Best posts made by Ganymede

@Ghost said in Pro Wrasslin':

Like the well is running dry so the return to the gimmick will either revitalize his career or be the last attempt to maintain relevance when there are so many other good stories going on.

The Rock hasn't changed a bit. His schtick works just fine. Same with Sting, when he came back. The Hardy Boys. And so on.

When veterans return, it isn't to start something new: it's to promote by bringing up the past. The gimmicks are part of who they are, so they have to go back to the gimmicks, especially if they are part-timing it, like Cena is.

@killer-klown said in nWorld of Darkness 1E v 2E:

Like, traditionally, a vampire with low blood could just choose to not spend it and be otherwise ok. A vamp in 5th would have issues doing something as mundane as driving or studying while hungry - which is far more realistic.

My children have issues with doing mundane things while hungry, so I hear you.

I finally saw Us.

It's a good movie, but it's not as good as Get Out.

Plus, I figured the "twist" out about 10 minutes in.

@faraday said in #WIDWW pt 2 - ST, Player, or staff?:

It's like as long as they think death is off the table, folks will fight long past the point at which it ICly makes any sense to fight.

You remember that time that Erin was incapacitated because she took an arc welder to the groin? She was cautious, but shit happens.

And it was totally traumatic to her.

As you said, it's a player issue, not a system issue. I miss all of that.

@taika said in #WIDWW pt 2 - ST, Player, or staff?:

Do players really get mad when you clobber them? Regardless of whether they die or not?

Your hellhounds were beastly, but ain't nothing that can take down Templeton.

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

I have chosen to take this as a good thing

As you should.

@faraday said in New Games and Feature Characters...:

Staff letting their friends/siblings/spouses camp characters they never intend to play is not only poor planning, but is going to open them up to cries of staff favoritism to friends.

And yet it happens all the time: the favoritism, and the crying, regardless of whether there is any conscious favoritism.

I'm with @Tempest on this one. I have always been a fan of smaller bases and fewer alts. There's a price to pay -- people prefer games with larger populations -- but the alternative seems worse to me.

I don't like FCs. I've never liked them. But they are going to happen on games based on pre-existing fiction.

@Aria said in RL Anger:

Notre Dame de Paris is burning.

I am literally in tears.

This is why it is unwise to have hot cauldrons of molten metal in the top balconies to rain upon invading guardsmen.

(Humor aside, really, this is awful.)

@ixokai said in Preferred App Process For Comic Game:

You want staff to start approving characters based on RP schedules?!

For a comic book game? Yes.

Yes, I would want to know on a Marvel game whether Captain America's player can only log on during Hawaiian evening hours. Yes, I would want to know on a DC game set in Gotham whether Batman's player is stationed in Afghanistan and can only come on once a week at most. Yes, I would want to know whether the players of FCs who are central to the functioning of the game's setting are going to be around when I fucking need them to be.

I mean, maybe you were trying to be funny? I don't know. But whether a player has the time and druthers to handle a PC of responsibility should be of the utmost concern.

@Coin said:

@Thisnameistaken
Bury them.

In litigation.

They probably need to give you notice to vacate. And then start eviction proceedings thereafter.

If you're leaving in 10 days, business acumen suggests leaving the situation alone, and deducting your pro-rated amount from the paycheck and/or security deposit.

But, hey, who am I to tell some M.B.A. from Fraggle Rock U. how to do their job? (A person with two graduate degrees that taught useful knowledge, that's who.)

@ThatGuyThere said:

I dislike the unfindable flag on principle but I use it, because it might just be a few bad apple but boy are they bad.

That's actually a good argument for disabling it. It helps you locate bad apples. It's much better to learn of them this way than after you've inextricably linked your PC to them.

Arise, chicken.

The game I'm knocking around is based on Robotech, the Jovian Chronicles, and my infantile infatuation with Faraday's FS3 system.

@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:

DC did none of these things.

Because DC doesn't know where to start, or what threat to focus on, or what tone it wants to set, or --

-- look, it begins and ends with the idiotic choice of Zack Snyder to manage the project. I said it once, and I'll say it again. Zack Snyder is, and was, incapable of appreciating the nature of DC Comics, and how they differ from Marvel Comics.

This was readily apparent in Man of Steel, which Snyder somehow managed to bungle horribly, despite a stellar story written by David S. Goyer. Goyer, who helped the Nolan Brothers, knows as well as any writer the importance of sympathy for the villain. And the screenplay is clearly geared to have you sympathize with General Zod, not Kal-El.

I'd forgive anyone for overlooking this. I won't forgive Snyder for wasting the nuanced performance of Michael Shannon, who, at all times, is working with an excellent script that had him wrestling with the problem of Kal-El, who he sees as a brain-washed ex-pat. The moral play of Kal-El v. Krypton's entire remaining population is ruined, to the point where Kal-El's primal scream after killing Zod is absent of all meaning.

Fuck. That. Guy.

@kanye-qwest said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Now, how to convince people who think they are just giving their (as valid as anyone else's) input on something that they are maliciously dogpiling?

I suggested fire and lots of it, but no one listens to me.

@Ghost said in The Hockey Thread:

The Golden Knights were due a "we got fucked" complaint.

Then maybe they shouldn't have overbid for Max Pacioretty.

Two of my best friends are from Buffalo (and by rote Sabres fans) and they're still bitching about that Bret Hull kick goal.

Maybe they should have bitch about Buffalo's lack of scoring outside of Satan's line instead. They ran into an Eagle possessed, but should have been able to outscore any team with the Dominator in net.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

I'm not trying to be rude, but I've asked two or three people for examples now, and they've been unable to provide them. It's starting to look like maybe this problem is imagined more than experienced.

Examples are not the same as evidence.

Faraday's point is clear to me: why should I spend my time nattering with assholes? It seems like a silly thing to do, if one wishes to avoid them.

We all know how the Hog Pit works. Since you're new, you're probably not seeing how the toxicity consistently bleeds from there into other places, like here, in the Mildly Constructive area. But this is something we've talked about before.

So, your lack of evidence is more of an absence of experience to me.

@Ghost

That's fine, about Gretzky's lack of coaching ability. It is a given these days that transcendent players make for poor coaches.

@friendlybee

When I said "absence of experience," I was referring to your self-professed inactivity on places like this. What I was saying is that we've tread through a particular topic before, which is why some of us are exasperated with certain ideas, arguments, or situations.

@Macha

My hope is that the supervisor understands, accepts your written notification, and everything can go according to plan regarding moving into your new property.

@tempest said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Did I not get the memo on "gaslighting is the new buzzword"?

You got the memo; you just don't remember.