House of Pain? Or was that Hall of Shame?
This page focuses on things that palace owners, operators, and designers should not do and will not flinch from pointing at the guilty.
Built to Die... Who Cares? Robot MottoAnyone who's spent some time fiddling with their cyborg script, if even to use the occasional "msay" spoof, knows about Cyborg-Free Zones.
ON SIGNON
block.SIGNON
block is
used to initialize data, and more-importantly global functions, in
most cyborgs. A common example is the ";ap" script used by
The Botbot. "ap" is more than
just an OUTCHAT command it declares and uses two global functions and
three global variables as well. One of those functions,
auto_pos
is normally called at every
OUTCHAT
event (i.e., every single time you say
anything). Unless the user can run their cyborg SIGNON
code, those functions don't get initialized.Self-Righteous Hacker's Sidebar
Sure, you could sacrifice an appearance macro and
change the fundamental structure
of the bot by dumping the initializers into an ON MACRO trap that
was in turn called by the SIGNON and ENTER
handlers. Then, you could always re-initialize the bot code by
hitting the macro manually in some room that did permit cyborgs.
You could do that... at the cost on losing a
macro. |
While we're on the subject of the Intel Boardwalk....
Becasue, let's face it, there's always plenty of shameful behavior to go around...