Posts made by Ganymede

@Misadventure

Constantly taking steps -- even easy ones -- to defend yourself against potential prejudice is fucking exhausting.

@Thenomain said in MU Things I Love:

):<

Sorry, chum. The difference between the needs of a Star Wars SAGA game and a WoD game are vast.

@Vorpal said in RL things I love:

I like the new HR director. She introduced herself as "(name) Stark. Tony's cousin."

Better than "Sansa's cousin," I suppose.

@Coin said in Dealing with Staff:

@Ganymede said in Dealing with Staff:

@Coin said in Dealing with Staff:

Isn't it enough that I ruined a pony, making a gift for youuuuuuuuuuuu...WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA!

As I keep telling you, despite being into you, I'm still way too smart for you.

Then let me off this stupid mountain and call off your ... "children".

They're hungry. Have you ever had to deal with a hungry child?

You're on your own.

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

They're still a fast food chain, you're eating a fast food burger, yet it's priced as a restaurant one.

Not in Ohio, they aren't

You're in the Toronto area. You should be able to enjoy a Lick's burger.

Enjoy one for me!

@Coin said in Dealing with Staff:

Isn't it enough that I ruined a pony, making a gift for youuuuuuuuuuuu...WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA!

As I keep telling you, despite being into you, I'm still way too smart for you.

@Sunny said in Dealing with Staff:

It isn't inherently mean to answer a 'how do I' with a 'you can't'.

"How do I go about making a half-human, half-monkey hybrid?"

@Coin said in Dealing with Staff:

At some point, dealing with the bad on a game outweighs enjoying the good.

This is the only calculus for me.

Star Wars.

Fucking Star Wars.

Well-coded games, like, holy shit.

All of that. As I said on the game's channel: I haven't seen coding like this in over a decade, and it's fucking awesome.

@Catsmeow said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

My only problem with my inhaler is this: My heart rate is already up because of the exercise. I'm worried if I take a hit to get my lungs to open, that it will speed it up more and I'll go into cardiac arrest or something.

You could talk to your doctor about it, but it is reasonable to presume that your heart rate might actually be more stable with your airways fully opened. Your heart and breathing rate may be elevated due to inadequate O2 saturation while exercising, and opening your airway may increase the amount of O2 coming in, thus stymieing your body's desire to increase both.

It sounds like you may want to talk to your doctor, overall. You've got great questions, and I'm not a doctor. Whatever you do, and whatever it takes, I hope your path to self-awesomeness goes awesome.

@Jaded said in RL Anger:

Losing a job is rough. But finding out you're losing your job only because your company closing down becomes a 2nd page article in the local newspaper - and the company itself has yet to say something to any of the employees - is a pretty shitty thing to do.

Companies of a certain size must provide notice to its employees before shutting down, under federal law. Might want to look into that.

@Jennkryst said in Arkandel's Playlist:

Volume of Rules is sometimes okay. Level-based never is.

On Dawn of Defiance, you can level up or purchase Feats, Skills, Talents, and the like with XP after character generation. So it is a hybrid.

@Seamus said in Dealing with Staff:

Sure I can leave the game, but to me that means they win, and while that might be the end result, I would prefer to avoid it.

In this negotiation, they have nothing to lose and you have everything to gain. There is no victory to be had here.

@Thenomain said in Sensitive cultural/political/religious aspects of game themes.:

Thank god we've changed.

We have?

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

I'm afraid/anxious that the same thing that landed me in the hospital for a few days back in October is happening again.

It has slipped my mind; what was it again?

@Coin said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

I mean, Rousey is 29 and Holm is 35... if anything, Holm was the bear and Rhonda poked it too hard...

I meant that Rousey got older, and lost her inability to get knocked the fuck out.

And then, with Nunes, Rousey had to re-invent herself. She probably tried to adopt a striking defense, which is why she didn't bull's-rush her way to victory. And lost handily as a result.

Remember when Anderson Silva lost to Chael Sonnen? He wasn't the same since, even though he retained the belt. That's what this reminds me of.

@Coin said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

If you have to say "she didn't need defense" proved to be absolutely incorrect when she got knocked the fuck out. I mean, that's just true.

No, I said "she didn't need a defense before because she had a cast-iron jaw." Said another way, her defense was her apparent inability to get knocked the fuck out by punches. Your statement of "she never had a defense" is only true if you ignore every single other combatant she faced prior to Holm.

So, I'm objecting to your assertion that "she never had a defense." That obviously all changed when that defense failed her. I'll amend to agree that she probably should have developed a better defense than ERMAHGERD I'm the fucking Wolverine.

Prior to Holm, Rousey was perfectly capable of going beyond the first round, and did so (once). Most of the time, people tried to punch their way out of getting mauled by a bear. The difference with Holm is that the bear got older.

As with Verdum: "I haven't gotten knocked the fuck out." + "I got knocked out." =/= "I never had a defense."

@Coin said in Dead Celebrity Thread:

It looks to me like Nunes just capitalized on the flaw everyone was privy to since the fight with Holm: Roussey is just no good against boxers, she has no defense against them and has always relied on grapples and her superior Judo skills.

You serious? I vehemently disagree.

In her prime, Ronda didn't need a defense. She rushed, got a hold, and boom you're done. More than that, she had a fucking cast-iron jaw. You don't need a defense when you simply were not going to get knocked out.

And then Holly Holm got a punch in. And a kick in the face. And that was it.

When Ronda came back, she was hesitant and tentative. She never rushed. She was afraid. And that sealed the deal.

Holly Holm was lucky to survive. She lost her next match to MIesha Tate, who had previously lost twice to Rousey and is a grappler. Then, Tate lost to Nunes, who was simply younger and hungrier (and similarly trained).

Rousey was consistently great against all styles until Holm got a lucky shot in. You might as well say that Fabricio Werdum was never any good at boxers, and you'd be dead fucking wrong as well.

@faraday said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

The inhaler delivers the dose in two puffs. The nebulizer takes several minutes of inhaling the medication through a mist from a nebulizer machine. The nebulizer tends to allow more of the medication to be absorbed, and also tends to increase the side effects (including the annoying fast heart rate). Various studies (source, source) have shown no clinical benefit to nebulizers over inhalers overall. But some individuals find that nebulizers work better for them, as @Ganymede did.

Because of the slower delivery, you also get better control of the side-effects. I generally take 1/3 of the dose once a day to keep my mucosal membranes in the respiratory system open. I also take another 1/3 before a workout.

My doctor suggested I take a nebulizer because my problem is that my membranes get swollen with allergies. When this happens, the inhaler isn't as effective in getting the medicine further down into the bronchial tubes or up into the sinuses; I can't breathe properly, so it is harder to get the medicine where it needs to go. Using a nebulizer allows for slower, more constant intake.

@Thenomain said in Sensitive cultural/political/religious aspects of game themes.:

If that is the situation, absolutely. People who are disrupting the game need dealt with, on a sliding scale. "Criticizing the drapes" as a comparison doesn't work. You may have poured blood, sweat, and tears into building a game, but the minute you advertise the opening it's no longer your home.

This is where I disagree with your analogy with the club.

In my opinion, as anecdotal as it is, there is no difference here. Club or home, it is still your property and you (the game owner) have the duty, responsibility, and privilege of setting the rules for staying therein.

If you want to be a raging cunt about what behavior triggers the ol' Monty-Burns-Boot-To-The-Butt, that's your prerogative. Places like this exist to mock, ridicule, and criticize that behavior. To-wit: Kushiel's Debut's apparent positions.

We don't disagree that dealing with people is a sliding scale, and that we ought to be judicious about it. My point with the drapery is that there is trivial criticism and PHB criticism, and the swath of degrees in between; to this point, we seem to agree. My point with the club analogy is as above; to this point, I don't know if we are in agreement or not, but we generally agree more than we do not.