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TheMaster99
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Benevolent Cyberpunk
STATUS: Bio is finally redone! Still want to add more to it eventually, but I'm happy with it for now. 8 yrs ago
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8 yrs ago
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Bio is finally redone! Still want to add more to it eventually, but I'm happy with it for now.
8 yrs ago
Might be active again soon™. Bio/etc definitely needs a lot of TLC.
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10 yrs ago
School and work on my birthday. Yay.
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10 yrs ago
OMG 33 on the ACT!!
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10 yrs ago
Hmm.. maybe I should update this? ...Nah.
Bio
Luke aka TheMaster99
Twenty-Five | EST | Discord
About Me
I'm a roleplayer by night, but by day I'm a software engineer. I have been programming in some capacity since I was eight, and once I discovered programming I simply never stopped writing code. Some of that code I've written was for this very website, and maybe some day I'll add some more. However, most of my work is done in boring corporate land.
I discovered programming in a game called ROBLOX, and coincidentally that is also where I first discovered roleplaying. One day I was exploring the forums, and noticed a roleplaying section. Curious, I took a look and I was instantly hooked. The content was mostly in the Free RP level, with a small amount of Casual tier games, but at the time even that was high quality content to me. Over the years my interest in the game faded, and although I continued programming after ultimately leaving the community, I did not continue roleplaying.
Years later, I gradually started wanting to get back into roleplaying. I began googling around, and after looking at a few different websites I finally decided that the Guild seemed to be the best of them all. I made an account on December 13, 2014, and started jumping into some games; I quickly decided on sticking to mostly High Casual, but eventually moved more towards Advanced as I realized that most of the games I was in were easily at that level anyway. This was right around the time that Mahz was working on rebuilding the website from the ground up, and after chatting with him for a while in the IRC during some site downtime I decided that I wanted to help.
I ultimately didn't contribute too much, but nevertheless I was the first (and so far, only one of two?) non-anonymous users to help Mahz with developing the website. As a reward, after he implemented the trophy system I was awarded the special Benevolent Cyberpunk trophy, which gives me a special userbit that looks like this:
I discovered programming in a game called ROBLOX, and coincidentally that is also where I first discovered roleplaying. One day I was exploring the forums, and noticed a roleplaying section. Curious, I took a look and I was instantly hooked. The content was mostly in the Free RP level, with a small amount of Casual tier games, but at the time even that was high quality content to me. Over the years my interest in the game faded, and although I continued programming after ultimately leaving the community, I did not continue roleplaying.
Years later, I gradually started wanting to get back into roleplaying. I began googling around, and after looking at a few different websites I finally decided that the Guild seemed to be the best of them all. I made an account on December 13, 2014, and started jumping into some games; I quickly decided on sticking to mostly High Casual, but eventually moved more towards Advanced as I realized that most of the games I was in were easily at that level anyway. This was right around the time that Mahz was working on rebuilding the website from the ground up, and after chatting with him for a while in the IRC during some site downtime I decided that I wanted to help.
I ultimately didn't contribute too much, but nevertheless I was the first (and so far, only one of two?) non-anonymous users to help Mahz with developing the website. As a reward, after he implemented the trophy system I was awarded the special Benevolent Cyberpunk trophy, which gives me a special userbit that looks like this:
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Origin: Paris, FranceUne francophone :D Welcome to the guild!
I send an Etherpad (new, fancier name should be invented) invitation to @Mahz and @TheMaster99.Collabinator 6000. On topic, I agree with your description of what the system should be like. But also, the 'GM' of the Collabinator 6000 should be able to preview, to check the BBCode/admire/etc.
So is this still going to happen, or..?
I definitely do not intend to be derisive, I only think that something that can simply be scrolled past isn't worth three pages of people repeatedly saying they do not like it, even though everyone is already very aware of their view, including Mahz, who chose to implement it regardless of the fact that several of you have made it very clear even before it was implemented that you don't approve. Mahz asked that you all give it a week, and I personally don't see why that is such a hard thing to ask.
The guild is definitely not an absolute tyranny - I won't speak for Mahz (although I can only assume he'd agree on this), but I have no intention of shutting down anyone. Although I totally disagree (albeit I suppose I do see where you're coming from in this complaint), I'm finishing up an opt-out setting. I just need to sort out some seemingly unrelated kinks so I can make sure it actually works, then I'll submit the pull request. If Mahz gets distracted by work/other things and doesn't get around to the pull request for a while (or even rejects it, which would surprise me unless he happens to surrender and remove the ratings), there isn't anything I can do about that.
Lastly, if any of you feel that I am being derisive, passive-aggressive, condescending, etc. in the future, please let me know. Most likely I don't intend to be, and simply worded my statements poorly.
I will have to refer you to my sig in response.
If I come off as passive aggressive then I apologize, but to me this definitely is a circlejerk. Besides the feedback, it is essentially three pages of "I hate ratings".
But at any rate, take what I say as just that; it certainly isn't a site-wide opinion, nor an official one. Just mine.
Okay, here's the only thing I can think of to settle this.
It has been suggested that a "hide ratings" setting be implemented. Since you won't be changing your stance on the matter, I will add it one I get out of bed and submit a pull request. If Mahz doesn't accept it by the time he addresses your dismay himself, there is nothing anyone can do about it. I'd like this to be the end of the discussion until Mahz addresses it, because as mentioned it has gone on for multiple pages and is now a circlejerk. As also mentioned, please reserve any extreme decisions (I.e quitting) until the issue has been addressed.
However, I am just a user, not a mod- so if you want to continue your circlejerk, then feel free, but know this:
EDIT: I wrote this half-asleep, in bed on my phone. Essentially, everyone knows that many dislike the ratings, so there really is no need to continue repeating this. Additionally, Mahz requested a few pages back for you to give it a week, and imo this isn't too much to ask.
EDIT: I wrote this half-asleep, in bed on my phone. Essentially, everyone knows that many dislike the ratings, so there really is no need to continue repeating this. Additionally, Mahz requested a few pages back for you to give it a week, and imo this isn't too much to ask.In my opinion, an optional rating system is definitely not a big change. To me, a big change is something that would radically change the forum, and/or couldn't possibly be ignored. Ratings don't really change anything, and someone can simply not use them if they prefer not to.
I do agree with putting a poll up for larger, potentially controversial features, though.
is never off-topic.I mean, those will all be reset. No gaming the system, or else nobody will be able to enjoy your dancing bananasIt's not the rating counts on my profile that matter (see previous post for reasoning). But simply the joy that every post will have a dancing banana on it.And your rating count will be reset to 0, making it all a waste of time in the endIf you do, I will probably click that on every single post just to troll you guys. You have been warned.I need a fourth rating option, and I need it to be silly.Maybe a
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