Posts made by Ganymede

@surreality said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:

Too many people will assume someone is still 'open for business', simply not give a shit, start talking smack about the partner/start trying to undercut the partner, or spout the 'you are not poly-friendly and therefore you are an inferior monogamous being, I will liberate and enlighten you with generous applications of my ginormous dong!' bag of bullshit.

I don't really care about competing for partners, but is the latter part really a thing any more? Seriously?

@Insomnia said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:

But if I had to answer honestly, I would have to say when people started offering a mount for a mount. It's titillating and wish fulfilment and doesn't have the stigma of watching porn?

Look, maybe my experience is different than yours, but I'm pretty sure I prefer it from behind because men look fucking odd from up top. Women look very pretty when they are moaning, but men look as if it they are ready to vomit ectoplasm.

@Insomnia said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:

I would totally RP more male characters, if I could actually RP male characters. But I'm not male, so whenever I try they become obvious caricatures and it would defeat the point of playing a male character not to be noticed as a female anyway. Just so I could get some RP.

I play male and female characters. In some way, they are all based off of another character from another source. Of my most successful PCs in recent history, the Shrike is an amalgam of Ciri (The Witcher III), Ellie (The Last of Us), and Daredevil, and Cai Maddox was an amalgam of Joel Miller (The Last of Us) and Logan. I'm not sure who got more action. Not sure if anyone's figured out my gender from what and how I play, but I like to think that I can slip into the personae easily.

Or I could play a lesbian, I suppose. But there is just way too much porn out there. Tangent: If in sex or RP you aren't willing to do a thing, don't assume I will want to do a thing because you ask me. Guys who want a threesome with two girls because it would be cool damn well better be willing to have a threesome with two guys or gtfo. And that's why playing gay and female doesn't work because those guys who page because you are female probably assume all girls secretly love the cock anyway.

Frankly, I tend to attract the female PCs, no matter who I play. I think the last male PC that tried to date one of my PCs was Count on The Reach, but that didn't go well (partially because he was feline and Clarice was a mouse).

Bottom line: I don't know why, but I don't get harassed. I know it's out there.

@Insomnia said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:

Then I just decided to have fun with it. I started doing Let's Plays and Streaming because I talk to myself anyway, so why not record it? I play what I want and try to ignore subs. Until I look at them and get bummed because I'm not getting them because I'm not actively trying to use my sexuality to get them.

I just do not understand why any man watching women playing video games would come to the conclusion that they are trying to use their sexuality to "get them."

I just don't.

That's just the stupidest conclusion I can think of, honestly. I know it happens, but I don't know why. I just wonder at what point gamers ever thought that it was a reasonable conclusion.

@Arkandel said in Harassment in VR, there's something we can likely learn from this.:

But what is a better way to address such situations?

You said that the player in question was capable of handling herself. I presume that means she knows when her threshold has been reached, and she contacts staff to demand action. So, yes, I am one of those banhammer people, but I'd probably opt with a stern warning to stop haranguing people with pages.

A better way to address such situations is to remind players of acceptable behavior on a regular basis, regardless of what's going on.

The best way is if people stop being page-harassers. That'd be fucking nice.

@Arkandel said in Gauging interest in a 20th Edition Game.:

Elaborate? What's different about V20 players?

sigh

Just about everyone I know that wasn't a complete mong made the transition to nWoD. Since St. Petersburg, v 1.0, we've enjoyed the beautiful mystery that is V:tR. While there are gaping holes in the story and flavor, V:tR is flexible and more diverse in many respects than the family-bloodline monstrosity of V:tM. Plus, the system was better balanced at that time.

The people that stuck with oWoD games persisted on places like Metro and Cajun Nights. They are dinosaurs in the literal sense: out-of-time, and horrifying.

When City of Hope came out, it's like they all came out of the woodwork to sit on this new game and fill it with their boring, inculcated shit that used to pass for role-playing. This is not to say that every V20 player is an awful person, but every awful person that used to regularly frequent and pour their shit on my oWoD games, many of which I staffed at, went to City of Hope with the desire to relive the old glory days. It was like watching 50-year-old out-of-shape armchair-quarterbacks attempting to play a game in the sweltering Alabama summer heat.

So, yeah. I'm leery of it. I've seen what happened. I wish the game the best, but consider me more or less terrified.

@Arkandel said in Gauging interest in a 20th Edition Game.:

I'd give a decent 20th Vampire game a try.

I would too, but I'm leery of V20 players after City of Hope.

@Arkandel said in 2016-2017 Basketball Thread:

They're a marginal playoffs team unless they gel during the season.

The Knicks are going to get pasted by shooting teams like Toronto and Golden State.

And you're right, buddy: the Warriors are one injury away from being deficient somewhere. What will also hurt them this year are expectations: they are, on paper, better in their starting five than last year, so they will be expected to win more than 73 games. I think what we saw last year was a team that gave everything they got to beat the record, only to run out of gas in the Finals.

All you need to do is win enough games to take the No. 1 seed. With San Antonio missing Duncan, the Warriors should aim for 60 wins, not 74. They need to take advantage of scrub benchers for breaks.

@Arkandel said in 2016-2017 Basketball Thread:

Warriors. They're too stacked. Barring injuries, given Delly is in Milwaukee now and LeBron's one year older (and perhaps not as hungry) I think they got it.

You probably are right, but, as a spoiler, I'll point out that LeBron knows how to win two in a row and maintain a consistent dynastic presence.

I think we'll see trades that will put Cleveland back in position to knock off the Warriors. They remain the best team to do so because of LBJ. Like last year, the pressure's on the Warriors, and that may be to their detriment -- Durant's, to be precise.

Re: The basketball thread

@Arkandel: Who you got?

@Insomnia said in Cheap or Free Games!:

If you like Fallout 4 on PC and didn't get the season pass before the price went up, it's on sale on Steam right now, back down at the original price.

I never saw the need to get anything other than the main game.

@Insomnia said in RL Anger:

Also fuck them for trying to scam people in the first place at 8am or 2pm.

I don't really think scammers have much respect for propriety, what with being scammers.

@Olsson said in General Video Game Thread:

I really really loved RDR, but I honestly am not sure if I will get a PS4 just for it. How much does a PS4 even go for these days? I've not touched a console since GTA came out.

$299, I think. USD.

Get the PS4 for The Witcher III, Fallout 4, the Uncharted Quadrilogy, and all sorts of other awesomeness.

@WTFE said in RL things I love:

I'm holding out for rule by oversized hyperintelligent ants.

I, for one, welcome our ant overlords.

@WTFE said in RL things I love:

You had debates? I thought Americans had given up debates decades ago in favour of joint press releases?

Candidates, maybe. Many actual Americans actually enjoy debating politics civilly. Unsurprisingly, I take the side of robot overlords.

That I can come here and not worry about political debates.

@Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread:

Holy fucking shit.

Told you so.

@Tinuviel said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

My main issue with the tasks system is that it may very much devolve into a 'play by report' scenario that anyone with Star Trek MUSHing experience will know all too well.

I don't really see anything wrong with "play by report."

I would be irritated if "play by report" was required, as it was in those Star Trek MUSH days.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Dystopia MUX:

My concern with that stuff is always less about what I'm obligated to do (attractions are fleeting and can be RP'd around/downplayed) than what the other player will take it as license do. I've been on the receiving end of 'This flirtation we agreed to' became 'YOU ARE MY ONE TWU WUV NO YOU CAN'T SAY YOU'RE NOT IT IS DESTINY'. And that was with a player I thought I was on the same page with, not just some rando.

This is my concern as well.

Having been on stage and through improv, I'm aware that "romantically interested" doesn't really mean shit-all. But if the other party doesn't understand that "romantically interested" may be just a passing fancy or future tension, I really can't work with them.

@Thenomain said in Footballs!:

Upside: Less murder of players and coaches.

Blood Bowl history suggests that this is not an upside.

@Thenomain said in Footballs!:

MLS (Major League Soccer, aka second-tier football in any other nation) games begin with two key announcements. 1) You can't keep the balls. 2) Don't throw things onto the field.

And they wonder why it isn't as popular in the United States as it is around the world.