Chat is a monstrous interactive novel, with dozens
of people writing in it at a time, changing fluently, though quite often
haltingly, from person to person, and adjusting each character to fit in
the world of the rest. Here people pretend to be things that they aren't,
and the best idea is to simply go with the flow, or you'll become hated
by many. I, personally, come to chat to escape from reality, and it works.
Things in chat that go well make people happy, and vice versa... but chat
lives go on. You can shift from person to person, creature to creature,
and change yourself completely, from good to evil, evil to good, and then
return to your same old self without a flaw. I find this makes you take
things into perspective, seeing that people may hate one of your chat personas
for a single small flaw, and absolutely adore another without question.
Well, with that said, here's all that you need to
know to do EVERYTHING in chat.
Go to nintendo's Nsider from
the link above, and from there sign up as an Nsider (or log in). From Nsider
you'll see "Chat" and can get set up with the Ichat plugin. After that,
you need to know how to switch between rooms. Trial and error works best
to find which rooms are linked to which. To switch rooms, you type /go
bungalow or /go porch. From the pool you can only go to certain
rooms, and the same goes for all rooms. If you want to know all the rooms,
check the list above.
Talking is obbvious, so I'll skip that part, but
PMing is something you neeed to learn. To PM you type /tell username
and then the message.
So, if you wanted to privately tell me "I got Zelda!",
you would type /tell sharkrider I got Zelda! [enter] Simple, really.
To make it look like thought bubbles are emanating
out of your name, type /think blah blah blah and it will make it
happen! For instance if I said, /think I need some caffiene. would
look like this:
sharkrider . o 0 (I need some caffiene.)
Now here comes the most important one, the actions.
To do an action you type : /emote or /me at the
beginning of a message. What this does is simply take away the "Username
says, 'Blah Blah.'" and puts in your name. So if your name was Jakepike
and you typed : before jumps. It would be Jakepike jumps.
You could also type :stabs shark in the side , but I would beat
you up.
Heres another important one. If someone is scrolling,
which means typing the same thing over and over, and slowing chat down,
or maybe doing something else you don't like, you add them to ignore. So,
if there was some guy called Gknightdiddy and he was being annoying,
all you have to do is type /ignore add gknightdiddy [enter].
You will never see or hear from them again, unless you typed /ignore
remove gknightdiddy [enter]. The you could see him again.
There's also a great thing called a buddy list.
This tells you when the people on your buddy list log on, or off. So, if
you added me to your B-list by typing /buddy add sharkrider, when
I was online you'd know, and when I logged off, too.
That about covers it. If you need to know anything
else, email me! [email protected]
Or ICQ me at 19886787. Seeya around!