Posts made by Ganymede

@Thenomain

Dude, I've misled you ever?

Here's Unikitty's very accurate take on the law.

This is what every trial is like, honest.

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

I do not know, but I suspect it does not; despite working at an engineering firm with an international presence, my insurance coverage is absolutely abysmal. (If you have the option, avoid United Healthcare like the plague.)

See if they cover Viagra, and then claim a priapism-related injury.

@Thenomain

Dude, Unikitty is awesome.

@Thenomain

If you think Teen Titans Go! was outrageously meta, you clearly have not delved into Unikitty.

I love having kids.

There's also Lantern Hill, if it is still open.

I am not going to question as to a player's motivations as to why they may enjoy space travel. That's just fine. People have different tastes. People also TS me from time to time, so I try not to inquire as to what another person's taste du jour might be.

That said, based on what's been said, the motivations for Space Travel seem to be:

• Realism
• Intra-ship RP
• Potential Encounters in Transit

Putting aside the first motivation, which is a matter of taste, it seems to me that space travel could be easily handled via Temp Rooms. Have a code-bit that creates a "transit room" for players to enter that represents their ship in travel when a trip is initiated, and essentially locks it down for a period of time equal to the "real time" travel time. Have a set of "destinations" in the code that then ejects the occupant PC Objections at each such "destinations" after the travel time has ended.

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

There really isnt a substitute for a loaf of sourdough bread I've just pulled out of the oven, but I can def. think of a few replacements that I enjoy!

I hear you. And, yeah, I guess it is kind of deceptive to suggest to someone that Substitute Food will taste the same as Desired Food. But it's hard to convince someone to get onto a diet that may help them by telling them: "Look, buddy, you need to stop eating the stuff you love and start eating different shit before you die." Maybe the lie can be helpful too.

That said, keto isn't a great long term solution, and it isn't a panacea. Diet with caution.

@faraday said in SerenityMUSH - Discussion:

In contrast though - here's a game I set up this morning using the Cortex skills system (which is what the Serenity RPG uses) just to prove a point that it can be just a question of digging a few rooms (with ships represented as rooms) and telling stories if you want it to be.

To follow-up on this one, if you can get Faraday to help you set up a game using Ares, you'll probably need to hire more staff to handle the influx of people. I'm sure there are at least a dozen people here who would be willing to help you write up news files, set up a new wiki, etc.

I sympathize with the situation you're in, having handled a couple of "game re-boots" in my long, sordid MUSHing history.

@mietze

As someone who digs in rice, I find it not bland at all. I rather like the taste. It’s just that most white people don’t know how to prepare it in a tasty way.

As someone who digs on cauliflower, I also don’t find it bland if prepared.

As someone that digs in the keto diet, anyone who tells you that the food doesn’t taste good or is without flavor is probably a white woman named Karen.

I’m sure Wretched and I could create a keto cookbook thread that would be boss.

@Rinel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

France is perhaps the most stridently secular country on the planet, and I'd be surprised if those oligarchs have been to mass since Christmas. The fact is simply that the US does not have a monolithic religious history like France does, and the US hasn't been around long enough for any one church to acquire that sort of status.

For as much as the United States makes a business out of religion, it is interesting to see it quietly ignore the burning of three churches whilst a secular nation like France rallies.

@surreality said in RL Anger:

...it made me much happier, somehow. I share it in hopes it will help do the same for you.

I don't consider people who have an ideology rooted in my annihilation to be deserving of anything short of the sort of agony that comes from being vivisected.

I need a kitty to temper my rage, but there is none in sight or cuddling distance.

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

Hey. No kink shaming.

I will kink-shame the fuck out of some prick who feels so entitled and in-tune with the oppressed white man that he thinks he's a shining beacon of virtue in an immoral world.

Fuck that guy, I will shame him until he dies in front of his loved ones from a horrible, scarring, debilitating illness that makes him beg for mercy.

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

It's insulting to the puppet master to have someone else accused of being the puppet master.

I find it ironic that you elected to call the person who probably enjoys getting fisted a "puppet master."

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

Criticizing the President for being lead around by Israel is one thing. Making part of the criticism a connection with Judaism in general makes pushes the image into antisemitic territory.

As I said before, I'm pretty sure Stephen Miller objected.

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

But antisemitism isn't a failing unique to the right wing.

Anyone who cannot meet questions of a biased nature without dismissing them based on that bias were never fit to answer questions in the first place.

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

ETA: Having seen the cartoon in question: Bibi as a guide dog and Trump as a blind idiot would have been one thing. Putting a blue Star of David around Bibi's collar could maybe, maybe, maybe get benefit of the doubt as a symbol of Israel specifically. Putting Trump in a yarmulke, though? Yeah, that's a big ol' dog whistle, the Times was right to retract it and was right to apologize for it.

I'm pretty sure the KKK would have something to say about their Good Ol' Boy with a yarmulke on.

Okay.

Has anyone played Valkyria Chronicles 4?

I played the original, and I enjoyed it. Not my favorite game in the world, but super-enjoyable.

Is the new game substantially similar?

Sidenote: that world makes for a really good grinder MUSH, hint hint.

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

Telling you I enjoyed a movie isn't a fucking spoiler.

Exactly.

I mean, I enjoyed Glass. If that ruins the movie, trust me: it was M. Night Shyamalan's fault.

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

...the early 'therapy' was pretty much awful. This is that 'back when' section that, uh, Gany, please skip this?

It's all right. My little girl is already in speech therapy, and it is doing wonders. She does have sensitive hearing, and the combination of hyperlexia, speech delay, and energy makes her frustrated in school. As far as I can tell, the problem isn't really with her: it's with adults who she is unfamiliar with or has no respect for.

So, she's pretty much a velociraptor.