MalletFace

I just want to know where you people have seen yourselves, or other people being awesome. What I mean by awesome in this case is anything that a person does to better themselves or others in a way that isn't selfish, like the child you know who works steadily towards changing their failing grade to a passing grade, or the person who outright tells somebody else that they are a great person, even if they don't know them personally. Other people tend to feel better when they see good done in the world, and if this person saw that you told other people around the world about something great they had done (Without using their personal information), would it not most likely make them feel a little better? It could even be something you yourself did. Its good to talk about how you helped somebody else, and it normally makes others feel better to see good being done. If you don't know of anything you or other people have done that fits this, go and do something and tell us about it. Its never a bad idea to tell somebody they make the world a better place, by doing or by example, and its normally easiest to start by doing exactly that.

I have loved every school I've been to. There has only been one teacher that's driven me over the edge, but she was so bad that she had even been sued once or twice before.

If you could combine the point of that with Neil deGrasse Tyson's point when he said "... kids are born curious. They're always exploring. We spend the first year of their lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.", you would have what is very likely the most powerful reason many people hate school, the reason many kids find it pointless, and the reason many adults and children alike think most educational systems are failed. Even if children and adults don't realize it, they ask two of the most important questions from a very young age; "Why?", and "How?". Its surprising for me how they actually very rarely get answers to these two questions at home or at school, and even more so that most adults will rarely admit to a kid, while not showing anger or irritation, when they don't have the answer to one of those questions.

Most of the reason anybody dislikes school is because of how it is structured. Even teachers tend to dislike it and the students because of how they are forced to go about it. If all schools were structured differently, and education, too, school would be a place you wouldn't want to even leave for the summer. My high school is an early college in America, and those tend to work really well from what I've seen. There aren't too many people going there, and everybody is generally friends with everybody else. The teachers in my school were also asked to teach there based on skill, and they are generally smart enough to find loopholes that allow them to fulfill the curriculum while doing things that are actually entertaining and informative for everybody. We didn't even have a building for all but a few months last year, and we still learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. I'm going to hate finishing my fifth year at my school.

We notice the noticeable. Those people harassing you are abnormal, and just trying to make themselves feel better. Humans are naturally kind, and one of the few creatures that go out of their way to help total strangers, even to the point of risking their lives. We will even go out of our way to save members of other species, which I think says something remarkable about how we think. Almost all of us help another creature at some point. Noticing the noticeable is something that will probably never be taken out of our society, as all living things are meant to react to the most "noticeable" stimuli. It does help for survival on many occasions for almost all creatures, but on other occasions, it can lead to things like racism and sexism in human society. We all notice the woman who drives her car off the bridge into the river, but we all tend to forget what could possibly be thousands of women that crossed that bridge, all driving politely and safely. This is something we all do, no matter what.

I had to shut the server down for a few days, but I am trying to get it back on tomorrow.

I haven't played too much of Towns, but I know quite a bit about DF. Incomplete List of Pros: -Dwarf Fortress is free -Dwarf Fortress offers extremely deep and complex stories and myths for every world you generate -Mods allow you to escape from the default ASCII, giving it new tiles, or playing it in isometric 3D -Decent sized modding community -Other people's stories can be fun to read (Boatmurdered, and Operation **** the World) Incomplete List of Cons: -It takes quite a while to learn how to do everything in the game -Its default look is ASCII (I have no problem with this, but others do) -You have to be in the mood to play it That's about all I can give about DF off of the top of my head.

Oh, today it was down because of some problems with electrical cables, but it will be brought up again very soon.

The server isn't down, but the connection of players has been failing on several servers, and not too many people are sure why. I believe it is only happening to stations running a current /tg/station build. I've been trying to figure out why it does and doesn't fail for certain users at random, and the problem is noted on the server, and on my second post in this thread.

I hate when I don't have a good internet connection. All of my hobbies and "jobs" really need internet to be fully realized. On another topic, the admins and I were considering organizing a unique event at some time to get people interested in the server, and on the server at one time. We get quite a few people on the server, but not too many at the same time. We were wondering how many KSP forum users actually play SS13, and how many of you would be interested in a special event. It would likely be some type of PvP, battle related event, but there are so many possibilities there, and even some other types of special event the three of us couldn't come up with. Right now, all of the ideas we have are (None of these may sound smart, but neither are we ) a wizard 2v2 tourney-based event, a battle where players are provided armor and weapons and placed in teams, and some type of monkey related event. If you play SS13, and you would be interested in such an event, or you have an idea for one, it would be greatly appreciated if you voice your opinion here. Please note that if this does happen, and we get some players together at the same time, it will not be something that happens every round, everyday. Edit: I've not seen someone get rejected on our server before they even get in yet, or even on another server. Some amount of lag is normal for BYOND games, though. BYOND isn't the best engine, but it offers some interesting possibilities.

There is not a single player version, as almost all BYOND games are and have to be based around player interaction. If you are concerned about griefing players, most servers have admins that deal with them swiftly. There are servers where admins themselves are griefers, or sandbox servers where almost anything goes, but those are best to be avoided.

If anyone does happen to join and your connection fails often or almost immediately, let me know here, or try to let an admin know if they are on the server. Several servers are having this problem for numerous reasons, and we need to know if it is happening to our server.

Space Station 13 is a game made using the BYOND game making engine that simulates life aboard a space station, and the main point in the game is to stay alive the whole round. You can play as one of the doctors, engineers, security, or in many other roles, and do your part in keeping the station together. However, some players may be assigned the role of a traitorous crew member, an operative of another organization, or even a space ninja. They are only placed there to make somebody’s job harder, or even to kill them. Sometimes the admins may even decide they want to have a little fun, and will turn someone, or even themselves, into one of these antagonists. I’m hosting a server for this game, and I hope that some KSP forum-goers are interested in dropping in occasionally. Right now, there isn't much about the server that is customized, besides the KSS prefix to the server name, but I am looking to make this server a fun place for people with a common interest in KSP to have some fun in space. The current admins are likely to be lenient on roleplay. (We are okay with a botanist doing first aid or opening an oxygen canister, but a botanist doing neural surgery or turning on the singularity is not acceptable.) Other rules, however, we are still discussing. I, along with the other admins, have only ever had to permaban one person for causing a problem, and we really don't want to have to permaban too many more. If you have never played Space Station 13, all you have to do is download the free BYOND client, set up a BYOND account here, and choose a Space Station 13 server. I am trying to create a few video tutorials for this server to teach new players how to use the interface, how to do specific roles, and how to follow the server rules while still having some mischievous fun, as almost every tutorial is either a Let's Play with some general advice, a person showing how not to play the game properly, or for a different/outdated station build. A good resource to use is the wiki for each build. This server runs a nearly up to date /tg/station build, and the /tg/station wiki can be found here. If you have never played the game, and you don't want to play it before you see it or learn about it, one of the wikis is a good place to start. Please remember that none of this applies to all stations, but most of the ideas and guides work well in most cases. For those who know how to connect in the cool way: byond://24.74.59.137:3306 For those who don't, you can use the "Games" tab in the BYOND client, click Space Station 13, and search for KSS, or you can visit the hub page and search for KSS there. Current Game Admins: MalletFace - Game Master Diamand_Dude - Game Master Flipy222 - Designated Station Guy (Don't ask) We hope to see some of you drop in! We advise players new to the game to use our server when there aren't too many people on to learn how to play. There are other servers that don't have many people on, but they are not restarted too often. We are okay with the station being accidentally destroyed when nobody is on. Its all about learning. Please try to remember that we are not the Goons, Baystation, or Yog groups, and we do not have a large number of server regulars, yet. We are trying to do our own thing, and are trying to purge ourselves of the ERP and griefing admin-filled nightmares some other stations have become. (I'm hesitant to say I might have to, but if I do, I will update this information as needed. I would like to see that my server gets used and adapted, but who knows if it will.)

I almost always read signatures, as I have found that the users often pick things that are funny, are insightful, make me feel good, or reveal something about how they function. I do not like it when people fill their signature with random nonsense that just takes up space, though.

I really don't know what to say about private companies that provide the equipment. The companies that provide the equipment make weapons of terror, and they make instruments of advancement. They make ingenious devices to keep people alive, and they come up with ingenious ways to take lives. I really don't want to say anything bad about the company that made the Saturn V, even though they make the Apache. All I can honestly say is that they do what is required of them. There is, has, and will likely always be war, so I suppose making your own kinsmen safer while increasing the danger for this "other" you are fighting is fine, but this is getting into psychological stuff way beyond what I usually worry about, as it is something that will probably always be on Earth. Normally, though, if you focus on the space-related technologies these companies develop, I don't see any more harm than good coming from it. Everything we do will always have a bad side if you look hard enough, like I said before. Research into how diseases actually work helped develop vaccines and medicines, but you could also point to the biological warfare it helped create. Nuclear power helps keep pollution low and produces many times more energy than other methods, but if you can't control the material, it can cause damage to organisms around it. It really depends on how you see the good and bad, and if you can actually see one or the other, and as far as I can see, the farther along we come in almost any field, the better life gets for all, and the poor get fewer(Relative to population at the time, not to the poor years before. Population changes).