@RightMeow said in MU Peeves Thread:

I miss RPing. I’ve filled my hours with other things, but I miss logging on and writing stories with people. I also miss the daily chatting with people I use to chat with about random stuff.

However, the idea of making a new character makes me feel like I don’t have the mental energy. Then I’m not sure how well my RP will be after the ‘break’ I’ve been on.

Anyways, in conclusion – if we’ve RPed at all, you’ve been on my mind and you rock - so thank you for writing stories with me.

I don’t post here very often, if ever, I’m mainly content to just lurk and read and keep up to date.

But this hit me like a brick.

I’ve got no game to play on right now and haven’t for over a year. Part of it is because I’m picky, another part is trust issues, and a third is a general lack of time. But every so often, at least twice a week, I think back and I miss logging on to a grid, seeing the familiar faces, and getting stuck into a bit of chaos.

I’m despondent that the last game that I invested a lot of time in went up in a sea of toxic flames, and I’m saddened by the lack of anything equivalent out there that’s similar in systems and size. I miss the people I don’t talk to anymore, and I miss playing in a codebase I understand.

I would love to find a game out there that fits my specific niche, but at this point I’d have to loosen my stifling standards and try something new.

I think I’ve been sitting on this for a long while, and I needed to let it out.

@Pavel

@dvoraen This is one of my favourite reads lately: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

Oh man.

When I get a cold it lasts for like, four days.

Except the cough. That sticks around for a month.

Two weeks in now and auuuuuuggghhhhh.

Notepad doesn’t need Copilot.

It’s not just multiple alts, but those alts connected multiple times. For example, Sumi in the past used to connect all her alts from three-to-five different devices, meaning over a dozen connections from one player. That’s the number WHO looks at, and the number iberia.jdai.pt sees.

@kalakh This is the variant I’ve seen

@Pavel that is a genuine QoL feature I use daily.

But I don’t need to have Copilot/Gemini/whatever advertised to me every time I open something that isn’t a video game.

I don’t even read the AWS roadmaps anymore because it’s endless updates to Q and nothing about bringing their existing functionality out of minimum-viable-product stage.

AI has its effective areas of use, but it is far narrower than what has been marketed and sold.

Yes. No. “They’re new, they’ll be gone in two weeks.” I’m a male btw.

I noted it down on a lesson on what not to do. Which to be fair I’m doing with a lot of the examples I see here. It’s the weirdest thing, the common sense to actually take something like this seriously doesn’t seem to be very bloody common.

I judge my neighbourhood’s lawns as I drive past.

I’m less concerned about grid-level mood than with having the freedom and flexibility to run a scene that might fit whatever sort of tone I want to hit today. For example, on one grid on one character, I GMed:

• A tomb of zombies horror
• Mad Max desert rig chase
• High class well dressed casino heist
• Hacking a secure server (THAT was interesting to GM because you can’t write “and he typed on the keyboard” and be evocative)
• Run
• And a badly dubbed chop socky kung fu comedy

tl;dr I tend to chafe if the tone is too rigid, flexibility lets me be creative. If a grid is a canvas I prefer it unpainted.

I still think using “Sandy Petersen” and “cool shit” in the same sentence is a hilarious oxymoron.

MAP13: Downtown was so messy and the progression was so hard to follow he had to paint a giant arrow on the floor saying where to go next. Doom 1 Episode 3 was a mess. His stuff has always been amateur hour at best so I’m unsure why he’s held up as a shining example of quality here.

I guess my point is, a work isn’t automatically good if the creator matches your ideology.

Sandy Petersen brought us Slough of Despair, so.

@Faraday Trust issues lol. I tend to err on the side of caution and go for absolute clarity because I assume no one looks beyond the text and sees what’s actually happening.

@Faraday Does it? I thought the name was autogenerating as Guest-AdjNoun and up to the player to change later.

@Faraday said in Ares Tour Feature Feebdack:

these characters will be functionally equivalent to any other new character.

You’re on to something here. If someone uses tour to create Guest-AvariciousBinchicken (highly recommend a prefix for Guest instead of a suffix for clarity purposes), then there’s a command like convert that… well, converts the Guest bit into a full playerbit, you’re minimising clicks between the initial inspection and working on their real character.

This hits @Tez’s point about taking pressure off people. It makes it super easy to check the place out and then super easy to stick around. And if they don’t stick around, the Guest bit goes poof into the ether, its job done.

People love convenience.

Spoiler

@Pavel

I am an adult.

Nah but seriously it looks like a metal Q-tip how is that supposed to clean out your ear?

@Pavel said in AI Megathread:

So if I reskin a chatgpt interface and “hire” some “researchers” I also get money?

Perhaps by complete accident, you have discovered Baby’s First Startup!

@Faraday I boycott Amazon because AWS absolutely sucks.

I’d explain more but I have to go write more Lambda functions while closing every pop-up telling me to use Q to streamline my processes.