Star Dust

I see. Whelp off I go then. Despite the problem that happened was human error and not willful malice that is grounds for a permaban with no chance of returning.

No, it does not excuse them, but you also understand that we are Human beings, and when our brains are going through issues we can make faulty choices that do not reflect on how the person is now. I promise you that I have in the past year I have made massive strides in being a cooperative player to the community, and have followed the rules. Yes I made a mistake, but it is a mistake that was caused while extreme real life circumstances were happening at the time. I promise you that I will do everything in my power to stay within the serves guidelines, and what had happened that day was purely a hiccup and a short circuit that will never happen again, I promise you. Also just to add upon it in the past year 2023 and into 2022, I constantly whenever I did not know if something would be considered powergaming, within rp standards, or unsure if it was even ok I used the admin help to ask and get clarification.

After discussing it with the admin team, I feel comfortable giving a more basic explanation here both Alberyk and Readthisnameplz. I was in a very rough spot regarding my mental health on the 14th when all of this happened, and it affected my ability to make good decisions at the time, ontop of all the other issues I have brought up before. My powergaming wasn't me trying to get a leg up, or to play an unrealistically skilled character, it happened because my brain had a stutter to it and caused me to have a lapse in judgement. I assure both Readthisnameplz, and Alberyk that such will not happen again, and I will take proper steps to ensure that if my mental health starts to effect my ability to properly behave on the server, that I will stay off the server until I have such matters resolved.

Thank you. Might ask though to move this complaint to the Confidential complaint section. Or could the admin who handles this do such?

1. Gotcha 2. That is fair, and I'm willing to speak to you and the admin who takes this complaint privately for I know this is my defense, but the things I do need to say are more private. 3. The situation surrounding it through isn't a normal thing, and I normally wouldn't have ever done it if I was in the right mindspace at the time, which I was not. Like I stated before I was dead on my feet exhausted from multiple nights of very little sleep, and plus I was also drinking a lot of caffeinated drinks at the same time so that also was messing with my thought process. This also plus the situation involving me/my character was also not helping, because it was someone who was doing very poor roleplay of drug abuse and purposeful suicidal actions, which really caused me to disconnect from everything. I know that is wrong, and I shouldn't have, but if I was of the right mind space I wouldn't have done what I did. I would say I very much have improved, I just made a mistake in a moment of poor thought processes. There is also far more to this, but like I've said I do not feel comfortable expressing it here in the open. I don't know if situations like this is when the Confidential Complaints section should be used or not. 4. (To your statement of me being unbanned and the permaban), My first permaban came about because I had very little understanding of ss13 roleplay was, and how the rules worked there. I did read the rules, but my mind connected it with GMOD Half life 2 roleplayer brain (which if you know anything about half life 2 rp it is an awful place to learn rp from), ontop of that I was younger and far dumber. But I would say I've been meeting the standards of the server and that what happened was an isolated incident that happened due to a lot of outside factors. I promise you I wouldn't normally do or even consider what I did if I was in the correct mindspace at the time. Thinking of it can I please have a head admin move this complaint to Confidential Complaints due to the sensitive nature of some of the information I need to express.

Really? I swore I saw a few people with 2 permabans get unbanned around 2023. But still, that is when I was informed such a change of ruling was made. Also if you don't mind where is it officially visible? For I didn't see anywhere where this new ruling was. Plus from the reaction of other people I've talked with they didn't know about this change of ruling either. Also if you're the one who will be handling this complaint, would you be comfortable with me privately dming you some information. I do not feel comfortable expressing it here in a open forum post.

BYOND Key: Sarge7767 Staff BYOND Key: ReadThisNamePlz Game ID: I really can't remember Reason for complaint: I was permabanned by ReadThisNamePlz over an issue of repeated powergaming. Due to a policy change made in January (Or so I was informed) I was unable to appeal my permaban, so instead I'm here to argue that the punishment given to me was far to harsh for the crime committed. The shift this all happened on started as a chaos shift though kinda mellowed out into an extended one, I was tired IRL, going through a long string series of sleepless nights, and high caffeine intake. But how the round started with a antag warden starting a firefight with me and another person, we won. antag warden then popped his own head with an explosive, my focus on the rp, and attention to the server was already low, but this poor roleplay just sucked me right out of the round, mixed with all the other issues I was more-so playing that round on mindless autopilot which I know I shouldn't have done, but at the time I was not thinking clearly. The round then picks up with some other character coming on shift, a janitor who was endlessly causing issues, taking floor pills, and just being a harmless menace to security. We figure out that the dude is killing himself in a bathroom, and me being at my limits kinda mentally snaps and just goes to get a welder to cut down the wall because we had no engineering who could have done this and I was just kinda fed up with the situation. I know this was not the correct thing to do at the time. Yes I know what I did was powergame, and I had made this same mistake in the past, but I feel like other factors are being ignored, most of my notes and warnings happened years ago, around 2019-2020, when I had very little knowledge of how to roleplay properly in an SS13 setting like Aurora. Secondly, the last time I had something similar happen was over to my knowledge 2 and a half years ago, the ban states I've made no real progress, I say having a small hiccup after two and a half years does not warrant a permaban. I'm willing to accept punishment, but I think taking it to a permaban was a step to harsh. My last permaban was almost 4 years ago to my knowledge, and I have improved, changed, and have steadily gotten better over those years since I was unbanned. I'm willing to work with the admin team to become a model player of Aurora, I'm willing to put in the effort to become better. I know I made mistakes, and I know I'm not perfect, but I'm more than willing to step up and try to become better if you will allow me. Evidence/logs/etc: (This is purely to give further context. Additional remarks:

BYOND Key: Sarge7767 Total Ban Length: Permanent Banning staff member's Key: Readthisnameplz Reason of Ban: Reason for Appeal: It's been a week, and I have re-read through the rules, this time far more closely. My lapse in judgment was a mistake of mine, and one I now with time realize was a pretty bad one. A mixture of multiple nights of very little to no sleep, with a very high caffeine intake, along with some personal issues all clashing together that week lead to my sense of judgment becoming extremely poor. I also know my defense of my actions during the admin sit was not good reasoning, and I know better than to try and apply real world experiences to in game. One, my character is not me and would not know all the same things I would, and two even if it might be possible that my character might know it, it would still be poor play to have multiple departments worth of knowledge under one character. I hope now that I have worked through some IRL personal issues, and gotten some proper sleep that I might be allowed to rejoin the community. Regarding the personal issues, I will be willing to explain in better details about it in dm's with an admin. I'm not comfortable with going more into here in a public thread.

This is something I absolutely disagree with. Cuffs are fine, and if someone is trying to slip out of cuffs, and we notice it. How do we stop them? Just baton them into pain crit? Though totally up for increasing the time. But if I have to beat someone each time into pain crit to stop them from breaking their cuffs, I'm going to also ask for stun baton battery increase.

Reporting Personnel: Lyra Sandford Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Security Officer Game ID: csg-b0AS Personnel Involved: Charles Hemsway - Offender and Victim Samuel Hound - Witness Constantine Patts - Witness Secondary Witnesses: Chesed - witnessed (administered medical attention to Charles Hemsway in both incidents.) Time of Incident: 17:20 - 17:28 Real Time: 12:30 pm EST 2/14/2024 Location of Incident: xxxLocation Nature of Incident: [ ] - Workplace Hazard [X] - Accident/Injury [ ] - Destruction of Property [ ] - Neglect of Duty [ ] - Harassment [ ] - Assault [X] - Misconduct [X] - Other possible suicide attempt Overview of the Incident: Constantine Patts had reported an odd sound coming from the deck two bathroom. The sound seemed to be alarming as it seemed like a very loud banging sound was being heard. Me and Hound responded, but the bathroom door was bolted, we lacked an engineer to unbolt it so I had to go fetch a toolbox with a welder in it. Due to the emergency like nature of the situation, I had to cut open the side of the bathroom wall without proper eye protection to get inside. Inside Charles Hemsway was found with his skull split open, and blood pouring from it. Charles Hemsway was found overdosed on Minaphobin, judging by the empty bottle he had taken all the pills at once, then started to smash his skull repetitively into the door until the point of near death. Once brought into the brig, it was also found he had a pair of brass knuckles on him, that he had failed to give to security. He was rushed to medical, and given treatment. Also earlier during this same shift Charles Hemsway was found with a Group 4 drug, Mortaphenyl, which he also overdosed on and used whiskey to swallow said pills, he was brought into medical in a extremely poor health. He also after all of this, around the end of the shift opted to steal two prisoner jumpsuits, deface his workplace by drawing on the floor the word "DIE", fled into the maintenance tunnels, and when found, fled from security and had to be forcefully detained. Submitted Evidence: His contraband, both the Mortaphenyl and Minaphobin bottle, along with the brass knuckles he was hiding. Photos of the incident involving the bathroom and the effort security had to go through to get Mr. Hemsway out. Note, all the blood is from Mr. Hemsway. For any working in the HR Division who are squeamish about blood, I will put the photos in an attached file so if you do not wish to see blood, you can let one of your colleges instead look over it. Would you like to be personally interviewed?: [X] - Yes [ ] - No Did you report it to a Head of Staff or a superior? If so, who? If not, why?: No heads of staff were on shift. Actions taken: N/A Additional Notes:

These four people have one thing in common. They're all crusher fans, their opinions. IGNORED. Jokes aside, I think what you all say are good points, but I counter that is what the point of rat is, to cause grief and unite the crew under one goal, kill the rat. Also to Carvers point about higher standards of health. A endless hoard of lizards, rats, slimes, and more that come out of the vents would like to clarify that has very little truth to it.

Is this thread a joke? Yes No, I don't know. But will I still be serious about trying to convince you to bring back rat? Yes. Why we should bring back rat. I will lay it out three simple reasons why. But I will also list out a few cons of bringing it back. Some pros 1. Being a rat was a interesting way to play on the server, and was pretty fun to do. It will challenging, you had to survive, adapt, and thrive in a place where everything is trying to kill you, and you're but a tiny little rat. I do with fondness remember looking back to playing a rat shift after shift, being both a helper and an annoyance to the crew. 2. Forming small rat gangs to do complex plans, I also remember teaming up with other rats to go raid the kitchen for it's supplies, and escaping with it, it was honestly a lot of fun doing a heist like that. Some cons 1. It annoys janitors (This was meant to go into the pros section) 2. Wardens got annoyed by mice chewing on their boxes and spilling cuffs, pepperspray grenades, and the like everywhere. Which honestly an understandable annoyance, but we should remember, mice chew on things endlessly to help dull down their teeth. 3. A critical cheese shortage will plague the ship. I hope with these arguments, we can return the beloved rat back to their rightful spot.

Antags already have enough breaks, anything that gives antags more power I'm fully against it. Antags need to stop being given so many crutches and just learn to adapt instead of being given everything they need to win

Removing food and hunger is not something I think we should remove, one it does have a mechanical effect, say if you're running, running, and more running and have been having to keep up a hard pace for a while, getting extremely hungry or thirsty is going to start to wear down on you, you're going to start to physically struggle, and I think the mechanics reflect this nicely.

agreed, please allow it be personal preference.