Goonhub
08-01-2023, 07:33 AM
I'm not gonna stand up and rally for farts specifically, but I will echo the sentiment that it's fairly harmless (aside from noise spam) and simple to do and keeps the atmosphere from being too heavy and self-serious. I don't really care whether or not farts themselves persist, but as hooligan and frank have said, they fill the role of being a metatextual indicator that, hey, we're goofing around and having fun here. there's a lot of ss13 servers that take themselves very seriously, and I personally think a core part of goonstation's identity is that we Aren't that, and farts are, in many ways, just a convenient shorthand of that concept
it would be pretty great though if their use in engine stuff was replaced by something more interesting. the engineering team having to stop what they're doing and fart into a room together really loses its comedy after, if I'm being generous, like the first 15 seconds of doing it
it would be pretty great though if their use in engine stuff was replaced by something more interesting. the engineering team having to stop what they're doing and fart into a room together really loses its comedy after, if I'm being generous, like the first 15 seconds of doing it