TRPG General Chat

12:00 AM

@Shalvenay decent--behind on work, so I'll have to go in tomorrow. But (as Chris Rock likes to put it) that's the difference between having a job and a career. (Warning: NSF many environments. But funny and true in equal measures, and worth taking a listen.)

BESW

[grin] I know just enough about computers to be useful/dangerous.

nitsua60

afk a bit

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 hrm...perhaps we'll have to find a way for your emulated-paladin to meet up with Jherala sometime? ;p

@nitsua60 also, working tomorrow as well xD

BESW

12:47 AM

For folks who remember voyage out/back, another way of thinking about the process:

> I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.
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Adeptus

1:02 AM

@BESW So, each member of the BESW collective only needs to write once?

BESW

1:33 AM

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Powerdork

Ah, one of my friends in the industry started up on Patreon. Don't think that saw mention here.

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Miniman

I think I remember that guy - did he have Princess Peach with a flaming sword as his avatar?

Powerdork

Yeah, she does.

nitsua60

2:27 AM

Is there no way to have an edit summary appear on a rollback? See rpg.stackexchange.com/posts/90654/revisions, where I tried to indicate in the edit summary that comments explaining my rollback could be found in the mod-created chatroom.

@SevenSidedDie or @mxyzplk, maybe? ^^

SevenSidedDie

2:41 AM

@nitsua60 You can, in a non-intuitive way. If you go to the revision you want to roll back to and pick “edit” instead of “rollback”, then you get the same effect, the freeform comment, plus an auto-generated “rollback to revision n” prepended to the comment.

nitsua60

@SevenSidedDie ahh... I knew it was something tricky like that. Trying to remember, I did the rollback first, then edited that revision to shoehorn in an edit summary comment. Which doesn't appear in the revision listing =(

Thanks.

SevenSidedDie

@nitsua60 Hmm, lemme see if I can edit the comment directly. There's a mod widget for that.

nitsua60

I'll totally remember that workflow in five months, the next time this comes up =)

SevenSidedDie

@nitsua60 I only remember it because I use that part of the UI so very much! It's really not intuitive.

There, yes, I could edit the comment. I just added a note to see the chat room at a specific message, since that's more explanation than can fit in the comment field anyway: rpg.stackexchange.com/posts/90654/revisions

nitsua60

While I've got you on the line, did my reasoning in rolling it back seem sound to you?

@SevenSidedDie thanks--looks good.

Shalvenay

2:51 AM

hey again @nitsua60

nitsua60

@Shalvenay hiya

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 how're things going?

nitsua60

@Shalvenay spending a curious amount of time daydreaming about a short Discord 5e adventure, given that it's over a month away =)

SevenSidedDie

@nitsua60 Yeah, it's good reasoning, especially since they were thinking that it would be a suggestion vetted by the author (but it ended up being approved by two unrelated users). The advice to post a competing answer if the author doesn't take up the suggestion was spot-on too.

@Shalvenay *waves*

nitsua60

@SevenSidedDie It's possible a verbatim recitation of a comment of yours I've read, some time when @Miniman and I posted substantially-identical 5e answers within seconds of each other. (Not like that ever happened.)

SevenSidedDie

2:56 AM

@nitsua60 I guess it's no surprise I'd find it good advice then. ^^

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 xD wondering if maybe your Curse of Strahd emulated-paladin can meet up with Jherala sometime

nitsua60

@SevenSidedDie "Advice is a flat circle." (pretty sure it's Nietzsche)

Miniman

@SevenSidedDie As long as you're around, can I bring this answer to your attention? I almost edited out the references myself, but I wasn't sure how to explain the issue with it.

nitsua60

@Shalvenay I don't do blind dates, man. =D

@Miniman Ugh. It doesn't pass the smell test. It... seems overly familiar? It objectifies a high-profile user? Maybe that last bit is the crux?

Miniman

If nothing else, the argument could be made that "such-and-such is useless without a netbook open to this site" is offensive.

SevenSidedDie

3:05 AM

@Miniman That is decidedly odd. I see what you mean about not being quite sure how to explain what's wrong with that. I think they should come out; I'll take a stab at explaining why.

@Miniman I'm not sure that implication is intended. As a mod, one would be rather useless in terms of being-a-mod without access. :)

Miniman

@SevenSidedDie Thanks! I sometimes feel bad about how often I pass issues along to other users, but I think it leads to better outcomes.

SevenSidedDie

I think the strongest reason is that it will make zero sense on its own as archived site content separate from familiarity with the userbase. I don't think the list of users is CC-BY-SA!

Miniman

@SevenSidedDie Oh, I highly doubt it was meant that way. Just that it could be taken that way, especially if we were looking for an offensive way to take it in order to have an excuse to remove it :)

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 hahaha xD I just think it would be interesting RP

SevenSidedDie

@Miniman Oh yeah, point. It's not enough that a post is understood well by some, we aim to have most understand when they read us. :)

Shalvenay

3:13 AM

@SevenSidedDie yeah, if someone saw that in isolation, they'd be like "what the heck's a mxyzplk?"

SevenSidedDie

@Shalvenay It was spelled wrong/right, too: mxyzplk is our intentionally-misspelled mod, Mister Mxyzptlk is the Marvel character the username is derived from. ^_^

Shalvenay

@SevenSidedDie LOL

should we summon him to the scene btw?

SevenSidedDie

@Shalvenay Probably no need to. Unless you just mean “hey, hey you got name-checked” kind of thing, as an amusing note.

Shalvenay

@SevenSidedDie I'd be like "hey, you know that bloke?" xD

SevenSidedDie

Huh, maybe he does? Dunno, I'm still not sure what the reference was motivated by. Odd little thing.

Miniman

3:24 AM

@SevenSidedDie I didn't even think of that - maybe he meant the comic character!

SevenSidedDie

@Miniman Hmm. … Naw, I can't figure it. The RPG.se reference doesn't fit the character.

Miniman

@SevenSidedDie There's a fair amount of useful material for a supervillain on the site, though...

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SevenSidedDie

@Miniman That's a point.

Oh no. What have we done.

Miniman

XD

Magician

3:43 AM

@SevenSidedDie DC. Not Marvel :P

SevenSidedDie

@Magician Ah, whoops. I guess that's why we haven't seen Mister Mxyzptlk: The Movie yet.

Magician

Hah. And probably never will, he's way too wacky. I'm pretty sure the appearance of Mr Mxyzptlk in a DC movie would singlehandedly annihilate their movieverse, he's the antithesis of its grimdark pathos.

SevenSidedDie

@Magician Batman vs. Mxyzptlk. Spiderman 16: Mxyzptlk's Web of Riddles. Mister Mxyzptlk: It Was Really Me That Set That Shark Up The Bomb.

Shalvenay

hey there @daze413

Magician

@SevenSidedDie Nonono. Batman's got Bat-Mite who is similar yet distinct from Mr Mxyzptlk. These things are important! Whereas Spider-Man has crushing guilt.

SevenSidedDie

3:58 AM

@Magician Crushing guilt is such a jerk character.

Miniman

4:24 AM

@Magician On the other hand, it would probably be good for them.

Shalvenay

4:51 AM

hey there @Eidolon108

Eidolon108

heyp

Shalvenay

how're things going?

Powerdork

5:16 AM

@SevenSidedDie If you want to set a jump-to on a video, you can change the link to use an ampersand instead of a hash mark. I find it does a better job of serving the desired time.

Welcome back.

SevenSidedDie

@Powerdork Did that not work? I've always seen the hash used and the link seems to be working on this end.

Powerdork

Oh, it worked, just slow enough for me to catch 5 seconds of the beginning of the video.

On a decent internet connection and a decently fast computer.

SevenSidedDie

@Powerdork Interesting. I guess that's the difference between setting the parameter in the request and letting whatever client-side javascript wizardry they use to turn the anchor request into a seek handle it.

Shalvenay

hey there @Powerdork

Powerdork

Ahoy, @Shalvenay!

Shalvenay

5:30 AM

@Powerdork how're things going?

Powerdork

@Shalvenay Been worse, been worse. Yourself?

Shalvenay

@Powerdork alright here, hoping to get some folks together during or shortly thereafter the holidays xD

Powerdork

Woo. What for?

Shalvenay

@Powerdork 5e xD -- want to introduce a couple folks from my old 3.5e tables to a couple folks here on the Stack

SevenSidedDie

@Amber Hi! I notice you're a new user to Stack Exchange. Just so you know, being new you'll be able to observe, but participating in chat more actively only unlocks after earning some more reputation on one of the many sites. Here's a help article on reputation and chatting for more info.

Powerdork

5:34 AM

@Shalvenay Ah, nice.

@BESW Hey, you're big on vampire lore, right? Do you know any fates that have befallen those who've attempted to defang a vampire (theirself included)?

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