I've always loved video games, and making my own games was my main interest for my entire life. Sometime when I was 7 or 8, I started teaching myself QBASIC (and then VB a few years later) and I'd try to make really awful recreations of stuff I saw in games.

A few years later, my brother showed me NESticle and I was hooked. I found YY-SMB and was incredibly excited about being able to make my own custom Mario levels.

From there, I found Zophar's "facelifting" section and found the SMB2 Discombobulator, which lead me to the first incarnation, sometime after it had switched to MySQL.

SMB2 Discombobulator was great, because it was made in VB, and I could make simple stuff in VB but I wasn't mature enough to be able to handle rom hacking or any "big" programming projects.

Acmlm's Board wasn't full of people who were total lamers like literally everywhere else was, and since everyone had the same interests as me, I stuck around.

Sometime between the second and third incarnations, I drifted off to nesdev, and to different rom-hacking communities. Late in the third incarnation, Xk found me and suggested I come back, which I did, but the fourth incarnation happened soon after.

Over the years, I followed everyone until we all wound up here.

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A bridge bot has been added to discord and irc, so messages in the Discord version of #x are relayed to the IRC version of #x and vice versa. In IRC, this shows up with a double nametag which is pretty distracting, so I just wrote this mIRC script to make the discord bot's lines show up like anything else.

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; Hide the <discord> handle in #x

on ^*:TEXT:<*:#x:{

  if ((discord!discord@*.xkeeper.net iswm $fulladdress) && ($network == BadnikZONE)) {

    /echo -tlbfmr #x + $+ $strip($1,c) $2-

    haltdef

  }

}

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This also strips out the nametag coloring that the discord bot adds. To have it not strip that out, use:

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/echo -tlbfmr #x + $+ $1-

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This script also prefixes a + to the nametag, so you can tell the line is coming from the discord bot and not from someone else in IRC.

Anyway, modifications and improvements welcome, but this ought to make the discord relay look a little less painful in IRC, if you're using mIRC that is.

Edit:
Non-colored nametag with : symbol as the user rank: <:Drag>

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/echo -tlbfmr #x $strip($left($1,4) $+ : $+ $right($1,$calc($len($1) - 4)),c) $2-

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Version with bot's nametag coloring intact, color applied to the rank:

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/echo -tlbfmr #x $left($1,4) $+ : $+ $right($1,$calc($len($1) - 4)) $2-

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Version with bot's nametag coloring intact, color not applied to the rank:

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/echo -tlbfmr #x $left($1,1) $+ : $+ $right($1,$calc($len($1) - 1)) $2-

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You're w--

what the hell is that?

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It's just a lump of stuff with weights and you hold the middle and you spin it around and it keeps spinning for a while. I have one too at my desk at work, it's pretty stupid, but I'd be lying if I said I never touch it.

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My job is smarthome stuff, not necessarily anything about learning patterns or anything, as much as "hey it's kinda neat that I can control my TV and my cable box and the room lights via this iPad laying on the couch", complete with plenty of RS232 protocols, IR flashers, AV distributers, user interface design, and a certain big-deal AV hardware manufacturer.

The houses I've gone to, where the entire thing is integrated, are nuts. Every room has speakers of some sort, fancy pools with sprinklers, full-on theaters in the basement complete with dolby atmos, every single lightbulb and switch is meshnet or centralized, house-wide lighting presets (with some being "automatic", with motion sensors or timers), touch panels mounted in the walls, special remotes for every room, centralized AV sources (so you can route a cable box or a radio to literally any TV or speaker in any room), and of course these systems come with hefty pricetags to match.

That's really it though, I'm not personally interested in smarthome technology outside of it being my day job. Though, those Philips Hues are pretty nice, we have two in the programming lab at work, and it's nice to be able to set it to outdoor-esque white, or soft white, or red, or green, etc.

Having voice-activated lighting control, or TV control, or whatnot, it's pretty neat, but I doubt I'd actually do it at home; the novelty wears off once you've dealt with dozens of amazon dots in various applications.

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In Anya's defense, I haven't seen any employers and businesses signing up to Jul.

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