Best posts made by Ganymede

I was the one who called for the removal, actually. There wasn't much of a discussion. I said that it needed to be moved, and it was moved. Arkandel can confirm.

I've made it clear what my opinion is regarding advertisements. Normally, I ask an OP for a game advertisement if they would like us to split off and move a discussion elsewhere. Here, I am all-but-certain that Paris and Botulism will not be returning, so I did not contact them. My last conversations with Paris, however, suggested to me that they would rather not have any additional potshot-taking on their advertisement. So, I asked if either Arkandel or Auspice would split off and move the discussion elsewhere.

Suggesting some sort of bias on Auspice's part for doing her duty as moderator is out of line and dead-ass wrong. I've been trying to keep the Advertisement thread clean because I want there to be a place where people can advertise their games without having to worry about their posts being shat on right from the start. Even if we may hate and loathe what other people say or do, we all owe it to one another to have the decency and the smidgen of respect to do it in the area created for shit-flinging.

We've talked a lot about safe spaces on games. I hope I am being crystal clear as to what everyone can expect regarding Advertisements moving forward so long as Arkandel wants to keep me around with a hat.

@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Just refuse. Cite medical necessity. You've got the documentation for it. If they try and take retributive action, you've got a mile of proof that their actions were unreasonable given the circumstances.

And I will never understand how they would have concluded that the person with crippling social anxiety would be a good test agent for call taking.

We call this "malice."

@HelloRaptor said:

Most games are ultimately in the hands of one or two people, who are ultimately responsible for game policy. If said person(s) wanted to ban a particular line of roleplay because they personally had issues with it and didn't want to deal with it there's not much I could say. But to pretend that's not what it is, and act as if that very specific sort of subject matter deserves to be stepped on because it makes some nebulous percentage of the population too uncomfortable to allow while virtually every other subject matter that makes some nebulous percentage of the population uncomfortable is A_OK? Meh. You can say unreasonable, but I'm fine with calling it hypocrisy.

Sure, you can call it that, but that's not what the word means.

As I said, I'm old and mature enough to deal with the consequences of banning a particular form of RP. I've stated the reasons for banning rape RP, and set the boundaries for it. In this case, I think it is easier to justify the ban on rape RP than to justify permitting it for the sake of moral absolutism.

@shelbeast

I think that's a fair assessment.

For the time being, if something is moved from this arena to the Hog Pit you may assume that I requested that it be moved.

If my tone is defensive, it is because I find that imputing a malicious intent behind an act to someone who is actually doing something within their duties and obligations on my account to be unnecessary.

So, let's be fair: my request; my mistake; and let's end this here. I already feel like shit about it.

@Luna said:

Basically just knowing that I used to be an oWoD changeling wiz says it all.

That'll do it. With us, if we use the phrase "don't believe me -- just watch," something horrifying will happen.

No more businesses for individual PCs.

If you're going to make a location, make it significant. A tur; an Elysium; a sanctum.

And then, make it something cheery or mundane as a veneer. Like an Olive Garden Elysium. Or a Chuck-E-Cheese Tur.

@shelbeast said in Fallout MU*:

Personally, for the actual character system, I'd rather see if we can adapt the SPECIAL system more directly, or even look at the SIMPLE system for the tabletop RPG that Josh Sawyer was working on.

Broken record: FS3 could pull off the SPECIAL system quite easily. Skill set may be a bit more difficult. I don't think Faraday has the other knick-knacks and do-dads, but that wasn't personally the appeal in Fallout to me.

@jibberthehut said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I can't use dried dill weed to make his pickles and peppers. Jeeeeesus.

Well, you can, actually, and you should, so that he may suffer for it.

@Pyrephox said in What locations do you want to RP in?:

I would definitely like to see a WoD game that played up how fundamentally corrupt the world was, without making it 'and everyone is always miserable forever'.

People should try making characters with some depth, then.

Or learn how to perform improv.

Or, you know, have a wit of awareness for the world, which is pretty corrupt as it is and makes many of us miserable forever.

The conceit in the World of Darkness isn't that it's different; it's that it's not different.

@ixokai said in Stranger Than Fiction MUX:

I find myself agreeing with @Tempest here.

I haven't run the metrics here, but isn't it equally likely that the activity that would have been in the Hog Pit or elsewhere has instead been directed at the Administration on MSB thread?

Plus, that would be ignoring the thread on Elsa's misbehaviors, the fun stuff about United Heroes, the posts here, on The 8th Sea.

There's only so much time in the day.

Recently, an associate left my firm. We are two attorneys down now, with increasing work.

This isn't usually a bad thing, but I'm finding that a lot of the cases I'm picking up having been properly loved and maintained. I find that frustrating.

Also, I've been pulling 10-11 hour days for, like, two weeks now. Which seems normal for a lawyer, but for a parent it blows.

@Wavert said in Where do you draw the line in having your character take what would otherwise be an "IC" action for them?:

For example, maybe I logically know my PC would seek out PC X for further details about some plot thread they have, but I don't like X's player and find them grating to roleplay with, so I'd rather find another way. Or maybe my PC is the sort to jump headfirst into situations without thinking about, but I know staying true to that behavior in this particular instance would mean RPing something i'm not ever comfortable with (Maybe it would just get me into something that's too dark or stupid than I wanna engage with).

Use @mail to send an IC letter to PC X requesting information, if he or she has it. If PC X provides the information, then you have acted to your satisfaction in an IC way and avoided RPing with PC X's player.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

And I'm Max. If I'm on, ping me. I'm generally available to play or run scenes whenever I'm on.

MUSHing is what set me up for my post-high-school relationships, all of which have been very fulfilling.

MUSHing is a safe space for me, where I can explore whatever identity I want to explore. I can explore gay, straight, bi, pan, trans, any sort of relationships I can. I would never say that I can completely empathize with sexualities beyond my own, but I like to think that MUSHing serves as a reasonable substitute, to the point where I think I have much more empathy for others.

I mean, for a robot.

@GangOfDolls

There are lots of games open, but "active" is often in the eye of the beholder.

Maybe you should narrow your scope. Do you mean WoD games? Space games?

@tempest

I felt the same.

I got confused. I thought MUDs were generally discretion free. My experiences were mostly negative because of PKing and General OOC uncooperative behavior.

But having an integral function hooked to staff discretion is kind of bananas.

I've been using the same goddamned printer in my office for 8+ years. Why or how the fuck they always seem to fucking forget to get printer cartridges for me is ludicrous.

I'm about to just buy a whole box of them, and charge it to the firm.

@surreality said in Indicating Discomfort in a Scene (online):

The stuff I set up was on the wiki, on somebody's page, in one of the little collapse sections. (Like BITN had, pretty much, if you remember those.)

I get that, sure. But that's not what I think @Thenomain is getting after. Unless I'm reading things incorrectly, we're discussing how to best indicate discomfort in a scene, not before a scene begins.

RP Prefs tell me, as an ST, where not to go, as long as that's clear. RP Prefs can also tell me what sort of RP you like. But suppose you indicate that you're not into Rape RP, and we RP together, and my PC starts talking about her past of underage prostitution and sexual assault, and something triggers. I respected your RP Prefs to the best of my ability, but RP steered in an unanticipated direction. And I presume, at this point, you'll tell me to stop, which I would naturally do.

RP Prefs are a fine tool to have, but sometimes stuff happens. At that point, a stoplight system could be employed, but then, why not just speak up and say 'whoooooa, no, let's not go there'? And if that's something which one would do, why not do it under all circumstances, and do away with RP Prefs or other tools altogether?

@evilcabbage said in Armageddon MUD:

despite what hedge would tell you, we "are" very welcoming to new players. the welcome might be an introduction to being mugged and murdered, or being abused, or being treated lower than low because you're a commoner and that's a templar, but you are being introduced to the world.

Why is the word "are" in quotations?

And why would I want to play on a game where my introduction to it may be an IC mugging, murder, or abuse incident?

Is this your game's concept of "fun"?

It's not mine.

@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yes please continue to lecture me about the topic you have no education in while I sit here and polish my framed degree.

Fuck I hate people.

This is how I feel when people start talking to me as if they understand capitalism and the history of economic change since the mid-1700s.