus would set a battle for Saturday at 2 PM. He'd log on, then say, "I need to go bake a cake..." and then not respond to pages for 5 hours.

He strongly contributed to its death.

In no game can you point to a single person and say "that person is the one who shivved it". Castle Marrach was a clusterfuck from the get-go. Morte (and his subsequent elevation to staff) was a symptom. The same applies to games "killed" by Seiche or VASpider or any other WORA/SWOFA/MSB Grand Villains.

But…

When you see the same names featuring prominently in the deaths of game after game, it becomes pretty clear that they're part of the problems that kill those games. Sure the games involved had structural problems, staff problems, theme problems, etc. But, you know, I've never seen a game that didn't have these. There's three games I play off and on right now that have all of these … and aren't festering shitholes. Of course they don't have people like Custodius, Seiche, VASpider, etc. on them either abusing and exploiting these flaws.

@mietze said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

I had a reasonably sane and enjoyable experience with him when we played. This may be because he didn't think I had anything to offer ICly or oocly and thus it was just fun play rather than the manipulation game? There were tons more people on that game I found more unfun both ICly and oocly. I think the danger zone seems to be if you are a rival or he views you as a stepping stone.

Custodius can be very charming in person. In my interactions with him by IM and on the social MUSH we talked on he was a very personable guy. Were I not such a cynic about human nature I'd likely have been taken in by him and joined that Fading Suns game he wanted me to join at the time. You know, the one he destroyed...

But yes, the real danger is if he thinks he can benefit from you. The problem is that you never know what he feels will be to his benefit. For instance he wanted me to join the Fading Suns game because there were people on that game who knew that I thought he was a festering piece of shit. Had I joined the game at his behest I'd have been the "see, even my worst enemy from the past has forgiven me" guy.

The real problem with him isn't that he's actively malevolent. He didn't invite me to that FS game because he wanted revenge on me or some such thing. He's just incredibly narcissistic and views everybody around him as just something to be used and then discarded when no longer needed.

And in the process he kills game dead.

@lordbelh said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

I've heard of this Custodius person, and glanced over countless posts bitching about him and detailing various depravities. As I sit here with the idea that he's not only on a game I'm playing on, but taken a roster character in close proximity to my own, I keep thinking: Wow, this is a bit surrealistic, isn't it?

The Firan thread was always something of an amusing side show and a general warning of the pitfalls of RP to me, rather than anything I actually took very seriously. So many things were so obviously fucked up there that to take too many lessons from it risks stepping just as wrong on the opposite side of the scale.

Not just Firan. He destroyed a Fading Suns game (can't recall the name) and, indeed, it was while he was in the process of doing that that I first interacted with him (via Mr. Bane who was then his BFF) in IM and on a social MU*. (I want to say it was M*U*S*H but it may have been that pretentious place that banned anybody from WORA.) And he's been sighted on quite a few other games being up to his old tricks whenever the staff wasn't forewarned and forearmed.

The man is poison. He kills games dead in much the same way that VASpider does.

@Sunny said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that asking a question for the purposes of clarification was so offensive. I was curious, so I asked. I suggest you re-read my post. All of it, it's not very long.

Nah, s'all good. Custodius tends to build a layer of fangirls around him when he operates and one of their favoured lines of attack is to repeat his "I've changed" mantra on his behalf. Sorry for misconstruing your motive.

@Sunny said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

How long ago was the CM stuff?

Around the year 2001. Before you go off about how that's a long time ago, however, I'd suggest you re-read the second-last paragraph of my little rant.

@Catsmeow said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@Sunny - I thought the same thing. I was like, wait. He was 17?

He claimed to have been 17. Pretty much anything Custodius claims is self-serving and designed to make him the injured party. There is no evidence he was or wasn't 17 at the time.