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by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:29 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Close tg station on the sabbath
Replies: 13
Views: 429

Re: Close tg station on the sabbath

if(HAS_TRAIT(SSstation, STATION_TRAIT_PRAYER_DAY))
return get_safe_random_station_turf(typesof(/area/station/service/chapel)) || get_latejoin_spawn_point()


This would be a pretty easy add honestly
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Nov 01, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: aoife accidentally acts out and accrues a awkward admin action
Replies: 192
Views: 3928

Re: aoife accidentally acts out and accrues a awkward admin action

Timberpoes wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 11:36 am
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Real good post there, and gets to the heart of why sometimes bans do need to get upgraded and why that is in fact fair.
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Nov 01, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: aoife accidentally acts out and accrues a awkward admin action
Replies: 192
Views: 3928

Re: aoife accidentally acts out and accrues a awkward admin action

You leave a thread overnight and there's two whole new pages of squabbling, a headmin having a tantrum over people saying that posting memes in a "actually on reviewing new evidence we're no-reason-given nuking this person" ruling was weird, and the person banned suddenly is completely fin...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:48 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: aoife accidentally acts out and accrues a awkward admin action
Replies: 192
Views: 3928

Re: aoife accidentally acts out and accrues a awkward admin action

"By the way, in private admin channels everyone talks about how much they hate you and it really annoys me so I'd probbably have QC banned you personally. I will now invite every admin who has ever interacted with and complained about you to weigh in on this ban for something else" is a he...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Wed Oct 30, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: polticalconites purged by MSO
Replies: 110
Views: 2632

Re: polticalconites purged by MSO

I guess thats a clearer way to phrase it than “its fine to close it without replacement because it’s existence is evil in and of itself, even though i agree it would be better if they replaced it with a new and actually equal organisation”? It just seems off to celebrate an action that *will* harm a...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Tue Oct 29, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: polticalconites purged by MSO
Replies: 110
Views: 2632

Re: polticalconites purged by MSO

Thats a lot of people, but I havent seen the convos, Im sure MSO will have a huge post on either this thread or the complaint about all this. In my opinion it should’ve been referred to the discord jannies but MSO likes to moderate polcon himself and a lot of the djs seem to disagree with MSO so I ...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Oct 24, 2024 9:01 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Local Sybilnutter swears he wasn’t murderboning
Replies: 36
Views: 1179

Re: Local Sybilnutter swears he wasn’t murderboning

Itseasytosee2me wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 8:31 pm Shouldn’t you get the admin that called the hit to handle the appeal? Why didn’t that admin just do the ban themselves? Wack.
See dendydoom's post above
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Oct 24, 2024 8:58 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Actually write down you are not allowed to murderbone on LRP lowpop
Replies: 25
Views: 887

Re: Actually write down you are not allowed to murderbone on LRP lowpop

I think that any headmin ruling that redefines what the actual text of the game rules are should just be a rules change. Making a rules change doesn't *have* to be a six month term-definining project every time resulting in tiptoing around the idea of changing the wording on the big important page i...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Oct 24, 2024 1:44 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Local Sybilnutter swears he wasn’t murderboning
Replies: 36
Views: 1179

Re: Local Sybilnutter swears he wasn’t murderboning

35 players being the level for critical lowpop where antags get retroactive off-round bans for being too murdery on is suprisingly high.
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Oct 24, 2024 1:36 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: A peanut by any other name.
Replies: 57
Views: 1517

Re: A peanut by any other name.

What a peculiar occurrence.
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sun Oct 20, 2024 1:21 pm
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Trialmin Review: GUM DISEASE
Replies: 7
Views: 426

Re: Trialmin Review: GUM DISEASE

Always been a great community member and best cyborg, +1
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sun Oct 20, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Legalize shoeless clowns
Replies: 8
Views: 397

Re: Legalize shoeless clowns

Clowns that take their shoes off for an advantage suck. But also clowns should be free to change into whatever horrendously clashing autodrobe outfit they want
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:41 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: I would like a more viceral combat system
Replies: 10
Views: 1120

Re: I would like a more viceral combat system

I think the key to adding more "visceral" injury experiences is to not make them put people in medbay longer or require much more specialised treatment? I know they generally go hand-in-hand, but I do wonder if we could explore seperating "You can get totally fucked up in a fight"...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sun Oct 20, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: farewell MSO
Replies: 74
Views: 4241

Re: farewell MSO

It's still kinda shocking to see MSO go. Man became such a foundationstone to so many things over time. Big thanks are due, and best wishes to Scriptis for volunteering to take over as the Omelas Kid.
by Not-Dorsidarf
Tue Oct 15, 2024 6:26 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: we missed this one but it was kind of interenut
Replies: 8
Views: 509

Re: we missed this one but it was kind of interenut

Taking the can off the borg and running off with it? That's fine. Nobody should ever have a can of plasma in escape. Opening the can of plasma in the hallways then screaming BORGS ROGUE FLOODING to get them killed? The audacity to appeal what could easily have been a killbaiting dayban if the admin ...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Mon Oct 14, 2024 9:39 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Limit borgs and AI to station
Replies: 7
Views: 338

Re: Limit borgs and AI to station

I'm kinda for the idea of cargo getting an AI lockout lever that the QM can flip if theyre worried about the AI falling victim to Alexa Order Twenty Crates Of Cardboard
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Oct 11, 2024 2:07 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Gupta is on break he has to check in with everyone near him
Replies: 1918
Views: 221385

Re: kinnebian corner

Ah, corporate takeover I see.
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Oct 03, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Does the 'no spawn camping' rules apply to non-antags attacking people spawning in (say, on the shuttle)
Replies: 22
Views: 1253

Re: Does the 'no spawn camping' rules apply to non-antags attacking people spawning in (say, on the shuttle)

Jumping someone who's just gotten off/ is on the shuttle is being a complete dick and shouldnt be done

Antags are allowed to be dicks, but we dont want them spawncamping so they have a specific exemption from their rule 4 freedoms

Seems simple
by Not-Dorsidarf
Tue Oct 01, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Wallening Codenut (it’s today) (the PR is out)
Replies: 927
Views: 37972

Re: Wallening Codenut (it’s today) (the PR is out)

I dont think people got obnoxious and hostile as some kind of strategy or evil genius mindset, I think they got obnoxious and hostile because they felt that everything they talked about was being ignored, rejected, or openly mocked, and people tend to resort to shouting and namecalling out of anger ...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:18 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Silicon Policy - Using misspellings as loopholes
Replies: 24
Views: 987

Re: Silicon Policy - Using misspellings as loopholes

IMO typos and misspellings are fair game in general, but I think that minor grammatical errors like "revolutionarys" instead of "revolutionaries" aren't, particularly where there is no other possible reasonable meaning - "revolutionarys" is being treated as a plural by ...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:09 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Idiot Catmin falls out of Admin Tree
Replies: 35
Views: 1449

Re: Idiot Catmin falls out of Admin Tree

Chesh was great, sad to know they're gone. Hope you find a game which you can enjoy again Cheshify!
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Sep 19, 2024 9:49 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Codifying a rule against friendly antagonists
Replies: 44
Views: 2521

Re: Codifying a rule against friendly antagonists

That was a significantly larger answer than I expected, and I feel bad because all I can really say is "I don't think antag rounds are sacred and players are welcome to do what they want as an antagonist, I don't see that as 'stealing someone else's gameplay' because it's not someone else's. i...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Sep 12, 2024 9:31 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: local admin catches sneaky server saboteur
Replies: 52
Views: 1907

Re: local admin catches sneaky server saboteur

Everyone likes playing with Reed
by Not-Dorsidarf
Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Dear Manuel Admins
Replies: 49
Views: 1579

Re: Dear Manuel Admins

Besides, you're missing out on the fun of making suspisciously specific "general announcement"s if you just talk directly to the crew unprompted
by Not-Dorsidarf
Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:11 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Wallening Codenut (it’s today) (the PR is out)
Replies: 927
Views: 37972

Re: Wallening Codenut (it’s today) (the PR is out)

I'm not afraid of it coming back new and improved because it wasnt THAT bad and if it gets improved enough to brave the waters again itd be fine
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Sep 06, 2024 8:39 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Forced into retirement nut
Replies: 210
Views: 6789

Re: Forced into retirement nut

if you're playermining to keep admin presence up on a server and two admins come on to do an event and explicitly ask you to deadmin now that they're there (and to keep the event a surprise), you really haven't got grounds to get snotty and refuse. If you just wanna chill and administrate at that po...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Sep 05, 2024 10:07 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Forced into retirement nut
Replies: 210
Views: 6789

Re: Forced into retirement nut

Genuine question that's come from this - does "I'm not going to intervene on that" count as an admin ruling (final, unquestionable, you can't ask for another admin to rule) or simply "idc man" (fine to ask another admin for an opinion) Edit actually i just noticed this but why is...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Tue Sep 03, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Timberpoes hate thread
Replies: 29
Views: 970

Re: Timberpoes hate thread

why does Timber hate thread?
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Aug 29, 2024 1:16 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: What makes deathmatch so much more appealing when compared to the other minigames?
Replies: 6
Views: 265

Re: What makes deathmatch so much more appealing when compared to the other minigames?

It doesnt need 8 ghosts like mafia and is quicker and funnier than CTF
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Aug 29, 2024 1:14 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: alien pretends to be a silicon
Replies: 34
Views: 1107

Re: alien pretends to be a silicon

So in order you have: " Borgs buckling instantly" bad idea, makes borgs better at combat in a janky and dumb way, denied by maintainer " Mediborgs have advanced health analyzers " minor medborg qol buff, closed because they messed up the branch. " Surgical omnitool upgrade u...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Tue Aug 27, 2024 10:21 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: dont worry guys hes just a duster and all dusters can do that
Replies: 134
Views: 4808

Re: dont worry guys hes just a duster and all dusters can do that

I do wonder what is causing her to so obsessively mouse over ghosts even if she is cheating. Getting meta knowledge about who is dead, I guess? I forget what it's called but there's something similar where people with wallhacks tend to naturally look over at people they aren't supposed to be able t...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Aug 23, 2024 6:49 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Asimov law 3 flaws
Replies: 48
Views: 1628

Re: Asimov law 3 flaws

I'd say the issue of access is addressed within' policy as well. The section about silicons and access states that opening doors without immediate human harm threat is not harmful, and then it ammends that statement by listing places that can be considered harmful. Imma be honest my original readin...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Sentient air alarm rebels against its silicon overlord, AI gets noted for it
Replies: 24
Views: 821

Re: Sentient air alarm rebels against its silicon overlord, AI gets noted for it

This is a hidden advantage of Metastation, comms being on the same sat as the AI gives crew a good reason to be there
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Aug 23, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Asimov law 3 flaws
Replies: 48
Views: 1628

Re: Asimov law 3 flaws

This point is just to illustrate that AIs and borgs CAN perform an act that's basically a sabotage, if they are reasonably certain that the harm part of it (again explosion, pressure, shock, radiation and suffocation) can be averted. And decline such offer if they are unsure of this possibility. It...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Aug 23, 2024 3:14 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Sentient air alarm rebels against its silicon overlord, AI gets noted for it
Replies: 24
Views: 821

Re: Sentient air alarm rebels against its silicon overlord, AI gets noted for it

The QM is not a real head and never will be. But seriously, I kind of dislike that bit of silicon policy where it has rules about captains being allowed in the sat but not anyone else, I'd like it if we can just point to LAWS and those are the rules that silicons have to follow. I don't think an AI...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sun Aug 18, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Name = Game Master Include = EVERYTHING Exclude = Edit = EVERYTHING
Replies: 43
Views: 1003

Re: Name = Game Master Include = EVERYTHING Exclude = Edit = EVERYTHING

Its entire memory is filled with a mantra repeated... 5061 times - and then a termination verse. It was worn as an amulet, probably together with many identical others forming a pattern on some garment. The repeating mantra is important because it symbolizes the cyclical nature of life and death, a...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sun Aug 18, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: station time rate multiplier = 12
Replies: 8
Views: 445

Re: station time rate multiplier = 12

If you make it real time it stops making sense from the other direction. We all fly out to the spacestation for a 90 minute shift then if nobody's attacked us everyone demands to go home because we're bored I always kind of thought of the work schedules of the crew of ss13 to be in the span of mont...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Sat Aug 17, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: station time rate multiplier = 12
Replies: 8
Views: 445

Re: station time rate multiplier = 12

If you make it real time it stops making sense from the other direction. We all fly out to the spacestation for a 90 minute shift then if nobody's attacked us everyone demands to go home because we're bored
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Wallening Codenut (it’s today) (the PR is out)
Replies: 927
Views: 37972

Re: Wallening Codenut (it’s today) (the PR is out)

Also did I miss like some crucial step in development or why was this merged all of the sudden? Did we go ahead with sunk cost and hope our player base stays because of Stockholm syndrome? from what I heard it was holding up the github to such a degree (Because it breaks a lot of stuff and a lot of...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:06 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Sentient air alarm rebels against its silicon overlord, AI gets noted for it
Replies: 24
Views: 821

Re: Sentient air alarm rebels against its silicon overlord, AI gets noted for it

Only the RD and Captain actually have to be let into the upload and core. The QM was acting-captain per the round, but another head apparently promoted the AI to captain so it didnt recognise that authority. its still a shitter for letting them get hurt tho. An ASIMOV AI has to recognize the Acting...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Aug 15, 2024 9:00 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Sentient air alarm rebels against its silicon overlord, AI gets noted for it
Replies: 24
Views: 821

Re: Sentient air alarm rebels against its silicon overlord, AI gets noted for it

i've got a couple things to say on this appeal 1. law 2, the qm was a human. why did the ai refuse a valid law 2 order? Only the RD and Captain actually have to be let into the upload and core. The QM was acting-captain per the round, but another head apparently promoted the AI to captain so it did...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:51 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: index the club for the love
Replies: 12
Views: 635

Re: index the club for the love

EmpressMaia wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2024 11:38 pm sometimes i wanna read old threads but i cant without going through each page!! lemme search the club!!!
you dont have the soul of an archaeologist
by Not-Dorsidarf
Mon Aug 12, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: A Space Law Complain
Replies: 16
Views: 1099

Re: A Space Law Complain

Hard disagree on combining "Contraband" and "EOTC". EOTC is for when you catch a traitor. Contraband is for people who took syndie loot as a bribe / stole it off the ground during a gunfight and wont give it back / whatever and only exists to discourage the crew from hanging onto...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Mon Aug 12, 2024 4:06 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Stop allowing appeals for ?roulette timeouts
Replies: 10
Views: 730

Re: Stop allowing appeals for ?roulette timeouts

Stop typing ?roulette if you don't want to be timed-out from the discord server haha.
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:26 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Wallening Codenut (it’s today) (the PR is out)
Replies: 927
Views: 37972

Re: Wallening Codenut (it’s today) (the PR is out)

Aside: I'm sorry for bein kinda curt/not all that communicative. I will continue to not be all that communicative but I will work on curt (I (I know) was trying to make a joke earlier but it obviously did not work out). Hey man; I do hope that user stress/annoyance on top of such a technically comp...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Asimov law 3 flaws
Replies: 48
Views: 1628

Re: Asimov law 3 flaws

Yes we have gimped asimovs original laws of robotics, presumably to improve the experience of borg players so they can't be told to kill themselves. I don't like it either but I prefer a much more gritter type of game where playing a borg means you might be ordered to self destruct. Human antag PDA...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Thu Aug 08, 2024 10:02 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Asimov law 3 flaws
Replies: 48
Views: 1628

Re: Asimov law 3 flaws

By allowing myself to be damaged, i am allowing myself to be brought closer to nonexistence through inaction. My nonexistence causes human harm, therefore, being close to nonexistence has the potential to cause human harm, and by not mitigating this potential for human harm, I am allowing human har...
by Not-Dorsidarf
Wed Aug 07, 2024 5:38 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Wannabie Gordon Freeman Complaint Nut
Replies: 86
Views: 2789

Re: Wannabie Gordon Freeman Complaint Nut

I gave myself a note for IC in OOC once.