/tg/Station 13

Professor Hangar

RPED alone is an incredibly good idea for a borg, especially since they can access places that Scientists can't to upgrade absolutely everything that can be upgraded.

(Is there any actual point to upgrading Telecomms? But it's fun anyway)

Professor Hangar

darkpaladin109 wrote:Give security breathalyzers.

Enforce a mandatory minimum BAC.

Professor Hangar

How do voice analysers work? Are they case-sensitive?

Professor Hangar

Being irresponsible with high explosives is its own reward.

Professor Hangar

I'm basically not sure about any further nerfs to bombs, because as it stands it bombs are more powerful, infinitely more fiddly versions of grenades. And even a scientist (who spends five minutes on R&D) can put together their own personal grenade factory.

Professor Hangar

Coffee is actually super flexible given not only is it a speed boost but counteracts tranquillisers and cold temperatures, which is great when you have a dick ass changeling around spamming cryosting or doctors who don't realise what morphine actually does. (because what it does ingame doesn't reall...

Professor Hangar

If they're really knowledgeable about the game they'll have several hidden around the station connected various to voice triggers, timers and mousetraps.

Professor Hangar

How about a neon green lizard nun hugging a nuclear bomb?

Professor Hangar

Or just drink coffee.

Professor Hangar

Kinda tricky given a good chunk of the reason toxins exists is specifically so antags can make bombs with plausible deniability.

With xenobiology, there's far more interesting ways for scientists to wreck the station and/or get themselves killed if they really want to cause trouble, anyway.

Professor Hangar

The chemist had better be able to make steroids.

Professor Hangar

Can crew place orders to Cargo and pay with their own money? I mean, without doing it manually.

Professor Hangar

There's far more people desperately looking for work than there are jobs on offer pretty much anywhere, worker's rights are poor and getting worse almost everywhere, and large chains can and will close down entire stores rather than let their workers unionise. Of course businesses are increasingly f...

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Steelpoint wrote:There should be a sound when you switch fire modes for a energy weapon.

Can it be an ominous hum?

Professor Hangar

Probably want to go for style over substance with a game like this. Easy to play, lots of over-elaborate descriptions, and an emagged holodeck is likely to kill both players if they use overly dramatic special attacks from all the poorly controlled special effects.

Professor Hangar

This one's more likely to kill people!

Professor Hangar

Could have the cards be orderable through Cargo, and probably ridiculously valuable. Also, Syndicate playing cards are playable.

Professor Hangar

Yeah, hence I figured it'd be good as a niche set of R&D items to be kept around when needed. The idea is specifically for use against revenants, some cult constructs and wizards, a little bit for annoying regular ghosts, the rest of the time just there for flavour and occasional quackery. We do...

Professor Hangar

Oddly fitting! Why wouldn't a serial murderer be surrounded by the ghosts of their victims?

Professor Hangar

It should be enlightening to realise that pretty much every societal change in Britain since the Victorian era was done utterly begrudgingly.

Professor Hangar

The igniter part is the one I had trouble with, that makes sense now.

So a Health Sensor+Signaller assembly should transmit a dead man's switch signal, right?

Professor Hangar

Council estate board neglect has already killed more British people than ISIS ever managed to. Turns out you don't need bombs or even vans, you just need to be bad at frying in a place where covering buildings in ultra-flammable Chinese cladding raises property values.

Professor Hangar

Scientists do not believe in ghosts. Make this a Chaplain thing! As I said, the whole issue is that relying on a single limited-role job, which isn't expected to do anything useful most of the time and is thus usually incompetent/insane/drunk/belligerent, to deal with an entire category of antagoni...

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Probably a good idea, though I wasn't sure on the specifics. As weapons go, at best the Proton Packs probably be worse than just making an energy gun, and prone to causing yourself damage when used wrong. Minor Burn damage and maybe setting things on fire, maybe? While the Ghost Traps wouldn't do an...

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The whole property seizing deal is kinda funny given apparently it's proposing using the same laws that are traditionally used to kick the poor out of their homes, usually because they're declared unsuitable for habitation, taking ownership of the land and tearing down the buildings, then building l...

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I don't think so, shotgun darts can't. R&D can make Piercing Syringes presumably for exactly that purpose.

How exactly do Health Sensors work? Can they be used to make dead man's switches?

Professor Hangar

Screemonster wrote:replace the singulo's sprite with Sinistar and make it play the voice clips as it ruins its way through the station

I swear I've seen this happen. It might have been on goon.

Professor Hangar

From a brief glance at Wikipedia, playing dead does have precedent in nature to discourage predators who only take interest in live prey (because who knows what state dead prey is in) and given as advice to humans for avoiding bears, who typically don't eat humans and attack only as a perceived thre...

Professor Hangar

Problem is London is having the same problem as San Fran; the whole city's come to cater to the rich, to the point where the people actually doing the catering can't afford to live anywhere near their jobs doing so, so it's either 2 hour commutes or go to food banks because your pay is all eaten by ...

Professor Hangar

Problem is most of the people who cause actual harm to people out of hatred or disdain for something they can't help are the ones too powerful, connected and wealthy for Twitter mobs to do much or even notice, especially when you use the right words. Modern 'social justice' especially goes after the...

Professor Hangar

People need to treat SS13 more like the multiplayer Dorf Fort it is; the real goal is to accomplish whatever you can before dying hilariously.

Professor Hangar

You obviously haven't tried to actually keep people alive as a CMO. Your vocabulary will be 80% profanity in no time.

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They're at best gimmick items, not much good for an antag since they're just a more cumbersome version of the ebow, if you're in firefights then at that point R&D will have way better weapons for about any purpose (especially since they won't do much to borgs or mechs, and I don't think the stun...

Professor Hangar

My first attempt at blob was completely wrecked after discovery with a box of flashbangs. They aren't exactly a scarce resource, and I have no idea what the logic is of blobs being incredibly vulnerable to them. The crew are also incredibly vulnerable to them, and if you get flashbanged near the bl...

Professor Hangar

Given the super-exotic plants Botany already has, and that the existing alien flora of Lavaland is being made compatible with it, thematically it doesn't seem like there's much interest in adding something completely different for xenobotany. More Botany-Science collaboration opportunities might be ...

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DemonFiren wrote:
Professor Hangar wrote:My burgers have everything the human body needs

Because they're everything the human body IS!
but do we really need appendices?

Well of course, otherwise how are we going to organise notes, suggest further reading and explain niche concepts not given full attention in the main body of the work?

Professor Hangar

My burgers have everything the human body needs

Because they're everything the human body IS!

Professor Hangar

From all I gather, white American liberals are pretty much the only people that actually think the poncho-and-sombrero Mexican stereotype is actually significantly offensive. I get the impression to most Mexicans it's pretty similar to the American cowboy stereotype; silly and anachronistic (though ...

Professor Hangar

1000% accurate

Professor Hangar

Agree wholeheartedly that Tales from the Borderlands was better than it had any right to be, it's what got me interested in the shootbangs again. Something about a setting being viewed from the perspective of characters that aren't traditional protagonists for the genre is really interesting, being ...

Professor Hangar

Borderlands 2 despite the memes has aged oddly well. I think it's the enemy variety, FPSes I've played have gone downhill like a cliff compared to a game where you actually have to switch up weapons and tactics regularly.

Professor Hangar

Given how people seem to act nowadays, it probably needs to be bannable to call the shuttle the first time without even attempting to give a justifiable reason for it. At this point it seems like the heads are chomping at the bit to call it.

Professor Hangar

When people assume you're an idiot and take over your job, and are far worse at it than you are.

Professor Hangar

Drunk idea coming from discussion of among other things, R&D: Ghost busting equipment. Now hear me out; when the station is dealing with the terrors of a Revenant, or various ghostly cult constructs, usually they're almost completely reliant on either brute force or the Chaplain, who may be dead...

Professor Hangar

Gym equipment does seem like a good idea, and it makes plenty of sense to add a public gym to the dorm area, as well as Security, and the Captain might have a mini-gym in their quarters. Probably different aspects of exercise; arms, legs and torso would be probably the simplest version. Because we n...

Professor Hangar

I think it comes down to that people would probably be more or less happy with tablets or with PDAs, but nobody's happy with both. Kind of ironic given that PDAs are limited in function and customisability but easy to use, while no one but the autistic wants to touch tablets because they're too comp...

Professor Hangar

This brings to mind the odd idea of assistants immediately running off to the gym and grinding virtual exercise equipment every round

Professor Hangar

It does help that one of my players is an even bigger autist than I am who helps with a lot of the mechanical crap, but I feel a lot of the criticisms of 4e are entirely made up bullshit by people who've never actually tried to play it and have no relation to the actual problems the system has. (whi...

Professor Hangar

immediately thought of you bastards.jpg

(maybe not so much mislabeled)

Professor Hangar

Talking Toaster, a random machine in the station gains sentience, pulls from ghosts. Cant do much other than talk. Low probability.

I think we know what this is always going to be like.
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