Best posts made by Ganymede

Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse.

Definitely the best of the Spiderman movies.

Probably one of the best superhero movies ever made.

Maybe one of the best movies, period.

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

It is amazing how little they value anything when you're appointed counsel and it's all for free.

It is.

I'd just pull the trigger and set the deposition for a video or telephone conference. In my opinion (after sitting on an ethics committee in my jurisdiction for 5 years), an attorney may generally make choices regarding how to practice or execute a task without getting consent, so long as that choice is competent.

@roz said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

As to the fashion/clothing thing: there's a weird thing I've noticed where "system that exists that offers some sort of benefit, however minor" suddenly equals "this system is necessary to use to WIN."

I don't think this is weird at all. Just about every WoD game I've played on has someone who wants to win at everything.

@arkandel

But they did fail.

Despite their victory and the death of the Emperor, the Rebellion was unable to defeat the fascist regime at the core of the films. This is an important part of the overall narrative.

Unfortunately, it is also the point of realism that keeps the series from spinning off into pure fantasy.

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

Yeah, but in Indiana it can qualify you for sudden heat, so voluntary manslaughter is possible.

Still not self-defense, even given the unbelievably broad scope we gave to self defense doctrine.

Over where I'm at, felony murder disqualifies you from a voluntary manslaughter charge unless the prosecutor is unable to get you for the felony during which you are accused of killing another. The reason for this rule is that it eliminates the "impassioned killing" argument, which undercuts the purpose of felony murder's harsh consequences.

@kanye-qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

sure, but that's not at all what @roz was describing.

Sure it is. At least, I'm pretty sure it is.

I get it. There's a new mini-game coming that has some benefits attached to it. Some people will play, some won't. Some people don't want it around because it will confer some bonus for activity that they don't want to engage in, and some probably don't care if it does.

And some people, to argue against the implementation of the new system that they don't want to engage in, will inflate it to something it is not rhetorically.

In WoD games, this happens an awful lot.

@Arkandel

@ThatOneDude said:

Is this like breastfeeding in public? I mean I have kids, seen tons of boobs and yet if I'm in a coffee shop zoning out over the high levels of work I need to do and my gaze happens to fall on a breast that a baby feeds from, do I deserve the stink eye? I mean that shit isn't sexy so its not like I have my tongue sticking out and my hand down my pants, its just me zoned the fuck out. Take your breast and baby into some place private... Don't inflict the awkwardness on me >.<

I equate breast-feeding to nose-picking. It's not illegal. It's a part of nature. Just fucking do it elsewhere, and don't be a prick if I eye you like you haven't a common sense of decorum. Bitches like that are the same that complain when people are blaring music out of their car's open window while driving.

@kanye-qwest said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

Where's that eyeroll gif Roz is always posting when you need it?

Which one?

There's the classic Iron Man eyeroll:

I'm partial to this one:

I have been binging when I can on episodes of Mysteries of the Abandoned on MAX. Lots of really cool places in the world.

Of course, I can watch re-runs of She-Ra on Netflix and The Owl House on Disney+. Nimona is an extraordinary movie. And, yes, The Last of Us is astounding.

@aria

I don't have a lot of friends OOC. At least, a lot of friends that ask me stupidly for this.

Like, no, bitches, I have a partner, I have kids, and I have a full-time job, which will be complicated by a part-time adjunct instructor job in February.

I'm mostly convinced that the reason parents' friends circles shrink over time is because they are merely shedding people from their lives that ask them for stupid things.

Stupid people suck.

@gingerlily

MU* Partner: Are you a changeling?
MePC: in paranoid rage turns and strikes for 6L! Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to break half of your ribs!
MU* Partner: Holy shit! I'm glad I didn't ask about your spending habits!

And the day's young.

@Derp said in Instead of necro-ing a thread..:

Will second Nimona. So cute.

Also, really fucking triggering for those of us who've overcome depression and suicide attempts.

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

What are you teaching, sensei?

Real property law.

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

I think @Ganymede was suggesting kill the people, not the cat. ^^

No, I was suggesting the cat. Hear me out on this.

I am of the firm belief that every person should have the right to determine when their lives will end. This is the fundament of my anarchic beliefs. I am also of the belief that some people, in their desperate need for attachment and connection, cling to others beyond the point where it is healthy for them or the others.

Animals can't really speak for themselves, so it's hard to know when they would rather take a nice long nap. But I've seen animals -- blind, deaf, struggling to breathe, suffering from cancer, or all of the above -- who more likely than not would rather visit the Great Litter Box / Cornucopia of Treats in the Sky than to continue on with their miserable, lackluster owners. And I think that we, as their caretakers, need to sometimes take stock of when we're curing them for their sake or for ours.

That said, people who neglect or toss their animals to the side for convenience do need to fucking die horribly deaths.

@ortallus

In many juvenile cases, the delinquent's parents are responsible for restitution to the victims. A finding of delinquency also does not affect the estate or family of the decedent to pursue the parents, if they can show some serious dereliction of duty.

It's happened.

My issue? The police. Not the caller, the police. Everyone's looking to the caller in the other case, but no one's talking about how the police apparently did very little to confirm that a crime was taking place.

The purpose of the police is to serve and protect. Neither of those interests are being met where the police do not, from the start, investigate the scene and figure out what's actually happening.

@mietze said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

Sometimes it's not really something to repair in the sense of making everyone feel at home and comfortable. Sometimes it's just accepting what you can do, what you can't do, and that other people are where they are and it's very possible that there really isn't a "one true way" to do/look at/feel about most things.

I really like this way you put it.

I said elsewhere that we live in a society that demands snap judgments and hot takes. People oblige when they've no reason to, and then have to backtrack as facts begin to emerge. Keeping an open mind is difficult when you are pressured to make your mind up immediately, and patience and time sometimes are in short supply.

But when I can, I try to be as patient as possible.

(Not that my damn kids give a shit.)

@auspice said in Random links:

Out of 14 studio albums, you were able to name 2 songs. Both of which came out over 30 years ago.

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Raised by Wolves

Pride

Wouldn't call them bland then, but, I suppose, you young punks probably think Mozart's pretty bland too.

Frankly, what gets passed off as rock music these days blows chunks. The genre's changed a lot. What was once "alternative" or "prog" is about the only interesting rock, and what's left -- the vestiges of NuMetal and Metal -- is boring and trite. (I really hate Imagine Dragons.)

But, under your standard, the Rolling Stones are apparently also bland, even if they wrote part of the book on the genre. Journey as well. The Manic Street Preachers. And the latter, I really don't consider bland, even if their music is kind of ... well, what the hell is it?

Because I love me the hell out of Ariana Grande's "Bang Bang," aight.

You are dead to me.

@ortallus said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

The police didn't have TIME to call the house. They didn't have TIME to establish eyes. They didn't have time for anything except showing up and preparing defenses measures. Then the guy, who they had to believe was armed and dangerous, and suicidal (Otherwise SWAT Wouldn't have shown up to begin with) came to the door.

To be fair, this is possible. Then again, the first step, again, is to get the hostage-taker to talk to you. The police chief said the matter is being investigated, so I think we're just speculating, but I find it unlikely that the police had no time to make a call between the time dispatch received the call, and a plan was made to intervene. And I think it more likely than not that SWAT was called because there were hostages involved, although SWAT also gets called in cases of the armed, dangerous, and suicidal.

@lithium said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

Back on track: There's a lot of statistics out there, as to why cops are killing people, but in the end I think it comes down to fear. Cops are scared too because they are getting killed also. It doesn't make it right by any stretch of the word, cops are supposed to be /better/ than the average person, that's what makes them capable of serving and protecting.

I think part of it is fear. I think the fear comes from poor overall training. International statistics show that countries with similar gun laws as the United States and high levels of gun ownership also have different philosophies when it comes to training police officers and firearms users.

@Ghost said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

Says the one who actually has the power to tell people to leave the dinner table.

Actually, I don't at the moment. I relinquished my duties as an admin as of June 30, 2022. I just keep the lights on now.

@miss-demeanor said in Comfort Food...:

+1 to @mietze for the Pho

Me too.

Hell, Imma gonna get some in an hour. Pho gives me a feeling inside that's so close to post-coitus, it will always, always be comfort food.

So simple. So good. And I can load it with chili oil to burn out the hate from my body. Make me sweat.

Don't judge me if I enjoy my 45 minute pho-king sessions.