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- Mon Nov 27, 2017 6:58 am
- Forum: Coding Feedback
- Topic: Virology Healing Nerfs
- Replies: 42
- Views: 8388
Re: Virology Healing Nerfs
The pod people weaknesses to plant killer and somatoray are super deadly if you know to use them. Also for station staff to become them they basically need to be at someone else's mercy in the tray. Pod people make no part of any sane powergamer's strategy. It's nice to be one it's not worth dying o...
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 10:27 pm
- Forum: Coding Feedback
- Topic: Circuits
- Replies: 87
- Views: 23388
Re: Circuits
Local secborg removal pull maker in favour of circuits.
Because near indestructible robots that shoot everyone are fine if he makes em.
I would honestly prefer they had hands and were unable to use guns.
Because near indestructible robots that shoot everyone are fine if he makes em.
I would honestly prefer they had hands and were unable to use guns.
- Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:24 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
if nbn is your idea of gotcha incomp gov dum n bad like u wanted
it's gov owned but they made it an nbn corporation that runs itself so technically i can still slag it for being a corporation.
it's gov owned but they made it an nbn corporation that runs itself so technically i can still slag it for being a corporation.
- Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:56 am
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Thanks to EA, regulators have begun to look at loot boxes
- Replies: 112
- Views: 27355
Re: Thanks to EA, regulators have begun to look at loot boxe
I'm probably more forgiving of stellaris cosmetic DLC because you basically see the shipset you bought all game the little dudes you devote time to managing are the portraits you bought, shows in diplomacy etc. Also the random sandbox game sees to it that you have a chance of seeing any of them near...
- Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:45 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
For most sensible democracies you can vote minor parties to replace or at least scare major parties.
In America you get to choose the lube flavour.
In America you get to choose the lube flavour.
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:20 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
We handed them a monopoly but laws were latter introduced to force them to let other ISPs buy capacity on their network and resell it. The response was to do no maintenance or network expansion on their own dime. Not that they had any reason to do so anyway shitty adsl plans are priced about the sam...
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:44 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Thanks to EA, regulators have begun to look at loot boxes
- Replies: 112
- Views: 27355
Re: Thanks to EA, regulators have begun to look at loot boxe
The fps games are among those breaking trust on their DLC with day 1 bullshit. My first paradox game was CKII but I am much keener on stellaris. I agree the old dlc model elevated to paradox near meme levels makes more money for them, gives incentives for continued support and breeds customer loyalt...
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:24 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Thanks to EA, regulators have begun to look at loot boxes
- Replies: 112
- Views: 27355
Re: Thanks to EA, regulators have begun to look at loot boxe
Problem with depending on the action of the people is they will just slyly wait until scandal died down.
Then quietly bring it back again.
Then quietly bring it back again.
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 9:17 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
As for the market deciding the large ISPs in America are widely reviled anyway and well known for having low customer satisfaction. However they persist in spite of this. How unusual HMMM I wonder why the customers are not voting with their feet and the invisible hand is not rectifying things what a...
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:45 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Corporations would love to rule our lives with a gilded fist. One of the best parts about democratic government is it is full of incompetent fools. That's why I trust democracy because we elect unsuited fuck ups giving us wriggle room to be actually free. >the current state of nbn is, in the big pi...
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:45 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Corporations would love to rule our lives with a gilded fist.
One of the best parts about democratic government is it is full of incompetent fools.
That's why I trust democracy because we elect unsuited fuck ups giving us wriggle room to be actually free.
One of the best parts about democratic government is it is full of incompetent fools.
That's why I trust democracy because we elect unsuited fuck ups giving us wriggle room to be actually free.
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:40 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Orville thread
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15706
Re: Orville thread
After an initial airing on ballsack Ruppert's shitty foxtell there are no reruns of orville as far as I can tell in Aus. Smooth moves ballsack murdoch time to ACQUIRE LEGITIMATELY. Edit: holy fucking shit sjw muppet reviewers bombing ep 3 in shitty reviews is hilarious doesn't matter that pretty muc...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:41 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: wurm unlimited: wurm online for impatient people
- Replies: 362
- Views: 96108
Re: wurm unlimited: wurm online for impatient people
I thought a big temple or something to evil was at the black stringer
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 3:37 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
so corporations will do anything to make the slightest buck, we should depend on them doing the most foul insidious shit they can get away with under the nose a ""free"" corporate press that invests less in investigation every year good corporations who follow the law act morally...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 2:26 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
You plainly don't mean a thing you are saying because that shit happens all the fucking time short of the food poisoning. Probably because that would count as manslaughter or something and they would get done under criminal law. The line about communism being against human nature? It has a flip side...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:31 pm
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: Gun safeties
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3023
Re: Gun safeties
Nah safety off should give it a chance to go off in your bag. So carry a few safety guns in armour storage or belt or whatever okay you might not fuck up. A bag of jostling no safety pew pew? Yeah that sounds very dangerous. Also one boy with the whole armoury in their satchel can deal with a little...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:25 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: wurm unlimited: wurm online for impatient people
- Replies: 362
- Views: 96108
Re: wurm unlimited: wurm online for impatient people
Just claim it was intentional to make it face the black beam.
We like the ink jet shooting into the sky right?
We like the ink jet shooting into the sky right?
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 1:22 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Yeah I hope they deregulate the FDA next so you can be what you eat.
Full of shit.
Oh that covers the ironic posting possibility too, thought I wouldn't get around that conundrum
Full of shit.
Oh that covers the ironic posting possibility too, thought I wouldn't get around that conundrum
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:45 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Funnily enough it is Telstra. Oh yeah telstra does no maintenance nor did they build their shit. They got privatised and went straight to just milking the network while it slowly rotted around them. John Howard whose government did it was a fucker but hey guess you need to pay for corporate welfare...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:59 am
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: Convert stock market computers from nanoui to tgui
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1719
Re: Convert stock market computers from nanoui to tgui
mmm that tgui blank white window maybe we can get it to blank out every time it updates
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:33 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Well sounds like a niche case and knowing the ISP name would help out. It could very well be the case they refuse to maintain or expand there holdings explicitly because they can't monopolise like with telstra and everything they were given after we privatised their worthless ass. I know there is th...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:42 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Australia doesn't have net neutrality laws. However Aus has the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission which is much stronger than any American consumer protections and Aus consumers actually have a choice because monopolising shit where you put cables (probably did a shit job too) isn't all...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:10 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The age of the roastie is over
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2618
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:03 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Revolting husk impersonating a person Ajit Pai plans to make its move in december along with the smoking ruins of the FCC and probably forbid state level net neutrality rules in the process.
- Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:03 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: Duelyst
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3336
Re: Duelyst
Last I looked into it the fuckers that bought them out started doing the fairy coin bought currency bullshit to make sure the money you put in to buy shit never fully got used up to keep you rolling them packs like a schlub.
Not sure if it deserves any play now.
Not sure if it deserves any play now.
- Thu Nov 16, 2017 2:25 am
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
dimentio would not face me in a 1v1 with him as a grey shirt and me as a secborg in the thunderdome Ah the can't beat it while naked argument has grown to involve facing it in a vast open shooting range. DEEPLY insightful I am completely swayed now let's rig the bridge to self destruct if I knock o...
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:48 pm
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
dimentio would not face me in a 1v1 with him as a grey shirt and me as a secborg in the thunderdome Ah the can't beat it while naked argument has grown to involve facing it in a vast open shooting range. DEEPLY insightful I am completely swayed now let's rig the bridge to self destruct if I knock o...
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:44 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Not libertarian no but meant to be the old definition of liberal yes. Both of the two major parties are very centrist except on issues concerning their donor's desires and illegal immigration which is close to universally unpopular because the required ocean crossing to get here is pretty suicidal i...
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:12 am
- Forum: Former Admins
- Topic: [No Longer Admin] Stickymayhem
- Replies: 329
- Views: 121507
Re: Stickymayhem
all the chefs gonna get banned
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:07 am
- Forum: Coding Feedback
- Topic: LOUD NOISES
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4567
Re: LOUD NOISES
Oh that explains all the times I hear combat sounds then search the area around me to find absolutely nothing there.
Fucking annoying even as an antag hunting officer. Definitely not a mechanic to be proud of spin fruit.
Fucking annoying even as an antag hunting officer. Definitely not a mechanic to be proud of spin fruit.
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:49 am
- Forum: Coding Feedback
- Topic: >xrays now only hit one mob
- Replies: 83
- Views: 19510
Re: >xrays now only hit one mob
I've heard blob is performing poorly even as a side antag (probably especially due to RND allergy) and the one time I saw it last week just one charger, just armoury lasers and few civilians was enough to take one down. We were being hella sloppy too. Not even sure anti blob RND shit is needed any m...
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:32 am
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Killing borgs for following laws
- Replies: 165
- Views: 39930
Re: Killing borgs for following laws
If you can't lock them down you have to kill them. You could hypothetically contain non engineering borgs with a flash and a bit of door hacking to cut the access wire but with secborg on the way out the engineering module is going to return to super dominance. SEC N AI PLAY NICE WIT EACH UDDER poli...
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:14 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2k17 /pol/
- Replies: 4061
- Views: 844728
Re: 2k17 /pol/
Well in Australia the same sex marriage postal survey plebiscite came back 62% yes winning basically as expected. Public had been majority in favour of queens in wedding dresses for basically a decade the whole thing was a monstrous waste of money. Basically just a stalling measure because the hardl...
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:32 am
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
= Haven't been playing anywhere near as much lately. I still love the game but I decided to take a semi-hiatus, I show up maybe once or twice a week. I think I've played a handful of rounds during the secborg test but haven't run into any by coincidence. Not all bans are appealed so that's not real...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:41 pm
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
You work with what's available and I asked them to come forward first.CosmicScientist wrote:Ban appeals are not representative of bans.
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:51 am
- Forum: Coding Feedback
- Topic: Wizard Scaling
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6734
Re: Wizard Scaling
As long as everyone there is random appearance should be possible to watch it.
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:27 am
- Forum: Coding Feedback
- Topic: Wizard Scaling
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6734
Re: Wizard Scaling
A self running thunderdome for antag combat practice would be good in general if it could run itself admin free and never use much resources or touch the round proper.
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:23 am
- Forum: Coding Feedback
- Topic: Wizard Scaling
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6734
Re: Wizard Scaling
The only solution to push over wizards screwing the balance is more wizard experience. Which would require an absurdly high round percentage to develop due to the single slotted nature. Wiz scaling would probably just lead to powergaming vets taking even more brutalist bare bones builds and boring/i...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:11 am
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: Decentralize Research
- Replies: 86
- Views: 19766
Re: Decentralize Research
Engineering has always been stronger than any other department. They start out best equipped to cause a hostile environment and avoid hazards and other players. They can choose when to pull the plug on the station if not the round from the beginning and that never changes. In an atmos simulation a s...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:45 am
- Forum: Ideas
- Topic: Decentralize Research
- Replies: 86
- Views: 19766
Re: Decentralize Research
Sounds like a good idea in part provides conflicting options for an atmos traitor. No point flooding if you are going to blast holes to space no point blowing shit up if everyone is already on fire so they choose. Of course enforces engineering's role as the most powerful and versatile department on...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:41 am
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
Ah just thought you might chalk up a few in secborg week in particular for some reason.
I did look through ban appeals after making that post but I only found one silicon ban appeal to your name.
I did look through ban appeals after making that post but I only found one silicon ban appeal to your name.
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:46 am
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
Hey pkp you were always big on how silicons are terrible rule breakers to a can and admins never enforced policy on them.
Now you are an admin where are the scalps?
Now you are an admin where are the scalps?
- Sat Nov 11, 2017 2:17 pm
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
I would really like to see a simple total of silicon bans during the test and a total of bans overall for same period. Since the spin is always silicon policy breakin every round those silicon players are simply keraazy! I mean how do we even have anyone left playing borg at all? It really boggles m...
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:14 am
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
Why is breaking silicon policy worse than breaking regular server rules which people do all the time? I mean it is easier to spot usually but other than that. People are really shit man. The people with the infinite ammo guns are pretty shit if they let you melee them, that is true. ^I repeat this m...
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:22 am
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
My bad on that count.
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:40 pm
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
Well that makes him the one person who doesn't like secborgs willing to nerf them instead of losing his shit like they are eldritch horrors.
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 10:38 pm
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
It's typically a bad idea to let someone be above server policy change server policy at the same time.
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:38 pm
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
I would just like to comment on ridiculous coder misconduct caused by one week of re-enabled cyborgs. We can't allow Anonmare's straight secborg nerf because even though we will still use the module as a staff of change result weakening it might make it stay around and that just cannot be tolerated ...
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 9:03 pm
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
I haven't played secborgs since they were put back in so how bad I am at the game or not doesn't factor into how I think about them.
Been killed by them but hey some people don't flip out about that.
Been killed by them but hey some people don't flip out about that.
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:53 pm
- Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
- Topic: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from config.
- Replies: 229
- Views: 44305
Re: Disallow admins to make secborgs & remove them from conf
If you get killed as a secborg. You suck. Uninstall the game. Fixed, now delete byond you weak trashbag. Emp goes through walls. If you have run out of walls behind which to emp the big scawwy perfect life forms at literally zero personal risk you have bigger problems, somebody blew up the station.