Lady_of_Ravens

Let the horror and outrage at the idea of people HAVING POTENTIALLY SEXY CLOTHING begin. I mean, seriously, just imagine all those lesbians in lesbay with their floor length blue hair and their snowflake backstories and their ERPing, getting stockings. IMAGINE IT UNTIL YOUR HEAD EXPLODES!!!

Oh, yes, post more please! Also, is it bad if I like both types of pictures?

The only two Syions I've really RPed with are Tyrone and, to a much lesser degree, Mark. Mark seems robust and dangerous... the sort of person you take care not to point at anyone's face unless you want a stern lecture on firearm safety. Tyrone is competent, which forgives a lot, but still dangerously volatile. May be curable with a round of surgical castration followed by a memory wipe to protect everyone involved.

Yeah, I've been confused by this before, too. Very annoying. It should be changed.

Oh yes please. It's absurd to call it "escape", and "departures" is much, much better.

Green is the color of plants and growing things and *sob* sometimes sputum. Oh, the horror! Though... uh... I guess I'm thankful it's not brown! XD

They already have sockets, so... Vaurca crossover cable?

If we're going to make a VR system, it should probably be a VR system that everyone can enjoy, not just the occasional dead bug. Both because a VR area with noone else in it would be kinda boring (and how often are there going to be two dead Vaurca with properly salvaged brains who haven't been given new bodies yet?), and because then it would be something that's worth spending the time to do really well.

An antag captain could make for an actual not-code-driven mutiny, which might be interesting. But, regardless, if loyalty implants are removed then perhaps a general mind control implant could be used in place of the loyalty implants for sticking in antags and miscreants. Perhaps with one directive which has to be set before implanting. A new thread might be useful...

We are extremely impressed with the progress of the LES-COM project thus far, Commander. Your recent results have been beyond our expectations, and that is not a statement this Council makes lightly. Remember, we will be watching. Facepalm and hold.

So, would we want to have actual traitor heads of security and captains, too? That seems like something which should be very rare, but could be interesting. On the other hand, implanting mind control devices in it's employees is a very NT thing to do.

Actually, they do serve one purpose: they guarantee the loyalty of the people they're implanted in. That can be significant when there's evidence of a traitor on the station, but you don't know who it is. I'm not sure if that's worth having them around, but it is something they do.

Look again, she totally has a nose. It's just extra-cute (by which I mean extra small).

Pods are clunky and cumbersome to move around. A pressurizable and lockable bag would be much more practical (and realistically escapable given sufficient alone time). Deploy the bag, attach an air tank, and stuff some poor bastard in. Causally mock his claustrophobia while sealing it up and then drag the whole thrashing, screaming bundle out through space. Bonus points if it smells like urine and vomit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbA9BhCTko It's not pain, it's just joy your brain isn't interpreting correctly.

When I play the AI I try to announce the return of gravity a little before it happens for pretty much the reasons listed, but having it occur automatically and precisely would be a lot more reliable.

This would be very handy. Keeping copies of scans is common practice and having to take the time to label them properly just increases the chances of it not being done. Also, surgeons really, really want these body scans. Seriously, unless someone is dying too fast for a scan, they shouldn't go into surgery without one.

Removing the ability to talk into a headset while weakened or cuffed makes total sense... knocked down, however, not so much. Losing a leg is already crippling to the point where you can't crawl or hold items, no reason to make it make you radio silent as well. I also wouldn't remove the ability for someone with no hands to use their radio... it's not unrealistic to press a "transmit" button with something other than a finger tip if you really need to.

While I approve of the goal (reducing meta), this is a clumsy and inelegant way to modify the voting system. There was a thread not so terribly long ago (pardon my not finding the link, but I'm simply too sick and lazy right now) suggesting randomly selecting a round type weighted by the votes and then simply not informing the players what the round type is. This would have the same effect of reducing meta, but without removing the ability for the players to vote for a specific desired round type.

LiLITH has done a few of those canonically, more when you include antags, and pretty much every one at some point in her background. As for the incident with the crazy borg... there was a lot of going on that round as LiLITH prioritized other things than a borg that seemed to be keeping itself amused fairly efficiently. Besides, it made for a truly awesome ambiance. XD

It's not that the radiation may cause long term damage, though that may be a thing, or that you might cronenberg yourself on accident... self-testing is just plain bad scientific practice. That's not lore, that's just reality. Understand the problem isn't that people hate geneticists, the problem is that the way genetics works right now makes very little sense.

OMG yes please! Self-testing is just plain bad practice... testing on assistants is much better.

How can this possibly be a new/undecided legal issue when MMIs have been around for, literally, centuries? Yes, AIs are new, and shells that look like people might be new (though that's a stretch), but they were putting brains in jars back when humanity was first colonizing mars. A certain amount of non-legal discrimination makes sense, particularly with certain people being afraid and resentful of robots, but considering them legally subhuman for hundreds of years would require a willingness to ignore the basic humanity of people who retain all their mental faculties, eloquence, and humanness, beyond what's generally found in an egalitarian society. Also, fun fact: animals are sentient. No, really, look it up. They are. The word everyone is looking for here is "sapient".

Is LiLITH going to become the next Dr. Mengele except for people who breach corporate regulations? "You failed to fill out forms to build a mech. Now... Into the DNA scanned with you." Tehehe... LiLITH has forcibly performed exploratory surgery on her staff before. Though I don't think it's canonical because the victim turned out to be a potato.

Biological experiments on prisoners? Oh, no, we'd never do anything like that...