Please make *scream audible again

[Likteer]

EDIT: I PR'd it. Turns out I wasn't the 1st one to attempt this either.
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/86782
(https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/57749)

*scream (and *screech) don't play a sound, unless triggered naturally
Other audible emotes work on a cooldown to prevent spam.

With the cooldown in place, and "clowns" moving on to TTS (has it's own anti-spam),
I don't see why it should still be treated so harshly.

Why do I want to scream on demand?

• The barrier sticks out among the other emotes. It irks me.

• I find it amusing in moderation.

• I think it brings out the fun in other people, especially on LRP..
  Audible emotes breathe a bit of life and grabs attention in the way normal talk can't.
  
  When you act goofy, a lot of people stop thinking about gameplay and goof back,
  when otherwise they wouldn't give you the time of day.

For instance, when I see a giant sentient spider in maintenance, I could immediately run away, fight or snitch on comms...
But I can also stop and *stare until it does something, maybe even *me: chitters (talking is obviously a no-go).

If I could then AUDIBLY *scream when running away, after my excellent diplomacy inexplicably fails, it would really make the whole interaction come together for me.

[RaveRadbury]

I'm also pro audible *scream, although I'm not sure if it's ever been audible?

I've seen spam concerns addressed on other servers with oxyloss, which I think is pretty funny and interesting. We should have more mundane oxyloss and stamloss interactions.

"Yeah but is it fair to have it hotkeyed" I'd argue kinda sorta yeah? Like, humans instinctually scream. I'd rather hear a scream from maint than see straightforward callouts in comms. They have the same level of effort but one is more IC, I think.

It's likely an easy PR, just have to see what the maint team thinks.

[Roadto3k]

It was that way a long time ago, but oxygen loss didnt stop spam. I think some lung damage would be good

[norsvenska]

screaming too much makes you lose your voice irl so that should be mirrored here

[Vekter]

I would put a cooldown on it of like 2 minutes because I was around when cyborg *deathgasp didn't have one and holy shit you people can't be trusted with that power

[Likteer]

It's likely an easy PR, just have to see what the maint team thinks.

I asked here because it looked like server config.
I would try to PR myself otherwise, but it seemed best I can do is ask on forums.

[Diasyl]

Why we didn't make audible emote spam bannable already?
Seems like most of the problems can be solved by just banning them.

[mrmelbert]

I'm of the opinion we need to block people from binding every sound emote to the same button before adding more

[datorangebottle]

I'm of the opinion we need to block people from binding every sound emote to the same button before adding more

clearly we should make it so the code automatically bread smites anyone who binds more than one sound emote to the same button.

[Likteer]

Why we didn't make audible emote spam bannable already?

THIS ^

Also I was wrong, it's code. Ima make a PR.

[Jacquerel]

I support making it audible with like a 3 or 4 second cooldown, if we have TTS it doesnt matter anyway

[Super Aggro Crag]

i love making noise.