ShinyMagnemite

The worst part of this is, while making this meme, my gf saw what I was doing and was very disappointed in me.

Haha I would but she's just learning how to play an open world like dragon age inquisition (ps4).
 
Soon tho! Maybe?
 
I'm also glad everyone loves the meme, i was worried it was too forced or lame.  Thank you!

I would like it if i hadn't reached my daily quota Magnemite, rofl

Honestly, kick them and start anew.  They may have earned your trust, but these actions clearly show it wasn't deserved.
 
I would honestly recommend founding an alliance with people you know in real life, or have been with in other gaming communities.  If you can form an alliance with people you have a strong bond with, you will ENJOY the game... and others will soon flock to your alliance.  As at the end of the day, we are all here to enjoy the game.

The worst part of this is, while making this meme, my gf saw what I was doing and was very disappointed in me.

The worst part of this is, while making this meme, my gf saw what I was doing and was very disappointed in me.

The worst part of this is, while making this meme, my gf saw what I was doing and was very disappointed in me.

The worst part of this is, while making this meme, my gf saw what I was doing and was very disappointed in me.

The worst part of this is, while making this meme, my gf saw what I was doing and was very disappointed in me.

The worst part of this is, while making this meme, my gf saw what I was doing and was very disappointed in me.

Just wanted to share a little Dual Universe keychain I 3D printed for my car keys. It isn't beautiful and I think it will break in a few weeks or months, but it didn't take long to make and I like the personality it adds to my keys!
 
 

I feel like something was lost in translation, but this is amazing still.

Thought I was going to take a break from DU memes, but when I saw this pic I knew what I had to do.

"What the fuck is wrong with these people."

*wonders what JC thinks about the memes*

(now for another infamous several-pages-long yamamushi post...)
 
Hi Everyone,
 
I know this isn't the normal type of "Fan Art" that gets posted here but seeing as how Dual Universe was the only reason I created this thing, I figured it was subforum-worthy.
 
For the past several weeks I've been working on a bot for the Dual Universe Community Discord that I help run (with plenty of help from others on the discord staff like Sunrider, ComradeMoco, Soarnir, Dark, Kurock, Wilks Checkov, Zamaro de Metus, Haunty, Wardion2000, Code24, Anonymous, Cybrex, Khaymann and Spamfox - and if I forgot you I'm extremely sorry). I don't want to say I "own" it because really it's you, the community, that make it possible. Without community involvement, it would just be another empty discord out there. 
Also a special thanks to @Kurock for helping me with a bytes-to-timestamp conversion method the other night as I was half awake. 
 
 
And now that it's in a somewhat usable state (a point which could be argued against, haha), I'd like to "show off" some of the things I've put into it, describe some of the features I have planned for it, and get a feel for what people might want out of it. 
 

I'm quite aware that many of these features already exist in other bots, but my goal was to try to consolidate the features we use the most to try and replace the bots we have that don't quite go all the way I'd like them. One major example of this is Tatsumaki's credit system, as the credits you get can be used for buying things for your profile but that's about it. 
 
 

Before diving into it all, anyone is free to look through the 10k+ lines of source code on the GitHub repo for the project:
 
https://github.com/yamamushi/du-discordbot
 
I don't think many people here are that interested in contributing, but hey if someone is feeling adventurous enough to learn some Go they are more than welcome to make pull requests against the repo. In fact, I've documented the project fairly heavily throughout the Github Wiki for that purpose.
 
All of this runs inside of a docker container at the moment, and is fairly simple to setup and deploy. I find the whole process way easier and cleaner than many of the python based bots I've seen, but that's just a personal preference I'm sure. I attempted to refactor it into a more distributable scalable model, ended up writing a p2p publish/subscribe system, and realized it was overkill for a Discord bot and fell back on the model that I originally wrote it around. I even looked into using an actor framework for Go (thinking about the C++ Actor Framework DU uses), but even that would be way too much overkill for something as low latency and simple as a Discord bot. 
 
 
 
 
So what is DU-Discordbot useful for, other than annoying people with spam?

1) First off, the bot has an internal permissions system that is separate from any permissions distributed on Discord. It is all stored in an embedded database so that it's actually fairly trivial to transfer to another discord (useful during testing especially). It also means that I can hand out permissions on the bot without having to hand out permissions on discord itself (thus maintaining a separate layer of accessibility). 
 

2) The bot has an internal wallet and banking system (with a forthcoming "loans" system). Not only can you spend credits out of your wallet (for which there are few uses for at the moment), but you can store them in your bank account for safe keeping (more to come on that in the future). I'd like to wrap this into a "prize" system wherein active discord users can spend their credits on things like steam games or other random goodies. "Credits" cost nothing to users other than just being active on discord, and the only person paying for any of this is me. It's effectively my way of acknowledging people who are active in chat for being such a cool group of people. 
 

 

 
 

3) Chess! - The bot has an internal Chess AI (that arguably needs a ton of polish) that will play chess against a user. You can spend credits on new chess piece styles, configure your board how you want to play (with or without helper plots). The board is displayed using Discord Emoji's even.
 

 
 

 

 
 

4) Phases of the Moon. The bot will display the current view of the moon from the Earth in ASCII.
 
 

 
 
 

5) LUA interpreter. I'm fairly certain this is the only one of its kind on Discord, but I could be wrong because I've been doing this all in golang... I've added a LUA interpreter with some safety checks (no infinite loops, no long running processes, caps on the stack size, etc). It's not the greatest thing in the world, but it certainly gets the job done. It's not terribly useful to most people at the moment, but I anticipate as the game rolls out that people may find more value in it for testing or to share various code snippets.
 

 
 
 

6) Forum Integration. The bot retrieves posts from the forum every 5 minutes through the RSS feed we have access to. Every single post that arrives on the forum that pushes a thread to the top will show up in our #forum-posts room now, neatly formatted with a link to the comment in question. I've actually found that this has been incredibly useful to me, as the forum's new post page is somewhat... lacking.... Using this feature I get near instant updates on all the happenings on the forum :-)
 

 
 
 
 
7) Twitter Integration. It still needs polish, but the bot attempts to retrieve live twitter updates from JC's Twitter feed and also from the DualUniverse twitter feed. Because this relies on a 3rd party RSS service, it tends to have issues that are out of my control.
 

 
 
 
 
8) Youtube Audio streaming. This was a big one for me to try and tackle, both so I could learn a thing or two about Opus audio encoding, and so I could learn how the voice system works in Discord. It's in a pretty preliminary stage (there are tons of features I want to add around it) but for now, it will download and live encode audio from youtube videos and stream them over a voice channel. It also has the ability to pause and restore songs. All of the audio encoding is done through golang without having to use ffmpeg like some bots rely on. After some heavy work cleaning up the memory allocation, I find it uses at most about 20mb of ram as opposed to the 300mb+ it was using while writing it. I've been pretty happy with the way it turned out (although Discord audio streaming ends up choppy at times no matter what simply because it wasn't really built for this kind of thing). 
 

 

 
 
 
9) Countdowns - Countdown timers to important "DU Dates". Currently lists the days until Founders pledging ends, until the beginning of September and until the end of September. September's dates are included because NQ said they were still on track for a September Alpha, so I figured it would be in between those days. 
 

 
 
 
10) Easter Eggs - There are a few easter eggs hidden around the bot's commands. Celery Man is there, for example.
 
 
11) DevDiary - The "devdiary" command will display the DevDiary for the supplied month and year:
 

 
 
 
12) Interviews - The "interview" command will either display a list of interviews with NQ, or will display the interview for the ID supplied:
 

 
 

That's all I've been able to knock out over the last week, with plenty of downtime to spare in-between sprints of coding till 5 in the morning (I even dreamt about handler functions in a library, woke up and spent 2 hours trying to find them before realizing it was all a dream I had and ended up having to write them myself based off the things I remembered from my dream). However, there are plenty of other features on my task list (on top of the unfinished work and polishing needed on the above features):
 
A Casino - We need real games of chance, like poker (which I don't know enough about poker to attempt yet), blackjack, slots, roulette, etc.  More Games! - Checkers, PVP chess, slots, hangman, whatever fits here I'm very open to A Prize system for spending the credits from winning games - previously discussed Reminders / Notifications - Setting personal reminders with ~remindme 5 days "pledge to dual universe"  MyCroft.ai Integration - For natural language processing, so you can ask the bot to do things with natural language like "what time is it in Tokyo?" or "find me a video of a puppy eating a carrot". I'm actually relying heavily on my experience with integrating MyCroft for a cool project at work Dual Universe Wiki Integration - I would like to be able to query the wiki for things in real time from the bot. Dual Universe Resource Guide - When the game is playable, I'd like to catalog various DU resources into an easily accessible system in the bot. Wireframe Globes - Using this library to not only generate earth wireframes, but also wireframe models of Alioth - https://github.com/mmcloughlin/globe An Alpha Countdown - For when we have a clear date to look forward to for Alpha.   
 
Like I said, I am quite aware that many of these features already exist in other bots, but I wanted to try and slowly pull all of those features together into one single bot that was more focused towards DU specifically.
 
I am eager to hear from people what kind of features they would like in the bot, as that kind of feedback keeps me motivated to keep working on it and adding more things. I know plenty of people have already seen it in action, but I mostly just hear people complaining about it haha (half joking...half...). 
 
I'd like to continue to add more DU-focused features (things like the forum integration have turned out very useful), but most of those will have to wait until Alpha is out and we have a better idea of the kinds of things we'd like easy references for.
 
 

To further that your idea, I think if one was to be something of a professional explorer in DU then it would help to really focus the skills/abilities to that.

Basic level: send a probe and it tells you whats what.
Mid level: probes can differentiate planet types and stars, provide number of moons, etc
high level: planet readouts with pretty accurate locations of minerals and such
pro level: idk, locate wormholes? will gas mining be a thing? accurate details of everything.

It'd be cool if you had a limited amount of copies of your findings so it would be up to the buyer to pass along or retain the knowledge of the stars...  It would be interesting to see players needing to fill in the gaps of a galaxy wide map as opposed to it being set up for everyone.

Historical documents reveal the truth.

Historical documents reveal the truth.

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I wish you a wonderful day, AidenAiden.
 
I like that comment. It says a lot. Now, can we say the same thing the other way round: is anything stopping people from participating in r/dualthegame? The answer is a clear 'yes'. Freedom works both ways, let's keep it that way.
 
I don't know what kind of moderators there are in r/DualUniverse, but the very fact that they continue to cling onto r/DualUniverse - and that without being active on the Dual Universe Forums, tells me a lot. What kind of subsidiary company strikes its own path, disregarding the big picture? None: the leadership of such a company would be removed. In the case of Reddit, NQ clearly doesn't want to get involved, and I support that action. While I would be very inclined to follow the rule of Omerta, this case is something best dealt with publicly and with sufficient pressure - seeing as the mods have no interest in listening to the actual community. 
 
 
For once, I must state that I thought the drama about the Reddit was overrated. Your comments above prove me wrong. It is irrelevant who those mods are; if they truly did care about the big picture here: the success and positive publicity of Dual Universe, they would cease this nonsense immediately. As they haven't, we can only assume that they have their ulterior motives.
 
Above, you stated that you are no longer a mod. Very interesting. So, AidenAiden, what did you do to resolve this issue while you were a mod, other than clamping down on any mention of r/dualthegame? (something the previous mods are doing quite efficiently. Peculiar, isn't it?) So far, you haven't convinced anyone here that r/DualUniverse is the better option, other than having the 'Dual Universe' name. Kindly stop this rhetoric about this drama and that drama. It takes two to tango, and so far, you're quite the dancer in here. 
 
A small group of people are instigating this drama? How many people provided the game in the first place? The entire population of Paris? You make me laugh! Firstly, the potential to hurt the community isn't this - it isn't even close. Secondly, the fact that you made that statement shows either of two things - or even both: 
You clearly don't know this community.  You are being the Drama King here. Seeing as you are the de facto public speaker for the mods, I suggest you spend more time with this community and you'll learn a few things. We don't bite that often, but when you have these many people of the same opinion, your side should do the smart thing and discuss. So far, there hasn't been much progress in that direction, has there? Stormy seas, I get it. 
 
Everyone should go there and have a look around for themselves.  Thank you, I did that. You know what would be better? Having both the current mods and actual members from this side of the Dual Universe Community work together on it. Two heads are better than one, and a three fold cord isn't easily broken. Sounds good for the greater Dual Universe Community, no? Obviously, to the mods, it doesn't.
 
The Dual Universe Community has spoken: open up r/DualUniverse and grant more power to the those actively participating in Dual Universe, or give it over completely. As every other means of diplomacy has clearly failed, I see no other reason to pay attention to these mods, whoever they are. With time, we'll see which sub-Reddit takes the trophy home.
 
In the meantime, vox populi, vox Dei: if you want the Dual Universe Reddit to be actually useful and you want the community in harmony over this issue, do your part in convincing the mods to bring in more of the active members of Dual Universe, or watch in silence if you can't. Defending them over what cannot and should not be justified is - quite frankly - shallow. 
 
Once again, I wish you a wonderful day. 
 
Cheers.

*ETERNAL HATING HAS COMMENCED*

Someone stop me...
 

Historical documents reveal the truth.