Best posts made by Cirno

Considering that the NSA records everything we do online, it doesn't matter to me if people spy on me, especially since I do nothing that would invite suspicion.

If you can't do it in public, don't do it at all.

@ThatOneDude said:

@Cirno said:

@Arkandel said:

@Cirno said:

I...I'm confused. Help.

It's because they don't care for or respect the medium they are posting in.

Mind you, I'm not trying to justify the practice but I've (at times snidely, I must admit) corrected people's rouges and of course the obligatory your/you're antics on WoW only to have them grumble back something about this being only a game and obviously who cares about grammar, spelling or for that matter, manners?

I do the same thing, man. Brofist. Try to imagine I am bumping my fist against yours. ?)

I had to do this with a man who was a Senior Administrator at a Hospital and it gave me depression to imagine that this chucklefuck gets to decide how people live and die...and I don't.

My excellent parsing of the English language certainly impresses all the Asian women on this dating website I'm on, but that doesn't make me feel good.

It just makes me feel like that guy from Napoleon Dynamite, Kip, or whatever.

"Yeah, whatever, fags, I'm, like, totally talking to this many hot Asian women right now, over the Internet."

DUDE!

That is me.

I am Kip.

Someone please kill me. I never wanted my life to be this way.

Privacy in games is important to some, I agree. It's just that the Internet is inherently not very private, unless you are behind the aforementioned wall of proxies, and, anyway, I feel all humans deserve the right to privacy, so I don't disagree with that principle.

@Arkandel, considering how small and obscure my boss's company is, I wouldn't even be mad. I'd be faintly impressed that they managed to locate the guy in the first place. Totally understand what you mean, though.

By the same token, things are so bad around here, I would wager you a dollar to a donut that even if MUSHFace McCrazy rang my boss and said "Cirno eats tender infant flesh!", he would respond with, "Yeah, and who's gonna drive the work truck from site to site, kid? You?"

@Coin said:

@Cirno said:

I hate Deadpool because he is basically 4chan: the Superhero.

"I'm Deadpool and I am SO RANDOM~! XD LOOK AT ME, I AM WACKY AND RANDOM! SOOOOO RANDOM! [throws sporks at people]"

I love Deadpool, because often this sort of behavior is presented in a way that makes me laugh. Sometimes the content of something isn't what makes it amusing or entertaining, but the presentation of it.

Eh, Rik Mayall and Monty Python have ruined me as far as "RANDOM HUMOR!1" go.

Too bad Rik Mayall isn't alive anymore; he could have played a Deadpool I might have enjoyed.

@AmishRakeFight said:

I currently play on a game where there's a dude who is in deep abiding love with his sword. I mean, not really, its not a character affectation that's meant to be twee or cooky. He just drags this damn sword all over the place, often into mundane and public IC spaces where walking into a bar with sword should rightfully make people freak the fuck out.

You should tell me where this game is so I can roll Zastaraya there. She would get along splendidly with him.

And by 'get along splendidly', I mean she would probably try to kill him.

http://musoapbox.net/topic/672/characters-what-keeps-you/21

She is the last character at the bottom of this post. The one in the sling-style swimsuit.

I'm a Japanese Frost Fairy.

@AmishRakeFight said:

He'll die literally humping your PC's leg, @Cirno

That's exactly what I'm aiming for.

@Pondscum said:

There's a starman, waiting in the sky...
RIP David Bowie, such an influence on music, soundtrack of my life.

And so, the Spiders returned to Mars. :C

@Ghost said:

A long while ago, I played on that future Lords and Ladies game, The Fifth World

That game had a hefty thread at the old place. Thanks for reminding me about it, I remembered the wackiness that went on there instantly. ayy, lmao.

I wanted to roll something there, but then it shut down in a blaze of glory.

@Arkandel said:

I suspect @Cirno will get a kick out of this and/or never let me live it down.

So we were in an informal tech meeting at work talking shop and the topic was which operating systems developers were using. Someone pointed out Windows was in the minority since most of our workstations are running Linux along with two Macs.

Since having to support different operating systems, warn about critical vulnerability patches being out etc is a pain in the ass I responded by saying out loud, "it's so annoying how annoying having even a minority using Windows is! In fact it's annoying we have any minorities in the office at all."

Then we all stop talking for a couple of seconds before everyone (well, everyone else, those assholes) starts yelling "HR!".

Yeah.

To your credit, I can overlook the unfortunate vocabulary in light of how ass backwards the Win users are being.

Star Crusade started out with a solid plotline, at least for a while. Things followed a similar trajectory to The Fifth World: the staff had an excellent vision (The Star Knights attack the Space Muslims holding Space Jerusalem under Space Sharia Law!).

My character was an excitable blonde white female Space Knight Noblewoman.

I expected the Staff to put us in the teeth of the front with the Space Muslims. Staff insisted we were going to fight a brutal war straight out of the Levantine Crusades. We would all die, they said. It would be ugly, they said. Tales were told of the huge, brutal battles on the old Fading Suns games.

Instead, we got to hang out at a city miles away from the front, go to masquerade parties, have sex with each other, and play dress-up at our castles.

A few of the more important Space Christians got to do things, but they were usually closely controlled by the staff.

I said fuck it and left for a month while they figured out what they were doing. I'm not saying I don't want to play a pretty pretty little noblewoman who has sex, but I was under the impression we were there to fight a war, and if I'd known that, I would have desced my character wearing a dress, not full plate.

I came back and they closed a little later.

@Luna said:

I'm anti white people calling themselves/speaking for people of color. I'm also anti creepy dudes calling themselves feminists just to get leverage with damaged chicks.

@Cirno I get it. And frankly just because that's how you feel doesn't mean I think any differently about you anyhow. I think we're cool despite some disagreement on this. My experiences also color my opinion. That group has been horrible to me and I just tend to avoid them. I don't know who's cool and who's a name calling douche canoe so I just leave them be.

Oh, I have had bitter arguments with black people who don't like SJWs.

They don't like white people speaking up for them because it feels patronizing, I'm like, fuck that - we are at war and require all the help we can get.

I am like the war-leaders who hire mercenaries of ill repute to get the job done.

@Ghost said:

@Cirno I'm still keeping my eye on Fifth World. Long after the game closed down it was brought to my attention that the people who were running the game were writing a novel in that setting and had the characters, houses, etc written up in the novel. There was no disclaimer or sign-over of usage of contents in the game as material for their book. They have since removed everyone's access to the wiki.

I have my logs and character's embellishments, wiki, etc saved. It would have been FUCKING NICE to know that there was a chance anything I did was going to be taken as their novel fodder. It really, really would have been nice.

I have logs of Star Crusade of mostly nothing! Just like the rest of the game!

It is the ultimate example of your theory regarding Staff throwing away the story. Space Knights attack Space Muslims...by being buff, chiseled, erotic male noblemen and curvy noblewomen who stride about in catsuits.

Some peasant laboring under Space Muslim Slavery: I'm so fucking hungry. [wistfully looks at the Sexy Lords and Ladies having parties]

(actual Log of Countess Amber being a POLITICAL GENIUS and a STRATEGIC MASTERMIND)

@Ghost said:

@Arkandel said:

As for that teenager, didn't she have parents or someone with custody who could intervene? That's pretty disturbing because at least the others were adults and could make their own choices.

The teenager is kind of an epic all in her own. The basic is that her father lived in a LARPHOUSE with her. Picture a crack house with stinky, unwashed people and a kitchen with stacked dirty dishes. People sleep 2-3 to a room and people pay rent on couch space. Dad moved daughter into the LARP house, and since he wanted to LARP, he got the LARPERS to allow her to LARP. Since daughter was 16-17, skinny, quasi-attractive, this led to a lot of overweight nerds referring to her as their little sister, trying to steer her into what they knew best, and her sitting on their laps while roleplaying vampires. THIS I saw first-hand, and Dad did nothing about it because he didn't want to rock the boat with his roommates and risk getting kicked out of the LARP that took place at his flophouse.

Eventually, daughter started sleeping with some 22 year old LARPer who lived at the flophouse. Dad got mad but didn't pursue charges. The people who owned the house sided with the 22 year old, supported the daughter for emancipation. After the teenager was emancipated, Dad was kicked out of the house, and the girl bonked uglies with that 22 year old for a while.

Fucked. Up. People.

Was that a larphouse or a traphouse? It sounds more like a traphouse.

@Songtress

Haha! If that's the case, maybe we could call the Mermaid Queen-Admiral Alberta Speer, after the German admiral.

Or she could be called Tirpitz, the Lonely Mermaid Queen of the North, after the battleship.

In One Piece, mermaids are like fifty times the size of an ordinary human. I'm not saying we should do that, but I got the image in my head of the Mermaids being Living Battleships, and they have complements of Reich Marines sitting on their backs. Or between their breasts, lmao.

@Gingerlily said:

@Jaded

This is just an advertisement for gun control. Another nope.

I have guns and swords. Maybe I should give it a try.

Edit: I'm kidding. I have little wish to be shot by the police.

@faraday said:

@SG said:

If a story is 90% set in stone regardless of the dice, then why have them at all?

For the last 10%?

But seriously - I coded FS3Combat, which will never kill a player. The worst you get is incapacitated. I believe that you can have fun quirky outcomes and randomness and consequences without having death.

Also, between folks idling out and being killed off, and NPCs being killed off, and the handful of PCs who surprise everyone by choosing to be killed off in dramatic fashion... I don't see a lack of death as a big problem on the games I've played on, honestly.

But I'm not saying anyone else is wrong if they like risk and chance. Just saying that's not fun for me - and I know I'm not alone.

Hey, some of us are trying to be tragic over here. XD

You know what sucks, guys? Using a library computer to browse this forum.

I keep scrolling down super-fast so that nothing embarrassing shows up on my screen. It is Teh Suck, you guys. I can't wait until my internet connection's back on.

EDIT:

I'm also going back to school, hurray! /elation

It seems like everyone on here is taking some sort of class. It is clearly a Conspiracy. And now, I have fallen victim to it as well. Which means less time for MU*ing...uggggh.

@surreality said:

@Cirno said:

http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/

There's actually a whole book on that now, I think. I half recall hearing about it many moons ago, anyway.

From what I understand, the author now teaches classes about it and is a certified degree-wielder.

@surreality said:

1. Z takes a look at B's wiki page, and decides the PB is hot, they want TS. Z starts using +where and other OOC means to constantly show up wherever B is and push this agenda out of the blue. B is not into this and is already leaving scenes wherever possible to avoid Z, who simply will not stop and has escalated to creepy pages and OOC comments, and won't stop doing that either after being told it's unwelcome. Once B pagelocks, Z continues the pursuit with another alt -- repeatedly.

5. J pages every female character on the game with explicit and lewd propositions and won't stop when told no, and continues this behavior with his alts if pagelocked. If they ever are in OOC areas, he insults them and calls them whores.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't get these people.

I have never had a raging passion to TS on games that aren't TS games. It never even occurs to me. I've had people giggle at me for being strict about it, especially when the wizzes allow TS on a game that isn't a TS game, but even if the wizzes turn a blind eye, I don't really like doing that sort of thing on Non-TS games.

@silentsophia said:

Is he doling out jobs? Can he help me with disability? I really don't know. But it was super awkward and she's like, I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THIS, BUT I REALLY WANNA HELP and I'm like, errrm...

I hear Jesus was a homeless Communist hippie who went on man-dates in the Desert, used drugs, and was against the Establishment.

You and I should totes hang out with him. Maybe we could be the 20th and 21st disciples.

I hear he was looking for students AND Employees, so that's both of us sorted. He also has his own health insurance plan. He did this rest cure for this dude called Lazarus.

I just hope I can transfer the credits Jesus gives me to a local university, so I can finally get a degree. Because, apparently, these days you need a degree even for innocuous things like stuffing envelopes. I am serious. A cursory look at any employment website will reveal this.