Posts made by Tyche

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

Oh! I actually have an RL peeve today.

"Orient" when used to describe a people is understood to be racist. That's fine. When used to describe gathering one's bearings, it is not a racist word. Just stop.

Words aren't racist, people are.

Merriam Webster says...
oriental noun
1 dated, now usually offensive : asian especially : one who is a native of east Asia or is of east Asian descent

occidental noun
1: a member of one of the occidental peoples especially : a person of European ancestry

Funny how only one is "usually offensive".
Some orientals don't think so...
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-tsuchiyama-oriental-insult-20160601-snap-story.html

An uncle of mine used the following a lot:

"Your butt sucks canal water."

It was amusing, but never made much sense to me.

"You haven't been yourself lately. We've all noticed the improvement."
and
"I've been called worse things by better people."

It's news in Chechnya
Chechens complain on American game that depicts them as cruel vampires with Ramzan as their ‘Sultan’

@derp said in RL Anger:

ME: The most effective method of rape prevention to date is teaching women how to protect themselves out in the world.

EVERYONE: YOU MONSTER RARG!

Not everyone. You are absolutely correct.
To be angered by good advice offered by a law enforcement officer is silly.

@kumakun said in What's out there now and what has been attempted? A codebase discussion.:

My intention is definitely not to alienate players. I think we can bridge the gap between veterans and new players. I'm not saying get rid of the terminal, my codebase would support it. It would be functional, usable and polished - but not my focus. Normal Mux commands would work for the most part for my 'base' install so a veteran player can WHO look, page etc.

One even alienates veteran players by implementing the wrong CLI command interface. Even the variations in Rhost, Mux, Penn and TinyMush cause some consternation.

@tinuviel said in RL Anger:

Yet more "don't get raped" rather than "don't rape." Charming.

I guess it is possible the rapists don't know about the "don't rape" thing.

@selira said in RL Anger:

@arkandel said in RL Anger:

Good news everyone!

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/11/after-migrant-gang-rape-german-police-chief-warns-women-not-to-drink-alcohol/

While if that's true, it's obviously terrible advice, can we ... can we not link reactionary, racist tabloids here?

Here is the exact quote from Spiegel Online: "Der Polizeipräsident von Freiburg im Breisgau, Bernhard Rotzinger... Einen Ratschlag habe ich aber: Macht euch nicht wehrlos mit Alkohol oder Drogen."
"But I have one piece of advice: Do not make yourself defenseless with alcohol or drugs."

@arkandel said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

@tyche Call it what you want. I call it "MSB rules". Please adhere to them.

@ganymede said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

@tyche

Yes.

Please keep mansplaining.

Do go on, by all means.

@arkandel said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

@tyche said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

@wizz said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

I get a little tired of the dumb, brassy lynch mob attitude around here sometimes.

Toxic femininity.

What the hell man. Especially not in this forum section, not that it works in any. Come on.

You just don't like the term. It's also known as 'relational aggression' and yes, this thread is a perfect example. That's why I don't read HogPit, unless a thread I happen to reply to gets moved there.

@wizz said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:

I get a little tired of the dumb, brassy lynch mob attitude around here sometimes.

Toxic femininity.

@auspice said in Random links:

Today, replace novel with video game.

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

You really ought to consider sitting the fuck down and not challenging me of all people on constitutional jurisprudence.

Are there other topics, besides economics or constitutional law, that you want to invoke argumentum ad verecundiam on?

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

@tyche said in RL Anger:

You ought to be angry at being so gosh darn gullible.

... says the token from the party that put forward such stellar candidates as Harriet Miers (withdrawn), Robert Bork (rejected), Harrold Carswell (rejected), and Clement Haynsworth (rejected) in the past 50 years.

Summary:

Miers: Horridly unqualified. Had the good grace to bow out.
Bork: Opposed by the ACLU (like Kavanaugh). Alleged extremist.
Carswell: Alleged racist. Considered "mediocre."
Haynsworth: Allegedly had financial interests in cases he presided over. "Too moderate."

The Republican Party has the worst recruitment team when it comes to finding qualified candidates.

Kavanaugh is far more qualified than either Breyer and Thomas, and probably several others who actually sit on the bench.
Of course Kavanaugh's qualifications were never an issue. It's all about left/right politics.
And as you well know, I think Justice Thomas makes great rulings. So much for qualifications.

We've talked about this 'empathy' issue before, in regard to judges and other things.
I think the comments made in this thread are quite revealing of the dangers of empathy.
It leads to gullibity.
The show we've been watching here ain't 'The Handmaid's Tale', it's 'The Crucible'.

I found Ford's testimony to be unconvincing, devoid of facts, and clearly refuted by her own witnesses.
I'd make a lengthy list here or in the politics forum, but I suspect it's moot.

Anyway say hello to Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh.
Trump is wrong. Winning never gets tiring.

@thenomain said in RL Anger:

@tyche said in RL Anger:

You ought to be angry at being so gosh darn gullible.

In what sense? Less Vagueness Please.

You obviously believe the accusations.

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

@thenomain

Vote.

No he shouldn't vote. He'll cancel out some woman's vote, and that will only add to his shame.

@thenomain said in RL Anger:

This whole Brett Kavanaugh thing. It makes me ashamed. It makes me ashamed of being male. It makes me ashamed of being white. It makes me ashamed of being upper middle class. It makes me ashamed of being from his generation. It makes me ashamed of my government. It makes me ashamed of my country. There is nothing from his bad acting to his outrageous entitlement that doesn't make me angry, and on top of that I hit most of the labels that makes me outwardly similar to that monster. Fuck. That.

That is all.

You ought to be angry at being so gosh darn gullible.

@ganymede said in What RPG SYSTEM do you want to play on a Mu*?:

@tyche said in What RPG SYSTEM do you want to play on a Mu*?:

If you look at GURPS: Vampyre, a beginning vampire gets 200-300 points to build, while modern mortals would be built using 100-150 points.

That presents the immortals with the overall advantage, but not specific advantage. I think Faraday's point, which is well-taken, is that the specific advantage isn't a substantial advantage.

Well it's a little more complicated in that a vampire is required to spend 55 points on a template which contains a required number of advantages and disadvantages. And of course they can spend points on disciplines that a mortal can't. For example, Celerity 5 costs 48 pts gives you +10 move and +2 attacks per turn. So you end up with mortals being able to outclass vampires in many mundane skills (hacking, shooting, driving, crafting etc.). While vampires having significant advantage in most HTH combat and "mental" combat.

Mind you, I haven't actually played it. But it reads well.

@faraday said in What RPG SYSTEM do you want to play on a Mu*?:

Expert human (11) beats Expert human (11) -- 4 out of 10 times.
Expert vampire (15) beats Expert human (11) -- 6 out of 10 times.

If you think a 20% boost is an appropriate model for a vampire with an expert Presence or Dominate - hey, go for it. But that doesn't really sound like what @Ganymede wanted when she said "bend the odds in favor of a vampire expert against a mortal expert substantially."

Instead of adding or limiting dice, change the success target number or number of successes required when comparing mortals vs. immortals.

Aside: There is an interesting historical relationship between Fate and GURPS that was because of scaling issues. TFT--> GURPS --> Fudge --> Fate. Fudge was created because the developer (Bunnies and Burrows?) didn't like the way GURPS scaled (small critters vs. larger critters).

I think GURPS works just fine myself, because the point buy system limits character power levels.
If you look at GURPS: Vampyre, a beginning vampire gets 200-300 points to build, while modern mortals would be built using 100-150 points.

I want GURPS or RoleMaster. I like tactical melee and magical combat. I want it turn-based like most mushes, not an automated twitch combat system like most muds. Both systems would require a good amount of coded support.