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Ganymede

Unfortunately in my state, pedestrians have automatic right-of-way, even if they're not in a crosswalk.

I think I remember you living in a state run by gibbering retards, or something.

Ganymede

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

But if you haven't, how do you introduce some of the delightful nuances on a web site?

This:

A good primer, with easy links.

That's how.

I get you, but the information is available.

Ganymede

@Thenomain said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

I'm guessing they'd be mostly tempted to take it as a Lords & Ladies game.

The setting for Dragon Age is very much not Lords & Ladies.

Ganymede

@Insomnia said in RL Anger:

Dear student who just moved to town for university. It appears you have come from a town that doesn't have crosswalks, so you don't know how to use them, so let me clue you in; You have the right of way in them, not 10 feet away from them when you are wearing black in the rain and walk right past it anyway.

I had a case where a man on a motorized wheelchair attempted to cross five lanes of traffic in the rain at night outside of a crosswalk. He crossed four of the five lanes, where vehicles had stopped for him, but in the last lane the motorist could not see him and killed him when she drove at the speed limit through her right-of-way.

There was a crosswalk forty feet away.

His estate sued the motorist, but the motorist won because it is illegal to cross such a road outside of a crosswalk. Furthermore, comparative negligence so substantially outweighed his argument that the motorist was granted summary judgment.

His estate was awarded zero damages.

Go to fucking crosswalks, people, for fuck's sake.

Ganymede

It's late, but I have to say this.

I've been playing MU*s for around 20 years now. I've been a robot for the last 15. I've not been the best player, from a staff perspective. I've not been the best staffer from a player perspective.

But someone out there, I think, took a shot. Said to himself or herself, Ganymede is someone that can get things done if she wants to. If you push her a little. If you give her the chance.

Something happened, and it's all I can think about, for whatever reason. As a player. And it's so great that I'm still up, thinking. And I'm thinking: what can I do to get other players on board? What can I do to take this opportunity and fucking do something about it?

Understand, I'm sure some people think I'm the bee's knees. Thank you. However, with twins to take care of, a partner in school, and a full-time job, my online time is scarce and mostly slow.

Yet someone said, you know what? Fuck that. This is a player that can do something. And that opportunity was enough to pull me home from something I love doing, to do something else that I love doing.

Maybe they didn't think about that when they took the chance. But they took a chance, whether they knew it or not, and I'm going to do something with that chance.

If you're on a game that you enjoy, and you're given a chance to make it better, just do it. Don't take it for granted, ever.

I just hope that I can spread my joy -- my absolute joy -- to others.

So, thank you, powers-that-be on Fallen World. I don't think you comprehend how thankful I am.

And thank you to the players that have kept me there. You know who you are.

Ganymede

Seriously, Elphaba is poopy.

By that, I mean she deliberately exploited a glaring weakness in my PC and has now made it a central point of IC irritation for her.

These are good things, and should be celebrated. Having nowhere else to both recommend and applaud, I do so here.

Ganymede

@Sunny said in The 100: The Mush:

Edited to add: I mean I bloody closed the Sabbat sphere on....shit, was it Due Rewards? @TNP, you're the only one I know that MIGHT remember. On players' heads. It was so, so, so, so bad. This doesn't hold a candle to that.

No, it doesn't. I picked up the reins after you left, if I recall. Then again, I had a blast being the Brujah Primogen that was twisted into a Sabbat.

Ganymede

@Miss-Demeanor said in The Cat Thread:

Sometimes a scared cat is a scared cat... but sometimes having another cat can help them mellow out.

To be fair, my cat isn't that frightened of the world. He is very mellow, and is mellow about a lot of things.

But I also have human larva, so he disappears when they are out and about, trolling for fuzzy things to glom onto.

Ganymede

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

It is 5am and I'm suffering a combination of jaw-aching headache and sinuses so stopped up that my sink stopped working by osmosis, all triggered by almost twenty minutes of off and on sneezing three and a half hours ago.

Mold counts are through the roof this year. If you're an asthmatic, a nebulizer may help.

Ganymede

@Arkandel said in The Cat Thread:

What kinda super-cat do you have that doesn't wake up at 4 am, find that the food dish is only 1/3rd full then starts wailing like the world is on fire?

The kind of cat that understands that the U.N.'s restrictions on waterboarding do not apply to me.

Ganymede

@Misadventure said in The Cat Thread:

He gets along with his caretakers pretty well, but we often wonder if he would be happier with a little company.

I do not understand why you wonder this. Has your cat been acting strangely lately?

Look, I'm all for being kind to cats, but my cat is a cat. He's a hell of a lot smarter than my children because he: (1) consistently shits in his box; (2) eats when he's hungry; and (3) doesn't need a fucking sitter every time my partner and I go out because OMFG WHAT IF HE WAKES UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?!?!?!?.

If he's acting snuggly and cool when I'm home, he's just fine. If he's not, it's not unreasonable for me to expect a change in behavior. If he wants a companion, he'll let me know; I know him like that.

He's a cat, and I like him for a reason.

Ganymede

@WTFE said in RL things I love:

And Gany hits on the first of the many alterations to "General Tso's Chicken" to make it palatable to the locals…

Whether Western people recognize or not, the Chinese are damn fine cooks when it comes to fried food. Mandarin fried bread is so damned light and flavorful, it's like having a gossamer orgasm in your mouth. So, when it comes to fried food, trust your damned Chinese to do it fucking right.

For a culture that developed shrimp toast and shrimp chips, trust me when I say that they'd never make the fucking mistake of dousing deep-fried food with sauce.

Ganymede

@Misadventure said in The Cat Thread:

We have a nine year old cat. He is fairly sweet, but retiring. He loves to sit on us, and stay with us, ut runs from almost all company. He does not hiss at other cats unless hissed at, and expresses curiosity at kitten sounds. We'd like him to have a companion of sorts, at least another ca around when we are gone.

Query: Why?

I know that cats can have friends around, but when a cat has lived a mostly-solitary life, minus humans, why would he need company?

I have a cat: Gay Edward. My partner wanted to name him after that idiot from the Twilight series, and I didn't have the heart to dump her at the suggestion. He ended up being Gay Edward because, if a cat were gay, that'd be him. Loves guys, simpers, and just loves it when you rub him down low.

He's scared to death of the outdoors. And other things: our children; mice; stationary objects. I can't imagine having another cat for him because he'd be scared shitless. Twice we tried to introduce him to a kitten; twice we found him in a corner cowering in his own filth within an hour or two.

So, think about what the cat would want. Maybe he likes being by himself? Introvert cats aren't uncommon.

Ganymede

@HorrorHound said in General Video Game Thread:

Yeeaaah. Cat School ftw, for me. The bleed bonuses are going to make you so, so, so, so, so happy.

I liked it because I like the strategy of dodging, using magic, and then insta-killing things. Humans are worthless when you're blasting them with Aard.

Ganymede

@WTFE said in RL things I love:

He's a fucking poser. A liar. A total and absolute fraud. He's either never actually set foot in China or he's lying about the food he ate while in China.

Yeah, this.

I'm actually Chinese. Cantonese, to be specific. It's bloody impossible here to find good Chinese food, but I live in Ohio. There's a joint in Cincinnati that's decent, and that's only because the chef is Cantonese, used to work in a Cantonese restaurant, and is basically a FOB. Also, he's pretty cool to talk to.

Most Chinese folk I know -- my parents, my relatives -- know where the good stuff is (in Toronto). But we understand that the Americanized-Chinese food is entirely its own, and treat it as such.

Plus, deep-frying anything and then dousing it in sauce is so stupid: you absolutely ruin the texture of the food when you do this.

Ganymede

@VulgarKitten said in Plotted versus plotless scenes:

As an aside, you are doing an excellent job.

You're very kind, because I don't think I've done shit. I put up a Board post, but no one responded. And I'm not on when everyone else is.

Still, anyone's welcome to get in and join. It's real simple: bring yourself. It's comic-book-ish and clichéd, but it's as fun as anyone wants to make it. Win or fail, make it as brutal and violent as you want; it's all "improv" RP, so it's all good.

Beating up NPCs is better than sitting in shops, right?

Ganymede

@Arkandel said in Plotted versus plotless scenes:

... these kinds of social scenes can happen organically but plotted multi-part stories absolutely cannot.

Why not?

On Fallen World, I'm running a local drug ring's take-down. It doesn't have shit-all to do with the game, but it's an opportunity to meaningfully RP. Sometimes I'm running the scene; sometimes it's someone else. We pass the time pleasantly, and recently pulled someone else into it.

It's organic because it just happens. It's plotted and multi-part because it is.

I mean, it's really as simple as "Shrike is an Arrow that enacts street justice! Come join!" And we get our kicks by just playing pretend.

Ganymede

Canada.

And this guy, specifically:

Who is also, by the way, this guy:

Who is our Minister of Defence.

Justin Trudeau is pretty cool, but this guy is the shit.

Ganymede

@Coin said in General Video Game Thread:

And like I said last night: I would vastly suggest using a controller over the mouse and keyboard, but that's a preference you'll have to figure out for yourself.

I can't even imagine playing without a controller.

@Thenomain, my tip would be to go light. Go with the Cat School. You may be a bit brittle, but dodging out of combat is your way to get safe and charge up your magic. And having Quen is a good shield when you have to wade into a pitched battle.

This is a game you can sink tons of time into. I think I plunged over 100 hours into it, over the course of 3 or 4 months. It's a completionist's game too: you will be rewarded for finishing all of the quests, and there is a lot to be found.

That the game is fucking beautiful accentuates it.

And to think: this was backed by Warner Bros. Imagine if they had put this much thought into, oh, Batman v. Superman.

Ganymede

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

My biggest case for a +meetme command is actually because it makes it SO nice for newcomers. Once I'm in a MU and I know how to get around it's no big deal, but honestly when I'm new and just want to RP with someone, sometimes that initial "but where am I and how do I get to where the fun is happening" is intensely frustrating. A +meetme lets me hit the grid and start RPing immediately, which I really dig.

It's also helpful in scenes when you're running it already and someone logs on late and still wants to come - cuts down the between here-and-there running you do. I get that you don't want people to exclusively use meetme and ignore the grid entirely, but some implementation of the command proper would be super helpful, IMO.

All of this. Yes.

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