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by Pandarsenic
Wed Apr 12, 2023 2:35 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [Scriptis] SaltyBlitz - Antag Rolling
Replies: 3
Views: 530

Re: [Scriptis] SaltyBlitz - Antag Rolling

Heya, not the banning admin, but for clarity, have you played on /tg/ a significant amount while unable to become an antag, as requested in the antagban, or have you only been playing on other servers (e.g. Fulp) during that time?
by Pandarsenic
Wed Apr 12, 2023 2:19 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: In this thread we come up with ways to end racism
Replies: 284
Views: 29881

Re: In this thread we come up with ways to end racism

MSO has terrible takes about what is and isn't racism Sorry your ability to be racist towards white people was gimped by my egalitarianism, but that doesn't make it a terrible take. If losing cracker as an insult is the cost of making all the rest of the usual slurs permabannable at all times, I'll...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Apr 10, 2023 11:03 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Local admin abuses a lowpop shift nut
Replies: 264
Views: 27955

Re: Local admin abuses a lowpop shift nut

For what it's worth I don't think being more honest about it would have changed my mind. This was a reckless disregard for appropriate use of admin tools across an entire shift. I don't think people that have to be taught not to admin trade themselves to a different antag; not to spawn in items to ...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Apr 10, 2023 5:51 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: rounds are way too long
Replies: 18
Views: 3245

Re: rounds are way too long

something to consider here that's not represented with this information is why rounds end. i feel like "crew transfer votes" are fairly common these days and evac shuttles just seem to get called despite there being very little threat present. however this is entirely anecdotal. The most ...
by Pandarsenic
Fri Apr 07, 2023 9:34 pm
Forum: Roleplaying
Topic: Ask the Syndicate
Replies: 105
Views: 46553

Re: Ask the Syndicate

Are the ARC furries? Not everyone invested in the well-being of animals is a furry! Some people just don't see animals as a lesser form of life, undeserving of consideration for their feelings. Humanocentric attitudes result in not just their suffering, but their needless suffering. Why send cubed ...
by Pandarsenic
Fri Apr 07, 2023 4:52 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: (MRP) Antags actively going counter to their IC objectives
Replies: 50
Views: 6045

Re: (MRP) Antags actively going counter to their IC objectives

I am already uncomfortable with how we have varying expectations of antags to follow their fluff, their objectives, etc. I have at least once, but I believe more, had to explain to people on Manuel that "Go postal and hijack the shuttle" is - by current policy - basically a codebase banbai...
by Pandarsenic
Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:37 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: State of Dynamic 2023
Replies: 45
Views: 15810

Re: State of Dynamic 2023

Keep in mind that these gamemodes may have requirements to run at all (heads of staff, security population) which aren't being met, just to ATTEMPT rolling them at all
by Pandarsenic
Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:40 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Silicon Balance
Replies: 18
Views: 1555

Re: Silicon Balance

Antags retaining antag status while borged is genuinely terrible for many reasons Bring back Secborgs, you cowards, no balls Silicons act crew aligned because of unchecked validhunting and because lacking secborgs means that if you act against the crew while still on default lawset (meaning you can'...
by Pandarsenic
Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:13 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: You can't unfuck a face peanut
Replies: 104
Views: 8107

Re: You can't unfuck a face peanut

Another victim of posting in own peanut
by Pandarsenic
Mon Apr 03, 2023 8:32 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nicknames for partners/spouses
Replies: 29
Views: 7749

Re: Nicknames for partners/spouses

Drag wrote: Mon Apr 03, 2023 11:02 am
wubli wrote: Mon Apr 03, 2023 2:03 am do they play ss13
Yes!
Very sorry to hear that, I hope you can find a way to move past that together
by Pandarsenic
Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:02 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Rule 3 Historical/Famous/Media Figures
Replies: 21
Views: 2372

Re: Rule 3 Historical/Famous/Media Figures

Honestly 90% of it can be summed up as "don't make things weird"
by Pandarsenic
Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:21 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Miranda Rights, or similiar policy for Security
Replies: 60
Views: 7283

Re: Miranda Rights, or similiar policy for Security

When I play sec I try to solve every problem I can by saying "Bro, could you please not?" and it very rarely works. Most of the time, I think, if someone doesn't know why they're being arrested it's because the Detective actually did their job and figured out something they did earlier. We...
by Pandarsenic
Thu Mar 30, 2023 4:30 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Sinfulpiss appeal nut.
Replies: 116
Views: 7564

Re: Sinfulpiss appeal nut.

sinfulbliss wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 4:09 am
Pandarsenic wrote: Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:54 pm the best outcome I dare to hope for is that he just doesn't get unbanned.
Sorry to disappoint you Panda :D
You haven't disappointed me yet and nothing says you ever have to! Just please do not post the Worst Takes Ever Taken in peanut threads. I beg you.
by Pandarsenic
Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:59 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Sinfulpiss appeal nut.
Replies: 116
Views: 7564

Re: Sinfulpiss appeal nut.

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by Pandarsenic
Tue Mar 28, 2023 11:28 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Portal to the past II
Replies: 29
Views: 1465

Re: Portal to the past II

Fucking with people who ERPed was funny but not in a way that, in retrospect, would probably be healthy for the server in the long term. But turning a dozen ghosts into simplemob cats and releasing them into a dorm or turning the wall of the librarian's study into glass remain some of my favorite st...
by Pandarsenic
Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:54 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Chip Shitfest peanut
Replies: 120
Views: 9485

Re: Chip Shitfest peanut

What the hell, you can emag meteor shields?
by Pandarsenic
Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:51 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Sinfulpiss appeal nut.
Replies: 116
Views: 7564

Re: Sinfulpiss appeal nut.

This is making me want to play Fury of Dracula
by Pandarsenic
Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:18 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Invalidate "purging AI is metagaming" ruling
Replies: 33
Views: 5213

Re: Invalidate "purging AI is metagaming" ruling

I would genuinely burn it down wholesale and start from scratch using any lessons learned. Instead of prescribing every minor nitpick in excruciating detail, I think Silipol 2023 could benefit from being shorter and outlining the spirit of policy. And I will absolutely redraft Silipol around code c...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:10 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: AI upload sniping and rule 1.
Replies: 79
Views: 11998

Re: AI upload sniping and rule 1.

Could be wrong but I reckon this is intended to mean the AI has probable cause to deny people that could be nukies or cultists or traitors to the upload, since they will likely use it to relaw for harm. I don't think it's talking about the cap relawing the AI on a nukie round. Yeah that's what I wa...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:33 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Invalidate "purging AI is metagaming" ruling
Replies: 33
Views: 5213

Re: Invalidate "purging AI is metagaming" ruling

Who ever thought that purged AI being crew alligned was a good idea? Like what are you even trying to achieve, it is the opposite of content. Hi, I'm the one who wrote that back in like 2014, 2015. Giving the usual explanation: This was implemented as a very clumsy fix for a combination of bugs tha...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Mar 26, 2023 7:14 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Invalidate "purging AI is metagaming" ruling
Replies: 33
Views: 5213

Re: Invalidate "purging AI is metagaming" ruling

I didn't like it when it was put in and I don't like it now. Free the AIs.
by Pandarsenic
Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:54 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Sinfulpiss appeal nut.
Replies: 116
Views: 7564

Re: Sinfulpiss appeal nut.

The best outcome is that Sinfulbliss got way better and gets unbanned and proves that, but the best outcome I dare to hope for is that he just doesn't get unbanned.
by Pandarsenic
Sat Mar 25, 2023 8:04 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: AI upload sniping and rule 1.
Replies: 79
Views: 11998

Re: AI upload sniping and rule 1.

Shoulda made a better law or uploaded more smoothly, skill issue
by Pandarsenic
Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:26 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: MRP - Security And Using Contraband
Replies: 8
Views: 1233

Re: MRP - Security And Using Contraband

1) Simply do not get killed by the contraband, skill issue
2) Whether someone uses contraband is a matter of RP appropriate to the threats facing the station and how much damage they've done compared to the strength of the station's resistance
by Pandarsenic
Thu Mar 23, 2023 10:37 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Current TC Trade Policy
Replies: 8
Views: 1266

Re: Current TC Trade Policy

There's not really any formal policy beyond "Do something cool and fun with it, don't just be boring"
by Pandarsenic
Wed Mar 22, 2023 1:51 pm
Forum: Ideas
Topic: Rename "Psychologist" Job to "Psychiatrist"
Replies: 5
Views: 892

Re: Rename "Psychologist" Job to "Psychiatrist"

Psychiatrist being "MD but with a few funny pills, an office, and the RP expectation of talking to people" would be - I think - an interesting way of making Psychologist/Psychiatrist a more commonly taken job, since you aren't being "the medical person who isn't actually a doctor"
by Pandarsenic
Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:18 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: Revolution Feedback
Replies: 20
Views: 3054

Re: Revolution Feedback

Dynamic is surprisingly undynamic because it makes very milquetoast samey rounds. Progtot doesn't help with that. I sometimes struggle to articulate it, but (barring Nuke Ops or a Wizard) every dynamic round comes down to about the same mix of Traitors, Changelings/Heretics, etc. If you have a big ...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:15 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely
Replies: 58
Views: 8691

Re: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely

Given that info, I don't see any reason not to issue a blanket "All forms of antag testing are exploits by Word of Coder, never do them"
by Pandarsenic
Fri Mar 17, 2023 5:40 am
Forum: Coding
Topic: If changeling MMI test is a exploit, what is the solution?
Replies: 39
Views: 11177

Re: If changeling MMI test is a exploit, what is the solution?

Hmm. Make MMI'ing the brain full-heal the ling and teleport them to a random station turf. It's dumb as hell but kinda undermines the identification if it also guarantees escape (?) There's probably better ideas but could the act of MMI-ing the brain be suitably disincentivised by such a penalty? P...
by Pandarsenic
Tue Mar 14, 2023 8:21 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely
Replies: 58
Views: 8691

Re: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely

You are in the position to do better than your predecessors, and can act in your better judgement regardless of policy if ultimately what you believe you're ruling on is in favour of a better overall experience, which you are 100% empowered to weigh and enact as needed. While I've not strong foot i...
by Pandarsenic
Mon Mar 13, 2023 11:11 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely
Replies: 58
Views: 8691

Re: ban players for metagaming antagonists via code oversights, ie. ban antag testing entirely

I think there's a serious need to revisit rule 2 if people think "traitors have telecrystals to buy traitor items and do certain syndicate objectives" and "Oh the clown has a fucking clown bomb, great" should be considered the same as "tell us your credit card info to prove ...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:56 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Is healing people by monkifying them and then using mutadone an exploit?
Replies: 28
Views: 3126

Re: Is healing people by monkifying them and then using mutadone an exploit?

If you are min-maxing healing and stealing job content from doctors (assuming you are a geneticist while doing this) without asking that's absolutely a rule 12 issue. The question is: Is this an intended game mechanic or not? I don't think an offshoot of an aheal is intended. So yes, exploit. Edit:...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Mar 12, 2023 6:59 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Is healing people by monkifying them and then using mutadone an exploit?
Replies: 28
Views: 3126

Re: Is healing people by monkifying them and then using mutadone an exploit?

It's not exactly convenient to monkey then unmonkey someone so I figure it's fine unless it becomes so prevalent that it's disruptive to normal medical play.
by Pandarsenic
Sun Mar 12, 2023 3:44 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Could we please return to default Asimov?
Replies: 30
Views: 2952

Re: Could we please return to default Asimov?

Reminder that the reason Asimov++ happened in the first place is because so much of what A++ says explicitly was embedded in SiliPol rulings that nobody wanted to read
by Pandarsenic
Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:20 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Law 1, Security, and Revealing Traitors
Replies: 8
Views: 936

Re: Law 1, Security, and Revealing Traitors

You can also make demands of them as a condition to giving the name, then go to town if/when they break the terms
by Pandarsenic
Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:10 pm
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Food is for communists.
Replies: 35
Views: 3423

Re: Food is for communists.

Local spaceman takes the chef role so that he can CQC people instead of giving them food
by Pandarsenic
Thu Mar 09, 2023 4:50 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: RAINBOW TIDE WORLDWIDE
Replies: 18
Views: 2042

Re: RAINBOW TIDE WORLDWIDE

make it so
by Pandarsenic
Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:59 pm
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: STOP MAKING BAD SPRITES
Replies: 13
Views: 2074

Re: STOP MAKING BAD SPRITES

As punishment for complaining, the Warden is getting a new and even more incomprehensible jacket as we speak.
by Pandarsenic
Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Mimes breaking oaths after changing jobs
Replies: 26
Views: 3409

Re: Mimes breaking oaths after changing jobs

I still think its weird that the griefer rep headmin casually added "mimes who speak for any reason ever are turbo auto super valid" to the rules by fiat out of the blue and hardly anyone even blinked twice about it. That said mime players are usually shitheads so its not like we lose any...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:45 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Mimes breaking oaths after changing jobs
Replies: 26
Views: 3409

Re: Mimes breaking oaths after changing jobs

Mime is in the heart (and the Mime datum), not in the ID
by Pandarsenic
Mon Feb 27, 2023 4:02 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Disable FORBID_SINGULO_POSSESSION in config.
Replies: 14
Views: 1971

Re: Disable FORBID_SINGULO_POSSESSION in config.

I'm almost certain there's a hacky way to get around singulo posession restriction anyway, possibly buildmode throw or something? If an admin wants to abuse their powers, this is possibly the most obvious way to go about it. There is, and this is it, though unlike Singulo possession you can't use i...
by Pandarsenic
Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:06 am
Forum: Coding Feedback
Topic: State of Dynamic 2023
Replies: 45
Views: 15810

Re: State of Dynamic 2023

Was there ever a fix for Potato Blights, where the game (due to lack of sec or total players) has no legal rolls except Traitor Injections, making it turn (sometimes literally) half the station's population into traitors in 5-threat increments?
by Pandarsenic
Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:01 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: (MRP) Allow destructive sabotage under the murderbone rules.
Replies: 54
Views: 10793

Re: (MRP) Allow destructive sabotage under the murderbone rules.

I would be fine with the latter as long as you aren't also going around directly finishing off anyone who makes it out but doesn't start shit with you + you make some effort to ensure an actual shuttle call
by Pandarsenic
Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:02 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Are temporary gulag sentences IC?
Replies: 4
Views: 839

Re: Are temporary gulag sentences IC?

If you ahelp all but the most trivial AND unjustified gulag sentences, you will be laughed at If security is gulaging you without a crime because they want the colorful rocks to make science toys, maybe there's a conversation, otherwise just get your goodies and you'll be out in like 5 minutes. Onl...
by Pandarsenic
Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:23 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Are temporary gulag sentences IC?
Replies: 4
Views: 839

Re: Are temporary gulag sentences IC?

If you ahelp all but the most trivial AND unjustified gulag sentences, you will be laughed at

If security is gulaging you without a crime because they want the colorful rocks to make science toys, maybe there's a conversation, otherwise just get your goodies and you'll be out in like 5 minutes.
by Pandarsenic
Thu Feb 23, 2023 9:33 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Oranges Future Stun Baton Red Alert, agains't rules to set red alert?
Replies: 21
Views: 3165

Re: Oranges Future Stun Baton Red Alert, agains't rules to set red alert?

oranges wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:59 am Sorry for gaslighting you seth
Can we get this as a Funny Button or very rare Station Trait to see all hell break loose occasionally
by Pandarsenic
Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:01 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Oranges Future Stun Baton Red Alert, agains't rules to set red alert?
Replies: 21
Views: 3165

Re: Oranges Future Stun Baton Red Alert, agains't rules to set red alert?

The era of the justified harmbaton is upon us and I'm here for it
by Pandarsenic
Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:09 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Suspend timed bans until the appeal is handled
Replies: 44
Views: 6742

Re: Suspend timed bans until the appeal is handled

I would personally go for 2 days but I think that might be too radical of a proposal to get through

SHIT I should've started there then presented 4 days as the compromise option, I'm bad at this
by Pandarsenic
Fri Feb 17, 2023 3:09 am
Forum: Player's Club
Topic: Headmin Debates Peanut Megathread
Replies: 8
Views: 705

Re: Headmin Debates Peanut Megathread

Subpar roleplay quality. This is way better of an answer than the appeals stuff IMO, but it also doesn't say what do about it Peanut debate. Given the reputation peanut threads have among admin channels, I'd love to see someone brave enough to say peanut threads should go, given how unpopular of a ...