Best posts made by Ganymede

@Bennie

Thenomain hit the nail on the head well, but I'd like to add further thoughts.

Presuming they have not been doctored, logs are excellent proof of what was said. However, if there is no argument that something was said that caused a negative reaction, then what was said is immaterial.

I used to think that evidence was necessary to make a decision. I used to think that staff should act as a judge would. I was wrong.

Staff should act like a bouncer at a bar would, unconstrained by notions of due process. Figure out who's telling the truth to the best of your ability, and take action. If you make a mistake, you make a mistake and own up to it. Just do yourself a favor and make a considered, reasonable decision.

@coin

Here's one.

Here's another.

Here's some more.

Here's the thing, though: this isn't uncommon. What matters, though, is that the CEO not only promised it wouldn't happen but later downplayed how bad it was.

@auspice said in Random links:

Some days, I'm the Monkey Brain.
Others, I'm the Lizard Brain.

Gany Brain: Add to clothes in washing machine. Turn washing machine on. Eat sustenance. Rub one out. Repeat.

@bored said in Regarding administration on MSB:

Bold mine. Did you guys actually discuss this and agree on it? Because the placement seems so obviously silly, and your wording makes it seem like it wasn't as much of a group decision as it's being presented as.

The post was made between the time I learned of what was brewing on Stranger Than Fiction and when I responded to Arkandel and Auspice. It was discussed thereafter. It was not a unanimous decision.

I have already said that I'm not going to step in to moderate in the Hog Pit, and how I will moderate the Advertisement Thread. I would not have posted anything.

I can understand the rationale of a decision and find it reasonable even if I would have done something else that is also reasonable.

@ominous

Bought this and I love the line.

@sunny

I hear you. That's what my partner gets a lot, and it sort of pisses me off.

The difference between doctors and lawyers is that one's customers are in severe pain. I mean, eventually my clients hurt, but that's when they get the invoice. For doctors, it's a doubly-whammy.

@saosmash

MDMA got you feelin' like a champion /
The city never sleeps; better slip you an Ambien.

@derp

No fucking shit.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Ganymede

if the kid was kicking somebody in the head,

Dude, I didn't say anything, man.

That said, I concur with the point that parents ought to manage their kids when they are in public. I concur with @Cobaltasaurus that special-needs kids should get more of a pass on bad behavior, but also agree that there were ways to accommodate that child, if he had special needs, that the parent should have explored.

@collective

You're avoiding the very clear, basic question.

@flyrannosaurus said in General Video Game Thread:

Companies acquired by Microsoft have a tendency to improve quickly and often dramatically.

I need some examples here.

More importantly, I need to know what other IP Microsoft has done well with aside from the Halo series.

Frankly, when people ask me why I don't have an XBox One yet, I ask them: why should I get it?

@faceless

Equally unnecessary: Ludacris freestyles Anna Dewdney's beloved children's book.

@collective said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

I'm not sure why somebody would want to make themselves unhappy in real life for the sake of RP verisimilitude.

I don't know why either, but I'm pretty sure this happens very rarely. I'd like to think gamers are smarter than this.

I'm not sure why they'd expect others to do that, either.

I think this is what most of us are dancing around.

@the_generic_one said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

Somebody losing their cool because they got called a fag IC while playing a homosexual character, it's perhaps the most pathetic thing ever.

And this is why we're still discussing things.

My brother and I were going to write a science-fiction book where white American nationalists were rounded up and dropped into Syria to serve their hate crime sentences. We stopped because we weren't sure if it would be understood that it was satire and not a true modest proposal.

@Selira

One person's breaking point is another's selling point. I wasn't a fan of Laguna's little side-story, but whatever. For me, it was a beautiful game. I liked most everything about it. Final Fantasy X-II can eat a bullet, in my books.

Anyhow, I won't change the title here unless the OP wants me to, but I was a little confused because Square Enix has a long catalogue of these games, even though XIV is the long-lasting MMORPG one.

For a moment, I thought there was some Final Fantasy MUSH out there that wasn't run by Nuku.

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

(I mean I need a haircut and maybe Santa will decide I've behaved just enough this year to let me afford one okay.)

Santa finds out who's naughty and nice, but that doesn't mean he doesn't give the naughty people anything.

Heck, if it's your thing, the jolly ol' fat man will give you what you want, you saucy bitch.

(I have now found a new concept for a future Autumn changeling.)

@faraday said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

Of course. But that's OOC abuse. We were talking about IC behavior.

This is true, but the choice to engage in IC discriminatory behavior or language is an OOC one.

If we presume for a moment that PCs have no real existence or life outside of the player behind the screen, then a PC engages in IC discriminatory behavior at the behest of the player, and is an OOC choice regarding how to engage in RP.

As another example, if I'm doing on-stage improv and a partner decides to use derogatory or abuse language I am well within my rights to stop what I'm doing and demand that the partner stop as well. Even if that language is reasonable within the scene in which we are acting, the choice to demand the cessation of such language is also reasonable.

I know you're not arguing to the contrary, which brings me to the next point.

What's being debated is whether and how people should be allowed to avoid such parts of the theme entirely - and what impacts that has on other players.

Even if a theme has discriminatory elements -- i.e., in BSG, the Tauron-Caprican conflict -- I do think that a Tauron player can demand that a Caprican player cease engaging in some RP, even if it is within the theme and setting. I think it is reasonable to presume that the Tauron player understands that there could be discrimination and accepts it, but, at the same time, I don't think that means that it is unreasonable for them to expect the Caprican player to stop.

But this is different than if the Tauron player blithely ignores that part of the setting, and expects that every Caprican is going to treat them nicely; in that case, while the Tauron player can ask to avoid that kind of RP, it would probably behoove staff to step in and politely inform the player that he/she/it shouldn't expected to be treated as an equal ICly, if his/her/its PC ends up on a Caprican crew.

@HelloRaptor said:

FF8 is basically just an employment simulator wrapped around the disjointed story of possibly (probably) the worst protagonist of any RPG, ever.

That Squall is essentially the precursor to the emo movement isn't a bad thing; it's a weird sort of prophecy. Frankly, I'm sick of playing cheery, happy, white-hat protagonists. I like Joel far more than Ellie.

Is it too much of a stretch to believe that the entire game revolved around the idea of redeeming Squall? Because that's what the game, to me, was about. Otherwise, the ending makes little sense.

@templari said in The Kitten Army (GIF Heavy):

May have yelled out loud "KITTEN!! IT'S SO CUTE AND FLUFFY LOOKING! OH MY GOD I WANT TO PET IT!!!" prompting my roommate to once again remind me, that I am apparently a large grown-ass man, and should not be losing my shit like that over kittens.

Large, grown-ass man who loves kittens.

Just saying.

@faraday said in How should IC discrimination be handled?:

If it were an R-rated movie with more of a historical bent, would you have been surprised if that stuff had been turned up?

I would expect there to be some sort of reason why the writers and directors chose to use that language, rather than engage in a similar, effective portrayal that did not use the language. And I may or may not disagree as to whether that choice was arbitrary.

@Coin said in General Video Game Thread:

You play Geralt's ways with women how you like, basically.

And this is why I went with Triss. Because Yennifer is a bit cunty.