Best posts made by Ganymede

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

@Auspice Have you considered getting a lobotomy? You can still MU with one of those, apparently.

Would you still love me?

Still?

@Arkandel said in New moderator.:

You may now kiss the forum.

That's just a nice way of saying "eat shit and die," isn't it?

@Jaded said in RL Anger:

I got stuck trying to get to a Half-Price near downtown just after a game let out and people kept wanting to run in front of the van I was driving at the time. I had so much road rage.

Columbus in general blows for traffic. Having a river dividing your downtown in two, with few bridges, is exhausting. The infrastructure is fucking old and needs to be replaced I'M LOOKING AT YOU I-70 / I-71 INTERCHANGES FUCK YOU.

The post was removed for good reason.

Tyche knew the rules.

What he said is no longer relevant, but yes it invoked Jews and ovens.

@Lithium said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Trying to do vegan while being allergic to nuts is a good way to fuck yourself over due to lack of protein.

Nuts and legumes.

Still, nutrition has changed since the last time I went vegan/vegetarian. Quinoa is produced enough that it's actually not too expensive. I'm surprised that durum wheat seems to be decently high in protein, along with brown rice. And couscous? Didn't see that coming.

This isn't an ideological thing; this is a can I do it? thing. If I can't, I can't -- I'm not going to cry. If I can, though, I will try it, and it may have some positive health benefits for me.

Won't really know 'til I give it a shot.

This post is written to address the issue of account deletions.

We generally do not do this. This is because nodeBB is bad at handling account deletions. Other forum platforms may neatly allow admins to delete accounts and all of the content attached to the same, but node BB simply does not. I have checked the community forums and, aside from warning admins that deletion will cause link and post issues, the advice is:

• Mark and move all posts to an admin-only forum that members cannot read; or
• Delete the posts as an admin.

Doing either of these is labor-intenstive. Recently, I deleted 900+ posts, and it took me roughly 3 hours. To do this I had to go to the account profile, pull up the posts related to the account, and manually delete each of them.

So if a member wants us to delete their account because they don't want to come back, we will simply ban the account. There are exceptional circumstances which may warrant taking the time to manually delete or move posts, but for now the general rule is that admins will respond to requests for deletion by banning an account , no questions asked.

You can direct any questions about this policy to me or any other admin.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

Celebrating death just feels uncomfortable. Like someone, somewhere is probably grieving. Let them have their grief and just... walk away.

If I'm at the point that I want someone to die, chances are I'll feel nothing when they are dead. Neither joy nor remorse.

Because their life and death meant that little to me.

@groth said in Ortallus Banned:

There is however a rules of engagement sticky in the hogpit which disallows misogyny and RL threats.

The rule stated by Arkandel is:

"Misogyny, racism sexual harassment, doxxing, real-life threats and the such are not going to be tolerated, and they will result in action against your account."

It was under this rule that action was taken.

I feel like this is landmine modding. There is to my knowledge no list of illegal words anywhere on this forum. There is no way a new poster can know which terms are allowed and which are not.

We expressly refrained from putting such a list up because people can always find ways to skirt around a specific list. As for new posters, my records show that Ortallus' account has been around since early 2018, and this topic has come up numerous times since then. This is not new to them; they are or should be aware of the rules of engagement.

And, no, we're not going to make a list going forward. The Hog Pit is what the Hog Pit is. Those of us who enjoy it -- in the words of Ortallus, we "thrive" on it -- are charged with knowing how to play in it. I have had at least one member ask me to go and change a comment because this one naughty word was in it, and I did so, no questions asked. Why? Because they demonstrated a modicum of self-awareness even if they may not have agreed with the rule barring the word.

If we are at the stage where we -- not me, not Mietze, not Arkandel, but the community -- want to jettison this remnant of what might be considered a shameful past, so be it. Let's talk.

But I think it far more "landmine modding" to ban a person based solely on my (tyrannical) discretion than to have a rule with more specificity than "just because our resident robot thinks what you said may upset others" or "please do not make the robot work."

@mietze said in RL Anger:

But what little I know of my bio family history there is a lot of cancer/autoimmune disease on both sides. So woohoo! Off to make an appointment to be treated like crap until enough time elapses for there to be further investigation into symptoms than stopping at "Forty+, Fat, Female."

Have you had your thyroid checked?

(Check out Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. It's not an Anime finishing move. You're in the right age range; you have a genetic history of autoimmune disorders; and it disproportionately hits women.)

@surreality said in RL Anger:

As an addendum to the 'babe in the woods' thing: @Kanye-Qwest and I have certainly had our share of snarling at each other. She had a legit question about something a while ago that could be taken as this sort of thing -- but she did a damn fine job of being clear that wasn't her intention in any way and I had zero problem taking her at her word and made sure to say as much. If somebody has a genuine question, and isn't playing stupid 'gotcha' games, it's often very evident. Hence the 'I am not taking @kk's question as an innocent inquiry'.

Now, let me show you where I am confused.

Your response raises a whole bunch of questions:

• What "legit question" are you talking about?
• What do you mean by "this sort of thing"?

As far as I can tell, you went ape when @kk said:

I am quite baffled. I believe that you argued that threads shouldn't be derailed over this stuff and yet here you are four days later on another thread still complaining that people didn't like that word being used.

The accusation here is that you said that threads shouldn't be derailed over whether someone should or should not be insulted over something (or discussions on gender politics, I think). You responded by saying, in paraphrase, that threads shouldn't be derailed unless you happen to be in the right forum for derailment.

Five days before, in the Random Bitching forum, you told @kk that you were tired with having to confront gender politics on a daily basis, and that you wanted to just focus on games and stuff. This is where @kk apologized:

I didn't and don't get the vibe that you had any intention of being mean about this.
I had some situations relating to such things myself both online and irl. I have no desire to go into the details though.

I apologize that the thread has been frustrating to you.

This wouldn't have started if the insult wasn't used in the first place and it wouldn't have escalated if it wasn't argued and defended like it was, when it was called out. A simple sorry, shouldn't have used that word would have silenced it a long time ago.

So, this being the last comment before she made the one you emptied on her for, exactly what sort of "grudge" exists? Because, as I was reading it, @kk was essentially saying: "hey, I'm sorry the thread went this way, but I've been through some rough gender-bias stuff too, and I just felt compelled to call it out."

See where I'm confused? You want to avoid discussions of gender politics on game forums because you face it on a daily basis, and she apologized for doing so. And then she points out that you're engaging in a discussion (kind of) regarding sexist slurs, and you elect to find some sort of grudge in it. I understand that there's a difference here, but @kk literally hadn't said anything for five days, and not even in the same thread.

That's why I honestly took a double-take. Because you did say something along the lines of "this sort of talk derails threads and I don't like it" and then you're fine with engaging in a similar discussion because it's a different thread, and admit so.

It's confusing. That's why I wanted to understand.

I still think you over-reacted on this one, but I've got a clearer picture now. Thanks.

@misadventure said in Another leave of absence:

I have told my cats that while it is true that dinner is only so much food at 6pm, their life is not as sad as a robot cat's life.

@Arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

It's frustrating because it's so doable. And because I spent decades of my life not doing it.

That's exactly my point. Your friend knows this about you too, if he's your friend.

My partner is a six-time cancer survivor. She has scoliosis of the variety that makes it hard to find pants that fit right. She's a mother of twins at age 4. She's just finished up her first year of her P.A. program successfully, and has 5 weeks before she hits clinical rotations.

And she went to the fucking gym for the first time in over a year yesterday.

So, yeah, I have no patience for this friend of yours. My partner has every reason to just stop working out, but she does it because she knows the health benefits (and hangs around with early 20-something college grads, most of whom could model, and don't think I didn't notice this at their white-coat ceremony, goddammit).

Make the time. Take the time. Stop making excuses.

@tinuviel said in Organix banned:

As a resident mentally ill person: Mental illness isn't a reason to be lenient.

I don't see it as a reason for leniency; I see it as a potential explanation for some behavior.

@surreality said in RL Anger:

Most folks wouldn't have the courage to say it, even if most of us would be thinking it.

Most decent folks would have the fucking backbone to tell the sad-eyed girl: sorry babe I have plans today; dick later?

This post relates to accidental or inadvertent posting of others' PI.

We moderators are cognizant that accidents occur, we are also of the opinion that many accidents are preventable. That said, users are responsible for what they post. If you cut-and-paste a post from elsewhere that contains PI, you are responsible for the contents of that post. And that means that if it contains PI, you will be removed for having violated this rule unless you take steps immediately to address the issue.

More or less, if any of the moderators have to step in to remove PI from the board before a user modifies a post to exclude it, a violation has occurred, regardless of knowledge.

Be careful what you post from elsewhere and be careful when using names. We look at these things on a case-by-case basis, along with what we surmise to be the intent of a post.

And, as always, violations of this rule force me to actually do work, and making me work makes me grumpy.

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Also we seem to be more about cats than dogs. What's with that?

If I wanted to be constantly accosted by whiny bitches I'd make another child or become staff somewhere again.

I like my pets like my ghouls: sultry, sexy, quiet, and very gay.

@ominous

As always, making me do work here will result in instant death.

Plus, y'all should be more worried about:

Peeve No. 1:

E-mail: "So, based on responses, we have openings on August 3 and August 7 for depositions. Which one works best?"
Response: "I put that date on my calendar."

Me at desk: WHICH FUCKING DATE THERE ARE TWO OF THEM DIPSHIT?

Peeve No. 2:

Me: "Honey, have you seen my keys?"
Partner: from the other room "It's over there."

Me in head: WHERE THE FUCK IS 'THERE'?

Peeve No. 3:

Me: "So, where did you want to go for dinner tonight?"
Partner: "Oh, I don't know. You pick."

Me in head: THE FUCK IT IS WOMAN YOU VETO EVERY GODDAMN PLACE I LIKE EVERY FUCKING TIME.

This is a topic started to announce to people things that I inadvertently broke while doing something else.

While adjusting whether users can view the histories of posts, I broke the Hog Pit. Kind of. Those of you who opted-out of it may see it back on your list. Sorry about that. I'm not sure what I did, but I have been looking online for solutions. The Community Pages are not helpful.

Anyhow, it may be a simple fix. If you go into the Forum, you can set it from "Watching" to "Ignoring." That should turn off notifications of new posts and stuff, but you may still access the place.

I will confer with Arkandel about flipping it back to where it was before. I apologize for the inconvenience.