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by TheBibleMelts
Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:21 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: (Thebiblemelts.) Longestarmlonglaw: Noted for being very effective at ordnance rushing
Replies: 7
Views: 1172

Re: (Thebiblemelts.) Longestarmlonglaw: Noted for being very effective at ordnance rushing

i'm going to consider this closed on my end. if you still want a review, i'll leave this open for a day.
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Dec 21, 2024 7:22 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: (Thebiblemelts.) Longestarmlonglaw: Noted for being very effective at ordnance rushing
Replies: 7
Views: 1172

Re: (Thebiblemelts.) Longestarmlonglaw: Noted for being very effective at ordnance rushing

i placed this note due to the sheer frequency you were doing this, and the added fact that another administrator had already spoken to you about it. at the very start of the round as HoS - a round that started with 3 scientists and an RD, including a scientist who was already working on shells and ...
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Dec 03, 2024 12:10 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [rex9001] evafan - blammed again
Replies: 6
Views: 786

Re: [rex9001] evafan - blammed again


BYOND account : evafan

Ban/note type (Server Ban/Discord Ban/Forum Ban/Note): server

Ban/note duration : permanent
Ban/note reason : metagrudging, being a dick and being a bigot. a round after having an altercation with a player proceeded to attack them for no reason in the following round ...
by TheBibleMelts
Thu Nov 21, 2024 3:08 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [TheBibleMelts] MatrixOne - note for cum joke
Replies: 6
Views: 1475

Re: [TheBibleMelts] MatrixOne - note for cum joke

you don't need to puritanize your language, you just have to not make complete non-sequitur jokes that reference something so overtly sexual that they could be construed as an ERP reference to a looker-on. the person you were speaking to didn't set you up for the joke or do anything to indicate they ...
by TheBibleMelts
Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:25 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Roleplay Expectations
Replies: 39
Views: 3223

Re: Roleplay Expectations


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 ...
by TheBibleMelts
Thu Nov 14, 2024 12:42 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Roleplay Expectations
Replies: 39
Views: 3223

Re: Roleplay Expectations


do we let people continue start their shift as though they've just played through 50 wartorn hellscapes and numb the tension and buildup for themselves and others by gamifying things? or do we create a baseline expectation that the events of ss13 are an extreme exception to what is normally a ...
by TheBibleMelts
Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:47 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Roleplay Expectations
Replies: 39
Views: 3223

Re: Roleplay Expectations



i would like a base standard established and maintained for what we're looking for as an overall level of immersion, and by contrast, what dips into metagaming.

metagaming should be a hard line on "your character does not know that." - when in practice it's only used against ghostknowledge ...
by TheBibleMelts
Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:17 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Roleplay Expectations
Replies: 39
Views: 3223

Re: Roleplay Expectations

i would like a base standard established and maintained for what we're looking for as an overall level of immersion, and by contrast, what dips into metagaming.

metagaming should be a hard line on "your character does not know that." - when in practice it's only used against ghostknowledge ...
by TheBibleMelts
Wed Nov 06, 2024 11:59 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Rip trump
Replies: 1014
Views: 264158

Re: Rip trump

aw shit here we go again
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Nov 02, 2024 12:51 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Make walk speed be faster (probably half that of running?)
Replies: 26
Views: 2120

Re: Make walk speed be faster (probably half that of running?)

i like walkspeed where it's at right now. it's good for precision movement, and also dancing in circles around tables while i play a banjo.
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:47 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Does the Mayhem in a Bottle insanity effect count as brainwashing?
Replies: 49
Views: 3123

Re: Does the Mayhem in a Bottle insanity effect count as brainwashing?



without the victims gaining the brainwashed antag datum i can't expect people to intuit it enough to follow the antagonist loyalty flowchart. code issue imo, which i hope is fixed based on this glaring problem with it. correct me if i'm wrong and it does give you the brainwash objective UI ...
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:37 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Does the Mayhem in a Bottle insanity effect count as brainwashing?
Replies: 49
Views: 3123

Re: Does the Mayhem in a Bottle insanity effect count as brainwashing?



without the victims gaining the brainwashed antag datum i can't expect people to intuit it enough to follow the antagonist loyalty flowchart. code issue imo, which i hope is fixed based on this glaring problem with it. correct me if i'm wrong and it does give you the brainwash objective UI ...
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:14 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Does the Mayhem in a Bottle insanity effect count as brainwashing?
Replies: 49
Views: 3123

Re: Does the Mayhem in a Bottle insanity effect count as brainwashing?

without the victims gaining the brainwashed antag datum i can't expect people to intuit it enough to follow the antagonist loyalty flowchart. code issue imo, which i hope is fixed based on this glaring problem with it. correct me if i'm wrong and it does give you the brainwash objective UI button ...
by TheBibleMelts
Wed Oct 23, 2024 2:22 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: damn it's dead
Replies: 509
Views: 28458

Re: damn it's dead

are we comparing registration dates now?
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Oct 19, 2024 11:17 pm
Forum: Closed Complaints
Topic: [NoxVS] poor ruling in case of security ignoring job duties
Replies: 11
Views: 1437

Re: [NoxVS] poor ruling in case of security ignoring job duties

5. Players in vital job roles require a minimum amount of effort.
As a Head of Staff, you should be a reliable worker for your department, and are expected to perform the minimum duties of that role to the best of your ability. As an upside, being THE BOSS allows you to dictate the workflow of your ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sun Oct 13, 2024 8:48 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: damn it's dead
Replies: 509
Views: 28458

Re: damn it's dead

what are you doing, man.
by TheBibleMelts
Wed Sep 25, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: banned for saying gaming word
Replies: 6
Views: 1238

Re: banned for saying gaming word

i'm going to be denying this appeal as it is, and ask that you get some experience on other servers. you can make another appeal whenever you can show some play hours (50-100) on another server.
by TheBibleMelts
Mon Sep 23, 2024 6:56 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: banned for saying gaming word
Replies: 6
Views: 1238

Re: banned for saying gaming word

hey there, could you please include reasons as to why you should be unbanned, what made you do what you did, and your experience with ss13?
by TheBibleMelts
Wed Sep 18, 2024 11:09 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [TheBibleMelts] Watchulookinat gorilla note appeal
Replies: 7
Views: 2033

Re: [TheBibleMelts] Watchulookinat gorilla note appeal

after mulling this over for a few days, i'm just going to remove the note altogether - while i don't want game mechanics to work their way into the regular vernacular in ways that can break immersion for other players, i think if all that's all that is left to note here along with the request to not ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:49 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [TheBibleMelts] Watchulookinat gorilla note appeal
Replies: 7
Views: 2033

Re: [TheBibleMelts] Watchulookinat gorilla note appeal

apologies for the goof formatting in my first reply - going through the attack logs, i think what i saw as you attacking people unprovoked turned out to be me having watched you run into the medbay and attack what looked like several people at random who had turned out to have engaged with you prior ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:40 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [TheBibleMelts] Watchulookinat gorilla note appeal
Replies: 7
Views: 2033

Re: [TheBibleMelts] Watchulookinat gorilla note appeal

hey there thanks for appealing this i had a hard time trying to place where this whole incident felt off and feel like i might have gotten lost in the sauce myself on how i both approached and noted for this first of all i apologize for the inaccurate mentioning of which antagonist you had been ...
by TheBibleMelts
Mon Sep 09, 2024 6:09 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Make Maintenance Scary Again
Replies: 42
Views: 2359

Re: Make Maintenance Scary Again

oh hey it's that thing I mentioned yesterday. totally support. adds tension to the dark tunnels like you're in the wilderness. would reduce the nrp bloodbath on lrp that the main halls and departments devolve into whenever someone feels like depopulating the server, too.

do it. make random bursts ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sun Sep 01, 2024 3:32 am
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [TheBibleMelts] Osmund Mcdonald
Replies: 6
Views: 1061

Re: [TheBibleMelts] Osmund Mcdonald

shape up.

don't be a dick to people for your own enjoyment, and if you do, take your knocks with dignity instead of trying to get your victim into trouble with the admins.

denied.
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Aug 31, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: Roleplay standards
Replies: 7
Views: 873

Re: Roleplay standards

3. This is a sandbox roleplaying server.
Keep IC out of OOC, and OOC out of IC. Your words and actions ingame should be distinguishable as an in-universe character, and not as a person playing a game.
enforce this.
enforce this.
enforce this.
enforce this.
enforce this.
enforce this.
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Aug 31, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: Player's Headmin Election
Topic: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL
Replies: 15
Views: 1732

Re: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL

i've been thinking on the changes to MRP i'd like for a few days, and think ultimately i'd like to settle on them being a simple overlap or modification of the core ruleset rather than an entirely separate thing people have to read, cross reference, and understand.

removing the entire 'roleplay ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sun Aug 25, 2024 4:34 pm
Forum: Player's Headmin Election
Topic: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL
Replies: 15
Views: 1732

Re: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL




I think we agree on points about OOC in IC needing to be more robust and leaving less room for immersion breaking stuff, but I do wonder how you would handle points of disagreement with me as I think maybe we are more diametrically opposed than the other mrp admins running for the election in ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Aug 24, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: Discord .roulette policy
Replies: 9
Views: 852

Re: Discord .roulette policy

bring back roulettes.

ban the admin who lifts them for the same amount of time of the ban they lift.
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Aug 24, 2024 8:10 pm
Forum: Player's Headmin Election
Topic: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL
Replies: 15
Views: 1732

Re: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL


I think we agree on points about OOC in IC needing to be more robust and leaving less room for immersion breaking stuff, but I do wonder how you would handle points of disagreement with me as I think maybe we are more diametrically opposed than the other mrp admins running for the election in ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Aug 24, 2024 7:29 am
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: #coding-general
Replies: 4
Views: 767

Re: #coding-general



i've already stated my stance on this in our moderation channels and i guess i'll repeat it here. if i see people starting a little fire and then taking turns throwing fuel onto it while they blame the other side for making the fire worse, i'm going to come in, piss their fire out, and take away ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Aug 24, 2024 12:26 am
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: #coding-general
Replies: 4
Views: 767

Re: #coding-general

i've already stated my stance on this in our moderation channels and i guess i'll repeat it here. if i see people starting a little fire and then taking turns throwing fuel onto it while they blame the other side for making the fire worse, i'm going to come in, piss their fire out, and take away ...
by TheBibleMelts
Fri Aug 23, 2024 2:46 am
Forum: Player's Headmin Election
Topic: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL
Replies: 15
Views: 1732

Re: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL




i'm looking forward to serving alongside TBM this headmin term as we bring the GOOF 2024 platform to fruition together




i'm going to hit you with a lamp. this is in my campaign thread, and is now a campaign promise.


Endorsed.


https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/119297938093637632 ...
by TheBibleMelts
Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:27 pm
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: Dead server revitalization
Replies: 6
Views: 963

Re: Dead server revitalization

also just like, be cooler to eachother as a community and try to keep people from taking this whole thing less seriously. shit, man.
by TheBibleMelts
Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: Player's Headmin Election
Topic: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL
Replies: 15
Views: 1732

Re: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL

iamgoofball wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:41 pm i'm looking forward to serving alongside TBM this headmin term as we bring the GOOF 2024 platform to fruition together


i'm going to hit you with a lamp. this is in my campaign thread, and is now a campaign promise.
by TheBibleMelts
Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:22 pm
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: Dead server revitalization
Replies: 6
Views: 963

Re: Dead server revitalization

less server bans.

more options to do less punishing penalties like pacifism banning someone or making them only able to select some kind of punishment role for a little bit.
by TheBibleMelts
Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: Hobbies outside of SS13?
Replies: 10
Views: 885

Re: Hobbies outside of SS13?

uh
by TheBibleMelts
Wed Aug 21, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: Nonhuman heads of staff?
Replies: 17
Views: 1758

Re: Nonhuman heads of staff?

job weights based on species could be funny. humans will always win the roundstart rolling for command vs nonhumans, but give nonhumans an edge in other departments.

moths get medbay weight.
plasmemes get engi/atmos weight.
lizards get security/mining weight.
ethereals get science weight.
felinids ...
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Aug 20, 2024 10:36 pm
Forum: Player's Headmin Election
Topic: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL
Replies: 15
Views: 1732

Re: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL

who the hell let these people into my thread
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Aug 20, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: When arguments turn unhealthy
Replies: 6
Views: 894

Re: When arguments turn unhealthy

actually enforce rule 1 on the discord/forums.
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Aug 20, 2024 1:51 am
Forum: Player's Headmin Election
Topic: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL
Replies: 15
Views: 1732

Re: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL


How will you trim down rules, while also making it less of an admin roulette? Rules are already very vague(it seems like they are meant to be) and the roulette is resulting from interpretation from what I see in appeals, with headmin reviews being so common. Will it be a change visible to players ...
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Aug 20, 2024 1:37 am
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: Another brick in the wall
Replies: 11
Views: 1048

Re: Another brick in the wall

looks fantastic, plays worse. the whole thing has been handled as well as a lubed up trashbag full of ferrets.

i'd rather fork before i let the community feel abandoned and voiceless.
by TheBibleMelts
Tue Aug 20, 2024 1:35 am
Forum: Candidate Debates
Topic: Adminbus morale
Replies: 12
Views: 1344

Re: Adminbus morale

admins lawyer when they don't have full context. a situation stripped of nuance can only have an equal void of nuance applied when trying to make a ruling on it. supportmin pings should be as detailed as the most ideal adminhelp - and be posed in as neutral of a way as possible. problems should be ...
by TheBibleMelts
Thu Aug 15, 2024 2:15 am
Forum: Player's Headmin Election
Topic: Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL
Replies: 15
Views: 1732

Bible 2: THE SQUEAKQUEL

GREENTIDE WORLDWIDE

https://i.imgur.com/2hpxUfU.gif

what is it

i am still known formally as jonathan "xemo" thebiblemelts, prior serving headmin and ageless spectre that has haunted /tg/ for millenia. i like running events, making wild shit happen to people ingame, and shitposting in our ...
by TheBibleMelts
Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:44 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Stop allowing appeals for ?roulette timeouts
Replies: 10
Views: 931

Re: Stop allowing appeals for ?roulette timeouts

appeals should go through oranges, as I said in the appeal thread that inspired him to remove the bot entirely.
by TheBibleMelts
Sun Aug 04, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Rule 3/"OOC in IC" enforcement guidelines?
Replies: 21
Views: 1840

Re: Rule 3/"OOC in IC" enforcement guidelines?


Good sentiments reflected by our headmins and ex-headmins, but its very difficult to argue that our current rules reflect this. An amendment is necessary.


i've been thinking on if an amendment would be necessary at all for this vs just a stern reminder of the standard we would like to the team ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sun Aug 04, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Rule 3/"OOC in IC" enforcement guidelines?
Replies: 21
Views: 1840

Re: Rule 3/"OOC in IC" enforcement guidelines?

the way this has been historically seen and enforced was to push the spirit and idea of immersion. you should not be doing things that take other, more immersed people out of their spacemans just because you do not take the in-character aspect of ss13 as seriously - there are others servers that ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sun Jul 28, 2024 6:55 pm
Forum: Resolved Appeals
Topic: [TheBibleMelts] Cillian69 - I didn't hurt nobody!
Replies: 1
Views: 1014

Re: [TheBibleMelts] Cillian69 - I didn't hurt nobody!

hey, thanks for appealing. part of why this was a perma was that you were offline by the time i was addressing it, and wanted to hear an explanation to what would possess somebody to post an IRL porn website over a command console.

just to address the things that fed into this - rule 8. 8. Erotic ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Jul 20, 2024 9:09 pm
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications
Replies: 31
Views: 2450

Re: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications



is against the rules and reportable per this headmin ruling: https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=85&t=34985&p=705301#p705301


Is it? Is TBM agreeing with Fikou or Chesh? I can't even tell what the ruling is meant to be.

we thought that a strict policy in the rules about it would ...
by TheBibleMelts
Sat Jul 20, 2024 12:28 am
Forum: Closed Policy Discussion
Topic: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications
Replies: 31
Views: 2450

Re: Arrests, Implantations, and Further Metaprotection Clarifications

you should be allowed to resist a wordless mindshield on the basis of it being a gross violation of your being - once it's in, whatever, but if i'm given no reason for someone trying to stick a chip into my brain they're catching hands. if i know it's revs or cult, sure, i get why they'd be doing it ...