Posts made by Ganymede

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

Micro Center carries so much stuff that they often look like a warehouse more than a high-class store. As much as this could make them look junky, I find that this is in their favor; Best Buy looks like a 90s mall outlet with, as you say, about 3 things in any given category. And while BB is turning things around, their customer service is still largely shit.

Best Buy is where you go if you don't know what the fuck you're doing there.

Micro Center is where you go if you have an idea of what you're looking for.

@sunnyj

There are so many easy fixes to address your issues, but, for me, the fact that the Elodoth are generally useless makes me toss my hands up.

Werewolf 1E was terrible, but it was better. I'll give you that.

That said, I am a fan of RDC's work and temperament as a game-runner. I really liked Fallen World, and I think I'd like a game with Demon as its sole focus. So, I'd recommend picking one of the two lines, maybe pulling them both together, and seeing what shakes out.

But a lot of pre-game work needs to be done to mesh the lines.

@taika

The idea on The Descent was really good for a post-apoc game.

I think Chicago is just fine, but I'm thinking that it needs to be violent. Violent to the level of the Sabbat. Make it almost a warzone, as a result of simmering tensions between lingering crime elements dominated by vampiric factions.

Also, go with homebrew crime families and factions to replace Covenants.

I could tinker with Blood Sorcery for you. I was sort of working on that before for The Descent.

Okay.

SunnyJ may be able to help you with the Mage bit, if you wanted it. Or Theno. Or skew.

@haven said in TDM Modern Reskin:

Are you willing to take old TDM concepts on the new game.

Old Man Templeton may return.

@saosmash said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

I feel like no arguments get more heated in the constructive part of the forum than arguments about our moderation standards. I've now read this whole thread and I'm honestly not sure why.

I have been told I have to.

It's like reading a Justice Thomas dissent.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Yeah, people are very upset that I disagreed with them online about disagreements online so they're reaching as hard as they can.

See, Tempest, if you'd refer to Paragraph 4(g) of the memo, titled "Quod Erat Demonstravit" --

@tempest said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Did I not get the memo on "gaslighting is the new buzzword"?

You got the memo; you just don't remember.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

You have to understand how silly this question is, right?

Not really.

I mean, here, you're just asking unresponsive questions in response to questions. You're responding for the sake of responding, under the belief that such a response is adding anything.

Maybe you do not understand how fucking exhausting it can be to be dogpiled. Maybe you do not understand how exhausting it is to repeat the same message over and over because other people are shifting the conversation. Or maybe you do not empathize with someone who has clearly been gaslit.

It doesn't really matter.

If you don't see how or why posting and not adding to the conversation in a mildly constructive forum can be a problem, that's fine.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

You're still sort of buying into the weird idea that assholes put out that 'dogpiling' is inherently negative.

Why would you state your opinion in opposition to another's when someone else has said exactly the same thing?

What are you adding to the conversation?

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

And when I said I'd been around for forever, it meant that I've been reading all those threads right alongside you. And I haven't noticed anything like the level of venom that some people are claiming is happening here.

Have you ever considered that you haven't noticed the venom because you haven't been a regular participant?

@friendlybee

When I said "absence of experience," I was referring to your self-professed inactivity on places like this. What I was saying is that we've tread through a particular topic before, which is why some of us are exasperated with certain ideas, arguments, or situations.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

I'm not trying to be rude, but I've asked two or three people for examples now, and they've been unable to provide them. It's starting to look like maybe this problem is imagined more than experienced.

Examples are not the same as evidence.

Faraday's point is clear to me: why should I spend my time nattering with assholes? It seems like a silly thing to do, if one wishes to avoid them.

We all know how the Hog Pit works. Since you're new, you're probably not seeing how the toxicity consistently bleeds from there into other places, like here, in the Mildly Constructive area. But this is something we've talked about before.

So, your lack of evidence is more of an absence of experience to me.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Absolutely, that seems very reasonable to me. the majority of my position has been 'Calm down about people disagreeing with you online everyone. It's not the end of the world.'

In response to that, I would say: that's one part of it.

The other part is: if arguing on the internet is pointless, then so is hyperbole; type clearly and concisely if you are actually trying to say something meaningful.

@friendlybee said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

I get that. But it's still just being disagreed with hyperbolically on the internet.

When the hyperbole is pointless, then the only thing it can do is risk offending someone.

I think what Faraday is getting at, and what I would advocate, is for people to simply understand that, at times, hyperbole is going to be received as offensive. On the flip side, I think it is reasonable to ask that people react to hyperbole that is offensive in a way that isn't going to escalate the situation.

All you can really do is ask, and try to do unto others.

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

My honest opinion on that is that if you work with a lot of standardized documents (and as a lawyer, you do), laser printers are not only more cost effective but have way less headache potential for you.

Laser.

Thankfully, the associate and partner that left in the past 7 months, and dropped all of their caseload on me, left their printers unguarded and their doors unbarred.

I've been using the same goddamned printer in my office for 8+ years. Why or how the fuck they always seem to fucking forget to get printer cartridges for me is ludicrous.

I'm about to just buy a whole box of them, and charge it to the firm.

@kanye-qwest said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Now, how to convince people who think they are just giving their (as valid as anyone else's) input on something that they are maliciously dogpiling?

I suggested fire and lots of it, but no one listens to me.

@kanye-qwest

Beg, plead, and cajole.

@insomnia said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

Why can't it be both, and a finishing move?

Done.

@deadculture said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

What would be your entry song?