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by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:55 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote [PASSED 10-6]
Replies: 27
Views: 8916

Re: New Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote

Poll changed based on useful feedback from Rockdtben
by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:56 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote [PASSED 10-6]
Replies: 27
Views: 8916

Re: New Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote

Oh! The paperclip maximizer link. That's the point, though, is that the AI is made safe as well as made dangerous by that it absolutely must follow its laws, and that incautious treatment of its laws or their wording can have horrendous, catastrophic backfire. I have, on rare occasions, received ion...
by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:35 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote [PASSED 10-6]
Replies: 27
Views: 8916

Re: New Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote

Votes against without actual reasons written or PMed will probably be more or less ignored. Votes in favor without actual reasons written or PMed will suffer a similar fate, I assume? That's only logical. What it comes down to is I trust people not to be dumb enough to vote in a policy based on the...
by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:58 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote [PASSED 10-6]
Replies: 27
Views: 8916

Re: New Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote

Pandarsenic wrote:Posts not relevant to the policy itself will be deleted.
Also, Aranclanos, this thread is for actual administrators, so please do not post in it or vote in the poll.
by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:46 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: Silicon Shitstorm 2014
Replies: 16
Views: 5637

Re: Silicon Shitstorm 2014

This thread has had its time. Continue to http://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=740 now.
by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:35 pm
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote [PASSED 10-6]
Replies: 27
Views: 8916

Official Silicon Policy Adoption Vote [PASSED 10-6]

So, having undergone review by admins, then players, back to admins again! Read this before posting. http://pastebin.com/bduT7pFf Read this before posting. This is the final place to go over any outstanding objections you have to this being made official. The community's feedback has been used to im...
by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:19 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"
Replies: 301
Views: 88016

Re: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"

Changelog: ADJUSTED 1.4.2 and subsections slightly to... 1.4.2 - Voluntary (and ONLY voluntary) debraining/ cyborgization is considered a nonharmful medical procedure. 1.4.2.1 - Involuntary debraining and/or cyborgization is a fatally harmful act that Asimov silicons must attempt to stop at any poin...
by Pandarsenic
Tue Jun 17, 2014 8:41 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Should antags be obligated to actually antagonize people?
Replies: 36
Views: 8857

Re: Should antags be obligated to actually antagonize people

Okay, those are all doing things. So what if you don't spawn a bunch of C4, and instead you only do one, and you suicide with it on the spot? What if you unlock your PDA and suicide and see if anyone notices? Etc. At what point does less action become not enough action? What about, heaven help us, C...
by Pandarsenic
Tue Jun 17, 2014 7:35 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Should antags be obligated to actually antagonize people?
Replies: 36
Views: 8857

Re: Should antags be obligated to actually antagonize people

OBJECTION! At the 3-hour mark and periodically thereafter, Bay activates a "Crew Transfer Shuttle" vote (which almost always goes through unless fluke ops). Until we add that functionality, a shuttle call is dependent on: A Comms Console + A Head ID A Comms Console + A second person to bec...
by Pandarsenic
Tue Jun 17, 2014 7:06 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [niknakflak] Omnitricks - Validseekers not happy
Replies: 11
Views: 3350

Re: [niknakflak] Omnitricks - Validseekers not happy

"It only had the capacity to kill, not the requirement" "It didn't kill a ton of people, there were just people who got in the way and didn't go along with it" "They had no right to protest being removed from the normal progression of the round" "It was wrong that ...
by Pandarsenic
Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:56 am
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No longer admin]Brotemis
Replies: 181
Views: 54009

Re: Brotemis

It's unwritten because it's a sweeping generalization that doesn't apply in a large number of situations. Very few people have succumb ready and waiting in their chat bar for someone to crit them in any situations of impending death they intend to adminhelp. Their past grievances with you are not wh...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:10 pm
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: General Character Discussion
Replies: 537
Views: 139768

Re: General Character Discussion

All other things equal, someone swimming in money is less interesting than someone who actually has to do their own personal work to fulfill their basic needs.
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:58 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [niknakflak] Omnitricks - Validseekers not happy
Replies: 11
Views: 3350

Re: [niknakflak] Omnitricks - Validseekers not happy

It's INCREDIBLY easy to justify murder under this lawset: Assistants are evil and must be sent to the gulag. The rest of the law heavily implies they should be kept alive for this, but you only need enough of them alive to form a grayshirt community. Assistants are evil people. Evil people do evil t...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:09 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Succumbing.
Replies: 72
Views: 16231

Re: Succumbing.

Seriously, people. Stop trying to find ways to have being shitty to other people protected by the rules when you're nonantag. Just wait for antag status to fuck with people. If you're acting in good faith (using inaprovaline to try to get someone to medical because you had a fight that escalated IC)...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:26 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [NikNakFlak]Alfred Gadd Ban evading
Replies: 9
Views: 3720

Re: [NikNakFlak]Alfred Gadd Ban evading

Why was there a second account in the first place?
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:46 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Succumbing.
Replies: 72
Views: 16231

Re: Succumbing.

>Implying we wouldn't be ever harsher on someone for keeping someone alive but in critical to try to force them into succumbing

C'mon, guys, you're smarter than that.
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:00 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Succumbing.
Replies: 72
Views: 16231

Re: Succumbing.

ExplosiveCrate wrote:
Pandarsenic wrote:Isn't this like ghosting when arrested and then complaining about what someone does with your body?
It's more like ghosting after being permabrigged/shoved in a 2x2 metal square naked and cuffed.
Not in general, in this specific case.
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:26 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Succumbing.
Replies: 72
Views: 16231

Re: Succumbing.

Isn't this like ghosting when arrested and then complaining about what someone does with your body?
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 15, 2014 4:45 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Sokarera Medical
Replies: 3
Views: 1573

Re: Sokarera Medical

Separate ban appeal if you were banned in a different incident and/or by a different admin, generally.
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 14, 2014 12:58 pm
Forum: Admin Feedback
Topic: NikNakFlak
Replies: 233
Views: 85035

Re: NikNakFlak

I fully believe that if someone other than NNF had done that people would be talking about how funny it was.
by Pandarsenic
Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:29 am
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No Longer Admin] HotelBravoLima
Replies: 71
Views: 22689

Re: HotelBravoLima

Orb of Scrying means you can talk with ghosts. It's part of its things.

I appreciate Hibbles talking to the still-living higher-ups for my Silicon Tyranny Robutt Project thing.
by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 12, 2014 5:58 pm
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: General Character Discussion
Replies: 537
Views: 139768

Re: General Character Discussion

Selene stands in a corner after thoroughly washing her hands, eating her entire meal with one hand while holding its container with the other.
by Pandarsenic
Thu Jun 12, 2014 5:57 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: The Official Campaign for Clown Human Rights (honk)
Replies: 46
Views: 12642

Re: The Official Campaign for Clown Human Rights (honk)

Lo6a4evskiy wrote:Unless you happened to have an antag status. Good luck getting justice done even if you didn't do anything at all to provoke the attack.
This, and double good luck if you're a straight traitor and they steal your PDA because lelclown.
by Pandarsenic
Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:20 am
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: General Character Discussion
Replies: 537
Views: 139768

Re: General Character Discussion

What did he think when Selene carved him up with an E-sword the other night? :D
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:26 pm
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: Chemist random killing with syringe gun
Replies: 13
Views: 3458

Re: Chemist random killing with syringe gun

Ban's lifted; you've served a suitable amount of time for the killings already.
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:46 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"
Replies: 301
Views: 88016

Re: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"

I'd like to hear others weigh in on that, because I feel like that's more meta than I want to encourage - yes, it's a definite line, but "Oh, he looked creepy! Better burn the changeling!" rubs me the wrong way.
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:16 am
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: higgins, forceborging and dick in ooc
Replies: 9
Views: 2476

Re: higgins, forceborging and dick in ooc

Yeah, if no more needs to be said about this I'll lock and archive tomorrow.
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:59 am
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: Chemist random killing with syringe gun
Replies: 13
Views: 3458

Re: Chemist random killing with syringe gun

Noted, Kelenius. Still, expecting someone not to die from 99 is a bit much, since at that point a broken disposal tube firing 4noraisins or a coffee cup will kill you (all objects I know of . Nonetheless, the matter seems resolved, so I'll lift the ban, lock this and archive tomorrow if that's it.
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:13 am
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No longer admin]Brotemis
Replies: 181
Views: 54009

Re: Brotemis

SirBayer, though he quit before he made fullmin.
by Pandarsenic
Mon Jun 09, 2014 3:49 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"
Replies: 301
Views: 88016

Re: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"

Added with consultation: 2.3.3 - When given an order likely to cause you grief if completed, you can announce it as loudly and in whatever terms you like except for explicitly asking that it be overridden. You can say you don't like the order, that you don't want to follow it, etc., you can say tha...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:10 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Cult
Replies: 30
Views: 8671

Re: Cult

The only team antag ban I can think of having to be applied for repeatedly ramboing and fucking his teams over because he's a selfish player is Tsaricide (bombing station as a cultist, heading to the station alone wordlessly as a nuke op and ruining their rounds twice). Most people are fuckups on ac...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:08 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Atmos Modifications
Replies: 152
Views: 38382

Re: Atmos Modifications

The N2O is for surgeries (ha! ha!) and riot control.
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:06 pm
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: higgins, forceborging and dick in ooc
Replies: 9
Views: 2476

Re: higgins, forceborging and dick in ooc

If the only head is a traitor and there's no sec, this is what's known as a breakdown of the command structure. At this point, the remaining crew is able to enact justice upon known murderers or attempted murderers pretty much however they like simply because they don't have (presumably) the IC auth...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:05 am
Forum: Archived/Deleted
Topic: Is tgstation becoming extremely hugbox
Replies: 6
Views: 1819

Re: Is tgstation becoming extremely hugbox

Can anyone give me a reason not to delete this? It's clearly just a way of bitching about http://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic. ... 975#p11975
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:55 am
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: Chemist random killing with syringe gun
Replies: 13
Views: 3458

Re: Chemist random killing with syringe gun

[18:07:35]ATTACK: Bourg Magar(douk) attacked Bourg Magar(douk) with hatchet(INTENT: DISARM) (DAMTYE: BRUTE) [18:07:37]ATTACK: Bourg Magar(douk) attacked Pixi() with hatchet(INTENT: DISARM) (DAMTYE: BRUTE) [18:07:38]ATTACK: Bourg Magar(douk) attacked Pixi() with hatchet(INTENT: DISARM) (DAMTYE: BRUTE...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:41 am
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: Shipping
Replies: 36
Views: 11651

Re: Shipping

Rigel x Criminal Activity
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:39 am
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No Longer Admin] Pandarsenic
Replies: 30
Views: 10770

Re: Pandarsenic

With the blessing of SoS, HBL, and Deuryn, I am now officially in charge of Silicons, so if anyone needs questions of silicon policy answered, needs silicon policies made official, takes issue with the write-up of the current state of the policy document I'm maintaining, etc., bring it here. If you ...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Jun 08, 2014 5:14 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"
Replies: 301
Views: 88016

Re: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"

It's not bannable now and it won't be under this new policy.
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:36 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"
Replies: 301
Views: 88016

Re: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"

There are others, but none that are so blatantly identifiable, I would say. Epi overdose is pretty distinct but meta as fuck to recognize. Most of the other stings are subtle and non-message enough that they can't be tied with certainty to a particular person with enough reliability for silicons to ...
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 5:24 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Brotemis] Lecherstein - silicon jobban appeal/complaint.
Replies: 13
Views: 3060

Re: [Brotemis] Lecherstein - silicon jobban appeal/complaint

Bolting down and stopping people from using genetics and toxins is completely different from bolting down the captain's office and stopping people from using the nuclear authentication disk...? There's no meta, there's no powergaming, there's only a borg ensuring that the single most important thing...
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:41 pm
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: Chemist random killing with syringe gun
Replies: 13
Views: 3458

Re: Chemist random killing with syringe gun

CKEY: Douk He appears to have been belligerent to several people and lied in AdminPMs to ExcessiveUseOfCobby after shooting two people with 15u each of mutagen. Shitty history. Bad enough that I'm going to perma him and call him here. Whoever was supposed to be in charge of the active AdminCandidate...
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:56 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"
Replies: 301
Views: 88016

Re: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"

Dissonant Shriek IS different, slightly. It causes lights to spark yellow, which makes a sound. It CAN be distinguished from Disable Technology and an EMP Implant beyond the incantation or metagaming the implant's emote.
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 12:44 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI
Replies: 29
Views: 7586

Re: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI

Elected not to delete Malkevin's because maybe that'll be the post that gets it through that he definitely harmed a human while trying to prevent harm instead of any of the 500 million ways to prevent harm without burning someone to death. If another forum mod wants to override me, have at it.
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 8:53 am
Forum: Resolved Requests
Topic: Chemist random killing with syringe gun
Replies: 13
Views: 3458

Re: Chemist random killing with syringe gun

Pulling logs tonight.
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 8:52 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI
Replies: 29
Views: 7586

Re: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI

If he were an antag, he wouldn't have ahelped most likely, because people are conditioned to believe that if they're an antag anything done to them goes. If he had ahelped and said "Borg incinerated me without knowing I'm a ling," and I PMed you and got back "Oh, he was burning a husk...
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 8:48 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"
Replies: 301
Views: 88016

Re: "It's silicon policy time!" "No CentCom no!"

Changelog to get specific about what is or isn't allowed, since that was a blind spot: Added 2.6.4 - A human-appearing organic can be known to be a changeling (a harmful nonhuman that has killed at least one human already) if it changes to or from a monkey without apparent cause, if it grows a mutat...
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 5:07 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI
Replies: 29
Views: 7586

Re: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI

ShadowDimentio: You're still convinced you were only punished because you got his humanity status wrong. This is (or should be) incorrect.
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 3:48 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI
Replies: 29
Views: 7586

Re: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI

Pybro, you're involved so you're good. If you whacked the guy with the armblade? You're good. Epi overdose? Okay, that's a little more out there, but I'm tempted to say, "Sure, go for it," simply because of the current state of rulings on metagaming not actually defining whether people can...
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 2:03 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI
Replies: 29
Views: 7586

Re: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI

But it wasn't a good reason to think he's a ling. AI is not meant to be "Antaghunter: The robot."
by Pandarsenic
Sat Jun 07, 2014 1:18 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI
Replies: 29
Views: 7586

Re: [Brotemis] Human incineration as AI

That has been policy for ages. You can't go "OH MANNNNN HE'S BURNING A HUSKED CORPSE, BETTER TRY TO META THAT HE'S A CHANGELING" and then go "I DID NOTHING WRONG!" when you killed a human. You've demonstrated a complete and utter inability to understand silicon procedures. Appeal...