Best posts made by Ganymede

@HelloRaptor said:

I didn't suggest any correlation between CEO pay and company performance, only that the influence that CEO has on company performance is significantly greater than that of any single worker or group of workers of the size discussed in most layoff situations, primarily because the scope of action and influence had by either is on a completely different scale.

You're right, that's not the same thing. Glitch is also correct; a really shitty CEO can take a company down no matter how proficient its workforce is.

What matters is that a working classical capitalist model posits that a company's workforce enjoy greater wages based on productivity. When wages increased commensurate with productivity, the United States's economy grew stronger and more robust. When this ceased being the case, in or around the late '70s, the country's began an inexorably debt death-spiral that it isn't coming out of, even now.

It's not about living wage: it's about paying your workers fairly based on their productivity. Unfortunately, no one honestly likes the idea of taking a pay cut when their performance is terrible, so they are willing to accept a consistent paycheck even if their productivity increases over time.

@Kanye-Qwest

God, I hope so. My alt is a raging dude-bro, insofar as those could exist back then.

Certainly, my PC doesn't give two shits about people sleeping with others of wedlock. That's because he's willing to roll around with any lady.

Dude-bro, see. That's what makes Mr. Turtle funny.

That said, it is old-timey. There should be some hang-ups, but this is before the Christian Puritanical streak really set in. With pagan religions around, promiscuity isn't an issue unless there's some sort of marriage bond. At least, that's my understanding.

Also, I don't think staff cares too much.

Honestly, the past half-dozen times I've come on, there was nothing going on. In the game's defense, I tend to hop on during business hours EST, and, in the evenings, I've been setting up my RP on The Descent.

I'll be back.

-- Feesh.

@arkandel said in RL things I love:

Thanks! And oh I know, and told her as much. She's just not a very internet/computer savvy person so I might need to take matters into my own hands and order something.

No problem.

Being a smuggler is sort of side thing for me. I'm not going all Han Solo on folks, but now you know why I like vests, white shirts, slacks, and boots, all at the same time.

@Lisse24 said in High Fantasy:

The thing is, though, I play on MUs because I like exploring characters and relationships. That is a type of RP that is done better on MUs than any other format, and your proposal basically says that's not real RP. If I want campaigns and constant action, I'll get together with my friends and do TT.

Maybe you should try BSG:U. Just because there's no system or benefit from getting the most cookies in a week doesn't mean the out-of-battle play isn't fun and worthwhile. I get a lot of mileage out of my Trash Panda.

The next fucking prick that tells me to download electronic copies of documents off of NetDocuments is going to get my briefcase shoved into the smallest orifice they have.

Fucking use a program that lets you group-download files instead of making me download each fucking one individual, motherfucker. Oh, and those pop-up windows that keep spasmodically cropping up when you make one single fucking error, thereby requiring an entire browser shutdown? You can fucking bend over and let me stick my foot ankle-deep into your asshole, you coprophilic jackass.

@Wizz said in High Fantasy:

I'm not saying that it's not "real" RP, I'm just suggesting people not incentivize it.

Fifth Kingdom has been running this gig where, if you submit a log of playing with <enter player here>, you get an extra 1 XP per month (you get 1 XP per week, I think). The goal is to link people up with other people they haven't yet RPed with. This is similar to what RfK instituted.

You incentivize what you want to see. If you want to see people being inclusive, mark every new PC (less than a month old) as "NEW," and then give XP for all non-NEW PCs that submit a log of RP with that new person. That'll bring new players into the game really, really fast.

If you want to reward making boons on a World of Darkness game, offer a Beat to whomever gives the boon to another person.

And so on.

@The-Tree-of-Woe said:

The Amazing World of Gumball.

Hell, yes.

@Lithium

If you plan to have large battles, use FS3. Please. The engine is very good for getting through long combats with 20+ people in under 2 hours.

Also, brutal as fuck. My poor PC has, like, huge gaping holes in his junk, apparently.

@coin said in Good TV:

Honestly, the LotR one is one of the ones I just sort of went "meh" at. I am less interested in it than I am in some of the stuff I don't even know the source material for.

Just as a reminder, Netflix is still developing The Witcher.

@WTFE said in The Metaplot:

Again, I think it's perfectly fair to look at that situation and say "ugh, the metaplot sucks".

It's always fair to say "the metaplot sucks," but the problem addressed was why the metaplot sucks.

When you have a theme or setting that is loose and, for lack of a better term, "a grand stage," then you will have players scrambling to be the star performer. You get the situation in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. But even on a "grand stage," you can have a metaplot, but one has to realize that one must be really tight in setting before it can go off.

So, I think the main problem is the players trying to be the divas. The other problem is the staff having no idea of what makes for, or how to write, a great story.

@Fortune

You really should check out v20. There are a few system tweaks that make the game much more enjoyable for anyone. I like it a lot more than Revised, especially for Vampire and Werewolf.

I concur. USAA is awesome.

@Tempest said in Making Territory Relevent:

Not businesses.

Economics is not the study of businesses. And I'm a fan of the Chicago school.

But, sure. Gamers are idiots. We knew this.

@Taika

The Descent MUX was a great game. I liked the mix of Mages and Werewolves. Given the post-apoc feel to it, though, I would recommend going with more of a Werewolf + Mortal mix. I feel that Werewolf is closest to the "survivalist meets Mad Max" feel of the game.

@roz

Right, and that's totally, 100 percent, okay.

But, as Auspice points out, if a player is sending communication from his PC to set some political situation up with another PC, and that PC's player isn't responding, it slows down the politics. This just happens: it happens on Vampire games, as it happened on Fifth Kingdom, as I'm sure it happens on Kushiel and other Lords and Ladies games.

Responding back with a simple "I'm not sure what the fuck is going on or what to do" is as much a response as any other, and is a pretty reasonable position to take on a game that just opened up with a system that is pretty rare on MUSHes. I'm almost positive that Arx had a similar situation when it first opened because I didn't know what the fuck to do, and that's okay.

The economy system could use some better documentation, that's for sure, but I complained about Arx's system similarly too.

But not responding to +mails and attempts to communicate? That's also going to cause a problem. That and +mail because, FFS, I hate +mail so much.

@pyrephox said in Valorous Dominion:

Anyone more familiar with the system have more insight on how to create social/intellectual challenges and opportunities that rely on characters' competencies rather than players' competencies (and my competence to accurately and usefully convey all the information in the scene that the players might need to make effective choices)?

I think I read somewhere that the entire point to Pendragon is that it relies on player competencies socially and intellectually. Any rolls related thereto demonstrate the effectiveness of the choices, not the choices themselves. There are some massive holes in the system (e.g., Awareness, but no Stealth?), but I'm guessing plots are supposed to unfold in a very organic way. That, and some agency is left to the Trait system, which can be a little frustrating.

@thenomain

Vote.

You'll feel better.

Specifically, vote for people who don't make excuses for that shit, like you don't make excuses for that shit.

@Thenomain said in Eliminating social stats:

It's when you use it to sass-talk other players that it's horrible.

Ganymede watches Thenomain flap his lips silently, amazingly restraining herself from yawning at the boredom he summons so easily from the abyss.