Best posts made by Ganymede

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

Aren't you a partner at your own place? O_o Why would you want a new boss?

I have reasons. If I get the job, I'll explain.

@Auspice said in Fanbase entitlement:

But NMS, at its core, advertised as a single-person exploration game. I think a lot of these people saw it as a "replacement" for Star Citizen or EVE. Because for all the people who don't like it (and claim Hello Games lied), I know just as many people like me who got exactly what they wanted.

NMS is exactly what I expected, and exactly what I wanted.

I am very happy I don't have to put up with 13-year-old mongs. Or any other fucking idiots I've bumped into while playing games on the Internet.

I mean, you guys not included. Honest.

(Not all of you, at least.)

@TNP

A good lawyer does her own cites.

@Arkandel said in The Descent MUX:

Or, rather, if I need to pick between a mechanic not being a great match for MU* in its current form and universal shittiness, I'll pick the former.

If you're deliberately dodging a mechanic that's built into the game, I'd say you're a pretty awful player. That's akin to not RPing the consequences of a Condition, or ignoring a social roll. The difference between Paradox and, let's say, daily Vitae-burning is that one mechanic can be more easily built into a MU*.

Mages should be concerned with Paradox, Seers, and pissing off the Guardians. And that's why my Mage generally eschews using any magic, and looks at folks that haphazardly resort to magic as being stupid. That's IC, yes, but OOC I would look twice at someone who ignores Paradox consequences just because others do.

@Arkandel

@Auspice said in Fanbase entitlement:

I, too, have a copy of Diplomacy. Never played it tho!

I played a lot of Diplomacy as a kid.

Now, I'm a lawyer.

These two facts may or may not correlate, or have any bearing on my inherent trustworthiness. It is, however, one of the best games I've ever played.

@Ominous said in The Work Thread:

"Alright, you haven't had three years of law school to train you on how to do things, so we will let some stuff slide. I mean you're going to lose anyways, because only an idiot does things pro se."

Another way to look at it:

"Already, so you've paid out the ass to take three years of law school to learn about the rules of this game, but I will let this mouth-breather over here making excuses about why they cannot get a lawyer despite having a three-income household making over $150,000 get away with not filing a responsive pleading or responses to your discovery requests after four months despite clear fucking instructions in the summons and the discovery requests because fuck you and your client who mortgaged their home to afford competent counsel."

The old adage of "someone who represents themselves in court has a fool for a client" applies, as does "only an idiot tries to perform surgery on themselves."

@Miss-Demeanor said in TrekMUSH & Guardians of the Galaxy MUD:

They would be deported to the other side of the wall as soon as its finished, all privileges revoked.

And he would follow every @osucc with an @odrop.

@Cupcake said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

We were able to get the ultrasound. Rock has Cushing's Disease. His body actually produces too much testosterone, and now he's on the meds he needs to live an otherwise full life.

Thankfully, it's not Peter Cushing's Disease, which is where you die in defiance of Disney's plans, so you get CGI'd into a film post-mortem.

@Ghost said in Leadership, Spotlight, and PCs of Staffers:

I don't think there's a always whole lot of malevolence to this. I think a lot of this staff putting their chars in the drivers seat and railroading everything chalks up to a difference in viewpoint in GM styles:

I don't think the original line of conversation had to do with railroading at all.

My position is that hard-and-fast rules are not always good things, and that staff and players should be flexible to circumstances while still operating under a general modus operandi.

Railroading is an entirely separate, disdainful beast.

@GreenFlashlight

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@Insomnia said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:

Then I just decided to have fun with it. I started doing Let's Plays and Streaming because I talk to myself anyway, so why not record it? I play what I want and try to ignore subs. Until I look at them and get bummed because I'm not getting them because I'm not actively trying to use my sexuality to get them.

I just do not understand why any man watching women playing video games would come to the conclusion that they are trying to use their sexuality to "get them."

I just don't.

That's just the stupidest conclusion I can think of, honestly. I know it happens, but I don't know why. I just wonder at what point gamers ever thought that it was a reasonable conclusion.

@Arkandel said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:

But what is a better way to address such situations?

You said that the player in question was capable of handling herself. I presume that means she knows when her threshold has been reached, and she contacts staff to demand action. So, yes, I am one of those banhammer people, but I'd probably opt with a stern warning to stop haranguing people with pages.

A better way to address such situations is to remind players of acceptable behavior on a regular basis, regardless of what's going on.

The best way is if people stop being page-harassers. That'd be fucking nice.

@Derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Listening to the oral arguments at SCOTUS, I don't think there's any real chance of that. The justices seemed rather unimpressed at the argument.

I think we all misjudged Kavanaugh a little as to his jurisprudential leanings.

Then again:

@Arkandel said in Policies:

How do we feel about policies which punish players for their past behavior from different games?

Absolutely. This is fine and tolerable.

I have a high level of tolerance for bullshit; ask anyone. But if I make the decision that we don't get along or I cannot work with you, it is a given that I will keep you off of any of my games, once I find you.

If I don't find you, chances are that you have changed yourself sufficiently. I will still kick you off if I find you.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to deal with people that I have not been able to deal with before. I know more people I'd rather play with and work with, and devote my time to. Or, in the words of a local mediator I like, "I ain't got time hanging out with people I don't like; I've raised three kids."

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

Yo, try being out here in the Midwest where it's mothafuckin' HAMBOOGER.

Yeah, or made-up words like 'de-thaw', 'mischievious', and 'irregardless'.

I too love this. Strangely, it's happened again recently.

@Aria

All I'm saying is that bourbon, rich chocolate, and a touch of dirt makes for a hell of a night.

@Thenomain said in Sensitive cultural/political/religious aspects of game themes.:

If that is the situation, absolutely. People who are disrupting the game need dealt with, on a sliding scale. "Criticizing the drapes" as a comparison doesn't work. You may have poured blood, sweat, and tears into building a game, but the minute you advertise the opening it's no longer your home.

This is where I disagree with your analogy with the club.

In my opinion, as anecdotal as it is, there is no difference here. Club or home, it is still your property and you (the game owner) have the duty, responsibility, and privilege of setting the rules for staying therein.

If you want to be a raging cunt about what behavior triggers the ol' Monty-Burns-Boot-To-The-Butt, that's your prerogative. Places like this exist to mock, ridicule, and criticize that behavior. To-wit: Kushiel's Debut's apparent positions.

We don't disagree that dealing with people is a sliding scale, and that we ought to be judicious about it. My point with the drapery is that there is trivial criticism and PHB criticism, and the swath of degrees in between; to this point, we seem to agree. My point with the club analogy is as above; to this point, I don't know if we are in agreement or not, but we generally agree more than we do not.

@Aria said in RL things I love:

So far, what you're telling me is "Cranky but competent and probably responsible lawyerbot sounds like a good idea."

The surest sign you have found that right attorney is hearing that they don't honestly give a fuck what you choose, but that there are only two choices to be made.

Star Wars.

Fucking Star Wars.

Well-coded games, like, holy shit.

All of that. As I said on the game's channel: I haven't seen coding like this in over a decade, and it's fucking awesome.