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    Posts made by Ganymede

    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @too-old-for-this said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      They hear 'we want equal rights' and all they can grasp is 'we want to do to you what you have been doing to us'.

      I think actually that they hear you can't make fun of us any more and that makes them scared because without a scapegoat they have to face the fact that they are the reason they are so pathetic and miserable.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Ganymede
    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @greenflashlight

      All my life I never understood what the gay agenda is.

      And being treated as a normal human isn’t an agenda: it’s survival.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      @herja

      Accounting is an arcane science, but it was one that was unable to prevent Worldcom or Madoff. Those who seek to reap profit in the short term despite the long term damage will do so. Legislating around that, or attempting to do so, is a bandage on a gaping wound.

      Anyhow, as I said, there are ways to make money that do not comply with or run contrary to accounting principles. Some don’t even make sense. But I don’t think all of them will carry long term harm.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      @solstice

      That is super awesome. Go get it. We’re (me, royally) are behind you!

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Ganymede
    • RE: RL Anger

      @rinel

      Kitten snuggle

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      @derp

      Cool. First, read Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine. Then, read Adam Smith’s writing on the value and taxation of real property; it is in The Wealth of Nations.

      Bottom line: the value of real property is entirely speculative, and therefore should be the basis of all taxes.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Ganymede
    • RE: RL things I love

      @herja

      You think that accounting principles match economic ones? Because they really don’t.

      I mean, we’re talking about real property. Unlike other kinds of property, including labor, it behaves very differently.

      We can talk all night about this topic, as it was part of my thesis for my graduate degree and an integral part of my law practice. But maybe we should take it to DMs.

      But it is an RL thing I love, so —

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff

      @horrorhound said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:

      Yes.

      Fine.

      First, try to take it. Anyone stupid enough to do that will be met with violence. The justice system revolves around the idea of protecting property, not people. When the first few people show up dead, you’ve made your point.

      Second, the power. You set it up. Put your peons who know better in the right places. Prop them up. Protect them and theirs. Then the system is yours.

      Finally, banks and trusts. Trust funds can exist in perpetuity, even if title restrictions cannot. Set up a few trusts to do business one another, all to benefit a single actual beneficiary: your whim.

      Not tough.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff

      @arkandel

      As someone who religiously plays / played vampires, do you really want me to describe how you can quite easily set up legal vehicles in order to maintain a vampire lord's possessions over time without resorting to the use of Disciplines?

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff

      @derp

      Bleed less.
      Move more.
      Do whatever it takes to keep you off of the dungeon floor.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: RL things I love

      @aria said in RL things I love:

      I dunno, bro. If you can't make a buck without breaking basic accounting and investment principles, maybe you're just shit at this?

      cat glasses

      Or maybe accounting and investment principles aren't the only way to make money.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Ganymede
    • RE: Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff

      @arkandel said in Weird or unrealistic gaming... stuff:

      Names. Very few characters are called Steve or Jen.

      It's always Maximillian and Lillian.

      I've never played a Maximillian or a Lillian.

      My more recent WoD names: Madeleine (aka Maddy); Clarice; Ashley; Erin; Sarah (aka Shrike); and Dana. The oddest one I've played recently was "Cai." I prefer "normal" names.

      Period or place names like Daithi and Piccola don't count.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: Good TV

      @aria

      I spent my last Romance day with my partner watching The Heart, Parts 1 and 2, of SPOP because she’s this beautiful, nice blonde, and I’m a fucking cat.

      Sam was the hero. I don’t think badly of Arwen, of course, but I do love me Eowyn.

      I like blondes.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Ganymede
    • RE: FFG L5R

      @ominous

      True dat.

      I was once part of a Fenrir pack as it’s Modi/Theurge. He had the Huge Size merit, Strength 5, and carried a war hammer.

      And, yes, he was probably the least deadly. Negotiating with a death spirit was very cordial.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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    • RE: RL Anger

      @derp

      Look at how toxic we are.

      I’m glad this is helping and that we could help.

      Now, I go back to moaning about how fucking broken I feel because of yard work and age.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Ganymede
    • RE: FFG L5R

      @jennkryst said in FFG L5R:

      Now I just need someone who knows how code and who wants the responsibility of plotz and hosting and whatever.

      I can plotz for a small group.

      I have fond memories of L5R. My troupe and I played a roving band of sort-of-ronin who went from village to village selling sake. Our "leader" was a Lion Clan wrestler, and I played a shugenja with Earth magic that was the troupe's tank.

      Enemy: Is that your champion?
      Leader: No, that's our shugenja; she's the least violent one of us too!

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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      Ganymede
    • RE: RL Anger

      @derp said in RL Anger:

      Mad that, because of that job, I can't even get a second job because of the moonlighting rules at the first job -- and they know because everyone reports income to them, so unless I find something super-duper under the table, I am stuck at a single income, or take risks out in the private sector legal economy which is -- kinda iffy right now, and largely full of areas I have zero experience in, like real estate.

      If you happen to be in an area with lots of people, think about inquiring at your local bar to see if they need a bar-back or a door-person. 'Round here, they are kind of desperate -- to the point where I now regularly moonlight as a door-person.

      Sweet gig, too, at a local karaoke joint. Not only do I get to be put into rotation, but I also get my drinks comp'd and walk out with a cool $60 under the table. Which is not bad for 4 hours of work.

      Sunday mornings sort of suck, but they were going to suck regardless.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Ganymede
    • RE: FFG L5R

      @derp said in FFG L5R:

      Probably not vampire because you'd be the only person I trusted to run vampire in a way that wouldn't make me grind my teeth.

      We can talk about it another thread, but I'd probably go with limiting the number of available Covenants, or go with a set that makes sense for the area.

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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      Ganymede
    • RE: RL Anger

      @derp

      I hope you find one.

      Feel free to put up a GoFundMe if you want to here as well because no one should have to fucking starve because of their fucking bank, that's just fucked up.

      Really fucked up, dude.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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      Ganymede
    • RE: FFG L5R

      @derp said in FFG L5R:

      Uh, I clearly said Irraka, not Bastet.

      Please see Gift of Change: Skin Thief (Cunning).

      You see a Bastet, which is what an Irraka would want you to see.

      (I miss playing an Uratha; their Gifts were just so mean.)

      posted in Mildly Constructive
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