Good things in Mushing

[IoleRae]

1-click Ares Digital Ocean droplet. This is the the first time I have gone from nothing to being able to log into my own bit with nobody else intervening. I’ve ALWAYS flailed and decided I couldn’t do it before, and one of the very patient people in my world helped me. I did it this time though. Those directions are so good! I wanted to fuss around with it a little bit, and now I can!

[Duke Whisky]

@IoleRae -

Ooo I have a question about that as Digital Ocean was confusing me.

That cost is just $4 or like $4 a month plus some hour thing? I’ve not seen the per-hour displayed before.

[Pavel]

@Whisky $4 a month is $0.0054757015742642 an hour. So it’s the same thing.

[Duke Whisky]

@Pavel - Well that’s what I thought but also displaying the per hour rate was throwing me off. Especially as it didn’t cover it in the FAQs.

[Pavel]

@Whisky

[Duke Whisky]

@Pavel Ahhh that is what that meant! Thank you

[Pavel]

Presumably, there’s something about high-intensity processes equalling more ‘hours’ on your bill… otherwise, how can you use your droplet for more hours than there are in a month?

[Duke Whisky]

That’s kind of where I got confused. If it was a hard cap, or if after you hit the cap performance takes a big it. Or it just goes down.

[Faraday]

@Whisky said in Good things in Mushing:

That’s kind of where I got confused. If it was a hard cap, or if after you hit the cap performance takes a big it. Or it just goes down.

Many kinds of web applications on DO are on-demand, so they don’t need to be running for the whole month. You spin up a droplet, do some work, then delete it.

A MUSH needs to be running 24/7 so it’s easier just to think about it using the monthly rate.

FYI - for AresMUSH (and for most websites/wikis) you need the 2GB droplet, which is $12/month. That baby $4 droplet is good for advertising but can’t do much.

[Duke Whisky]

@Faraday Thank you very much and appreciate it. Was trying to find an ARES FAQ thread here and should have just made one to ask

[Pavel]

@Faraday said in Good things in Mushing:

A MUSH needs to be running 24/7

Well. Not necessarily. I still remember the bad old days of having to hit evenings EST when a game would be up.

Am I old?

[Faraday]

@Pavel said in Good things in Mushing:

Well. Not necessarily. I still remember the bad old days of having to hit evenings EST when a game would be up.
Am I old?

Apparently? But I’m probably just as old so that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

With DO though you don’t stop getting charged when the thing is OFF, only when you delete the server completely. So a game that only runs a few hours a day would cost the same as one that runs 24/7.

[crawfish]

BIG SCENES THAT GO REALLY WELL WITH A BUNCH OF COOPERATIVE FUN PLAYERS. eta AMAZING FUCKING STAFFERS.

Aaaaaaahhhh so good MUSHing thing. SO. GOOD.

[Testament]

When someone writes an either really funny or really flattering rel on your character. And even throws in a song to boot. Or when you write one on someone else’s character and they message you about it.

It’s those little things makes me slightly squishy. Like I’m just going to take this and hide in my goblin hole and cherish it.

[Polk]

@KarmaBum said in Good things in Mushing:

When my Google history is once again filled with “what happens if you inject someone with [stuff],” it’s a sure sign I’m entertained by a M*.

I have this problem with Youtube. I use incognito windows for so many things on Youtube or my recommendations are ruined.

[Pax]

@Polk the shit google thinks of me because of things I’ve researched for MU*ing…

[Artemis]

@Testament said in Good things in Mushing:

When someone writes an either really funny or really flattering rel on your character. And even throws in a song to boot. Or when you write one on someone else’s character and they message you about it.

It’s those little things makes me slightly squishy. Like I’m just going to take this and hide in my goblin hole and cherish it.

omg I get this so much, sometimes stuff like that makes me so happy and exhilarated that I don’t even know how to respond for a while, just go off and be blushy and smiley about it. im a dork

[KarmaBum]

The people on LA are super fucking generous about making character art and deserve a shout-out. The only person whose BMD handle I know for sure is @ratatat, and they’ve been incredibly nice about using all their free image-processing credits on other people’s characters.

Not using a PB can make finding character icons difficult, so it’s really cool to see folks making it easy to reach outside that face-claim comfort zone.

[Testament]

@KarmaBum I mean, shout out to LA in general since I have not seen a mush who’s playerbase has been so willing to intermingle with each other in regards to tying everyone’s backstory together in some fashion, be it large or small.

Off the top of my head I can think of five or six different connections with various players for my character and it’s been a long time since I’ve seen so many players in one place be so open towards working together.

It makes my black, bitter heart all soft and fuzzy.

[Aria]

I just had what was probably the best RP experience I’ve had in more than a year, with someone I’m pretty sure I don’t already know, and who also seems nice and interesting.

I…

Someone please get the smelling salts, because I’m prolly gonna faint.