Posts made by Ganymede

@Arkandel said in The basketball thread:

Their one issue will be to figure out how to close tight games when the ball gets hot.

You hammer the other team with energy.

I remember watching the Dayton Flyers make it to the Elite 8. Their team was often out-sized and, on paper, out-matched. But they were deep and energetic, and out-hustled and out-gamed everyone by hanging in there.

I see that with the Raptors. They can come at you hard for 48 because they are deep. You've got to contend with the Ibaka-Gasol-Siakam trio in the paint and the Lowry-VanVleet-Powell trio in the back court. This team straight-up beats you with energy and defensive ball skills.

Now they are embarrassing them by putting the bench in. And they are still putting up double-digit points.

Edit to add: The Raptors' bench just posted over 100 pts. against the Nets, an NBA record.

For me, the story so far is the Raptors dominating without Kawhi.

And Kawhi struggling with George against the Mavericks.

Think it was all Kawhi still?

Raptors have seriously dangerous depth with role players that can take over games.

@Ominous said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

The job is in the Ventura/Oxnard/Santa Barbara area which, according to all the cost of living sites I can find that have that area, is only about 18% more expensive than Louisville.

My father used to live out in Oxnard. I didn't realize it was so expensive to live in Louisville.

I'm also uncertain if security/jail work in California will be as stable or rewarding or safe as Louisville.

@Quinn

You're probably right.

Still California is California.

@Ominous said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Having had enough of that and the protests making me rethink my career choice, I have cast a wide net for jobs. I have been offered a position with the post office delivering mail in a rather nice part of town and it will offer a pay cut of only $2/hr. I also started dating someone and we really like each other. However, a job I put in for in California in February has finally come calling and wants to offer my double my current pay.

California is an expensive place to live, if you're going to be located in a city. Knowing what I know of you, it will drive you nuts. It drove me nuts, and I was coming from Canada.

Post office jobs are steady and have good benefits, but often have long hours.

Enjoyable relationships are not easy to come by as you get older.

@RubyRhod

Tony's @mail is a classic case of gaslighting.

Bourbon's decision to remove him or ask him to leave because they didn't want to deal with him is perfectly reasonable.

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

I know it's important and thus do it and do it well, but I honestly hate doing mandatory training reporting. It just breaks my heart.

It does suck.

I remember when I was younger, I had to teach high school kids how to identify sexual abuse in school-aged children.

I did it once a week for thirty-seven weeks.

Now I'm a lawyer.

@mietze said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:

I am really glad to see people not accepting the nonsense but I guess we will always have folks who want to see how teeheeUnPC they're allowed to be.

First, Coulter.

Then, Shapiro.

Now, this guy:

@SilentHills said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:

Regardless of that particular racial faux pas, damn that was a good 90s film.

As a Canadian, I went to sleep dreaming of Sarah Polley.

@RDC said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:

The Racial Slur Database specifically calls "Nubian Princess" out as a racial slur, for example, because in the wake of the movie Friday, white folks just...uh. Took that shit and ran with it in the wrong direction.

I first became acquainted with it from Go.

"Do you have a five-year plan?"

The only reasonable answer would be "no."

I don't want to hire an attorney with any certainty as to where they will be in five years career-wise.

You don't know what's going to happen.

If you think you do, you're too arrogant to work with me.

@RDC

I'm not going to argue that, no, but I will say that racism, queerphobia, transphobia, and pro-genocidal garbage has no place in an earnest conservative or centrist agenda.

Maybe that means I'm not as conservative or centrist as I think.

Doesn't matter. Did the right thing, 1000%.

@RDC said in NOLA 2: Back in the Vieux:

If you are a conservative or a "centrist" you are more than free to come to NOLA and play.

I consider myself fairly conservative, to the point of centrism.

If you spout racist, queerphobic, transphobic, pro-genocidal garbage?

Yeah, this is not part of conservatism or centrism. Common human decency is not political.

@JinShei said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Or, you know, I could lie here, wondering if I'm imagining that I've upset someone, or if I have and don't know how, and ... argh.

I saw a message through Facebook that seems appropriate:

Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.

@Ominous

@reimesu

@SuperiorHuron said in The Work Thread:

Who should be getting it, who shouldn't. Do we get it, does the billing staff? Do we get it at all? Then there's the fighting. Well you don't DESERVE IT! I don't even want to enter the building. I don't even care if it get it. I've been happy with the fact my insurance is being taken care of. And my mortgage. And all the smaller things. Once that check comes from the back pay, it'll be taxed anyway. I'm just over all of it.

@Ominous said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:

As much as I love the setting for Mass Effect or really any space game, I always worry that the distances involved breaks up the playerbase too much.

Much like Arx, you can base the game in a single location, and have outward missions to other realms as PRPs or staff-run plots. The Citadel would be an ideal place to base the game, but so would Noveria. I think Arx's code-base lends itself just as well to exploring the Heleus Cluster from the Nexus.

The code's got everything I was conceiving of a few years ago, from a clue system to action points, to resource gathering. Adapting it would be a true labor.

Mass Effect with Arx’s code.

I said it.