Best posts made by Ganymede

@the-sands said in Make it fun for Me!:

As deep and philosophical as that is, hockey is still a competition and not a collaboration (with the other team).

My initial point is that you can be both competitive and collaborative. These are not mutually-exclusive concepts.

Others have already made my counter-argument, but, to be succinct, the game has rules everyone agrees to play by. When those rules are breached, there are penalties. Penalties tilt the competition in favor of the non-offending party, so there is a benefit to play by the rules that the teams, before the game, agree to.

But even if you don't agree that this is collaborative, at the very least the sportsmanship element sticks. People drop gloves and punch each other in the face, but they don't engage in snarky off-game attacks and shit, as we sometimes see in this damn hobby. And most of them don't bitch and whine at the officiating.

If you don't believe one can be competitive and collaborative, let me take a moment to explain how the practice of law works nowadays.

John Tavares is where he belongs now.

Welcome home, John.

We've been waiting.

@kanye-qwest said in Make it fun for Me!:

...ok, if you find that people don't seem to want to be around you, have you tried being fun to be around?

@pyrephox said in Good or New Movies Review:

I'll definitely be watching Glass, even if it's likely to end in sadness and disappointment.

Why would you think that? Split was a pretty good movie, mostly because of a superlative performance from James McAvoy. The Visit was also a watchable, well-received movie considering Shyamalan's past. If there's one thing that he's good at, it's deconstructing what makes a particular genre tick. His storylines may be trite and hackneyed, but he understands the genres. And of all of his original movies, Unbreakable is my favorite.

@faraday said in Travel Times - Enforced?:

Or be up-front about it. "Look, this mission will take you guys off-grid for a week and you'll only have each other to RP with. You in?" The problems I've seen are not so much about occasional one-off plots, but occur when getting from A to B is a regular and routine part of the game (like on a Star Wars MU with multiple planet settings).

As far as I'm concerned, the travel time is the time for social RP. So, if I can't RP while I'm in transition, that's a strike against the game.

Last time I played on a game where travel time was remotely enforced was BSG:U, and, like you barely even noticed it.

@Silver said:

@Arkandel said:

Huh. http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/yes-ben-affleck-will-direct-a-new-batman-movie.html?mid=imdb

If Batman v Superman tanks at the box office I bet this changes.

Yes, because Affleck's directorial efforts (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo) have been widely-panned and not-at-all critical, commercial successes.

Frankly, they should have let him direct this film. Because Zack Snyder is awful.

@Arkandel said:

The main question here (for me) is, if you forget to, don't participate in the system or just don't find gathering scenes appealing - a likelihood when it comes to something your character is, after all, engaged in all the time - do you die from hunger/be drained to nothing eventually?

Easy code fix: you lose the daily vitae in the event that you log on after a 24 hour cycle. So, if you log on at 0900 on Monday, you will lose the vitae if you log on after 0900 on Tuesday, but if you log on next at 0900 on Thursday, you still only lose 1 day's worth of vitae for waking up.

@silentsophia said:

I'm gonna start a diet!

Family: LET US GO TO THE BUFFET.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I like salad bars. Buffets tend to have nice ones.

@thenomain said in Real life versus online behaviors:

The medium is the message.

Shut up, Marshall.

@auspice

Best goaltending they’ve had all season.

@lotherio said in Coming, sooner or later: Valorous Dominion:

Much thanks to Ganymede, I look forward to seeing the system devised on Dark Ages.

I'm still working with the team on that one. We've hit a snag of sorts, but we hope to have something in written form sooner rather than later, so that changes may be proposed from those interested in the game.

@Arkandel said:

Although that's true, losing excess weight is a matter of diet regulation a whole lot more than adding additional exercise.

Actually, it's a matter of both, in equal measure. Simply, if energy spent > energy gained, you'll lose weight.

Diet regulation is tricky, sure, but adding exercise can make diet regulation less critical. Plus, you aren't going to lose weight if you crash on calories, and do nothing because you have no bloody energy.

@secretfire

Themiskyra and the Amazons are products of Grecian imagination based on Scythian women.

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

Theno pretty much nailed it. We're lifelong nightowls. 3AM to us may as well be 3PM to most folks.

I love you, but --

-- this is how I feel about that.

@lotherio said in Wheel of Time mechanics:

Daithi channeled @Seraphim73's RNG luck on Fifth Kingdom.

It was Legendary.

@Derp

Bitch, if you move my discovery binders I will cut you.

@bobotron said in What Is Missing For You?:

Why do you want to make @faraday cry, Gany?

Because I can.

I can foresee limited hiccups with the FS3 combat engine. It worked fine for Fifth Kingdom, so I know it can handle melee combat reasonably well. In talking with Faraday about a Mass Effect game, the combat engine is malleable, a position that is seconded by Tat and Seraphim73.

Trust me, I got this. I know it can work.

@Derp

The difference is that I am a lawyer that takes her ethical duties seriously. If my paralegals don’t get things timely filed, it’s my license and malpractice insurance.

Hence, I don’t rely on them that often.

And I cut them when they take discovery binders out of my office without consent.

@lisse24 said in Character 'types':

I struggle to empathize with vampires, even when I have a concept I think is cool.

And I'm the complete opposite, which is why we work well together. You take the normal mortal, and I play the broken vampire.

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

And why do they ask for your resume and then also ask you a bunch of questions you can get the answers just fine from the resume.

1. The average resume is filled with a lot of bullshit.
2. The average job involves repetitive, time-consuming, frustrating work.