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@Thenomain This.

If you think about it, MU is really described as: "A bunch of people writing a story together without any real game plan other than to try to have fun and make your character relevant."

Which is kind of like: "Getting 30 people together to order a total of 4 pizzas, but everyone wants at least 1 pizza to be exactly how they want it."

When people co-author a book/story together, they dont just roleplay it out and then print it. No, they plan everything (or most of everything) in advance and then trust each other to craft specific parts of that story. Author A and B both control the same characters, same story, same outcomes, but are delegating certain scenes/chapters to be written by the other.

This is not MU. This is why this stuff gets complicated. The reality is that some characters will be in the forefront while others aren't, and there's no requirement that if a character is focal for 3 scenes in a row that they swap out and allow another to be focal. There's VERY LITTLE IF ANY coordination on a large scale as to which characters are slotted for X amount of screen time for Y plot.

There is no plan; thus there is chaos.

Oh, sorry, I got something wrong.

It's not an "ice bucket challenge" while driving to raise bottled water for homeless people.

It's an "Ice Bucket Challenge" AAAAAAND a water balloon fight.

@Aria said in Carnival Row:

No one is ever going to be real-life racist against me for being in some weird apocalyptic satyr fairy cult,

Whatever, you dirty doom-hoofer. GO BACK TO ARCADIA.

Preferences: Not this.

"Age is just a number. She's so beyond her years. Is it wrong that I'm attracted to her even though she's not fully developed?"

Pretty common script for adults who advocate for dropping the age of consent to 13.

So this recent X-Men reveal is insane, but I love it...

***=XmenSpoilers***

@Seamus said in Cyberrun:

Common Decency and Sense

Dare I suggest this, but...

Common Decency and Sense to me would be the MU community binding together to take a stand against online pedophilia by reporting games where it takes place to online watchdog groups.

@Auspice I like that she is basically a "good" Mr. Sinister, who is using their extreme scientific capabilities to deal with the x-gene, but from different perspectives.

@Staricide said in Cyberrun:

Do ageplayers pedophiles disappear or do they mostly just go on to to do the same RP on discord and other chat environments where they're much more likely to encounter underaged players?

^fixed that. Rapists aren't "surprise hookup artists". Let's not flower the concept with terms like ageplayers as if it's something misunderstood.

The answer is not to allow its existence in your backyard because you don't wanna inadvertently spoil your fun time.

The answer isnt "Well might as well let the pedophiles do their thing otherwise they'll do it elsewhere!"

The answer (jesus christ, why am I typing this?) is to CLEAR OUT EVERY ENVIRONMENT POSSIBLE WHERE PEDOPHILES CAN PLY THEIR KINK AND MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IT IS WRONG AND NOT WELCOME, AND IF THEY PURSUE TRYING TO GET AWAY WITH IT THAT THEY WILL BE REPORTED TO AUTHORITIES.

Lest you knowingly allow your gamespace to be a meeting point for sex offenders, pedophiles, and the minors they are grooming.

@Wretched said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@Tyche While i may vehemently disagree with you on politics, I don't care about which ones go to prison for corruption, rape, and/or child molestation or whatever. They can all share a damned cell.

1 cell, 10 politicians, 1 kabar knife, and 1 egg mcmuffin.

I'm normally not a violence guy but I'd be alright with that.

I generally understand the argument of "let the pedophiles be pedophiles online rather than in real life". It is less immediately damaging and while backed by lawyers might be deemed questionably legal (yet still distasteful).

However, logically you have to ask yourself the following questions...

By providing the role of a minor in a TS scene, are you..

1. ...contributing to pedophilia in a way that could result in it being taken to RL? Could doing so result in unexpected damage to strangers?
2. ...providing an outlet for a predator who is on the National Sex Offender Registry for sexually abusing a minor?
3. ...partaking in a loggable scene of minor-on-adult sexual roleplay that could be stored on the same hard drive alongside child pornography and could become evidence in a felony?

By providing the role of an adult in a TS scene with a minor, are you...

1. ...roleplaying with a child?
2. ...roleplaying with an investigator?
3. ...breaking the law?
4. ...creating a paper-trail for your pedophilia?

No matter how it's cut, it's not pretty. It's not something the community at large supports. While YES the immediate physical damages are less when you're an iPedophile, the truth remains that by arguing its right to exist you are providing a don't-ask-don't-tell zone where sexual abuse of minors could literally be taking place on your game. I think it's fucked up that more people aren't on board for trying to keep that out of the hobby.

By running/owning a playspace that allows depicted sex with minors are you...

1. ...breaking the law?
2. ...hosting logs of live action grooming of an OOC minor having a rendezvous with an adult who is grooming them?
3. ...providing a haven for sex offenders?
4. ...placing your safety and legality at status due to owning creating a space that allows this to happen?
5. ...actually comfortable with the concept that you allow depictions of sexual interludes with minors in a way that you wouldn't lose any sleep if someone reported your game to a watchdog group or investigator?

I suppose this could be tested. Has anyone consulted the Internet Watch Foundation as to whether or not this qualifies?

I both love and dreadfully hate the process of hiring inspectors during the home buying process.

Hate: Hundreds of dollars spent that you won't get back just to determine if you want to buy a house. This could end up resulting in a net loss of 400-700 dollars while hunting for a house.

Love: That money isn't wasted. 400-700 dollars is worth it to avoid losing tens of thousands if you purchase a house with serious issues. It's smart to be the person paying someone to watch your back. I'd rather lose 500 dollars "checking" than to buy a house and suddenly find myself mired in a 6000-15000 dollar foundation repair problem that must be fixed.

Still hate: When you identify an issue during the home inspection process that requires a different inspector to determine the total estimated repair cost of an issue found: "I might not buy this house at all at this point, but I'm legally obligated to continue hiring inspectors to provide a list of repairs that need to be done, which the seller may say 'no thanks' to."

Dolla. Dolla. Bills. Yall.

You two win. You are both 100% correct. Consider me corrected and educated. Let's leave these places alone and let them face their own risks.

@Derp said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@ZombieGenesis said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

Barbara March played one of my favorite Star Trek baddies(along with her sister B'Etor).

For a warrior race, they sure do like leaving their chest exposed to whatever weaponry happens to pass by. So much cleavage.

About to go full nerd here...

Klingons typically only wore spinal armor to protect themselves from cowards. No self respecting Klingon would wear much chest armor. Cleavage for everyone.

I think you can learn more about the intended feel and thought behind a character through music than you can with PB pictures and blurbs about their backstory.

In fact, I tend to be more into scenes with characters who have heartfelt songs designed as their theme in a way. Even if the playlist is the kind of stuff the character listens to, it STILL helps flesh out the character far better than the person simply telling me who and what their character is.

Now...if the character does FIRE STUFF and has a song simply about FIRE? That's boring. But if the overall aura of the character is something akin to "surviving depression" and they have a playlist with something like "This Night" by Black Lab in it? They get bonus points and I become instantly more mentally attracted to their writing.

@Auspice said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

SPACE MAILLE

(not to be confused with space femaille - stealing @Ghost 's inevitable joke)

Damn it.

Regardless of what it looks like from the front, according to the Klingons this is a uniform and the only metallic/armored piece they wear is on the back, which is the segmented spinal armor.

That uniform won't stop a phaser/disruptor or even a bat'leth, but according to Klingon lore the spinal armor would. The design is based on them only wanting to protect themselves from cowards seeking to rob them of a death by actual combat.

Such a nerd.

@Wretched said in Do you care about other people's music?:

@Ghost I saw Black Lab open for the Cure in like 1996!

This isnt the Hog Pit so...

Truck ewe, icehole. <3. Jealous of that.

Edit: I should also add that I listened to the music on your character profiles and dug the effort put into creating that aura-theme for them through it. It wasn't wasted time.

@Ganymede I do enjoy saying "Bee-Tee-Dubs" instead of "Bee-Tee-Double-U", by the way.

Because I'm quirky.

@RightMeow Searching youtube for "THE ____________EST THING ON YOUTUBE" never fails to entertain.

The:
Sexiest, darkest, shadiest, funniest...

@Auspice said in How to pronounce FYI?:

I will state I have always said it FYI, but my coworker was messaging me and brought it up as 'fwee' (as in its how he imagines it to be pronounced) and it led me to think hmm. Well. How would I go about this...

@Ghost SQL is pronounced as 'sequel' tyvm

Per Wikipedia:
SQL (/ˌɛsˌkjuːˈɛl/ (About this soundlisten) S-Q-L,[4] /ˈsiːkwəl/ "sequel"; Structured Query Language)[5][6][7][8] is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).

Wikipedia says it's sequel, so yes. Stop fuckin saying squirrel. Chamberlin and Boyce didnt create squirrel in 1974; They created sequel. You know who DID create squirrel? The Ambrahamic GOD, and if you credit Chamberlin and Boyce with creating squirrels then you're a non-God-fearing heathen and are bound for the lake of fire.

So...please say S.Q.L. or sequel. For your own sakes.