Best posts made by Ganymede

There was Match of the Millennium, but that was more of a fighting game. Street Fighter's system wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great.

@skew said in Livia's playlist.:

There were two Victoria Roths in fairly quick succession. Not sure which one you were!

I played Claudio (and am more memorable than @Ganymede ).

Fuck you. You've had it in for me since I turned into a cloud of spiders after giving Claudio head.

@Lain said in RL Anger:

Then you should read the rest of my post. We also have: literal mobs of people rioting in the interest of shutting up anybody right of Noam Chomsky for being a "Nazi," ...

... private citizens. (By the way, I've no love for Chomsky; the guy is a fucking nutjob.)

... CEOs of major companies publicly threatening to fire you for voting wrong ...

... private citizens.

... and cities revoking licenses to stage peaceful demonstrations at the last minute for ideological reasons and then sending in the police to shut those demonstrations down.

... which Charlottesville was enjoined from doing, pursuant to a federal court order.

Literally the only way the American Left could get worse on free speech is if they were to successfully institute a gulag system. It's atrocious. Frankly, it's worrying. Its like McCarthyism on steroids.

Wait, so it's the American Left that threatened to alter libel laws? That argued that corporations should have unlimited donations to political campaigns? That sought an exception based on religion for corporations to deny equal protection under the laws?

No, please, do tell.

Modern, white Americans have no idea what suppression or oppression means or is. I'll wager you haven't had an entire branch of your family imprisoned and then killed for trying to read books that were banned by the government.

But, sure. Go on. Tell me how bad the American Left is, please! Continue.

(Don't get me wrong, the American Left is stupid, naïve, and fascist on a lot of other levels, but this ain't it.)

@surreality said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

Arkandel asked us as forum participants to call this behavior out when we see it. And mod or not, you are also a forum participant.

I did, as Lithium can attest to.

I even called myself out on the double-standard issue, and revealed an embarrassing incident where I went so far out of character I didn't know how to apologize properly. For months.

What I have noticed is that, when one of us mods says "please stop," there's pushback. There's pushback from whomever the mod may have replied to, even if the post is worded to apply to everyone. There's pushback from those who aren't even involved, who want to weigh in on whether there should have been any response. There was a very vocal discussion on whether or not we should preface messages with "MOD VOICE" to distinguish tones. And the personal tone of some of the reproaching words directed at Auspice was nothing short of outrageous to me.

If people -- all y'all -- want someone like me, Arkandel, or Auspice to step in and tell you when you've gone too far based on our own subjective opinion on what "too far" means? I'm really okay with that. What I've noticed, however, is that when we do that we often stir up more trouble than the trouble we sought to quell.

Of late, though, Arkandel has had good reasons, and I trust in his judgment.

Personally? I don't really care if the Hog Pit goes. I don't have the time or the energy to muster up a Raptor-like takedown, and reading what sometimes gets flung over there is more tedious than entertaining. For the past few years, I've had more fun, entertainment, and lively discussion outside of it. I might miss it, but I don't think so.

@kanye-qwest said in The hog pit thread titled Admin Derp:

You locked it because an admin was acting a fool and people were calling them out.

No. I locked it for the reasons I stated. I am aware of the opinion that was raised; I'm aware of the reactions to it; and I am aware of what sort of fire that particular opinion is going to cause. And, no, I haven't an interest in debating the outcome, why it is wrong-thinking, or my thoughts as to what such an egregious leak will do to the state of the United States' governance.

There are many threads in the hog pit specifically made to talk about a single person, and the distinction between staff on a GAME being fair targets and staff on this board not being fair targets is a bad call.

My response to Devrex and Saosmash's discussion was not a comment on whether the thread was opened or should have been opened. The call to close it was made by mietze, and I support it. And dealing with the situation is what I am doing right now, and when the situation has been dealt with to my satisfaction, the thread may or may not be reopened.

Please continue.

@Alamias said in Livia's playlist.:

And here I thought Kaleb was into some twisted shit....

You've no idea.

@Auspice

This is awesome! Congratulations.

@three-eyed-crow

I don't know if any mod has ever stepped in to tell those posters "yo, point made, move along." But we have moved in when a poster is dominating a thread through multiple, generally unproductive or shit posts.

@lithium

Try Heavy Gear or The Jovian Chronicles. They are anime inspired, mostly from Robotech.

@Jennkryst said in The guy who coded Kishi Kaisei MUX [L5R]:

Necros because Fantasy Flight announced a beta test for their upcoming L5R RPG. I'll hop on the forums over there, request official authorization for MU-ing, etc etc. We'll see how zany the dice are for this one.

No. No. I liked L5R the way it was.

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

Shunning is wildly popular these days, but less so in churches.

This is kind of sad in so many ways.

@lithium said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

So change it so downvotes don't touch popularity? The whole 'popularity' metric needs to get tossed on it's ear to begin with, it's complete bullshit.

By "popularity," of course, I mean the up-voting function, and, to my knowledge, the down-votes will affect whatever vote score is out there, or not.

(Childishly, yes, I like the fact that I have the most reputation, ha ha ha, peons, grrr, no, not really, but anything I can do to tweak Arkandel.)

But if we remove the function, then, based on your reasoning from before, the foreseeable consequence would be people posting to support someone else's negative opinion of another, thus starting a dogpile. So, let's say, you and I were to get into a disagreement about something; it is foreseeable that someone who hates you and has a vendetta might pipe in to support my opinion, and then take a snipe at you. And then, you respond to them, and they reply back, and another person backs them up with another post and a snipe, and then, the cycle continues.

I'm ambivalent, truly, on the idea of up or down votes, but I think they are calculated to minimize the number of "me too" posts that may crop up.

@three-eyed-crow said in Mass Effect MU*?:

It would work for some things without much tweaking. On X-Factor, I played a pyrotechnic whose fire powers were approximated with a custom weapon @tat made up for me in about 20 minutes after chargen. That's directly comparable to a tech power like incinerate, and I think you could manage an OK approximation of the effects of damage-causing powers like Warp and Slam.

I think that biotic powers would work like one-shot weapons, with a "reload" as a resting time. I envision two types of attacks: an area attack, which does decent damage to multiple targets; and a single-target attack, which has high penetration and damage.

Not sure what I'd do about tech powers, which always seem to be the red-headed step-children in ME. In my custom system, I boiled those powers down to hacking abilities via an Omni-tool; Incinerate became Overheat, for example. So, I can also see a sort of "hacking" attack that could shock/damage a target or cause them to lose a turn (from getting stunned or fried from an electric jolt through their shielding system).

Anyhow, my real sticking point is the resource management engine.

I'll spend some time tonight thinking of a reasonable time-table.

@surreality said in Looking for an Artist, actually willing to pay...:

Again... this has been said. I know I'm wordy, but come on, this is two in a damn row, y'all, and that isn't cool.

Succinctly, if you want to make a concise point then you could try to employ verbal parsimony.

That said, I didn't read anything in what you wrote that contradicted what I wrote, which is that any negative impact underselling may have to professionals is due to customer inexperience/idiocy/greed.

It happens in what I do all the damned time, and there's a part of me that wants to shake the potential clients and tell them that you always get what you pay for. And then I'm getting yelled at by opposing counsel because I take over a case that's been fucked since its inception because the previous lawyer had no clue what he was doing.

Customers are generally ignorant and stupid. I wish I had better things to say about them.

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

Assholes, I wore heels for that.

Next time, add the micro skirt.

Tramp.

(Just kidding. Sorry to hear that. Wish I could feed you bourbon.)

@faraday said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

Not to be defeatist or anything, but if we rule out manual moderation, and we rule out automated tools, and we've demonstrated that policies by themselves don't help, ummmmm..... what's left?

I don't think we've ruled out manual moderation or policy fixes.

Okay. None of the following:

• Hanar
• Elcor
• Volus
• Asari

Just kidding on the last! Where would we be without hot blue aliens?

@thenomain

And yet people aren't shy at all about heading to their doctors.

@WTFE said in RL Anger:

The problem wasn't that there were dietary restrictions or preferences. The problem was that they were increasingly specific. "I can only eat wheat-free (gluten-free wasn't a thing back then), dairy-free, tomato-free, but not vegan -- I like my meat." "I can only eat vegan, tomato-free, but not wheat-free because wheat-free crusts are of the Devil." "I can only eat <insert laundry list of increasingly bizarre requirements>."

It's fucking free food, not civil rights.

I'm allergic to fucking nuts and legumes, but you don't see me being a bitch about motherfuckers who insist on bringing hummus and pecan pie in.

"Oh, but I'm vegan, so if you don't provide me with an option, I'll feel left out."

You fucking left out meat and dairy products voluntarily, so go fuck that noise. You don't fit in at a Burger King, but I don't see you whining to them.

SO MUCH AGGRAVATION.

@faraday said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

More moderation sounded pretty ruled out to me? Maybe I'm missing something.

From our conversations beyond the curtain, the answer is still undecided.

Clearly, there has to be some moderation, but I think the issue is whether we are going to dip in and monitor the place with an iron fist, simply keep an eye open, as we usually do, or somewhere in between. I take Arkandel's comment to mean that we aren't going to go with the former, even if I wouldn't have a problem cracking down like ICE in El Paso.

Regarding policy, I take Arkandel's comment to mean that forcing people to be nice to one another is beyond the scope of what we'd like to do. Grumpily commenting when there's dog-piling or shit-storming isn't the same thing, in my opinion.