throwvondannen

Yeah, some are bogged down in politics and dominated by a few Methuselah with ego problems, but I've played plenty and those are in the minority and stick out like sore thumbs. Keep away from MUDs that take themselves too serious and you're good. Or look out for freshly established ones. Aardwolf would be one example with a very friendly population. Gamewise it's a hodgepodge of creative writing and doesn't follow any strong guidelines.

I'd recommend to anyone not familiar with the genre, to grab a modern client (Mudlet¹ is cross platform and actively in development) and give it a go.

Especially those who vaguely miss the spirit of the old internet might (re)discover a lot of it in these often tight knit, yet welcoming, communities.

Tip: Stay away from strongly RP focused communities until you're not preoccupied with just thinking about navigation and the various systems anymore. Although, a lot of what makes MUDs tick should resonate strongly with anyone who wrote a program before, so it shouldn't take long to adapt.

¹https://www.mudlet.org/

Designed by the corporate committee of social fads, emoji represent a lot of things I've come to despise. Overly truncated thoughts, ambiguity, laziness, sometimes plain disrespect. Sure, you can do all of this without the help of emoji, but even if the medium isn't the message, it does modify it and I think it does so for the worse.

What I'm really saying is, I'm angry about the kind of person who tends to abuse them. Getting angry over little pictographs on the internet is silly after all, right? :-)

Winning the lottery becomes feasible when you fill your tickets out by the truckload. It's quite doable to hit everything with your dictionary and sure enough you'll catch a bunch of boxes with laughable passwords in your dragnet.

These days it's mostly random IoT devices that come with preconfigured ssh service and known passwords.

More interesting might be the fact that there's a strong chance that any successfully hit host is already compromised because you're just one of a myriad people doing this exact thing. In a way it's comparable to overfishing.

edit: If you run a honeypot/net you can watch those scripts poking around to check if a competitor has already left his mark and will then try to remove his access. There's a fast paced arms race going on in that regard.

I'd love to hear Lojban in a mainstream movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

Bonus points if it's sold as random fantasy language of a strange country and the main cast doesn't understand it either.

I remember this comment.

I think there were objections about the feasibility and precision of these methods, when in reality those concerns just don't matter at all.

Raided the wrong house/neighborhood? I doubt the victim could do anything tangible about it. Even better, this is another tool in the box of vague reasons to search a place that can be just made up.

> I suspect that even if you found one, someone else could find an interpretation that victimizes someone.

What about surreal humor? I guess you could say it victimizes the world as we 'know' it?

> take a vacation or find something else do to over the weekends to get your mind off it. If you are annoyed that it's not fun anymore, then -- welcome to adulthood.

I drew another consequence and quit the field instead and in turn rescued my passion from fizzling out. And while I'm only passingly interested in what I'm doing now, for me, it was worth taking my hobby back.

It's not an entirely hollow phrase, but something to consider at least and maybe one should ask themselves if they're ready to be passionate about something for 8+ hours a day.

Title should be changed to reflect this fact.

While I do not know about the fastest speed on record, in general, an expert is able to outwrite a fast typist exceeding 150 wpm.