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Blitzarde has retired.

Shame we couldn't keep ya! Vekter has retired.

I will miss you. Higgin has retired.

Higgin and Vekter have retired. Thank you for your hard work on the team, hope to have you back again some day in the future.

DataXpunged has been promoted!

DataXpunged lowers their shades, powerglove shimmering and hissing with ELECTRICITY! The screen flares with activity as they spam out keypresses, and then, it's done... They're in. DataXpunged has been promoted to Game Admin!

A star admin and stalwart coder, but letting the reins of admin go for the time. Fikou has retired.

Fikou has retired.

Dendydoom has retired.

I don’t care about the word much so long as people aren’t using it derogatorily, so much as the type of person to use it is the type of person who is antithetical to what I love in TG. I really don’t see a reason to keep it except to try and high horse about free speech, but really, I’ve never been ...

It's especially pertinent, I think, that our admins would 100% action it if it became clear someone was calling people "DIRTY OLD TRIGGERS!" or something ridiculous like that. The intent is clear. The issue is clear. Time to put it to bed.

I've never ever seen it used in an interesting way. Never. I don't see any reason to keep the ruling while MSO is letting go of his role as host.

I feel as though at this rate, especially with the host handover, I'd like to put forward the idea of making "Ligger" a totally banned word equatable to use of any other derogatory slur. It's beyond antiquated, and honestly, there's ZERO sovl in it like anything else in the Good Book of Old SS13.

Dendydoom has retired.

Randy Highlands/thatcoolguydevin was a goddamn Space Hero. Greatest Sec main I’ve ever had the privilege to know, with a heart of gold, a robust hand, and the willingness to play out a bit with even the most heavily armed antag as long as they demonstrated they were willing to play ball right back ...

'twas the night before Secmas, and all through Command...

For real, though, please have some empathy for your fellow player. This has been a consistent issue with you for months in which you do not consider the fact that you are playing a Video Game with other Real Life People that can have their ...

I regret to inform you that i can do this already with my eyes and everyone being appalling at utilizing code words.

I’m soooo good at utilizing codewords that not even my fellow traitors realize that I’m using them (hasn’t had someone respond with the proper counter response in 900 years)

On ...

Non-issue. Chat highlights just allow less observant players to have their attention called to things that need their attention— if your character is, by code, perceptive enough to see an emag stuffed in a bag, then that’s kosher by me. Change the code if you think an attention grabbing highlight ...

My apologies, but all three headmins have agreed to uphold this note. TTS rules would be unnecessary bloat to add to what is already represented by Rule 3: This is a sandbox roleplaying server.

This is not an MRP rule, but a global one. Moreover, this is a note— it only has relevance if you do not ...

Technical issues were never really the issue- because ultimately when you abuse TTS it degrades the roleplaying experience of the game, as Maxi says. If you scream "AAAAAAA!" when you see John Esword in maints, that's an okay use of TTS. If you walk the halls going AAA,AAA,AAA! because it's funny ...

This is where policy and admin discretion create a line in the sand— policy says you’re not gonna get bwoinked, but may be susceptible to IC consequences. Admin discretion says the Security Officers are allowed so long as it doesn’t cross into Rule 1/Grief which id argue silent batong confiscation ...

and so ends the saga of the farewell MSO forum thread . . . not with quiet applause, but a bang and a lock.

In policy terms, you are allowed dangerous items within your workplace. Unless you are growing weapons with intent to bring them out and validhunt, you are allowed nettles in Botany the same as MD’s are allowed to carry circular saws. From an IC perspective, I’d say guncargo is an apt comparison. If ...

I believe part of the policy.json/flavor text says something along the lines of not endangering the body. Succumbing is not mechanical suicide, so it’s not the worst thing you could do, but if medical help is on the way it’s a dick move to the original owner of the body.

I would try and make sure ...

My worry is that new AI's are often used as a weapon to no-sell kill the original AI, and the original AI has no way to fight back against this if they don't take pre-emptive action either by killing the new AI or having a borg snip their APC's wires for AI control at roundstart. Feels like a Catch ...

Due to overwhelming community response and absolutely zero interest I’ve noted from my fellow headmins, I will be closing this with a no-change result. ASCII emoticons are still ock-ick and actionable as usual, with admins as always free to rule zero the really funny ones. Use at your own risk!

Another big issue with allowing extreme hypotheticals like this to fly without justification via set concrete goal is that it can put the sportsmanship of the game into jeopardy. We are at our core a bunch of folks playing together to create a story— and I think it’d be a shitty book if the corrupt ...

I poked around before but the closest thing to a pop up is the admin messages we leave when we do things like noting without the user present, and that’s explicitly an administration thing. MOTD’s the closest we got unless Timber’s got some crazy+ alternative I don’t know about

I think as a MOTD it’d be neat but not very consequential. Loads clueless from my Nonhumand Heads event despite yappaholics anonymous tier MOTD. If we wanted to do this in significant fashion it’d take like, mandating it. I’m not a huge fan of mandating it, but it’s a neat idea.

I think I said as much on the PR adding granularity to the config for drones, but I believe we can now handle the administrative issues this could cause. Ghostrole bans can be doled out to those who fail to comply with their laws, and seeing a slow rise of genuine law-abiding drones on Manuel, I'm ...

As much as I appreciate bringing up the fun topic of impersonating to leverage the sort of OOC salid mentality as a weapon when valid, I don’t think it changes much ultimately for the reasons Dendy’s given.

The most success I’ve had with impersonation was getting implant research and printing some ...

After the work that Timberpoes has done, I think our threat levels are more or less right in the sweet spot we intended. We've liked what we've seen from the Dynamic changes and so I'll close this thread out.

While we understand and I empathize with the concerns about this, we do not think it is healthy for the game to have yet another immutable "always salid" force in the game. You should not be able to trust your boss from the get just because the metagame tells us so. I do, however, think that the ...

-emotionally manipulative snip-

Friendly reminder that saying post-hoc "It was a joke, jeez, how did you not get that?" when pressed on something that isn't on it's face, interpreted as such, is emotionally manipulative behavior.

I can understand this point of view much more so when it’s ...

Yeah, naw, I do hope folks picked up on the sarcasm because it would be kinda horrific to play with in reality. As a thought experiment, though, it’s a neat idea. Something like a remote access wipe would be neat too but also would probably just be used when someone started antagging and would ...

Adding three people to a "DO NOT ROLL" shitlist is so mean girls but also funny as hell. I can foresee absolutely nothing going wrong ever with this.

Right, time to get down to brass tacks!

Your ban from the Player's Club is, yes, for calling someone a wretch— but ultimately the purpose of it lies a little higher than that. To put it as Timberpoes put it, you've exhausted this Headmin term's goodwill.

During your appeals, you seemed to be more ...

Howdy! I’m at work right now. I’ll make a proper writeup when I’m at home.

<r>Hello again, Sacko!<br/>
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My apologies, but we're going to be denying your appeal more officially. Normally, in situations like this, a jump from a note to a permaban is rather unjustified— and I can understand the frustration! In your prior <URL url="https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic ...

It is a lot of pure violence, but personally I’ve found lots of success and enjoyment playing Skub-Neutral and interviewing skub lovers and haters and documenting them like nature wildlife. I remember particularly a round as a CC inspector where I took 900 pictures to document it to CC and it was ...

>as long as it’s accepted as the rare exception and not the rule

My exact thoughts. If we put down policy allowing it, it’ll be used every damn round until the end of time and it’ll have lost the magic by the third. Admins are already free to make Rule 0 exceptions as per their discretion— if you ...

Firing off the hip, I’ve always thought of this one as a greatly relaxed escalation sort of roleplay thing. We definitely should allow people to turf war it up with crew conflict on Skub rounds, but as put on the table before, I don’t want round removals or bystanders who left it on random without ...

On the subject of being the Captain and having people respect your orders/the chain of command— part of the equation is and always will be how the commanding officer chooses to present themselves throughout the shift. Egregious (and mostly lethal) mutinies are actioned quite easily, but situations ...

Abritishfox opens a nondescript box, finding an old dusty tome. Reading out an incantation within, harsh runes flash around them, binding them to /tg/... as a Trial Admin! Oh, the horror!

I think that bearing some scars from prior shifts and carrying some persistence in events is okay, but using that to act super jaded and unsurprised by anything fails to impress me. The way I've always handled it is by referring to past shifts in a very vague way, and lampshading it by referring to ...

Hello chat. It’s that Time again.

I’d like to hear and discuss the community’s expectations of roleplay, on each level. What do you believe the definition is, and what would you like to see?

If this thread is to make any policy changes, it will hopefully just be clarifying what our expectations ...

DataXpunged opens the door to their room, left slightly ajar. A bucket of paint falls, covering them in pink purple?! Thusly, they are promoted to Trial Admin to match!

200% free. I manually clicked like 30+ buttons because the game was still counting the old ban, too. I’ll close this in another day unless there’s further issues!

It’s a very good shitpost but sadly due to consistent outages I can’t do it.

You have been FREED!

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