Best posts made by Ganymede

@coin said in Dead Celebrities 2018:

I'm not down with the eating of dicks being used as punishment but fuck Burt Reynolds, the guy was a jackass.

"That's not my name."

@DownWithOPP said in FS3:

I just need to work on getting myself out of that mindset, of really, treating the Timber Wolves like GI Joe, a highly trained special missions force where everyone had that one or two things they did really really well that made them get picked.

It's not really a bad mindset to have. In which case, I want to be the nerdy recon girl that gets distracted by weather patterns from watching troop movements.

@derp

@Ghost said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

Well, VASpider is just the first one in the stocks.

The fuck she is.

People have bad-mouthed @Tempest. A lot. Yet she hasn't garnered the same amount of discussion. Why? Because she doesn't have a pattern of bad behavior that can be verified by multiple sources who otherwise do not have anything to do with one another.

What about the people who drive some Star Wars to the ground. Rex/Sovereign? Elsa? None of them have risen to this level, but a lot of people have come out against them.

Custodius doesn't even have this level of infamy here.

Innocent people -- even guilty people -- have not gotten the same treatment.

@macha

Keep documenting all of this. Keep a journal.

It will help if you later decide you want to file an action under the ADA.

This is a textbook case. I've seen the pattern.

@Meg said in MU and Alternate Channels:

So if Player A is making up a lie that is keeping Player B and Player C from playing with Player D, even if it's about their real life, why would you /not/ look into Player A lying and spreading rumors about Player D?

A better question is: how would you discover Player A's lies in this situation?

Because this is demonstrably how VASpider destroys games.

@surreality said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

It is still a pretty awesome thing -- even if it's a pain in the butt … .

Pain in the butt, you say?

@Arkandel said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

Wtf do you find these people? Between that and the person who reported you to staff for the plot (she?) repeatedly asked you to run... damn. That's some big bucket of badshit crazy right there.

This was back when Start Your Engines was a thing. Back when Dark Metal was a thing. Tartarus. Man, that's a long time ago, and people were really fucking unbalanced then, relative to now. I may not particularly like @Kanye-Qwest, for example, but she's not half as bad as the people I used to know from that era of games. @HelloRaptor has more and better war stories than I.

Constructively, I'm opposed to the idea of a database or cataloguing. On a forum, you can debate allegations. With a database, I fear people will fall into the trap of accepting lore as data. On a forum, you can ask about a particular player and determine whether the allegations are true or not. With a database, there is a sense of "authority" with what's recorded, even if what is recorded isn't entirely accurate or may even be doctored.

Occasionally, I like to get really angry.

Get angry with me! Go watch Netflix's Dirty Money series.

Get angry.

(And then vote.)

@HelloProject said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

Have fun! I hope everyone learned something! I hope this was more helpful than the average Cirno post about race.

It was. It also illustrates how far Asian-Americans like me still have to go to enjoy portrayals of our own culture. Fresh Off The Boat was good, but it is such a small, over-wrought sliver of Chinese Immigrant culture.

@tinuviel said in RL Anger:

Something, something, electoral college...

@bored said in Social Combat: Reusing Physical Combat System?:

The super powers vs non is an important point. I think people often get so wrapped up in 'dice should matter' that they lose some idea of the scope of this stuff they're asking for. There are things 'good social skills' can do, but outright controlling others, changing their beliefs, etc, is hard.

Right. That's why I brought that up.

If you allow standard social rolls in CoD to accomplish what should be monumental tasks, like changing an anti-choice advocate into a pro-choice soldier, then you obviate supernatural powers. And the powers are supernatural because they accomplish things without explanation.

@Seraphim73? @Sparks? Looks like we have a good, old-fashioned competition here! Yee-haw!

@paris

Anything by Peter Stormare is going to be boss.

@Arkandel said in Social Combat: Reusing Physical Combat System?:

To be honest after discussing these things at length in threads like this I'm inclined to agree with an earlier approach @Ganymede suggested; just not have social stats. I'm not satisfied with it, it reduces the number of different niches and 'builds' in games, but it still seems better to what we're coming up with so far.

To be clear, I didn't say you shouldn't have them. I said that you shouldn't have them if you don't plan to enforce the results when called upon. I see nothing wrong with social combat, social stats, or anything like that, but I'm pretty easy going and don't really care much what happens with my PC if someone manipulates or steers them ICly.

If anyone has any information about how the community may be able to help his loved ones, I'm sure we'd appreciate knowing how.

@Lotherio said in Good Political Game Design:

I agree there are many good potential systems. But which one of these has longevity on/in a Mu* environment? Without OOC drama or people just leaving because of hurt feelings?

I've said it too many times to count: just because no one has successfully executed something does not mean it cannot be successfully executed.

@Sparks' proposal has a lot of merit to it. It's very sensible. It's something that I've toyed and worked with. It's similar to how reasonably successful models have worked. And I can't say this enough, but we have to build upon these ideas and keep trying. If we don't, then all we have is what we've had, which is to say nothing.

You can have PvP competition without butt-hurt. You can have competitive politics without butt-hurt. I've seen it happen in World of Darkness games, and that setting is premised on butt-hurt. So, no, I'm not going to conclude, out of course, that past failures mean that something will never happen, especially where so few games actually attempt serious politics.

Married ... with Children is on Hulu now. All episodes.

Bask in the glorious precursor to the absurdist humor of The Simpsons and beyond.

@surreality said in Critters!:

...the sig says it all.

You are all fools.