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6 yrs ago
Current Bio is finally redone! Still want to add more to it eventually, but I'm happy with it for now.
6 yrs ago
Might be active again soon™. Bio/etc definitely needs a lot of TLC.
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8 yrs ago
School and work on my birthday. Yay.
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9 yrs ago
OMG 33 on the ACT!!
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9 yrs ago
Hmm.. maybe I should update this? ...Nah.

Bio


Luke aka TheMaster99

Nineteen | EST | Discord




About Me

I am a second year undergraduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology which, as the name would suggest, is in Rochester, New York. I am studying Software Engineering – essentially, programming plus all of the processes, paperwork, etc. that I'll be doing in the real world. I have been programming in some capacity since I was eight, and once I discovered programming I simply never stopped writing code. Some of that code I've written was for this very website, and hopefully there will be a fair bit more of that in the near future.

I discovered programming in a game called ROBLOX, and coincidentally that is also where I first discovered roleplaying. One day I was exploring the forums, and noticed a roleplaying section. Curious, I took a look and I was instantly hooked. The content was mostly in the Free RP level, with a small amount of Casual tier games, but at the time even that was high quality content to me. Over the years my interest in the game faded, and although I continued programming after ultimately leaving the community, I did not continue roleplaying.

Years later, I gradually started wanting to get back into roleplaying. I began googling around, and after looking at a few different websites I finally decided that the Guild seemed to be the best of them all. I made an account on December 13, 2014, and started jumping into some games; I quickly decided on sticking to mostly High Casual, but eventually moved more towards Advanced as I realized that most of the games I was in were easily at that level anyway. This was right around the time that Mahz was working on rebuilding the website from the ground up, and after chatting with him for a while in the IRC during some site downtime I decided that I wanted to help.

I ultimately didn't contribute too much, but nevertheless I was the first (and so far, only) non-anonymous user to help Mahz with developing the website. As a reward, after he implemented the trophy system I was awarded the special Benevolent Cyberpunk trophy, which gives me a special userbit that looks like this:



After roughly a year and a half of being here, life started getting in the way more and more, and my activity became increasingly infrequent. Eventually, a little after the two year mark, I became completely inactive; I was in my senior year of high school, neck deep in college plans, and didn't have time for it anymore. I'd log in every now and then to check if I had missed anything, but until quite recently never stayed. I am back now, though, and hopefully I'm here to stay. I plan on getting back into roleplaying in the near future, and I also plan on starting to help out with the website once more. I've learned so much since when I first saw the code running the Guild, and hopefully I'll be significantly more helpful than I was back then!



Most Recent Posts

In Mahz's Dev Journal 10 yrs ago Forum: News
> In the older version, whenever you started a new RP the first post was and OOC. Now it's an IC. Why the change? I fixed that days ago. New RPs should put the first post under OOC. If they still start as IC, either Mahz hasn't pushed the changes onto the site yet, or something very odd is happening.
In Mahz's Dev Journal 10 yrs ago Forum: News
> I tend to be rather particular about this one specific thing, yes. Especially since my posts tend to average several thousand words in length and thusly contain quite a few paragraphs each (worst of all is when people write rapid-pace dialogue with double line breaks after each sentence - I have a rather hard time reading those straight since I keep losing my track and skipping over lines). We don't need a thousand fancy formatting options before the most basic things possible are available. The single like break issue is because of Markdown. When he has finished implementing the BBCode parser, Markdown will be removed. Thus, your single line breaks will be restored. So again, perhaps you can survive with double line breaks while he finishes implementing? EDIT: with a bit of googling, it turns out that you can use single line breaks by adding two spaces to the end of the line, then moving to the new line. Example: New line! [Source](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26011/should-the-markdown-renderer-treat-a-single-line-break-as-br)
In Mahz's Dev Journal 10 yrs ago Forum: News
> Uhh... The rest of the formatting can wait, but single line breaks? Please? I have IC posts to write... Is it really so bad to just use a double line break while we wait? No offense, but I don't think the world will end if you have to write a post with a few empty lines, which you can remove once it has been fixed.
In Mahz's Dev Journal 10 yrs ago Forum: News
> Not really glitch, and apologies if I missed it mentioned elsewhere, but adding a name to the quote feature would be great. ^_^ That will return once a BBCode parser has been implemented. Markdown quotes don't remember the name of the person being quoted, BBCode quotes do.
Gee, thanks for including me in the list :P
Collab between McHaggis and I **2nd of December, 1999** Aldenberg Manor was suspiciously quiet, for the base of operations for what would be a dangerous, possibly fatal rendezvous with an as of yet unknown Death Eater. The ‘spy’ would either be useful, or damn the entire resistance. _It’ll be fine,_ Siobhan reckoned against her better judgement as she carefully strapped her wand holster to her leg and flung a lighter winter’s cloak over her shoulders. Being a part of the away team for a mission as crucial as this was a rare occurrence, mostly because Ronan hated the possibility of being down a mediwitch if things were to go south. That she was actually permitted to go was nothing short of a miracle, the results of months of nagging. The plan was simple: the main strike force would Apparate in, each to a different street for maximum security-slash-paranoia. Then, they had to deal with whatever awaited them be it a repenting Death Eater willing to share secrets and information or one who just wanted to turn in the heads of a few members of the Ashes for some extra kudos from Voldemort. There was so much that could go wrong, for such a simple run, but Siobhan prided herself on being an optimist and an optimistic mindset she would force herself into even though her stomach was churning with nervous butterflies. Eric walked into the room, and greeted Siobhan, who was geared up and ready for the possibility – the inevitability, the more wary members of the organization felt – of a battle. He put on a light cloak himself, standing next to her. “Has Kyle reported in with the results of his reconnaissance yet?” he asked her. _It’d be a shame if we find out this is a trap,_ Eric thought. A spy could truly be useful, and a nice, friendly chat wouldn’t bother Eric one bit either. Siobhan smoothed down the front of her robes. “By Patronus, yeah. If I remember correctly – which I do, of course, because it’s important – there was no sign of any dark activity in the area. No ambush in sight; however, it would be a pretty poor ambush if they _were_ seen, right?” Eric nodded, tempted to laugh, but preventing it due to the weight of the situation. “A poor ambush, indeed. I suppose we’ll have to be extremely careful, even if everything looks clear. We can’t be too sure, although I’d love for this to be nothing more than a chat,” Eric agreed. “You know where you’re Apparating to? I’d hate to have to fix up a splinching,” Siobhan asked, and was answered almost immediately with a nod. “Good. I believe Kyle’s still out scouting. We can never be too careful these days, you know? I’ll be fetching him before heading down to the cafe. Could always use another strong fighter to defend our backs while we whip out the ol’ Diplomacy.” Eric nodded again. “I just hope that Jia doesn’t get too uh– _carried away._ If this turns out to be a legitimate turncoat, it’d be a damn shame if we ruined it by being overly aggressive.” “You mean hitting the guy with a wee avada keda-vy?” Siobhan asked, without even the barest hint of humour. This time Eric couldn’t help but laugh, unable to stay serious despite the mood the situation had blown over Aldenberg Manor. “Hey! I’m being serious here!” Eric hastily stifled his laughter. “No, you’re right. I definitely wouldn’t put it past her, I’m afraid.” Eric paused, before continuing, with the slightest hint of a laugh sneaking its way back into his voice: “_Wee avada keda-vy? Really?_” Siobhan sniffed, chin tilted upwards in a perfect picture of pureblood superiority – almost as if she wouldn’t lower herself to dignify the question with a response. As she walked to the door of the manor, however, she stared at Eric with the corners of her lips turned downwards. “I trust my allies, Eric,” she said carefully. “Right up until the moment they send a curse at my back.” Eric paused, realizing something. “Speaking of our allies, where has Jia gone?” he questioned, although not expecting Siobhan to be able to answer. _Jia was likely preparing for a war, not a diplomacy mission,_ Eric suspected. “Getting ready,” Siobhan replied with a shrug. “If things _do_ take a turn for the worse, she’s the one I want there, ready to do what needs to be done, even if it is… excessive.” The witch decided that was the best time to take her leave, marching outside to the edge of the wards through sodden grass and mud that sucked on her shoes. The moment she felt the wave of magic pass over her – the empty, unprotected feeling – she disappeared with a violent crack. Eric followed her out, closing the door behind him. He wielded his wand – for all he knew, there might be a Death Eater staring him in the face the second he arrives in London – and as he passed the magical border separating the manor from the rest of the world, he shuddered. After being in a place of such concentrated magic for a while, walking back into the ordinary air never failed to feel incredibly odd. Deciding to exit with style – regardless of the fact that he had no audience to be fancy for – he spun on the spot, his cloak trailing behind him, and vanished with a satisfying crack, much like Siobhan had done just moments prior.
In Mahz's Dev Journal 10 yrs ago Forum: News
Everyone, please keep in mind that the entire website was rewritten from _scratch_. There are guaranteed to be issues, as well as features that haven't been rewritten yet. Stuff like this takes time, and we all just need a bit of patience. Now, to answer some questions: > Total PM count is broken for me - it is displayed as 81, when in fact it is nearing 200. I believe the counter now displays the number of inbound PMs, instead of every single one (it doesn't count your own PMs anymore). >Still impossible to access the site via roleplayerguild.com; all cached information has been cleared a couple of times, so this shouldn't >be an issue. Mahz is working on this, to my knowledge. >Do I understand correctly that BBCode/HTML-style tags are going to be brought back? (and many other formatting questions) Yes. As I said above, not everything has been re-implemented yet. BBCode will be back soon (presumably after more important things have been taken care of, but I can't say that with certainty since I'm not mahz). As I said before, we just need some patience here. >Oh yes, I remembered - the formatting tends to take its time to kick in (I am writing this for a rather powerful PC that typically loads >script-heavy pages instantly, Firefox browser). The formatting is rendered when it shows up on your screen - it doesn't instantly render, because first it needs to detect that it needs to render, then actually do it. This will be fixed whenever mahz is able to find a good solution. As for it not working _at all,_ that's news to me. But again, that should be resolved once mahz finds a solution to it. >In-thread online markers haven't been implemented (same as forum-view Subscribed-markers). I think you get the idea by now.
In Mahz's Dev Journal 10 yrs ago Forum: News
Btw mahz, not sure if you've already seen it but I finished that thing I was working on yesterday, I can bring my fork up to date if you want to pull it.
In Mahz's Dev Journal 10 yrs ago Forum: News
> One what coding does this use? The new guild uses node.js, and PostgreSQL to handle the database.
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