Posts made by Ganymede

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

Your Maximum Ganymede would be grinding people's gears while they laugh.

Maximum Ganymede sounds like the best WWE wrestler identity or the worst sexual position I could conceive of.

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

There are times your lawyer mode is never switched off and it can grind my lawyer gears a little bit, and then there are times I find your posts insightful and a bit funny.

Lawyer mode is usually on because I post from work. It's a bad habit.

I'm funnier and more insightful when I've had a couple of bourbons, like right now.

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

Is free speech by others making you feel very unwelcome? If so, what would be your suggested solution?

This feels like a bait-and-switch question.

I agree with Templari, but I will point out that Tyche still hangs around and that motherfucker doesn't shut the fuck up about his point of view. Which I appreciate because, you know, some of us just don't shut the fuck up about how we lean, myself included.

Flying off the handle seems to be the way that the world works, lemme tell you what. I don't know what that opposing counsel wanted when I calmly told him my offer to settle, but it sure didn't make me want to work with him any more.

I don't like being called an SJW. That term, to me, is dismissively pejorative. And I'm not the best, recent example of not being inflammatory for the sake of rhetoric, but if we all tried to lean in that direction, it'd be a nice culture shift.

MUSHing is what set me up for my post-high-school relationships, all of which have been very fulfilling.

MUSHing is a safe space for me, where I can explore whatever identity I want to explore. I can explore gay, straight, bi, pan, trans, any sort of relationships I can. I would never say that I can completely empathize with sexualities beyond my own, but I like to think that MUSHing serves as a reasonable substitute, to the point where I think I have much more empathy for others.

I mean, for a robot.

@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

I think it's a really bad move.

I don't think it is a good move. I'm still trying to figure out the logic behind it.

I think Ujiri is feeling the heat. He was probably forced to fire Casey, because it made no sense to remove the guy that led your team to its best record, and the best record in the East, by empowering and actually deploying a bench of backups that were good enough to give starting rosters a fight.

As such, he's in win-now mode. Getting Leonard does that. Leonard really has no option at this point but to play now and play hard because he's coming off a poor season and an allegedly-nagging injury. When he does that, the Raptors may try to leverage the performance, but, by then, they'd have already burned their bridge with Lowry.

This reminds me of the time when the Penguins traded Jagr, which ended up working in the long run in its favor.

Well, it's not LeBron James, but I did say that the Raptors could be very competitive if they just added a marquis player to their roster.

@mietze said in Open Sheets?:

I will say that I think games where there's a culture of open stats seem to (in my observance) have a more consistently high quality of rp/player on them; but I think that's largely due to self selection. The players who want to win against other players at any cost and cant help themselves are going to self select out.

I think this is why a PvP game would be better with open sheets that show basic stats, but not have open, full information available.

Snowflakes usually melt in the sun.

Recently, an associate left my firm. We are two attorneys down now, with increasing work.

This isn't usually a bad thing, but I'm finding that a lot of the cases I'm picking up having been properly loved and maintained. I find that frustrating.

Also, I've been pulling 10-11 hour days for, like, two weeks now. Which seems normal for a lawyer, but for a parent it blows.

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

But if it doesn't belong to a resident or a visitor tag, why haven't they towed it, clearly then, it's not supposed to be there...

This, @Auspice. Get your property manager on the horn, and ask that it get towed away if it is on private property.

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

I can't use dried dill weed to make his pickles and peppers. Jeeeeesus.

Well, you can, actually, and you should, so that he may suffer for it.

@kdraygo said in General Video Game Thread:

The Crusader mech should be your ancestral mech, with a large Red Cross painted on the chest over a white painted background.

Given the physical appearance of the average Great White Christ acolyte, the Urbanmech is more appropriate.

@derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Just refuse. Cite medical necessity. You've got the documentation for it. If they try and take retributive action, you've got a mile of proof that their actions were unreasonable given the circumstances.

And I will never understand how they would have concluded that the person with crippling social anxiety would be a good test agent for call taking.

We call this "malice."

@faraday said in General Video Game Thread:

Anybody who thinks that employment on the basis of mob rule is a good thing... I just can't even.

Whether it is a good thing is irrelevant. It is the thing, and being naïve to the clear and present danger of venting your spleen publicly is no excuse. A male writer was also fired for defending Jessica Price; ArenaNet is an equal opportunist idiot when it comes to dismissing for lashing back at Twitter trolls.

@ixokai said in Preferred App Process For Comic Game:

You want staff to start approving characters based on RP schedules?!

For a comic book game? Yes.

Yes, I would want to know on a Marvel game whether Captain America's player can only log on during Hawaiian evening hours. Yes, I would want to know on a DC game set in Gotham whether Batman's player is stationed in Afghanistan and can only come on once a week at most. Yes, I would want to know whether the players of FCs who are central to the functioning of the game's setting are going to be around when I fucking need them to be.

I mean, maybe you were trying to be funny? I don't know. But whether a player has the time and druthers to handle a PC of responsibility should be of the utmost concern.

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

For example I don't care about hockey.

@taika said in Descent Reboot:

Plug pulled. Will not be reviving again.

I concur with Arkandel, and apologize for being unavailable.

@jennkryst said in oWoD - Is there such thing as a good one?:

You can ask nicely. I will hold off on asking him for games until I have dollah-dollah-billz to throw at him. Or until we can convince him to take payment in that oldest of currencies:

I don't need money. I have the power of attorney.

But, also, I have money.

@thenomain said in oWoD - Is there such thing as a good one?:

Thenomain rubs his thumb against his forefingers in a knowing gesture.

Ganymede presses her thumb to her forefinger to form a circle, and raises them up and down rhythmically.

@sunnyj

This is why the leaders stand behind them, with barrels aimed at brain stems and enough weapons for only half.

@sunnyj said in oWoD - Is there such thing as a good one?:

We need the game first!

sigh We could ask @Thenomain really nicely, I suppose.