Best posts made by Ganymede

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

Sounds like a lot of work, to me.

sigh

Fine.

@faraday said:

As for undesirable, it depends on what the point of your game is. If you build it so that players can log in and have fun, and those players are logging in and having fun - groovy.

To be more precise, when I put a game together, I do so not just to facilitate others' fun but to run a game within the theme and setting that I've created. If you are not going to interact or engage in that theme and setting, then I really don't need you around.

For example, if I create a Star Trek game set on a particular starship on a particular mission, it is not unreasonable to mandate that each and every PC be a crew member whose focus is completing that mission. I have no interest in a PC or group of PCs whose players simply want to be crew members without any attachment to what's going on in the ship or the theme of the particular mission or set forth in the various information files.

I realize I sound very hypocritical since I generally play on WoD games which usually end up just being a monitored setting with no particular direction or theme.

@Aria said in Car Shopping:

The thing is, all of that is stuff that's on the books. I can -- and have -- read until I'm blue in the face. I've lived with neither vehicle, and will be changing from a 2007 four-door coupe. It's a big change, and what I'm mostly interested in are all the weird, finicky little details you notice over the long-term life of the car.

I'll tell you what, then.

I had a Mazda3 back in the day. Loved it: it turned nice, accelerated like a bullet out of a chamber, but it needed premium fuel. Expensive service, even for basic shit.

I have a 2011 Subaru Impreza. Gutsy, basic machine, but it is reliable as fuck, and drives a lot like the Mazda3.

I loved TD'ing the Forester, and would have picked up an Outback if the partner did not insist on a luxury car. So I roll in a 2019 Lexus RX350 because I'm boojie as shit now as a fucking suburbanite pseudo-white bitch.

I love Subarus. Love them. I like Mazdas, but I love Subarus.

@Admiral said:

Hunter-only would be a very fun game.

Regarding the game I'm planning out, I'm beginning to think this is where to start. Zombies + Hunter sounds like win-win.

@mietze

To be fair, I'd probably do the same if you let me floof on your lap.

Earthdawn.

MechWarrior.

These are the things I grew up on, and it shows.

Otherwise, I dig the GMC. All of it. Very much.

@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:

I read yesterday that Comedy Central is bringing back Bevis and Butt-Head too. If I'm being honest, however, I don't see how either can exist in the modern world.

This was already done, and it was called The Big Bang Theory.

When I look for inspiration for a horror scene, I often do a search for 'two sentence horror stories', and borrow liberally.

Like, from here: http://www.mandatory.com/2014/02/21/20-terrifying-two-sentence-horror-stories/

Kids' shows are getting so good.

I laugh so hard at this clip all the damn time.

@Wizz

After discussing with Bennie, I'm leaning towards Mortals, period. Maybe we'll start with Mortal+ powers, maybe not. Maybe we'll start with Endowments or Gutter Magic, maybe not. Haven't really thought all the way through; I'm occupied with coming up with system and proposed code to handle property and resource management.

@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

My wife says that I am enough children.

Your mom said that you were enough children.

@Ghost said:

I just feel that when it comes to horror, people sign up to be scared and not scarred.

They don't want horror. They want a cheap substitute for pornography. I wouldn't be interested.

Horror is meant to scar because it is meant to transform.

If you want horror without children in it, I've always liked The Descent.

@Ominous

@Thenomain said:

8. Know a little bit of what you're going to do in your next pose. Not all of it, but some of it.

This answers such a huge peeve I have, especially when @Ganymede says to "pre-pose".

Uh, I can't break this one. Someone help me out on this one.

I do not understand what you're getting at here. Care to rephrase?

@Lithium said:

It's that I, myself, literally have no idea how you could come up with the idea that there is zero separation between our characters and ourselves.

An illustration.

My PC, Erin, punches your PC in the face. Your PC reacts by getting angry. Your PC could have reacted by punching back, presuming that this is within the realms of how your PC would have reacted in a similar circumstance; however, you OOCly made the choice to react by getting angry.

Suppose, out of those two choices, you decide by rolling a die: even, get angry; and odd, punch back. You still decided OOCly to make the choice by die roll.

I see both of your perspectives, and don't find them as mutually-exclusive as they may seem.

Hopefully, that helps you two in your spat.

@Macha said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

Discussing bi-polar today, due to Kanye. I get it. He's rich, he can have the best of care - But money don't mean shit, if the person doesn't take their meds.

I have been told that my lack of compassion for Kanye is bad because people with mental illnesses deserve it.

I usually point out that although I know few people personally with the same illness, none of them use their money or skin color to gain entry into the White House and deny the existence of slavery.

This is why I have no sympathy for Trump.

@Misadventure

This picture is my response to you:

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

I know it's important and thus do it and do it well, but I honestly hate doing mandatory training reporting. It just breaks my heart.

It does suck.

I remember when I was younger, I had to teach high school kids how to identify sexual abuse in school-aged children.

I did it once a week for thirty-seven weeks.

Now I'm a lawyer.

If it makes you feel better, Theno, I concur with that decision.

Set reasonable alt limits. You'll be fine.

@WildBaboons

I was born in Canada, actually. I can readily recall carrying some hefty books back in 2nd grade.

@HelloRaptor said:

I feel like we've come full circle again, somehow.

This is only because you're too stupid to see the difference, that's all. Let me highlight it for you.

If you bother to read, you'll notice I said that the decision can be appealed to the game operators. This is always the case. Otherwise, you might as well have no staff at all.

Because game operators have never overruled their TLs. Ever.