NuttsnBolts

Mahz's Dev Journal

Is there any way to have some sort of infinite pagination for the forum and topic views as seen on things like a facebook or twitter feed?

@TheFake

The infinite scroll thing may not work on this site due to the nature of its structure. Most of those sites (Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, etc) tend to be blog like in structure or designed for quick notifications. If you're making an RP site into an infinite scroll site you'll have to answer a few questions.
- Will new post be up the top or bottom of the feed?
- How will that impact the readability of Roleplays if someone is always seeing the latest thread (almost like reading a book backwards) or has to scroll to the end of an immense list just to read a post?
- I want to look up the a particular post in a thread with 1400 posts (like this one). Wouldn't it be easier to jump back through the pages compares to playing DJ on the mouse wheel?

I just believe that the negatives would outweigh the positives when it comes down to the user experience.

Obsolete Angels

O___o

I don't know what to say about those children. Wow!

What kind of characters have you been making lately?

I tend to play around a bit with different attributes a bit; males/females, older/younger, strong/weak. One thing I do tend to utilise a lot is mental or physical hindrances.

I had a teenage female recently that was in a super hero style RP that died off. She came from a broken home with an alcoholic mother while being depressed and suicidal. Her power however reflected that and when threatened she would become the monster that she feared inside herself. Almost like a self-defence mechanism.

The current character I have in a futuristic/fantasy RP is a demon living amongst humans who has the ability to release her inner self. She has a weapon that is able to inflict injuries upon others by harming the user. Best analogy is that the user can become a living voodoo doll. Essentially it's a very similar character to my last one I mentioned above but I also never really got into detail with the young girl so I utilised some of that as inspiration for the new character.

What I have found however is that I tend to create characters based on what's happening at that present time. Partly through music and media for the view, appearance and style, but the essence of the person comes from my experiences. Bit hard to explain without going into massive personal detail, but I can look at each character I create and see a bit of me in them rather than "I wanna play a Legolas or Frodo".

What Are You Listening To?

Zombie Nazi Babe by Centhron

It's like a German metal/techno group. Weird combination but I'm enjoying it.

Obsolete Angels

Lol! I'm not completely convinced about mine. I just went through my iTunes library and chose one with heaps of plays. It was also late one night which is never a good choice.

Might change it if Reap allows it.

EDIT: Probably change it to Duality by Slipknot as it seems to describe my character in a better way than the previous choice... and I think people may see why in future post and even in part of the last post. :3

Mahz's Dev Journal

A search for something within the IC/OOC/Char sections may help, much like a filter. That way if you bring up a term that you're looking for in say the IC, you're not going to bring up OOC or Char posts with the same term.

Also, if there is a thread search of some kind would it be worth displaying how many times the searched term appeared within that thread? or would that be pointless clutter?

Mahz's Dev Journal

<Snipped quote by Captain Jordan>
It's on my to-do list. I basically need to make a toggle beneath the editor that binds/unbinds the tab-key-override handler to the tab key and saves the preference in a cookie. Facebook has/had something similar: a checkbox for "Enter sends the message" vs entering a newline into your message.

@Mahz

Basically Mahz steps in and this happens: Old El Paso Hard and Soft Tacos

Obsolete Angels

@Ruki@t2wave If you want to, you could always play a human or demon. A human would probably give you the most freedom in regards to career creativity and depending on your character skills you could be a disaster relief or trained military/swat. My character is a pen pusher who is a demon. I can have a lot of fun writing about boring days at work and meetings (something I haven't done much of before) but because she's a demon I can explore a bit of the darker side of the world.

As for the rogue weapon/OP possibility... that comes down to the person(s) writing. Even simple scissors can be an OP class weapon if the writer wishes so. People don't have to win every fight and sometimes forcing a loss can lead to a better startling because it may NOT be what people expect.

Obsolete Angels

Hey, just wanted to say I may not have a post up anytime soon, if at all. Sister has the PC and she's taking forever -.-

@Daxam

I don't have that problem but I always pre-write within notepad and just copy it over to the reply box when I'm ready. Also means I have records of every RP post so I can keep a tab on details and such.

Obsolete Angels

A crowd roared in glee as two Cyborgels fought for their lives, pounding each other with their fists in the desprate attempt to avoid their own deaths. The monsters upon the ledges above threw down words of slander and sin, commanding their minions to complete their betrayal. A few of these monsters were large enough to stand over a home, while others were mere toys compared to the rest, but each one had the same right fist in the air and each one shouted the word "Kill" over and over again.

"Look at the bitch down there," spoke a partially green haired female who was sitting upon the edge with her feet dangling down the side wall. Her boots were tapping against the steel corrugated surface in an almost rhythmic tune while next to her laid a large dog like beast. He sat there analysing the scene before growling a confident response.

"She's weak. A medical Cyborgel. She has no chance again.s.t..."

His voice was cut off by the sight of the female Cyborgel's fist cracking against the throat of it's opponent. The male she was fighting dropped to the ground struggling to breathe and as he laid there the now victor leaned over, placed her hand on the back of his head, and ripped out the motherboard circuit within. A screeching, electronic cry of a dying bot echoed within the cage walls and the poor girl dropped to her knees in sadness.

Lexie watched the scene as she bought up a bottle of wine to her lips and took a large gulp. She was pleased, no, ecstatic, about her prediction and she could sense the companion next to her was pissed at his failed reasoning. The girl below sat there crying at the life she had took. Suddenly her neck twisted in a lightning fashion so that the girl stared straight into Lexie's eyes. Slowly she examined Lexie, tilting her head over to the side so that it appeared in the most unnatural of positions. It rotated beyond a 90 degree angle, enough to break any living creature's spine before speaking out in a possessed baby like voice, "The presentation starts soon!!"

Lexie blinked suddenly in shock, only to see a small child dressed in a Desium Corp school uniform. She looked at the environment around her noticing that she was still within the cold subway. Her memories, they didn't feel right, almost tampered with as if someone was spying on them. Worse of all, she had no idea where this child came from or what she meant by 'presentation'.

"I have a letter," the child spoke out as she lifted her hand up with an offering of paper and writing. Slowly Lexie raised her hand and watched her fingers pinch the corner of the envelope, allowing it to fall limp within her grasp. She looked past the paper to see the girl had disappeared.

"Where did she go?"

"You going to open it already?!?" a voice chuckled to Lexie's side. As she shifted her eyes to see who was occupying the seat next to her she saw the same school uniform and cheesy grin child staring right at her. The girl kneeled on the bench in anticipation disobeying all rules of seating etiquette and somehow moved into that position faster than a second hand on a clock.

As Lexie stared at the child she crept her fingers along the edge until she came across a seem and plucked open the the folds to reveal it's inner contents.