Sam Niell

@dvoraen said in MUing Snacks:

OH NO THEY’RE BACK AGAIN

@Tez is who they warned us about in math class.

a man in an orange sweater is pushing a shopping cart full of groceries

@Roz obvs so nothing dethrones the AoA thread post count.

@Jennkryst said in As a PLAYER, how many staff would be ideal in a game?:

I want more staff than players, so when the player nagging inevitably burns someone out, there are plenty of replacements available until the burn-out fully recuperates.

I now know I want staffers who are allowed to have player bits, so it’s not like pulling teeth to recruit new staffers when breaks happen.

@MisterBoring said in Code Question: Rock, Paper, Scissors:

You do have a point about RPS strategy that I hadn’t considered, so perhaps having the command be a bit more interactive so that each player inputs their choice.

If it only ever runs one game at a time, you can run it so you rps <choice> and it creates a data attribute on an object. If you’re the first player, it stores your data and emits something about “waiting for 2nd player…”

If it already has one DATA-* attribute, then it knows you’re the second player, and it resolves the match, emits the resolution, and wipes the data.

If it already has two DATA-* attributes, then it is broken. 😄

@Selira TY I will check it out.

@Artemis I think lots of people want to talk about that. The community-entity makes it rough.

Like, eh. Sometimes I read Elizabeth George mysteries. I adore Barbara Havers and actively dislike(d) Inspector Linley. I enjoyed disliking him and used to want bad things to happen to him. When the worst thing ever happened to him, I felt guilty about it, and I have a new set of feelings about Linley.

If something like that happened on a MU, I’d have to be damned careful who I talked to about it. I’d fear that Linley’s player and/or friends thereof would equate me disliking Linley in the first place to me saying that Linley’s a bad character, and the player not just a bad player but a bad person.

And if it was public, people with no connection to that story at all would pop up to tell me that my level of emotional investment in the game is unhealthy, and that I should quit. This feels bad.

I say that games-of-emotional-regulation are part of why RPGs and fiction in general exist, and we should support the feels a lot more.