Posts made by Ganymede

@surreality said in Forgiveness in Mushing:

This kind of mean girl bullshit is pretty commonplace on games to this day -- which isn't even high school drama, it's gradeschool drama. It's not as troublesome as it is RL, obviously! But it's pretty commonplace, and we need to do a much better job, as a community, of standing up to it.

I guess this might speak to how detached I am to certain parts of this hobby, but if this stuff is actually commonplace, then I wonder aloud the fuck is going on and what magical power do I possess that keeps me out of these reindeer games.

@sparks said in General Video Game Thread:

My best friend has never played an AC game and absolutely loves Odyssey, for whatever that's worth.

Not gonna lie, but the fact that you can play a woman means a lot to me.

@surreality said in Forgiveness in Mushing:

If you don't really know many people very well, or haven't interacted with piles of people on games when they know, 'oh, hey, that was so-and-so', people don't necessarily know you well enough to discern the reality from the bullshit. This can be a real issue.

If you say so. I guess my experience differs.

Granted, I don't think I know a lot of people very well. This is probably due to the fact that I don't care to know people very well. As such, I often get surprised when I find out who the players of some of my very favorite PCs are. That happened very recently, which led to much of this:

But I have to concede that what you are saying is probably truer for more people than my experience.

One dedicated whisper-gamer with half a dozen buddies can effectively cut off all avenues of RP for the player who has no one or only one or two players who actually know(s) them and would know the whispers are bullshit vs. the folks who don't know them and only know their buddy is claiming such-and-such is true.

This is probably true as well. My coping mechanism, if it can be said to be a mechanism, is moving on. I don't consider moving on as a coping mechanism because "coping" implies "me giving two shits." Which often isn't the case.

That said, I don't engage in whisper-campaigns. Never have, never will. I may say that I don't trust or care for someone as far as I can throw them, but that's about it. I don't judge folks that I know or like by who they play with, even if I think who they are playing with will eventually show themselves.

Everyone's allowed to make up their own minds on things.

@ghost said in Forgiveness in Mushing:

I think you'll find that mushers who aren't so concerned about the social currency side-game of mushing aren't easily "hurt" by disagreements/miscommunication, and usually approach the concept of forgiveness/conflict resolution like normal human beings.

To be fair, the converse is also true.

If you believe that the "social currency side-game" is about your reputation, then you should be more concerned about letting the mundane go.

Of all the things I worry about in our hobby, it's my reputation. Yes, I've done stupid shit; yes, I'm not a friend to all. But whatever reputation I have is what I've kept and carved from 23+ years of playing, and I'm damn well wise enough now to know how to maintain it.

Married ... with Children is on Hulu now. All episodes.

Bask in the glorious precursor to the absurdist humor of The Simpsons and beyond.

@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:

Those two and 'robot-hunter girl' are my library atm. I haven't tried the hunter girl thing yet. (I always forget the name of that game.) Was only 20$ so grabbed that, tho.

Sounds like Horizon Zero Dawn.

You need to drop what you're doing and play it, if so. That is probably my second favorite game of all time.

@jaded

Everyone you know who bought the booster are impatient babies.

Not that it helps much. Enemies scale with you until you get to around Level 14, it seems. And leveling is easy; it’s keeping your equipment updated that’s hard.

@tempest said in General Video Game Thread:

Assassin's Creed Odyssey any good? Looks fun, but from what I recall of the old AC's, the gameplay is very...same-y.

I have absolutely no frame of reference because, for me, it is the first AC game I've ever played.

There's a lot to do. There's a lot of little skills and tricks that I had to learn and get used to. The melee combat is much less forgiving than The Witcher III, and not as simple as The Last of Us. But I don't think it's as punishing as any of the Dark Souls game, and I like the combat a great deal more than Dragon's Dogma.

There's a lot to do. You can customize and upgrade a lot of things, I feel. You can customize your armor, your weapons, and your ship. It's sort of frustrating that I have to continually upgrade my weaponry, which can get really fucking expensive over time. I feel that this kind of forces you to take on the stupid-ass side quests that have no bearing on the game itself. Thankfully, the game is so gorgeous that running around the countryside is, in itself, a joy, like in Horizon Zero Dawn.

I'm not sure what your frame of reference is, but I find the game enjoyable. I am not as into it as I was Persona 5, but that's not a bad thing. Persona 5 kind of sucks you into that whole "one more dawn, one more day" progression so you can choose activities and boost your character stats. AC: Odyssey is more relaxed and probably won't cause you to stay up too late; once you're done a mission, you can go and do something else comfortably.

I would probably say that I do not regret picking AC: Odyssey over Valkyria Chronicles 4. I will probably end up finishing it.

But, shit, I am getting a little salty about some of the silliness, like knife-fighting sharks.

@tnp

I will be there when it opens.

I don't think I gave M1963 a fair shot before, for reasons of my own.

@auspice

Dear God, no.

The part with the arrow: that's me.

@derp

I wasn't really agreeing with you. And it's not really a full-circle situation either.

It sucks that the world sucks, and that it forces me, as a parent, to help my kids get through the suck. But just because they are prepared for the suck doesn't mean I can't keep on smashing my boot against the suck in the vain-but-hopeful pursuit of justice.

I mean, I hate how health insurance works in this country, and I want to go universal, but that doesn't mean I won't devise and approve of measures like Obamacare that try to do something positive.

@tempest

I wasn't blown away by the game, but it was a lot of fun. I haven't played a modern JRPG in a long time.

The play is simple and fun. The storyline is pretty good. It is slick to look at.

But, I mean, I liked Final Fantasy XV a lot more.

@kanye-qwest said in RL Anger:

When there is actual punishment, when rapists go to jail for actual jail terms, when judges don't victim blame and people don't ask that rapists not have their lives ruined for 20 minutes of fun, then maybe society can say it has tried to dissuade people from raping, and the onus can go elsewhere.

This is kind of why I intend to teach both of my kids how to protect themselves in the world.

I forgive easily, if forgiveness is moving on and not letting an incident affect me or get into my mind. I seldom forget, as I try to follow the maxim of learning from my mistakes.

I have screwed up many times. If you seek to alleviate the stress that may cause others, call attention to your error and take steps to fix it. And do not do it again.

Don’t ask me to forget what happened, though, because that won’t happen. And just because I pre-emptively bar you from a game I may be running does not mean I haven’t forgiven you. It means that I haven’t forgotten what happened, and I do not intend to let it happen again.

@jaded said in Good TV:

I would have loved to see someone like Byung-Hun Lee playing Danny Rand as Iron Fist.

I would have loved it if they didn’t have Danny Rand at all. Could have used the Punisher instead.

And not cancel Luke Cage.

@kdraygo said in Apology to Darinelle:

Just name that category: Canada.

But then you’d have to agree to allow corporate interests to plan and build a pipeline through your ancestral lands after, and that’s downright nutty.

If anyone has any information about how the community may be able to help his loved ones, I'm sure we'd appreciate knowing how.

@admiral said in Good TV:

Iron Fist was peak White Savior bullshit. That said. They could have just made Danny Rand Asian and solved a number of the character's problems.

Wait, you can't do that, man.

I mean, you can make the Ancient and Major Kusanagi white, but you can't make white Danny Rand Asian, yeah?

@derp said in DnD Group:

Cue the lawbots. @Ganymede , @saosmash , I choose you!

That's Lawyercatbot.

@three-eyed-crow said in Good TV:

My understanding is that, because Daredevil's face is masked, he's a LOT easier to stunt double for.

My understanding is that Iron Fist is, and has always been, a shit character idea.

Like: let’s make Batman, but with a super ninja power he inexplicably received from an insular culture, because, fuck, Iron Man isn’t enough of a fucking Batman clone.