@Tapewyrm I also recommend checking out the VTT world now with stuff like "startplayinggames". I know a number of amazing GMs there and it might be easier to put together a VTT game that wants to also do dramatic writing. There you might find people with the similar interest in collaborative writing without the stigma of 20+ years of unresolved interpersonal drama.
Best posts made by Ghost
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RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.
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RE: I owe a lot of people some apologies.
@Derp said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:
You say this and then you end up with Dirty My Little Pony. Careful what you wish for.
I do not wish for this to be.
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RE: RL Anger
@Ghost Obviously it is up to each person whether they feel bad about it or not. No one can /make/ someone feel something.
But, I can say that in my philosophical approach to life, that I think someone who doesn't feel remorse or guilt about doing something bad is a bad person. I.e. if you do something immoral and you don't feel remorse, you are an immoral person. Or a sociopath.
I totally respect that. I'm kind of in the same ballpark mentality-wise, though differing opinions on morality really, really make it hard to balance sometimes. Which is why I think there is so much strife going on socially these days. Aside from a very specific list of things being considered pretty much immoral across the board (yet even cannibalism is forgiven in a survival context so long as the cannibalize isn't murdered to make it possible), there are a number of terms/actions where the goal post keeps moving.
Does rude mean the same as wrong? Is rude strong enough to be considered immoral? What if it's rude for a good cause? Who determines if the cause is justified? What is forgivable to one person but not the next? (rhetorical questions)
There's a lot of subjectivity at play, which makes it difficult.
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RE: RL Anger
Honestly, I think some people seeing others as people and not some assumed persona-trope would do wonders.
I know the list of people that don't like me, or that I've had spats with, and truly believe that the inability to sit down across a table and hash shit out like normal people makes things difficult. I'd totally be down to do jello shots with people that I've had beefs with.
I'd love to better see their perspectives and get off the laptop and be around some of you as people.
Just not @Ganymede . I hope she rolls around in the wrong patch of dirt and ends up needing a 2 hour botfly extraction at someplace really shitty, like an Urgent Care in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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RE: RL Anger
Gany doesn't meet gamer people though so she'll just have to come in by drone.
Then I'm totally going to tell people I'm @Ganymede and she can deal with the awkward pages later.
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RE: RL Anger
@Three-Eyed-Crow Nah, that wasn't a vaglueblog at you. You said how you felt.
I could type for hours about who I think I am vs. who you think I am, but at the end of the day, I don't think either of us know each other truly well enough to make any accurate judgments.
But being someone who was sick of someone else's shit at the time, I can't really cry foul when someone got sick of my shit, can I?
Nah, no hate/beef here on my end. I recently make a move to give some people who are at odds with me a little extra space. Is what it is.
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New Topic: I hatelove Castlevania on Netflix.
I love it because it's a lot of fun.
I hate it because there are only 4 episodes.
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RE: RL Anger
????? What on earth do you think you're saying, you egocentric living drama pile?
Not slinging mud here, but I'm taking your "she's keeping this going, not me" card away from you.
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RE: RL Anger
Don't apologize on the apology thread.
DOOOOONT
Don't
//don't//
Do notDangerous.
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RE: RL Anger
@Three-Eyed-Crow OMG Mexican Coca-Cola is amazing and one of the best parts about being in this part of the country.
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RE: Forum Factions
@Meg said in Forum Factions:
@Ghost said in Forum Factions:
@mietze said in Forum Factions:
12 year old boy sense of humor faction? Though to be fair, I make more fart jokes on faction channels or pub than I do here. ;). Maybe immature humor faction would be better cause I can't really pass up a menstrual joke either, really.
What did the pirate say when he turned 80?
AYYYYYYYY MATEY
What does a pirate pay for corn?
A buccaneer!
What is Bruce Lee's preferred beverage?
WATAAAAAAAAAH!
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RE: RL Anger
@Auspice I'm game. Mine is fixed. It's a relatively safe plan.
(Which is exactly how I talk to my friends who are parents of teenage girls, being the parent of a teenage boy)
No bullshit, I said this to my friend Peggy last week:
"So that we can remain friends, could you please never let your 16 year old daughter know we have a 17 year old son? We need to keep that a closely guarded secret."
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Me: "Honey, have you seen my keys?"
Partner: from the other room "It's over there."
Me in head: WHERE THE FUCK IS 'THERE'?^OMFG THIS
Not to mention:
ME: I lost my keys, can u help?
SO: (not looking) Where was the last place you saw them?
ME: Right where I am right now. I just looked there.
SO: Where was the last place you saw them before that?
ME: IF RETRACING MY STEPS WERE SOME MYSTIC ART I HADN'T THOUGHT OF IN THE FIRST PLACE, OR HAD IT YIELDED ANY RESULTS, I WOULDN'T BE ASKING FOR HELP. -
RE: Good TV
The fact we are having this conversation right now suggests to me that this episode did exactly what it was calculated to do.
I looooooove shit like this: The little lies in society that are accepted; themselves that are considered normal. The strange behaviors in humankind and what a little push or shift in logic would wrought. It's the kind of stuff someone should think about before dealing with a Djinn.
It's such a fucking shame that super deep writing like this has fallen by the wayside in an era of repetitive blockbuster action movies and pandering fanbase entitlement content. Art SHOULD be dangerous and SHOULD make people question things.
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- I personally despise Marilyn Manson as a person but he comes up with some banger quotes and lyrics.
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Tritely, when my partner watched the series with me, her first comment was "looks like they really wanted to borrow from Twilight" and it was all I could do not to choke her.
You know I used to feel the same way about "Vampire Diaries" stealing from World of Darkness, but then I found out that Vampire Diaries came out before Vampire the Masquerade. When I found that out it really fucked with my head because my beloved "World of Darkness" now may be actually derived partially from "Mystic Falls High School Vampires".
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MUers in the news?
It would appear that the people behind the Blood of Dragons MU (which IIRC are the same people who tried to get other Westeros/GameOfThrones MUs shut down citing their "insider" status with GRRM, and the same people who threatened lawsuit because a desc they wrote ended up on MSB?) are making the news at the moment.
According to this NY POST ARTICLE, the two helped put out a book that was like a dictionary of Westeros and are now receiving a press for 'Cultural Cancelation' due to making negative comments about characters depicted as white being cast with nonwhite actors. Fans are apparently begging GRRM to cut ties with them or risk boycott, as it appears their social media history was reviewed to find similar complaint-posts about racial recasting back in 2012.
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RE: Good or New Movies Review
I know this may be expected because I'm a Clive Barker horror fan but...
...Hellraiser was fucking RAD and I think it sits right next to the best 2 Hellraiser movies (1 and 2). It breathes new life into the film franchise, leaves the mythology open for growth, and really plays into the feel of Barker's Damnation Game and Hellbound Heart feel.
Given that the last 2 Hellraiser movies were made super soulless, quick low budget bullshit to retain the movie rights, something about this movie really felt like a reclamation of the property by people who love the series.