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Welcome to Pesterchum 3.14.1!
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WHAT'S NEW?
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* Quirks now have a lower(), scramble(), and reverse() function!
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* Timestamps - check your Config!
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* Logviewer - View logs right in Pesterchum!
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* Quirk ordering - order your quirks so they work right!
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* # of users in a memo - You can now see how many users are in a memo.
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* @links to users - typing @ before user's name creates a link
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that will pester them!
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* Support for REPORT and ALT to calSprite built in -
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If someone is bothering you, or a canon handle is idle, or
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for whatever reason, right click their name and go to "Report"
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to report them to a moderator.
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If you want to talk to an alt canon handle, just right click
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the username!
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if you have an alt handle, register it with calSprite!
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Here's some tips to help you get started:
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- You can import your old Pesterchum contacts by going to
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CLIENT->IMPORT and opening your pesterchum.cfg file. This is usually
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in the 2.5 base directory or in Tinychum's data folder.
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- Some themes can be confusing if you haven't used the program
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already! Some hints:
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* Trollian: Moods are set by clicking the timelines, and you
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can add chums by clicking "Chumproll." Moods correspond to the troll
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that would most likely exhibit them. You can go offline by hitting the
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"Timelines" menu bar.
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* Gold: Add chums by hitting the two chumpeoples in the upper left
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corner. Go offline by clicking the "CHUMHANDLE:" label.
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* Enamel: Add chums by hitting the "CHUMROLL" label. Go offline by
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clicking the upper left hand corner.
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- Right-click is your friend! There are useful right click
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options on the chumroll, by clicking the chumhandle in a conversation,
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online userlist, or the list of memo browsers.
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Cool features:
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- Importing from old PC. It can already do your chumlist, soon it will
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import your quirks from 2.5 and TC as well!
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- Profile switching. Instantly switch profiles, loading your color and
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quirks with it.
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- Theme switching and creation. So far this comes with a few official
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themes! But you can also make your own: just make a new directory in
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the themes folder with the proper images and style.js file. The
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style.js file will be documented soon, but feel free to poke at it.
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- Memos. Memos that are a lot more like the ones in the comic and
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allow you to appear at multiple times in one chat.
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- Quirks: Prefix, suffix, simple replace, regexp replace (like in
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2.5), random replacement, and an auto-mispeller :P
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- Chum groups. Organize your chums into collapsible groups for easy
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management.
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- Block/user list
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- Add/block chums directly from a conversation, the userlist, or memo
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userlist.
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- Timestamps saved in logs and shown in conversations if wanted.
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- Logging. Logs are output in bbcode (for easy forum posting), html,
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and plain text.
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- Logviewer for easy log reading inside Pesterchum
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- Idling. You can set yourself idle manually, and the computer will
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set it for you after 10 minutes.
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- Improved /me. Any letters immediately following /me will be
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processed correctly. e.g. /me'd rather be fishing -> -- ghostDunk'd
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[GD'D] rather be fishing --
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- Hyperlinks! Now if someone types http://whatever it will turn into a
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link you can just click and follow. No more copy/paste.
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- Memo links. Link your friends to your memos.
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- Smilies. We've added about 30-40 smilies from the forums. There is a
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list later on in this readme.
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- Submit quotes directly to the Pesterchum QDB!
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FA%
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---
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<b>Q:</b> Norton says it has a virus and then deletes it!<br>
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<b>A:</b> Read this helpful Norton FAQ:
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Alright, here's a guide to by-passing Norton:
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* First, to download Pesterchum:
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1. Make sure you're on a Moderator account. Moreso for the Norton steps than these ones.
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2. Download the .zip file, not the .exe file.
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3. Unzip the .zip file onto memory. Pesterchum should now be installed.
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* Now, to by-pass Norton:
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1. Make sure you're still on a moderator account.
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2. Open up Norton.
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3. Click on 'Settings' up in the upperright hand corner.
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4. Click on 'Anitivirus', off to the upper left. It has a small image of a needle or something similar off to it's side.
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5. There's a word that reads 'SONAR protection' halfway to the bottomleft. Off to it's right, there's a bar that's half green. Click on the bar.
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6. It will warn you about turning off SONAR. Have it set to turn back on when the system restarts.
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7. If done properly, the background for the main page of Norton(what you saw on steps 2-3) has turned an apocaliptic red. Feel free to close Norton now. Keep in mind to stay off suspicious online sites now.
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8. Open up Pesterchum, and let the chummy convos begin.
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* When finished:
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1. Log off of Pesterchum. LOG OFF, NOT CLOSE IT.
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2. Then, you can either shut off your comp, and Norton will re-enable SONAR, or you can repeat steps 1-5, except turning the red bar green. If done right, Norton will be it's happy color again.
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3, Keep in mind that you must repeat all of this(other than the download) every time you want to get on Pesterchum.
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* Hope this is helpful!
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(This guide brought to you by the slightly combined efforts of empireomega and Xanaomin)
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<b>Q:</b> I can't connect because my school/university/network/stolen wifi is blocking my connection! OR I can't seem to connect to the server at all and I'm not running any firewalls!<br>
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<b>A:</b> Edit your pesterchum.js file. Open it up in notepad or something, and then edit the beginning so it looks like this:
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{"port": "1413", ....
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where the .... is the rest of the gobbledygook there.
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<b>Q:</b> The mood buttons on Pesterchum 6.0 don't match up to what it sets your mood to! What gives?<br>
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<b>A:</b> The mood names are just there to look canon. It is intentional.
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<b>Q:</b> I'm appearing as offline to 2.5 users/other users appear the wrong
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mood? What's happeninggggg<br>
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<b>A:</b> The 2.5 people decided to change the mood protocol. When I made
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this program, I decided to go with Tinychat's original protocol (and
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extend it). So some moods will appear wrong between 2.5
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users. (*COUGH*tell them to switch to 3.14*COUGH*)
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<b>Q:</b> Pesterchum 2.5 users don't get my /me messages correctly!<br>
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<b>A:</b> That's because they implemented the /me command differently.
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<b>Q:</b> Can we resize the main window?<br>
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<b>A:</b> No. This is done so we can offer more flexible UI creation. It's a
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lot easier to make themes that look canon this way.
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<b>Q:</b> Can we have different chum rolls for different users?<br>
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<b>A:</b> No. Instead what we're going to do in a later update is make chum
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groups to organize people in your list.
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<b>Q:</b> Can we delete profiles?<br>
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<b>A:</b> Yes. Go to the profiles directory and delete the corresponding
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username file.
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<b>Q:</b> You should make it so you can ban specific time frames in memos.<br>
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<b>A:</b> This was too complicated to implement, and I don't have the UI
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quite figured out. This will probably go in a future update.
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DOCUMENTATION
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STARTING
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If this is your first time running Pesterchum 3.14, you need to create
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a new profile. Just type in your chum handle in the box and click the
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color swatch to pick your color. Check the "default" checkbox to make
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this your default profile.
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BASIC PESTERING
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To begin pestering, first click the "ADD CHUM" button and type in
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their pester handle. The handle must be all lower case except for one
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capital letter. Once you've added that person, they will appear on
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your chumroll. You can double click to begin pestering them, or
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right-click to bring up a menu where you can pester them, block them,
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or remove them from your chumroll. (Or you can select them and hit
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"enter" OR hit the "PESTER" button.)
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Once you begin pestering somebody (or they begin pestering you), it
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will bring up the conversation window. Here you can type to your
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chum. Also remember that if you right-click on the area just above the
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Pesterlog, it will bring up a list of options: Quirks Off will turn
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your quirks off, Add Chum will add this chum to your list, and Block
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will block them. (Those last two options are useful if you are being
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pestered by someone you don't have on your list yet!)
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While pestering your chum, here are some useful features:
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* Type /me to create a system message. "/me facepalms." will generate:
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-- ghostDunk [GD] facepalms. --
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You can also append 's after /me like so: "/me's computer exploded."
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-- ghostDunk's [GD'S] computer exploded. --
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In fact, any characters you type after a /me before the space will
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be added: "/meing is the Ghost Nation's official pastime."
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-- ghostDunking [GDING] is the Ghost Nation's official pastime. --
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* Color tags! If you feel the need to talk about The Green Sun or add
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some appleberry blast to your conversation, just use color
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tags. These work like in TC 1.5: <c=(color)>colored text</c>. But in
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PC 3.14, you can use type your color in a lot of different ways:
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- You can use the familiar r,g,b method:
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"<c=0,255,0>The Green Sun</c>"
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- You can use HTML tags:
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"<c=#7f7f7f>DURR I'M KARKAT AND I'M A HUGE IDIOT</c>"
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- You can even use plain color names:
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"<c=red>D4V3 TH1S 1S SO D3C4D3NT</c>"
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(list: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colornames.asp)
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- You don't even have to add the </c> if you are lazy. Just use a
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new color tag whenever you want to change colors and PC 3.14 will
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add the extra tags for you.
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* URLS (anything with http:// in front of it) will automatically be
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detected and made into a link you can CLIPK.
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* You can also link people to memos by typing "#" and the name of the
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menu like so: #R41NBOW_RUMPUS_P4RTYTOWN
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Clicking the link will open up the memo select menu.
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* Smilies! There are a list of smilies at the end of this document;
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they are based on the MSPA Forum smilies. They don't animate, though
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:(
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* Don't worry about your quirks screwing up any of the above: PC will
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apply your quirks AFTER it figures out color codes, links, smilies, etc.
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* Pressing the up arrow will cycle through a history of your comments,
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so if you want to retype something, you can pull it up.
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* You can submit directly to the Pesterchum Quote Database! If you
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have a particualarly awesome conversation, you can submit it to the
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database by simply highlighting the good part of the conversation,
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right clicking it and choosing "Submit to Pesterchum QDB!"
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MEMOS
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One of the most interesting features to make was the memos, and make
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them as close to the comic as I could without actually inventing time
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travel. So here is the TIME TUTORIAL:
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* <b>Joining:</b> When you go CLIENT->MEMOS, you'll see a list of memos pop up
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-- those are memos people already have open. To join one, just
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highlight one of them. If you want to make a new memo, just type it in
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the input. If you'd like to make it secret, so that it doesn't appear
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in the list, check "HIDDEN CHANNEL". Then, choose what timeframe you
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want to appear to be in. So if you wanted to be in the future, you
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could move the slider to the right. You can also enter the time
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manually. Then hit JOIN.
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* <b>Explaining time:</b> Time in memos, unlike Homestuck, will not be relative
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to your position. That is, if you choose 4:13 in the future, you will
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not see someone who has set their time as "current" (or "0") in the
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past: you will see them as "current" and yourself as "future." This is
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because we do not have time travel! Memo time setting is basically an
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RP mechanic: you are pretending to be from the future! It will also
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help keep everyone straight: everyone will see the same thing!
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* <b>The time slider:</b> The slider shows your current position in the time
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stream. If you want to change your time frame, simply move the slider
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(or type a time in) and hit GO. This will open a new time frame, and
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the next time you type a message, the memo will show that you've
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responded to it in that time frame. You can now switch between your
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time frames simply by clicking the arrows in the right hand
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corner. (THIS COMES IN HANDY IF YOU WANT TO ARGUE WITH YOURSELF.) You
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can have any number of open time frames, and the program will number
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them in the order in which you open them (like in the comic). You can
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have one of your time frames cease responding to the memo by hitting
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"CLOSE." If you open that time frame again, the program will remember
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the number it originally gave it. If you want to be mysteeeeeeeerious,
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you can type in "?" and you will appear as ???.
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* <b>The memo viewer list:</b> To the right is a list of people currently
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browsing the memo. A shade icon next to their name means they are the
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"operator" of the memo: meaning they can kick ("ban") people from the
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memo and make other people operators as well. A "ban" is not permanent
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(like in the comic), and the program will ask if you want to reconnect
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to the memo. You kick and op people by right clicking their name in
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the window. You can also add them to your chumroll!
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* <b>Inviting people to your memo:</b> You can link to a memo by simply typing
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"#nameofmemo" in any conversation or memo window. So you can say:
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CG: NOW YOU, ME, AND EGBERT NEED TO HAVE A CHAT.
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CG: CLICK IT.
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CG: #FRUITYRUMPUSASSHOLEFACTORY
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and it will appear as a link that you can click, which will open the
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memo chooser window.
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CLIENT MENU
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###OPTIONS:
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* <b>Tabbed Conversations:</b> Turns tabbed conversations on and off. Don't
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worry if you do this in the middle of a conversation, PC will save
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them for you.
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* <b>Sounds On:</b> Uncheck to shut it the fuck up.
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* <b>Hide Offline Chums:</b> Turning this option on will hide all offline chums
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off your chumroll.
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* <b>Show Empty Groups:</b> Turning this option of will show empty groups.
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* <b>Time Stamps:</b> Turning this on will show timestamps in your chats.
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* <b>12/24 hour:</b> Formatting for timestamps. Whether you want them in 12 or
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24 hour time.
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* <b>Show Seconds:</b> Turning this on will show the seconds in your timestamps.
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###MEMOS:
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Opens the Memo list as above.
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###USERLIST:
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Shows a list of all the users that are currently logged onto
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Pesterchum. Right-click their names and select "ADD CHUM" to add them
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to your chum roll!
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###IDLE:
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Make yourself an idle chum. You will appear as idle until you
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uncheck this box, or if you *actually* go idle (stop using the
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computer) for 10 minutes and then come back.
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###IMPORT:
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Imports your old Pesterchum 2.0, 2.5 and Tinychum chum
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rolls. This will also import your old quirks from Pesterchum 2.5.
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###RECONNECT:
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Forces PC to reconnect to the server.
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###EXIT:
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noooooooooooooooooooooooo
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PROFILE MENU
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###THEME:
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Select a new theme! Be warned that switching themes will change
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the user interface, so just... look out for that I guess!
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###QUIRKS:
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Opens the quirks menu. More on that below!
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###TROLLSLUM:
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Opens up the window where you can view people you've
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blocked. You can add and remove people to the list from here as well.
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###COLOR:
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Change your text color here!
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###SWITCH:
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Switch your profile! You can have any number of profiles, and
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PC will save your color, quirks, and theme for that profile. Chumrolls
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and block lists are the same for all profiles. Feel free to have
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multiple instances of PC running on two or more handles!
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CALSPRITE
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calSprite is the bot that helps moderate canon handle usage! Simply pester
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calSprite with the world "HELP" (turn your quirks off!) and you
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will get instructions on how to use calSprite!
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QUIRKS
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There are six kinds of quirks! I'll teach you how to use them all!
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(In this section, I will use quotes ("") around things so it's clearer
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to see exactly what to type! Don't include these quotes when using
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these examples!
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Also, note that your quirks will not work until you save them by
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hitting "OK" on the Quirk window.
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* <b>Prefix/Suffix:</b>
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This will put text before or after everything you
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say. So for example, we can use prefixes to emulate part of Nepeta or
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Equius' quirks:
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<pre>
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PREFIX: ":33 < "
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You type: "*ac twitches her friendly whiskers at ct*"
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Result:
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AC: :33 < *ac twitches her friendly whiskers at ct*
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</pre>
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<pre>
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PREFIX: "D --> "
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You type: "Hi"
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Result:
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CT: D --> Hi
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</pre>
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Suffixes work the same way, but at the end of the message:
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<pre>
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SUFFIX: "!!!"
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You type: hey there
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Result:
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GD: hey there!!!
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</pre>
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Remember that it doesn't automatically add a space! You'll need to add
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it in (see CT and AC examples again!)
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* <b>Simple Replace:</b>
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This will simply take a set of characters and replace them with other
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characters.
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* Let's add a quirk to our Nepeta:
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<pre>
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Replace: "ee" With: "33"
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You type: "*ac saunters from her dark cave a little bit sleepy from
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the recent kill*"
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Result:
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AC: :33 < *ac saunters from her dark cave a little bit sl33py from the
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recent kill*
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</pre>
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* Let's add two to Equius:
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<pre>
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Replace: "loo" With: "100"
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Replace: "x" With "%"
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You type: "look"
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Result:
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CT: D --> 100k
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You type: "What are you expecting to accomplish with this"
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Result:
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CT: D --> What are you e%pecting to accomplish with this
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</pre>
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* Aradia:
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<pre>
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Replace: "o" With: "0"
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You type: "and the reward would be within our reach"
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Result:
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AA: and the reward w0uld be within 0ur reach
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</pre>
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Notice that it is CASE SENSITIVE. So in the above case, if you typed
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"ABSCOND", it would not replace the "O".
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* Sollux:
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<pre>
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Replace: "i" With: "ii"
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Replace: "s" With: "2"
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</pre>
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* Eridan:
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<pre>
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Replace: "v" With: "vv"
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Replace: "w" With: "ww"
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</pre>
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* Feferi:
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<pre>
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Replace: "h" with: ")("
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Replace: "H" with: ")("
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Replace: "E" with: "-E"
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</pre>
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* <b>Regexp Replace:</b>
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This is a more complex kind of replacement. Regexp stands for "regular
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expression", a kind of programming language (yes, it is a language)
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used to find and replace text. PC 3.14 also includes a function to
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handle capitalization (upper()). If you want to learn it on your own,
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I suggest you start with the Python tutorial
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(http://docs.python.org/howto/regex.html) since PC 3.14 uses Python's
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regexps. Check out V2.5's tutorial too, as that is a pretty good start
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as well.
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* Let's start with Karkat. Regexps are just like your every day find and
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replace: they search for a string that matches what you want to
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replace, and replaces it with... the replacement.
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<pre>Regexp: "(.)" Replace with: "upper(\1)"</pre>
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Three concepts here. Let's look at the regexp. "(.)" has two things
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going on. The first is that ".". In regexp speak, "." is the wildcard:
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it will match *any* character -- and just one.
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The parentheses tell the regexp to *save* what's inside them so you
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can put it back when you replace. That's what the "\1" is for -- it
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means, "put the match inside parentheses #1 here". You can have any
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number of parentheses.
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* <b>"upper()"</b> is a function special to PC 3.14 -- it will uppercase
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anything inside the parentheses. So in this case, upper will uppercase
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"\1" -- which, as you recall is what we found inside the
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parentheses. Which was *every* character. So to sum up, it replaces
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every character with an uppercase version of that character. WHICH
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MAKES YOU TALK LIKE THIS.
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* Let's look at Terezi next.
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<pre>
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Regexp: "[aA]" Replace with: "4"
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Regexp: "[iI]" Replace with: "1"
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Regexp: "[eE]" Replace with: "3"
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Regexp: "(.)" Replace with: "upper(\1)"
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</pre>
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We already know what the last line does. But what's up with those
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brackets? What's their deal? Basically, in regular expressions,
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brackets indicate a list of matching characters. So, basically any
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single character within the brackets will be matched. In this case,
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either "a" or "A" will be matched and replaced with "4," and likewise,
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"i" and "I" will be replaced with "1", and "e" and "E" will be
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replaced with "3."
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Just like there is an <b>"upper()"</b> function, there is also a <b>"lower()"</b>
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function. It acts just like <b>"upper()"</b> but instead makes everything
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inside the parentheses lowercase. This allows you to do things like:
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<pre>
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Regexp: "(.)" Replace with: "lower(\1)"
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You type: "I AM YELLING"
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Result:
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GD: i am yelling
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</pre>
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Along with the upper and lower functions is a <b>"scramble()"</b> function.
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The purpose of this function is to randomly scramble anything inside
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the parentheses.
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<pre>
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Regexp: "(\w)(\w*)(\w)" Replace with: "\1scramble(\2)\3"
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You type: "hello there"
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Result:
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GD: hlelo trhee
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</pre>
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This particular regular expression scrambles all of the letters in
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the middle of a word. Notice that the "h" and "o" at the beginning
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and end of hello remain in place while the other letters are scrambled.
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|
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|
You should also know that "^" is a special character in brackets. If
|
|
placed immediately after the opening bracket (like "[^"), then the
|
|
brackets instead match every character *except* the ones in the
|
|
brackets. So, for example, if you wanted to have a quirk where you
|
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capitalized all your letters *except* o, you'd do this:
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<pre>
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|
Regexp: "([^o])" Replace with: "upper(\1)"
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You type: "hello there"
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Result:
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GD: HELLo THERE
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</pre>
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You can also specify a *range* of characters inside the brackets, by
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using the "-" character. [a-z] will match any lowercase letter. You
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can combine them, too: [a-z0-9] will match any digit and lowercase letter.
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|
There are also different shortcuts for character types:
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* \d matches any digit; same as [0-9]
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* \D matches any non-digit; same as [^0-9]
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* \s matches any spaces
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|
* \S matches any non-space
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* \w matches any alphanumeric character; same as [a-zA-Z0-9_]
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* \W matches any non-alphanumeric character; same as [^a-zA-Z0-9_]
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You can include this inside brackets, too.
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There's also a special character, \b. What \b does is make sure that
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you are at the beginning or end of a word.
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|
* So with that knowledge, let's try Kanaya:
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|
<pre>
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|
Regexp: \b(\w) Replace with: upper(\1)
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You type: "i suggest you come to terms with it"
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|
Result:
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|
GA: I Suggest You Come To Terms With It
|
|
</pre>
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|
|
|
Another feature of regular expressions is the ability to match
|
|
*repeated* characters. There are three repeat characters: the "*", the
|
|
"+", "?", and "{m,n}". They work by playing them after the character,
|
|
or character type you want to match. (So, you could say "\s+" or ".*")
|
|
|
|
The "*" character matches ZERO or more of that character. So, for
|
|
example, "f*" would match "f" and "ff" -- and any other character!
|
|
That's right, every character counts as matching it zero times. Yeah,
|
|
it's weird. I suggest you use...
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|
|
|
The "+" character matches ONE or more of that character. So, if we
|
|
wanted to have a character that wanted to elongate their s's so that
|
|
they used four 's's every time, like sssso, but didn't want to have
|
|
eight s's when using words with double s's, like pass, we'd do this:
|
|
<pre>
|
|
Regexp: "s+" Replace with: "ssss"
|
|
You type: "you shall not pass"
|
|
Result:
|
|
UU: you sssshall not passss
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
As for the other two, I can't really think of any useful quirks to be
|
|
made with them. But to let you know, "?" matches either 0 or 1 of that
|
|
character, so "trolls?" would match "troll" and "trolls". "{m,n}"
|
|
matches between m and n characters. (If you leave out 'n', any number
|
|
of characters more than m will be matched.) So "s{2,4}" will match
|
|
"ss", "sss", and "ssss" and that's it.
|
|
|
|
Now with repeating expressions, we can do something like make EVERY
|
|
other WORD capitalized:
|
|
<pre>
|
|
Regexp: "(\w+) (\w+)" Replace with: "upper(\1) \2"
|
|
You type: "this is pretty annoying i bet"
|
|
Result:
|
|
GD: THIS is PRETTY annoying I bet
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
The \1 matches the first word -- which has been matched because the
|
|
word is alphanumeric characters, repeated once or more -- and \2
|
|
matches the second word.
|
|
|
|
Another operator to use is the "|", which will match more than one set
|
|
of characters. For example, "black|red" will match "black" or
|
|
"red". If you want to match something in the middle of words, you have
|
|
to use parentheses: "(black|red) romance" will match "black romance"
|
|
and "red romance".
|
|
|
|
Finally, there are the "^" and "$" characters. Yes, we already did the
|
|
"^" character, but this is OUTSIDE of brackets, not INSIDE. "^"
|
|
matches the beginning of a message, and "$" matches the end of it. You
|
|
can use this to make more sophisticated prefix and suffix
|
|
behaviors. For example, if we have a quirk that adds "..." to the end
|
|
of all our messages, we can set it up so it doesn't do that if we put
|
|
punctuation [?!.] at the end. So:
|
|
<pre>
|
|
Regexp: "([^?!.])$" Replace with: "\1..."
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
This will match the end of any message as long as it doesn't have
|
|
"?", "!", or "." at the end. Then it will replace it with whatever the
|
|
last character of the sentence was (remember we're replacing it, so we
|
|
have to put it back!) and add "..." at the end.
|
|
|
|
Careful with the beginning and ending replaces -- if you use more than
|
|
one, you may not get what you expect because they will ALL be applied,
|
|
one after the other! This is a bug in my opinion, that I plan to fix!
|
|
|
|
* <b>Random replace:</b>
|
|
Just like the regexp replace, except that instead of just one thing to
|
|
replace it with, you give it a list. PC will then choose from that
|
|
list randomly. So let's say I want to randomly end my sentences with
|
|
either "bro" or "dog":
|
|
<pre>
|
|
Regexp: "$" Replace with: "bro" and "dog"
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
* You can also imitate Araida's random "ribbits" in between words:
|
|
<pre>
|
|
Regexp: "\s" Replace with: " ribbit ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", etc....
|
|
</pre>
|
|
|
|
where " " is just a blank space added a bunch of times. (You can see
|
|
how many blank spaces you've added by clicking on the list.) You have
|
|
to add the spaces because each entry has the same chance of being
|
|
selected. (Yes, I know this could be improved.) If you add " ribbit "
|
|
and 9 spaces, " ribbit " will have a 1/10 chance of being picked.
|
|
|
|
Also note that if you add more than one prefix or more than one
|
|
suffix, it will pick randomly from them instead of adding them both!
|
|
|
|
* <b>Mispeller</b>:
|
|
Be careful with thsi one. The mispeller will randomly mispell x% of
|
|
the words you type -- where x is the percentage you set the slider
|
|
to. I have attempted to mimic SBaHJ mispelling style but whoof knows
|
|
what will happen oh god ive created a mosnter
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|
|
|
|
|
SMILIES
|
|
-------
|
|
Here's a list of smilies:
|
|
|
|
* :rancorous:
|
|
* :apple:
|
|
* :bathearst:
|
|
* :cathearst:
|
|
* :woeful:
|
|
* :pleasant:
|
|
* :blueghost:
|
|
* :slimer:
|
|
* :candycorn:
|
|
* :cheer:
|
|
* :duhjohn:
|
|
* :datrump:
|
|
* :facepalm:
|
|
* :bonk:
|
|
* :mspa:
|
|
* :gun:
|
|
* :cal:
|
|
* :amazedfirman:
|
|
* :amazed:
|
|
* :chummy:
|
|
* :cool:
|
|
* :smooth:
|
|
* :distraughtfirman
|
|
* :distraught:
|
|
* :insolent:
|
|
* :bemused:
|
|
* :3:
|
|
* :mystified:
|
|
* :pranky:
|
|
* :tense:
|
|
* :record:
|
|
* :squiddle:
|
|
* :tab:
|
|
* :beetip:
|
|
* :flipout:
|
|
* :befuddled:
|
|
* :pumpkin:
|
|
* :trollcool:
|
|
* :jadecry:
|
|
* :ecstatic:
|
|
* :relaxed:
|
|
* :discontent:
|
|
* :devious:
|
|
* :sleek:
|
|
* :detestful:
|
|
* :mirthful:
|
|
* :manipulative:
|
|
* :vigorous:
|
|
* :perky:
|
|
* :acceptant:
|