MU Peeves Thread

helvetica

Peeve. I’m feeling left behind by this hobby. I’m discouraged that it feels like in order to play on any of the games where my friends play, I’d have to compromise my comfort and place my trust in people who… I haven’t experienced being all that cool. And I think I feel it even more because for a minute, I had a relatively active little rp bubble before folks moved on to the next thing.

sao

@helvetica Aw man, this is a sucky feeling. I’m sorry.

RightMeow

@helvetica

I feel left behind in the games on a level that I just can’t seem to find the time or the people to RP with. I use to have a whole circle, so I get it.

Also please don’t compromise your comfort or trust. It has never led a person to great things. Maybe you could Discord RP? I hear people do that. Then you don’t have to set up a MU* and it can be just people you trust.

I hope you feel more interested and invested.

Jumpscare

@bear_necessities said in MU Peeves Thread:

@KarmaBum dammit YOU are the sock puppet not me, I am a bear in a bat suit.

@Pyrephox said in MU Peeves Thread:

@KarmaBum Now I feel like if we ever saw a photo of you two, it’d be like…ALMOST the same photo, but with enough unsettling details different that it just wigs the viewer out.

I had to throw this mental image into DALL-E to see how faithfully it’d recreate it. Spoilered for people who gets disturbed by AI imagery.

Edit: That wasn’t the image I meant to pick out but it works all the same. Your bond is unbreakable.

Snackness

@Jumpscare Oh god and also, accurate

SpaceKhomeini

Every time someone makes a reference to something I don’t recognize and I have to remind them I never set foot on Arx and I have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about –

And then they try to explain with another Arx-related reference

Herja

Yeah, man, fuck those Arx people. They are just so annoying.

Snackness

Should I…should I post the thing?

Testament

@Snackness

do it

Polk

@Testament We need a Don’t Don’t Don’t Arx sign.

Pavel

hellfrog

@Snackness choke frog

KarmaBum

@SpaceKhomeini RIGHT?!!?!

Wizz

Gasboy

@helvetica I can relate to this. I’m 50. I started mushing at 20, when I was immortal, infertile and insomniac. Stay up til 3 am and still get to classes with bows on? Damn skippy!

Now? I can’t stay up that late and function at work. All of my friends, new and old, seem to be up at all hours, like the good old days… and stuff’s happening while I sleep. Hate that feeling of being left behind.

Gashlycrumb

And back to petty peeves:

You enter a common command, say, @mail/toss and the MUSH tells you ‘use @mail/abort instead’ and you wonder why anybody would take the trouble to code that but not just make both commands work. Is the latter not actually the same or less work?

crawfish

@Gashlycrumb Five commands that do the same thing.

Jumpscare

@Gashlycrumb
In Evennia, it’s significantly less work to create aliases.

You’d go from something like this…

If cmd_switch in ('cancel', 'abort'):

To this…

If cmd_switch in ('cancel', 'abort', 'toss'):

KarmaBum

@Jumpscare It’s SUPER easy in Ares, too.

But in old MUSH, doing this seems like it should’ve been easy, but it really wasn’t. Just looking at your command, it’s probably a softcoded alias for a hardcoded command.

So basically @mail/abort is like pushing a button from inside the MUSH to move a forklift outside a fence. The button is small, but the forklift is too big to move inside the fence.

Inside the MUSH, there’s a command that probably says something like &cmd-mail-toss object=$@mail/toss:@pemit %#=Use @mail/abort.

Changing that command so it actually ran @mail/abort would either be dangerous (@fo %#) or basically rebuilding the entire forklift inside the MUSH but out of popsicle sticks.

tl;dr use @mail/abort instead

Pavel

@KarmaBum Yeah, in theory, you could just @fo %#=@mail/abort %0, but you’d want to wrap it up to ensure that it only accepts certain things as an input… It’s more work than it’s worth and the @pemit route is easier, safer, and won’t break something important down the line.