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by NecromancerAnne
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:57 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: {Roleplay} Heretics should be allowed to say fuck in an eldritch tongue
Replies: 25
Views: 521

Re: {Roleplay} Heretics should be allowed to say fuck in an eldritch tongue

I wasn't like actually going to take this thread seriously because I'm getting very tired of us continuing this cycle of "should (antag) get a free pass because security kills them a lot" but I guess I should explain what the actual issue is here. Heretics are difficult but not impossible...
by NecromancerAnne
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:50 am
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: {Roleplay} Heretics should be allowed to say fuck in an eldritch tongue
Replies: 25
Views: 521

{Roleplay} Heretics should be allowed to say fuck in an eldritch tongue

Heretics seem to be just outright executed the moment they're caught. I'm seeing many excuses as to why line up one after the other; you can't take away the funny hand, you can't contain some of their types (AKA heretics who take rust or lock), and they're an existential threat to the round by still...
by NecromancerAnne
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: shotgun github codenut: share your 2 tap kill chemicals here!
Replies: 19
Views: 638

Re: shotgun github codenut: share your 2 tap kill chemicals here!

I remember when we had cryodarts and you could make better frag-12 using them. You can kinda do that with darts but you'll need to land both shots.
by NecromancerAnne
Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: shotgun github codenut: share your 2 tap kill chemicals here!
Replies: 19
Views: 638

Re: shotgun github codenut: share your 2 tap kill chemicals here!

I mean, rubbershot does a pretty good job of stamcritting people in two point blank, and you will be point-blanking with a sawn-off.
by NecromancerAnne
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:37 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Scriptis | Bingbong33
Replies: 10
Views: 855

Re: Scriptis | Bingbong33

We've received a reply. Sadly, while you' not had any notably bad behaviour elsewhere, you also don't have enough hours for me to be confident in lifting the ban. I'll have to see those hours put in somewhere that is actually visible for me or in a place we can verify to be confident about your comm...
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:42 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Scriptis | Bingbong33
Replies: 10
Views: 855

Re: Scriptis | Bingbong33

I could look into verifying that and if they let us know you've been playing fairly consistently and haven't been antagrolling, I can also accept that as reason enough to unban you here. Was it on this same account, or were you using an alternative account, and if so what is that account?
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:32 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable space dragon on mrp
Replies: 19
Views: 1067

Re: Disable space dragon on mrp

Space dragons definitely aren't...terribly great unless things are already super fucked or the dragon got fantastic locations for its portal. And the majority of the time that I've seen it win are when the crew have already called the shuttle and it spawned right before it arrives so nobody can reca...
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:19 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: Scriptis | Bingbong33
Replies: 10
Views: 855

Re: Scriptis | Bingbong33

Hey, I'll be taking this appeal on behalf of Scriptis in his absence. For a lot of permanent bans, we typically employ a rule of thumb of time spent not playing usually means time spent doing hopefully something more productive. We've some methods for determining that if people disappear off to othe...
by NecromancerAnne
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:03 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Shovestun Removal Testmerge Feedback
Replies: 16
Views: 1209

Re: Shovestun Removal Testmerge Feedback

...Timonk, I've already buffed it three times in the last year.
by NecromancerAnne
Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:47 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Bug exterminator gets angry with the computer, transformed into moth
Replies: 26
Views: 1065

Re: Bug exterminator gets angry with the computer, transformed into moth

Looking at the logs a bit, it looks like they cremated an assistant (Honda Mothra, an assistant and seemingly one of the moths on the bridge/captain's office), the paramedic Riley Cavalet and the borg. It looks like they opened fire on the paramedic inside the chap's office, and cremated them becaus...
by NecromancerAnne
Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:06 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Shovestun Removal Testmerge Feedback
Replies: 16
Views: 1209

Re: Shovestun Removal Testmerge Feedback

Testmerging is broken right now, as we've come to discover while trying to testmerge this PR. There is a more involved method but it didn't work. It might be a bit.
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:35 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: How many phone screens have you broken?
Replies: 16
Views: 436

Re: How many phone screens have you broken?

smashed screens aplenty I'm a fucking stupid bitch that sleeps with her phone next to her in bed and I toss a lot in my sleep so it goes sliding onto the floor.
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:28 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Shovestun Removal Testmerge Feedback
Replies: 16
Views: 1209

Shovestun Removal Testmerge Feedback

Please provide feedback from any experiences you have had with this PR here. Either make it known in the comments of the PR, or here if you are going to be particularly verbose.
by NecromancerAnne
Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: the grumble thread: disappointed edition
Replies: 15
Views: 556

Re: the grumble thread: disappointed edition

The round before the big site crash we had was fun, there was a shoddy subversion law, I had a gimmick based on it, but then oops server box out. You may not have seen it, but I pixel shifted a fedora onto your head that round Last night on Terry there were revs, and a HEADREV was chasing down the ...
by NecromancerAnne
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Captain, Security and RSR 4 (and RSR 9)
Replies: 58
Views: 2784

Re: Captain, Security and RSR 4 (and RSR 9)

I don't particularly care about overgearing specifically for the captain in particular, because we have rules about unprompted excessive preparedness for literally all roles, security included. But I don't feel like captain's shouldn't be allowed to equip themselves with alternative equipment if the...
by NecromancerAnne
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:23 am
Forum: Coding
Topic: Warops changes discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 1489

Re: Warops changes discussion

In truth, Ops kinda sucks and we should do Goon Ops instead. Win win. From what I can tell, the ops can always arm the nuke, but they have to arm it in one of two locations? And the disk reduces the timer? And also, they have to defend for 10 minutes and not just arm and ditch? This sounds a bit li...
by NecromancerAnne
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:05 am
Forum: Coding
Topic: Warops changes discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 1489

Re: Warops changes discussion

WineAllWine wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:04 am I agree entirely, and this is a very well put argument.

And it's why in my (shit)code I made it a config value. I suspect the minimum_war_value tp be higher on Terry
Sorry I added a hasty addition to that post, I'm sorry!
by NecromancerAnne
Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:59 am
Forum: Coding
Topic: Warops changes discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 1489

Re: Warops changes discussion

I highlighted elsewhere about the statistics for ops up to date to the tail end of 2023, as provided by Mothblocks on the best website on the net . I think it is relevant to frame why this PR has happened using it. Looking at the graph, we can see that Sybil and Manuel both have relatively inconsist...
by NecromancerAnne
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:54 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: you must ICly do nothing peanut thread
Replies: 111
Views: 3862

Re: you must ICly do nothing peanut thread

It's for reasons like this I am willing to remove the note so long as you understand the contents of it. "If you say uncle I'll remove the note" Either the note is right or wrong (it’s wrong btw). An admin should never essentially say “Admit that I’m right and I’ll remove the note.” I thi...
by NecromancerAnne
Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: you must ICly do nothing peanut thread
Replies: 111
Views: 3862

Re: you must ICly do nothing peanut thread

Bmonathan is really digging their heels in on this one holy moly Because they know they're right. If by 'I'm making shit up as I go while interpreting our existing ruleset in poor faith and doing a bit of historical revisionism on the side' is right, I'm glad to be wrong, regardless of the outcome ...
by NecromancerAnne
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:57 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut
Replies: 78
Views: 3168

Re: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut

I literally just burrow holes through the walls instead of getting access. Nobody is going to give a shit about a bunch of secret passages in discreet locations.
by NecromancerAnne
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: you must ICly do nothing peanut thread
Replies: 111
Views: 3862

Re: you must ICly do nothing peanut thread

Less than keen on seeing this note be maintained, because I really don't want to set up confusing precedents for captains, who otherwise should possess the greatest amount of autonomy amongst the crew. As well as noting players for not having fucking admin level metaknowledge, good grief.
by NecromancerAnne
Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: nutter confuses dodging league matches with antag rolling ss13 rounds
Replies: 22
Views: 977

Re: nutter confuses dodging league matches with antag rolling ss13 rounds

conrad wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:46 am NINE PARAGRAPHS

WHY
That's not how paragraphs work. There is maybe three paragraphs total, I just broke them up in the formatting to be a bit easier to read and to separate out the points I'm addressing.
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: nutter confuses dodging league matches with antag rolling ss13 rounds
Replies: 22
Views: 977

Re: nutter confuses dodging league matches with antag rolling ss13 rounds

Dynamically updating objectives/introduced antagonists tend to make that not so reliable. But, generally speaking, yes. Late joining will protect you from most objective targeting. Back when I was on Cit, people used to do it as well. You'd have an almost dead pop roundstart then 30 people total aft...
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: you must ICly do nothing peanut thread
Replies: 111
Views: 3862

Re: you must ICly do nothing peanut thread

I was the one to tell Clara to either appeal or leave some admin feedback if the situation didn't result in a note. From what little was told to me, it was not something I would even consider worth investigating; captain is effectively above security in its entirety in terms of hierarchy, and genera...
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [NecromancerAnne] Osump - missunderstanding dodging matches???
Replies: 2
Views: 695

Re: [NecromancerAnne] Osump - missunderstanding dodging matches???

Hi, thank you for appealing. I want to also point out that this day ban also has come parceled with a permanent antagonist ban. After noticing you suicide in the round that this was placed and someone ahelping to point it out, I did some investigating into your previous rounds to see whether or not ...
by NecromancerAnne
Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:02 pm
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Remove Security Policy regarding Borgs.
Replies: 37
Views: 2008

Re: Remove Security Policy regarding Borgs.

Silicon players do not play in good faith enough to earn the lenience of tipping and not death in my experience. They will hold grudges and doorshock kill you later. It’s fine if you want to rigidly follow laws and try to stop me from arresting someone, and it can be just as okay to kill them in re...
by NecromancerAnne
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Remove Security Policy regarding Borgs.
Replies: 37
Views: 2008

Re: Remove Security Policy regarding Borgs.

I think any attempt at nonlethal compliance is better than a binary of lethal/nonlethal. I'm personally not concerned with practicality with regards to policy; there are caveats you have to abide by for fairness sake and for the sake of maintaining your protections, not to make your job as a securit...
by NecromancerAnne
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:44 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: If a peanut is angry enough maybe it will explode like popcorn?
Replies: 77
Views: 2669

Re: If a peanut is angry enough maybe it will explode like popcorn?

Reflecting on it, and I feel I have mentioned it to bmon before, but there is a consistent style between a lot of the Pardise expats that for a time really defined the playerbase for a time. I can't say that there weren't some particularly wack players before their arrival, I've met them too, but I ...
by NecromancerAnne
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:14 am
Forum: Policy Discussion
Topic: Remove Security Policy regarding Borgs.
Replies: 37
Views: 2008

Re: Remove Security Policy regarding Borgs.

Killing things is the path of least resistance in most every case. And I generally do not like encouraging players in sensitive roles like security officer taking that path so easily, because there is another player potentially trying to play in good faith as their role on the other end. If borgs wi...
by NecromancerAnne
Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:41 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut
Replies: 78
Views: 3168

Re: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut

You know, even after all this time, I hadn't considered hacking APCs via signaler. That's some baller tech I just learned.
by NecromancerAnne
Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:25 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: We need more cross server play
Replies: 18
Views: 657

Re: We need more cross server play

I just think I've had my fill from back before Manuel for what Sybil offers. I was deeply entrenched in that culture for so long that I just don't have the taste for it anymore. It's not like I'm not being challenged at all by Manuelites, they're good sports for the most part and clever too. But I a...
by NecromancerAnne
Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut
Replies: 78
Views: 3168

Re: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut

Not-Dorsidarf wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:12 pm Handling your own ticket is a bit cringe tho.
iain0 and iansdoor are different people, dorsi!
by NecromancerAnne
Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:31 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Antagonist handholding AKA Heretics
Replies: 32
Views: 1719

Re: Antagonist handholding AKA Heretics

It's rather unfortunate. I had a similar concept at the time for a more artificery/occult antagonist that was more like, dubiously magically themed than outright magical. Think more SCP than Lovecraft, weird science and the unexplained/otherworldly. It would have operated similarly to spies do right...
by NecromancerAnne
Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:53 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Antagonist handholding AKA Heretics
Replies: 32
Views: 1719

Re: Antagonist handholding AKA Heretics

I don't think I agree with literally any aspect of this argument, John, and I'm not even able to get past the first paragraph before asking myself what exactly brought about this discussion and what the end goal is. i don't even feel it worth engaging with the comparisons made because most of it see...
by NecromancerAnne
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:07 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut
Replies: 78
Views: 3168

Re: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut

it's a courtesy to neuter sneezing, but these weren't even released, they were incomplete viruses that needed power to finish. That's...just to be expected to be in an unprepared state. Like, you can go into any virology room on any round with an active viro within the first 10 minutes, baton them, ...
by NecromancerAnne
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:56 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut
Replies: 78
Views: 3168

Re: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut

Again, I wish that was the case. Speedrunning starlight+17 resist is 2 minutes with right rng and easy cure. That apc drains in 8 create culture, So I did the best I could! I mean, Meta Viro seems to have a frequent problem with power in particular, I've had it die on me almost every time I play vi...
by NecromancerAnne
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:04 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut
Replies: 78
Views: 3168

Re: security officer cannot articulate probable cause nut

The most relevant policy thread on the matter, given this is essentially a random search based on circumstantial evidence. Effectively this was just an investigation prompted by two people being in a department together, one of whom being someone who is expected to exist in that department. Which i...
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Magmaexploiter] literally 1693
Replies: 3
Views: 723

Re: [Magmaexploiter] literally 1693

Hello. As MagmaExploiter2 is no longer an admin , I'm going to be taking this appeal . Firstly , I want to clarify something specifically . This is a note from 2022 . It's extremely unlikely that such a note would have any relevance currently, and I have my doubts that this is frequent enough, or s...
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:05 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Manuelmin (the)drag(meme)s AI through the mud like a nut
Replies: 108
Views: 4690

Re: Manuelmin (the)drag(meme)s AI through the mud like a nut

It's the solution MSO advocates for whenever admins used to start moaning about antags murderboning and it not being against the rules but being super lame. Give them a nigh-impossible challenge to overcome AND make killed players happy at having the power fantasy reversed by playing big ERTs and D...
by NecromancerAnne
Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:10 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment
Replies: 49
Views: 1884

Re: Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPtkLcaW5Wk Still better than whatever the fuck the titans cinematic was The top comment is gold Great work on this cinematic! It's truly impressive how you gave three teenagers an afternoon to learn Adobe After Effects and then let them make the flagship marketing p...
by NecromancerAnne
Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:22 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment
Replies: 49
Views: 1884

Re: Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment

im bummed that riot closed their spinoff program but also i never bought any of them so maybe im the problem apparently legends of runeterra has basically never been profitable despite everyone saying it was way more generous and less money hungry than the competition so maybe we're the problem Wit...
by NecromancerAnne
Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:37 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment
Replies: 49
Views: 1884

Re: Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment

I know, but it may be a sign that any of their products that aren't the shit MOBA could soon be experiencing a decline in quality. Which is not great if you happen to give a shit about those things. (I know more people who have enjoyed Arcane than people who have actually played League of Legends, a...
by NecromancerAnne
Sat Feb 17, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment
Replies: 49
Views: 1884

Re: Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment

Riot also like, massively downsized every single department that isn't working on League of Legends , so that League of Legends can continue to be a fucking dreadful game with some pretty baller character designs wasted by being in a shit MOBA. Oh, and Riot has Legends of Runeterra, so that's like, ...
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Ciggie smoker gets burnt out
Replies: 11
Views: 510

Re: Ciggie smoker gets burnt out

For a moment I thought this was tg but lol it's TGMC. Why would you do that on TGMC?
by NecromancerAnne
Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:41 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [NecromancerAnne] Timonk - 4 years after
Replies: 2
Views: 525

Re: [NecromancerAnne] Timonk - 4 years after

I mean, it was four years ago, yeah, sure. I'll unban you, haha.

Really shows how uninterested people were with the original version of blood brothers for someone to sit on a blood brother ban for four years and be totally okay with that.

Edit: Done, you should be unbanned now
by NecromancerAnne
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:56 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Metacomms, uses exploit, "sowwy :("
Replies: 22
Views: 1155

Re: Metacomms, uses exploit, "sowwy :("

Literally still refusing to elaborate on the exploit. How does he expect his second attempt to go any better than his first? It is entirely possible that his method is still in the game.

The attempt in question: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=35001
by NecromancerAnne
Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:42 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Metacum Discord Drama Vol. 35
Replies: 40
Views: 1943

Re: Metacum Discord Drama Vol. 35

the knowledge that I'm about to eclipse imsxz is kind of wild.
by NecromancerAnne
Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:10 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Metacum Discord Drama Vol. 35
Replies: 40
Views: 1943

Re: Metacum Discord Drama Vol. 35

Oh I found it and gosh I did not remember these values well, or carsh actually skyrocketed in playtime. It's not unreasonable? Most of the people below him don't play anymore. But hometownfunky definitely does, I've seen them hide their veteran cloak gingerly a few times it was funny. https://tgstat...
by NecromancerAnne
Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:06 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Metacum Discord Drama Vol. 35
Replies: 40
Views: 1943

Re: Metacum Discord Drama Vol. 35

I really wish I did. I had it a while ago and then I lost it. The ranks don't much at all though.