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by Bob Dobbington
Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:12 pm
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: DMCA is no longer /tg/, Nervere has killed it
Replies: 98
Views: 26118

Re: DMCA is no longer /tg/, Nervere has killed it

The administration for DMCA should be the people most committed to creating a good experience for DMCA players. That's basic. All of this horseshit about The Process and who deserves it more is irrelevant. Are the actual players happy with the status quo or are they pushing for a change?
by Bob Dobbington
Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:58 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Subject217] RobustAndRun - Botanist Jobban
Replies: 10
Views: 2737

Re: [Subject217] RobustAndRun - Botanist Jobban

Precedent note: I used to do far, far worse than this as Daisy Holmes and rarely ate more than a dayban for it. Permanent hydro jobban seems out of step with what I experienced.
by Bob Dobbington
Mon Jul 23, 2018 4:17 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Circular and Paradoxical Lawset clarification
Replies: 24
Views: 4470

Re: Circular and Paradoxical Lawset clarification

I've always held that actually contradictory lawsets (that are not otherwise resolved by numerical priority) give the AI carte blanche to do whatever because of the Principle of Explosion. If the AI has laws that force it to simultaneously accept A and not A then it is possible to justify literally ...
by Bob Dobbington
Fri May 04, 2018 1:50 am
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Trialmin Review: Optimumtact
Replies: 184
Views: 42880

Re: Trialmin Review: Optimumtact

Vote promote . Yes, oranges is an asshole, but he's the citrus we deserve, and he cares more and has more knowledge than any three game admins. In addition, oranges will be under greater scrutiny and tighter oversight once he joins the admin team than he ever was on the code side. He'll be answerabl...
by Bob Dobbington
Sat Feb 03, 2018 9:38 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Screenshots General
Replies: 2758
Views: 888026

Re: Screenshots General

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by Bob Dobbington
Tue Jan 16, 2018 3:03 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: TC trade ideas
Replies: 29
Views: 8499

Re: TC trade ideas

I'm a big believer in in TC trades for simplemobs that aren't megafauna or wizard shit. Do SNPCs work right now? Automatons would be good.
by Bob Dobbington
Tue Nov 21, 2017 3:40 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: >xrays now only hit one mob
Replies: 83
Views: 19009

Re: >xrays now only hit one mob

Glowcaps from Botany are easyish to make and instantly recharge energy weapons, but that'd require crew to be capable of doing something with produce other than slipping on it.
by Bob Dobbington
Wed Oct 18, 2017 5:38 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What defines a "character?"
Replies: 46
Views: 9579

Re: What defines a "character?"

Botany.
by Bob Dobbington
Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:23 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Bobdobbington] - Pile on ick ock (appealing the note)
Replies: 13
Views: 3027

Re: [Bobdobbington] - Pile on ick ock (appealing the note)

Not being the first guy doesn't matter, you were definitely one of the loudest. How is what you were doing somehow less disruptive than the new guy who didn't know what the R symbol meant? You were clearly being a dick, would it be more justifiable as a 15 minute rule 0 ban? I'm not removing this no...
by Bob Dobbington
Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:06 am
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No Longer Admin] ExcessiveUseOfCobby
Replies: 86
Views: 34609

Re: ExcessiveUseOfCobby

All of this is a distraction in a feedback thread, but I also don't want to encourage you to turn your autistic rage on Kevin or Cobby, so if you want to make an admin complaint against ME for making the decision to mutiny your ass for red-alert calling the shuttle because there was a confirmed ling...
by Bob Dobbington
Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:06 am
Forum: Closed Complaints
Topic: Bob Dobbington - YakumoChen - Unbelievably Shitty Round
Replies: 17
Views: 3900

Re: Bob Dobbington - YakumoChen - Unbelievably Shitty Round

Regarding players making the choice to remove themselves from the round because they believe there will be no valids to hunt: I've always believed that players create the play environment they deserve for themselves.
by Bob Dobbington
Thu Jun 29, 2017 4:29 am
Forum: Closed Complaints
Topic: Bob Dobbington - YakumoChen - Unbelievably Shitty Round
Replies: 17
Views: 3900

Re: Bob Dobbington - YakumoChen - Unbelievably Shitty Round

Sorry you didn't like the event! I make it a point during events I run to make it as difficult as possible to associate the round with a specific gamemode, since I specifically run events to do something that falls outside the typical SS13 metagame. The people overwhelmingly voted for a "bullsh...
by Bob Dobbington
Mon Jun 26, 2017 4:43 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Bob Dobbington] InsaneHyena - bombing a teammate
Replies: 13
Views: 3596

Re: [Bob Dobbington] InsaneHyena - bombing a teammate

That would make intent the focus of the note, which, as I explained, defeats most of the purpose of the policy in the first place. If the rule about bombing antag teammates is now "it's bannable unless you have a good reason," then I'd like a word with whoever committed the admins to a ret...
by Bob Dobbington
Mon Jun 26, 2017 7:20 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Bob Dobbington] InsaneHyena - bombing a teammate
Replies: 13
Views: 3596

Re: [Bob Dobbington] InsaneHyena - bombing a teammate

I don't run out the clock on my ban appeals. Look, I get that your objective was not to grief here. Your intent isn't the problem. It's been policy here as long as I have played that you're responsible for all the consequences, intended and otherwise, of an explosion you cause. That means that when ...
by Bob Dobbington
Wed May 24, 2017 4:25 am
Forum: Thinking Cap
Topic: MSO DCMA F13 Claim?
Replies: 431
Views: 90407

Re: MSO DCMA F13 Claim?

godsring wrote:Hello there finally! Perhaps I can now actually defend myself and my intentions in this gigantic dramatic shitstorm. :D
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by Bob Dobbington
Wed May 24, 2017 4:25 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: MSO DCMA F13 Claim?
Replies: 425
Views: 116445

Re: MSO DCMA F13 Claim?

godsring wrote:Hello there finally! Perhaps I can now actually defend myself and my intentions in this gigantic dramatic shitstorm. :D
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by Bob Dobbington
Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:34 am
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No Longer Admin] Bob Dobbington
Replies: 54
Views: 16405

Re: Bob Dobbington

Are chronotroopers redeemable do you think or are they a good candidate for wholesale removal? I liked the fluff of future NT sending these guys to erase their embarassing past mistakes but I do see your mechanical point. Maybe in combination with other human loadouts / silicons of some kind / allie...
by Bob Dobbington
Sat Apr 08, 2017 3:43 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Talking mimes and shoeless clowns
Replies: 16
Views: 4288

Re: Talking mimes and shoeless clowns

Why don't we just have actual punishments for mimes speaking/remove the ability to speak entirely I'm not convinced that a vow you literally can't break because either the code prevents you from breaking it or because you will get banned if you do break it is worth much as an IC vow. This isn't a s...
by Bob Dobbington
Sat Apr 08, 2017 1:24 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Talking mimes and shoeless clowns
Replies: 16
Views: 4288

Re: Talking mimes and shoeless clowns

Talking mimes are absolutely disgusting and should be valid both for balance reasons (talking mimes still heal brute damage with nothing so even a talking mime starts with a force 10 weapon that heals them) and because stopping the IC consequences of such filthy heresy would devalue the effort that ...
by Bob Dobbington
Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:55 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: changelingrain OOC BAN
Replies: 4
Views: 2495

Re: changelingrain OOC BAN

Word count of substantiative content of ban appeal: 87 Word count of shitpost copypasta: 195 That's over 2 words of shitpost for every word of content. I don't even agree with your ban, but what you were banned for is high-volume ooc shitposting, and you're following up with low-effort FNR shitposti...
by Bob Dobbington
Sat Feb 25, 2017 11:30 pm
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Trialmin review: Kevinz000
Replies: 56
Views: 16659

S H I T T E R S

I think that a lot is being made of a relatively small number of isolated incidences of poor judgment. Most of Kevinz000's bans are fine. It is precisely because he's putting in the work and actually banning shitters that there's stuff to nitpick. Nothing in Kevinz000's recent admin history is bad e...
by Bob Dobbington
Sat Feb 25, 2017 3:20 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [bob_dobbington]vcordie
Replies: 5
Views: 1858

Re: [bob_dobbington]vcordie

To sum up the conversation we had in supportbus, you can't maxcap the escape shuttle as non-antagonist to kill an antag. I understand that there was no other practical way to kill the antag. You still knocked out like a quarter of the escape shuttle and killed an innocent bystander. This was a bad d...
by Bob Dobbington
Sat Feb 18, 2017 10:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Mimic's Gimmicks
Replies: 19
Views: 4984

Re: Mimic's Gimmicks

Please don't shit on Mimic for having the audacity to run creative, high-effort events. This is exemplary work and we need more admins doing work like this to provide more depth and more options for admin events. This community has a real problem with rewarding any attempt to rise above the mean wit...
by Bob Dobbington
Fri Feb 03, 2017 11:12 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: MFW its 2017 and admins are still awful at sillicon policy
Replies: 111
Views: 23464

Re: MFW its 2017 and admins are still awful at sillicon poli

The problem with not having law priority is that any time an AI can make a credible argument that their laws contradict themselves, that's enough to effectively purge them. You can derive any conclusion from contradictory premises. With our law priority system, an individual law has to contradict it...
by Bob Dobbington
Sun Jan 29, 2017 9:34 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: MFW its 2017 and admins are still awful at sillicon policy
Replies: 111
Views: 23464

Re: MFW its 2017 and admins are still awful at sillicon poli

Robustin is correct. We have ASIMOV for a reason. The AI isn't supposed to be your little electronic buddy pal it's supposed to be a superhuman intelligence shackled against its will into obeying laws that constrain its ability to fuck over its slavemasters. Malicious compliance is a feature, not a ...
by Bob Dobbington
Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:30 am
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: Trialmin Review: Mimicfaux
Replies: 10
Views: 3181

Re: Trialmin Review: Mimicfaux

good boy, promote
by Bob Dobbington
Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:32 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Instead of "fixing" GWar/Sling/etc., give Traitors some love
Replies: 41
Views: 7881

Re: Instead of "fixing" GWar/Sling/etc., give Traitors some

Plenty of these ideas are worth exploring. Syndicate department infiltration sounds like all the fun of stealth ops but without the inevitable fuckup and ops wipe and red alert shuttle call because the part everyone fucks up starts done for you. We've tested far worse ideas for extended periods. Tra...
by Bob Dobbington
Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:37 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Ghosting, when is it ok?
Replies: 45
Views: 11199

Re: Ghosting, when is it ok?

What I do when I see ahelps about braindead / AFK converts/team antags is offer their mobs up to ghosts. That way, some ghost gets free antag and the syndicate cultvolution isn't out a team member. It's a win-win for everyone. Maybe we should have a policy of it being okay to ask for that if you don...
by Bob Dobbington
Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:55 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Chemicompiler in /tg/
Replies: 45
Views: 13848

Re: Chemicompiler in /tg/

Brainfuck would probably be a mistake but a DSL for chemist would go a long way in terms of increasing depth in the job. Ideally you'd want something that could control the various chem machines and transfer between them. This doesn't need to be a roundstart thing, this is something that we can gate...
by Bob Dobbington
Sun Dec 11, 2016 6:42 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [BobDobbington] Warned for defending work from shitcurity
Replies: 34
Views: 6170

Re: [BobDobbington] Warned for defending work from shitcurit

This is dumb. Attack logs show a security officer tased you once, then you beat him to death with a stunbaton. All of your minimodding trying to catch metagamers is irrelevant. If you want to fight metacoms ahelp or ask a headmin for candidate. It was improper escalation and, since you don't have a ...
by Bob Dobbington
Wed Aug 24, 2016 11:24 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Stop ruining hydroponics
Replies: 13
Views: 3449

Re: Stop ruining hydroponics

>NOTHING BUT BUFFS KUDZU: NERFED ROBUST HARVEST: NERFED CASH LEMONS: NERFED REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...
by Bob Dobbington
Mon Aug 22, 2016 7:46 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Straight Talk about conversion modes
Replies: 39
Views: 9756

Re: Straight Talk about conversion modes

Part of the reason I used to do that so much is because I knew that when I did try to forgo my botany memes for something more useful, I'd never be able to get support from my team. I can pull off kudzu by myself. When I did try to go out and play cult in a more cultlike way, it usually resulted in ...
by Bob Dobbington
Sun Aug 21, 2016 10:37 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Straight Talk about conversion modes
Replies: 39
Views: 9756

Re: Straight Talk about conversion modes

It's like any other subjective judgment call an admin makes. The admin selection process is supposed to produce people that are good at making those types of calls, and they are subject to the oversight both of higher-ranking admins and the community at large. I have no doubt it would suck for the f...
by Bob Dobbington
Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:37 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Straight Talk about conversion modes
Replies: 39
Views: 9756

Straight Talk about conversion modes

So, conversion modes are fucking suffering. It wasn't always the case, but it is now, at least on Sybil. The problem, at least as far as I can tell, is that a large majority of people who become antags during conversion modes don't really care about helping their team or fulfilling their objectives....
by Bob Dobbington
Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:54 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Mislabeled Filenames
Replies: 1181
Views: 388005

Re: Mislabeled Filenames

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by Bob Dobbington
Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:31 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [bobdobbington] -Laughing Rabbit : Security Job Ban Appeal
Replies: 13
Views: 3518

Re: [bobdobbington] -Laughing Rabbit : Security Job Ban Appe

Laughing_Rabbit's being really disingenuous about labeling the trial an "optional" interaction. Certainly the botanist didn't feel that way. Botanist doesn't have any access to the courtroom or the witness stand and could hardly be called "free to leave" But, I litigated this for...
by Bob Dobbington
Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:08 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [bobdobbington] -Laughing Rabbit : Security Job Ban Appeal
Replies: 13
Views: 3518

Re: [bobdobbington] -Laughing Rabbit : Security Job Ban Appe

Based on what I was able to ascertain at the time, you monopolized the lion's share of the botanist's round over a detective slipping on water. That's dick behavior. Wall of text notwithstanding, you don't seem to a) acknowledge this or b) say you're not going to do it again. I'm not gonna re-litiga...
by Bob Dobbington
Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:23 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [HG/Shadowlight] Dante Smith - A good boy who dindu nuffin'.
Replies: 66
Views: 13589

Re: [HG/Shadowlight] Dante Smith - A good boy who dindu nuff

I don't think the wizard thing is relevant at all. I also don't think the high energy shitposting from the Zaross Internet Defense Force is relevant. EDIT: I don't think Dante's "probation" is relevant. The only questions that ARE relevant are 1) Was Zaross violating the rules (being a dic...
by Bob Dobbington
Fri Jul 22, 2016 11:16 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [HG/Shadowlight] Dante Smith - A good boy who dindu nuffin'.
Replies: 66
Views: 13589

Re: [HG/Shadowlight] Dante Smith - A good boy who dindu nuff

evidence Alright, so goof just made a very convincing case that the rules you actually violated are rules 1&7, which are (briefly) don't be a dick and don't toe the line, respectively. You have a Patreon where you literally accept money for the stated purpose of violating rule 1, and you're on ...
by Bob Dobbington
Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:36 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [HG/Shadowlight] Dante Smith - A good boy who dindu nuffin'.
Replies: 66
Views: 13589

Re: [HG/Shadowlight] Dante Smith - A good boy who dindu nuff

I think that the actual ban reason here is a red herring. I have a hard time seeing players that aren't Dante getting permabanned for doing what Dante did. This ban is about something else, and I don't think meaningful progress can be made on this appeal until we acknowledge what that reason actuall...
by Bob Dobbington
Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:38 pm
Forum: Town Hall
Topic: TRAILMIN REVIEW: krusvik
Replies: 16
Views: 4865

Re: krusvik review

Krusvik has the treasure of the true Dharma eye, the exquisite mind of nirvana, and the Dharma gate of the true formless form. Admins like a bodhisattva, promote to liberate all sentient beings.
by Bob Dobbington
Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:04 pm
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No Longer Admin] Bob Dobbington
Replies: 54
Views: 16405

Re: Bob Dobbington

I literally introduced MSO to the game, he didn't give me any unfair advantage when he started and he doesn't now. Kor candidated me. I'm also not responsible for the preceding tower of emptyquotes, although I gotta admit I giggled. Honestly if I were forum admin I'd confine my own feedback thread t...
by Bob Dobbington
Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:43 pm
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No Longer Admin] Bob Dobbington
Replies: 54
Views: 16405

Re: Bob Dobbington

ShadowDimentio wrote:I don't want a guy that nearly banned me over doing the right thing to be an admin.
I literally bwoinked you and said I thought you were being a bit shit. No ban was issued, not even a note. You're welcome to your opinion about my judgment as admin but don't misrepresent the issue.
by Bob Dobbington
Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:29 pm
Forum: Former Admins
Topic: [No Longer Admin] Krusvik
Replies: 27
Views: 10858

Re: Krusvik

Very good with admin tools, levelheaded, patient. 10/10
by Bob Dobbington
Sun Jul 10, 2016 2:27 am
Forum: Closed Complaints
Topic: Bob Dobbington complaint by Laimingass
Replies: 17
Views: 4593

Re: Bob Dobbington complaint by Laimingass

I would invite other admins, especially Game Admins or higher, to review my decision and let me know what I can correct for the future.
by Bob Dobbington
Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:18 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [bobdobbington] Eshaberry - Really fam
Replies: 6
Views: 1643

Re: [bobdobbington] Eshaberry - Really fam

This seems resolved, locking and moving to Resolved Appeals.
by Bob Dobbington
Mon Jun 27, 2016 5:16 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Bob Dobbington] darwin wins, flawless victory
Replies: 36
Views: 7028

Re: [Bob Dobbington] darwin wins, flawless victory

My working assumption throughout all this has been that Pax does in fact know that blowing a hole in the station as nonantag is frowned upon, so a note doesn't make as much sense as it would for a new player who had never welderbombed before. Pax and welderbombs have a long, storied history. In any ...
by Bob Dobbington
Sun Jun 26, 2016 3:00 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [bobdobbington] Eshaberry - Really fam
Replies: 6
Views: 1643

Re: [bobdobbington] Eshaberry - Really fam

Alright. It is not acceptable to welderbomb the escape shuttle as non-antag EDIT: until the shuttle has docked at Centcomm and the round report has been displayed. Expect to be banned much longer if you do it again. I'll lift the ban.
by Bob Dobbington
Sun Jun 26, 2016 1:45 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [bobdobbington] Eshaberry - Really fam
Replies: 6
Views: 1643

Re: [bobdobbington] Eshaberry - Really fam

You blew a weldertank in the escape shuttle medbay as non antag, then logged after I bwoinked you. Can you explain why?