Treason Free Speech Limiter (Now Available!)

[xombie]

I've been reading Stuff and just read the entry for the Treason Free Speech Limiter. I really think using one of these in game could be a blast, but I don't know if I'd subject a player to the difficulty of trying to form his sentences and roleplay the way it would sound.

Then I got to thinking about how simple it would probably be to record all 100 words using a type to speech program like Speakonia, and then setting up a simple web-based program for a player to utilize when he's stuck wearing one of these items.

Even if I can't manage to pull it off, I have plenty of friends who could do it in a short while, and I have the programs to do it. Would the creator of said item Ben Engelsberg, and Mongoose have any objection to me making and hosting such a resource. Either that or making it as a simple program and perhaps making that available to the Paranoia crowd.

Any information would be cool, since Allen Varney seems to frequent these forums I figured I could just post this here and see what the verdict is.

I'm going to look into making this for myself anyways, but I wouldn't want to upset anyone by providing such a resource (which would basically give away the basic functions of the item) without proper consent.

 

[Allen Varney]

Would the creator of said item Ben Engelsberg, and Mongoose have any objection to me making and hosting such a resource. Either that or making it as a simple program and perhaps making that available to the Paranoia crowd.

Sounds like a terrific idea, Xombie! Ben Engelsberg has vanished from IntSec surveillance and is currently whereabouts-unknown, but I shall speak by proxy for him and say go, go, go!

When you've made your program available, let us know here and I'll post a link on the PARANOIA development blog.

 

[xombie]

Would the creator of said item Ben Engelsberg, and Mongoose have any objection to me making and hosting such a resource. Either that or making it as a simple program and perhaps making that available to the Paranoia crowd.

Sounds like a terrific idea, Xombie! Ben Engelsberg has vanished from IntSec surveillance and is currently whereabouts-unknown, but I shall speak by proxy for him and say go, go, go!

When you've made your program available, let us know here and I'll post a link on the PARANOIA development blog.

Sweet! Gotta talk to a friend about a few things, basically how to make it easiest to use, and I'll get to it.

My first instinct is to do this through Flash, that way I can make the whole thing look like a "control unit" display.

 

[darth_azabrush]

Sounds Mind Boggling!

 

[xombie]

Update #1:
Well, I got the word list layed out and now I'm working on making all the wavs. Some conversion and tedious button creation and presto. Soon we'll have it done.

Update #2:
Sound files finished, now for the tedious button making. Yay! The computer is my friend, happy am I to work on this project.

 

[xombie]

Well, it's done, didn't take as long as I'd anticipated. I hope to have it online soon and available for download. Now I need another project to work on. Anyone have any ideas to challenge me as I'm learning Flash?

 

[spiritolst]

what about a 'smarter' treason speech limiter where the user can can type a string and it will play the audio files in sucession?

 

[darth_azabrush]

Xombie you're a genius! And thats coming from a classicist with an IQ of 130!

 

[Mark Dunder]

Go go go (to borrow a varney), how do I access it? Is it cleared for Infrareds?

 

[xombie]

what about a 'smarter' treason speech limiter where the user can can type a string and it will play the audio files in sucession?

Actually I kind of like that, although I think it would lose some of it's impact. I've toyed around with it a bit and I can see how funny it will be to subject a PC to using it. I'm gonna test run it this weekend, and hope to have it hosted sometime this week.

Xombie you're a genius! And thats coming from a classicist with an IQ of 130!

Thanks, it's painful to be so smart.

 

[Mark Dunder]

Don't you citizens know that having an IQ other than 100 is treason? Makes you a mutie, don'tcha know?

 

[xombie]

Well, one dead fridge and a lot of ruined food have put on hold my hopes of picking up some sweet webspace and starting my own little site for hosting things such as this.

 

[Allen Varney]

Thanks, xombie! Unfortunately, I got a "yahoofs.com cannot be found" error.

.RAR is perhaps suboptimal for the greater PARANOIA audience; might a .ZIP archive be possible?

If I can find someone else to host this for you, would that be okay?

 

[xombie]

That would be completely fine. It's not all that big really. I just .rar filed it because I've got a little notepad with some basic info.

It's weird that it didn't work because I tested it out. Hm.

 

[xombie]

It seems every time I log off of my briefcase the link to the file changes. Hence the difficulty.

Anyhoo, yeah I switched it to a .zip file. I really don't know why I went with .rar in the first place other than I'm just used to it.

 

[xombie]

Here's a working link. Turns out geocities doesn't like .RAR files. However .ZIP files are cool. Free geocities has a pretty weak hourly download limit but I think this will do for those people who want a copy.

Enjoy!

http://www.geocities.com/selfindulgencestudios

 

[Mark Dunder]

I use a Mac, so the file is useless to me.

 

[xombie]

I use a Mac, so the file is useless to me.

Any particular way to fix that, I'm not at all familiiar with Macs. Perhaps putting it up as a regular Flash file? Let me know.

 

[xombie]

Okay, bear with me I'm just learning flash. I've published it as a Mac projector and I've uploaded it to the website now. Someone with a Mac please let me know if that takes care of the problem.

I've also added a link that will launch the program within your browser.

Any feedback is more than welcome.

 

[Allen Varney]

Am I supposed to see anything other than a black screen? Currently I don't.

Once this is up and hosted on a nice high-bandwidth site, this looks like it'll be a fun accessory for every STUFF customer!