Posts made by Ganymede

@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.

@gamerngeek said in Preferred App Process For Comic Game:

The answer to this is something no one wants to admit: Applications are useless. They prove nothing about your ability to RP.

This is because staff aren't asking the right questions.

Power limits? Irrelevant. Canon? Irrelevant.

Relevant: how one envisions the PC reacting in important situations.

Relevant: how much time one has to devote to the game.

Relevant: when one regularly comes on to play.

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

Being supportive of players is very important, for sure. I don't like to be downer either, but I think pink-tinted goggles haven't ever helped a game before, so I thought I might share my experiences.

Darling, if you just want to make an oWoD Vampire game, I'd be more than happy to play with you.

I'll even play a Toreador.

@sunnyj said in Vampire 5E Games?:

Sabbat can be super neat. I will give you this, though: I have only played one oWoD MUX ever, and most Sabbat characters there were a god damn shit show. I totally understand the worries of a lot of game runners about the Sabbat. I just like to think we can do better.

I never really understood a lot of Sabbat players. And I've played a lot of Sabbat PCs.

One of my favorite PCs of all time was Sabbat. He was ex-military. He looked at everything as a matter of military planning and strategy. He looked down on shovel-heads as snot-nosed newbs. He looked at the Tzimisce as fleshy blood-sluts. For him, the war was everything, and he intended to win it. If that meant the death of every other vampire and human, so be it.

It's easy to see why I like the New World of Darkness so much, especially the Sons of Cade. It was like the developer reached into my head and used my old concept, and that made me happy.

Not that I don't mind writing flowery gore-porn from time to time, but my time is much more limited these days.

@faraday said in New Games and Feature Characters...:

Staff letting their friends/siblings/spouses camp characters they never intend to play is not only poor planning, but is going to open them up to cries of staff favoritism to friends.

And yet it happens all the time: the favoritism, and the crying, regardless of whether there is any conscious favoritism.

I'm with @Tempest on this one. I have always been a fan of smaller bases and fewer alts. There's a price to pay -- people prefer games with larger populations -- but the alternative seems worse to me.

I don't like FCs. I've never liked them. But they are going to happen on games based on pre-existing fiction.

@admiral said in The Basketball Thread:

If you can't work with Pop then there is no other coach in the league you can rely on.

More to the point, if you can't play with Pop than no other sane coach in the league is going to take you on.

@kay

@roz said in Why did you pick your username?:

So basically you're my alt.

And yet no one has noticed how we never seem to argue with each other.

That would be tedious.

@admiral said in MU Things I Love:

It's easy to roll with the punches and mature as a character when you know that staff will protect you from real consequences and feed you all the best plots/RP that others don't get.

On games where I have staff authority, I tend to hand players who can roll with the punches and act maturely important matters. This is because they have demonstrated that they can roll with the punches and act maturely rather than point fingers.

You can call that favoritism if you want, but there's a reason why I don't trust my cat to file important things with the clerk of courts. For one thing, the dog takes far less time.

Ganymede is the identity Rosalind adopts when living in the Forest of Arden in As You Like It. It was also the name of an alt of mine on Due Rewards.

There are other reasons I like the name:

1. I used to play Amber: The Diceless RPG, which is based on Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber. That series makes use of the Forest of Arden as a boundary between the mundane world and Amber.

2. I really like As You Like It.

3. Ganymede, as a character, is very interesting, being a young male character played by a female character who, in Shakespeare's day, would have been played by a young man who no doubt was being pandered to and groomed by older men.

4. I like Greek mythology.

5. I like space.

Just in case anyone that I couldn't be geekier, right?

@admiral said in Random Oddness or 'Is This Normal?':

I don't think vertigo is involved in it. I mean, I have had vertigo before but this doesn't feel like the world is tilting or off kilter. It just feels like really, really, super intense deja vu. Like a conversation or thing I know I've done before. And the nausea comes with it.

Please go see a neurologist.

@thatguythere said in The Basketball Thread:

According to Marc Stein of the New York Times, The Lakers had the chance to sign Cousins to the same deal the Warriors did but passed on it.

LeBron probably gave it a hard "no."

@coin said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

I mean at this point I think we could write-up some badass fan-supplements faster than they could produce actual content.

That's what I figure. I already bare-bones wrote new write-ups and concepts for Seemings, Kiths, and Houses (Courts). It'd take me a few more hours to flesh those out, and then hit the Contracts.

Going back over it all, it's all Greek (literally), but it has been over a year since I touched the material. I think a lot of my inspiration came from the Eight Colors of Emotions, and the fable of Actaeon.

@admiral said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

RE: Changeling - From what I heard, they axed the head writer and filled it with a bunch of alt-right edgelord stuff.

At least, that's what David Hill said.

Fuck that shit, then, I might as well do this shit myself.

@killer-klown said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

Given Changeling still isn't out, and given all the backpedaling and apologizing they throw out at the bottom <as well as citing Pugmire as one of their 'successes'>...

Fuck, at this rate, I should open my own Kickstarter, given how long Changeling has been languishing.

@surreality said in RL Anger:

I try to be a decent human being. I am incredibly snarky and have a grim as hell sense of humor, but I try to be a decent human being. I am not always successful, obviously, but I bother to make the attempt.

Your creative efforts are not shit.

We have disagreed on a lot of things, but I find it remarkable that anyone would classify what you have worked on -- what I have seen -- as bad.

That's unfathomable to me.

Take that for what you will. I have not seen your jewelry in a long time, but I doubt -- highly doubt -- that it qualifies as garbage.

I don't know what else to tell you. Inspiration is hard to find when it is stolen.

I like karaoke.

@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

There is no way - none, zero - Boogie was unable to get 5 million dollars a year. That's Lance Stevenson amounts of money for an All-Star. Even at 60% due to his injury he'd be very easily worth twice as much.

After scanning analysis, I think Boogie's choice makes sense.

Yes, he's on the cheap for an all-star. So was John Tavares (NHL). But he's coming off a really nasty injury, and what better way to demonstrate that he's just fine (and make a big payday, like Jay Beagle (NHL)) than to win a championship in the startling lineup?

He wasn't going to get that opportunity from anyone else. No one was going to drop what he's actually worth, if healthy, and also contend. He wasn't going to Philly, Boston, or Houston, and who knows whether he'd take off with the Lakers, who are probably going to try and poach another all-star for LeBron for a four-year contract.

I don't like it, but it's a smart-ass move. Good for Boogie.

@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

Yeah, fuck him. He took the minimum just to win a ring.

Honestly, the union should bust his knees.

It's one thing to take a hometown discount, and another to take the bare minimum just to get a ring.

I like long seasons because it increases the chances that some of these bozos will injure themselves.

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

She went on vacation, ditched her kid with a family friend and after telling me he would be coming, he didn't show up.

I understand why people may not take their special-needs teenager on a trip with them, but I think there's a nice, very hot place in Hell for people who do so because their teenager would "ruin" their vacation.

I have a lot of friends, but there's no way I would take in their teenager so they can go on vacation.

Assholes.

@arkandel said in The Basketball Thread:

Can you imagine Toronto finally making it to the Finals... only to meet LeBron there?

Third time's a charm?