Posts made by Hobbie

Four uses of the term “meant to”. This is standard fare, Cujo creates a blueprint and with it, usually without communication, comes the expectation that blueprint is followed.

As is tradition.

@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.

I’m gonna go out on a soon-to-be-removed limb and say Mortal Kombat 1 if he’s into fighting games. Plays like an absolute dream and looks amazing.

I’m pretty sure there’s some ancient BattleTech code sitting around out there. I stumbled across it… many many moons ago.

I was Nathaniel the priest/Paladin, with two scenes under my belt before the game went under.

Will there be a Demon: The Descent-style go loud option? I’m all for a sudden shift to horror as a mess of wings and eyes yells “BE NOT AFRAID”.

Imagine the need to experience sheer terror, but being unable to, because not doing so has been commanded of you.

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

@STD said in What original theme interests you?:

Not mentioned in the list, but damn would I like some kind of Spycraft MU. Everyone is an Agent or works for the Agency. More 1960s crazy mad science trying to take over the world with frickin’ mind control lasers than modern slick spy stuff.

I would be 100% down for a '60s-era pulpy spy thriller game. Lean hard on the zany concepts played totally seriously.

But then again I’d love a Danger 5 MUSH, so

@Mercutio The question was super-general, and the Graph DB issue is an interesting one. You could say the same thing about trying to code a near-MUD in Penn (what I’m doing). There are easy ways, but it’s the road you’ve taken, and I respect it a great deal.

Out of curiosity, why ArangoDB instead of something like MariaDB? Disregard, you’d have the same problems as MySQL if you went with MariaDB.

I should probably actually play the game, that way my “How did you do this?!” questions will make more sense lol

This entire concept around complex systems built in Penn that aren’t necessarily RP-inspired intrigues me, and not just because I’m doing the exact same thing. What are some of the coding/technical challenges you’ve come across?

It’s probably sad to note that the number has dropped over the years, especially as I join outwardly-promising games only to see what’s going on under the hood.

Of course, when the box is a lie and someone points it out, the general response is usually some variation of “Hey look, a scapegoat, let’s ban him!”

So it’s about a two. To the point where I explicitly don’t read the blurb anymore.

@Solstice How does it compare to Potato*? Positive and negative, aware that Potato hasn’t had an update since 2018.

I use the Events in Potato pretty regularly.

You could theoretically run Evennia and all its prereqs inside a Docker container to avoid that.

However, that’s advanced work that involves mashing together two ideas that work well in a vacuum.

EDIT: Even more advanced theory, with Evennia running in Docker you could theoretically hook it into k8s to make it autoscale when under load. Why you would do this is another question.

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.

My desired approach when dealing with this problem is that logs are helpful but optional, because as proof it’s unreliable since text on a page is so hilariously easy to alter. But, true or not, having them for reference answers one burning question straight away when running an investigation.

“What am I looking for?”

It’s not impossible, and it’s not even hard to investigate a potential harassment case without them, but context is for kings. Logs of interaction provide a pattern to look for, then when you’re checking behaviour, you cross-reference it against what you have. If it matches, you can rule out #1 and #2 in @Pavel’s list of reasons pretty much immediately.

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.