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Beta Call: Blades Forge in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, November 14 2007 04:10 Profile Homepage #25
1. No trouble. I suppose that when I set the minimum I didn't consider that it would be stupid to count unused sections. Now 0 <= sections <= 99.

2. More trouble. Node authorship is a fundamental relationship in the database. At most I can put in a co-designer field to give credit where it's due; it's not possible to list the scenario on both user pages or give both editing rights to both.

3. Done and done. That was surprisingly easy now that I know the API.

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Synergy? in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, November 14 2007 01:51 Profile Homepage #11
Yeah, but he's arguably not an idiot, and even those who would debate that point would agree he's not a redneck. :P

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Synergy? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, November 14 2007 00:50 Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by Us:

quote:
Originally written by Lazarus.:

Guy has the American approach to problem solving-- if it doesn't work just shoot it.
FYT.
QFT.

(I'm not sure why Salmon targeted this topic at Synergy, though.)

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Name that tune in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, November 13 2007 07:37 Profile Homepage #3
You doubt it? I'm fairly convinced it is... although I'd tend more toward a title-containing line of the lyrics than the title, due to length.

Instinctively, I think of the following seed, though whether it was translated first to French or to English (or whether the seed was English), I can't say. But I'm getting suspiciously close, except for "dog", which may creep in with some obscure translation.

quote:
Mann wer hätte das gedacht, dass es einmal soweit kommt, wegen neun-und-neunzig Luftballons.


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Consider This Catharsis in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 21:59 Profile Homepage #51
This is very appropriate here.

IMAGE(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1337_part_2.png)

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Divinely Touched Elite Warrior Nephil In Real Life in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 21:18 Profile Homepage #10
Surely you have an 'alo, Alo. Your name is angelic, isn't it?

An angel of vengeance and mayhem, possibly, and maybe a septugenarian one, but an angel nonetheless. :P

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The kitten is arguable, I'll give you that. Still, two out of three is something.

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Play Time in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 18:21 Profile Homepage #6
I recently got hooked on Settlers III again, but really I've been going almost game-less for most of 2007. Mostly I read or code.

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Babelfish Contest #2 in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 18:07 Profile Homepage #21
Do not question the UBB. The UBB has you. If the UBB does not want it to happen, it has never happened.

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Beta Call: Blades Forge in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 17:51 Profile Homepage #22
TGM alerted me to the lack of a screenshot option in the scenario node.

Hence.


IMAGE(http://stuff.ermarian.net/arancaytar/images/screenshots/bladesforge/scenario-screenshots-s.png)


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The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 13:22 Profile Homepage #298
quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

It strikes me as odd that Aran's PPP4 also erased the part of the archive that was erased here. Conspiracies within conspiracies! This is also to be blamed for any double posting or mysterious editing that may happen. Or not. ... You decide.
It wasn't erased. My mirroring spider just does not take into account that the topic length can decrease if a topic is destroyed. When it crawled the boards to see if the "last post" date changed (indicating a new post), it also updated the length, which went down to 205. This caused the deleted pages to drop from view.

What is scary is that the post ids (which are normally permanent) dropped. If you delete a post, you get a gap in the numbers. This time, we're reusing ids that were already used. 193 to 204 (this post) have been used twice.

Fortunately, my spider declined to overwrite the old posts with these new ones - not sure why; possibly a bug or a formatting error. The database still has the original posts, up to 285 by Kelandon.

I will have to ensure, after locking this thread, that the rest of the thread is also archived, receiving new numbers.

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Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Babelfish Contest #2 in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 12:36 Profile Homepage #16
I wonder, if you translate "NOOO!" to Japanese and back, do you get "Do not want!"?

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Chinese Products Fail Again in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 05:52 Profile Homepage #91
quote:
Yeah, presuming to speak for God is pretty awful, I'll give you that.

Hey, wait...
PWNT

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Beta Call: Blades Forge in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 04:42 Profile Homepage #21
Articles are unlocked. An article consists of a title, an abstract and a main text. Optionally, the publisher can designate co-authors as well as reference other articles or scenarios. If anyone wants to try out this system (afaik, the testers who are already on haven't written any articles), you're welcome.

Reviews aren't tricky, but the "Scenario -> Review" node relationship may take some time to get right.

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Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Across the Universe? in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 04:03 Profile Homepage #43
quote:
Originally written by Frozen Feet:

Seriously, I am convinced that any problem we have here is best solved, well, here, and will be much cheaper than shooting excess people to space. If all else fails, we can always start a war...
...

I'm going to assume that was sarcasm, if only because I've thought well of you most of the time I've known you. :/

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Protesting (In General) in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, November 12 2007 04:00 Profile Homepage #58
Most dictators start out as populists. Turns out it's easy to become ruler of a group of people who love you - just as easy as it is to stay ruler of a group of people who fear you.

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Beta Call: Blades Forge in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 11 2007 10:14 Profile Homepage #20
I'd like to at least add Reviews and Articles before launching, to make the site fit the original conception. Scenario beta organization looks like it will take a lot of time, and I'd rather not wait for that; it can be tacked on later if the concept is successful.

I predicted that scenarios would be done this week, and they are - more than that. I may not be done with the site by next weekend, but there's a good chance.

[ Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:21: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Babelfish Contest #2 in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 11 2007 10:11 Profile Homepage #4
This new side is little, but compilation inside or you do not throw the effort which is thrown by the power which is that enormous.

Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese in that order (back each time).

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Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Babelfish Contest in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 11 2007 07:31 Profile Homepage #18
quote:
Lassen Sie sein

Let be
So close!

Hey, we should have another contest. Start with a random phrase and see how many hops it takes to get a Beatle song title.

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Monkey See, Monkey Do in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 11 2007 07:23 Profile Homepage #15
Very conscious of the danger of a Strawman, I'd like to point out that on the extreme side of that argument you will find a lot of loonies who don't really deserve the support.

quote:
This is my war: one man's war against humanity, governments and weak-minded masses of the world.


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Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.'
Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Chinese Products Fail Again in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 11 2007 07:17 Profile Homepage #74
It says that? I would voice disbelief, but I know better by now...

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Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
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Beta Call: Blades Forge in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 11 2007 02:26 Profile Homepage #18
Also, an update on the bulk graphics feature: We're almost there. I have successfully uploaded an archive, let it create its nodes, all that. But replacing the upload with an internal file through the site engine is tricky. I had almost done it and was still in the final testing stages when the server went down like a dodo. This is site-wide and affects the entire Ermarian Network. It's been down for the past two hours, so I'm not hopeful for today.

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Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks.
Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Beta Call: Blades Forge in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 11 2007 02:22 Profile Homepage #17
It makes me smile (warmly, not amusedly) to see that each of us has ideas for what the site should be and do, and what its most important function is. It would be a real challenge to make the site be and do all of that; and I like challenges. :)

quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

I had just thought that Blades Forge would be analogous to Source Forge: a revision control system for scenarios.
You got that right - except that team-made scenarios are too rare to make actual revision control practical (if it were, and .bas files weren't binary blobs, I would consider tacking on an SVN repository...). So instead, it's just a mechanism for submitting a (scenario) project and adding a new release to it.

Beta-testing and non-public releases are a step further ahead. I have (potentially) a feature that would allow you to create a group (of Beta testers), invite users inside it, then release a non-public version of your scenario that can only be downloaded by this group.

Optional email alerts, communication over the site's forum, automatically sending out the beta release as an email attachment to the beta testers, collecting reports sent via email... there are a lot of possibilities in that direction.

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Salmon:

I know we talked about the review system already, but could you describe what you would especially like to see?

So far, my idea is that any user can add a long-ish text describing their experience of the scenario, plus a few ratings in a standardized rubric (say, plot, graphics, technical quality, etc.) that will be averaged.

Time to move on or not, the Lyceum is a community, and nobody has ever supplanted a community - I'm not going to try. But I am considering the possibility of syndicating/scraping the Lyceum's CSR as well as the Spiderweb tables to integrate that information with the scenario scores.

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Chinese Products Fail Again in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, November 11 2007 01:03 Profile Homepage #71
quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

Oh really? I only have those views of murderers, rapists, homosexuals, corrupt government officials, and female pastors.
Drug dealers don't fall into that category to me, maybe because the Bible makes no reference to them.
Calling somebody stupid is not a good debate argument, but on occasion unavoidable. Consider yourself soundly ad-hominemed.

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