Best posts made by Ganymede

@Auspice said in Personal Agency for Personal Boundaries:

Relying on commands to tell someone if you want to proceed with rp or not basically signals that you don't trust them enough to have a conversation in which case.....why rp with them to begin with?

I understand, but --

@Pandora said in Personal Agency for Personal Boundaries:

With a fairly regular frequency, it comes up that people either don't know their boundaries until they've been crossed, have trouble standing up for themselves, are stressed out by the idea of initiating push-back against uncomfortable IC interactions, and so on.

(Emphasis added.)

I know that topics drift but I feel as if we've wandered away from "what we can do for people who have trouble with or are stressed by telling people off" to a conversation about "people ought to be communicating about their boundaries rather than relying on commands to communicate the same." And I say this because I'd like to discuss more of the former than the latter because: (1) I have no problem with telling people off; but (2) I know that others aren't like me and I want to help them if I can.

Finished the fourth season of Lucifer. While it misses the campy humor of the seasons on Fox, Netflix's season shows better preparation and writing.

Can't wait for the fifth and final season.

@Ghost said in Personal Agency for Personal Boundaries:

"A player in this scene has pressed the X-Card. Please either FTB, end the scene, or continue without the following element(s): <string>"

Won't this provoke more anxiety?

Think about it. What if you're in a scene with more than a handful of people? The other players may be confused about why <string> is so distasteful, but they don't know who pulled the card out so they cannot converse with the card-puller. So they have to publicly lodge a request for staff to get to the bottom of things. And that seems reasonable.

But what if staff isn't around? What if it is impossible to continue without that element? I can see why other players would be kind of pissed: in their opinion, play has stopped for no good reason and they cannot escape without obviating the RP as a whole or waiting until a staff member finally shows up.

But what about the card-puller? Although no one should feel responsible for what makes them uncomfortable, I can see how this would make an anxious person feel terrible about themselves because they are the ones stopping play.

I'm uncertain if this actually solves the problem; rather I can see it exacerbating it. All it takes is for one nimrod to make some dry comment about "snowflakes" or something stupid like that, and faith in the system erodes.

Batman submits the following memorandum in opposition to Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment.

You two are in? Well, fuck.

@Cupcake said in Good TV:

The issues with the gelfling puppets and their stiff faces is something that the creators specifically address for the production.

Frankly, I like the stiffness. It reminds me of how much effort went into the puppetry, and how much the creators wanted to pay homage to Henson and the franchise's roots. So, give me a bit of stiffness, please.

@hamstersonPcP

Honestly, I think you would get a lot of traction with a game based on a fictional mercenary company that is going across the galaxy "getting into adventures." The Hare-Brained Studios Battletech game is pretty popular, and could serve as a template on which to base the game's activity.

I'm okay with no Clan activity or backstory, as there is more than enough Inner Sphere politics to play with. I'm not sure how tasty or appealing a game would be with too many factions, which is why I think a PvE game might be a good place to start.

@Sunny

I wish you the best of luck, and offer a venting wall to yell at if you need to.

On another note, I'm attempting to quit smoking again. And getting back into running. And slipping back into ketosis.

I will be fussy.

@Wizz said in Interest in Cyberpunk MU*?:

The authors behind the concept of cyberpsychosis don't understand why the use of extensive prosthetics leading to mental illness is a gross concept. It's a perspective we've outgrown culturally. Prosthetics are not dehumanizing, they're empowering.

I concur with you for the reasons and with the limitations stated by Faraday.

I don’t think cyberpsychosis is a direct result of merely having prosthetics; I think it is more like the Hubris mechanic of oWoD mage or the Taint system of Aberrant. That is: as you become more and more super-human you lose the ability to empathize with and be sensitive to humanity, thereby becoming “psychotic” relative to humanity’s sensibilities.

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

Maybe do not suddenly ride up to the single woman at the drive thru on your bike and begin demanding she buy food for you.

I may or may not have opened my door into this kind of person repeatedly, and then left them there.

@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

I am doing my best about those things. It's just a question of not going completely insane from isolation in the meantime.

If I may ask a question, why have you chosen online text-based games as a way to stave off insanity from your isolation?

This is a serious question because, in my experience, online text-based games can generate as much insanity as it may ameliorate.

What everyone else said.

You have code skills and excellent Photoshop skills. Market those. Data entry should be in your wheelhouse.

But it also depends on the job you want. Tailor your resume for that. Hell, even tailor the language of your resume and cover letter to meet the prospective employee’s mission statement.

MsPris is an excellent resource.

@Tinuviel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Is that why you do it alone?

I am my own best friend.

@Wretched

For all of our dysfunction, the surviving merit that I generally see here is that the community generally likes seeing others get ahead.

Probably because we know what the converse is like.

@surreality

Look, if the Romans could build aqueducts, surely our civil engineers could fashion you a bustier that won’t make people think of a soft octopus flowing out of a bathtub.

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

Up's first five minutes are er, up there with any romantic movie ever made.

Definitely. And it is done with just the opening dialogue. The montage is silent-theater genius.

Speaking of which, WALL-E is up there with any romantic movie ever made. Change my mind.

@JinShei said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

It is annoying because the profession already battles against the handmaiden issue. Because we actually have trouble with people seeing beyond the trope.

I'm pretty well known in my area, so no one makes the mistake of thinking I'm anything but a lawyer. My associates have not been so lucky, having been mistaken for court reporters and paralegals despite being dressed up a stereotypical lawyer.

Like, this one time I went with one of them to a deposition, and opposing counsel said something like "wow, Ganymede, you sure know how to find a good paralegal."

To which I responded, "I know, Gary, but this is Sarah, she's my associate, and she's the one that will be handling the deposition today and the remainder of the proceedings; I'm just here for comic relief."

The look on that guy's face, lol.

Misogyny will follow no matter how you're dressed.

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

I hate pie.

I love pie.

Dry pie. Pie with fruit. Pie that's sweet. Pie with cream in or on it.

I love pie.

@surreality

That’s okay. I know you aren’t trying to be hurtful, and I don’t find the issue hurtful.

I just get exasperated by it.

Just don’t fucking wear something without appreciating why it is culturally significant.

And when you understand that, please understand why some people, in this case Chinese ex-pats or their children, would not want you to wear it.

@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

My theory is that a lot of people went in hoping for a full story (classic movie-going experience) with some songs added in.

Probably the same people that went to Sweeney Todd and were surprised to find Johnny Depp singing.