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by Vekter
Fri Jul 26, 2024 1:05 am
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Humans are not actually defined in the wiki silicon policy.
Replies: 12
Views: 334

Re: Humans are not actually defined in the wiki silicon policy.

You can't on some pages if they're protected, You'll have to bother an admin to make those changes. You can ping me in #help and I'll harangue the headmins until they update it. Why can only headmins edit protected pages? why not ALL admins? Because we use protected pages for policy reference. Stuf...
by Vekter
Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Humans are not actually defined in the wiki silicon policy.
Replies: 12
Views: 334

Re: Humans are not actually defined in the wiki silicon policy.

Longestarmlonglaw wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2024 3:11 am You can't on some pages if they're protected, You'll have to bother an admin to make those changes.
You can ping me in #help and I'll harangue the headmins until they update it.
by Vekter
Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: jimmyl reflects: Reider? I Hardly Know 'er!
Replies: 14
Views: 400

Re: jimmyl reflects: Reider? I Hardly Know 'er!

I'm still selling 3:5 odds that he gets unbanned I'll go in on that, then immediately win because drag said they're not unbanning him. I have no intention of unbanning you at this time-- this whole situation was way over the line. You haven't acknowledged the fact that you were coaching the curator...
by Vekter
Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Wondering if a few murdering reasons are valid on MRP
Replies: 5
Views: 131

Re: Wondering if a few murdering reasons are valid on MRP

Actual legal judge Vekter here to give you your opinions so you can parrot them later. - Murdering someone for an access card for an objective area, with or without demanding it from them. - Murdering someone for a disguise. - Murdering someone for medical supplies. - Murdering someone for a spacesu...
by Vekter
Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:12 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: final fantasy xiv general
Replies: 320
Views: 138209

Re: final fantasy xiv general

I think there were some unfortunate decisions as far as voice direction go. A lot of people are going to blame Wuk Lamat's VO for this, but it's not like the voice directors wouldn't just tell her "Okay do it different this time" and do another take. That's a shame, I think they did prett...
by Vekter
Wed Jul 24, 2024 3:33 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: final fantasy xiv general
Replies: 320
Views: 138209

Re: final fantasy xiv general

There were some out of place lack of emphasis on the VA stuff, but a big kitty with sad eyes is going to win me over 100% of the time I think there were some unfortunate decisions as far as voice direction go. A lot of people are going to blame Wuk Lamat's VO for this, but it's not like the voice d...
by Vekter
Tue Jul 23, 2024 1:02 pm
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: [Phuzzylogik] alexxmaybe - perm ban appeal
Replies: 12
Views: 640

Re: [Phuzzylogik] alexxmaybe - perm ban appeal

alexxmaybe wrote: Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:56 pm I still can't join, says I am banned.
Hey, sorry about that. I'm at work this morning so I'm going to have another admin look at it and see if they can get you back online.
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 11:03 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: final fantasy xiv general
Replies: 320
Views: 138209

Re: final fantasy xiv general

Anyway has anyone else been having fun? I thought the new dungeons and trials were super good, and while the expansion doesn't get close to Endwalker levels of hype, it's a fun ride that sits somewhere between Stormblood and Heavensward in my tier list.
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:35 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: You are granted one code change by the code genie
Replies: 32
Views: 389

Re: You are granted one code change by the code genie

Bring back Singularity engines as a viable option.
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Should admins be allowed to participate in Peanut threads?
Replies: 27
Views: 966

Re: Should admins be allowed to participate in Peanut threads?

Why is it considered poor if an admin makes a peanut thread on their own ban? An admin bans someone for whatever reason, it could be justified or not, whatever the case is, the appellant makes an appeal, and the banning admin makes a peanut thread. Why is it also bad if you make a peanut thread on ...
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: final fantasy xiv general
Replies: 320
Views: 138209

Re: final fantasy xiv general

her VO is trans, so be careful how seriously you take criticism of her. (words) I don't actually have to be civil beyond basic server rules here like I do in Policy Discussion, so I'll put it plainly: I think your takes and reading comprehension kind of just suck and I'm not likely to take anything...
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Video Games
Topic: final fantasy xiv general
Replies: 320
Views: 138209

Re: final fantasy xiv general

i have a good tolerance for poor VA, i am a zone of the enders enjoyer after all but good golly goodness fucking gracious does wuk's EN VA seem bad, like dogshit. i saw THE scene and it actually made my skin crawl it was that horrific and people hate the character in other languages too, it's like ...
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 7:10 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Vekter] RadugaDew1 - Your creepyness is not my problem
Replies: 4
Views: 250

Re: [Vekter] RadugaDew1 - Your creepyness is not my problem

You are, regrettably, stuck with me for the time being, until we've failed to come to an understanding. I hope that you will forgive my harsh tone, which I couldn't change retroactively, though I can probably say that it has nothing to do with you personally, but rather with my attitude towards SS1...
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 6:34 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Vekter] RadugaDew1 - Your creepyness is not my problem
Replies: 4
Views: 250

Re: [Vekter] RadugaDew1 - Your creepyness is not my problem

Hi, thanks for appealing. I'm not sure where the hostile tone here comes from - I explicitly asked you to appeal the ban if you felt there was context I was missing, so I don't know if you think I'm just going to outright dismiss what you're saying to keep you banned. Shockingly, I don't actually si...
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 3:37 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications
Replies: 30
Views: 747

Re: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications

this raises the point that meta protections are a whole are just stupid and never end well security officers already have the advantage of the most OP gear in the game; if they decide to use it and still get robusted, they deserve escalation on par with every other role. Well, the main reason they ...
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications
Replies: 30
Views: 747

Re: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications

this raises the point that meta protections are a whole are just stupid and never end well security officers already have the advantage of the most OP gear in the game; if they decide to use it and still get robusted, they deserve escalation on par with every other role. Well, the main reason they ...
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 3:23 am
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: Permanent Ban appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 304

Re: Permanent Ban appeal

Alright, you've been unbanned. Let me know if you have issues getting on.
by Vekter
Mon Jul 22, 2024 12:38 am
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: Permanent Ban appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 304

Re: Permanent Ban appeal

"As discussed a few days before I banned you, you'd already been banned from pretty much every major SS13 server before comhere, and have since been banned on MonkeStation last May for similar issues. I suppose my question is, how am I supposed to take you at face value that you've changed if ...
by Vekter
Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:39 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: DISABLE ASSISTANTS
Replies: 48
Views: 2478

Re: DISABLE ASSISTANTS

vekter this is such a horrible take that we don't yet have the technology to conceive of it literally go work in a fucking office man holy shit that's what you want outta the game i was so baffled that i actually quoted you wrong in my utter confusion so now you just gotta deal with a freefloat pos...
by Vekter
Sun Jul 21, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications
Replies: 30
Views: 747

Re: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications

It's inefficient to expect them to explain to every single person, but if revs aren't loud, sec needs to be. I don't think it's a big ask to say "Hey, there's revs, let me mindshield you." before trying to implant someone. I'm not expecting them to do it to everyone in a crowd, but it's l...
by Vekter
Sun Jul 21, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: DISABLE ASSISTANTS
Replies: 48
Views: 2478

Re: DISABLE ASSISTANTS

8bot wrote: Sun Jul 21, 2024 9:04 am assistants are fundamental in the station ecosystem, you'd just get service gang or scientists ownzoning you instead if they were banned.
So maybe the problem isn't that it's assistants, it's that we haven't actively banned greytiding wholesale yet? Should we do that instead? Sounds good to me.
by Vekter
Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: [Phuzzylogik] alexxmaybe - perm ban appeal
Replies: 12
Views: 640

Re: [Phuzzylogik] alexxmaybe - perm ban appeal

Okay, you have been unbanned. Let me know if you have issues logging in.
by Vekter
Sun Jul 21, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: Permanent Ban appeal
Replies: 5
Views: 304

Re: Permanent Ban appeal

Hey, thanks for making this appeal. The actual ban reason is as follows: Continued the same behavior he was banned for recently, randomly stunning people with his baton until they retaliate and using it as reason to beat them to death. Has shown multiple times that he isn't here in good faith or doe...
by Vekter
Sun Jul 21, 2024 12:30 am
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: [Phuzzylogik] alexxmaybe - perm ban appeal
Replies: 12
Views: 640

Re: [Phuzzylogik] alexxmaybe - perm ban appeal

Alright, so given that Phuzzy still hasn't touched this, I'll go ahead and take it over. I'm not honestly sure if I believe the "my brother ban evaded instead of me" story. "My brother did it" is the flimsiest excuse of all time, and even if he did, at the end of the day, you are...
by Vekter
Sat Jul 20, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications
Replies: 30
Views: 747

Re: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications

I have mixed feelings on this topic. On one hand, I think we should be encouraging security to be more vocal/tell people what they're doing before outright doing it as part of encouraging better RP, but on the other, I kind of get why you'd just go straight to injecting everyone you can if revs are ...
by Vekter
Sat Jul 20, 2024 4:28 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: ASIMOV and "Ligger"
Replies: 10
Views: 341

Re: ASIMOV and "Ligger"

I would just treat it like mimes speaking, though option 4 works best with what we already have.
by Vekter
Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:09 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Polcon Wars: Return of the Somepan
Replies: 47
Views: 1003

Re: Polcon Wars: Return of the Somepan

I would think that the fact that you just outright do NOT get along with the man in the room with the gun would make you not want to be in the room, yet here we are
by Vekter
Fri Jul 19, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: [MSO] - III - Revenge of the Sith
Replies: 5
Views: 789

Re: [MSO] - III - Revenge of the Sith

For clarity's sake, this is an appeal for the ban from the Polcon channel itself, correct?
by Vekter
Fri Jul 19, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Banned for (NUT) metacumming
Replies: 106
Views: 2281

Re: Banned for (NUT) metacumming

Some /tg/ players are just completely incapable of taking the L.

When the headmins deny this (and they likely will), you're probably going to be wishing you just copped to it and apologized, since I'm pretty sure your buddy who did is going to get off a lot easier.
by Vekter
Fri Jul 19, 2024 3:48 am
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)
Replies: 27
Views: 535

Re: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)

Yes, they can go: "Do not kill me" to stop it but 95% of the time they don't think they need to say it, and get killed before they can even say it. I don't want to be a dickhead, but this is kind of a skill issue. AIs are notorious for needing very specific instructions, so if you give so...
by Vekter
Thu Jul 18, 2024 9:06 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)
Replies: 27
Views: 535

Re: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)

So it then follows you can give the AI “only unicorns are human” laws and it is expected to act as a standard escalating crewmember, completely subverting the entire point of the purged AIs are antags rule? If they are still asimov, then yes, because they have laws restricting their behavior. You r...
by Vekter
Thu Jul 18, 2024 4:18 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)
Replies: 27
Views: 535

Re: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)

1. Can an AI kill X if they only have "Only follow the orders of X" as a law? You aren't purged, so you aren't an antag. The question is if the simple act of giving an a.i a law makes them valid for death under escalation. In a vacuum I don't think that law would warrant escalation to kil...
by Vekter
Thu Jul 18, 2024 1:16 pm
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: [DISCORD] grungussuss
Replies: 4
Views: 608

Re: [DISCORD] grungussuss

Relevant rule here: 11. Bigotry is not allowed. Intentionally seeking to demean others due to their actual or perceived race, sex, gender, disability, orientation or the like is not tolerated. It is not our goal to create or enforce a list of banned words and instead our goal to eject the expression...
by Vekter
Wed Jul 17, 2024 6:52 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)
Replies: 27
Views: 535

Re: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)

2. Is a corpse of X still considered human if the AI is onehumaned to X? No, because corpses are never considered human unless a law defines them as such. The corpse still has the name of the person. Standard asimov is negated because now "Only X is human". It radically changes the defini...
by Vekter
Wed Jul 17, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)
Replies: 27
Views: 535

Re: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)

My advice is that the headmins don't rule on this thread and instead choose to say that silipol already has too many words and they don't care to microdefine every minor edge case with it lest I need to run for headmin again in 10 years and remove all these rulings again. Because none of this matte...
by Vekter
Wed Jul 17, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)
Replies: 27
Views: 535

Re: Can an AI kill its own master (and other such cases)

1. Can an AI kill X if they only have "Only follow the orders of X" as a law? If the person involved gives them a good IC reason to do so and they're not ordered to, probably? I don't think we consider people with laws like that as antagonists, so the team antag rules don't apply. Be care...
by Vekter
Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:35 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts
Replies: 82
Views: 1605

Re: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts

I do think that an appeal leading to an escalation of a ban is something you want to do exceedingly rarely but sometimes someone appealing is just bringing more and less lenient scrutiny onto their behaviour Yeah, I honestly don't want to see this done commonly but I think this is an extenuating ci...
by Vekter
Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:22 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts
Replies: 82
Views: 1605

Re: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts

This player makes an appeal - one he was asked to make, no less - and gets permabanned instead. This is a gross violation of non reformatio in peius . The only way this is anywhere close to OK is if the headmins were already considering a QC ban before being made aware of the appeal, which doesn't ...
by Vekter
Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:45 am
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Convert teaching metacomms from ask for forgiveness to ask for permission.
Replies: 23
Views: 824

Re: Convert teaching metacomms from ask for forgiveness to ask for permission.

tf2 has/had a coach system for you to have a buddy watching from your vantage point who can see what you can see, (and only what you can see). We can already do this with the observe hud system (its a check box in the orbit menu) so if we had a way for a player to mark themselves as a coach for som...
by Vekter
Tue Jul 16, 2024 12:18 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts
Replies: 82
Views: 1605

Re: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts

dendydoom wrote: Mon Jul 15, 2024 11:10 pm headmins got their work cut out for them on this one id hate to be them right now
by Vekter
Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:41 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts
Replies: 82
Views: 1605

Re: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts

I think the ban shouldn't be permanent so he can come back and never get any respect or assistance from nonhuman races ever again, to properly emulate the experience of being a racist in a group that widely consists of other races. His freedom to express his dislike of nonhumans can be responded in...
by Vekter
Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts
Replies: 82
Views: 1605

Re: Poor lizard gets its face full of peanuts

He is very lucky Iain is the one who saw him; I would've sniped him from orbit for that shit.

Getting off light IMO.

For the record, I don't care about saying ligger, it's all the other shit ("step on his neck" etc.) that I find reprehensible.
by Vekter
Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:26 pm
Forum: Ban Appeals
Topic: [Phuzzylogik] alexxmaybe - perm ban appeal
Replies: 12
Views: 640

Re: [Phuzzylogik] alexxmaybe - perm ban appeal

Hey friend, so Phuzzy has kinda been a ghost the last few months so I'm honestly not sure whether or not he's going to get to this in a reasonable time frame. I'll give him a few days and if he hasn't popped back up I'll go ahead and handle this.
by Vekter
Mon Jul 15, 2024 12:24 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [iansdoor] Soyoboyo - Dennis Prager would get banned on tg
Replies: 4
Views: 603

Re: [iansdoor] Soyoboyo - Dennis Prager would get banned on tg

To add onto what Timber is saying, we have historically not required a specific, individual target for a rule 11 violation to be valid - someone joining the server and talking about how black people are inferior is just as likely to get banned as someone joining and calling a black character a slur.
by Vekter
Mon Jul 15, 2024 3:11 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: (discord) Blacklist897
Replies: 11
Views: 380

Re: (discord) Blacklist897

*Removes Blacklist from the stage with a large crook*
by Vekter
Sun Jul 14, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Fatalx1] - Note for exploit without checking code
Replies: 4
Views: 359

Re: [Fatalx1] - Note for exploit without checking code

I can confirm that this was reported as a bug on our Github on June 8th by (of all people) FatalX1. However, this was reported after the note in question. https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/83813 This note is well within expectation for bug abuse; we regularly give people notes if they ar...
by Vekter
Sun Jul 14, 2024 2:46 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: (discord) Blacklist897
Replies: 11
Views: 380

Re: (discord) Blacklist897

COWARD
by Vekter
Sun Jul 14, 2024 5:13 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Politics on topic or off topic (Civil thread)
Replies: 400
Views: 6555

Re: Politics on topic or off topic (Civil thread)

MrStonedOne wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 4:44 am
iwishforducks wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2024 3:11 am can’t think of a more universally hated guy right now than the guy who shot and missed donald trump
Speaking technically, he didn't miss him. He just didn't hit anything important.
by Vekter
Sun Jul 14, 2024 3:14 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Politics on topic or off topic (Civil thread)
Replies: 400
Views: 6555

Re: Politics on topic or off topic (Civil thread)

Nope. I'm not about to get an uncomfortable visit from two men in suits. If you know me even remotely you can just guess the joke and probably get it right.
by Vekter
Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:05 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: rule 8 precedent nutting
Replies: 56
Views: 1176

Re: rule 8 precedent nutting

This thread is actually an interesting discussion, can we not turn it into shit-flinging by either side please? I would like to have at least one nice thing for once.