Best posts made by Ganymede

@Lotherio said in Welcome to the Euphoria - Alpha:

You're saying when he gets banned for this, its a @coin toss?

@Derp said in If you work hard, son, maybe someday you'll RP:

'Does anyone want to RP' sounds like 'someone please entertain me'.

There are better ways of doing things.

I do fine with: "I'll be over <here>, if anyone wants to RP."

I make it a point to be ready with a set if anyone comes along, though.

If I don't have the ability to set, I will ask to join others.

That's how I've changed over the years.

@bear_necessities said in Calaveras: Adult Fiction Drama MU:

As far as the fluff v. substance thing, I think that the players can fix that without issue.

For me, the line between fluff and substance is exceedingly thin.

But, then again, I do love me some Teen Titans Go.

@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Goddamit. Fuck C.F.

I am earnestly sorry to hear this.

Last year, around this time, my little girl was in the hospital for an upper respiratory infection. Actually, she was in the hospital because she could barely breathe, and her O2 saturation dropped below 90. This was because she had been infected by 6 different ailments. The funny part is that her twin brother had some other disease, which probably couldn't have infected her under the Burns Principle.

Nothing sucks worse than watching a 3 year old at a near-unconscious state because she cannot breathe. They had her on a constant flow of albuterol sulfate and concentrated O2. For 8 days.

My partner had to go to school. She failed a couple of exams, and had to re-take them. I had to go to work every day, then spend the night at the hospital. I lost 15 pounds during this time because I ate 1 meal a day.

I watched her every night. The sound of the respirator. I freaked out every time the vital monitor hiccupped. I saw Frozen eleventy-billion times (her favorite movie).

8 days.

And all you can do is watch. For the first two nights, it was through tears. For the rest, there was that feeling of guilt for not bringing her to hospital immediately, and for thinking, dammit, if she'd just stop coughing at night I could get some sleep.

8 days.

I feel you. Hard. But these are times that makes us men or women or whatever we are.

@coin

I concur.

This is the Advertisement thread, people. Act appropriately.

@faraday said in Poll: Do I enjoy this hobby more than I don't?:

Is it too late to change a vote?

You sound so British right now.

Honestly, I don't remember everything I've done, but the following is a list of where I've played in my illustrious career and under what bits.

Past Player Characters:

Due Rewards: Lea; Dana; Sam; Erin; Ganymede
Denver by Night: Chris; Cesar
Victorian Reverie: Dana
Arctic Rage: Abigail
St. Petersburg: Klara; Abigail; Zadkiel
Haunted Memories: Klara; Jason; Gavril
Oathcircle: Urho; James
Darkwater: Sidney
Darkwater II: Alex
City of Hope: Alex
The Reach: Rosalind; Dana; Erin; Ripley; Clarice; Lea; Lindsey

Since 2015 or so

The 8th Sea: Adrien
BSG: Unification: Erin; Sunny
The Descent: Wolf; Templeton
Echoes in the Mist: Maddy
Fallcoast: Leo; Deirdre
Fallen World: Shrike; Pidge
Fate's Harvest: Clarice
Fear and Loathing: Wes
Fifth Kingdom: Daithi
Flashpoint: Gotham: Victor
Marvel: 1963: Emily/Glitch
Modern Nights: Paige
New Orleans: Allen
Reno 3.0: Galina
Requiem for Kingsmouth: Cai
The Savage Skies: Ashley
Valorous Dominion: Benedicte

Current PCs

Arx: Piccola

Off-Game Handles

PSN: LowVirtualMemory
Steam: lowvirtualmemory
Discord: LowVirtualMemory#3842

@thenomain said in Good or New Movies Review:

I have never heard this term in my life, and I will Force Choke anyone who says otherwise.

@Sammi said:

The sense of entitlement is walking into a room and trying to enter a scene without making any attempt to ascertain if the scene is open or even what time of day it is in the narrative, and it is compounded by "entering" the scene with a non-interactive pose which places the burden of including the random new person on everybody else there. @Kanye-Qwest insists on no OOC communication.

I think you may be taking Kanye's comments too literally. My understanding is that he/she meant that there would be no OOC communication regarding whether or not he/she may enter the room and attempt to participate.

Sometimes, I enter a public room where there's RP going on, and I politely state that I'll make my entering pose a couple of poses down the line. I didn't ask the existing players where I could join or not, and it is reasonable to presume that I could if the scene was taking place in a public room. If my inclusion is inappropriate or unwanted, it is reasonable to presume that the existing participants would inform me of that and take their RP elsewhere. As you will likely concur, expecting people to take private scenes in a public place to a +temproom is reasonable.

I may have misread Kanye entirely, but I did not infer from his/her comments that he/she would wander in and fire off an ignorant pose.

@Sunny said in Our Tendency Towards Absolutes:

Augh, yeah, but we're talking about people electing to not get involved with plots, not a scene. Scene consequences = ok. Consequences for not getting involved in staff plots = oh hell no.

I see your perspective, but isn't any staff-run setback plot a "consequence for not getting involved"?

On The Fifth Kingdom, I recall that the players never mobilized to address a certain threat, and that threat ended up becoming more dangerous. We scrambled afterwards to address the threat, and all was good. The threat wasn't personal, but it was "global" insofar as the player base was concerned. I don't think you'd consider that a "consequence for not getting involved," would you?

Because I agree with you that staff shouldn't make playing feel like a chore. I am 100% percent behind that. But at the same time, if the players succeed at everything then where's the risk that enhances the feeling of success? Villains sometimes prevail, and that's not a bad thing at all (see, e.g., The Empire Strikes Back).

Now that I'm on Arx, I finally have the chance to RP with Raemira again. If we do it in a year, we could celebrate our 25th anniversary from the date we first RPed together.

OH GODS WE'RE OLD.

@roz said in Good or New Movies Review:

Wow my reaction was like the exact opposite

You are right.

Look, I like Joss Whedon. I like his tongue-in-cheek-but-formulaic groundwork for the MCU. It was awesome, and the other directors that followed -- Kenneth Branagh, Taika Waikiki, Ryan Coogler, etc. -- have honored that. But he could not, and did not, save Justice League, and Avengers: Age of Ultron was, in my opinion, more or less a waste of time and talent.

Batgirl needs a very, very serious work-over. She has been used primarily as a love interest and a throwaway victim more times than I care to think about. She is also my daughter's favorite DC Superhero Girl, and I, in my cynical way, want her to be more than just some PC that gets paralyzed as a MacGuffin Moment.

I want Greta Gerwig on board to direct. Or Kathryn Bigelow. I want Gail Barringer to produce it, and Felicia Henderson to write the screenplay.

I want Batgirl to be more than how she's been. And I don't think Whedon would have done that.

It's no secret that I'm putting my spare time into a fantasy game as well, so here's a tip that I've found very useful:

Start with the IC History.

Do not work on anything else. Get this done and out of the way. The folks at helped develop L5R less-than-subtly pushed me in that direction, and now I understand why.

What I'm constructing is not 1/10 as elaborate as what you're attempting here.

Regarding your schools of magic and Gods: It sounds as if each God needs their own backstory. Why do people consider the God of Ice the God of Wealth? Where's the connection? Most mythologies have Gods as characters, and it is humanity that assigns each their aspects.

For instance, Hades is the God of the Underworld because that was the kingdom that Zeus assigned to him. He isn't really the God of Death, not like the Grim Reaper might be; rather, he is the caretaker of the Dead. Hades is generally associated with wealth and commerce as well because of the Persephone myth, but Hermes is also connected with wealth and commerce because he's generally the God connected with good fortune.

So, stories! Think of the stories behind the Gods. Their affiliations will extend naturally from there.

@Ghost said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

Oh, I wholly believe words can affect people, but words simply affecting people isn't the issue. My views are more related to the subjectivity of injury and the reasonable level of responsibility any given person should have towards ownership for social injuries and/or emotional states of others in social situations.

The subjectivity of injury is an interesting topic in jurisprudence.

As you may be compensated for emotional injury, I recognize its existence. After all, what is "pain" and "suffering" but subjective mental or emotional injuries?

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

Five Finger Death Punch vs Nickelback

Who would win?

No one, because any consideration of them causes incurable wypipo disease.

@faraday said in The 100: The Mush:

If you don't like it, cool. Mark your disagreement politely and vote with your feet. But respect that staff is devoting their own time and money to running a game for the entertainment of others. That doesn't mean all others. It means others whose vision aligns with theirs.

I think this is a dangerous mentality to adhere to.

I think staff need to seriously consider complaints such as those raised here. While it is entirely possible that staff will not heed or change policy based on what is said, I think it is important for staff to question whether they are catering to those who share their vision, or whether their vision is slowly becoming that which others are projecting on the game.

After all, there was once a time when the NRA was concerned with safe gun use and storage practices, rather than obstructionist lobbying.

@Ghost said in How to Escape the OOC Game:

But if someone's losing their shit because their dice are sucking or they lost an election? Sure, it's disappointing, but upkeep your reaction buffer, bruh.

You're really shifting the goal-posts here, man.

@Thenomain said in Arx- Gareth:

Because nobody has the ability to free someone else to move on.

You have clearly never asked someone for full custody or a dissolution, then.

@testament said in Help a kitty out.:

I still find it strange that, depending on the person and if they deserved it, I can observe suffering and be unphased about it.

I blame TV violence.

Or the fact that I believe most humans are shitbags.

But kitties are kitties.