Resilynn

I’m a big fan of your take on the Federation’s relationship to its media here. A couple of questions to buy myself time before I inevitably accept this, no wrong answers- amongst the many trends in skrell pop culture is an appreciation for human music- particularly classical and orchestral music. How does your froggo feel about it? How does your froggo react when someone asks for his autograph, on the off chance they recognize him?

This was wholesome, thank you.

I was asked to post this since brainos is at work right now to clear up any confusion about the whole “This was posted with brainos’ blessing” claim on github Wowzee said since he didn’t mean literally, but again, I was asked to post this so *shrug*.

Fortunately, I don't think it's your approval that matters here. If you can erase our work and put in your own sprite, I SURE can do the same if the community likes our sprite better.

Earlier this month BRAINOS and I designed a new hypospray to replace the old ones, for two reasons. 1, the old hyposprays looked like welders. 2, the CMO hypospray and regular hyposprays were still identical, which is silly considering the CMO hypospray holds more and injects quicker. These were the sprites BRAINOS made. The doctor hypospray is smaller with a longer trigger for a smaller capacity and slower injection. The CMO hypospray is larger with a smaller trigger for a higher capacity and a faster injection. Both are branded on the side with the Zeng-hu logo, reflecting the shift in our lore to a more cooperative corporate setting, since Zeng-hu makes the best medical tech. Less than a week later someone decided they didn't like them and did their own hypo. I don't think they did two separate ones to reflect the difference, but I haven't played since the change. This is the sprite I've seen for that. I'll let the creator of this sprite explain their design process. Anyway, since there's a conflict in whose sprite should be used because of some misleading information on github regarding BRAINOS and my involvement in the design of the second sprite, weeeee are putting it to a vote. So, thoughts. Which hypospray do we prefer? Would be prefer another all together? For a side by side comparison:

I like knowing I am second always to N/A. All praise.

I want to clarify about that warning for not properly escalating. I assume that’s when you killed me. You were ahelped by three different people from that, from what I gathered from ghost chat, not because I was mad that I died but because I had literally not even seen your character yet that round, let alone spoken to him or done anything, and you came up and dominated a surgeon into decapitating me while I was out on a surgical table. It went from no interaction to murder while I was only semi-conscious and completely unable to move. You didn’t even interact with the surgeon you had kill me beyond the dominate. Please don’t dismiss this kind of murder boning as people just getting salty that they died.

Hi. Why would science need to be easily identifiable? I’ve worked at actual remote research facilities. No one was identifiable except by ID and PPE- the cooks wore hairnets while they were working I GUESS. Here, I think I even have pictures from work AT that research station of me and my coworkers absolutely not in any identifiable uniform because why? Security needs to be in uniform. Medical needs to have proper PPE. Anyone else, you’re just taking away freedom over character creation for the sake of ‘realism’, except I assume it’s realism based on entry level positions instead of what actual adults wear at actual jobs that require degrees.

We need to code on glitter so people randomly get glitterbombed.

-1. We need you in ccia. >:c

10/10.

I will be denying this. You have a recent history of some fairly negative interactions on the server on record with staff. Both moderators and members of the lore team have pointed out you have a number of recent entries. Feel free to reapply in the future.

Alright, enough is enough. I was hoping to get 3 pieces of feedback here, since I was barely playing at this time and hadn't seen you in character. I've seen you around a bit since, and I see that you're trying very hard to get feedback to no avail. Your questions are all answered well, and the sheer fact that you're still putting in this much effort after 20 days is frankly amazing. Welcome to frogs, my friend.

Scrubbers take you from being some guy hanging out to crit in 45 seconds because of plant-b-gone. We’ve started just a helping for rejuvs because they’re usually dead before they get to medical and very rarely survive even if they do get there in time.

I try not to respond to DMs during an active complaint.

This complaint was posted as we were having a discussion on what consequences the character should face for the murder. I even specified immediately that the character may not be removed as a result, but the player had qualms about being a primary suspect, so I said a complaint would allow for a more thorough review of the event and the actions that occurred in it. The logs of that conversation are posted here- I hope this clears up questions about the options I gave the player. An FIB arrest on or off station, according to the preference of the character, was exactly what I was discussing. No agreement to permanently remove the character was ever come to, nor did I say I would be permanently removing the character- that was to be had in another discussion with admins and mofo to be held after we agreed whether the character would be arrested at all. For the record, I do believe the character should be removed as a result of the actions. The PDA logs were worse than I remembered. But in terms of the conversation this complaint is about, we were still just talking about an arrest.

The Tups were mostly polite the first few events. The ‘Glorsh maybe had a plan’ thing is not necessarily true. It’s what Lyrii and what her rebel scientists believe. It’s a remnant of the other path the crew could take, where the crew aligns itself with the federation and the scientists are terrorists.

Every time I’ve talked to you about your behavior outside of these posts you’ve gone off on me. You’ve called me a cunt. You’ve called me retarded. You never apologized. You don’t take feedback, you create conflict if anyone tries. The issue has never been your characters and has always been your OOC attitude.

A secret resistance against the jargon federation was unveiled as the station discovered that the federation was a totalitarian regime. A scientist hid his skrell made AI on the asteroid, the following 2 months were plagued by random visits from federation peacekeepers which were increasingly violent. Ultimately the federation was forced to try to destroy the station to destroy the AI, but the AI was bluespaced off the station. I named Lyrii, the AI, after one of my favorite book characters, who herself was named after a constellation. The rest of the inspiration is really every story ever about a ragtag group of rebels against a totalitarian regime. I tried to keep a distinct void of morals from the story. I wanted both sides to have a point- on the resistance’s end, censorship is bad, research shouldn’t be censored, mind control and dream police are fucking crazy. On the federation’s side, AI has almost killed their species, these idiot scientists may have fucked up all of their written history, and making an AI DESIGNED to be a singularity after the third incident is fucking crazy. Resistance lore will be coming out over the next few days, along with a bit of technology as the federation has to pay for what they did.

It’s exactly what it says it is! Questions? Comments? The good, the bad? Let us have ‘em.

He has also still been complaining about gimmicks in ooc, which is just. Not polite. He has also still been using abusive language, including calling women cunts. He has been enough of a problem in terms of his attitude and how he talks to people that I beliiieeeve he has a recent discord ban? Admins have logs and evidence for all of this, it’s been documented.

Why is any of this in general where it is largely unactionable? I mean, I understand that the reason is that none of this adds up to enough for a staff complaint or player complaint and that the previous complaints were/will be (rightfully) dismissed, and I understand that the reason is that this topic in general opens up arguments and rumors and conflict which, by our established rules, cannot be regulated nearly as strictly as formal complaints. But since this is in general, meaning, I can respond to it, I’ll go ahead and comment. Cringe and degeneracy are things, but they are different things for everyone. Complaining something is cringe is hardly grounds for making any impactful changes because it’s an incredibly subjective descriptor. Which is why we define hard lines in our rules- ERP, OOC sexual harassment, etc. But Resi! The existence of loopholes doesn’t justify what I consider to be misconduct! Okay, we have a system for that. We have a whole team of administrators and moderators there to look at any grey areas in a situation and make their calls, AND they are even held accountable though a system of reporting over staff complaints. Every tool is made available to you to handle these things in an official, and largely courteous capacity. And you choose, instead, to open a less regulated conversation where you can frankly stir up drama, rumors, and suspicion, which I assume you know full well will not amount to any meaningful changes because of the basic nature of this branch of the forums. You’re using general to be petty and reactionary, in my opinion. Geeves had the best response on here. Ahelp, move on. If that doesn’t work, staff complaints. If that doesn’t work, maybe you’re being reactionary and taking things out of context- at that point a number of people have looked over logs and incidents and decided they are non-issues. I understand you struggle with seeing outside of your own perspective. Everyone does. But for the love of god, at some point all of the complaining over discord, ooc, and not-the-complaint-boards forums has to stop. I cannot even fathom how you think conducting yourself like this will accomplish anything for you.

Hi. I am just going to go ahead and add this to my to do list. My background is astrophysics so you will be in secure hands in terms of scale and realism. Kyres and mofo will ultimately review what I write and have the say on what gets published but I will post updates as I go so you are all able to continue providing feedback.

“Yahir shot wxkri point blank in front of two people” This alone should be enough to lose your job in a canon event without a damn good reason, even if it didn’t end in a murder 10 minutes later. But then we have the PDA logs, the blood, the body, fibers, etc. There are ways to permanently get rid of a body on the server, there were ways to clean up your tracks. If the blood was cleaned, if there weren’t PDA messages saying “a vaurca did something that made me mad so I squashed a bug”, if 3 different intelligence agencies weren’t paying attention to what goes on on this station, sure. Lastly, I want to say that there is precedence for this. In the second antag contest, characters were not permitted to come back to the station by the lore team because they became big deal heroes. In the Odin murders, I personally had my PDA logs combed through despite there being no IR by the lead of CCIA and got reprimanded without interview because the evidence that I trespassed and withheld evidence in an investigation was strong enough from a few vague PDA messages. Also in the Odin murders, Halstere and LeCheffe(?) were both characters lost because of the event arc. Death has never been the only way to lose a character in a canon event, and CCIA has never been in charge of who is lost in events. All the same, as a courtesy, I did brief lancer before moving forward with this decision.

I'll provide a bit of clarification. It took a couple of weeks because Alb had intended to handle it from the Taj lore end of things, but learned your character does not have a citizenship. These are canon events. You are warned ahead of them that everything in them is canon- and of course, you're not disputing that it was canon here. But consider, you canonically murdered, with what, a pickaxe, as a miner, a vaurca. You canonically PDA'd something about squashing a bug. You canonically walked around covered in vaurca blood. These were decisions you made in a canon event round. My justification for the evidence leading back to you involves a few things- First, you didn't clean the blood in maint where the murder took place. You didn't clean it off of yourself, either. The PDA messages, obviously. Then there's the matter of the vaurca's disappearance. Space doesn't kill vaurca, firstly, and second, if I recall correctly, the vaurca was speaking over their hivemind channel between walking into space and the murder. I understand you assumed tossing it on the asteroid meant the body was gone forever, but there are more permanent ways of retrieval and that seems more like a safe bet placed on knowing there isn't permanence on the server rather than 'oh all bodies get eaten by carp.' Keep in mind, this is a situation being monitored very closely by a number of intelligence organizations between NT, Tau Ceti, and Jargon. I absolutely welcome the chance for Kyres and Mofo to review logs and see if this was the correct decision, but after careful consideration, I believe that it was.