Posts made by Ganymede

@carma said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

"How do you make social RP enjoyable and unique?"

Be enjoyable to RP with.

@warma-sheen said in The basketball thread:

I'm sure he would not be holding that trophy without a ton of injuries around the league.

If your team is affected by the fall of a single player, then it wasn't a great team to begin with.

Toronto wasn't a team build around Leonard when they won; it was extraordinarily deep. No one could have predicted the seasons that both Siakam and Van Vleet had that year. But when people tell me they wouldn't have won but for Durant's and Thompson's injuries, I simply respond: maybe Golden State shouldn't have relied so heavily on them, to the point where they got worn out.

And that's why load management, a deep bench, and great scouting can allow a team to win without a super-team.

@waller said in The basketball thread:

I think that Giannis' comments were aimed squarely at The Bearded One, and Lebron and Durant were just catching strays.

I'm not sure if Giannis meant any shade at all, in that everything he said is true.

But if it was targeting someone, that would definitely be anyone who left the team that raised them in order to be part of a super-team.

And Milwaukee is a smaller market that definitely deserves its recognition, like how LeBron brought a championship to Cleveland.

At least Durant has a couple. Leonard brought a championship to the North.

Harden has no rings. He's a transcendent talent. He's also impossible to play with.

@solstice said in Good Anime:

I just wish it didn't often come hand-in-hand with an overpowered self-insert protagonist and a slew of tropey conquests to fight over him.

I think this is what keeps me away from anime these days, honestly. I just don't get this, at all.

Which is a shame, I suppose, but I love older anime, like Macross and Perfect Blue.

@arkandel

Yeah, I liked this ending better than the Canadiens not even fucking showing up to play.

@reversed said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Which means I miss out on meeting new people and making unexpected connections, sometimes, but I accept that when it comes down to "playing the cards that RL is dealing me."

It should be said as well that, on Arx, sending and receiving messengers or engaging in flashbacks are equally valid forms of "social RP."

@roz said in RL things I love:

The original link was PROBABLY best for the Politics section.

@lotherio

@arkandel

Dieting is like getting married.

For some people, it's easy; for others, it's hard. Some people want the quick way to make it work; others want to take their time to develop it. In the end, whatever you choose, you'll have your ups-and-downs, and hopefully more good days than bad ones.

And if you decide on a divorce, that's fine, but don't get salty with me if I stay married.

@faraday said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Of course there are everyday heroes, but as a medic iRL I can assure you that most responses would be pretty dull to RP. A single season of a show like Chicago Fire is basically everything exciting that happened in every fire department across the US in the span of a year.

People: OMG, is being a lawyer like it is on Law and Order?

@greenflashlight said in RL things I love:

Yeah, I'm honestly a little grumpy she's only being punished for twelve hours when people are going to die from what she says, but whatever.

Frankly and darkly, if you listen to her then maybe you deserve what you get.

@greenflashlight

I literally can’t even.

@faraday said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I think you may have a narrower definition of "RPG World" that some of us. I think what you're maybe getting at is that RPGs are often focused on heroic (or anti-heroic) people running around having adventures for months or years on end. That doesn't exactly happen every day in the real world.

I also didn't think it needed to be said, but in a bleak universe the moments of kindness stand out and turns the PCs into instant heroes for doing the things we take for granted.

@lilli

And this makes Thor fat and sad.

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@derp

Honestly, this makes me want to recruit for a pack of werewolves who live in some ramshackle duplex on the west side of town, and all work for the alpha's food truck, and the alpha most of the time is just trying to get everyone fed and feeling okay for the next mission because FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY IS THE CLIATH EATING PASTE?!?

@silverfox

Stories like this make me feel murder-rampage.

People are scum.

Mietze recently banned another clone of our sometimes-mellow-than-WTF right-wing troll.

Later, we noticed an account with a similar "anonymous" e-mail address was registered.

Clearly, this motherfucker seems to think that we like playing games. I have no doubt we'll play this cat-and-mouse game like a sad simile of the Batman-Joker routine. And you know what? I'm fucking sick and tired of it because it is interfering with my raging alcoholism.

So, for the next little while, there's no automatic registration. We'll be approving them. And if some other shitbag wants to, oh I don't know, spam the fuck out of us with accounts, then we'll simply disable them and allow user-invite only for a while.

How long will this go on? I don't know. Hopefully long enough that people will take a fucking hint, but I'm smart and cynical enough to realize that some people are out to ruin shit for others.

Got issues getting online? PM me.

I grew up believing that high-technology leads to feudalism, planetary destruction, and massive family battles fought by mercenaries.

But I grew up playing fucking Battletech.

@silverfox

Too many kittens!

(There are never too many.)