I know it seems early, but April Fools Day is creeping up and coding features, even meme ones, takes time.
Last year we went pretty hard on the April Fools Day content and it ended up being too disruptive due to one or two overwhelming joke mechanics. People got mad, I didn't blame them. That said I still feel like there's value in doing something for April Fools.
This poll is personal curiosity, it's not anything "official" or "binding" I'm just curious to where people's heads are at on this.
For the record I'd personally call what happened in 2016 as "very disruptive". What happened in the previous years that I remember (flipping the map, forcing random identities on everyone) I'd call "mildly disruptive" at best.
I liked the idea of adding flavor text for people, maybe even having some kind of basic script that cycles through a series of red flag words to generate awful cringy mary-sue flavortext that people would start with, even if they grammatically do not make much sense
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Wyzack wrote:I liked the idea of adding flavor text for people, maybe even having some kind of basic script that cycles through a series of red flag words to generate awful cringy mary-sue flavortext that people would start with, even if they grammatically do not make much sense
Why not let the players make their own flavor text
So when you examine someone your chat log is bombarded with 50 copies of woody got wood
Re-skin PK borgs as security cyborgs. Give PK borgs fake stunbatons that make *Buzz* sounds when used on people and gag handcuffs.
OPs spawn with clown masks and clown shoes in their bag.
Abductors say "Ayy lmao" instead of "..." when communicating telepathically.
Clown bikehorns are golden variants
Assistants can spawn with departmental access and armbands as part of a NT initiative to get them in the work place (don't worry it's just a prank).
Security Officers, and anyone else, have their swear words replaced with non-swear versions when wearing security masks (Shit into sugar, hell into heck etc.).
Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?
P.S. Shoot Dr. Allen on sight and dissolve his body in acid. Don't burn it.
Shaps wrote:Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?
It really was mostly Automated Game Master that pushed 2016 from "playable meme zone" to "every round lasts 20 minutes because this feature literally shitposts admin button presses". The rounds where I or someone else were around to disable it were a LOT better.
The ERP one was pretty entertaining, mainly because it introduced tactical crotch grabbing where you could grab someone's crotch to stun them even if they'd just stunned you. It was like a sexual version of parasting
oranges wrote:I already told you we're not doing an april fools branch this year.
2016 ruined that privlege, it's over, done.
only things you can fit into the event framework will make it
If you weren't the only one insisting on that maybe I'd take it more seriously.
In any case there are other ways of doing this. I mean hell, if push comes to shove we could even just test merge all the memes at the proper time without committing anything properly ever.
As is tradition for me, I'll be adding some minor features to go with the holiday. Like usual, I'll try to stay mostly non intrusive, but there's bound to be some over the top stuff. Gag secborgs are definitely happening.
I'm an ex-coder for /tg/. I made the original versions of clockcult, shadowlings, revenants, His Grace, and other stuff.
I don't play, code, or participate in the community, but I occasionally post dumb stuff in the hut.
Kraso wrote:hi gay
wubli wrote:xhuis you said you were feeling better but every thread you make makes me worry more about your sanity
ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone wrote:Sorry I was making fun of xhuis' """""compromise""""" who insisted that was the correct term to use.
CitrusGender wrote:We've ended up disabling clockcult on sybil and bagil now (terry is having some problems.) We will give Xhuis some time until he wishes to work upon it again. As of now, please use this thread for ideas and not for bickering.
wubli wrote:you are a cultist of the gay
IkeTG wrote:It's a reflection of humanity, like all of man's creation. You cannot divorce this act from yourself, in a way there's a big titty moth inside all of us.
wesoda25 wrote:yeah no one was curious what it was from. Imagine choosing being a degenerate as your forum gimmick, LOL
[20:26:02]ADMIN: PM: [censored admin]->[censored]: Welp. It was just a prank bro isn't a very good excuse when it comes to unprovoked nonantag murder, but since this is your first time doing it and you seem to understand the problem instead of a bannu I'm just going to leave you with a warning. Please PLEASE don't do this again in the future, as funny as crackhead broken bottle memes can be. Alrighty? Do you have any input on this?
[20:26:39]ADMIN: PM: [censored]->[censored admin]: Alright, no problem. I have some input. Fuck my boy pussy.
[20:27:06]ADMIN: PM: [censored admin]->[censored]: Okay then. Have fun.
[20:31:29]ADMIN: PM: [censored admin]->[censored]: Excuse me?
J_Madison wrote:
that's a stupid fucking stat
you don't play, you've never played
lying little shit with your bullshit stat
fuck you
ColonicAcid wrote:and with enough practise i too could blow my own dick so well that only the gods know how it feels.
oranges wrote:I already told you we're not doing an april fools branch this year.
2016 ruined that privlege, it's over, done.
only things you can fit into the event framework will make it
If you weren't the only one insisting on that maybe I'd take it more seriously.
In any case there are other ways of doing this. I mean hell, if push comes to shove we could even just test merge all the memes at the proper time without committing anything properly ever.
When I'm the maintainer that does the majority of the merging maybe you should.
Please hear me out instead of just tl;dring and posting a one-sentence response that just proves you only care about your own opinion.
Before we get in a flame war, I'd like to point to out that, with the event framework, only minor things can make it in. We can add new files for exclusively April Fool's, but that would cause bloat. I will always support an April Fool's branch because it lets more fun, crazy things get in than if we had to use the framework.
Instead of vehemently shutting down any attempt at otherwise and threatening people who don't agree, oranges, I think that the best solution here is just to closely moderate the content that comes up for April Fool's. The Game Master was very obviously disruptive. Glancing at the code at all could have told you that. Because people didn't, though, it got merged, and ruined the entire event. If you let your favorite cat loose in a pen of sleeping mice, chances are that it's going to kill one. Instead of breaking the cat's neck because it didn't follow our (unstated) expectations, better to teach it just not to attack the mice - in this case, just to moderate what gets merged.
I'm an ex-coder for /tg/. I made the original versions of clockcult, shadowlings, revenants, His Grace, and other stuff.
I don't play, code, or participate in the community, but I occasionally post dumb stuff in the hut.
Kraso wrote:hi gay
wubli wrote:xhuis you said you were feeling better but every thread you make makes me worry more about your sanity
ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone wrote:Sorry I was making fun of xhuis' """""compromise""""" who insisted that was the correct term to use.
CitrusGender wrote:We've ended up disabling clockcult on sybil and bagil now (terry is having some problems.) We will give Xhuis some time until he wishes to work upon it again. As of now, please use this thread for ideas and not for bickering.
wubli wrote:you are a cultist of the gay
IkeTG wrote:It's a reflection of humanity, like all of man's creation. You cannot divorce this act from yourself, in a way there's a big titty moth inside all of us.
wesoda25 wrote:yeah no one was curious what it was from. Imagine choosing being a degenerate as your forum gimmick, LOL
Steal Goon's farts and butts for April Fools. Make it so if you fart too much in quick succession your ass flies off and if you try to fart again after your ass flies off you spray gibs behind you and die.
Be interesting to see how many people fart themselves to death in the HoP's line.
Also farting while holding a lit lighter lets you light your farts on fire igniting anyone one tile directly behind you.
Robotics should also be able to make butt bots
If you think about it, it really isn't! Spacemen are similar to kender in a lot of ways.
Loud and obnoxious
Have no concept of personal property
Will go out of their way to do things they think are funny
Unlike kender, however, they also spout 500-year-old memes, are autistic, and are liable to fits of violent bloodlust at any time.
I'm an ex-coder for /tg/. I made the original versions of clockcult, shadowlings, revenants, His Grace, and other stuff.
I don't play, code, or participate in the community, but I occasionally post dumb stuff in the hut.
Kraso wrote:hi gay
wubli wrote:xhuis you said you were feeling better but every thread you make makes me worry more about your sanity
ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone wrote:Sorry I was making fun of xhuis' """""compromise""""" who insisted that was the correct term to use.
CitrusGender wrote:We've ended up disabling clockcult on sybil and bagil now (terry is having some problems.) We will give Xhuis some time until he wishes to work upon it again. As of now, please use this thread for ideas and not for bickering.
wubli wrote:you are a cultist of the gay
IkeTG wrote:It's a reflection of humanity, like all of man's creation. You cannot divorce this act from yourself, in a way there's a big titty moth inside all of us.
wesoda25 wrote:yeah no one was curious what it was from. Imagine choosing being a degenerate as your forum gimmick, LOL
Shaps wrote:Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?
It really was mostly Automated Game Master that pushed 2016 from "playable meme zone" to "every round lasts 20 minutes because this feature literally shitposts admin button presses". The rounds where I or someone else were around to disable it were a LOT better.
Are you saying there should be no experimental game master 2.0 in 2017?
Shaps wrote:Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?
It really was mostly Automated Game Master that pushed 2016 from "playable meme zone" to "every round lasts 20 minutes because this feature literally shitposts admin button presses". The rounds where I or someone else were around to disable it were a LOT better.
Are you saying there should be no experimental game master 2.0 in 2017?
Please no
I'm an ex-coder for /tg/. I made the original versions of clockcult, shadowlings, revenants, His Grace, and other stuff.
I don't play, code, or participate in the community, but I occasionally post dumb stuff in the hut.
Kraso wrote:hi gay
wubli wrote:xhuis you said you were feeling better but every thread you make makes me worry more about your sanity
ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone wrote:Sorry I was making fun of xhuis' """""compromise""""" who insisted that was the correct term to use.
CitrusGender wrote:We've ended up disabling clockcult on sybil and bagil now (terry is having some problems.) We will give Xhuis some time until he wishes to work upon it again. As of now, please use this thread for ideas and not for bickering.
wubli wrote:you are a cultist of the gay
IkeTG wrote:It's a reflection of humanity, like all of man's creation. You cannot divorce this act from yourself, in a way there's a big titty moth inside all of us.
wesoda25 wrote:yeah no one was curious what it was from. Imagine choosing being a degenerate as your forum gimmick, LOL
Shaps wrote:Last year's April fools was just legitimately not fun to play during, just like it was the year before that. Please for the love of God can we take it easy this year and do things more subtlely and not just slam dunk the game in a trash can for a full day for something you giggle at for five minutes?
please yes
It really was mostly Automated Game Master that pushed 2016 from "playable meme zone" to "every round lasts 20 minutes because this feature literally shitposts admin button presses". The rounds where I or someone else were around to disable it were a LOT better.
Are you saying there should be no experimental game master 2.0 in 2017?
Please yes
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You are a traitor!
Your current objectives:
Objective #1: They mocked you in life, a lesser janiborg they said. Now they shall know terror.
Objective #2: Hijack the shuttle to ensure no loyalist Nanotrasen crew escape alive and out of custody.
Cuboos wrote:
> That god damn engineer who let the singularity loose was a traitor and the only reasonable person on that whole entire station.
The difference was that it wasn't memey or funny, it completely destroyed rounds. It summoned mechs three times in ten minutes at one point.
I'm an ex-coder for /tg/. I made the original versions of clockcult, shadowlings, revenants, His Grace, and other stuff.
I don't play, code, or participate in the community, but I occasionally post dumb stuff in the hut.
Kraso wrote:hi gay
wubli wrote:xhuis you said you were feeling better but every thread you make makes me worry more about your sanity
ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone wrote:Sorry I was making fun of xhuis' """""compromise""""" who insisted that was the correct term to use.
CitrusGender wrote:We've ended up disabling clockcult on sybil and bagil now (terry is having some problems.) We will give Xhuis some time until he wishes to work upon it again. As of now, please use this thread for ideas and not for bickering.
wubli wrote:you are a cultist of the gay
IkeTG wrote:It's a reflection of humanity, like all of man's creation. You cannot divorce this act from yourself, in a way there's a big titty moth inside all of us.
wesoda25 wrote:yeah no one was curious what it was from. Imagine choosing being a degenerate as your forum gimmick, LOL
Xhuis wrote:The difference was that it wasn't memey or funny, it completely destroyed rounds. It summoned mechs three times in ten minutes at one point.
Holy shit that sounds hallarious for like a day
Life is too short for anything meaningful and too long for anything memeingful
Super Aggro Crag wrote:
The best shitpost youll ever be responsible for will be your obituary.
Quality debate brought to you by ColonicAcid wrote:imagine having this little empathy
do you have autism bud? does your brain not see these people as humans? are they just a faceless statistic to you?
Xhuis wrote:The difference was that it wasn't memey or funny, it completely destroyed rounds. It summoned mechs three times in ten minutes at one point.
Xhuis wrote:The difference was that it wasn't memey or funny, it completely destroyed rounds. It summoned mechs three times in ten minutes at one point.
I don't remember it being able to repeat events like that. It was also programmed to spawn singularities, I'd imagine that's far more destructive.
As the day draws closer, I'd like to resurrect this to remind you that two or three maintainers remain completely adamant in putting a tight hold on any April Fool's features that are added. My questions as to how it will work in the end (testmerges? immediate reverts?) and complaints have been ignored or been met with either unjustifiable opinions or personal insults.
I'm an ex-coder for /tg/. I made the original versions of clockcult, shadowlings, revenants, His Grace, and other stuff.
I don't play, code, or participate in the community, but I occasionally post dumb stuff in the hut.
Kraso wrote:hi gay
wubli wrote:xhuis you said you were feeling better but every thread you make makes me worry more about your sanity
ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone wrote:Sorry I was making fun of xhuis' """""compromise""""" who insisted that was the correct term to use.
CitrusGender wrote:We've ended up disabling clockcult on sybil and bagil now (terry is having some problems.) We will give Xhuis some time until he wishes to work upon it again. As of now, please use this thread for ideas and not for bickering.
wubli wrote:you are a cultist of the gay
IkeTG wrote:It's a reflection of humanity, like all of man's creation. You cannot divorce this act from yourself, in a way there's a big titty moth inside all of us.
wesoda25 wrote:yeah no one was curious what it was from. Imagine choosing being a degenerate as your forum gimmick, LOL