Nikov

*a lone Skrell ERT trooper appears*

-1 Its shitty enough playing Echo distracts you from being Manfred's Dragonsnapwaifu now you're going to be a fuckin' lizbeast hell no downvote this shit like a raise for teachers.

The temperature of a gas influences the pressure of a gas. The pressure of a gas does not influence the temperature of a gas. Thus, all refrigeration units aboard the station use quantum physics and laser arrays rather than air compression.

To: Engineering Department Re: Your Still Yes, I know about your still. No, I’m not going to shut you down, because if you don’t have the still I know about, you’ll just set up one l don’t know about. Or start sipping the reactor coolant. But here are a few points you might not think of. The Captain will have plenty more, I’m sure. First, I have tested your first batch, and it seems at least one of you knows ‘shine from bactry juice, ‘cause there’s not enough methanol in it to blind you. If you’ve any damn sense at all, you’ll bring me a tester from every batch. Second, I’m not vouching for anything else that might be in there. Third, anyone who can’t drink rationally and hold it should come by sickbay at 1600 to hear in great and graphic detail just how fun it is to choke to death on your own aspirated free-falling fluids. There will be pictures. And should you end up in my care from anything hooch-related, you’ll get the long version, so save yourself some pain. Fourth, my surgical oxygen does not exist to help you sober up. Anyone I catch using it for that purpose will wish they were just thrown out the airlock, especially if you find yourself needing anesthesia in the remains of your tour. Fifth, we don’t stock enough analgesics aboard to go handing then out as hangover cures. If you can’t live with it, stick your head outside and breathe deep. Sixth, no vomiting inside the airlock. Chief Roadman controls the air you breathe. That should be all the incentive you need to not get your crap in his filters. Seventh, no vomiting outside the airlock, either. I’m running low on death certificates. CMO Reed

This is a heavy roleplay server, not a officesim server. Bars are the bread and butter of roleplaying, love it or hate it. We need a communal space for bored people to congregate, and the bar is that space. If you took out alcohol and the bar, Engineers would just build a bar in the construction area every single shift until the bar came back. In fact, you can call that a threat.

Why are flamethrowers, welder bombs and baseball bats still in the code. This is an office, not an arsenal.

For that matter, what's the deal with Ian. Who'd have a pet corgi on the station. Why do we have windows. There's nothing to see outside and they just allow space carp in. The supermatter is inherently dangerous. Just add some more solar panels and have them start wired. Why do we have an onboard chemistry station that allows people to make drugs. Just have supply ship in bottles of medicine. There's too much medical bay. We should just have a stack of cryo bags and an ambulance shuttle. We have brigs and holding cells that take up as much space as the research wing. Just have a shuttle to Centcomm. Its silly that Atmospherics has as much plasma and N2O as oxygen. Get rid of the hazardous gasses that have no place being in the air system. What's this shit about a detective running around in a fedora in the 25th century. Change the Captain's job title to President, Aurora Operations Division. Make all non-antag arrests result in permanent job-ban, demotion, or deleting from the server. Require two to three years working in a given department before being eligible for a promotion. COME ON GUYS, DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT REALISM?!

Honestly, I would just make it a month flat, regardless of prior experience. The impatient people who want to bypass what's supposed to be a filter for impatient people will all be "veteran ex-cop paramilitary super-soldiers". If being a snowflake has no advantage, we might, just maybe, get less snowflakes, deo volente.

"Take a long walk off a short pier" is lower on my insult scale than a genteel Southern grandmother saying "Bless your heart". Skull, I'm not kidding, "Bless your heart" is an insult of the highest degree in some American subcultures. I have never, however, heard "Take a long walk off a short pier" be used as any more than a polite "You annoy me, go away". Furthermore, she said he acted like a cunt, which is the softer form as well. My problem with Rusty is that his alt-right /b/ level offensive asshole routine is, just that, an alt-right /b/ level offensive asshole routine. Its not a question of "trigger words". Its not a question of "banter". Its a question of deliberately trying to get up under people's skin and then play the crybaby victim of "muh free speech". Then he finds another person to troll, and runs his routine again. Brightdawn has thin skin? Fine, whatever. If this were a normal conversation with a normal person, I'd agree Brightdawn should ease up. But this is the edgelord supreme of Aurora dumping razor blades on someone he thinks he can easily victimize and get away with, then make no effort whatsoever to smooth things out himself. Just dump more razor blades and then be an alt-right crybaby. Its not the individual action. Its the routine. Rusty has shown he will play his little self-aggrandizing mind game ad nauseum. So bless his heart.

This is all just a tremendous non-issue. Lets kill the thread then.

I'm reasonably certain passing out machine guns on a Code Green would get the Warden arrested by the officers. I've also not seen one tenth the jackbooted thuggery of other servers here. I can't even get a damned Unathi officer to beat up an uppity apprentice when practically ordered to. You can tell a Redshirt Redhead to give them the boots, though. Women are savage creatures.

There's IC concept of a year-long cadet/internship to learn all the amazing technical details of weapons and systems any brain-damaged clone can pick up and kill you with. I can get that there's a reason for a year-long training program in super-hardcore-realism-office-world. But this is a game, and some people play for a few months and then move on to a AAA release to come back for a few months. The OOC purpose of the cadet position is to teach new players to the server how our security operates, then after they've proven themselves to not be wewlads and learned the nuances of Code Magenta privacy rights, be loosed on the general public with plausible deniability that you trained him not to harmbaton. This doesn't take a year. It probably only takes a week. But one month proves beyond a doubt that you've earned a place on the server and on the security team. I used to play security on other servers, but the year-long cadetship is harder to get than a Head whitelist. Think about that.

Police militarization is just another made-up word to control how we think about US military surplus being bought up by police departments. Don't personally attack someone who disagrees with you. The suggestion to give officers energy guns at start is problematic to me, since it puts significantly more firepower a switch away for a griefer, newbie or anyone who can cold-cock an officer. It also means the officers immediately have access to lethals. There are attempts among heisters etc to be less-than-lethal honest antagonists rather than murder machines, and sec officers being able to flip a switch and go from a code Green to a code Red level response at the first red hardsuit ruins a stealth or nonlethal antags day.

An oxygen candle stores the oxygen in solid form, so its far more stable and compact than the gas cans. Imagine if all the smoke from a burning soda can full of diesel was delicious oxygen, and you see the merits. We can stick oxygen candles in emergency storage closets or carry them around in boxes, allowing a very quick and convenient means of restoring breathable air to a room. Not ideal air, as Nanako points out, but lifesaving.

Comfort is not a design feature of a one-meter sphere of mylar you have to cram your weeping self inside while your friends choke to death with their lungs between their teeth. However, using the emergency O2 tank recharging I mentioned, you could top your tank off to 1,000 kpa and the interior of your ball will be about 75 kpa, or Denver CO air pressure. However emergency O2 tanks ship at 303 kpa, which is enough to fill a reasonable volume for our purposes to 25kpa, which is enough O2 to breathe and not take pressure damage (which starts <20kpa).

You're both wrong.

I'm off to prove this.

Nope. 20 kpa is survivable without a suit by my experience. You can reach 50 kpa by charging the ball's O2 tank to 606, however.

The candle is a grenade, functionally. Throw, and the sodium chlorate burns to produce atmospheric oxygen. If welding fuel gets mixed into the sodium chlorate beakers, somehow, we get a firebomb. Their intent is to add more oxygen to a room with low oxygen, bringing it back to habitability. It won't re-pressurize a room, but does increase the O2 partial pressure and thus the margin of error for half depressurized rooms. The ball is a mylar/kevlar shell that isn't terribly robust; think inflatable doors. However it contains ... It contains an emergency oxygen bottle, like the blue-belt kind. You use a wrench on the ball to remove the bottle, and can replace it with a new or recharged bottle, no tool required. Deploying the ball dumps the oxygen inside the ball, and opening the ball leaks the oxygen into the room, however, so you'll need a new bottle for each use. It will accept extended or double-extended tanks as well. The specific pressure desired inside is 25kpa, which is survivable and breathable in pure oxygen, with a little wiggle room. The balls internal volume needs to be... 303*X=25*Y, where X is the volume of an emergency oxygen tank, and Y is the volume of the deployed space ball. Looking at the vars, X=2. So Y= 24.24. The internal volume of the space ball is 24.24 liters. Which kind of makes sense, when you consider a person in the fetal position is taking up most of it. There should be no "enter ball", since its impossible to enter a deployed ball without venting the gas and an undeployed ball can be handled just like a bodybag or cryo bag. Put it on the ground, unfold it, stand in the tile, unzip it, zip it. Closing it over you has the inflatable barrier ZZZIP sound and a gas sound (if the ball has a charged tank). Once you close it, it pops into a ball and you're immobilized, blind, but hopefully breathing and in pressure. If your O2 tank was fresh. Think of it like an inflatable, airtight sleeping bag made of space suit material. While the whole thing is cheap enough to be nominally disposable, you can fold it back up, recharge the oxygen tank, and get multiple uses out of the thing. Ask me anything on Discord, I'm Hayden. Bill Kerman demonstrates a Space Ball (enlarged to show texture)

Really depends on the pants. I can put my cammies over my Corocans, but I prefer the paratrooper tuck-and-blouse for ticks.

Dark rumors circulate that we have coders now.

Trump.

I even used sarcasm tags. It seems to me that someone capable of convincing individuals to their point of view is well suited to be a head of staff. Even if we want to label this as manipulative, it cannot be denied as a useful skill for a department head. As far as if Nanako is manipulative, I see no point in arguing it. These things are decided in our own heads.

Clear evidence Nanako is manipulative. /sarc

InB4 Unbidden.