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How do I use :colons: appropriately in eve?

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Steve Ronuken
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#61 - 2014-09-18 22:48:27 UTC
Tassin en Lone wrote:
And before '96 you used asterisks.



nope :) still used /me. Or a single colon.

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Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#62 - 2014-09-19 00:44:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr M
:don't:

Also, I use *actions* and even though I have a relative who lived in Germany but that was back in the 17th century so I don't think that's why I use them.

Also², when I was young EVE didn't have /me.

Also³, back in late 80s early 90s we sometime used irony parentheses in the Swedish part of Fidonet. (. Just kidding .)

But still :don't:

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Milan Nantucket
Doomheim
#63 - 2014-09-19 00:55:42 UTC
AnalCanal knows how to use colons Pirate
Carmen Electra
AlcoDOTTE
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#64 - 2014-09-19 01:13:24 UTC
I love this thread.

However, I usually use double colons because ::effort::

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#65 - 2014-09-19 02:34:26 UTC
Do you mean ::Collon::?
Ssabat Thraxx
DUST Expeditionary Team
Good Sax
#66 - 2014-09-19 03:02:13 UTC
Colin Powell?

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Solecist Project
#67 - 2014-09-19 05:52:52 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Tassin en Lone wrote:
And before '96 you used asterisks.



nope :) still used /me. Or a single colon.

Welcome to the wonderful world of muds and mushes

^_^
She just wants to be right,
not actually uncover what happened.

I tried digging through old BBS resources,
but can't find a single line where someone used an emote.

My fault, I don't know what to look for.

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Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#68 - 2014-09-19 08:17:17 UTC
Jason Butte wrote:


Woow, goons are really cool!

Thanks for :showing: me your sexrets XD LOL

I think that I am now a goon in spirit . And you guys are really cool. I think CCP should make this part of the new player tutorial.

:hehe:

Though, kind of tempted to petition an ISD so that only a select few can hold these :awesomelon: secrets

:jewish:



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State War Academy
Caldari State
#69 - 2014-09-19 15:03:43 UTC
Vortexo VonBrenner wrote:
Jason Butte wrote:


Woow, goons are really cool!

Thanks for :showing: me your sexrets XD LOL

I think that I am now a goon in spirit . And you guys are really cool. I think CCP should make this part of the new player tutorial.

:hehe:

Though, kind of tempted to petition an ISD so that only a select few can hold these :awesomelon: secrets

:jewish:



OP - For only 500mil isk they'll let you join if they think you're a good fit for their corp.


Everybody is a good fit after they make an introduction in GBS.
S'No Flake
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#70 - 2014-09-19 15:59:17 UTC
I used to play another game before EVE.
It's called Pardus.

When you were chatting in the ingame chat, you could click icons like you do here in forum post or, you could directly type a key for that icon.

For example :yarr: => Pirate

This is why sometimes i do that.
Now, i'm pretty sure this thing comes from somewhere else but Pardus is the 1st place i saw it used.
Unezka Turigahl
Det Som Engang Var
#71 - 2014-09-19 16:22:24 UTC
*atoyot*
Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#72 - 2014-09-19 17:28:30 UTC
:smithicide:
Ranamar
Nobody in Local
Of Sound Mind
#73 - 2014-09-19 22:40:19 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Tassin en Lone wrote:
And before '96 you used asterisks.



nope :) still used /me. Or a single colon.

Welcome to the wonderful world of muds and mushes

^_^
She just wants to be right,
not actually uncover what happened.

I tried digging through old BBS resources,
but can't find a single line where someone used an emote.

My fault, I don't know what to look for.


The thing about /me is that it is, at least for IRC, rendered by specialized scripts in your client. So, for example, I'll type in "/me spoofs an emote", and by the time you see it, you'll see "*Ranamar spoofs an emote". In the logs, I expect you will also see the output, not the originating command.
Some people I know have extremely elaborate scripts for their IRC clients to set things up. (Most of these people seem to use irssi, in my experience.) Some of them do quite elaborate things like inserting colors as well as being general rewrite rules. I haven't played with them a lot, so I'm not sure whether the rendering is done before sending the command or after receiving it, though.
A particularly famous special script from the time when mIRC was an IRC client people were actually suggested to use was "/slap {name}", which actually basically expands to "/me slaps {name} around a bit with a large trout".

So, as far as I'm concerned, it's an IRCism, but I expect that more than a few MUDs were built on an IRC backend.
Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#74 - 2014-09-20 00:39:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Primary This Rifter
/me works in EVE chat as well

You can also do things like "/open wallet", "/cmd stop ship", "/cmd overload high power slot1"... etc.

"/open config menu" is especially useful because sometimes people have software conflicts that render their Esc key nonfunctional in EVE, so they can't open the main settings menu.
Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#75 - 2014-09-20 00:40:40 UTC
Here's the full list of slash commands.
I'm not sure that all of these work but most do.
Ssabat Thraxx
DUST Expeditionary Team
Good Sax
#76 - 2014-09-20 02:04:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Ssabat Thraxx
I was heavy into IRC at one time. You may have seen me speak of my music collection in other threads, at that time ppl (and myself) would host bots where you could DCC transfer files. There were also scripts to "nuke" ppl using the old port 139 windows flaw/exploit (fixed many yrs ago.)

I sort of miss those days, tbh. As Tom Petty said,"well the good old days..... may not return....)

Alas, here we are alive and enjoying each others company while we idle in space in Niarja D0H!!! Lol

edit : because typing

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Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#77 - 2014-09-20 02:09:31 UTC
Was that the exploit where you could say "DCC SEND" and a bunch of numbers into the channel and a whole bunch of people would just drop?
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#78 - 2014-09-20 02:11:11 UTC
Tassin en Lone wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:
...
Specifically german speaking people or maybe even western europeans in general
tend to use *action* ... actually that seemed to originate from german speaking countries,
when I recall this correctly.

English speaking countries seem to stick to /me mostly...

Actually people using /me tend to be those that have been emoting in games the past 10 years or so. WoW made the /me command popular, though it wasn't the first MMO to do so. If you go back to the days of yore you'll find there was a time that the /me command simply didn't exist so people used the asterisk * to suggest an emote.

Using /me is hip & trendy!
Using * is old skool!



/me was used in IRC which was really popular in 96-00 it lost flavor after with myspace, and fb

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DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#79 - 2014-09-20 02:18:08 UTC
Primary This Rifter wrote:
Was that the exploit where you could say "DCC SEND" and a bunch of numbers into the channel and a whole bunch of people would just drop?



yes.

there was also ping floods where if you sent a ping command enough times you coudl flood someone out. and exploits in scripts that would auto op you. I lost a channel that way cause an op had a broken scripot and someone was messign with it, well a guy joined channel, did the same thing, got ops then auto deoped everyone

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Steve Ronuken
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#80 - 2014-09-20 16:07:48 UTC
IRC's still really handy. It's a mature protocol, and fairly low requirements. And handles multiple servers easily (though netsplits are annoying)

iirc, it's what underlies twitch chat, for example. Not so good for history, but you can always run what's known as a bouncer under it. (you connect to the bouncer, it connects to the IRC server. It stays connected even when you disconnect, so you can get history)

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