Malicious Manuel Metagrudger Macademia
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:26 pm
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Pie throwing is a restricted prank NO MOONLIGHTING.Bottom post of the previous page:
Pie throwing is a restricted prank NO MOONLIGHTING.To be fair, it's a commonly said thing by admins that if you see someone else breaking the rules, ahelp it instead of breaking them too, because otherwise then you just have two rulebreaks for them to handle. It's entirely possible they ARE doing something about it, and we just can't see it because we're not in adminbus.CPTANT wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:53 pm On another tangent, it is a rather unusual situation that ~15 unrelated players hate a group of players so much that they would resort to "meta-grudging" (emphasize on the quotations because once again, someone has to be grief to qualify for that in the first place). Aren't they actually the ones ruining people's fun if so many people dislike them? I don't have enough information to actually judge that though.
politely refutes a point the admin made that was entirely inaccurateFarquaar wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:45 pm I just realized this note appeal really reminds me of this thing I made earlier this year for a different Manuelmin dust up
I need to contact the admins about players who sign up to play as clown, and throw pies at me.Sightld2 wrote:If the same person or several people have thrown pies at you several rounds in a row? Yeah. I think that's fair.
something to consider is that they played 21 rounds between the space drug grenade incident and pie throw. they play like 7 rounds a day on average. this person like genuinely needs to take a break if they’re getting twisted about pies
On top of all this, I'd like to point out the admin in question is extending this protection to the entire meta-friend group.iwishforducks wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:40 am i was curious what the fuck happened here so i decided to dig into this, and it's pretty fucking pathetic.
so a few days before the initial note, the offending player had sprayed paint in the faces of three catgirls all lined up. lex only said "mark of shame" and that's about it. the catgirls go up to sec and demand the arrest of lex for "assaulting people" and saying he was going around and spray painting everyone. lex was arrested, and upon release he concocted a smoke grenade filled with space drugs and then detonated it at the group of catgirls about 35 minutes later (they killed him- which is fair enough, he didn't put up a resistance, but it's hard to against a .357). in the next round, lex went up to the Grudged Player and said "I APOLOGISE", to which her response was "Fuck off". From there, this is their only interactions beyond lex chopping their zombified corpse a day or two later- and throwing a pie at their face.
so, this is metagrudging folks. throwing a singular pie at someone days after you have an IC escalation and the other party denying attempts at trying to make amends.
Does this go against Rule 2 precedent 3?Sightld2 wrote:Firstly. It was my assumption that this player was effected by the smoke bomb. However, even with them not,I considered this note to be a warning for meta-grudging this entire group at large, not just this one player, this is another reason I left out the exact specific of the context, given that the note doesn't entirely refer to the triggering context, but the one prior to it as well. I understand that I may not have conveyed this very well in our ticket conversation.
As a manual main, I'd love to see an up-to-date metagang thing, even if it was a meme. I'm part of the non-aligned movement.Tearling wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:27 pmThis whole thing feels icky. I doubt it'll be upheld, but if it is, I promise to make a Newbie's Guide to Manuel Metagroups document so every new player can choose which metagroup they want to join so they can get metagang protection from their affiliated admins.
The main hard part with making a metagang chart is just how easy it would be for someone random to come in and delete everything. If I was to make an up-to-date one it would require some kind of verification system, but that'd make it hard to complete the chart.RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:58 pmAs a manual main, I'd love to see an up-to-date metagang thing, even if it was a meme. I'm part of the non-aligned movement.Tearling wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:27 pmThis whole thing feels icky. I doubt it'll be upheld, but if it is, I promise to make a Newbie's Guide to Manuel Metagroups document so every new player can choose which metagroup they want to join so they can get metagang protection from their affiliated admins.
Join the non-aligned movement on Manuel today! Benefits include... uh... that people tend to forget about you most of the time I guess?
You can just revert the editTearling wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:03 pm The main hard part with making a metagang chart is just how easy it would be for someone random to come in and delete everything. If I was to make an up-to-date one it would require some kind of verification system, but that'd make it hard to complete the chart.
When I raised an issue about the meta-furry clique I was basically told to 'go back to digg', so it seems at least one admin is either protecting them or doesn't care enough to deal with them.CPTANT wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:53 pm He's actually still calling throwing the pie grief. Noting for this sets a horrible precedent, for the player this still means: 2 pies = metagrudging, it is the death of any type of conflict instigation for fear of being bwoinked.
On another tangent, it is a rather unusual situation that ~15 unrelated players hate a group of players so much that they would resort to "meta-grudging" (emphasize on the quotations because once again, someone has to be grief to qualify for that in the first place). Aren't they actually the ones ruining people's fun if so many people dislike them? I don't have enough information to actually judge that though.
For the record, I actually don’t like them particularly much, I just find the “today I will play antag on deadpop and gamer as hard as I possibly can” to be an incredibly unfun and boring playstyle, call it an MRP main thing - you had literally every other player in that round (except for the one person who I lied to on your behalf) pissed off with you over how hard you were gaming - it wasn’t a metagang thing. (Or at least, my disgust wasn’t)sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 12:01 pm HOLY SHIT IT'S MARIANNE CATLAY AGAIN.
Let me tell you the story of my singular encounter with Marianne Catlay and her catgirl metafriend, Madelyn Finch, on a choice visit to Manuel a few weeks ago in which I rolled traitor.
It was a dark and stormy night. After killing the captain and HoS, I decided to subvert both borgs, "Doorbot" and "E.R.U.," because I didn't want them getting in the way of my traitoring. Eventually I roll the sleeper agent surgery objective, and stumble upon a Chaplain named Madelyn Finch. I try to roleplay a bit and convince her to accept my "experimental surgery," but she's immediately hostile. A minute doesn't go by before her catgirlfriend, none other than Marianne Catlay, walks up between us, and tries to convince me to do it on her instead (real white knight type shit). I think, uhh no, I'm a traitor, I don't make compromises! I'm going to do it on the person I set out to do it on initially!
Cue the all-out tribal warfare of the full force of the Catlay gang after me. My own subverted borg, Doorbot, stunarms me in the midst of my altercation with them, forcing me to activate my EMP implant, indirectly gibbing me due to my experimental teleporter. My other borg, E.R.U., does a decent job at trying to defend my corpse, but in dchat afterwards he reminds me how he would've much preferred to be on the side of the Catlay metagang instead. To top it off, I was accused in dchat by multiple people of murderboning on lowpop (despite my only goal being to sleeper surgery a single felinid).
Very disappointing to see Mannymins giving them such preferential treatment as to note someone for throwing a pie their way.
My brother in christ I killed a grand total of two people outside of objectives - the cap and the HoS - the former of whom I had delivered to medbay after so they could be revived. Maybe you could elaborate on what exactly fueled your "disgust."spookuni wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:18 pm For the record, I actually don’t like them particularly much, I just find the “today I will play antag on deadpop and gamer as hard as I possibly can” to be an incredibly unfun and boring playstyle, call it an MRP main thing - you had literally every other player in that round (except for the one person who I lied to on your behalf) pissed off with you over how hard you were gaming - it wasn’t a metagang thing. (Or at least, my disgust wasn’t)
I don’t actually care that much about your conflict with the medbay guys, I care/d that you had what (looked like to my eyes) a hand tele, the reactive tele armour, armoury gear, a fully optimised traitor loadout and some other crap on you ~20 minutes into the round with ~9 (the round only has 13 players registered on scrubby, and I know a few people latejoined ) people on the station, and were running around speedrunning your objective list dunking anyone who opposed you. There’s creating conflict and then there’s stacking the deck so far into your favour that if - again, literally everyone active on station (except me, and maybe the other borg I never found out if they were rulebreaking or just a dumbass, kept away from the situation since it involved me somewhat) hadn’t grouped up to oppose you none of them had any chance of accomplishing anything. I refuse to accuse you of murderboning(the combats I saw were all justified), but geeze dude, do you really gotta try that hard to win against nine people?sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:30 pmMy brother in christ I killed a grand total of two people outside of objectives - the cap and the HoS - the former of whom I had delivered to medbay after so they could be revived. Maybe you could elaborate on what exactly fueled your "disgust."spookuni wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:18 pm For the record, I actually don’t like them particularly much, I just find the “today I will play antag on deadpop and gamer as hard as I possibly can” to be an incredibly unfun and boring playstyle, call it an MRP main thing - you had literally every other player in that round (except for the one person who I lied to on your behalf) pissed off with you over how hard you were gaming - it wasn’t a metagang thing. (Or at least, my disgust wasn’t)
The players, you included, were pissed off at me because I dared to create conflict on a lowpop Manuel round as The Traitor instead of playing nice with the catgirl twins and having a nice happy consensual sleeper surgery for a free objective. I would consider the latter option the truly unfun and boring playstyle to have.
everything I had was either for a bug objective or looted from the cap. no one "grouped up" against me until I decided to try to sleeper surgery some random felinid against her will. if you didn't care about my conflict with them it's weird you'd have mentioned how you wished you were on their side. they were also traitors by the way with carp+northstar and the other a 357 (sounds pretty optimal to me!)spookuni wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:42 pm I don’t actually care that much about your conflict with the medbay guys, I care/d that you had what (looked like to my eyes) a hand tele, the reactive tele armour, armoury gear, a fully optimised traitor loadout and some other crap on you ~20 minutes into the round with ~9 (the round only has 13 players registered on scrubby, and I know a few people latejoined ) people on the station, and were running around speedrunning your objective list dunking anyone who opposed you. There’s creating conflict and then there’s stacking the deck so far into your favour that if - again, literally everyone active on station (except me, and maybe the other borg I never found out if they were rulebreaking or just a dumbass, kept away from the situation since it involved me somewhat) hadn’t grouped up to oppose you none of them had any chance of accomplishing anything. I refuse to accuse you of murderboning(the combats I saw were all justified), but geeze dude, do you really gotta try that hard to win against nine people?
I wished I was on the side of literally everyone else on station (with the medbay traitors being the easiest way for that to happen, I actually thought the other borg was subverted to them). But yes, I can see why that’d be annoying. From my perspective you only died because the other borg was either a complete dumbass or rule-breaking themselves - you were pretty consistently trading up in fights with the combined group of angry traitors + HoP from what I saw - and rolling without resistance everyone else (with my minimal contributions, I was trying my best to play out the subversion in good faith, but jannieborgs are pretty shit at combat(or I’m just skill issued that is also highly possible)).sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:04 pmeverything I had was either for a bug objective or looted from the cap. no one "grouped up" against me until I decided to try to sleeper surgery some random felinid against her will. if you didn't care about my conflict with them it's weird you'd have mentioned how you wished you were on their side. they were also traitors by the way with carp+northstar and the other a 357 (sounds pretty optimal to me!)spookuni wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:42 pm I don’t actually care that much about your conflict with the medbay guys, I care/d that you had what (looked like to my eyes) a hand tele, the reactive tele armour, armoury gear, a fully optimised traitor loadout and some other crap on you ~20 minutes into the round with ~9 (the round only has 13 players registered on scrubby, and I know a few people latejoined ) people on the station, and were running around speedrunning your objective list dunking anyone who opposed you. There’s creating conflict and then there’s stacking the deck so far into your favour that if - again, literally everyone active on station (except me, and maybe the other borg I never found out if they were rulebreaking or just a dumbass, kept away from the situation since it involved me somewhat) hadn’t grouped up to oppose you none of them had any chance of accomplishing anything. I refuse to accuse you of murderboning(the combats I saw were all justified), but geeze dude, do you really gotta try that hard to win against nine people?
it just left a sour taste in my mouth is all. I don't think it's anything rulebreaking (aside from well, my subverted borg stunarming me)
You were indeed my best ally that entire round. That's why the dchat text was disappointing to see. We were supposed to be besties but your heart was with the kitties..spookuni wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:27 pm I wished I was on the side of literally everyone else on station (with the medbay traitors being the easiest way for that to happen, I actually thought the other borg was subverted to them). But yes, I can see why that’d be annoying. From my perspective you only died because the other borg was either a complete dumbass or rule-breaking themselves - you were pretty consistently trading up in fights with the combined group of angry traitors + HoP from what I saw - and rolling without resistance everyone else (with my minimal contributions, I was trying my best to play out the subversion in good faith, but jannieborgs are pretty shit at combat(or I’m just skill issued that is also highly possible)).
For it to actually be a welcoming place for everyone, with a higher cultural standard of roleplay that didn't depend so much on tigher rules but community consensus and good will. That's what I also thought it would eventually head towards in it's infancy. Look where it is now.
Clearly the solution is to use the wiki; have a metagang wiki page. We could even have one for each server.Tearling wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:03 pm The main hard part with making a metagang chart is just how easy it would be for someone random to come in and delete everything. If I was to make an up-to-date one it would require some kind of verification system, but that'd make it hard to complete the chart.
1. Playing antags to win (or not doing so) isn’t enforced against on a rules level at all, rule 12 is currently explicitly overriden by rule 4, I just find the general playstyle of maximise Ws at all costs very boring when it comes at the expense of room for interaction and conflict, killing people is cool, forcing everyone else into the role of NPC to be lorded over is uh, kinda lamekayozz wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:25 pm Since you're staff, can you explain how and why this playstyle is enforced or discouraged and also explain why a select group of people are seemingly protected from anything that disturbs their lesbian-cat roleplay session?
Personally speaking I find low-med pop is the best way to practice playing antagonist stategies without getting immediately slaughtered by high pop witnesses. Not everyone has the ability or time to play on high pop servers, perhaps due to their own preferences/work commitments and not everyone is robust enough to handle high pop valid-hunters. Why should a smaller amount of players dictate the behaviour of people who want to play differently yet fully within the rules.
I just don't see why people should be discouraged from playing on Manuel by the reactions of a tiny few idiots who want to make the server their own cosy-safe-space. Judging by some of the replies in this thread and the other thread it seems there's plenty of people who share this view.
If people are so offended at dying on low-pop, why not just turn off events and antagonists completely so that way nobody gets harmed at all? Perhaps rename it to SAFE STATION 13.
Nah, people were organising after you killed the poor science lizard, moving into medical just boiled it over (I was sat spying on them listening for actionable intel in between being given orders, there was “wow we should probably do something” building for a while.sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:34 pmYou were indeed my best ally that entire round. That's why the dchat text was disappointing to see. We were supposed to be besties but your heart was with the kitties..spookuni wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:27 pm I wished I was on the side of literally everyone else on station (with the medbay traitors being the easiest way for that to happen, I actually thought the other borg was subverted to them). But yes, I can see why that’d be annoying. From my perspective you only died because the other borg was either a complete dumbass or rule-breaking themselves - you were pretty consistently trading up in fights with the combined group of angry traitors + HoP from what I saw - and rolling without resistance everyone else (with my minimal contributions, I was trying my best to play out the subversion in good faith, but jannieborgs are pretty shit at combat(or I’m just skill issued that is also highly possible)).
I had literally killed the cap, HoS, stolen multiple grand theft items for bug objectives, stolen some lizard's eyes before decapitating him (the syndicate must've had it out for that guy), and yet no one batted an eye until I tried to brainwash Marianne Catlay's metafriend. you can't make this stuff up man
I'm not really going to jump into the specifics but yeah, early Manuel was certainly different than what we see now.Agux909 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:39 pmFor it to actually be a welcoming place for everyone, with a higher cultural standard of roleplay that didn't depend so much on tigher rules but community consensus and good will. That's what I also thought it would eventually head towards in it's infancy. Look where it is now.
But yeah maybe it was too idealistical to become such a thing. A velleity.
Yeah this was pretty much the only time I was a regular there, and I would defend it because it was just taking off and it was a good promise for something exciting and different.Misdoubtful wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 3:10 pmI'm not really going to jump into the specifics but yeah, early Manuel was certainly different than what we see now.Agux909 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:39 pmFor it to actually be a welcoming place for everyone, with a higher cultural standard of roleplay that didn't depend so much on tigher rules but community consensus and good will. That's what I also thought it would eventually head towards in it's infancy. Look where it is now.
But yeah maybe it was too idealistical to become such a thing. A velleity.
But it also had (mostly) different admins, and (almost) an entirely different playerbase as well.
TG doesn't exactly have a set in stone vision/mission/goal laid out for much, things are bound to change. Not that its a bad thing, the server clearly is attractive to some people, its not like its dead.
I will say that early Manuel was very much my favorite history for it though.
My experience mirrors this, regrettably.Agux909 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 5:31 pm Yeah this was pretty much the only time I was a regular there, and I would defend it because it was just taking off and it was a good promise for something exciting and different.
Then it never did. Or more like, it took off but never went higher than a few building stories. Eventually the rounds became dull, as antags and non-antags alike became too frightened of doing anything for fear of bwoinks, and put simply: it got unbearably BORING for me.
Everyone was being passively bullied into staying in their lane, and playing job simulator, or doing their objectives in the stealthiest way possible. My skin was contorting itself to go back to a modicum of the chaos, action and player agency I knew the game for when I started playing it.
During all of this, the roleplay? It was okay I guess? people talked some more, sometimes, I guess? They were more polite when coming to request something from me (I usually only played as HoP back then), if they ever did.
But the interesting kind of roleplay that would build up organically and spontaneously to generate truly fascinating scenarios, those most of us crave for in a game like SS13? It just wasn't there, because of this lack of conflict, because of these tighter rules psychologically holding everyone back on a leash. Yeah it definitely didn't pan out to be as what I expected, so I permanently moved to Sybil.
I still remember the time i was a traitor (Old Tot) and had a friend mining with me on icebox.Timberpoes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 8:07 pm
Having friends in SS13 is good. They give you tons of cool ways to kill, betray and otherwise torment other players that would otherwise totally trust you for no good IC reason other than they know you. The best shifts are ones where your friends betray you.
Ha, you are missing the best part of that story. I ate 12 out of 14 bullets you lodged into me. We both calm and collected walked to the pod, sat down. You balled your eyes out and handed me a bag of your plan to borg me. I laughed replied, something about good thing I had nanites for icebox mining and in the middle of me laughing. The 0% blood got me and died on the seat. You weren't aware and continued talking alone for about a minute or so. Easily, one of my favorite memories to recall.Ryusenshu wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:06 pmI still remember the time i was a traitor (Old Tot) and had a friend mining with me on icebox.Timberpoes wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 8:07 pm
Having friends in SS13 is good. They give you tons of cool ways to kill, betray and otherwise torment other players that would otherwise totally trust you for no good IC reason other than they know you. The best shifts are ones where your friends betray you.
He was my Target, and my other objective was research data.
I prepared alot to actually betray them during our mining trip, like an entire surgery pod with tools and a borg body.
Shot them later with a 357 but they actually survived while i ran out of ammo, and even though they later bled out on the escapepod i failed my objective to steal the disk, because i forgot it in the mining station
Was one of my most fun rounds
I always tell my friends to not hold back on me for that reason alone, it makes interesting stuff happen
I think you have the wrong attitude for it.
People can dislike what you did for different reasons than being a part of a metagang you were opposing.sinfulbliss wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:34 pm You were indeed my best ally that entire round. That's why the dchat text was disappointing to see. We were supposed to be besties but your heart was with the kitties..
I had literally killed the cap, HoS, stolen multiple grand theft items for bug objectives, stolen some lizard's eyes before decapitating him (the syndicate must've had it out for that guy), and yet no one batted an eye until I tried to brainwash Marianne Catlay's metafriend. you can't make this stuff up man
rule 12 does not apply to antags on lrp you can do as much anti fun shit as you wantCMDR_Gungnir wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:43 pm Maybe LRP is different, but the goal on MRP (and I'd argue with the existence of Rule 12, it DOES still apply to LRP, too)
Amen. o7blackdav123 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:51 pmrule 12 does not apply to antags on lrp you can do as much anti fun shit as you wantCMDR_Gungnir wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:43 pm Maybe LRP is different, but the goal on MRP (and I'd argue with the existence of Rule 12, it DOES still apply to LRP, too)
Fair enough. I'd still argue that while you're allowed to be a boring Station Depopulation Any% runner, you should still try and make the round more interesting for your presence in it, though. But idk the culture and whether or not you're likely to just get Instant RR'd for having contraband.blackdav123 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:51 pmrule 12 does not apply to antags on lrp you can do as much anti fun shit as you wantCMDR_Gungnir wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:43 pm Maybe LRP is different, but the goal on MRP (and I'd argue with the existence of Rule 12, it DOES still apply to LRP, too)
it really depends on the sec player but I definitely think there has been a recent movement away from executing people just for having contrabandCMDR_Gungnir wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 12:12 amFair enough. I'd still argue that while you're allowed to be a boring Station Depopulation Any% runner, you should still try and make the round more interesting for your presence in it, though. But idk the culture and whether or not you're likely to just get Instant RR'd for having contraband.blackdav123 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:51 pmrule 12 does not apply to antags on lrp you can do as much anti fun shit as you wantCMDR_Gungnir wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:43 pm Maybe LRP is different, but the goal on MRP (and I'd argue with the existence of Rule 12, it DOES still apply to LRP, too)
That's good, then. I've always been kinda interested in seeing what things are like on the LRP side, but I've always been worried by the uhh. Somewhat Win-focused approach I hear about a lot.blackdav123 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 12:24 amit really depends on the sec player but I definitely think there has been a recent movement away from executing people just for having contrabandCMDR_Gungnir wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 12:12 amFair enough. I'd still argue that while you're allowed to be a boring Station Depopulation Any% runner, you should still try and make the round more interesting for your presence in it, though. But idk the culture and whether or not you're likely to just get Instant RR'd for having contraband.blackdav123 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:51 pmrule 12 does not apply to antags on lrp you can do as much anti fun shit as you wantCMDR_Gungnir wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:43 pm Maybe LRP is different, but the goal on MRP (and I'd argue with the existence of Rule 12, it DOES still apply to LRP, too)
most of the sec mains that do this kind of thing dont tend to last long without a secban or permaban