Hm, yeah, I always wondered why telecow is a thing at all. Let alone getting a proper explanation on what is it. Thought Hysteria had no rules?

I'm tired of these guys that want to host their private games but can't have the decency to add a password to it. Whether HB's way for setting a password is confusing or not, it still happens for DirectIP/WormNAT2 games. On top of that, the hoster may be afk long time, and kick you out many minutes later. In fact, joining an OPEN Shopper in #PartyTime or #RopersHeaven is a no-go anymore. And some have kept on doing this shit for maaany months. Yes they know I have told them.

Any ideas to convince them to stop wasting my time?
Latest case: WormNAT2-hosted "shopper" for FD.

I don't know much about stonks, but I know it's possible to program bots to automatize the deals.

Hm, to be fairly honest, I have yet to live the "whole family disconnected" cliché. It's not just this ad, but I keep being bombarded with this "everyone stuck in phone during lunch" scene, which simply doesn't seem to happen IRL...? Or maybe my family is different.

The tech and graphic design and everything combined indeed may work like a drug, and indeed I've sacrified a large part of my time in a PC, but by 2020 I simply not feel that same hype anymore. For me now it's yet another source of inspiration and tool for artistical purposes. And while I might ocassionally have no option but to hurry some work for a given deadline, I wonder why would anyone give up playing with their dog when they're not tired.

Dependency to technology isn't the same as dependency to drugs or alcohol, I got grounded without PC for long times during teenhood, and I don't remember any weird abstinence symphtoms lol. I got my first phone very late in life too. I've grown with a PC next to me, and I can tell it done less damage to me than my dad did.

If this much technology didn't exist today, I'd spend my time on mechanical machines, drawing paintings, or fill an entire library with alchemy books to study/practice.
With the current technology, I can put better imagination and achieve fast results with written mechanisms, make a whole animation let alone tell a story through it, and any information has never been so easy to access (granted you know how to find it)...

That said, I don't think anyone intends to be egotistical with their pets nor leave them behind on purpose; but it would be so freaking cool if they understood our technology... anyone can dream lol


EDIT: Things as they are, the technology has worse quality and goals than years ago. Nowadays it's little to no "real" charm behind manipulative design too. I'm quite retro indeed, I don't own "modern" gaming consoles, but man, the only time I tried some FIFA or PES game in a PS3 (not sure which), there's so many menus, so much text, so LONG so MANY loading times, holy shit. Perhaps the game's base was being tested in a different console and it happens to be a pseudo-port or something like that. But who would complain these days when it's YOUR fault when an unnecessarily heavy PC game needs a stupidly powerful system to run, all so games can still be made under shitty conditions and shitty code. I wonder just how much horsepower gets thrown to the trash can these days. This is, of course, not a critism to interpreted programming languages (or any in general, even plain C adds a bit of overhead compared to plain Assembly), but Yandere Simulator is far from being the only offender here. Disney Universe played like shit in my sister's old PC... but the Wii version worked just fine in Dolphin, same PC.

Abusing the client-server model to kick players in-game is discouraged, with the sole exception of it being made clear to the player getting kicked and all other players in the game. If there is any complaint in connection to kicking tools from anyone on WormNET, the perpetrator has a high chance of getting banned without second thought.

Right, and will you finally ban the trolls then? That's the point of in-game kicking. It means we can finally get rid of them forever, as long as we host ourselves. Wish HB had it too. Because they will yell at the sky just to try to flip the bullshit

DeadCode and CyberShadow, thank you so much for revisiting the ranking system!!

EDIT: New bug in network stuff, HostingBuddy thinks I'm using a snooper xD

The update is unnecessary since the last time I played it. Can they just put the update to make worms world party compatible with worms Armageddon already? People are waiting for the update than this update.

OMG, WWP Remastered was a mistake!!!
... Yeah, actually and thinking well, it shouldn't had been a thing at all

Man, with all this polish-up (if that's intelligible), I love every detail so far, but I miss seeing some /help for when you host by yourself, I think  . I mean it in regards of intuitivity, it was very difficult to know about /open or /ts for a newbie, it's not something you could learn through the game or its features/files on its own, you have to read the wiki or have a friend that knows.
I mean, you already made an interface to RubberWorm stuff, so why couldn't those commands be better accessable through Help bot? :X
No in-game kicking? I doubt it will be a thing in HB anytime soon then...

But I'm nitpicking here, smooth roping is damn priceless here.