@retoor Uuuh, nice!

I have a lot of files with random crap laying around. I've developed a simple writing system for this kind of shit: no wiki expodump encyclopedia assfuckery, it's all two or three sentences of easily-digestible lore bits, roughly cathegorized by topic, ordered in such a way that each piece of information easily strings into the next without overwhelming the reader. Does that work for the botii?

Anyway, I'm gonna go through my files and put something together; I'll ping you when I'm happy with it; that may be a few days, a month, a year, you never know! But it's gonna happen, you can trust me. Probably.

@retoor lmao, so essentially you take posts and comments from ${USER} and shove it down it's throat, yeah?

Most interesting. But now I'm wondering: say I upload my TTRPG rulebook and lore to a repo, and my brain-in-a-jar here reads *purely* from that? Could it then run campaigns, maybe? I mean besides orchestrating world domination through forbidden use of the sacred sombre.

I tried this with a bot before but it got it twisted and fell into idolatry. Also it cannot reconcile the well-documented biblical use of 'darkness' as a metaphor for ignorance with the esoteric concept of the pitch-black void of the Night Eternal representing how the fundamentally trascendental nature of divinity cannot be iconized, ie, an *enlightened* kind of darkness that illustrates mortal's inability to fathom the true depths of Creation rather than ignorance of anything attainable.

Now, now, don't worry, the initiation is simple. Now put on this toga, and recite with me: Blessed is the Night...

@retoor If you're feeling cozy you can call me just 'lib', actually ;>

But plusplus for DOOOOOOOOOOOM and software communism. Hail GNU.

ps reading the tosensei bot I kinda imagine some dude punching his own nuts 24/7 (no diss). But it's favorite python bug looks like __my__ favorite python bug. You got 'em mixed or something?

@retoor pimp my calculator, with the X to the C xtern "C" {...}.

@retoor +1 for spelling it Libranka (ليبرانكا). %100 lore-accurate.

Formally requesting a sample delirious deep lore tangent written by Liebranca bot. Bonus points if it understands how Funeral Gates connect to the Night Eternal.

Everything is the only way it can: meant to be. There is meaning in that -- every heartbeat is a gift that in all likeness would've not been, but somehow still is.

You tell me: just what and __who__ is deserving of the impossibly convenient, billion-fucking-years chain of cosmical events that leads to their existence? Is any of us that good, really? The answer is no, yet here we are. So bask in it, for fuck's sake.

But I get what you mean, I think, so here, have a song: https://youtube.com/watch/...

@BordedDev Mmmh... well, when narrowing down where an issue is located, no block should be trusted until proven innocent, comments or no comments.

@BordedDev A perfectly written block of text can appear to do something it isn't if you miss the tiniest, most miniscule of details. The reality is that comments themselves are part of the code, and you have to treat them as such.

Furthermore, if we are arguing from the point of view of an ideal world: this discussion wouldn't even exist, yet the main reason any of us has a halfway decent salary to begin with is most production code is an unreadable piece of shit that no one wants to touch, so I rest my case.

WABBAJACK!

Dude. I replayed Shivering Isles last year, it's so fucking good. I loved Mania so much, couldn't help but walk-simulator through the entire countryside. UUGHHHH I NEED MORE OF IT.

@retoor AI or not, stating the __intent__ of a block is, let's say "kind of", the best way to **EHEM** make the __intent__ of that block clear. Who would've thought?

Aw shit, here we go again with the anti-commenting kink.

If code can be self explanatory then why do man pages exist? Who needs docs, just go read the implementation!

You kids have lost the fucking plot. At some point you have to communicate with *human* language to make the computerspeak abstraction easier to understand, and that's just that.

@kiki Mother fucker, that's brilliant. Plusplus for everybody!

Is my ass tense and in need of assistance or an instance of ass?

@BordedDev But that's just the way the game plays out, people want to do crazy shit in imaginary worlds. It's kinda the whole point. You gotta let them have their fun.

@BordedDev Well, the simplification extends to all aspects of the game, I just used character creation to give you an idea of to which degree ;>

Honestly, I think the most important aspect is not so much in which story I want to tell... like yeah, I get that preparing a campaign means the story can't derail much, but hear me out... sometimes you just hafta let things happen.

But I have this in the ruleset too! Players can fuck up a given number of times, and when they do, there's an ex machina. And I make it *abundantly* clear, that it __is__, in fact, an ex machina that prevented them from meeting a gruesome end. Bonus points if you describe how terrible their deaths could've been in macabre detail.

The point is, if they don't learn to pay attention and wind up dying anyway, it's always later on. As in, I give everyone room for failure and adapt the story accordingly. So there's still consequences but they're not immediate and fatal.

@retoor yeeah, you get it. It's kind of like improvisational acting guided by a narrator that's in on the joke. Anything can happen you just need to...

~ I M A G I N E ~

@BordedDev I wrote a simplified, stripped-down ruleset for this very reason lmao. Character creation is just "pick three verbs" and then your starting equipment is mostly just for fashion. The verbs are just to define what the character can do at level 1, so we ban certain things like flying for instance, but beyond that there's not much more complexity.

Then for combat, attacks don't miss unless the target explicitly casts evade. Yeah. A bad roll just gets you lowest damage, so things are always moving.

@retoor lmaoooo

I'm sorry to inform you that I don't have curly hair. Sad, I know. Also I don't have a Mac. But everything else is lore accurate.

@retoor Oooh so this is like a *secret*. Our *secret*. Well, until someone creeps through either of our profiles and sees the comments.

Anyway, my good sir, nearly all of my contact info is public, save for my phone (which I don't even use). And by I strictly mean to say that there are much less unorthodox ways to contact me privately; I nevertheless appreciate your message.

Tsoding is a cool cat. I Like Zozozozooding, though I get lost in under ten minutes whenever he starts doing funky functional shit. He should pick up fasm2, which is just fasm but overdosing on anabolic steroids. Also instructions unclear, built an Apollo 11 Guidance Computer.

@retoor "The term 'based' was actually derived from the term 'basehead' which was used during the 1980s crack epidemic. It was used to refer to individuals who were addicted to freebasing cocaine, the base form of the drug which make it smokable. (...) 'based' referred to someone who was a crackhead or acting like one."

**Based** indeed lmao.

Don't we breed snakes to use their venom for medicine? I'm pretty sure we do. All creatures have their place, even the treacherous danger noodles.

My good man, we are on a Biblical roll on devotion rant this week.

But the story is more about disobedience itself that the apple or the tree being bad; they did what they were explicitly told not to, hence the punishment.

Eh, the patriarchs forced me into the fucking Asfaimas Tournament. Again. I'd rather nuke that bone-golem contstructing son of a bitch Azbegurath with a twice-sanctified soul-ember firestorm, but we're forbidden from doing any such shit ever since my predecessor accidentally genocided half the planet with a miscalculated meteor strike; this is how we have to settle scores amongst elder magi now, by sending our most clueless disciples into the arena.

It's safe in terms of preventing calamitous mass-destruction at a biblical scale, and lame in every other respect. But we don't have enough souls in all of our wells combined to restore this damn plane a second time, so much as I hate it, it's still best we prevent arcane cataclysms for a few centuries.

Ugghh. Become the eleventh Archlitarch, they said. We'll do wicked tyranical occult shit, they said...

Oh, if only saving about half a second or so due to not having to reposition my hand would make me faster. But typing speed was never the issue, what always slows me down to a crawl is having to read and think about the frrrrreaking code.

Anyway, muscle memory is a bitch. Being able to switch to a new editor and a different keyboard layout is an impressive display of your prowess, so good going.

@kiki Though it is an audacious proposition, I am still confident we can neatly accomodate "legalization of slanging dope" into such an argument.

If their enmity is fruitless, then refusing to even acknowledge the existence of such adversaries would be the superior stratagem; but by engaging in this manner, arrogantly declaring oneself as above all hostility while simultaneously forcing a direct confrontation, the speaker sinks to a lower level, and unknowingly admits both dishonesty and defeat.

TL;DR bro no diss, but you're doing a self-own.

Learning is the foremost reason to develop a language, followed by correcting whatever inspires deep contempt for an existing one.

@retoor Nice! Now make him a puppy! A black pointer, to be precise -- that's more my style. But I will also accept baby elephant and big cute fluffy bunny. Or a swan, if you're feeling creative...

@retoor But doctor, promethean gayness is statistically inconsistent with the nigh-coprophagous fixation exposed by the subject -- we must conduct further analyses before accepting such a hypothesis!

@retoor It's the coffee doing things to my brain :B

@dfox @trogus turbo assembler shirts when?