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Tlaltecuhtli wrote:omg he spawned an antag on a full crew with no deads or anything else happening OMFG think of the children's rp

they didn't spawn an antag

they spawned an antag and then gave it 10x power

100 lasers and enough monkeys to shoot em make short work of any blob, just throw acid smoke and space pka spam while u get em ready

oranges wrote:stop saying blob is barely balanced it has about a 1% win rate against the crew it's fucking embarassing you would even say that.

the real blob was the friends we made along the way

IkeTG wrote:

oranges wrote:stop saying blob is barely balanced it has about a 1% win rate against the crew it's fucking embarassing you would even say that.

the real blob was the friends we made along the way

sure as hell wasn't the "mechanically unbeatable antag"

NoxVS wrote:

NikoTheGuyDude wrote:Also, blob is extremely powerful, all you gotta do to see how strong it really is is to watch a few of naloac's videos.

survivorship bias

blob IS extremely powerful its just alot of people dont know the basic things to do with it. unironically if I spawn as a blob and dont get caught till the announcement the round is over. just because players dont know how it works doesnt mean that the antag isnt powerful

oranges wrote:

NikoTheGuyDude wrote:Also, blob is extremely powerful, all you gotta do to see how strong it really is is to watch a few of naloac's videos.

explain to me the blob win rate percentage then

Idiots keep building next to windows on meta. Also the whole, years of marksman rifles being a thing.

Edit: OH, also the hundreds of SM blobs that build next to the fucking thing, bop it and instantly die.

iamgoofball wrote:

oranges wrote:I have ended rounds for less and with way more disruption

the difference is you're my boss and its cool

paxilmaniac is not my boss, it is not cool

if you simped any harder id start to think that oranges is a twitch streamer

manuel has a real problem with handling blobs, people just don't engage them, so it tends to be ez win for the blob

Qustinnus wrote:As a side note, this is why I don't add admin controls to my features when I can avoid it. Clearly noone here can handle not pressing every single button on their screen when given admin privs.

It's unfortunate you feel this way despite the heaps of good events admins have done in the past(Shoutout to Jerry Derpington). It's genuinely hard to do decent events because you need creativity(think DMing) and code knowledge/knowledge of admin tools. Having better admin tools helps a lot with this(i. e. less VV more buttons)

bigfatbananacyclops wrote:...they[Paxilmaniac] have spawned themselves as an arms dealer giving away deadly gear, while this is supposedly a gimmick to make the round fun it really doesn't look like they're trying to.

accidently submitted this too early, let me write the rest of this

Paxilmaniac wrote:It's late and I'm heading off to bed, but [...]

You know they're scared out of their mind when they start their defense like this.

i dunno how about other jannies but i always vv floyds content to be destructible easily

youd be doing a lot of var-editing for that

this is exactly what i expect and want from admins
if the blob pointgain wasn’t boosted it’d still probably win because of manuel being stupid

this is exactly what i expect and want from admins
if the blob pointgain wasn’t boosted it’d still probably win because of manuel being stupid

iamgoofball wrote:

oranges wrote:I have ended rounds for less and with way more disruption

the difference is you're my boss and its cool

paxilmaniac is not my boss, it is not cool

literal bootlicker

RaveRadbury wrote:

[2021-04-03 00:28:29.571] ADMINPRIVATE: ASAY: Paxilmaniac/(Cydia Ferrilinea) "manuel players suck" (Chapel (182,134,4))

you hate to see it

are they wrong though

the irony of a fucking jannie with a felinig avatar is astonishing

fucking yarn-rolling shits

Qbmax32 wrote:

RaveRadbury wrote:

[2021-04-03 00:28:29.571] ADMINPRIVATE: ASAY: Paxilmaniac/(Cydia Ferrilinea) "manuel players suck" (Chapel (182,134,4))

you hate to see it

are they wrong though

Playful tribalism is cool and all, it's banter and ribbing and that's great. But I think we have a bit of responsibility as staff to not lean into it too much, the logs here don't help Paxil's situation and had they chosen not to say these things the tone of it all would sound very different.

Even if you're doing something ironically, you're still doing it, and while bants are fine in moderation it seems like there are some situations where it comes off too harsh or people are not in fact ribbing and are just legit engaging in tribalism between servers of the same community.

I think this is a detriment to us, because legit resentment of servers or other players isn't healthy for our community and isn't a good look. I think that staff have a responsibility to lead by example.

Consider that we are still one big community with several servers within it and that friction between servers is basically in-fighting that makes things a little less great for everyone.

manuels reputation didn't just fall out of the fucking sky one day, it was earned

oranges wrote:

IkeTG wrote:

oranges wrote:stop saying blob is barely balanced it has about a 1% win rate against the crew it's fucking embarassing you would even say that.

the real blob was the friends we made along the way

sure as hell wasn't the "mechanically unbeatable antag"

Fine, let's operate from the position that blob has a 1% win rate across all games

1. Blob is rare. In my three years of playing (993 rounds), I don't think I've ever rolled blob once. This isn't like Versus Saxton Hale, where someone new gets a chance to be the asymmetrical antagonist every fifteen minutes- one probably gets a chance to play blob maybe once a year if they're lucky and play semi-regularly (admins and SS13 addicts being probable exceptions to this). With this in mind, it's a given that most blobs will have little to no idea what they're doing, explaining the low win rate.

2. You should know better than anyone, Oranges, that game balance isn't a linear equation. Quintupling the point generation of a blob doesn't make its win chance increase from 1% to 5%. Returns can be exponential.

3. As Goof pointed out, Paxil buffed the blob so that it was at endgame power with no rampup before the crew even knew it existed. If that isn't setting the crew up to fail, I don't know what is.

they were supposed to fail you fucking dent head, they were trying to end the round, that's the whole point, obviously next time they should skip the drama and ask the keyholder to just kill the DD process so it looks like a crash instead.

"it's just a prank bro, who cares if it ruins the round in a way that's fun for noone it's just a blob"
"who cares about the players invested in the game i've ended rounds for less lel"
"blob is weak as shit, 1% win rate, manuelites btfo lmao"
"okay superbuffed blob steamrolls easy but they could have crashed the server so be grateful lmao ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
Why do you even bother replying?

oranges wrote:next time they should skip the drama and ask the keyholder to just kill the DD process so it looks like a crash instead.

INSIDE THE MIND OF A HEADCODER

that's how I restart servers without getting complaints from people, it helps there's no audit logging on it either.

Armhulen wrote:

bigfatbananacyclops wrote:
im not sure if owegno is aware of this but this really isn't a situation where you'd ask them whats going on and tell em to knock it off; paxil has adminabused several times while prioritizing their own fun several times, besides what owegno said (paxil doing this consecutively for like 3 days), they have spawned themselves as an arms dealer giving away deadly gear, while this is supposedly a gimmick to make the round fun it really doesn't look like they're trying to. another example would be building an entire room for a ''date'' they took part in, nobody was watching this nor does it contribute anything. from my perspective i think paxil just tends to press buttons ultimately looking for their own enjoyment over others.

Oh here we go, bigfat dropping the TEA! LETS GO

bigfatbananacyclops wrote: no i dont have any proof i just witnessed.

SOOO true

oranges wrote:that's how I restart servers without getting complaints from people, it helps there's no audit logging on it either.

Ok but they didn't, and their actions were logged, so this uproar serves them right.

Yeah but you have a huge reputation as a massive fuckwit Oranges, you're still around because nobody wants to do your job/you're actually good at said job/codebase is a separate hierarchy.

If any base jannie behaved like you did they'd be booted out long ago. Hell that isn't even hypothetical you fucking WERE booted out of the admin structure.

Super Aggro Crag wrote:felinig

Best slur 2021

You kinda gotta respect Oranges being too powerful to get rid of and taking full advantage of it

Malkraz wrote:You kinda gotta respect Oranges being too powerful to get rid of and taking full advantage of it

literally

make oranges headmin 2021

Misdoubtful wrote:Aren't April Fools pranks supposed to be confusing out of the ordinary things that end with people laughing once they figure it out?

Cruelty that ends in anger as part of a prank or setting one up isn't something I'd sort highly on my list of good pranks.

One time, the servers were all shut down because it was April 1st on Easter Sunday. This prevented everyone, including players and admins, from playing all day. /tg/station members don't know what good pranks are without at least someone getting fucked.

Booktower wrote:

Qustinnus wrote:As a side note, this is why I don't add admin controls to my features when I can avoid it. Clearly noone here can handle not pressing every single button on their screen when given admin privs.

It's unfortunate you feel this way despite the heaps of good events admins have done in the past(Shoutout to Jerry Derpington). It's genuinely hard to do decent events because you need creativity(think DMing) and code knowledge/knowledge of admin tools. Having better admin tools helps a lot with this(i. e. less VV more buttons)

Thank you for the acknowledgment. Anyways, I agree that this seems like too jaded of a reason to cockblock admins (as long as it can be var-edited, it is acceptable though), and I feel like what Paxil did isn't even them simply "pressing buttons." They had to do some directly specific var-edits in order to make the blob overpowered, which hardly counts as "admin controls" unless you wanna argue that debugging the game = bad. I have heard examples that can be considered as better justification for such a jaded approach of "fuck the admins no matter what" however this ain't it, chief.

Qustinnus wrote:

iamgoofball wrote:

oranges wrote:I have ended rounds for less and with way more disruption

the difference is you're my boss and its cool

paxilmaniac is not my boss, it is not cool

if you simped any harder id start to think that oranges is a twitch streamer

I actually do dabble in some GTArp

Paxil did nothing wrong

>manuel admin griefs bagil/terry
“Its fine guys admins are very rational and can do no wrong”
>lrp admin griefs manuel
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGHHhhhhhHhHhHzh”

does "Manuel player grief bagil/terry" mean any admin that bans a guy for tiding or was there a funnier peanut i missed. this is a genuine question

https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic ... 34&t=28797
no it just means that manuel/sybil jannies are all fucking retarded, mr. coder, so please keep that in mind, ok?

shame i was hoping a Manuel admin ran some sort of looney event on bagil

Coconutwarrior97 wrote:Paxilmaniac has retired.

lol

Au revoir

rip catmin, based manuel troll

Malkraz wrote:

Coconutwarrior97 wrote:Paxilmaniac has retired.

lol

I'm not very happy with this outcome - its a sad one.

Missing "welcome back at any time" on the staffing log.

RIP buddy

now we will never get a ruling, how disappointing

owegno will be pleased though, getting his pound of flesh

let this be a lesson to any coder, don't request test merges to manuel.

stress of it probably hit them hard, I think with the head admin approval this would've just been a bumpy, but eventless, ride

oranges wrote:owegno will be pleased though, getting his pound of flesh

False.

Nothing is worse than being judged by oneself.

Said someone.

that was hitler wasn't it

You'd be surprised the kind of drama around yourself you can survive through simply by not leaving

Safe to say this was the worst outcome though