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Tick's signature looks like something that could very easily be written in blood/used for a horror movie.

If you drew it, you might be a god, if it's an image of a monitor stand, it still looks kickass. What kind of time does it take to make these things? Hell, who did you learn from and where can I pay them copious amounts of money to teach me?

FLORIDA MAAAAAAAAAAN

Ah, I remember a quest for a "healing leaf". Glorious.

The bunnies are glorious... wait, why don't we have bunnies in the game? I mean, sure, tribbles might be close, buuuut...

With a reason like that I'm not even sure how you can say sorry, did something great. Welcome back, ya nerd!

? You were gone a while and I didn't expect you to pop back in, welcome back.

Holy SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT WB

3 WE CAN TRY!

1 DEMOTION FROM TEH ADMUNS, HOW DUR U STAHP MUH COUNT

Looks like a low poly artstyle, I love it!

Glorious, all of them. That is all. *flip

2 real pokemans in your sig, (one is a fake pixel recreation made by commies!)

7... out of Ten, I bought and enjoyed No Man's Sky, but it's gonna need some work.

Is good guy, yes?

Good work, better than I could do!

Dammit Zeke, Lizard is friend, not thrall.

You know, you can call yourself a noob, sure, but you put some time into this. I have a feeling this post wasn't made just overnight or in a single sitting with a bit of a sense of direction, and I have to hand it to you. You were right in assuming that a change in policies is a bit more difficult than it sounds, and often times, a lot of the reasons for a lack of changes from one admin or another is because of the massive split in opinion between one group and another. I'll use adminning and punishment as an example, for a while now, I've been a relatively light admin, I give more warnings than bans and I'm usually softer than I should be on some things, which can be worse than just following standard procedure, sometimes it works, and other times it doesn't, then, in the same team, there's somebody who admins much harsher, but still does an equally good job due to many situations requiring such treatment. Neither style is bad, and I can even agree on many of the harsher practices, but trying to get a sense of what we should go for and how we should change things isn't really a simple task. It's the same way with code in that some coders are very against a number of features and fixes or "fixes" that another side of the coders are incredibly supporters of. There's compromise in some places and none in others, and it's a bit hard to find out what can and can't be done due to conflicting opinions. Not only do we have to worry about the community agreeing with our judgement and our decisions on how to proceed, but we also have to worry about the team's thoughts and feelings due to the wide variety of perspectives that we have. I like the way you describe some of the older systems, your first experiences, your desire to limit yourself, and I chuckled a bit at myself when I read "The admins, posting often about how they wish things were different" because I know you're right about it. I rely on that more than most because really, I can't say exactly what I want with things, I'm too careful, and in terms of making some of the more major decisions, I'm not really sure where things should go. We could go for higher RP, but then we'd leave behind the low-mid section, and we can't head low because we'd lose the high-med population, it's a tricky footing to get Med-RP, and even then, it's never going to be perfect, but you said all that already. Future policy and community standards are more passive for us, they're defined how by a number of players act, and either we like it, live with it, love it, or hate it. Sometimes even when we do add in new rule changes or policy changes, they take a while to set in, need to have people think about it and act around it, then eventually it becomes common practice and the next guy to walk in gets a funny look or two, but that's over a long period of time. Your point on over-automation stands as far as cleanbots go, but engineering and medical are a bit of a grey area in that part. Medical, yeah, there are easy fix medicines and cryo, but there's also infections and surgeries, that, yes, if you're good at the you'll have it done in no time flat, but it's still better than just letting a chem or machine patch things up before you can type out a quick say ":m I've got Billy Billson over here, popping him in cryo!", and if you do choose to do that, another MD pops over and snags the patient, then gets them fixed up. Sure, they're doing their job, but, like you said, it's very robotic and unnatural, not even a "Hi" or "Hello" or "What's wrong with that guy?". Is talking really that uninteresting? Is it personality, personal bias, bad rumors, what's the deal with that? People talk about cliques all the time, but recently, I've barely even heard a whispered conversation between two people or the clamor of incomprehensible racial languages in the bar. It's either silence or it's deafening, and you can enjoy both, but it's not in the middle. In recent rounds, I've had a feel of the older times, got to talking with some new or returning players, or sometimes old players I'd never gotten the chance to talk to, and each time I met somebody I sat back and thought "This is why, from sunrise to sundown, and even while I sleep, this game is always in the back of my mind." I'm in love with it, and I don't think I'd stop even if that player count reached 1. I'd always be waiting for one more person, even a single one. So restatement, reciting, and habitual speak aside, you've given me something to think about and re-evaluate with, and really, if you're a noob, I have no idea what I am, because you seem to know a hell of a lot more than I do about what's going on. Take it easy, and more importantly, thank you!

Simple enough fix, he only needs a bit of cable coil, a welder, and some synthflesh. What? Humans don't work that way? Trust me, I'm a doctor, it's safe.

Ere' (Totally no 80s retro neon whatever fixation, honest.) This also makes for a good one after each death, event or character. Go team Venture... PS: Also, holy HELL I didn't even know funk metal was a thing, holy shit this is amazing.

*wave

A long time back it was suggested that maint would have randomized abandoned rooms, including maint bar, an old chemistry lab, a surgical room, and other such things. I don't know why or when it was abandoned, but it was interesting to say the least when it was still being talked about.

Liches are assholes, least it's not Acererak Also, What the hell happened up there to make Garoon so freaked out?

Ah, checked back, I edited my post before about a minute later after I saw improved's post. Now we get 2

5, well, back when adr was my boss, this happened.