Best posts made by Ganymede

@Ghost said in The Game Game:

Competition isn't about keeping people that aren't quality or aren't having fun/are absent. Competition is about wanting the game to have:

A) The best/active role players with as few drama problems as possible
B) More fun/events than other places to keep the momentum going

You're mixing a lot of aims here. This may be your definition of "competition," but it is not mine.

This is closer to my definition of "quality." A quality game has few drama problems, active players, and events to keep momentum going. You can have a number of quality games within the same genre/setting/system/whatever. Similarly, you can have multiple quality restaurants and bars on the same street within spitting distance.

My definition of "competition" is where there is a motivation or drive to be the best. To that end, while some MUSHes aim to be the best game out there it is not a universal aim. For example, I don't think Fate's Harvest ever wanted to be the best game in the WoD field, but it is a quality game that has a very steady group of participants. As another example, I don't think Apos aimed to create the best game out there, but Arx is undeniably a quality game that attracts a lot of people.

To be frank, I know of very few people who aim to have the best game out there, which means there's no competition. What I think designers want to build is a quality game and there is certainly room for as many of those as we, as a community, can support with our time.

You cannot run a game without players, no matter how great you think your ideas are, if they're choosing to spend their time somewhere else. On some level to maintain whatever playspace you're paying for, you have to be a "draw".

Being a "draw," though, isn't really about competition: it is about having something about your game that people enjoy. Further, whatever satisfaction a designer or operator derives from their playspace is individual and subjective. For example, Fate's Harvest is a small game, but this does not dissuade Anna from operating it; as another example, Tat's game was wildly successful but that's not what brought her satisfaction.

I see what you're getting at, but I disagree with the implications of what you are presenting as universal truths.

@Tinuviel said in It's where you putcher weed ...:

Sounds like a natural reaction to @Ganymede, then.

Like, y'all make me work and shit, and give me love, and all I got is:

@Caryatid said in A bit of trouble on Firefly:

Tragic. I wonder who laughed at his unsolicited dick pic and started him down this sad, sad road.

This guy, I'll bet.

@HorrorHound said in It's where you putcher weed ...:

So you're saying you jack on, huh?

@Kestrel

I prefer:

@Sunny said in Critters!:

One of the ferals. He's about 15 feet away here and at this point has stopped caring as long as we're not walking towards him. Waiting for his treats.

This is simply more evidence that we they are the superior life form.

@Ominous said in Interest in Cyberpunk MU*?:

It's the age old Romanticism vs. Enlightenment viewpoints. Star Wars' longing for a past "more civilized age" vs Star Trek's "boldly go where no one has gone before."

Or conservatism v. progressivism.

I prefer to consider third options, like the craziness in Final Fantasy or post-apocalyptic fantasy settings.

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

Optimus Prime would be a great role model to name a high school after!

Indeed. Three pieces of wisdom from OP:

1. “Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.”
2. “Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost.”
3. "Until that day: 'til all are one."

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

The housing market.

What about?

@Arkandel said:

In fact I brought up a specific scenario where the staff member overseeing a situation is absolutely getting facts.

Then you are a witness, and can make your decision without anyone else's input.

In your example, if you have determined, by personal knowledge, that B used information obtained OOC against A, then B is a cheater. I will put up with shrieking any day over a cheater.

What I said, very clearly, was that staff ought to find in favor of the person who they'd rather deal with on a daily basis. If staff chose B in this situation, it says more about the staff than about the situation.

@Jeshin said in The Art of Lawyering:

Can Bob be sued for damages? or is this a case of doing my job, I didn't know and knock it up to the company level?

Yes. There is no Nuremberg defense here.

Is Soda company sued for damages just because they have bigger pockets?

Yes. The Company may be held liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior, also known as vicarious liability.

@TNP

Done. Moved.

@Jeshin said in The Art of Lawyering:

It states that a judge can waive qualified immunity to let a case proceed to trial, but that the defense can still invoke it as something the prosecution has to overcome?

In a civil case, the court does not "waive" qualified immunity. That's not an accurate statement. If the defense raises qualified immunity in a motion to dismiss, a court may decide that there are sufficient facts to warrant overruling the motion. A defense can raise it again after discovery in a summary judgment motion, arguing that there are no issues of material fact related to the defense. and that the defense is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. And at trial, at the close of a plaintiff's case, the defense can again raise the defense and argue that the plaintiff failed to present evidence sufficient to overcome it. The point is a defense never goes away, and is always available.

Is this why so many cases that reach jury trial regarding police (or government law enforcement) end up with a not-guilty verdict? Because qualified immunity is brought up during the trial and the jury ends up going well legally speaking we guess this is 'reasonable'?

Second, in a civil context, defendants are liable, not "guilty." Most of these cases were decided without going to trial, as far as I can tell. To answer your question, though, in cases where there is a trial, my inkling is that such cases involved facts which were borderline, so juries leaned towards favoring law enforcement. In my experience, excessive force cases rarely make it to juries, and are usually decided by motion or through settlement.

@Derp said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@GreenFlashlight said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

This is how I describe my sexuality:

Should I ask which one of those two is you?

The grumpy one. Catbot.

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

The district court just ordered the DA to produce the entire trial record of the case.

I am positively gleeful.

We may not win but now some poor bastard has to do what I did last year.

I am proud.

Fuck them up.

Fuck them up hard.

@Tinuviel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

You don't restrict yourself to things that can move.

This is true. This is a video of my last tryst:

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

I see them all the time, but what Walmart carries is super regional. It even varies city to city. Like, I can find certain things in my walmart for for other stuff I have to go to the next town over.

Truth.

Also, appropo of nothing, I got my Elita-One figure from Takara Tomy's WFC Earthrise line.

@HelloProject said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I know this is getting a bit lengthy, but just let me name a few probably unlikely and unexpected pieces of media that I just don't think are good to take inspiration from.

Your post is awesome, actually.

How do you feel about Roc? If you have watched it.

I vote for every single damn tax levy for schools on the vain hope I suppose that with better salaries comes better vision in management.

@SG said:

I've had fun on games that ran in 'seasons.' You basically have the same sheet for a season of the show/major plot arc, and then at the end of a season, before the start of next season, you can rearrange your sheet and if you were around for a complete cycle, you get a few bonus points to add up.

I concur here. This is what I called a "moving cap" in the eleventy-billion times I've railed against current XP-gain models.

Capping also forces people to do shit. If you want to sit around jerking each other off, that's fine, but if the story isn't moving, who cares?

I'm a lawyer. We're supposed to be essential. But not all of us have to deal with criminal stuff.

I'm a parent. Having to juggle my work life with teaching the kids at home has been challenging. But I can work from home, so that makes life far easier than for others who can't. Plus, I actually have a teaching degree.

I keep busy. I got the COVID, but I recovered. I have a pair of kittens to deal with. I just finished wrapping gifts. I suppose life is easier for us 'burbans.

I wish I had something pithy to say, but I don't.

Please endure.